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13 Useful Apps You Need For The New Year

Kevin Smith

2013-01-03T19:40:00Z

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Its a new year!

You now have the opportunity to get fit like you were supposed to last year, get more organized, and have more fun.

Stick to your guns and stay on track with these 13 apps.

Obstacles XRT will help you get in shape, anywhere

Start off the year by getting in shape.

Obstacles XRT is an exercise app that you can use from the comfort of your home, hotel room, or pretty much anywhere you have a clean surface to work out.

The app creates obstacle courses for you to follow along with. The exercise routines are fairly short ranging,from 20-40 minutes.

Price: $2.99

Available on: iPhone

Camera Awesome will helps you to become a better photographer with little effort

Camera Awesome is available for the iPhone and iPad. The app helps you to take striking photos quickly.

And besides just helping your photos to stand out, Camera Awesome is packed with features like focusing the lens in one place and setting exposure in another.

We also love the video time travel, which captures video 5 seconds before you hit the button, and the 1-Tap awesomize feature, which works to automatically fix dark spots, blurry photos, and more.

Price: Free

Available on: iOS

EasilyDo will help you to get organized and stay on track

EasilyDo's goal is to make your life simple. It alerts you with time to go and time to leave texts so you're always on time, merges duplicate contacts, and helps you file emails.

If you connect EasilyDo to your social networks it will even tell you when a friends birthday is and allow you to send a gift all without leaving the app.

Price: Free

Available on: iPhone

Cycloramic lets you take hands-free 360-degree photos

Cycloramic is a new app that can shoot hands-free 360-degree video. What's unique is that the app uses the phone's internal vibrator to automatically rotate the phone.

This one's only for the iPhone 5.

Price: $0.99

Check out this short video of the app in action:

See one movie per day with MoviePass

Start 2013 off with a subscription to MoviePass, the app/service that's like Netflix for movie theaters. For about $30 per month you can go see one movie per day at theaters across the country.

Price: Free

Available on: iPhone

Use Uber to hail a cab from your smartphone

Uber's mobile app lets you request a private driver from any city the company services. You don't have to worry about cash because Uber will charge your credit card and email you a receipt. Tip is included.

You really can just hop in, get driven to your destination, and hop out.

Price: Free

Available on: Android and iOS

TuneIn gives you access to radio stations from all around the world

TuneIn lets you listen in to over 70,000 live radio stations and 2 million podcasts, concerts or shows straight from your mobile device.

Price: Free

Available on: Android, Blackberry, iOS, and Windows Phone

Fetchnotes will help you to organize your mobile notes

Fetchnotes realizes that there is a problem with the way iPhone notes work. Sure you can search them, but what if you could index your notes to make it much easier to find exactly what you're looking for?

Fetchnotes fixes this problem.

The app wants to make it as easy as it is to write a note as it is to write a tweet. Fetchnotes describes itself as a "unique cross between note-taking and to do listing that helps you forget less, do more and feel in control."

Price: Free

Available on: iOS