The apps of 2012

     

   Once the 2012 has finished, let's recapitulate what are the best applications for 2012. Google and Apple have done the same with Android and have published several lists with the most used app. that was downloaded in 2012.

     In 'Google Play', the Android app store, have a list of apps, free and paid, that more have fallen this year (both new and old that have been updated): Evernote, Pinterest, Grimm Snow White , Pocket, Expedia, Ancestry, Fancy, SeriesGuide, Pixlr Express and Ted. A dozen different options aimed at audiences and colorful.

     Evernote is an app which aims to enable the user to remember everything. Saves all data in the cloud and consult them when the need for it, so that we do not forget anything. Its use at the individual and business have driven its success.

       The social network app for sharing photos, Pinterest, has also been the most decargadas the year, along with Grimm Snow White, the classic tale, illustrated, interactive and available in six languages​​.

      The list is completed SeriesGuide, an app for getting lost in the vast world of the television series, Pixlr Express, retouching photographs, and Ted, the app where you can watch the fascinating TED conferences that are organized around the world.

        In iTunes, the winner of the free apps of 2012 has been Apalabrados payment and WhatsApp Messenger. In iPad have been many people who have decided to get off Pages, Numbers and Keynote, a sort of Word, Excel and Powerpoint Apple version.

    Top 10 most downloaded paid apps for iPhone have been, therefore, WhatsApp Messenger, Chime Radar, Space Angry Birds, Angry Birds, My Calendar, Where's My Water?, Trivial Pursuit, Tetris, Camera + and Fruit Ninja.

       Meanwhile, the most popular free apps for the Apple phone were: Apalabrados, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Line, Viber, BIDI: QR code reader and barcode, Shazam, Twitter and Skype.

     As for the iPad, Android payment have fallen more users are: Pages, Where's my water?, IPhoto, Numbers, Penultimate, Keynote, Angry Birds Space HD, GoodReader for iPad, GarageBand and iMovie.

     The most downloaded free apps for said tablet are Skype, Calculator for iPad Free, RTVE.es, Facebook, Apalabrados, Angry Birds HD Free, Adobe Reader, Dropbox, and Google Earth Online TV.

Google created an interactive map with the purposes for 2013

    Google has created a space that encourages users to share with the rest of the network its 2013 purposes. The company is gathering purposes in groups to create a map that shows, by country, the challenges of users worldwide.

    The arrival of a new year often means new development purposes. Some of the most popular are the gym, looking for love or quit. To test purposes from other users and develop a map with the intentions of Internet users around the world, Google has created an interactive map.

     Participating in the initiative is simple. Users who want to share their purposes just have to write it down, put your zip code, choose your country and consider a category that fits your challenge.

   Among the categories are groups such as love, health, family or education. These groups allow Google to display on the map separate purposes depending on the category.

     In interactive map created by the company, you can see all purposes, that appear in the original language and translated by users. Thus, it is easy to see the favorite topics of Internet in 2013 and will work this idea take challenges or goals to consider in this new year.

YouTube crosses the barrier of 4,000 million videos viewed per day

YouTube's success continues. According to a statement from the company based in San Bruno, California, just cross the consumption of 4,000 million videos daily, which means an increase of 25% over the figure of eight months ago.

Currently the users are uploaing 60 hours a day of videos to the network, compared with 48 hours of last May, a trend that increases trust in the coming years.

All this after the acquisition of the site by Google-paid of $ 1,650 million to take over the company in 2006 - which has taken the concept of home videos to another level by transferring them to the world of mobile phones and screens television.

The 'YouTube' has become a new way of watching TV, with a huge selection of titles in both series and movies, many of them free and some pay. The latest Hollywood releases, for example, can be rented for 24 hours for television or computer projection by $ 3.99, an affordable rate that has helped launch the service against other rental options like Netflix or Redbox.

The problem is that most of these videos do not generate any revenue for the company. According to sources cited by Reuters, of the total, 3,000 million videosmake money on a weekly basis, something that has helped redesign the page, as well as contracts with artists like Madonna content and Jay Z, among other.

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