Many of you are using various applications on your mobile gadgets today. Depending on your needs, there are numerous apps available these days that make life so much easier and convenient. Whether it’s for shopping, price comparison or getting fresh news from around the world, there’s one you can use.

But for the New Year’s eve celebrations, a new app has been developed that will let you see what’s happening around the world. How cool is that! It is a live app for the iPhone and iPod touch and for the iPad.

Called EarthCam’s New Year’s Live, the app has webcams in different locations such as in New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Abbey Road Crossing in the U.K. and Prague among many others. Its other great features are the virtual photo booth, party box with eight special sound effects, party favors and archives.

Apart from this live app, there are interesting new year’s applications worth trying out. For those serious about making and sticking to their new year’s resolutions particularly regarding health and finances, there are apps that can help you achieve your goals.

The 5K Runner for iPhone helps those new to running increase their distance for a period of two months. It acts as a guide for runners and helps them do alternate running and walking for 35 minutes.

Fooducate, also for iPhone and Android, helps shoppers scan the barcodes of products they like and provide information on how healthy they are. More than 200,000 products are available in the app with information on their contents to guide shoppers in making healthier purchases at supermarkets.

DietBet is another app for people who want to lose weight. For use with iPhone, it lets people join a month-long weight loss challenge to help them shed at least four percent of their current weight.

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Originally posted on December 26, 2012 @ 12:53 am