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The Google Play store offers many useful apps that can help users increase productivity on the go. ColorNote for Android is a rather simple yet amazing application that takes sticky notes to a whole new level. It allows the user to create notes, lists, and calendar events and stick them to their home screen.

Download and installation of ColorNote for Android seems instant. Once the program opens, a red highlighted box directs the user to create their first note. Further use of this app is very intuitive and users should find it very easy to create, edit, and post several … Read more

Re-coloring a photo is an easy way to add a quick artistic flare. This app can add hundreds of different colors and shades to your photos. Color Touch is a little ad-happy, but it makes up for it with an easy-to-figure-out layout and cool coloring effects. There are enough options to keep the app fresh and cool through multiple uses.

The app appears as "Color Effects" in both your phone's app menu and the app's layout, itself. It makes you sign up for status bar and browser hijacking ads, too. If you accept, the app takes … Read more

This cute, little app lets your kids color in their favorite Nickelodeon and Disney stars. Coloring Book - Cartoons doesn't have a lot of colors and can be difficult to control, but it might be fun if you have a stylus and a tablet.

This app comes in both free and paid versions. The paid version of the app costs $1.45 and nukes ads. The ads on the free version aren't that terrible, though. Though it features Spongebob, Mickey Mouse, and other iconic characters, it doesn't seem to be sponsored by any major company. Coloring in … Read more

The camera built into your iPad and iPhone is so powerful that it is being used to facilitate assistance for the blind, for photo recognition, and for product recognition in stores. It's an incredibly powerful tool and ColorSay puts it to great use for anyone that either wants to replicate a color shade or that suffers from some degree of color blindness.

The concept is very simple. The app has a reticle that focuses on colors as you move the camera around you. Every color it focuses on, it will identify and then name aloud. You can turn on … Read more

To be sure, more parents than ever before are using electronic devices like their iPads and iPhones to entertain young children. These amazing devices are tailor-made for kids to swipe and tap games or movies. But some of the games, developed specifically for toddlers and other preschool-age children, utilize certain shortcuts that can present problems.

One such game is Coloring Shapes for Toddlers. The app is fairly straightforward in that, once you open it, you press the "Touch to Color!" button and can start coloring one of many shapes. Tap a color and the brush and start coloring … Read more

The iPad and coloring books are a match made in heaven. Coloring, which has kept children around the globe amused for generations, translates very well to the lap-size screen and finger-oriented interface. Coloring Book for Toddlers attempts to capitalize on that perfect fit and does so quite well in many ways, though not without some issues.

Coloring Book for Toddlers is exactly as it sounds. Open the app and you can choose from four coloring book categories. Only the first -- animals -- is unlocked in the free version, but there are quite a few pictures in each coloring book … Read more

If you are a designer or developer and are constantly trying to find the perfect hue, or adjust for small changes in the design of a Web site, banner, or brochure, you know how hard it can be to find a useful tool on the go. That's why an app like 3Colors Mixer can be so helpful. It's free and immediately allows you to adjust and test different saturation levels of all three primary colors to determine the right hex value for your current project.

3ColorsMixer is very easy to use. It has three sliders -- one for … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO--You are the blob. And you are the paint, too, if you let the art collective here known as Anticlockwise Arts have its way with you.

Last night at the Academy of Sciences' weekly NightLife event, the group debuted a new project called "Watercolor Walls" that mixes basic tech tools and audience participation to give new life to your stodgy old silhouette.

As one of the nearby DJs spun remixes of pop hits from the likes of Justin Timberlake, the crowd of more than a thousand walked, strutted, and shimmied between Watercolor Walls' camera and projector and a 15-foot-tall screen on its way from one end of the museum to the other. Using infrared light, the camera and projector would outline the silhouettes of people moving in front of the screen -- but there was more to it. … Read more

Apple's ColorSync technology in OS X uses calibrated profiles of correction curves and other scaling factor information to match the color of various image input and output devices such as monitors, printers, and scanners, so images viewed on them will appear as close as possible.

Most devices will use a factory-provided profile or a generic one to give a close color match, but these often have notable color discrepancies that in some cases you can manage by creating your own profiles. For example, for matching colors across different displays, you can use the Calibrate button in the Color section … Read more