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My Photo Sticker lets you apply some Kawaii to all of your photos and turn them into fun stickers. It's easy to get started right away in the app, but you can't do much right out of the gates. The cost to unlock most of the app's goodies isn't too high, though.

Though the app boasts dozens of stickers, most of them are locked behind a paywall. It only costs a dollar to unlock everything, which is a good price. If you don't mind your choices being limited, you can still use everything else the … Read more

Inspired by the shows that air on PBS Kids, PBS KIDS Photo Factory offers a very polished and well-crafted way to make your child's photos into a work of art. This nifty sticker app even features many children's favorite characters, but it won't amuse the older kids.

This app mixes about a dozen different photo frames with some of the most popular characters from PBS Kids. Sesame Street, Clifford, Super WHY, and more can all be pasted to your child's photo. There isn't a built-in camera, but you can snap photos using your phone's … Read more

Though Photo Collage doesn't let you create any actual collages, this misnamed app offers a fun way to customize your photos with all sorts of borders and stickers. There are plenty of weird quirks, but the sheer number of options you have, make this application worth exploring.

Whenever you load the app, it makes you sit through an animated opening sequence. This wouldn't normally be notable, but Photo Collage's lasts for almost a minute. It's really bothersome if you frequently open and close the app. The app's built-in camera lets you put a border right … Read more

Photo Collage Creator features dozens of great frames, borders, and editing effects to show off your photos. However, it's a little hard to use and even harder to dodge its incessant ads.

The app makes you submit to not one, but two different ad agreements before you can use it. It has pop-up ads that are nearly impossible to close without an accidental tap or two, as well. You are rewarded with dozens of different frames for your collage once you make it through the ads, though. There are plenty of effects and borders you can use on each … Read more

Photo Editor for Instagram will let you edit your photos with different effects and frames, but it makes all the wrong moves to get you there. All you get for putting up with the annoying ads are some run-of-the-mill features and shaky performance.

This app appears with the name "Color FX" in your app locker and "Photo Makeover" in all of its menus. Whatever you call it, Photo Editor for Instagram has nothing to do with Instagram, so don't expect any of the look and feel of that app. It does co-opt some of Instagram'… Read more

Unlike most apps of its ilk, PhotoFram.es HD is an ad-free framing app that really works. There aren't many downsides that come with these great, high resolution frames. You will have to pay a pretty penny to unlock them all, but the free app has a lot on offer if you choose not to upgrade.

There are about 50 or so frames in each of this app's seven categories. About one-third of the app's frames are locked behind a paywall that will cost you $5 (or $1 per category) to lift, but you shouldn't bother. … Read more

For all the complaining about Windows 8's lack of a Start button (much of it coming from me), the tech media has largely ignored an even bigger feature Microsoft unceremoniously pulled from the OS.

And not only pulled, but also slapped with a price tag.

I'm talking about Windows Media Center, the thoroughly awesome software that makes a Windows PC a great companion for TV -- or just a great TV, depending on how you use it.

Windows Media Center (hereafter WMC) made its debut as a specialized version of Windows XP, but was later incorporated into most versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Offering a gorgeous 10-foot (i.e., TV-friendly) interface for your music, photos, videos, and, with the addition of a tuner, TV shows, WMC quickly amassed a small but rabid following.… Read more

Write SMS by Voice is designed to help you text without using your hands, but it comes with plenty of strings attached. First, you have to deal with dozens of ads before you even get to the app's menu. What's even worse is that this application makes you actually use your hands to finish the text.

Before you even get to the app's menu, you have to wade through four different ad agreements. Even if you don't agree, Write SMS by Voice still slams you with ads in your status bar before you can even start … Read more

With the public preview builds of Windows 8.1 due out later this month, a number of users are wondering how Microsoft plans to handle the upgrade.

At TechEd North America, officials shared some details on that topic in a session entitled "Windows RT in the Enterprise."

Microsoft officials have said previously that the company plans to deliver the public preview of Windows 8.1, codenamed "Blue," via the Windows Store on June 26.

Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager Michael Niehaus reiterated that message in the RT in the Enterprise session on Tuesday. When the 8.… Read more