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A few of our favorite things for 2015

No offense to whiskers on kittens and warm woollen mittens, but they aren’t what gets us through the day. Today we honor not necessarily the best or most important apps of 2015 but our personal favorites, the ones our computer mice often scurry to and the ones with the biggest smudges on our phones’ home screens. Windows editor Tom’s favorite apps and services helped him find the sweet spot on convenience and cost-effectiveness. Read on to see Cliff’s picks for Mac and Android and Josh and Tuong’s top iOS apps. And check back next week for our top software trends of 2015. Happy holidays! Read more »

Julie Wildhaber

Managing Editor

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Favorite Mac apps

		Cliff would rather invest in pie ingredients than Photoshop, which is why he likes affordable photo editor Acorn. See his other Mac picks for 2015. Read more

Favorite Android apps

		Reality is overrated. Try a little virtual reality with Google’s Cardboard Camera, and check out five more fun and useful apps. Read more

Favorite iOS apps

		Let’s face it, you spend most of your phone time taking photos (and texting). So we have three picks for better pics and one app for investing money, so you can afford that iPhone 7 next year. Read more

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Bitdefender Total Security 2016 Bitdefender’s antimalware suite is firing on all cylinders but could use some more gauges on the instrument panel.


Trend Micro Maximum Security The flagship antimalware suite is updated for 2015.


Panda Internet Security Panda Internet Security 2016 is a highly respectable antimalware suite with useful frills.


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Internet Cyclone Optimize Windows settings and boost Internet connection speed.


FreePong Play a classic Pong game with different difficulty settings.


Bandicut Trim parts of video while keeping the original video quality.


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Avira Free Antivirus Avira Free Antivirus guards against malware without putting a strain on your Mac.


Parallels Desktop for Mac Parallels Desktop for Mac lets you run Windows and Windows apps on your Mac, shoulder to shoulder with OS X.


Microsoft Word With the 2016 version of Word for Mac, Microsoft offers a solid and long-awaited update to an essential OS X application.


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Boot Runner Complete startup control for dual boot Macs.


Business Card Shop Make impressive business cards.


Adobe FrameMaker Create and publish long WYSIWYG documents.


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