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WebMD Baby, available only on Apple devices for now, is arguably more practical and useful than many of the other apps for parents combined.

Weather apps are the new Twitter apps. For a time, designers put their efforts into making cool Twitter apps. Twitter apps were a way to play around with different design ideas, while still appealing to a broad base of users. Twitter basically shut down all the third party apps. It wanted to take control of its platform, so the creativity in Twitter apps is pretty much dead.

Nivea For Men has launched a video series, Own The Room, featuring tutorials on how to perform bar tricks and impress the crowd. “Most British men don’t like moisturising but we know they like feeling a bit more confident in social situations,” says Liz Wilson, CEO of agency CMW. “So we’ve created this series of useful, entertaining little films as a fun way to engage men and build the conversation.”

Two apps, FBI Child ID and Footprints, are worth downloading for any parent — even those who can’t imagine ever losing their children.

Traditional test preparation services have refined their mobile software to compete with start-ups, resulting in improved apps for students.

Here's an interesting addition to the "brands make products" trend. Audi, with help from DDB Spain is out with a mobile Android app called Start-Stop that mimics one of the features in new Audi vehicles; smart technology turns off the engine when not in use (at a stop light, etc.) and turns it back on when needed so that energy is saved.

It seems that a number of big social sites are having a thorough spring cleaning effort to sweep away older products which aren’t working for them financially or ones that don’t fit with their vision of the future. Also in March, Google announced that it would be killing off Google Reader on 1 July 2013, much to the despair of its sizeable user base.

Several apps offer variations on a theme: tablets and smartphones can be an easy way for children to learn the fun of playing musical instruments.