With the introduction of tabbed browsing, the way we surf the internet has never been more full of distractions. Session Buddy and Session Manager aim to bring a little order to the chaos. Whether you're a couch surfer, college student, or office jockey, chances are you probably have what seem to be a thousand tabs opened right now. Managing all those opened windows were a hassle before, but now with each one having about 20+ tabs opened, too? One trick was to force shutdown Chrome. The crash-saving feature would save your session for the next opening, but this can be tedious to do every single time. You could keep your computer powered on and your browsing session will be there the next time you return. However, this will waste a lot of computer memory if you wanted to work on something else in the meantime. It's also not a very green solution if you are simply going AFK. Thankfully, there are easier ways with the help of Session Buddy or Session Manager.

Just 2 more windows... then that's it. Okay maybe 3.

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Here's how it works: install one of the Session Buddy or ... [Read more]

Black Friday is rapidly approaching and we all know that means people are going to be hitting the stores both online and at brick and mortar locations to grab gifts for friends and family. But if you want to find the best deals, you're going to need a little help, and I have just the right apps for the job on iOS devices.

Whether you plan to brave the crowds on Black Friday or stay home and shop online, these apps will get you the best deals and hopefully make your gift shopping a little easier.

Note: For Android shopping apps, check out Jaymar Cabebe's Black Friday roundup.

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Black Friday Survival Guide This simple app shows you the latest deals from major stores so you can map out your shopping attack plan. Rather than flipping through circulars, this app has all the deals listed out for you, and you can save the best deals to a favorites list so you can refer back to it when you're out in the trenches on Black Friday.

The app has just four buttons across the bottom for navigation. The News button gives you up-to-the-minute deal announcements. The Stores button lists out all the stores with deals, and touching a store breaks down the... [Read more]

Black Friday is rapidly approaching and we all know that means people are going to be hitting the stores both online and at brick and mortar locations to grab gifts for friends and family. But if you want to find the best deals, you're going to need a little help, and I have just the right apps for the job on iOS devices.

Whether you plan to brave the crowds on Black Friday or stay home and shop online, these apps will get you the best deals and hopefully make your gift shopping a little easier.

Note: For Android shopping apps, check out Jaymar Cabebe's Black Friday roundup.

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(Credit: Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)

Black Friday Survival Guide This simple app shows you the latest deals from major stores so you can map out your shopping attack plan. Rather than flipping through circulars, this app has all the deals listed out for you, and you can save the best deals to a favorites list so you can refer back to it when you're out in the trenches on Black Friday.

The app has just four buttons across the bottom for navigation. The News button gives you up-to-the-minute deal announcements. The Stores button lists out all the stores with deals, and touching a store breaks down the... [Read more]

The holidays are fully under way, which means that shopping is at top of mind for many. In years past, this might have meant thumbing through the weekly circulars and braving the inevitable shopping mall stampedes, but these days, online retailers and deal-hunting mobile apps are changing the game.

For Android users, here are three of our favorite shopping apps, all of which can help you get a heads up on the best deals, not only online, but also in your area. Try them out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments below.

Editors' note: For iOS shopping apps, check out Jason Parker's Black Friday roundup.

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(Credit: Screenshot by Jaymar Cabebe/CNET) TGI Black Friday Updated for 2012, TGI Black Friday should be your bread and butter leading up to the big shopping day. It aggregates all of the latest Black Friday ads floating around -- some of which are leaked up to a month in advance -- and lists each of the featured items and retailers in its database.

To use the app, simply sift through all of the discounts by product, store name, or category. You can even download PDF printouts of some of the original ads. What's more, the app offers a nifty shopping list creator that lets you keep track of item... [Read more]

The holidays are fully underway, which means that shopping is at top of mind for many. In years past this might have meant thumbing through the weekly circulars and braving the inevitable shopping mall stampedes, but these days, online retailers and deal-hunting mobile apps are changing the game.

For Android users, here are three of our favorite shopping apps, all of which can help you get a heads up on the best deals, not only online, but also in your area. Try them out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments below.

Note: For iOS shopping apps, check out Jason Parker's Black Friday roundup.

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(Credit: Screenshot by Jaymar Cabebe/CNET) TGI Black Friday Updated for 2012, TGI Black Friday should be your bread and butter leading up to the big shopping day. It aggregates all of the latest Black Friday ads floating around -- some of which are leaked up to a month in advance -- and lists each of the featured items and retailers in its database.

To use the app, simply sift through all of the discounts by product, store name, or category. You can even download PDF printouts of some of the original ads. What's more, the app offers a nifty shopping list creator that lets you keep track of items you plan ... [Read more]

Flavyr for iOS organizes photos into slick-looking albums.

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Note to Apple: Nice job with the cameras and all, but Camera Roll? Not so great.

See, browsing photos on an iDevice kind of sucks. You're stuck either swiping through tiny, disorganized thumbnails or paging through endless full-screen snapshots to find what you're after.

Flavyr for iOS turns your Camera Roll into nicely organized albums, offering a much cooler way to view and share your snapshots.

When you run the app, it automatically groups your photos by date and presents them in a scrolling list. Each dated group (or "flayvr") consists of a title and four tiny thumbnails, one of which flips to a different picture every few seconds.

When you tap a group, it expands to fill the screen, again with four (larger) animated thumbnails. Here you can tap to edit the title or location of the flavyr, or tap a photo to enlarge it (though not quite to full-screen size unless you double-tap), then swipe through the other photos in the group.

There's also a Share button that lets you direct your flavyr to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, SMS, or e-mail. Anyone who clicks or taps the resulting link lands at the Flavy... [Read more]

It all started with Infinite Gangnam Style. For Music Hack Day Reykjavik, Paul Lamere, Director of Development Platform for the "music intelligence" company The Echo Nest, took Psy's "Gangnam Style" sensation to the next technological level. By breaking down the song into parts and matching similar parts in various patterns, he created a dynamic remix of the song that never ends. For Music Hack Day Boston last weekend, he modified and updated the musical algorithm to work with (nearly) any song, resulting in the webware app Infinite Jukebox, with the tagline "For when your favorite song just isn't long enough."

Although servers are getting slammed this week (putting the site into "Call Me Maybe" mode), the app works by letting users upload any MP3 file they want, then providing a permanent URL for the infinite remix, with a super cool visualization of the song's "beats" and "paths."

Each block in this visualization of R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" represents one beat.

(Credit: CNET) According to a blog post on Lamere's Music Machinery site: Th... [Read more]

Microsoft Word 2013.

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People who want to take Office 2013 for a spin can download a 60-day evaluation edition.

The version available is the full Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 suite, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync. The software contains all the features in the paid edition, so you won't miss out on anything.

You will need a Microsoft account in order to access the download page, but otherwise there are no strings attached.

Here's how you can grab the free trial version:

Head over to the Office Professional Plus 2013 download page on TechNet. Click on the Get Started Now button. Log in with your Microsoft account. Fill in the online form with your name, e-mail address, and other details, if it's not already filled in. Make sure to choose either the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office. Click Continue.

Another online form pops up asking for more information. Again, click Continue. The next page displays the product key, which you'll want to write down or save. Choose your language and click the Download button. Office is downloaded as a 785MB file.

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In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple included a few of its iOS applications, one of which is the Reminders app for setting up and organizing to-do lists. Reminders used to be part of Apple's iCal feature, but has migrated to a separate app that interfaces with the Calendar for all your Apple devices and with Apple's iCloud service. This unified setup not only makes sharing reminders among devices easy, but also offers a platform for sharing reminders among different iCloud users.

While a little redundant with standard calendar events, reminders are convenient alternatives since they are maintained in relevant lists and do not allocate a section of time for the event to take place. In addition, unlike events, reminders offer a notice in which the reminder will turn red when its due date has expired.

Hover your mouse to the left of the list name and click the share button that appears, followed by adding various contacts to share the list with.

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Not only are reminders convenient for an individual, but they can also be shared among different people, which can be beneficial for organizing collaborative projects. Unfortunately you cannot share individual reminders with people, but you can set up a shared list that will automatically sync among people's iCloud accounts.

Sharing a reminder list The process for sharing a reminder list is relativel... [Read more]