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Are you returning to school this fall and dreading the idea of falling behind? We've put together five great apps to help you organize your life, schoolwork and more so you start off on the right foot.

The weather might be more ice cream trucks and long days at the pool, but the calendar is inching towards yellow buses and new backpacks. Every parent knows about back-to-school clothes and back-to-school supplies, but nowadays, back-to-school apps are just as important.

March Madness is in full-on, face-painted, trash-talking, ankle-snapping, buzzer-beating, swing. Unless you're 6'9" and play for Louisville, the only way you're going to the Final Four is to buy a ticket and make the pilgrimage to Atlanta or watch it on the big screen from your couch...

Everyone knows it costs money to raise a child, but it’s the unforeseen expenses that really add up.

If the threat of blackouts and liver failure isn't enough to turn you into a teetotaler, then this new photo app, which simulates the physical effects of alcohol abuse over a period of 10 years, just might.

There are plenty of people whom you'd like to see naked, right? That hot blonde at the office, the neighbor with the Hipster glasses, Betty White. Thanks to a new app, you can see anyone 'naked,' and you won't even face criminal prosecution.

After last year's flu season, which health officials say was one of the mildest in the past 30 years, the illness is back with a vengeance. Well, if you're unlucky enough to currently have the flu, at least a new Facebook app can help track down the diseased jerk who gave it to you in the first place.

If you want to avoid the itch, the drip and the burn that can come from a wild night of frivolous, no-latex sex, you might want to consider bumping phones before you bump uglies. That’s because now there is a new smartphone app that lets you share your STD status with potential partners to help prevent you from screwing yourself all the way to the sick pecker clinic.

They are seriously making an 'Angry Birds' movie. What will it be about? Who would be in it (aside from obviously Nicki Minaj)? Will it just be Nicki Minaj doing everyone's voices? It raises a lot questions, but none are more depressing than 'if 'Angry Birds,' then _____?' They're turning a phone app into a movie. We predict this is the beginning of a terrible trend. If we're right, here are five

Find yourself wishing the holidays were over already? Well, thanks to a bug in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, the month of December has been canceled altogether. Is Google the new Grinch?

Finally there's an app actually worth having! Activision has recently teamed up with Bad Robot Interactive for a FREE UPDATE to the Action Movie F.X. app for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod! The update will transform your everyday surroundings and homemade videos into a virtual battlefield!

You're on vacation. You come across a landmark: the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, the Pyramids of Giza—or the world's largest rubber-band ball. You wonder, how tall is it really? But you didn't get the audio guide. Well, whip out your phone and use the Smart Measure app, and the knowledge will be yours in just a few seconds.