We've picked out some of our favourites for adding features and functionality to your device — use them as quick shortcuts for key tools without having to open up the full apps themselves.
Follow these steps to load up the console and you can easily spot the battery hogs causing you trouble.
If you've got a well-organised contacts book, our hats are tipped in your direction. If not here are four apps for taking on the challenge of keeping your life in order. Well, at least as far as communication in concerned.
Don't know the local lingo? Your smartphone can help you cheat your way through.
We're not talking food here: IFTTT's new apps bring one-tap magic to your phone (or smartwatch) and can be used to quickly push out photos, trigger actions and create notes.
Don't forget to pass on your digital estate before you shuffle off this mortal coil.
Think you know your Google? The search giant adds new features to its main portal on a regular basis, some of which you may have missed.
Become a god of Gmail, a ninja of Netflix and a Yoda of YouTube in mere seconds with all the secret button presses that get more done in less time.
If you really can't resist the temptation to take another twenty minutes under the covers on your own, here are some ideas and apps to help you break out of the habit.
As long as you have the right maps cached in advance, you should be able to find your way to your destination eventually.
Here's how to get a connection set up between two separate computers in the space of just a few minutes.
Here's how to activate the new Android feature, and customise the messages to suit your needs.
Bad Wi-Fi can seriously hamper your Netflix binge-watching or Spotify streaming. You don't have to settle for patchy coverage, though. Here's our guide to being a wireless master…
You can set the thumbnails for each video to show the official DVD cover, movie poster or any other standard-sized image.
Here's how you can get a customised GIF from any YouTube or Vimeo clip in a few seconds.
There are plenty of apps for identifying music while you're listening to it, but you might not know that the same functionality is built into Google Now as well.
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