Apps and Software

If you've ever started playing a game on your smartphone, and wanted to finish on your tablet but couldn't, a new app could fix that problem for good.

Nextbit, a San Francisco-based startup whose founders were previously part of Google's Android team, is coming out of stealth with Baton, an Android app that uses the cloud to bring Handoff-like sharing capabilities to multiple devices.

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While most see Microsoft Excel as endless blank rows and columns, others view it as a platform to bring their artwork to life.

Many have managed to push the limits of the spreadsheet-making software that most of us try to avoid at all costs. From landscape masterpieces to recreations of our favorite video game characters, Excel has been unexpectedly used as a drawing tool to create some of the coolest illustrations.

Below, we've put together 10 incredible works of art made in Microsoft Excel.

1. Japanese art by Tatsuo Horiuchi

We've all heard of the illusory work/life balance that books, blogs and the busiest of professionals tell us is attainable — but actually achieving it doesn't feel so simple. It all seems like a classic catch-22: In order to achieve a manageable work/life balance, you have to find time in your already packed schedule to read up on how to achieve it — but you probably don't have the time to dedicate to researching in the first place, because you're too slammed with workLe sigh.

Fret no longer — we've done the research for you; we've rounded up eight apps that will help with anything from managing administrative tasks, making shipping a non-pain and even streamlining your social media reporting. So take a deep breath and know you're one step closer to getting the most out of each and every day, with more time to dedicate to what matters most to you ...