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You can do a lot with smartphones these days, but unless you're downloading the best apps for your device, you aren't really using it to its full potential. So if you aren't sure what to download, just make sure you have these 10 apps on your iPhone or Android device. Google Maps This app comes preinstalled on Android devices and should be the first app downloaded on iPhones. Besides top-notch design, the app is the best free voice navigation app for driving directions.

It used to be that you could only access Instagram on your smartphone. Now, about the only thing you can't do on its website is upload photos. Instagram this week added a "Feed" feature to its website, giving users a central location for seeing all of their friends' latest photos. "We believe that you should be able to access Instagram on a variety of different devices, any of which may be convenient to you at a given moment -- including your desktop computer or tablet," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said in a blog post .  QUIZ: How much do you know about Facebook?

Deborah Kolb traveled to Venice, Italy, in February to check out the city's carnival celebrations. She was visiting St. Mark's Square at sunrise one morning when she happened upon this scene. "It was beyond my expectations. I found out that people such as these two ladies come from all over the world to participate," she said. The Los Angeles resident used a Canon EOS 5D. View past photos we've featured . To upload your own, visit our reader travel photo gallery . When you upload your photo, tell us where it was taken and when.

The straw-colored balls dangling from this acacia tree look like tumbleweed, but they're actually bird nests, built by the aptly named weaver bird. Jack Seifert encountered the nests at the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya during a safari in early September. The Sherman Oaks resident explained that the male weaver builds these nests in hopes of luring a mate. Seifert used a Panasonic Lumix DMC- FZ150. To submit your photos, click the upload button below. When you upload your photos, tell us where they were taken and when.

Every day for six years, New York photography student Noah Kalina took a picture of himself with a digital camera. He toiled on the art project in obscurity until 2006, when he strung together all 2,356 self-portraits into a five-minute, time-lapse video and posted it on YouTube.com. The video surged in popularity, touching off a global phenomenon. More than 15 million people have viewed it, and the video inspired dozens of others to turn their cameras on themselves. Kalina's digital exhibitionism was even spoofed on an episode of "The Simpsons."

Eduard Khil, known to most Western audiences as Internet star “Mr. Trololo,” died early Monday in St. Petersburg after suffering a stroke in April. He was 77. Khil, a baritone who was popular in the 1960s and '70s in what was then the Soviet Union, received a number of awards during his career, including the People's Artist of Russia honor, but it wasn't until a 1976 TV performance surfaced online in late 2009 and hit big in early 2010 that he enjoyed international fame. “The death of the exceptional singer, Eduard Khil, is an irretrievable loss to Russian culture,” Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday in a statement expressing his condolences.

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An enormous android from the future teleporting into the past? Close. Liquid mercury did inspire British artist Anish Kapoor to create this sculpture, titled " Cloud Gate . " Kapoor's sculpture, weighing 110 tons, lords over AT&T Plaza in Chicago's Millennium Park. The highly reflective sculpture is fused together from plates of polished steel. It stands 33 feet high and measures 66 feet long. Times reader Paul Konkirati captured this futuristic scene. View past photos we've featured . To upload your own, visit our reader travel photo gallery . When you upload your photo, tell us where it was taken and when.

Jazz singer Josephine Baker called Chateau des Milandes in southwestern France home from 1947 until the late '60s. Now the 15 th century castle is a museum dedicated to the legendary singer. Times reader "Pascale1" visited the chateau last July and shot this photograph. For more on Baker and the castle, read this Times travel article . View past photos we've featured . To upload your own, visit our reader travel photo gallery . When you upload your photo, tell us where it was taken and when.

Inspired by friends' photos, Randy Berler and his wife traveled to Morocco in May to experience the country firsthand. Captivated by the desert bathed in the day's receding light, he snapped this photo while on a camel trek to the dunes of Erg Chebbi. "The early evening sun made for spectacular colors," the Torrance resident said. Berler used a Canon EOS 50D. View past photos we've featured . To upload your own, visit our reader travel photo gallery . When you upload your photo, tell us where it was taken and when.

Amy Neiman and her husband, Alan, were in Mexico in November during the Dia de Los Muertos holiday. Near the Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán in Oaxaca, they saw people gathered for a parade, and one couple in particular stood out. "I was struck by the colors, the creativity, the seriousness of the young people," Neiman said. The woman's gown is made from Styrofoam cups, paper plates and plastic utensils. The Venice resident used an iPhone 4S.  To submit your photos, click the upload button below.

There are plenty of events in the calendar year that demand attention, planning and a patient liver. But only a few of these occasions duke it out for the title of "biggest party night" on the books. Halloween becomes a drink-a-thon (and skimpy costume competition) when one reaches drinking age, yet it pales in comparison to the pressure brought on by New Year's Eve: the annual race to change everything about your character and have made said transformation by Jan. 2 (because you were a little hungover on the 1st)

During a 17-day tour of Turkey this fall, Arthur Hoyle and his wife, Mimi, visited Cappadocia, a region known for its unique rock formations, many of which have been carved into dwellings over the millennia. Outside of Uchisar, Hoyle captured this scene. "Just as I snapped a photo of the distant town, a flock of pigeons flew in front of me," he said. The Pacific Palisades resident used a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS6. To submit your photos, click the upload button below. When you upload your photos, tell us where they were taken and when.

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing social network, said the number of photos uploaded more than doubled after President Obama was projected to be the winner of the 2012 presidential election. The Facebook-owned social network said that immediately after NBC made the projection, Instagram users began uploading photos at 2.1 times that of the normal upload rate. In all, at least 250,000 photos were uploaded Tuesday related to the election. Instagram said more than 100,000 pics were added with the hashtag #iVoted while another 150,000 went up with the hashtag #election2012.

During a trip to Paris in September, Mary Resnick and her husband, Lawrence, visited the Musee d'Dorsay. Inside the art museum, hosted within a rail station built for the 1900 World's Fair, Resnick photographed this clock overlooking the Seine River. “The setting was surreal and thrilling,” she said. The West Los Angeles resident used an iPhone 4S. To submit your photos, click the upload button below. When you upload your photos, tell us where they were taken and when.

In September, Roy Reel and his wife, Patricia, traveled to Hawaii to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary, staying at the Kauai Marriott Resort in Lihue. At the pond near the hotel's entrance, Reel photographed these colorful koi during a feeding frenzy. The Culver City resident used a Nikon N75 film camera. To submit your photos, click the upload button below. When you upload your photos, tell us where they were taken and when. The more we know about a photo, the more likely it is that we'll feature it in "Your Scene," a weekly photo feature that appears online and in print.

During a trip in March to Ninh Thuan, one ofVietnam'smost forested provinces, Le Bao Ngoc photographed My Tan fishing port about 40 miles south of Nha Trang. He was drawn to the lonely feeling of the scene, created by the faint dawn light and the single bamboo basket, he said. The resident of Ho Chi Minh City used a Canon EOS 7D. View past photos we've featured . To upload your own, visit our reader travel photo gallery . When you upload your photo, tell us where it was taken and when.

In July, George Stoneman and his wife, Laurie, took a cruise through Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia, about 200 miles northwest of Vancouver, Canada. As they made their way through a narrow passage, a pod of dolphins began to follow them, chasing their wake. "I grabbed my camera and captured this image just as the dolphin came up for air," Stoneman said.  The Los Angeles resident used a Nikon D300. To submit your photos, click the upload button below. When you upload your photos, tell us where they were taken and when.

Each year for the past six years, Raymond Lyons has gone backpacking with his brother, Ron, as well as his three sons, Dan, Tim and Philip. In September, the group visited Ediza Lake, about 10 miles northwest of Mammoth Lakes. As Lyons stood on the shore of Ediza one evening, the sky glowed a reddish-yellow, silhouetting Mt. Ritter, left, and Banner Peak. The Carlsbad, Calif. resident used a Panasonic DMC-FZ40. To submit your photos, click the upload button below. When you upload your photos, tell us where they were taken and when.