App of the week: Gasbuddy

Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor
We’ve all been there: watching the cost of filling the gas tank reach the $50 mark and saying goodbye to half of last week’s paycheck. With gas prices so high, it’s worth finding the gas station with the least expensive prices and going the extra couple of miles to get there. Luckily, with Gasbuddy, finding the cheapest gas is easy and instant.

App of the week: Snapchat

Julia Hardy
Arts and Entertainment Editor

Stop fighting the urge to share an embarrassing selfie with your friends for fear it will end up public: with Snapchat, you can send any picture instantly to another user and set the amount of time, from one to ten seconds, that the photo is visible. After that time limit is up, the picture is erased forever. The person who sent the picture is alerted if the receiver tries to take a screenshot, so no worries about any photos ending up on Facebook or Twitter.

App of the week: GifBoom

Julia Hardy
Arts & Entertainment Editor

If you haven’t been hearing buzz about this app yet or seeing it pop up on your news feed, you will be very soon. Considered by The Next Web to be “a Tumblr user’s best friend,” GifBoom is a photo app that’s gaining recognition as the perfect tool to make videos like the ones common on Tumblr.