Apps and Software

If you're a dedicated Instagram user, you need to check out the many ways IFTTT can help you share your images.

There are hundreds of recipes available, as well as the option to create your own. From posting an image to Twitter (without it just showing up as a link) to automatically uploading pics to a Facebook album, the possibilities are endless.

To get you started, we take a look at five time-saving sharing options below.

This is a really handy recipe for Twitter users. It shares your Instagram photos to the your Twitter timeline as an actual image, not just a URL ...

BARCELONA — It's a familiar sight in Barcelona: You're at a restaurant (for some reason a great deal of them here are located in basements) and your cell phone is showing exactly zero bars

However, provided the restaurant has Wi-Fi, you could still receive calls made to your regular phone number — if you use the new service from Libon, called Reach Me

Orange-owned Libon's pitch from ...

Fitbit is buying FitStar, an app that specializes in crafting custom exercise programs based on a user's body data and activity history.

The two companies have been working together to integrate each other's services for a while, and in the wake of the deal those connections will deepen. Although the two will remain separate apps in the near-term, FitStar users will be able to publish their workouts immediately to the Fitbit app, and soon the apps will have single sign-on between them.

Fitbit is often regarded as an entry-level fitness tracker, but the broad appeal of the company's products (whose market share is a dominant 72%, according to NPD) occasionally garners criticism that they have little to offer people interested in more serious training. ...