Facebook hogged tech headlines this week with news that it was pushing its Timeline to all users and will IPO next week. But while the 800-million-person social network was making news, there were also worthwhile launches from great startup apps that you might have missed.
You could sort through the App Store's 500,000 apps and the Android store's estimated 300,000 apps in order to find them. Or you could check out our recap of the best new apps in the slideshow above. We've done our best to sort out the overly frivolous, the ugly and the downright impractical.
The apps left standing include one that accomplishes a popular Photoshop trick in two simple steps, another that will pool contact info from your phone, social accounts and email to create one list to rule them all, another that works like Siri for people who don't have an iPhone 4S and long-awaited Android versions of two popular social service apps.