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Anti-social : When it's running, this Mac OS X app blocks access to social media sites and any other sites you choose. There are a number of apps designed specifically to help people concentrate on their work: He is currently working on a medical application for stroke patients called StrokeLink.
He has created several apps, including Domain Hole, which helps people find domain names.
Ben Docksteader is in his final year at the University of Prince Edward Island. She has developed a number of mobile applications, including SoFit, a fitness app with a social media component, and Hannah Mittelstaedt is a fourth-year computer engineering student at the University of Toronto. Brennan McEachran is a fourth-year commerce student at Ryerson University and is the CEO of Hit Send, a technology startup incubated in Ryerson's Digital Media Zone that creates web applications for companies. To sift through these apps, CBC News asked for recommendations from three app developers who are students themselves: Many young people are heading back to school with smartphones and tablets in their backpacks, but there's a host of free and low-cost apps available that can make these gadgets even more useful for students who want to stay on top of their studies.