Fireplace HD
63p – Buy it here
You may be nice and warm in your centrally heated home but you can't beat a real fire for the ultimate in winter cosiness. In lieu of real logs to burn, running Fireplace HD on your GALAXY Note 3 is the next best thing - just fire it up (so to speak) and the Note 3 becomes a portable fireplace with a realistic flame effect.
Just don't try to toast marshmallows on it as this may invalidate your warranty.
Ski & Snow Report
Free – Get it here
If you enjoy winter sports like skiing or snowboarding, this app from top skiing site OnTheSnow.co.uk will give you all the information you need about conditions on more than 2,000 resorts and pistes across the globe. You can see weather conditions, on-the-ground reports from skiers in each location, live webcams and 'Powder Points' alerting you to the biggest new snowfalls.
Trail maps are available for each location and the app will use your GPS coordinates to show you the nearest slopes if you have you skis or board on you and feel the urge to slalom.
My Christmas Shopping List
Free – Get it here
If you installed the Final Countdown app you might now have a timer on your GALAXY Note 3's home screen showing the impending Christmas celebrations. If the proximity of Yuletide is giving you the fear, this handy Christmas Shopping app will make buying gifts and planning your pressie budget a breeze.
Enter the names of everyone you will be buying gifts for and assign each one a colourful avatar, then as you think of a present for each one, just enter the details in the app. The Note 3 will show you what you still have left to buy plus keep a running tally of how much you have spent and show you how much is left of your Christmas shopping budget.
GhostCam: Spirit Photography
Free – Get it here
This Halloween, why not freak out your friends, or even visiting trick-or-treaters, by taking a photograph of them and revealing the spectral form lurking over their shoulder? GhostCam lets you take a super hi-res picture with the GALAXY Note 3's 13MP camera and then insert a spook.
There are several phantoms to choose from and you can place them wherever you want for maximum creepiness. Older pics from the Gallery can be ghostified too, should you forget and take a 'normal' picture by mistake.
Fireworks Live Wallpaper
Free - Get it here
Should Bonfire Night be rained off this year you can still experience the wonder of fireworks wherever you are with this rocket-powered app which uses the GALAXY Note 3's nifty Live Wallpaper feature to display animation behind your homescreen icons.
This fireworks wallpaper shows artificial displays over a variety of famous views. Fireworks go off randomly and can be adjusted for colour, frequency and size in the app's settings. Optionally, a firework will go off wherever you touch on the home screen's background, if you're a fan of emitting 'oooh' and 'aaaah' sounds whenever you're stabbing at the display.
