Apps can help with New Year's resolutions

The following mobile applications might help you with your resolution of choice.

Runkeeper. The RunKeeper mobile app helps you track fitness activities including running and cycling. Features include GPS and manual activity tracking, audio cues for interval training and workout sharing via Facebook and Twitter. To boot, your data syncs to your free account at Runkeeper.com, where you can include more detailed information.

The app’s exercise functions make it easy to input different types of activities, duration and calories burned. Optional Twitter and Facebook sharing lets you brag to friends or get encouragement. Like Runkeeper, stats can be uploaded to the Web at LoseIt.com.

The number of days you want to hit the gym

You set the number of days you want to hit the gym and a real-life sum you’re willing to pay if you fall short. Check in at the gym with an iPhone app. If you meet your goal, you get paid out of the cash pool collected from those who didn’t; if you skip, you pay.

You can change your commitment from week to week and freeze your account after all of vacations or illness.

Milestones and stats can be blasted out to Twitter followers for moral support. Maybe "Can I borrow your phone?" will replace "Can I bum a cigarette?" in your vocabulary.

Evernote. This all-in-one productivity app lets you create and save notes, pictures and voice memos and sync them across your phone, computer and the Web so that they’re always available to you. A premium subscription gives you more cloud storage space, offline access, priority support, collaborative tools and other bonuses, nevertheless there’s no charge for the basic app and its functions.

iRead Personal Finance Blogs. Need a savings strategy? This aggregator collects personal finance information and advice from the WiseBread, Consumerist, GetRichSlowly and The Simple Dollar blogs and delivers it in a phone-friendly format. You can search and email individual posts or bookmark to read later.

Mint.com. One of Time magazine’s top 50 apps of 2011, this app allows you to track, budget and manage your money in the palm of your hand. Checking and savings accounts can be tracked, as so then as credit card accounts, investments and retirement funds. In-app bill reminders can help prevent late fees, and Mint.com can produce a budget based on your spending.

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