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Google has added 10 more apps to the Chromecast digital media player, the company announced today (Dec. 10) on the official Chrome blog. The apps are VEVO, Red Bull.TV, Songza, PostTV, Viki, Revision 3, BeyondPod, Plex, Avia and RealPlayer Cloud. VEVO is a music video site, Red Bull offers a variety of video content, Songza is a music streaming site with curated channels based on genre and Post TV is the Washington Posts video channel. Meanwhile, Viki is a Japanese animation and Korean drama video service, Revision 3 is an Internet video channel that creates hours of original videos every week and Beyond Pod is a podcast streaming and management service. MORE: What Is Google Chromecast? The other three apps — Plex, Avia and RealPlayer Cloud — are media players that will let you play video or music files of various formats. As Chromecast apps, they will let users send media files from mobile devices and computers to the Chromecast, and thus to the users TV. Chromecast, which for now is available only in the United States, where it retails for $35, is a dongle that plugs into an HDTVs HDMI port. Users can stream Internet content from their devices via Wi-Fi to their televisions. Besides the 10 apps added today, Chromecast also features Netflix, Google Play, Hulu Plus, Pandora and HBO Go apps. Source: Google Follow Kevin Ohannessian at @khohannessian and on Google+ . Follow us @tomsguide , on Facebook and on Google+ . Your Guide to Cable TV Cord-Cutting Netflix vs. Amazon Prime Instant Video: Face-Off How To Set Up Google Chromecast Copyright 2013 Toms Guides , a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.