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Discover New YouTube Song Videos On Android & iOS With Music Monster

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Blending the concept of online music discovery and social music sharing, Music Monster is a feature-rich Android and iOS app that comes loaded with tons of interesting features. The app fetches the best, popular and trending music videos and video playlists featured on YouTube, and lets you create custom audio playlists out of them and the local tracks of your choice. One of the high points of Music Monster is its various music exploration tools that allow users to browse tracks by genre, nationality, artist, most & recently listened, season, top YouTube playlists, rankings and those that other Music Monster you’re following are listening to. Besides searching for tracks and managing custom playlists, you can comment on and like posts by other users, and keep a close tab on your own activities on the Music Monster network in a number of ways. Videos can be played in a fullscreen view or in the background like regular audio tracks. Read More

Design & Send Real-Life Birthday Cards To Facebook Friends From Your iPhone

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Apple’s own Cards service and Ink Cards for iOS and Android provide an excellent way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them without having to leave your house to buy or mail post cards. These apps let you design and send real-life greeting cards to your contacts, all from your mobile device. Recently, some other developers have started venturing into this genre of apps, Birthday Cards by Cleverbug for iOS being the hottest new entrant. The app’s main focus is birthday cards, and it doubles as a reminder app for upcoming birthdays of your Facebook friends. The thing that makes Birthday Cards stand out from among other similar apps is its ability to automatically incorporate photos of your friends into the cards you are making for them. It is also possible to put pictures into templates manually, and of course, to enter personalized text into cards before you place an order for their printing and postage. Read More

View Trending Stories From Facebook & Twitter With NewsWhip For iOS

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A lot of iOS apps claim to be your best source for all the latest news from around the world. Most of these apps offer staff-picked new stories, meaning users have to rely on the choice of a few individuals. NewsWhip changes that by providing you with news picked by millions of people on social media. The app analyzes the social media sharing stats of news stories to present its users with articles that are hot on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow topics that are trending in any part of the globe, or browse through news based on topics. The app has the ability to retain your usage history, and offers pretty neat sharing options as well. Read More

talkbits Is A Location-Based Social Walkie-Talkie For Android & iOS

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The resounding success of the likes of Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, SoundCloud et al has inspired many new startups to launch a themed social network of their own that's specific to a certain niche. There are quite a few such services out there based on the concept of voice messaging and audio clip sharing such as Airetalk, VoiceBo and Hallo, and the latest addition to the list is talkbits. Fresh to the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store, it’s a free, location-based social walkie-talkie app for iOS and Android. Unlike most similar services, talkbits offers location-based channels to let you indulge in conversations with nearby users by sharing audio streams and short voice messages. This way, you can discover like-minded people or stay informed about a live event taking place in or around a location of your interest. Be it a sports event, a public gathering, a musical concert or a traffic jam , talkbits lets you listen in on any activity of concern through other users’ voices. Read More

Kinetik’s Hip For iPhone Combines Social Networking & App Discovery

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It’s been over a year since we covered Kinetik, the gorgeous app discovery client for the iPhone. While Kinetik has some pretty decent sharing options, it would be a long stretch to say that it is a social network. Hip, on the other hand, focuses quite a bit on the social aspects of finding new iOS apps that are suitable for you. Hip has been developed by the same folks who came up with Kinetik, and it appears that they eventually plan to replace the latter with Hip. Hip is designed like a news reader, but with app suggestions based on different criteria and reviews from major tech blogs. You can get location-based recommendations for the "hippest" apps around, view suggestions from your friends, or gauge the overall popularity of an app among Hip users. The app offers a Twitter-like system for following other users and their tastes, and lets you easily share your favorite apps with the community as well. Read More

Find Interesting Twitter Users To Follow With Discovr People For iOS

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Despite the fact that an average Twitter user follows well over a hundred people, it can be difficult to come across new people who regularly tweet what you find interesting to read. Twitter offers the Discover section of course, but that's quite limited, to say the least, and does not focus much on people due to the presence of Trends, popular tweets and region-wise hashtags. Discovr People might be the best choice for anyone who wishes to find interesting and relevant Twitter users, and that too in a really neat and easy-to-understand manner. All you have to do is enter anyone’s Twitter handle, and this iOS app will come up with a graphical connection chart, listing all the important and active people who have interacted with the target user in the recent past. You can expand the connections tree by hitting the icon of any profile shown as a node of the original chart. Discovr People even lets you view public profiles within the app, complete with past tweets, listed connections and other parts of their account. Read More

Discover & Share Statistics And Infographics With Numbeez For Android

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Numbers, facts and figures play a vital role in our lives. Various numbers and figures - when recorded over a period of time and put together in the form of statistics and infographics - can reveal an entire story about various facets of your life. For instance, you might be interested in getting an overview of statistics such as your daily intake of fluids, the number of emails you send in a month, the amount of calories you burn everyday through workouts, your total hours of sleep, time spent in transit, monthly savings and what not. How about a mobile app that helps you keep track of these figures and presents you with neatly-laid out infographics whenever you want? Better yet, how about getting crowdsourced statistics from worldwide users regarding general topics of interest? This is what Numbeez is all about. Fresh to Google Play Store, Numbeez for Android is a unique statistics and social networking app based solely on user-submitted numbers and infographics regarding interesting topics. You may use the app as a personal information tracking app, or discover various statistics shared by other Numbeez users from different parts of the world. Read More

Rockmelt Updated With iPhone Support & New Navigation Gestures

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Rockmelt might appear to be in the general category of web browsers for iOS, but anyone who has ever used it can testify that the app is quite different from other apps of that genre. Rockmelt combines social networking with web browsing, and adds a nice touch of gestures to the whole mix. If you are an iPhone or iPod touch user but still haven’t heard of the app, it’s probably due to the fact that Rockmelt has been iPad-exclusive ever since it was released in the App Store. Now however, Rockmelt has arrived for iPhone and iPod touch, with an interface that will really make you fall in love with the app. A few new gestures have been added to the mix as well that allow you to easily like or unlike web pages with a flick of your finger. Read More

memoloo Is A Free, Location-Based Social Photo Sharing Android App

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Whether you want to get a collection of the best landscape-centric images out of your favorite photo sharing apps, or simply want to feast your eyes on some of the most awe-inspiring photos from different locations the world over, we've got a great solution for you. Available exclusively for Android devices, memoloo is a social photo & video sharing app that allows you to explore, track and share some of the most scenic locations of the world. Each image and video shared via memoloo is a short story in itself, describing its significance to the user and the specific category under which it appropriately falls. Also, memoloo automatically geotags each shared image and presents it on a map via its individual placemarker to help users learn about the exact location where it was captured. Moreover, the app supports several customary socializing tools to rate an image/video, comment on posts, follow a user, explore trending locations, share your own memoloos, and keep a close tab on your activities on the memoloo network. Read More

Schedule Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn Posts With Buffer For iPhone & Android

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If you want to be popular on social networks, timing does matter. You don’t want to swamp the timeline (or home page) of other people even if all your posts are super awesome in your opinion. However, it is not always easy to remember each good post or image that is worth sharing, which is why having a social media scheduler is a pretty cool idea. Services like Buffer have been around for quite a while, letting people share interesting posts at customizable intervals. Times have changed, however, and not a lot of people who own smartphones use social networking sites from their computer. That is why Buffer's release for iPhone and an update to the Android version comes as a great news for heavy Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn users. Other than scheduling posts, Buffer is also convenient for sharing items from sources like Pocket, Reeder, Flipboard, etc. Read More

A Guide To Google+ Communities & Brief Comparison With Facebook Groups

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Google+, the social network that was first predicted to end Facebook’s reign, and then to die a nameless death, is still alive and kicking and has just rolled out its latest feature - Google+ Communities. Google+ Communities are groups of interest that any Google+ user can create. Like all other social communities, it allows you to create public and private groups, or moderated public groups. You can add events, share images or videos, and post messages. As a member of a group, you can invite other friends from your circles. To join private communities, you either need to receive an invite, or you can send a request to join. Anyone can join a public community, but for moderated public communities, your request to join must first be approved. This new addition has its own search feature that allows you to discover communities of your interest, and a personal search feature that allows you to search within a community. Read More

Knotch For iPhone Is A Social Network For Opinions On Any Topic

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It is not always the easiest thing to speak your mind, as there are many occasions when circumstances force people to keep their opinions to themselves. Now however, iOS users can use the new Knotch app to make their voice heard and give an honest opinion on anything they want. Knotch is a social voting service, where users create their own topics and then ask others for their opinion on it. The app integrates with Facebook to make the experience even more fun and useful. It has a color-coding system of its own, which helps users gauge the public mood regarding an issue. To make the whole experience even more social, you can follow topics and users. Wondering what the overall mood is like among the Knotch community? Take a look at the app’s ‘ColorGraphic’ to find out whether most people are voicing positive opinions or looking at the darker side of life. Read More

Android App Of Social Voice Messaging Service VoiceBo Hits Play Store

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VoiceBo is a cross-platform social voice message sharing service for web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android that lets users privately as well as publicly share brief recorded audio clips with others. While the iOS client of the service has been around for quite some time now, the Android app has just made its way into the Play Store. Besides sharing Hallo-like short but high quality voice clips (known as Bos), the app supports sharing content under various tags/categories, and lets you supplement your audio bits with relevant images as well as your current location. Therefore, you can share almost anything that requires some sort of oral description, such as explanation of the picture being shared, a personal message to your loved one, your opinion on a common topic of interest, or anything similar. Each voice message can be recorded for a maximum of five minutes, and can be shared publicly, privately or directly with a specific contact. As with any social app, there are plenty of tools available at users’ disposal to interact with the shared content and spread the best content further with your mates. Read More

ShoutOut Radio For iPhone Lets You Share & Stream Music On Facebook

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Every once in a while, you are bound to come across a song that really hits the spot. It's at times like these that you feel the need the share. ShoutOut Radio is a new iPhone app that lets its users scrobble songs from their own library or through Last.fm. This app uses your Facebook account to send public and private messages to your friends regarding the songs you are listening to. There are plenty of radio streaming services available for iOS, and a lot of apps offer scrobbling, but ShoutOut Radio combines the two in a perfect meld. Even if none of your friends are on ShoutOut Radio, they can still stream the music you share with them right from their Facebook Walls. You can also create personalized radio stations of your choice by letting the app know of your taste in songs and artists. Read More

View Local & Online Photos In One Gallery With MyPics For Android

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From the makers of previously-reviewed photo editing app, FunCam, comes yet another remarkable free Android app called MyPics – the latest entrant to the list of local and online photo aggregators, including Pictarine and Pixable. MyPix by UmobiSoft Team supports integration with a number of social networks and photo hosting services, such as Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, VKontakte & Smugmug, and sports a built-in unified online & local photo gallery designed to cater for your basic image browsing, editing, sharing and management needs. Though not as feature-filled as some of the aforementioned names, MyPix does bring a few exclusive options to the table, like browsing Facebook Friends’ photo albums, hiding select photos from the gallery, fixing image details from EXIF metadata, multiple views for your photo albums, batch uploading & downloading of content, and the option to set an image as a contact photo or wallpaper right from within the app. Read More

Path Comes To iPad; Shows Photos & Moments In A Landscape Grid

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The iOS App Store has a pretty well-populated social networking section, but most apps related to social sharing fail to make any impact on users and are soon forgotten. That is why it is always nice to see an app of this genre gaining popularity among the iPhone community. Instagram is the finest example of small-time apps that became really successful. After Instagram, Path is another name that’s sure to come up in any discussion of social networks that are exclusive to smartphones. It has been a year since Path made its first appearance in the App Store, but now the network has expanded to Android and has seen a few significant updates that have helped it really come of age. However, no iOS app can be considered complete unless it has an iPad variant, and that’s why Path’s going universal is certainly big news. There aren’t too many changes in the app’s iPad version, but it offers the perfect landscape viewing experience for photos and other posts shared by you in the past. Read More

snapp! Is A Social Location Sharing App For Android & iOS With Indoor Check-ins

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There aren't a lot of apps out there that allow you to keep track of your social contacts’ whereabouts, and that too integrated with multiple social network services. Using snapp!, a free social location sharing and tracking app for Android and iOS, you can do just that. Powered by Google Maps and Sensewhere’s crowdsourced indoor maps, the app helps you view the current locations of your Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Sensewhere friends (other snapp! users), using color-coded placemarkers and avatars to make it easier. You can opt to check in to a particular building/location, or a specific room within a building. In addition, it lets you post status updates and photos across multiple networks simultaneously. The app can also be set to register automatic check-ins for your favorite places and constantly track your current location at predefined intervals. You could say it is like Google Latitude with extensive social media integration and indoor check-ins. snapp! for iOS hit the iTunes App Store a while ago, while its Android variant is fresh to the Play Store. Read More

Whims For iPhone Is Like Instagram For Stylized Words & One-Liners

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Although Instagram is basically an image sharing service, a lot of photos posted on the network are nothing more than inspirational (or even random) quotes in fancy fonts and pretty backgrounds. While many people like such photos, a considerable percentage of users think that Instagram is not the right platform for such text-oriented images. Apparently, the developers of the new Whims app appear to wholeheartedly agree with that, and have come up with a brand new social network that aims to weed out these quotes from Instagram, and provide them with a home of their own. Thanks to Whims, you can easily create elaborate text snippets, complete with customizable fonts, text styles and background images. The end product, or rather, the 'whim' can be saved to your camera roll, shared with your friends on other social networks, or published on the app’s own network. Read More

Share Local & Cloud Files Privately Using Bistri For Android

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Bistri is a relatively fresh private file sharing and video chatting web service that lets users share photos, videos and document files with their friends and family. Besides offering its users with a readily available, secure file sharing platform, Bistri impresses with its support for a large number of sharing media, including Facebook, Jabber, Windows Live, Google, Yahoo!, Dropbox and more. The company has just released a companion app in the Google Play Store that allows Android users to access, view and share their personal Bistri content on the move. The mobile app is laced with quite a few neat features, such as integration with cloud services like Dropbox & SkyDrive, commenting on shared content, complete profile management, instant sharing of local media, a visually attractive timeline of your sharing activities on Bistri, a built-in file explorer, and the best of all, a dedicated gallery with separate filters for images and other shared content. Like the service itself, the mobile app of Bistri is free to use, and what’s even better is that your contacts can view shared content even if they don’t have the app. Read More

Google+ Update For Android & iOS Adds Support For Pages & Post Editing

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There can be no denying the fact that Google+ has not yet proved to be the Facebook-killer many people initially thought it would be, but Google’s social network does have its positives. While there are great features like Hangouts for individual users, Google+ Pages offer businesses a convenient way of interacting with the user -base en masse. It has always been a source of disappointment to the social network’s Android and iOS-using fans that the Google+ clients for these platforms do not support Pages and work only for individual profiles. Thankfully, the issue has finally been addressed in the latest update. While support for Pages is the only major change in the Android app, the iOS version also lets its users edit past posts, and if you are on an iPad, you can find people and posts via the search option present in the main menu (a feature hitherto only available on the iPhone). Read More