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Create Polls & Ask The World For Opinions With Blurtopia For iPhone

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Not too long ago, opinion polls were all the rage on Facebook, but the sudden enthusiasm seems to have cooled down a little in recent months. There are many people who liked the idea of these polls, but couldn’t agree to the way votes were visible publicly. Blurtopia is an iOS app that, much like popular Q&A app Thumb, offers a social network focused solely on opinion polls. You can create any type of poll in the app, and then choose to ask just your friends for their opinion, or the whole world. You have to attach photos with the polls you create, and other people can vote on them, while leaving comments as well. Rather than offering simple multiple choice polls, Blurtopia allows users to request ratings for a photo, or they can pit two photos against each other to see which one of them gets the most up-votes. Read More

Voicepic For iPhone: Attach Voice Clips To Photos, Add Effects & Share With Friends

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There are tons of mobile apps that, like Instagram, focus solely on the sharing of images, but not all of them add something of value to the genre. Voicepic is an iPhone app that is based upon a similar idea, but with a slight twist. It lets you attach 8-second voice clips to their photos before sharing them with other Voicepic users and friends on Facebook and Twitter. A lot of apps offer photo filters, but Voicepic comes with both image filters and voice effects (like echo, audience laughter, cheering and volume enhancements). The app is very social media friendly, as in addition to conventional registration through email, it also offers Facebook and Twitter signup. Read More

Hubbl: Social iPhone & Android App Discovery & Suggestions With A Slight Twist

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When it comes to numbers, the App Store boasts the largest mobile app repository out there. With close to a million apps available for iOS users, it makes sense that Apple has divided the App Store into various categories so that you can discover apps of interest with ease. However, with the passage of time, all the categories have become so saturated that it is now close to impossible to come across a good app that hasn’t been able to gain popularity yet. The revamped iOS 6 App Store features enhanced recommendations and an interface modeled after that of the popular app discovery engine Chomp. Having said that, app discovery is still a genre that merits apps of its own. You might think that an app focusing on letting users find new apps for their smartphone can’t be too different from others of its kind, but Hubbl for iPhone proves this wrong. Despite being a really useful and social app discovery platform, Hubbl comes with a rather unique interface and discovery methods. The app also has an Android variant available on the Google Play Store. Read More

Brewster Merges Your iPhone Contacts With Facebook, Twitter, Gmail & Others

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Like most of the stock apps in iOS, Contacts is functional, but does not come with too many extra bells and whistles. In fact, it is not too different from the address book you could have had in an old feature phone. However, the thing that sets iOS apart is the availability of all the awesome apps for iPhone users. There is a plethora of contact management solutions in the App Store, most of them offering something unique for you. Brewster is an iOS contact manager that combines your address book contacts with the ones from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Gmail. The best thing about the app is that you just have to sign in to all these accounts, and everything else is done automatically by Brewster. The app acts like an address book, but it is also a useful tool to sort your contacts using a lot of filters. Read More

FlipToast Comes To iPhone, Merges Your Twitter & Facebook Feeds Together

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At least once every day, I go through my Twitter feeds on my iPhone, and right after I have done that, my next step is to launch the Facebook app and see if I have got anything interesting there. I am sure that many smartphone owners follow the same daily routine, as mentally, we categorize Twitter and Facebook as two services that are closely related and form a major part of our social network. This is the idea upon which FlipToast is based. The service is not a new one by any means, and has been around for Windows for quite a while, but having a Facebook and Twitter aggregator on your iPhone is even more useful than having it on your computer. FlipToast is an app that can be used to view all the latest posts, photos, events and notifications on your Twitter and Facebook accounts in one place. The app does not take the source of posts into account; rather, everything is categorized based on the type of content. For example, all the photos will appear in one section (no matter whether they are from Facebook or Twitter), while notifications and events have got menus of their own. Read More

Streamweaver For iPhone: Team Up With Friends To Record Events From Every Angle

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A video is supposed to capture the environment of any place more thoroughly than a photo ever can, but thanks to the panorama photography in iOS 6, still images are coming pretty close to videos in terms of covering maximum area in one shot. It is possible to shoot more detailed videos simply by changing your position and point-of-view while shooting, but you can’t be everywhere all at once. Or can you? With the new Streamweaver app, you can shoot a single scene from four different perspectives (with a little help from your iDevice-owning friends). Streamweaver adds a touch of social networking to the process of shooting videos from your iPhone. The app lets you invite up to 4 other Streamweaver users to join you in a shooting session, and when all of you have captured the same scene from different angles, the results will be merged automatically and presented to you as a single, split-screen video. Read More

RecThing Is A Social Network For Personalized Entertainment Recommendations [Web]

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Have you already seen more than your share of films and TV series? Can’t find any thing good you haven’t watched yet? Try using the RecThing entertainment recommendation engine. RecThing asks you to like, dislike or recommend a few books, films, games, music and TV series, and then, depending on the gathered data, it finds other users with similar tastes for you to follow. Later, you see recommendations from these users in your feeds. Read More

Social Video Sharing & Discovery App Telly For Android Hits Play Store

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Google Play Store contains numerous social video capturing, editing, sharing and exploration Android apps, such as Klip, Vimeo, Tout, VideoXplode and HighlightCam Social etc, but if you are looking for an app that combines all said features in a single package, rest assured, Telly won’t disappoint you much. The popular app has been available to web and iOS users for quite some time, and now, it’s time for Android users to jump on to the Telly bandwagon. On the face of it, Telly may seem yet another run-of-the-mill video discovery and sharing app, but it possesses several handy features that part it from others in the competition. First, it sports a Holo-esque UI that presents you with an unending stream of videos shared by worldwide users, and fetched from user-specified categories. For your own sharing tasks, the app lets you natively record clips, apply various effects to them in real-time, add custom background audio with preferred volume level, and upload them to the Telly network right from your Android. That’s not all; the app also supports several nifty socializing tools that allow you to share content across other renowned social networks, geo-tag your videos, like & comment on shared clips, search across the Telly network for required content, follow and befriend other Telly users, or be followed yourself. Read More

Official Android App Of Social Q&A Service Quora Lands On Play Store

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It was in September last year when the official iOS app of the popular question and answer based social network, Quora, was released in the iTunes App Store, while Android users had to wait in anticipation. However, the wait is over now, as the official Android app of Quora has finally been released in the Google Play Store with more or less the same set of features as its iOS counterpart’s. Moreover, it happens to be one of the most ideal illustrations of an app being designed in compliance with the latest Android GUI guidelines; it presents you with the conventional Holo-theme elements, such as tabbed navigation, Android 4.0+ style menus, toolbars & dropdown, and atop all that, brings you your personalized world of Quora in a visually attractive style. As with the iOS variant, the app supports plenty of handy tools, including customizable push notifications for user-selected events on the network, location-based content filtering, option to follow topics, people & questions of choice, instant & easy content sharing with your online buddies, extended browsing of trending topics, universal in-app & system-wide content searching, enhanced profile management, and an unending stream of thought-provoking questions & helpful answers flowing in from worldwide users, supplemented with a plethora of customary social networking tools that we shall discuss in detail past the break. Read More

Lift For iPhone Helps You Adopt New Habits By Committing To Them Publicly

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It is very easy to break promises that you make to yourself. Just think of how far you've come in fulfilling previous New Year’s resolutions and you will see what I mean. However, if you share your ambitions with anyone else, you are bound to start feeling a little more sense of responsibility towards your goals, and will surely make some effort to attain them. Now, imagine the pressure of adhering to your promises if you declare them publicly, and not in front of just a few people (unless you happen to be a politician). This is the concept behind Lift for iOS. Using the app, you can choose as many habits as you want, and perform a check-in each time they meet a goal for the day. The app will share your new targets publicly, and allow your friends as well as other users to comment on your activities. Read More

Pictulize Comes To Android; Lets You Explore Your World via Geo-Tagged Photos

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Mesmerized by photos of all those jaw-dropping landscapes but don’t know where exactly they exist geographically? Want to see the wonderful Taj Mahal snapped form different perspectives, or at different times of day? Need a photographic evidence of your friend's presence at Disneyland? Whether you’re in search of a slick image browser that lets you view high quality geo-tagged photos on map, allows you to share geo-tagged images with the world, indulge in social activities with worldwide photographers, or explore the ‘new year celebration’ (or any specific event’s) images shared from your favorite cities, rest assured that Pictulize won’t disappoint you. This awesome smartphone app has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite a while, and now it’s time for Android users to unearth precise location of any image shared on the fast-flourishing network of Pictulize. In simple terms, the app can be best described as a fine blend of geo-tagged public image sharing, tracking all such images on Google Maps and interacting with other Pictulize users through several customary social networking tools. Read More

FriendIn By Wondershare Is A Social Address Book For Android & iOS

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Wondershare Software, a renowned name among computer and smartphone users, is one of those application developers that needs no long introduction. Having developed several fine multimedia apps for Android and iOS, including the previously-reviewed Wondershare Player, the team has decided to try its hand at a social contact book in the form of FriendIn. Available for Android as well as iOS-powered devices, FriendIn aims to consolidate your all your phone, social and mail contacts under one hood, allowing you to easily view and interact with them from within a single app. It lets you sneak peek into your contacts’ social profiles, status updates and business info from some of the leading social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and lists all the emails that shared with your Gmail and Yahoo! contacts. In addition, the app supports a built-in texting and mail filtering tool, extended contact info/profile viewer, and a native Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn explorer. Using the app’s Magic Shake feature, you can instantly switch to the list of your most frequent contacts by just shaking your device. That’s not all; FriendIn is also capable of reminding you of upcoming friends’ birthdays, and lets you filter contact lists in multiple ways. Read More

Everyday.me Auto-Creates A Journal From Your Social Media Feeds [iPhone]

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Keeping a personal diary can be fun, but most people shy away from this habit due to the effort it takes to find some time each day to write a new entry in your journal. If you own an iPhone, now there is a really easy way of starting and maintaining a journal, and that, too, without the sense of responsibility of creating a new entry each day. Everyday.me is an iOS app that writes your journal for you automatically. Of course, you can manually write in it whenever you want, but if you don’t feel like typing, just leave the work to Everyday.me and the app will extract your journal’s new entries from your social media activities. Everyday.me taps into your Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts to find relevant stories that can be put in your personal diary. You can edit any of those entries to include your own thoughts and photos, or there is the option to start a post from scratch and make it a part of your Everyday.me journal. Read More

Recood Pro: Capture Short Videos With Real-Time, Instagram-Like Effects

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iOS apps that offer filters and effects for videos are quite rare, but if an app lets its users apply those filters in real-time, before they even begin shooting a video, then that really is something noteworthy. Recood Pro does exactly that, and much more. Thanks to the app, you can shoot short video clips with a bunch of really cool effects, and then share them over YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or the app’s own social network. Recood allows its users to comment on videos, follow other people and mention their friends during interactions. The maximum length of videos shot using Recood is one minute, and hence, it is not meant to be used as a complete replacement app for the stock video camera in your iPhone. Recood is just an app that will make sure that you get something that is more detailed than a photo, but is still short enough to keep users interested. Read More

TuneWiki Releases iOS Music Player With Live Lyrics & Song Recognition

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TuneWiki is a well-known name among music fans, and it is usually the first destination for anyone trying to find lyrics for a song. The service has a social network of its own as well, where you can connect with people having similar music interests as you. You would think that such a useful service will have an iOS app of its own, but surprisingly, the official client for the service has been released just today (even Windows Phone got a TuneWiki app way before iOS). However, after taking the iPhone app for a spin, we can say that the wait has been completely worth it. TuneWiki for iPhone is a complete music player that features scrolling lyrics. Apart from that, if you are a registered TuneWiki user, you can follow and find people who are listening to your favorite songs, thus letting you create a music-oriented social network. The Shazam-like song discovery feature of TuneWiki makes it a complete app for dealing with everything related to songs and music on your iPhone. Read More

Family Story: Official Client For Samsung’s Social Network Comes To Windows Phone

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After Nokia, Samsung is the most active app publisher for Windows Phone 7 among all OEMs. Of course, Samsung Zone does not offer as many exclusive WP7 apps as the Lumia series does, but nonetheless, there are a few really handy apps available for Samsung fans using Mango phones. The latest Samsung-exclusive app to make its way to the WP7 Marketplace is Family Story. The app is the official client for Samsung’s own social network that is focused on providing users with a private environment for interacting with their loved ones. You can define or join groups in Family Story, and then share anything with complete ease. Using Family Story, you can share events, photos and notes with your close family. Even if none of your family members have got a Samsung Windows Phone, they can still use the service on a Samsung Android device, or simply by going to the web version of Family Story. Read More

Relevance: Intelligent Twitter & Facebook Feed Aggregator For iPhone

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If you really want to be the first to know all the latest news, having an RSS Reader is never enough. A feed reader can give you details regarding any story, but it is not necessarily the first place where the news items are posted. You might be a bit surprised, but social networks (specially Twitter) provide a more efficient means of gathering quick updates related to just about any subject. A news channel or website might tell you about the Olympics opening ceremony, but you will have to look at your social networks in order to get a real feel of the event. This is the concept upon which the new Relevance app is based upon. This nifty little iOS app combines feeds from your Twitter and Facebook accounts (with Tumblr and Google Reader support to be added soon). The app does not show posts from your social networks in a chronological order. It tries to come up with posts that will be of more interest to you, or are more relevant to your preferences. Not only that, users of Relevance can also teach the app about their likes and dislikes regarding different authors. If you like a post from any particular person, you are likely to be shown more posts from them in the future. Read More

Path For iOS Updated With Book/Movie Sharing & More Photo Editing Options

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Love it or hate it, Path is one of those iOS apps that has been in the news ever since it was released. Everyone adored it at first, until it was discovered that the app uploads the address books of all users to its servers, and that, too, without properly asking for permission. While that issue was quickly resolved, and the CEO of Path Inc. apologized to everyone, the fan-base of the app surely took a hit. Fortunately, the app is still more popular than most of the others of its genre, and looking at Path’s latest update, we can’t help but imagine the number of its admirers increasing dramatically. While Path was initially a social network just for sharing photos and music, apart from having check-in options, it has now been revamped to include books and movies in the share list as well. This means that users can write their own reviews for things they are reading or watching, and then share those entries with their Path network! The update has also made it possible to manage notifications more thoroughly, and brings major improvements to the app’s camera. Read More

Create Short Movies Out Of Music, Photos & Videos On Your iPhone

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Photo sharing has really become popular among iOS users, thanks to services like Instagram, but there are still new apps coming out in the App Store that bring a whole new dimension to this genre of apps. Ptch is one such iPhone app that has been designed to let users share media after editing it, but rather than focusing on just photos, the app incorporates music, photos and videos into one short movie (called a “ptch”). You can apply a number of artistic effects to any ptch, and the media used to create it can be pulled from any of your social network accounts or the camera roll of your iDevice. In addition to having a sharing network of its own, the Ptch app lets users publish content to Facebook, Twitter, Viddy and a number of other similar services. Apart from that, if a shared ptch is public, users can re-share it after making changes of their own, too. Read More

Ourcast Combines Weather Info With Crowdsourced Updates On Android

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Google Play Store might be brimming with a variety of weather apps for Android, but that doesn’t imply that there is no room for a new entrant to impress with some fresh features. The latest to join the club is Ourcast – a free weather app for iOS and Android that is special in, at least, a couple of ways. Unlike most apps from said genre, Ourcast does not simply present you with the hourly and weekly weather forecasts, weather radars and other unwanted information. Instead, it focuses on keeping things a bit more precise and to-the-point, and hence displays accurate weather information about any location of the world for the next couple of hours in 10-minute splits. This way, you can easily tell whether the ongoing drizzle is soon going to transform into a thunderstorm, or if it's just a passing shower. Using the app’s interactive map, you can track weather progress in real-time, and keep a close tab on the developing situation. To help you report your region’s current weather situation, it offers you with several weather icons, complete with your activity/mood indicators. That’s not all; there’s an entire Ourcast community in place that you can join to participate in various online activities, and share your weather experiences with others in real-time. Read More