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Warnygo: Create & View Alerts For Emergency Situations In Your Area [WP7]

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There are many apps in the Marketplace, but only a fraction of them are meant for social welfare, which is what makes Warnygo for Windows Phone 7 a rare entry. The app allows you to help others, providing an opportunity to form a community in which everyone can contribute by reporting emergencies in their vicinity. The app is not just for emergency situations, though. You can use it for staying up to date with other incidents as well, such as a celebrity visiting your city, or a gig taking place nearby. More after the break. Read More

Official LinkedIn App For The iPad Now Available On The App Store

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LinkedIn is the best social network out there if you want to improve your professional clout and make new contacts in your field of expertise. Another reason for the popularity of LinkedIn is the fact that it lets you stay up to date with the latest happenings and developments in your profession. Due to this nature, you have to keep checking your account regularly, and what better way of doing that than having a LinkedIn app on your smartphone or tablet. LinkedIn has had an official iPhone client for a long time, but it was a nightmare to use it on the iPad’s bigger screen. Fortunately, you don’t have to face this dilemma anymore, as the LinkedIn app just went universal! The app has been fully optimized for the iPad, and brings a few pretty neat changes to the mix as well. Read More

EyeEm Is An Instagram-Like Photo Sharing & Styling App For WP7

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One of the most desired apps among Windows Phone 7 users is Instagram. Despite its popularity, there is no sign of its release for the Mango platform any time soon. No doubt, there are many third-party clients for Instagram available in the Marketplace, but you cannot publish or edit photos using them. Fortunately, now you might not have to wait for Instagram at all, as EyeEm is here. Some might call it a replica of Instagram; it does seem somewhat inspired from the photo-sharing giant's mobile clients. The basic functionality is the same, of course (you can beautify your photos and then share them with your social network friends and other EyeEm users), but the available filters are very different. Read More

Pepper For WP7: A Social Network For Discovering Music Gigs & Fun Events

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You can listen to a song on TV or PC as many times as you want, but nothing is quite like being in a concert and enjoying your favorite music with hundreds of other fans. As much as people enjoy concerts, it is a fact that it’s never easy to discover all such events in your vicinity. Most of us find out about planned gigs via social media, but won’t it be nice if there were a social network just for music events - one that you could carry around with you? If you are a Windows Phone 7 user, now there is! Meet Pepper, a Mango app which will let you connect with your music-loving friends, and keep you up-to-date with all the latest gigs and recreational events happening in your area. Not only that, Pepper also lets you follow your favorite artists, so that you always know where and when they are performing. Read More

FanMix: Social Media Manager That Auto-Prioritizes Conversations By Keywords

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Keeping up with loads of Facebook messages, tweets and comments from your blog can be a difficult task. If you have multiple social media accounts, it can be fairly easy to lose track of a conversation, which is where FanMix jumps in to provide assistance. This free web app helps you manage conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and blogs, using a single inbox. Signing up for the service takes only a few seconds, after which all you need to do is connect your accounts with FanMix. With it, you can instantly reply to all your social media conversations, mark items as starred, and access all your contacts from various networks. More after the break. Read More

my facecard: Create Self-Updating Business Cards & Bump Your iPhone With Another To Share

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Facebook has become much more than a mere social network, as there are many other services that make use of Facebook to bring ease and efficiency to our daily lives. my facecard is one such iOS app, based on the social networking giant, that allows its users to create and share their personal visiting card with complete ease. Much like the recently covered Bump, the cards created via my facecard can be transferred to other app users by bumping your device against theirs. my facecard is focused on making your card look as good as possible, and for that reason, it incorporates a healthy number of photo effects and filters, and lets its users create double-sided cards with different photos on each side. The biggest advantage of having a facecard is that your contacts will always have your up-to-date information automatically. Read More

Whoovie: Post & Read Movie Reviews From Your Facebook Friends [iPhone]

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We are all movie critics to some extent, and most of us have got an opinion about every movie we watch. You might share your views about a particular title with your friends while hanging out, or even over Facebook, as social media is used pretty extensively to share ideas and thoughts about movies. Whoovie is an iOS app that lets you do that in a more streamlined manner. Using this beautiful app, it is possible to write short reviews of any movie, and then publish your review to the app’s own network or to your Facebook and Twitter timelines. Not only that, Whoovie will let you know what your friends think about a movie, and apart from that, the app can be used to check the availability of a title at Netflix or Amazon. Read More

Kidfolio For iPhone: A Social Network For Parents & Scrapbook For Baby Photos

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If you use Facebook, or any other social network for that matter, you must have noticed that people, in general, are fond of sharing and looking at photos of babies. Mostly, the people interested in such shares are themselves parents, so it seems like a reasonable idea to provide parents with a social network of their own, which is exactly the thing Kidfolio has done. This newly released iOS app acts both as a scrapbook for baby photos, and a social network where you can share said scrapbook with anyone you want. The app also provides its users with useful parenting tips, and a place where you can meet other parents to discuss your problems. An impressive Aviary-powered photo editor within the app provides all the essential editing and styling features that one may require. Read More

Mention: Monitor Web Activity For A Brand/Company Name Or Keyword

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Have you ever wondered what other people have been thinking or saying about you, your company or your favorite brand on the internet? Mention is a free online service that lets you add all types of alerts that you want to be informed about. It has been designed to gather your mentions (specified keywords) from all over the web including social networks (Facebook, Twitter etc), forums, blogs, news sites, video & image sharing platforms and whatnot, and present them in form of feeds. It automatically organizes all the gathered information into feeds, letting you easily read and navigate through the sources, where your mentions were collected from. Apart from Mention desktop client, you can also choose to configure its web application to monitor your mentions' (specified keywords) usage from your favorite browser. Read More

Create A Personal Online Profile Page With about.me For iPhone

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The need to have a web presence is usually fulfilled these days by having one or more accounts on any of the social networking services which are around. However, no matter how active you are on social media, having a webpage of your own is at another level of “cool”. Unfortunately, not everyone has the time or skill to create their website (although it isn’t as tough as a layman might imagine). One service which will let you create your personal webpage with complete ease, is about.me. It has been around for quite a while, and many people use it to generate a single link containing their basic information, and data from all their social network accounts. The big news? about.me now has an iOS app available in the App Store as well! Read More

Share Updates With Groups Via Emails & Texts Using Everyme For iPhone

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Social networking has become a popular genre of apps in the iOS App Store, and gone are the days when the term was synonymous to Facebook. Today, there are many apps which are focused on connecting people in newer and more intuitive ways. Everyme is a new iPhone app, which blurs the line between group sharing and social networking, as it combines both these aspects in perfect proportions. The whole concept of the app might sound a bit too much like Google+, but overall the app has the potential to prove itself as a refreshing addition to the app collection of your iDevice . Everyme lets its users create any number of Circles (which are groups of contacts), and once you have done that, it is possible to share any sort of content with that group. Read on to know more. Read More

Fotki Desktop: A Simple & Easy Client For Uploading Images To Fotki

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Fotki is one of the largest image and video sharing social networking website in the world. It's used by millions around the globe on daily basis for all kinds of photo and video sharing. If you love spending time on this awesome web service, sharing photos with your friends, family and other people on our mother planet, and need a quick way to upload your images without hoping into the website itself, then Fotki Desktop might come in handy. It is a Windows desktop client to upload all your favorite images to Fotki’s cloud server within a matter of few seconds. It also lets you batch upload photos, thus saving a great deal of time. The application is ultra light and consists of a simple and easy to use interface. It supports pretty much all the major image formats, for instance JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF and TIFF. More details about the application after the break. Read More

iHome Sleep: Customizable Alarm App That Displays Social Media News When You Wake Up [Android]

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There is no denying the fact that we all love sticking to our beds in the morning for as long as possible. Most of us rely on our mobile devices’ alarm apps to remedy that. While I have no specific complaints about the stock alarm app on my Android device, there are lots of users out there who crave for a more feature-rich alternative, but what better can an alarm app achieve than to wake you up from sleep? iHome Sleep might be able to answer that. The favorite alarm app of many iOS users has just made its way into the Google Play Store to re-define the way you use an alarm app on Android. Apart from being a handy alternative to your stock Clock app, iHome Sleep brings a plethora of useful features, including option to add multiple alarms with personalized tones and other settings, the Gentle Wake feature that plays a mild tune at whatever time you plan to wake up, customizable background sporting a beautiful clock and weather widgets, ability to log sleep timings and other relevant statistics, option to display important notes on wakeup and bedtime alarm screens, a homescreen widget to keep you apprised of the next alarm, and last but not the least, the luxury to natively sift through the latest overnight news from your Facebook and Twitter accounts immediately after switching off the alarm. Read More

DJ1-Social Player: Listen To & Share Legal Music With Your Friends

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Sharing is caring, and we live in an age where sharing has not only become much easier, but also, a lot more fun. Social networks have totally taken control of our lives, and it’s suffice to say that people love spending their time on Facebook and Twitter. At AddictiveTips, we have covered a few different options that let you share what you’re listening to, to your friends on different social networks, ranging from applications like CloudTune to online services such as ListenTo.Fm. DJ1- Social Player is another new entry which lets you share your music instantly with your friends on Facebook. The application has an integrated music player and a Facebook chat box. So when you’re listening to your favorite tune and want to share it with your social community, just drag and drop it onto the chat box to instantaneously parcel it’s link. This is a great new way of sharing your music as the application works on the bases of iCloud messaging, which lets you and your friends to enjoy the same music. Read past the jump to find how it works. Read More

Polarfox Lets You Edit & Upload Images To Multiple Websites At Once

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Photo sharing is one of the frequently used element of internet. Social networks, image hosting sites and other file sharing services have provided a gateway to share all kind of photos among people around the globe. The usual method to upload image to an image hosting service is to log on to its URL, complete the required sign up process and then upload the image. The alternative method on the hand is to use an official or unofficial desktop client to instantly upload them. Previously, we have covered some very good picture uploading clients for different image hosting and social networking websites. Different software upload images to different websites, such as Picasa Uploader is a free plugin for Picasa which adds the ability to publish your selected photos directly to Facebook, and Dropico is another web application for sharing pictures across multiple social networking websites, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr etc. Today we have Polarfox, an Adobe Air-based application for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that allows you to edit and share images to multiple websites at once. More on Polarfox after the break. Read More

Sync Photos Between Computers & Online Accounts Using SocialFolders

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Social networking websites have become really popular in the last few years. There was a time when MySpace was the only big social network, but then others like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter and the latest one from Google, Google+, took over. One of the major reasons for using social networking websites is the ability to easily share pictures with your friends and family. Other websites, like Picasa and Flickr are solely built for the purpose of sharing photos with friends and family, as well as general public. However, it is always advisable to keep a backup of your pictures in your computer, in case something goes wrong on the server. On the other hand, downloading them one by one can be a tedious task. SocialFolders is an application for Windows and Mac that allows you to sync photos between you computer and online accounts and transfer your files between different websites. Keep reading to find out more about this useful tool. Read More

Find, Create & Share Tutorials For Anything With Snapguide For iPhone

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There is the rather popular saying that goes something like, “If it wasn’t awfully difficult, you did it wrong”, but that is not always true. Experts in different fields can help and guide people to make stuff seem easier than you first perceived. That’s why books and the internet is full of how-to guides and tutorials, explaining even the most complicated tasks in an easy to understand fashion. A step-by-step guide is designed to untangle the mysteries of things which ordinary people might find difficult otherwise. If you want to find a guide on any subject, you will most likely have to scour the web for a considerable amount of time before you find something useful; well, not any more ,if you are an iOS user. The newly released Snapguide app for iPhone lets users share how-to tutorials on any subject in the world, and has a really thorough database of tutorials which is increasing all the time. Read More

Crosswa.lk Recommends iOS Apps Based On Interests & Social Network

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If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, then you are sure to know that apps have become a way of life for many people. No matter what you do during your routine, chances are that there is an app for that waiting for you in the iOS App Store. Due to this universal importance of apps, and the sheer number that they exist in, it becomes a rather tedious task trying to discover new ones which will be suitable for you. Apart from that, apps are always getting updates and price cuts, and one cannot hope to stay up to date with everything going on in the App Store. That is why there are many app discovery utilities and services for iOS users (like the previously covered Kinetik), but the new app Crosswa.lk takes app discovery to a whole new level. Crosswa.lk recommends apps to you by analyzing your interests, the app collection of your Facebook friends and the apps you already have on your iDevice. Read More

Bliss Control: Centralized Dashboard For Multiple Social Networks Settings [Web]

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Want total control over your social media settings? Bliss Control is a nifty little web app that provides a single directory of links to manage all your social media settings. The service comes with a fairly basic interface that helps you easily access links to any settings page on popular social networking sites. For instance, if you want to change your profile picture, username, password, bio, email or any other setting on social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, LinkedIn or more, then all you need to do is pick a setting, network and click GO. The web app will then instantly take you to the specific settings page. To be clear, the service doesn’t require your login information to work, it only points you to the right settings page on the appropriate website. Read More

DishPal: Share & View Photos Of Food, Keep Culinary Journals [iOS]

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There are a lot of social networks in today's cyber world, and almost as many social apps in iOS App Store. The genre has become so crowded that now there are separate social apps for different fields, and one such category is food. There are quite a lot of food-related iPhone and iPad apps which we have already covered, like Evernote Food and Forkly, but none as beautiful and comprehensive as DishPal. To better understand the app, you can think of it as Instagram for food. However, DishPal is not just about photo sharing, as the app boasts a couple of more features as well. Using it, you can create food-related journals so that you can let your contacts know what you ate and when you ate, complete with photos. Using DishPal users can not only discover new dishes, but the app offers different tags which can be used to find the exact category of food one is looking for. Read More