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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

Spontacts: Socialize With Like-Minded People In Your Location [Android]

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You may have never noticed, but your city might actually have plenty of joy, excitement and adventure to offer. It’s all about exploring the fun, and you’d be hard-pressed a better means that can serve said cause than the famous cross-platform Android and iOS app, Spontacts. The app’s name is a mixture of two terms, spontaneous and contacts, and its purpose is exactly the same as the name suggests. Spontacts is all about spontaneously exploring like-minded people/contacts in your vicinity, and indulging in various fun-filled activities with them. The app lets you explore public events, places and activities in a location of interest, and helps you find people whom you can share your thoughts and time with. Based on the user interests and preferences, the app also suggests various people and events that enliven your social life. Can’t find enough attractive content? May be it’s time for you to announce and share your own personal events with the nearby residents, and invite them to be a part of the fun. With Spontacts, you can make friends with new people from your vicinity, and closely follow their activities, likes, dislikes et al right from your mobile device. Initially available only to iOS users, Spontacts services are now ready to be availed by Android users, too. Read More

Android App Of Proximity-Based Social Network What’s Shakin’ Released

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Based on the concept of location-based information sharing, What’s Shakin’ is a relatively new and innovative social networking service that lets users specify a radius around a particular location on map, from where they can follow all the proceedings taking place on various other social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Apart from specifying a particular point on map to follow social activities of other users, the service also lets you decide which users should appear on the conversation thread, and which ones should be excluded. In an attempt to help the Android users follow all the social activities taking place on Twitter from only their desired location, What’s Shakin’ has just launched its official Android client in the Google Play Store. The app lets you set a particular location and relevant radius on map, and presents all the latest from the What’s Shakin’ and Twitter world on a universal news feed. This means that you can get all the latest updates from a specific location without even having to be present there at that very instance. Want to post your own status message? No problems! With the app on running on your device, you can easily and instantaneously post to Twitter, as well as the What’s Shakin’ network itself. Read More

FanCake: Compete Against Sports Fans By Predicting Match Outcome [iOS]

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There are many games which you can enjoy alone, like Angry Birds, but things tend to get to a whole new level if you can compete against other people in a game, rather than your iPhone’s artificial intelligence. It gets even better if you can play against your own social network friends. If you are a guy who is interested in sports, then chances are that the latest matches are often the point of discussion among you and your friends. FanCake is an iOS game which turns these discussion into a game, where you have to strive towards attaining more medals than your friends, and strangers, by correctly predicting the outcome of ice hockey and basketball games. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and you can learn all about it by heading past the break. Read More

Conversocial Is An Efficient, Collaborative Social Media Management Web App

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Keeping up with social media chatter can become increasingly tedious if you’re equally active on two or more networks. Most users turn to social media aggregation apps such as TweetDeck and Seesmic, though for companies (or individuals with multiple online businesses), such simple tools seldom suffice. They requiring a comprehensive suite of social media management and analysis tools the likes of Conversocial. The web app allows managing multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts and pages from one place, supports team management (pro version only), provides analytics for each individual account as well as for all social media accounts combined, lets you add multiple RSS feeds and set them to be published to any or all of your social media accounts, automatically populates a Priority Inbox with social media interactions containing certain pre-defined and user-specified keywords (helps separate interactions that might require your immediate attention), and lets you mail yourself interactions within a time period of your chocie in the form of a CSV text file. Read More

Viddy For Android & iPhone Is Like Instagram For Videos

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Instagram has become insanely popular in the time it has been around for iOS. The whole concept of editing and sharing photos on the go seems to have captured the imagination of users all over the world. As good as the service is, it is only limited to editing and sharing photos. If you want are one of those people who make good use of the video capturing abilities of their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, then you are sure to find Viddy is interesting as Instagram. The app will let you shoot, edit and share videos, and you can also follow other users to stay in touch with their uploads. Read on to know more. Read More

Merge Events On iPhone Calendar With Your Social Network Using UpTo

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We are human beings, and have been blessed with intelligence and cognition. That is why keeping track of important dates and times has become so important, which is apparent from the integration of calendars in smartphones and social media. Nowadays, you are less likely to forget the birthday of a close friend thanks to Facebook. However, there are many tasks and reminders you set on the calendar of your iPhone, but wish to make them a little more public at a later time. This is what UpTo is all about. This iOS app lets users share their events with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and using the app, you can also learn of all the upcoming important events from the profiles of your contacts. UpTo serves as an alternative calendar for users of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and has a pretty handy color-coded interface which will let you differentiate between busy and lazy days at a single glance. Read More

Listen To Shared Music Playlists By Genre With MoodMusic For iPhone

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If you are one of those people who are always listening to music, then it is very likely that you frequently run out of good songs to listen to. There are many solutions to this problem; you might ask your friends if they know of any new good songs, or you can make full use of your iPhone’s intelligence, and use an app like MoodMusic. This iOS app will let you listen to music shared by other users of the service, and also by your Facebook friends. The app can be considered a jukebox, which any user can customize according to their likes and dislikes, as it can be set up in a way that only songs from your specified genres will be displayed by MoodMusic. So, the app suggests music for you, but not at random, you are very likely to actually listen to most of MoodMusic's suggested tracks rather than just moving on to the next one. Read More

WallitApp: Share Thoughts With Everyone At A Certain Location [iPhone]

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Whenever you go to a new place, you are bound to learn a lot of useful stuff about it and gain many new experiences, which are worth sharing with others who are to come to that place after you. WallitApp acts as your very own portable guestbook for all the places you visit. Be it a restaurant or a historical monument, with WallitApp, you can leave your own graffiti there for everyone to see. The best (and unique) thing about this iOS app is that you actually have to be at a place physically in order to create a wall entry associated with it. WallitApp uses your current location to make sure that you are near enough from a wall, and then you can post any video, photo or text to it. Read More

Via.Me: Cross-Platform Photo Styling & Sharing App For iOS & Android

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Instagram is among the most popular iOS apps of all time. The photo sharing service has been on the top of its genre for so long that the idea of a competitor app appears almost laughable, but the team behind Via.Me seems to think otherwise. Via.Me is a new iPhone app that, like Instagram, lets its users apply filters to their photos, and then share them with a single touch. The filter collection pretty impressive, and sharing options include your own social network, as well as other users of Via.Me. You can follow your friends to stay up to date with their posts, forming a Via.Me network of your own. Update: Via.Me now has an Android app, too. We've added a link to its Play Store page at the end of the article. Read More

Dotastic For WP7: Compete Against Your Friends To Finish Your Tasks

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It is a known fact that we do better in every field when there is a sense of competition among people. It can get a bit boring if are stuck doing your mundane tasks all by yourself, but now you can spice things up with ease, as there’s an app for that. Dotastic is a reminders and to-do list app for Windows Phone 7, but it differs from all of its competitors in the sense that rather than just listing your pending chores, the app posts them to your Facebook account, and asks your friends to compete against you in a race to finish the tasks earlier. Depending upon the nature of the task, your friends can even help you accomplish the reminder, and then rate the quality of your work. Read More

Find The Online Popularity Of Anything With Social Mints For WP7

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A few days back, we covered a Windows Phone 7 app which went by the name of Webmaster. That app was all about keeping track of ay website’s popularity by viewing its usage statistics and page ranks. However, online popularity is a concept which is not exclusive to just webpages, and a lot of users want to know which topics are being discussed all over the web these days. Social Mints is a search engine app for Mango, but it is unique because using it, you don’t search for meanings of terms, but rather their popularity. The app will let you know exactly which topics are trending these days, and which celebrities & movies are most discussed right now. Read More

Resize Images & Apply Effects In Batch Operation With Fotosizer

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Image resizing is very important especially for people who develop websites, as they have to upload images of different sizes to different sections of the web page. Larger size means that the image will take more space, more time to upload and consequently increase the loading time of the web page for users. Other than that, if you are a fan of upload your pictures to Facebook or any other social network, resizing them will greatly speed up the uploading process. Previously, we have covered a lot of image resizing applications for Windows, such as Plastiliq ImageResizer, Shrink O’Matic and ImBatch. Today, we have another image resizing application called Fotosizer, which allows you to shrink image files, enabling you to quickly prepare your image collections for publishing on the web. The application supports TIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TGA and GIF image formats. More on Fotosizer after the break. Read More

Seesmic Ping: Schedule Posts For Multiple Social Network Accounts [Android, iOS, WP7]

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From the team behind  renowned desktop, web and mobile social network (Facebook and Twitter) aggregator, Seesmic, comes Seesmic Ping – an Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 app that lets you schedule updates for multiple social networks to a date and time of your choice. The app lets you attach images and URLs with each post, save posts to drafts, or schedule them to be published from as many different social media accounts as required. As of now, the app lets you post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Salesforce. Read More

WNM Live For iPhone: Make New Friends & Chat With People Near You

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It doesn’t happen too often that an app is released for iOS after it has been around on Windows Phone 7 for quite a while, but WNM Live is one such rare app. The app has just been released for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users, and it has all the components which made it a success on WP7. WNM Live is basically a social network, but instead of letting you interact with people you know, it allows you to make new friends based on your location and interests. Continue after the jump for details. Read More

Official Android App Of Q&A Based Social Network Formspring Released

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There cannot be a better way of utilizing the concept of crowdsourcing than incorporating it into major social networking services. A very fine realization of said concept is Formspring – a social Q&A-based web service that lets users post questions on any desired topic, supported by relevant photos and/or URLs, share them on the network itself, Facebook and Twitter, and instantly find helpful answers from users all across the globe. Similarly, you can answer questions asked by other users, or smile at it (Like it). The service also has dedicated clients for Android and iOS-powered devices. Apart from a pretty neatly designed and user-friendly interface, what sets Formspring apart from other similar apps such as Ask, ChaCha, and Thumb (formerly Opinionaided) is that it lets you post questions to other users anonymously, and opt not to receive questions from specific users and other anonymous posters. The app was initially released just in the iTunes App Store. However, now it’s time for Android users to join in the fun. Read More

Mingle Comes To Android, Now Find & Connect To Professionals On The Go

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With the advent of technology, and introduction of faster communication means, businesses are no longer confined to just a specific location, nor is it always simple to find the appropriate skills required to help your cause from within a rather restricted pool of available options around you. For this particular reason, businesspersons, professionals and students often feel the urge to collaborate across the borders in order to find (or even lend) help to get several tasks accomplished successfully. Mingle is a multi-platform location-based smartphone app for Android and iOS-powered devices, that helps people find and connect to professionals from almost all spheres of life to get their problems resolved. Through it's simple and extremely user-friendly interface, Mingle provides with you an ideal social networking platforms to connect to your clients, employees and even employers on the go. While the iOS variant of the app was released in the iTunes App Store quite some time ago, the Android variant has just seen light of the day. Read More

1Weather By OneLouder Apps: The Most Complete Android Weather App Yet?

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OneLouder Apps have certainly set their sights on covering every single known app category in the Android Market. For an enhanced Facebook and Twitter experience, you can try their FriendCaster and TweetCaster apps respectively. SportCaster brings you all the latest sports-related content, whereas ChannelCaster is an all-in-one RSS feed, news and social media aggregator. However, the greatest masterstroke came just recently, when said company acquired Baconreader – the most complete and flawless reddit client to hit the Android Market to date. To the utmost delight of Android fans, OneLouder Apps are back in action once again, this time introducing their very first weather app by the name of 1Weather. Slick, stylish, customizable and feature-packed; one can easily find these attributes with most weather apps, but what makes 1Weather special is the extraordinary level of weather detail, extremely easy-on-the-eyes aesthetics, informative homescreen widgets, and a touch of social media courtesy of live weather-related tweets, that keep you apprised of the latest weather condition of virtually any corner of the world. Read More

Hipster Brings Its Postcard-Style Photo & Location Sharing App To Android

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Smartphone app stores and the web may be brimming with plenty of photo-sharing social networks and apps, but not all let you share photos like Hipster does. The app allows you choose from several retro-style postcard templates to add your photos to, fill the chosen postcard with a short note, tag a location of choice, and share it with the world. Through its dedicated official iOS and Android client, Hipster lets you explore, access, create, design and share stylish geo-tagged postcards from your smartphone on the go. Although the official Hipster app has just landed in the Android Market, its iOS variant has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time now. Read More

Google Releases The Official Orkut App For iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

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Orkut might be a somewhat-forgotten social network ever since Facebook and Twitter gained popularity, but the fact of the matter is, it still enjoys 60 million active users. It remains to be seen what Google intends to do with the service (a merger with Google+ might be on the cards), but for now, the depleted number of Orkut users have reason to rejoice, as the official app for Orkut is now available for iOS. Read on to know all about the surprisingly well-developed app. Read More