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Tiny Review For iPhone: Snap, Share & Review In Three Short Lines

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Tiny Review is an app which employs a concept that is pretty similar to the one Shortmail is based upon. Shortmail is an iPhone email client we reviewed a few days back that only allows users to send and receive messages 500 characters or less in length. Tiny Review takes the whole emphasis on conciseness to a new level. It is a social network of sorts that allows you to share reviews about virtually anything that you come across, but the review has to be worded in 3 short phrases. If you want to know some thorough details about the place or thing, Tiny Review is not the app you want, but for viewing lots of information quickly, Tiny Review is perfect. Read More

GO HD For iPhone: Anonymously Share Photos & Videos With Location Tags

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There are about 7 billion people all over the world, and the tech world is littered with thousands of social networks (led by Facebook), so chances are that at any given instant, something is going on in the world that’s worth showing to people and someone is busy sharing it over social media. There are protest rallies, sports events, concerts, parties, meetings; the list is endless. But to share all such events on the go, even if you have an iPhone or iPad, is a real headache. Ironically, this is because of social networks which are made to connect people are unable to let users share something with anyone and everyone who might be interested due to the growing emphasis on privacy. That’s where GO HD comes in. This iOS app lets you share content publicly without the need to reveal your identity or even creating an account. Read More

Oink For iPhone: Rate & Share Places, Food Items, TV Shows Or Anything

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Oink is an app which displays the popularity of just about anything based on how much the general public and your friends like it. By anything, we really mean anything. The app doesn’t focus on just one specific thing like food items or places; there are a bunch of other apps for that. With Oink, you can basically rate the whole world around you and then let everyone know what you think of a particular item or place. Read More

Yahoo’s TV Show Discovery App IntoNow Released For iPad

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IntoNow is Yahoo’s popular TV-related service which not only allows users to get all the information about TV showa of their choice but also lets them interact with friends or fellow fans while watching a particular TV show. The official client of IntoNow has been around for iPhone and Android for some time now (read our review of IntoNow for Android) and now, an iPad version of the app has been released to the App Store. Read More

Batch For iPhone: Easily Share Photos In Bulk To Facebook & Twitter

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At the launch of iPhone 4S, Apple proudly highlighted the fact that iPhone’s camera is one of the most used cameras in the world and the origin of most photos on services like Flickr. If so many people are using their iPhone or iPad to share photos over the web, then iOS must focus specifically on photo sharing. Although there have been enhancements in this area with the release of iOS 5, there is still room for further improvement. And that’s where third-party photo-sharing apps like Batch come in. Using this free iPhone app, you can share photos in tandem over your social network or simply save them to the cloud to be accessed at a later time. Batch can be thought of as a service that you can use for backing up your photo library with complete ease. Read More

PlayUp For iPhone: Live Sports Scores & Fixture-Specific Chat Rooms

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PlayUp is an iOS app for the iPhone which lets its users connect with people watching the same match as they are. If you are a fan of any team from any sport, you must know that most of us follow sports for one reason alone, to have bragging rights over our friends and acquaintances who are fans of rival teams. Sports is pretty much all about rivalry, be it Jets v Giants in the NFL, or Liverpool v Manchester United in Soccer. And the next best thing to watching a hotly contested match in the stadium is to interact with other spectators online. And what better way to do that than chatting during the match, and in real time! PlayUp is not just a platform for chatting with other sports fans, the app is a complete companion for important fixtures and has information regarding all the interesting sports events. Update: If you really want PlayUp on your Android phone as well, look at the end of this post. Read More

Greplin For iPhone: Search Multiple Social Networks & Online Services At Once

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There are times when I wish it were possible to press “Ctrl + F” in real life and search through the mess in my cupboard and find whatever I'm looking for. Well, looks like the makers of Greplin were thinking along the same lines too. No, you aren’t getting real life searching (sadly), but with this iOS app on your iPhone or iPad, you are getting the next best thing. With Greplin, you can search through almost any service on which you have an account, right from your iDevice and via one, single search box! Read More

Roamz For iPhone: Find Popular Places Based On Social Media Trends

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Roamz is a hybrid of meta searching and location-based social networking. This handy little iOS app taps into public discussions going on at a variety of sites (like Facebook & Foursquare) and based on those discussions, suggests which places are in the vogue these days. Not only that, you can even get it to help you find and navigate to important places near you (or anywhere else for that matter). Update: The app is now available for Android as well. Read More

Official App For New Social Network Chime.in Available For Android & iPhone

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From the developers of Ubersocial for Android (formerly known as Twidroyd) and the suite of Twitter mobile/desktop clients and browser extensions known as Echofon, UberMedia has stepped into the social media circus with their very own network, releasing iPhone and Android clients for it the very next day. Chime.in is essentially a mashup of Twitter, Facebook and Reddit that allows users to follow what’s going on around the web according to their interests and reap monetary benefits from their posts (called “chimes” that include textual status updates, photos, videos, links and polls) through the network’s advertising service or their own ad networks. Read More

Track & Share Your Travels With Friends Using HipGeo For iPhone

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HipGeo is an app for iPhone and iPad (models with A-GPS) which lets its users share complete details, photos, places and routes with their friends whenever and wherever they are travelling with their iOS device. Even if you are not a very social person, the app is very useful for maintaining a comprehensive travel log of your treks. Read on for an overview of the app. Read More

Gogobot: Manage Trips And Create Photo Postcards From Your iPhone

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Gogobot is a travel management service which allows its users to share their travelling experiences with fellow users through photo postcards. This kind of service is tailor-made for an iOS app, and that’s exactly what it has released just recently. Now you can manage your travelling plans and send picture-perfect memories of your trips to your network on the go. Gogobot brings a really humane aspect to travelling, and the app does not give the impression of a robot just saving all your boarding passes and reservation details, this app will make sure that you would not need any other app if you are going on a vacation. As a photo editor, there are some really cool effects and filters on offer in the app, and you can get some useful user-generated tips about the places you are planning to visit. Read More

Aroundly For iPhone: Auto-Share Captured Photos Over Web & Facebook

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In recent years, social networking has been all about granting users control over the privacy of the content they share over their network. Facebook has groups and custom privacy settings now, while Google+ introduced the concept of Circles. Aroundly, on the other hand, is a new photo sharing app for iPhone and iPad that is all about allowing users to publish each and every photo they take from their iDevice's camera to Aroundly.com and, if they choose to do so, on their Facebook wall. Photos are automatically uploaded as they are taken and can be viewed both on the website and from within the app. Read More

Vibe: Anonymous, Location-Based Thought Sharing For iPhone/ iPad Users

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Most of us are on Facebook or Twitter, or any of the other social networking websites that have been rocking the cyber world since the days of Orkut and MySpace. There are, however, times when you wish that you could enjoy the perks offered by these services minus the social part of them. Google+, and even Facebook, lay special stress upon users to join their sites using their original identity. What none offers is a Hyde Park to express your thoughts without revealing your identity. It's those times that Vibe iOS app looks to cater to. Using this app, iPhone and iPad users can broadcast what’s on their mind without having to think about the consequences. Read More

Ban.jo For iPhone: Integrate Your Social Network According To Location

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Ever since Facebook became a hit, social networking has been a favorite field of development for iOS developers. There are so many apps available in iTunes App Store which deal exclusively with this phenomenon that at times, users being to feel overwhelmed, and all these apps start feeling redundant. However, every once in a while, there comes an app that stands out from among the crowd and adds a new dimension to the whole social media scenario. Ban.jo might turn out to be one such app. It’s all about connecting with people around you in real life with the help of people around you in the virtual world, i.e. your social network. Read More

Twitter iOS 5 Update Brings Map Integration & Better Image Uploading

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Twitter enjoys deep iOS integration in the almost-released iOS 5. The update will allow iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users to use the social micro-blogging service to its full potential (as you can read in our post about Twitter integration in iOS 5). But to complement these changes, the official Twitter app was also in great need for an iOS 5 update, and that’s exactly what it has just got. Now, as soon as you upgrade your device to iOS 5, you will be able to enjoy the new features that come packed with the latest version of the client. The combination of iOS 5's native features and the new additions in the Twitter app is a perfect one for everyone who is a fan of the popular micorblogging service. Read More

Rendezvous: Create/Manage Facebook Events & Find GroupOn Deals Nearby [WP7]

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Windows Phone 7’s latest version, Mango, comes with detailed integration of Facebook events with the stock Calendar app. But there is always room for improvement and Rendezvous is an app which brings literally each and every thing related to Facebook events to your WP7 device. iOS and Android have got quite a few apps from Facebook in addition to the official Facebook client, like the Groups app and Facebook Camera. While WP7 lacks any such app, this void is filled by a lot of third-party apps. Rendezvous will let you manage and create Facebook events with complete ease, but it does not stop there. Not only does it allow you to view your own events but those of your friends as well, and every once in a while, you can stumble across some pretty useful GroupOn deals. Read More

Rexly For iPhone: Share Now Playing Song Title On Facebook & Twitter

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Listening to music is a favorite pastime for many people, but sooner or later, you are bound to run out of new songs to listen to. So what do you do in such a case? You can, of course, go back to listening to your playlist all over again, but if you are looking for something new and fresh, what better way of discovering new songs than to see what your social network is listening to these days? Also, every once in a while, you listen to a song and get the uncontrollable urge to let all your friends know what an awesome (or laughable) track it is. There are many apps and services that allow you to do just that, but Rexly is an iOS app which combines all their positives to give you everything you need to share your taste in music with selective friends, your whole social network or the world. Read More

Official Yammer App For WP7: Stay In Touch With Your Business Network

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Yammer is a pretty popular social network for the business community. Many businesses urge their employees to use Yammer for communication between offices and other departments. Almost all other major smartphone platforms have got their own Yammer app, but looks like the people over at the business networking site were waiting for Windows Phone 7 to hit Mango before they released an app for it. The app matches the platform's metro look pretty well, but it is not just all about looks, the app comes with complete functionality too. We can't say that you will never have to visit the service's website again if you start using this app, but functionality offered by Yammer for WP7 is pretty comprehensive, with almost every major feature making an appearance. Read More

Capture, Edit & Share Photos With The Official Flickr App For Android

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Yahoo! released their official Flickr client for iOS a couple of years ago while the Android variant of said app probably wasn't even in the pipeline. Well, the official Flickr mobile client has just arrived in the Android Market. Along with the ability to edit (apply filters to) and share photos over the network, Flickr for Android brings an unending stream of photos shared by more than 60 million Flickr users, a camera replacement, geo-tagging, privacy filters for sharing pictures online, slideshows and more. Read More

Localized Social Magazine Proximitips Arrives In the Android Market

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Apps based solely (or partially) on social media sharing/networking have been coming thick and fast to smartphones (especially to Android). Through various apps such as QISS, SocialBlast, Sendible and Social Jogger 2, recently reviewed ChannelCaster (just to name a few) and a whole lot of official clients of different services, we’ve seen numerous ways of posting to and/or accessing data from multiple social media. Proximitips is yet another addition to the long list of aforementioned apps that brings a brand new concept of providing localized social media content to you in the form of a virtual magazine! By localized, we mean accessing only the content shared by people (including you) in your vicinity through said services. With Proximitips, you get maps, tweets, next door stuff (local multimedia sharing), bookings to your favorite venues and more. Read More