Looking for the best place to get a specific dish in your area? Foodspotting for Android can help. Say you’re looking for the best snickerdoodle cookie in San Francisco. You could run a search on Yelp, which would pull up a list of all the bakeries and restaurants in the area that make them. But …

At a time when Facebook seems to keep adding apps, curating news feeds, and pushing users to connect with as many other users as possible, Path, the blossoming social-sharing app for iOS and Android, is doing just the opposite. It’s trying to keep things small and simple. While the idea of social networking on a smaller scale may seem strange, …

Meet Pocket, the successor to the megapopular short-term bookmarking tool Read It Later. Just as simple and platform-compatible as Read It Later, this new incarnation adds extra features and shows off a completely redesigned interface. If you’re not familiar with Read It Later, it’s an incredibly convenient app that’s useful in countless scenarios. Say you’re on your morning commute and …

For the first time, the Daily Show Headlines app comes to Android, bringing content from Comedy Central’s award-winning satirical news program to a swath of additional mobile users. This means that Android users can now get mobile access to videos of Jon Stewart and “The Best F#@king News Team Ever,” up to two weeks after original episodes air. In addition …

According to Google, the top requested features for Google Currents were international availability and quicker syncing, and with today’s jump to version 1.1, Google has made these requested features a reality. First, Google Currents is now available globally. This means that no matter where you are, if you can download an app through Google Play or the iTunes App Store, …

Tumblr, arguably the hippest blogging platform on the Web these days, just unveiled version 3.0 of its Android mobile app, which not only looks better, but also loads faster than before. First thing you should notice about the fully refreshed Tumblr app is its brand-new interface. The new Post screen, with its large, colorful icons, is sexier, there’s improved photo …

SwiftKey 3 Beta, the newest version of the incredibly popular Android replacement keyboard, is now available to SwiftKey’s VIP Community members. And from what I’ve seen so far, it is something for the public to be excited about. If you’re not familiar with SwiftKey, it is a Google Play Editors’ Choice app, and it won the coveted Most Innovative App …

When it comes to downloading apps, most smartphone users think there are exactly two places to go: the iTunes App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android. But what many of these users might not know (or what they may be choosing to ignore) is that there’s actually another shop on the block that is slowly growing its catalog …

Quirky and innovative travel search service Hipmunk has just updated its mobile apps (Android | iOS) with a nifty new calendar integration feature. As of today, the already powerful travel apps can now take inventory of your Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, or Apple iCal events, and overlay its findings on your travel search results pages. This can be an especially …

To longtime Android users such as myself, the name Instagram might not mean much. Sure, we see the vignetted photos invading our Facebook and Twitter streams, and we notice the instagr.am links all over the place, but other than that, we don’t really get it. I mean, what is it, exactly? Is it just a bunch of camera filters? Is …