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First up today is Melt, a social networking app that lets you exchange photos with random people around the world.MONTAJ, our second app today, makes creating and sharing videos easy and quick, offering filters and some editing capabilities. Finally, Bombcats puts a new spin on physics puzzlers by including exploding c …

Make sure the files you delete from your Android device stay deleted with Clean Master, today's first app worth downloading. It just received a big update that will make Snapchat users happy – it helps clear out unwanted photos. Gilt, the app to go along with the shopping site, offers convenient clothing shopping at a discount. …

Start your day with Whisper, an anonymous network similar to website Post Secret that lets you share confessions with photos and text. Second is an update to business networking service LinkedIn, which brings a new redesign to its Android offerings. Finally, there's Kingdom Rush, a tower defense game that has a ton of challenging …

Start the week by managing your social networking feeds a little easier with Viralheat. It aggregates your feeds and accounts from multiple social networks into one app, allowing easier updating and analytics on how well your posts fare. Haunting Melissa is an experimental, chapter-based horror film, and is brought to you …

Connect with people face-to-face with Hangouts, Google's newly released update to its Talk service. The app lets you have video chats with as many as 10 people – just like its web-based counterpart. We've also got an update to the Diapers.com Android app, which makes it easy for parents to order baby supplies from their …

Hit the weekend and search for potential dates in your area with Swoon, today's first app worth downloading. It lets you anonymously search profiles of other singles near you and “like” them, and if two people “like” each other, they're given the option to send messages. We've also got some games for your weekend: Gravity …

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.

Bring some social consciousness to your spending habits today with Buycott, which lets you scan products to find out what companies actually benefit from you buying them. Famous Birthdays is up next and is packed with information about celebrities. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online first-person shooter with vehicles, …

We've got three great updates to popular apps for today's haul of apps. Up first is Airbnb, an app for connecting with other users to rent space when you're traveling, which now supports Google Wallet. Pinterest is up next, allowing users to share images and videos in a very visual and clean way, and which now supports …

When the game works, it works great. Even with only the two starting classes (the rest are hiding behind a level grind, though you can always opt to buy them instead) there is plenty of fun to be had. The maps are well designed, and the three vehicle types are all extremely empowering, yet not too overpowered. You can take …

Emilly is having a very bad day, to put things lightly. First she wakes up in the middle of a forest with no memory of who she is. That's usually the end of the game's setup right there, but nope. Poor Emilly is then shot down and killed, waking up again in a labyrinthine kind of purgatory or hell, full of strange demonic …

The countdown on Apple’s website stopped late Wednesday indicating that the company’s App Store has surpassed 50 billion downloads. The milestone comes just 14 months after Apple announced 25 billion apps had been downloaded from its popular marketplace. Apple launched the App Store in July 2008 and downloads have increased …

At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google announced a new music streaming service aimed at rivaling Spotify and Pandora that will be run over its Google Play store. The music service, called Google Play Music All Access, is described as “a uniquely Google approach to a music subscription service.” The new service will give users …

Google on Wednesday at its annual I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco announced Google Play game services. As earlier rumors suggested, the gaming suite is similar to Apple’s Game Center and allows developers to add support for leaderboards, achievements, matchmaking and the ability to save game data to the cloud. …

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify’s as soon as this week, possibly to coincide with the Google I/O conference that’s kicking off today and runs through Friday. Why now, out of the blue? I/O notwithstanding, the Journal‘s sources claim Google has signed deals …

Get all the information you need from your Android device without ever typing a word with Speaktoit, today's first app worth downloading. It's a virtual assistant similar to Apple's Siri and can understand natural language questions to help you find what you need. We've also got an update to TuneIn Radio, a streaming Internet …

Start your day with Pling, a social networking app that's designed to connect you with friends in the real world. Pling lets you share your location with, or request location info from, your Facebook friends, for easier meet-ups. Dampa's Boat is up next, providing reading-age kids with a storybook that explores the Alaskan …

Fire up your video chatting capabilities and get in touch with people on your Contacts List or your Facebook friends with Rounds Video Calling + Chat. The app lets you share videos and watch them while chatting, or make video conference calls. We've also got two games worth your attention: physics-heavy platformer Chuck …

Get in some great golf this week with the help of GolfLogix, an app that utilizes GPS capabilities and other features to help improve your golf game. If you're planning to travel, check out the updated version of Hotel Tonight, which can help you land a last-minute hotel room on the cheap. Finally, there's Fractal Combat, …

Earlier this year, Google began a trial program to allow select Android developers the opportunity to respond to their critics on the Play Store. The company announced on Monday that the ability to reply to app reviews has now been expanded to all Google Play developers. Ellie Powers of the Google Play team notes that ever …

Test your creativity and find new ways of thinking with The Pocket Scavenger, a scavenger hunt app for photographing things based on prompts. Kids will have a great time with our second app worth downloading, Fraggle Friends Forever, which is part storybook and part educational game. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online …

Start your day with Bazaart, an app for accessing and rearranging Pinterest images into unique collages. Meanwhile, if you're in need of some games, you're in luck: Sid Meier's Ace Patrol is a a turn-based strategy game in the vein of World War I fighter planes, and Impossible Road will challenge you to guide a ball down …

This week of apps has us gazing at the stars, creating our own galaxies, spinning around in circles, and even fixing our kitchen sinks! Our top app of the week is Loss of the Night, which is a seriously cool global science project in which we can all take part. We’ve also got a new alarm clock, a mobile version of Fixya, …