Apps

The video discovery app Vodio is now available to download on Android for the first time, following its iOS debut last year....

After launching a tool that lets users create their own magazines, Flipboard has announced an update for both iOS and Android that brings new collaboration features....

With only three weeks remaining before Google Reader disappears for good, Feedly has completed its transition away from the dying service and onto its own backend cloud. Feedly has been among a host of third-party Reader clients searching for a new way to handle their users RSS feeds, which have long been loaded and synced over Google's servers. Now that Feedly is officially supported by its own backend, the service can continue to work after Reader shuts down on July 1st, and give users what should be...

With the death knell ringing ever-louder for Google Reader, the July 1 curtain call has already kicked a number of companies into action as they vie for the massive RSS void left by this closure....

Several interesting apps were released this week. Disney released its own Draw Something competitor called Scribblemix that lets you trade drawings back and forth with friends. What's more, Facebook released a major update to Facebook Home, and Hulu put out a big update for the iPad. Curious about how all these apps look? Check out Mashable's hands-on video, above, featuring our favorite apps from this past week.

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week, a new drawing app attempted to take on Draw Something, and a video app was dramatically updated for iPad. A exceptionally popular iOS app finally made its way to Android, and an Android-only app saw a huge update.

Whether or not we can really afford to, it's hard to start slacking off a bit once the warm weather rolls around. And the bounty of apps making the process that much easier certainly doesn't help. We can't help but love them anyways, though. This week's app selection is full of goodies to take the pressure off slacking off....

Curation, aggregation and just about any other kind -ation has become something of a well-flogged horse in the mobile news space. So it’s just as well NextStories doesn’t use either of these buzzwords in its proposition, even though aggregation is a word I would use to describe it....