I love Instagram, but sometimes I want a quick and easy way to get that same feel on my desktop. Enter these seven Mac apps that will instantly take your photos from drab to fab and worthy of a share. Read more

iOS 5 promises to make your life easier with new upgrades and tools and we have a sweet iOS 5-optimized app for all you pop-culture junkies. The newly updated PopSugar Mobile for the iPhone and iPod Touch has launched with Twitter integration to bring you even more celebrity goodness! Alongside PopSugar's up-to-the-minute news stories and photo galleries of your favorite stars, the upgraded app Read more

The day has finally arrived: Facebook has released its iPad app to the masses. The free app allows you to see big, beautiful photos and full-screen newsfeeds instead of the tiny, iPhone-sized screen you're used to seeing on the tablet. Features to look forward to include pinch and swipe to move screens, zooming in on your friends' pics, and smart navigation that lets you message, chat, and post Read more

Flickr users come from all mobile walks of life, so what a relief to find that the company is finally releasing a Flickr app for Android users. The app is free in the Android Market, and provides a sleek and simple way to take mobile pics, enhance them with city-themed filters (Paris, Tokyo, NYC, Berlin, etc.), tags, and descriptions, then upload right to your Flickr account along with Facebook, Read more

Gowalla used to encourage its users to check into locations in order to tell your friends where you are, but now after a big revamp, the company has changed directions and is focused on providing social city guides for all users, based on most popular locations, ratings, reviews, and photos. Combining the power of your friends' check-ins (or "stories," as they're called now), reviews, and tips Read more

Getting bored with your usual iPhone photo apps? Try Noir ($3) on for size. This app allows you to strip your entire photo to black and white, then shade back in parts of your photo with a touch of your finger. You can even add some thematic preset tones to your pics — in sepia, silver, blue-gray, or chartreuse — to further impress your mobile photo nerd friends. Get a closer look at the app Read more

Movie fanatics take note: a new app called Can't Wait! (free) is sure to exacerbate your addiction to film. This slick app hand delivers new movie trailers to your iPhone, allowing you to be one of the first to know about upcoming films. Can't Wait! also allows you to set reminders for when your most anticipated titles hit theaters and share with your friends about the flicks you're looking Read more

You're already taking photos of dishes and cocktails at every dining experience, so why not put those photos to some use by sharing with the foodie community through the new free iOS app Forkly. By signing in through a Twitter account, Forkly claims to help you discover "a new dish around the corner, the best burger in town, or your favorite cocktail bar in a new city." With a simple, Read more

You know the future is really upon us when you don't even have to fish around in comic book shops any more. Instead, you can download over 12,000 comics (and 500 free editions) with the ComiXology app (free) for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. I know what you're thinking — you actually like hanging out in comic book shops. So do I, but I also like being able to download a new comic at the touch of Read more

How many diet apps do you have loaded in your smartphone right now? Mine is kind of a graveyard of apps tried and failed, while others just didn't meet my diet and exercise needs. Enter Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker (Free) from the folks at CalorieCount.About.com. This app is the first I've seen to include both an activity log and food journal, alongside speech recognition (no more scouring Read more