13 : Apps+Bonus News You Don't Want To Miss

1 : Disney Infinity: Action!

Disney Infinity: Action! lets you create video clips starring your favorite characters from Disney’s upcoming Infinity console experience. The app uses augmented reality to bring the characters into your environment. Users get instant access to a clip in which Mr. Incredible appears to burst through the wall, and additional scenes — for a total of 30 — can be purchased within the app using coins earned from interacting with characters in the game portion of the app.

2 : Plants vs. Zombies 2

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time officially launched worldwide on Thursday. The highly anticipated sequel to PopCaps’ insanely successful Plants vs. Zombies takes you on a quest to find Crazy Dave’s taco — you may remember Dave as the guy who kept selling you things from the trunk of his car. Since Dave ate the taco in the original version of the game, you have to travel back in time, through ancient Egypt, pirate times and the Wild West, to search for it.

3 : Flipboard for iOS

Flipboard launched a new version of Flipboard for iOS this week. The newest version of the app adds support for GIFs, as well as a new Top Story function that helps to highlight top stories in news, business, tech and sports.

4 : Dots for Android

Already a hit for iOS, Dots came to Android and Kindle Fire this week. Since its launch on iOS in May, the app has been downloaded more than 5 million times, and played more than 1 billion.

5 : Yahoo Weather for Android

Yahoo’s beautiful weather app for iOS finally made its way to Android this week. The app incorporates images from Flickr into its weather forecast, showing you what a “cloudy day in New York” actually looks like. The app also includes 10-day and 24-hour temperature forecasts, interactive radar, satellite, heat and wind maps and animated sunrise and sunset times.

6 : Gigwalk for Android

Gigwalk brought its mobile job service to Android this week. The app lets users pick up small jobs around their city that can often be completed on the phone itself. For instance, someone might be paid $5 to photograph a local business for a mapping company, or $10 to check the display of a particular product at their local grocery store.

7 : Disney Animated

On Thursday, Disney released Disney Animated, a new iPad app created as part of a collaboration between Disney Interactive, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Touch Press. The app offers a behind-the-scenes look at 52 Disney films with never-before-seen footage and tools to inspire a new generation of animators.

8 : Instagram

Instagram updated to version 4.1 this week, adding the ability to share videos from your phone’s photo library on the service. iOS users now also have access to a new automatic-straightening technology for their photos. What's more, video on Instagram is now available to Android users running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

9 : LinkedIn

LinkedIn added an update this week that makes it easier to apply for jobs on the site using your smartphone. The update adds an "Apply" button and a "Save Job" button to each listing. After tapping Apply, the app offers the option to edit your LinkedIn profile, and update your contact information.

10 : Toon Hero

Toon Hero launched for iPad this week; it's an app that makes it easy to create your own animation without any sort of training. The app has many different characters available to star in your film -- including those by Jim Henson -- and animations are created by simply dragging and dropping content on the screen.

11 : WhatsApp

Messaging app WhatsApp started rolling out voice messaging on Wednesday. Similar to voice messaging using Facebook Messenger, the new feature allows you to record a short audio clip and send it to a friend. To send a message, simply press on the record button. Once the button is released, the message is on its way.

12 : Twitter

Twitter updated its iOS and Android apps on Tuesday, adding social context and photo galleries into search results, as well as several improvements to login verification. Now when you perform a search using Twitter’s mobile app, the menu will show how you connect -- if at all -- to other users whose tweets appear in results.

Photo galleries now also appear in search. When viewing photos in the results, a “view more photos” option lets you see a gallery of all of the photos related to your search, rather than forcing you to swipe through individual thumbnails.

13 : Facebook for Android and BlackBerry

Facebook updated its Android app this week, adding the ability to save photos to your phone from the photo viewer.

Facebook for BlackBerry also saw a refresh this week. The latest version of the app has a new look, enhanced Page Admin functions and new Facebook Chat options.

Bonus News :

Feedly RSS Reader to Launch Paid Pro Version

RSS reader Feedly is planning to launch a paid pro service and beef up its existing service with premium features.

Feedly Pro will cost $5 per month for new services like article search, save-to-Evernote integration, premium support and more secure browsing via "https" protocol.

Feedly launched a limited edition of the updated membership on Monday to raise "funds to buy the hardware necessary to launch Feedly Pro in a few weeks," according to the FAQ section of its site. As of Monday afternoon, the limited edition was sold out.



For now, the pro version only will work on Feedly's desktop site, but expect it to be available on mobile and cloud apps "shortly." Moving forward, Feedly also said it will regularly introduce new features to Feedly Pro that users can to vote on.

RSS users are increasingly switching over to platforms like Feedly — along with competitors like Digg Reader and AOL Reader — after Google pulled the plug on its popular Reader service on July 1.

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — circlestech takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps.

This week, the next generation of Plants vs. Zombies hit the App Store, and Disney released an app that lets you star in videos with your favorite Infinity characters.