Top 25 Android Apps

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like they’re coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. Advanced Task Killer

One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they don’t hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.

4. Evernote

Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. DroidAnalytics

For some reason Google doesn’t have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one I’ve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.

6. Documents To Go

The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, I’d also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.

7. Amazon Kindle

I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but I’m a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released I’ve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime I’ve got a couple minutes free.

8. Places Directory

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.

9. Tripit

I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app I’ve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.

10. Seesmic

Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although there’s an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.

11. FCC Speedtest

I’m obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.

12. Astro File Manager

Another one of the great things about Android (if you’re a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.

13. Got To Do

There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.

14. Gist

Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. There’s an Android app as well as an iPhone app.

15. TED Mobile

TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of society’s most influential thinkers. You’ll definitely disagree with some of them, because there’s a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that they’ve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TED’s lead on this.

16. Pandora

Pandora is a streaming “radio station” for the Internet age. You simply search by an artist or song and it will create a running playlist based on that one piece of information. It intersperses an occasional ad between songs but the ads tend to be fairly localized and occasionally even useful.

17. Shazam

If you want to impress your friends with a mobile app, show them Shazam. Ever hear a song being played at a store or on the radio and ask yourself, “Oh, what song is that?” That’s where Shazam comes in. Just hit the button and let it listen for 15 seconds, query its database, and then return the name of artist and the song. It has about an 80% success rate.

18. Dial Zero

Are you one of those people who dials a customer service line and just keeps pressing zero until you get to talk to a real person? Then Dial Zero is your new friend. This app provides a directory of a ton of U.S. businesses and gives you numbers to help you get closer to a real person and instructions for which prompts to hit to speak to a human being as quickly as possible.

19. Google Goggles

This is a fun app that is a little but ahead of its time. It does visual searches. You can take pictures of things and then the app tries to tell you what they are. It’s limited in its scope but it is pretty cool, and it’s definitely a peek into the future. One of the coolest features is the ability to take pictures of text in a foreign language and let that app translate for you. In a foreign country, this can help you read street signs and avoid going into the wrong bathroom. :-)

20. Google Sky Map

Ever look up at the night sky and try to tell your kids the name of that constellation you’re pointing at, or try to remember which planet that is in the southern sky? Google SkyMap lets you point your smartphone at it and get the information. This is part of a new breed of apps called “Augmented Reality” apps that layer digital information on top of real world experiences.

21. Tricorder

A lot of geeks I know like to say that our smartphones are becoming more and more like the Tricorders on Star Trek. Well, here’s a fun app that turns your Android device into a virtual Tricorder. It even offers some useful environmental information, including GPS data, wireless data, and ambient sound measurements.

22. FxCamera

Honestly, the camera software on Android is an area where major improvements are needed, but this app is a great example of what’s possible. It has solid camera controls, full customization options, and offers some great effects for photos.

23. Photoshop Mobile

Photoshop is, of course, the best known photo editor in the world and its mobile app doesn’t do anything to hurt that reputation. But while the desktop version is know for having a zillion features, the mobile app is distinguished by its simplicity. It’s the best Android (and iPhone) photo editing app for simple crops, brightness adjustments, and sharpens, for example.

24. Bump

Bump is a fun (and useful) idea for sharing info between two phones using the accelerometer, and it works across Android and iPhone. You can use it to share contact info (yours and others), photos, and apps. You both simply open the Bump app, choose what you to share, and then hold the phones in your hands and bump your hands together.

25. Barcode Scanner

This app turns the Android camera into a barcode scanner. You simply scan a product’s UPC code and let the app go to work to find it in Google Product Search or a search on the open Web. You’ll be amazed at how fast it works. This is great for when you’re shopping retail and you want to check the price of a product online before buying to make sure you’re paying a fair price.

Tips for googling! ! !

Tips for googling! ! !

In the era of 21^st century, google is the instrumental force for development, it may be anything and everything you just need to google it and you are done. Today, the context of GOD is changing and now is all like Google Oriented Development (GOD).

But every time you search for something you never get the desired outcome always, because the crowd doesn’t know to search it in a manner to get the desired result at once.

It would be really great if you get the stuff that you were searching for in a seconds, and the same desired result would be a motivational factor to you to develop in a way you wanted to be, for that you need to remember or learn or memorize certain terms, certain techniques while searching. If at all you are able to do this, than the world is yours explore it and develop yourself!! ! This post would be really so very helpful to all if you implement the same in your real-time schedule. . .

Here are the techniques:-

Exact Search:

It lets you search the exact stuff that you are looking for let’s say you are looking for content about Yahoo messenger. Instead of just typing Yahoo messenger into the Google search box, you need to type it explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.

“Yahoo messenger”

Exclude Words:

For instance you were searching for internet marketing, but you want to exclude all the results that contain the term advertising.

To do the above, you need to use "-" sign in front of the word that you want to be excluded from the results while searching.

Internet marketing -advertising

Site Specific Search:

If at all you are looking for a particular website. Than you need to type it in a way like this

"internet marketing" site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

Boolean Operators:

The boolean operators like AND,OR,NOT can be used in search box to connect the words !The search engine understands them as what they mean but the must be in capital letters !

For Eg swim OR float. This will return the results containing either swim or float! ! ! and the same can be done in OR and NOT as well. .

Word Definitions:

If you need to quickly look up thedefinition of a word or phrase, simply use the "define:" command and you are done.

Define: perception

Search a phonebook:

“phonebook” searches for street address and phone number information.

For instance phonebook : Abhishek + INDIA will list down all names of person having “Abhishek” in their names and located in

“INDIA”. This can be used as a great tool for hacker

Searching a keyword that is in a Particular Website.

The “intext:” syntax searches for words in a particular website. It ignores links or

URLs and page titles.Intext : Deployment will return only links to those web pages that has the search keyword "Deploynent" in its webpage.

To get the current time of any city globally.

All you need to do is time: cityname

For example:- time: Mumbai will redirect you to the page with the result of the current time and the current day.

Searching a particular type of a file

This “filetype:” syntax restricts Google search for files on internet with particular

extensions (i.e. doc, pdf or ppt etc).

filetype: perception.doc

Searching site:

The “site:” syntax restricts Google to query for certain keywords in a particular site or domain.

Site: www.gizmohcheck.co.cc

Use Of '~' sign :

Using '~' before any word will return the results also containing the synonyms of the word !

intitle:

Searches sites with one search term in the title.

allintitle:

Searches sites with all search terms in the title.

inurl:

Searches sites with one search term in the URL.

allinurl:

Searches sites with all search terms in the URL.

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How to Protect your USB Drive with a Password

A USB Flash drive is a data storage device integrated with USB(i.e Universal Serial Bus). These drives have become so much popular because they are portable, fast start-up, reliable, removable and rewritable. They are very handy and you must have used them to carry your data.
But what would happen when you have some confidential data in your drive or if the drive gets stolen and someone steals your data? So I would like to tell you a tool called USB Flash Security, which helps you to password protect you USB drive.

This tool is quite simple to use. When you run it for the first time, you will see the following window. You can click on “Don’t display again”, to avoid it from displaying every time you start.

After clicking OK you can see main Window. This Window would show all the hard drives attached to your computer. From the top tab bar, you can browse and find your USB Drive.

I have attached a 4 Gb pen drive with USB. Now the first step to use this tool is to locate your USB drive and then click on it.

After locating your drive, first you would need to back up your date before tool deletes all data for protection. When done, click on your USB Drive and then click on Install. Then it would prompt you with a message, that your all data will be deleted. Click on Ok to start the process.

Now you need to set password to protect your drive. You can type any phrase or word which can remind you of your password in Hint. Click OK when done.

The tool would again prompt with an message to confirm the process. Click on Ok to start the process. Then within some time, it would format your USB Drive and then your drive will be protected with the password. To check, remove your USB drive from your PC and then plug-in again.

When you plug-in, and then try to open it, you would be prompted with the password. Hence you won’t be able to open it without that password.

If the input password is wrong then you will be prompted with the following error.

Hence no one would be able to open this USB Drive without knowing the password. And if you want to remove the password from your USB Drive then you will need to follow the above steps to remove the password protection from your drive.


The size of USB Flash Security is 1.19 Mb and it is free for personal and non-commercial purpose. This tool is compatible with all the versions of Windows.


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How to import your tweets directly from tweeter

There are several ways to import your tweets from twitter, like :-

1)By using an API for tweeter.

1. You need to visit backupmytweets.com , than you need to click on the button “BACKUP YOUR TWEETS!!!”

2. Than you need to sign in @ Twitter.com by clicking on the button “Sign In At Twiiter.com and backup Your Tweets”.

3. After signing in the application (API), will ask to grant the permission to access your twitter account. Press the “ALLOW” button and than the twitter will redirect you to the application.

4. In the Dashboard of the API in the module of download formats, there are three formats available, we are going to take example with xml format.

5. Just save that xml file on your PC.

6. Open a new workbook in EXCEL, than navigate to the data tab than select “From Other Sources”

7. Than you need to click on From XML Data Import, than navigate your explorer and select the XML file that we had saved it before.

8. Once the XML file is opened than just save it as a worksheet.

2) By using a Tool

1. First and foremost thing that you need to do is download the tool known as “The Archivist”.

Download The Archivist

2. In real term an archivist is a professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value. The information maintained by an archivist can be any form of media(photographs, video or sound recordings, letters, documents, electronic records, etc.).

3. Here archivist is a Twitter Search Archive Tool, this tool uses a concept of data mining, and in this case the data would be extracted from twitter.

4. Run the setup and Install the archivist tool.

5. Once you had installed it, open the application than click on the button Get Latest.

6. A simple click of “Export to Excel” and you have a .TXT file you can open in Excel

Protect Your System Settings Being Changed By Virus and Malware Infection

We all very conscious about our data and we all try to protect it from being infected by anti-viruses and other malwares which can harm our data (system) while surfing the internet. To protect the system from such viruses and malware we use various tools, one of such tool is ‘Time Freeze Free’. This is very light and provides better security to system.


This tool gives you the general info/configuration of your system and provides facility to protect your folders or specific location on your system. It would indirectly act as anti-virus software.

 

 

Install this tool and restart the system or else it won’t work. After opening the app, u would see a black button in the bottom, it is a switch to ON and OFF the app. In the above snapshot we can see the system info related to C drive and the amount of RAM installed in the system and the amount of space occupied and vacant.


The other tab in the app window, named as Folder Protection, in this tab you specify a folder to be checked regularly for any virus or malware. I would suggest to keep the Download Folder under regular check.


As I mentioned, this app is very light (2.2 MB) as compared to other freeware applications which are used to protect your system. You would require a key after downloading this application, the link for the same is mentioned below. This tool is compatible all the versions of Windows as it has been checked on Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate edition.



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Restart on Crash

I was very irritated with the unstable tools or applications which used to run properly in the beginning but then started hanging up. Whenever I used to keep my system turned on for longer period of time, then while turning it off, I at times have to use force shut down command to shut down my system. Some of the applications hang up, when they are operating for more than certain period. In my system Gtalk used to hang a lot and these problems were always discovered after 1 or half an hour, so I used to miss lot of important instant messages. But, then I came with a solution knows as ‘Restart On Crash’, and this freeware really helped me a lot.


As the name of this tool says, that it will restart the application which got hung while running on the system. It will keep monitoring the application selected by you and whenever they stopped operating, then it will restart those applications. While monitoring it will continuously show the status of that application, if they are working fine then their status will running.

When you will launch this tool, you will see an almost blank application window with very few options like add, delete, settings and view log. A blank white gap in the middle of the application window has been allotted for the applications which are being monitored by this tool. When you click the add option, then you can see a similar application window as shown below.

You can either add a file or you can add an application process from your system. Now, after adding the file, you will have to decide the condition on which this tool will assume that selected application to be crashed. After the selection, you have to adjust the time duration in seconds for which it will wait before killing that process and restarting it. The selected applications will be enlisted in the application window. Now, you can also delete any applications from the list from ‘Delete’ option. You can also view the logs to check that how many times that unstable tool has been restarted.

The size of this tool around 1 Mb and the best past is that, you can use anywhere on any system as this tool is portable. This tool is also compatible with all the versions of Windows as it has been checked with Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate edition.

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