Android app of the day: Music, video and photo playback with RealPlayer

Every Android device needs a quick, simple tool for playing music and videos. You might be familiar with RealPlayer, a free application for PC that was quite popular a few years ago. Although the Android app doesn’t offer you a sweeping array of features, it’s good for something! Read more.

Android widget of the day: Battery percentage left in a widget

If your Android device keeps running low on battery it’s handy to be able to keep a constant tab on it. A widget is the best solution because it can provide information right on the home screen. The Battery Solo Widget is a no frills solution. Read more. 

Android app of the day: dictionary, wiki and thesaurus all in one

If you are a language addict and the idea of an app that’s a dictionary, Wikipedia and Thesaurus all in one excites you then the Droid Dictionary /w Wiki app is for you. Read more.

Android app of the day: ‘AnDrawing’ for drawing on Android

What’s your best drawing app? A lot of people like mucking around on their phones (or tablets) with images and drawing. You might have tried many image manipulation apps; and they each have their pros and cons. AnDrawing won’t stand up to Photoshop but it’s fun, for both adults and kids. Read more.

Android app of the day: Clearing cache files made easy

There are lots of reasons for cleaning up cache and history files, mainly related to security, privacy or space on the internal memory. This app makes it either a one tap job or even something you set up once and then have the app work automatically in the background. Read more.

Android app of the day: Read the ‘Pulse’ of the world around you

Finding it hard to stay ‘au courant’ of the latest news and conversations from around the world? If you are searching for a good RSS Reader app for your Android device so that you can read your favorite sites and blogs, try Pulse. The Pulse app lets you follow news and blogs easily, comfortably and resourcefully with its clean interface. Read more.

Android app of the day: Encrypt SMS messages

If you are looking for an app that will protect the SMS messages that you send and receive from a particular person on your Android phone, SecurSend Lite is your best bet. This helps you encrypt messages you send and decrypt the messages you receive, using a password. Read more.

Android widget of the day: Your choice of clock

The default alarm clock that comes with your Android device doesn’t have a lot of options. The ‘Analog Clock Collection’ has 38 different clock widgets; there’s sure to be a design that looks good on any screen and enough choice to please any taste. Read more.

Android widget of the day: RAMDroid

If you’re a person who keeps downloading a lot of apps on your Android device, and want to have constant knowledge on the status of your device’s RAM usage, this widget is for you. The RAMDroid widget is a simple lightweight widget that shows how much unused space you have on your Android device’s RAM. Read more.

Android app of the day: Easy access to the time, date and weather across the globe

For those of you who like to follow the world’s weather closely on your mobile device, there are a fair number of dedicated apps out in the market. Read More:

Android app of the day: Spare Parts Plus

If you have tried and tested all the task killer apps that are on the Android Market, and still find your Android device running slowly and also consuming a lot of battery, then you must try changing some of the hidden settings in your device. Read More:

Android app of the day: More amateur fiction than you can poke a critic at!

The Wattpad Android app is trying very hard to be something more than an eBook reader and publishing service. Whilst even your average Joe uploads videos to YouTube, Wattpad is trying to encourage anyone to write poems, short stories and even whole novels and then “publish” them on Wattpad. Read More:

Android app of the day: Audiobooks Free

This app gives you some old style entertainment in a new style. It gives you free access to good quality audio recordings of over 3500 classic tales and stories. Read More:

Android app of the day: Fast AppSharer

Let’s say you’re discussing apps with a friend who also has an Android device. If you have Fast AppSharer installed then you’ll have a lot of options on how to get your friend a copy of any third party apps you have installed that they think they’d like to try. Read More:

Android app of the day: Photo illusion

You don’t have to get your head around a fully-fledged graphics editing program just to add an effect or filter to a photo when there are so many simple but great photo apps on the Android Market. Read More:

Android app of the day: Cleaning up your device’s cache

If your Android device has been running very slow and you’ve been wondering why, you might want to look into the cache files of all the apps that have accumulated on your device. Read More:

Android app of the day: Know your USA geography

Can you name all 50 US states and capitals? For anyone who didn’t do their primary education in the USA, probably not. For students in the USA it’s part of their education, so let them learn with some fun. Read More:

Android app of the day: Ultimath

Unless you’re a math whiz straight out of Startgate, or Data from Star Trek, popping off maxtrix multiplication, aviation equations and simplifying radical expressions might involve the use of an advanced calculator computer. Read More:

Android app of the day: WordPlayer

If you are a book lover and want to read on your Android device from anywhere there are a lot of apps to help you Read More:

Android app of the day: Vaulty Free

If you have photos of your ex on your Android device, and don’t want your current partner to stumble upon them, or want to store some secret videos without your annoying brother or sister discovering them, then this app is just for you. The Vaulty Free app password protects images and videos selected by you. Read More:

Android app of the day: MixZing

This app is for all those music buffs who like to keep updating their Android device with the latest songs, get a complete lowdown on the music they listen to, and also share their music taste with their friends. Read More:

Android app of the day: GDocs

An office suite is a crucial piece of software and with Google wanting to make sure you feel comfortable with using your Android device for any purpose; they have made sure you can create and share documents on Android tablets using GDocs, the Android version of Google Docs. Read More:

Android app of the day: Thesaurus

If you find yourself repeating the same word many times in your writing, or if you want to use a stronger word to express yourself but you just can’t think of one, you need to download the Thesaurus app for your Android device. It can give your word choices more variety with just a click of a button! Read More:

Android app of the day: Apps Organizer

Like most Android users you’re probably installing new apps all the time, so much so that your home screens look cluttered. With this little gem of an app you can organize all the other apps under labels and put a shortcut on the home screen for each label. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Apps Organizer

Like most Android users you’re probably installing new apps all the time, so much so that your home screens look cluttered. With this little gem of an app you can organize all the other apps under labels and put a shortcut on the home screen for each label. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: ‘Mini info’ is pretty useful

On your Android device there are a collection of things that you probably often keep track of like the memory, volume, battery, SD card, etc. You might already have a crowd of apps and widgets installed to help you with this. The Mini Info app and accompanying widget will probably replace most of them. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: 'Magic Marker' neon touch painting

Draw with flurescent light and give your image a glowing impression! The Magic Marker app is just a bit of free fun, so that will always get my thumbs up. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Lookout Mobile Security

This app is made for all of us who adore our Android devices and want to save them from all possible mishaps including virsuses, malware, data loss, and trouble fnding your device if you’ve misplaced it. Read More:

Android widget of the day: Personalize your home screen with Big Photo Frame

Changing the appearance of your tablet home screen is for a lot of people, a regular occurrence. The Big Photo Frame widget provides a great way of personalizing your device in this way. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Funny Jokes

This silly little app is a fun way to brighten up the train ride into work each day. You’re mum might not like it but it’s also a great one for sleepovers! Yep, as the name implies, this app is a collection of jokes. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Call Log Cleaner Free

If the call logs (records of phone calls made and received on your Android phone) have accumulated over a long period, and you want to delete them easily, this app is your best bet. You can also choose to delete call logs for only a certain contact, or only a certain time period. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Shead Spreet

The Shead Spreet Lite app is a very simple alternative to MS Excel providing quite a lot of functionality for an app designed and maintained by a guy named Keith … don’t you just love open source?! Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Scrabble Helper

Word games are proven to improve language efficiency. This app is hardly likely to help you in this regard though … it’s a cheat’s app for scrabble. Enter the letters you have, what’s available to use on the board, and Scrabble Helper will show you what the possibilities are. Read More

 

Android app of the day: TaskOS Task List

This app is for all you absent-minded people out there that keep forgetting their daily tasks. It has a speech-to-text feature that allows you to verbally tell your Android device, and therefore yourself, what the various tasks are that you need to remember each day. Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Multi Lang Dictionary

If you are a language enthusiast and want to improve on your multilingual skills, or a traveller wanting to communicate in a language that’s foreign to you, this app will help. It’s an all in one dictionary and translator! Read More:

 

Android app of the day: Currency Converter

If you ever travel, shop online, or play the stock market, a currency converter is a must have kind of app for your Android device, to give you up-to-date global exchange rates. Read more

 

Android widget of the day: Screen Timeout

It irritates me when the screen times out on my Android tablet; it times out and shuts off often right before I’m about to use it again. The Screen Timeout widget allows you to set a time limit on when your screen will shut off after being idle.Read more

 

Android widget of the day: Automatic Task Killer

There are a lot of apps that like to open themselves up in the background when you switch on your device. If you’re sick and tired of shutting them down it's time to get yourself an automated task killer.  The Automatic Task Killer widget is pretty straight forward in its mission.Read more

Android widget of the day: Audioguru

I think just about every Android device, be it a phone or a tablet, has some sort of basic audio up-down button. This widget gives you direct access to control the audio volume of various aspects of your device, like the voice, media, ringer, alerts, etc. You can even create Work, Home and other profiles, and set up times of the day when the audio settings should change between those profiles. Read more

 

Weekly Roundup: Android apps and widgets

 It’s been another interesting week as we explore new Android widgets and apps. Here are the highlights.
Apps:
- wanna know which app is eating up your SD card space? Check out ‘SD card storage optimizer’
- Call Log Calendar makes a record of all your calls

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Android app of the day: StopWatch

Related to this, you can choose whether or not to even keep the screen on or “awake” while the app is running. This is a very smart feature considering that you could conceivably go for an hour jog, and you don’t want your mobile’s screen on that whole time.
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Android widget of the day: Talk To Me Cloud

If you are a globe-trotter and need a handy guide to make it easier to converse with people in a language you don’t really know, then this widget will surely be useful to you. Talk To Me Cloud is a real-time speech to speech translator for Android. Read more

 

Android widget of the day: SwitchPro

If you are a serious Android user then I’m sure you’ll agree that widgets are a real boon. SwitchPro certainly throws a whole lot of useful stuff into one widget. When you run the widget you get direct access to a whole bunch of useful things: Data connection, Brightness, Flashlight, Screen always on, Vibration/Silent Mode, Show settings panel, Airplane mode, etc. Read more

Android app of the day: Password protect photos with PhotoVault

Alright, I’m not going to ask why, but let’s say you have some photos on your Android device that you want to keep private. With the PhotoVault app you can password protect them. Read more

Android app of the day: SD card storage optimizer

If your handset or tablet is relying on an SD card to give you enough space for data and apps, then understanding which file/folder/app is using your SD card space more is very useful. Instead of checking manually there is one simple app that can make it easy to check your SD card storage. Using ‘SD card storage optimizer’ you can take a look at your SD card and then compress, delete, copy …. basically manage what’s on it.. Read more

Android tip of the day: adjusting screen brightness

I was trying to figure out how to adjust the screen brightness of my Android device screen since it doesn’t have brightness or contrast controls by default like my desktop monitor. Adjusting screen brightness can help to conserve battery life. Not surprisingly, I found an app called Screen Brightness that does the trick. Read more

Weekly roundup: Android tips and widgets

If there are ways to make using an Android device easier, they can be found in tips and widgets. What we have concentrated on this week in our guides falls under these categories. Read more

Android widget of the day: must have calendar, CalWidget

There is an in-built calendar widget in Android, but it has a tiny frame. There are plenty of calendar widgets on the Android Market, and I’ve had a look at quite a few. At the moment I am really liking CalWidget. Read more

 

Android widget of the day: Dictionary.com

I have Thesaurus and Wordweb installed on my desktop PC, and I look at them all the time when I’m writing. I carry my Android tablet with me when I travel and I’ve found that the Dictionary.com widget is a clever solution that’s far more convenient than relying on dictionary and thesaurus websites.
Install the Dictionary.com from Android Market for free and add its widget to home screen using our guide on how to set-up a widget. Read more

Android app of the day: Chatting made super easy with Imo IM

I have lots of friends and chat with them often, but I hate it when friends want to start using new chatting platforms. I can't bear the hassle of logging in to multiple chatting apps. If you’ve got friends that don’t all want to use the same platform, maybe you should meet them all in the middle with Imo IM.Read more