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