Best Android Apps to Show Off Your New Android Phone

Android has come a long way since its releases a few years ago. You could check the person’s mobile phone sitting next to you in the subway and there’s a fairly good chance that they’re carrying an Android phone. So if you’ve just got hold of the latest HTC handset or any of Samsung’s eye popping gadgets then finding an app that gives you some bragging rights is certainly in order.
So, the next time someone at the office starts doodling with his iPhone, pull out your Android and show them what your packing. Without further ado, here’s some of the best apps to show off your Android phone.

Beautiful Widgets

It’s all about customizing your smartphone and nothing comes close to what Beautiful Widgets brings to the table. How many iPhone owners could honestly say that their handset’s different from their son’s iPhone? Beautiful widgets give a myriad of options for customizing your phone. From themes to wallpapers, to those awesome widgets that make it possible to view the latest weather or schedule an Apps launching.
Download it here.
If you’re a fan of widgets and all their goodness, then check out our list of the best widgets for Android!
Also, if you’re interested in customizing your Android phone further, check out our list of  Best Apps to Customize your Android Phone
Netflix

One of the best things that high-end Android smartphones do over its iPhone counterparts is its high image quality and ability to display videos crisply. Netflix’ has fully optimized its application for use over the Android. Making viewing movies, TV shows and video streaming a smoother experience.
Download it here.
If you’re interested in streaming TV or movies to your Android device – then check out our list of the Best Android Apps for Streaming Movies and TV
Homerun Battle 3D

No top list would be complete without an eye popping and visually stunning game included. Homerun Battle 3D helps you showcase your Android phones display that will leave any iPhone owner drooling with envy. Homerun Battle 3D is an arcade type of game where you can pit your skills against the best sluggers in the world. Rendered with eye-popping graphics, this visually stunning game allows you to compete against your friends over WiFi or 3G networks. This application also provides a high degree of customization with hundreds of equipment and player feature combinations.
Download it here (paid), download it here (free).
If you’re looking for more great Android games then check out the following articles: 
Best Free Arcade Games for Android
Finish First With These Top Racing Games For Android
10 Free Awesome Android Games [June 2011]

Kindle for Android

Kindle for Android brings you over 1 million books including New York’s Best Sellers right into your handset. This showcases your Android phone’s flexibility making reading books over at your mobile phone a truly relaxing experience. Why buy a Kindle tablet or iPad when you could have the same experience on one device. Save hundreds of dollars by investing in a device that could deliver
Download it here.

Gun Brothers

 

Gun Bros is a 3D action shooter that features that lets players choose from two players (Francis or Percy Gun) and uses dual stick controls. The graphics are stunning and the environment perfectly reflects its galactic theme. The app comes with Game Center support that allows players to fight with their friends characters. The game is completely free but in store items are available for purchasing upgraded weapons and power ups. Gun Bros lets you upgrade your weapons while playing the game but app purchases allows you to progress thru the levels easier.
Download it here.
Check out some our list of 11 Must-Play Indie Games For Android
For those of you with short attention spans, check out Games You’ll Love Playing In Short Bursts

Seesmic

Having problems managing all your social networking accounts? Seesmic places Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and Salesforce chatter into one app. This app includes a widget that notifies you of any new updates from your social networking sites. Keeping in touch with your friends has never been easier with this app that integrates your social networking accounts into a single app.
Download it here
Android handles social networking beautifully – check out our list of the Best Twitter Apps for Android

Pulse

Turn you’re an Android phone into a newspaper or magazine while sipping your favorite cup of coffee. Pulse News is an App that offers you a visually appealing way of viewing your favorite news and social media content by using an interactive mosaic. Tapping on an image lets you view it as simple plain content or takes you to the website itself. All content is automatically updated 24/7. Every Friday, Pulse displays new sources of popular content from news feeds to the latest in technology.
 Download it here.
We’ve also compiled a great Podcatcher Roundup: Top 9 Best Android Apps for Playing Podcasts

Comics

Android’s Comics App is simply the best comic reader specifically designed for Android phones. Its GuidedView features make full use of your Android phone’s small display that makes reading comics smoother and clearer. Thousands of the latest and best comic titles from the biggest comic companies available for download.
Download it here.
If you’re a fan of comics like us – then check out our grand list of Ten Excellent Android Apps For Comic Lovers

Shazam

Having a hard time identifying that song over the radio? Shazam for Android listens to the song and almost magically identifies the music title and artist for you. It also gives you access to Amazon so you could purchase the song and store it on your smartphone. Share your new found discovery with friends over Facebook or Twitter.
Download it here.

Conclusion

These are just a few of the great Apps that could be found in the Android Market. I’m sure you’ve got a few ones up your sleeves as well. But, these apps represent a few of the best apps in the Android Market, and, with over 300,000 apps and growing – and with most of them free – you’re bound to find something you like too! Any favorites that you have,
that we should put on this list?

Android Secret Codes and Hacks

Android secret codes and hacks are fun and even useful if you need to troubleshoot some problems on your phone, but they are not as impressive at most other phones since the phones can already do pretty much everything but there are still some codes which are not always general knowledge. Obviously these codes are not really secret and don't do anything amazing but since people commonly refer to them as secret codes it seems fair for me to do the same.

Entering these codes on android devices should work regardless of the hardware platform.

Code	Function	Description
*#06#	IMEI	Standard IMEI command if you are trying to find out what your Android devices IMEI number is
*#*#4636#*#*	Testing Mode - Phone Setting	Displays the hidden testing menu for android which provides details on application usage, battery health and status, Wifi information and general network information. If you suspect that you battery is giving problems this is the best place to check.  You can also force certain network choices here, for example if you wanted to force your Android t use only 3G or GSM you could do it from the Phone Info menu
*#*#7262626#*#*	Field Test	Not supported by all units, will display a list of options for you to test and there is an option to log the information as well.
**05*<PUK Code>*<enter a new pin>*<confirm the new pin>#	PUK unlock	If you need to unlock you android phone this command can be run from the emergency calling screen , you will of course need your PUK code which you came with your Sim card alternatively contact your service provider to obtain the code
*#*#8351#*#*	Dialer Log Enabled	Records your last 20 calls and stores them on your phone, you can find the data in the following /data/data/com.android.voicedialer/app_logdir
*#*#8350#*#*	Dialer Log Disabled	Disables the above mentioned call logging

The two most useful things here is the ability to confirm that you Android device battery is still working properly and being able to force your Android to stay on 3G without falling back to EDGE or GPRS if the signal is better. If you have any Android secret codes and hacks please send them to, the more the better.

Best Application For Android app 1

AirDroid

Android Police coverage: [New App] AirDroid Lets Your Desktop Control Your Android Phone Over WiFi Using A Simple, Gorgeous Interface

AirDroid is a fast, free app that lets you wirelessly manage & control your Android device from a web browser over-the-air.

• • Files
    Transfer files between Android devices and computers.
    Cut, copy, paste, search, rename or delete files on the SD card.
    Control Cut, copy, rename, send/share, delete, sort and create visible or hidden folders and files.
  • SMS
    Read, send, forward or delete SMS messages.
  • Applications
    Install, uninstall, backup, search apps and do batch processing.
  • Photos
    Preview, delete, import, export, set as wallpaper and photos slide show from desktop.
  • Contacts
    Group, search, create contacts, check and delete call logs.
  • Ringtones
    Search, preview, import, export, delete and customize ringtones for phone calls, notifications and alarms.
  • Music
    Play, search, import, export, delete, or set as phone call, notification and alarm ringtones.
  • Device Status
    Real-time ROM, SD Card, Battery, CPU and RAM status report & monitor with charts to demonstrate available/used/total resources, and one-tap memory boost.
  • Tasks Manager
    Kill or uninstall running apps, batch operation supported

  

3 Ways by which student can earn money

Student life can be sweet. However, being a student – unless you’re from a wealthy family – means being in debt and living month to month. Money is not everything, but having extra cash is always a good thing, especially if you don’t have to be somewhere at a certain time, spend money on transportation, and spend endless hours on public transportation. Here are 3 sure ways you can earn money online as a student.

Students can write articles to earn money online

Each student has a speciality, a niche. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the subject you’re studying. One simple Google search will show you there are thousands of freelance jobs on the Internet. Potential clients don’t necessarily want you to be experienced. They just want to know that you’re willing to do the job, write moderately well, and get the job done - with the results they want. Half the people who write guest posts on my blog (for college and other institutions which pay them to guest post) are university students.

If you want your writing work to take flight, start up a blog to publicise what you do, display the quality of your work, and to tell potential clients your services are for hire.

Students can blog to earn money online

Not everyone can write well and get results. We all have our talents and some people are better at the tech and marketing aspects, rather than the actual writing. In fact, some of the best writers are rubbish at the tech stuff and vice versa.

Blogging doesn’t have to involve the highest quality of writing. You just have to know how to write moderately well, write about interesting things, get an audience and convert this audience into paying customers. Whatever your niche, photography, sport, crafts, jewellery, you can blog about it and include Google ads, Amazon ads and affiliate links on your blog. If your tech skills are good enough and you know about SEO, you could be making a living from ads and affiliate links within 6 months of starting your new blog.

Students can do work on Fiverr jobs

I’ve ordered my share of Fiverr gigs. In case you haven’t heard of Fiverr, it’s a site you can set up an account to do anything for a payment of $5.00. There are many students there and there’s no limit to what you can do, or how many gigs you can set up. Your imagination is the only limit. Can you sing? Then you can set up gigs to sing greetings (in specific ways) and get paid for each one. You can draw, do tech work, blog work, write, edit, dance, create, and a whole lot more. Look at the homepage on the Fiverr site to get some ideas of what other people are doing there.

You may already have a part-time job, but if you can do any of the above well, you won’t need to leave your home in order to make a good part-time living (if not a full-time living). Have you done any of these as a student? Have you got any advice to add in relation to these 3 groups of online earning potentials?

Android Apps for recover the data

Undelete Beta *root*

Android Police coverage: [New App] Undelete Beta Promises To Recover Deleted Files From Your Device's SD Card (For Root Users)

Welcome to the open beta of our newest root application - Undelete for Android, an application for root users that allows you to recover any type of deleted file from your SD card or internal storage. This is the first application of its kind on Android.

- Fast scanning logic
- Restore any file that has not been written over
- Securely wipe/shred files
- Works with images, video, music, archives and binaries

  

Android Rooting for Dummies

:-) A Beginner’s Guide to Rooting your Android Device

Rooting your Android phone is a term that you are bound to across at some point or another while searching on how to optimize your Android device. With millions of new Android owners each month we decided to give a basic introduction into the world of rooting and to let you decide if it’s something you’d like to do.

What is Rooting?

Rooting is the process by which you regain administrative access to your phone. Even though Android is an open source operating system you still don’t have full “root access” to do what you please. Back when the iPhone launched in 2007 the hardcore techies quickly realized the true potential of the device, and the cruel software limitations that Apple had sealed it with. What became ‘Jailbreaking’ on iPhone was quickly translated to other platforms as well, and when the world saw the first Android back in 2008, the term “Rooting” was born.

Why Root your Android Phone/Tablet?

The main reason people root their Android device is for freedom and control, and when you root your Android phone or tablet you gain full control over your system and can tweak it to your liking.
Improved Performance: You can speed up your Android device by relocating your phones cache thus allowing you to save phone memory and have a faster phone. There are applications available in the Android Market that will allow you to overclock your device to make it go as fast as you dare.
Alter System Files: You can replace many parts of the “Android Core” which include the ability to add new themes, edit the core apps (maps, calendar, clock, etc), change the recovery & boot images, add linux binaries.
More Application Choics: You will be able to install apps that are only compatible with rooted phones, some of these apps include an app that will allow you to take a screenshot on your phone, overclock your device and tether apps.
Install applications to your SD CARD: One of the most talked-about feature (or disadvantage) of any Android device is the limitation where you can install applications only in the phone’s internal memory and not the SD card. While Google may reason that SD cards are slower in general and cannot run apps as effectively as internal memory, fact of the matter is that most Android devices do not come with massive internal storage spaces, and hence greatly limit the number of applications that can be installed at a time. With rooted devices, you can use Apps2SD, which will copy ALL your applications to a ext2/3/4 formatted SD card an will also store future builds in card. Freedom to choose!
Latest Android OS (Operating System): With many carriers holding back the updates to the latest Android operating system, rooting your device will give you the option to install any current and future OS’s by installing custom-tailored ROMs.
WI-FI and Bluetooth Tethering: After having rooted your device, you can also use WiFi or Bluetooth tether to share your cellular data connection with your laptop or PC. The application works with ad hoc connections and will get you up and running online on your laptop in no time. Similarly, tethering can also be achieved over a Bluetooth connection.

How to Root Your Phone/Tablet?

To Root your phone you will have to download an application from the internet, the most popular apps are SuperOneClick, Z4Root and Universal AndRoot. The procedure for rooting an Android device varies from device to device as such there are many different device specific guides. Website AddictiveTips has put together the largest guide for rooting phones that we found. Some other good resources for finding rooting guides include the XDA Developers Forums & this topic at AndroidForums. In most cases the Rooting procedure is as easy as a couple of clicks, of course there are nightmare stories and people having difficulties, so read on about the risks of rooting.

What are the risks of Rooting?

Rooting your phone does come with some risks, the most notable risk is that you will void any warranty that you have on your device. However you may be able to find the stock rom for your device in which case you can reverse the rooting and make your phone stock again. You may have difficulty finding the stock ROM for your device, it all depends on your device, but it’s something worth finding before you do root.
Other then the voiding your warranty, there isn’t that much risk involved. There have been some users on Android forums that have run into problems,  bricking your device is a possibility if a freak accident occurs while flashing archives. You should however not run into any problems, most users report the process as being a painless easy process.
Rooting your device can be a fun process, giving you the freedom and control to take your phone to a whole new level of function. We do recommend that you do your due diligence to ensure the rooting process goes as smoothly as possible. What are your thoughts on rooting? Was it an easy experience? Do you recommend it to others? We’d love to hear your thoughts

5 Cool Tricks for YouTube Fans

How much time do you spend on YouTube daily? I bet at least 5 minutes a day. YouTube developers have done an extraordinary job of creating a mass-market video portal which became an online networking sensation. Now there are almost half a billion YouTube users worldwide who upload, browse, watch, rate, and comment the terabytes of video content. Such an unmatched popularity of YouTube gave rise to a great deal of third-party tools which enhance users’ experience and make their online time spending more engaging and comfortable. Let’s have a look at some cool things we can do with YouTube videos.