AutomateIt is an Android app that is designed to make your life easier by automating various tasks on your Android device. It lets you define how your device should behave in response to an event on your Android device by creating a rule. For example, you can make your device automatically increase the volume when [...]
Smartphone privacy is of little concern to many of us – after all, who else is going to be using our personal devices beside us? What have we got to hide from ourselves? While this is true, there’s always the possibility of a snooper or thief gaining access to your phone, and in this instance [...]
On Android, the apps use the feature called “wakelock” to keep your smartphone running even after you turned it off. This feature is used by the apps to complete an operation (e.g. getting updates from the Internet) even if you decide to turn off your phone. So if you ever wondered why your screen doesn’t [...]
Does your phone tend to ring late at night? This can be a great way to mess up your sleep cycle, as text messages and phone calls can often wait until the morning, but the ringtone will definitely wake you up. That being said, there are some calls you may want to receive late at [...]
In Android phones, you will find the Google Now application, a tool that acts as an intelligent personal assistant. In Wikipedia’s words, the app “uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web services”. Truly the app helps out countless users every [...]
If you forget to congratulate people (friends, relatives etc) on their birthdays or other special occasions more often than you’d like, check out Schemes. It is a useful app for Android that lets you schedule messages in advance and have them sent to people at a specified time. It lets you schedule messages via SMS, [...]
Most people use online cloud storage services to store and manage their files and documents. The most popular cloud services today are Google Drive, Dropbox or SkyDrive, to name a few. You can access these services both from your desktop and mobile device. To use them from your mobile you will have to install their dedicated [...]
If you attend a lot of meetings or lectures (if you are a student) with mostly PowerPoint/Keynote presentations, check out ArcNote. It lets you easily take notes using your Android device camera. You simply take snapshots, whether from a whiteboard, slide projection, poster or a brochure and it automatically transforms these snapshots into high-quality cropped and properly [...]
TotalMedia Remote is a smartphone application compatible with devices running Android 1.6 or later. The app is free to use and sized at nearly 0.5 MB. The function of the application is to let you effectively use your smart device as a remote control for the TotalMedia Theatre. If you have not heard of TotalMedia [...]
YouTube is full of footage from dashboard cameras mounted in cars that have encountered accidents, near misses or other hazards while driving. Such footage can be invaluable if such an incident goes to court, for insurance purposes or simply to settle a case of “right or wrong”. Most people interested in recording their journeys buy [...]
Time-lapse videos look impressive for their surreal and fluid representation of time passing. As opposed to simply speeding up video, time-lapse movies use still images which are then arranged in the order they were taken to produce a moving image. Images must be shot at pre-determined regular intervals for best results, and the use of [...]
MP3 inCall Recorder is a 2-in-1 calls and voice recording app for Android. Unlike other similar apps it is free and allows full control of the recorded calls. You can choose when to start recording and record your call manually with a single click. Or you can enable to automatically record all your conversations without [...]
Time-lapse photography is actually a filming technique, contrary to the ‘photography’ in its name. The technique is basically used to create an effect that feigns the speeding up of time. You might have seen a traffic view scene in a movie where the cars seem all sped up and the lights seems to act as [...]
Stop your Android’s screen from going to sleep. Wakey is a simple app with one main toggle – a giant light bulb. Tap that to activate Wakey. The bulb will glow, but more importantly your screen will now not turn off unless you specifically tell it to. That’s really all this app does. Like most [...]
We are constantly getting updates on our social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) from so many people at the same time that it is easy to lose track of events happening in lives of people you really care about (family, close friends, etc). While we may have many friends online, the people we call and text with [...]
Canned responses – long a favorite of Gmail power users – seems like a concept designed for mobile. This lesser-known Gmail feature – find it in “Labs” – allows users to pre-compose messages they find themselves writing regularly. Naturally this has worked its way into the workflow of many, but not on the phone – [...]
Do you have recurring tasks for which you need reminders? If so, and you own an Android device, then you should check out an app called Regularly. Regularly is a free to use smartphone application, sized at nearly 1.5 MB, and requires your smart device to be running Android version 2.1 or later. The function [...]
Are you looking for a better way to download files on your Android device running version 2.1 or later? A download manager makes the process of downloading files quite a bit easier, and it can even improve the speeds of the download. Instead of being limited on file types and sizes, a download manager can [...]
Are you looking to shake up the way you listen to music on your Android device? Perhaps you just aren’t happy with the way the default music player looks and feels? Whatever your reason for wanting to change things, there’s a very nice application called Now Playing that is still in beta. It’s well-made, and is [...]
Use your Android device as an ad-hoc wireless router. HotSpot control allows you to turn your Android phone or tablet into a temporary router, allowing your other devices to connect to each other using it. This is perfect for spur-of-the-moment LAN parties in hotel rooms or sharing documents directly, but there’s another potential advantage – [...]