Install Android Apps From Your PC to Your Android Device With Easy

To install an app on our Android phone, usually we have to go the Play Store from our Phone, search for app and install it. Here is how to search and install Android apps right from our PC to Android device. Of course, the web version of Play Store now have an option to install apps on your device, however, the below method is using a Windows application called Hoolapp.

Spring Clean Your iPhone and iPad With PhoneClean

Just like Windows or Mac OS, Mobile OS like Android and iOS as well as apps running on it will create temporary files. Of course, these temporary files are useful for faster performance of your OS and apps, but over time, these files add up, occupy a significant amount of your storage space, and slows down overall performance of the device. On iPhone or iPad cleaning temporary files isn’t an easy job, but PhoneClean makes it extremely simple.

Advanced Mobile Care: Secure and Enhance Performance of Your Android Device

Advanced Mobile Care is a new app from IObit, which is designed to enhance performance and security issues of Android devices. This free Android app features a game speeder, battery saver, app manager, task killer, privacy locker and malware removal tool. Advanced Mobile Care has a sleek and easy to use interface. You can remove malware, clean memory, cache and junk files to increase Android's processing speed with a single touch.

Mindjet: Android App to Decode Your Complex Ideas From Anywhere

A mind map editor can have greater help in certain situations. It help us lists our ideas in an organized manner, recall finer points for our project, avoid tendency of skipping important points during a brainstorming session, etc. I had mentioned few such applications for PC in previous articles, here is a mobile mind map editor for Android phone to decode your ideas from anywhere.

Five Simple Steps to Secure Your Android Phone (eBook)

One of the most interesting features of Google’s fastest growing open source Android platform is that it offers developers the ability to build their own rich and innovative apps. Majority of these apps may be downloaded free of charge, which unfortunately spells out possible danger for some who downloaded and try out all kind of apps, as it is uncommon for cyber criminals to trojanize apps for their own gain.

Symantec Released Free Norton Mobile Security LITE for Android

Symantec has released a new free Android mobile security software -Norton Mobile Security Lite – to protect your Android device against loss, theft and malware. The lite, free version offers a reliable anti-malware protection along with a remote phone lock feature.

Webroot Mobile Security for Android

Webroot Mobile Security for Android is a complete security solution that offers a host of features to protect you and your phone from viruses, identity theft, unwanted calls, and text messages. It also helps you locate your stolen or lost phone.

AVG Mobilation: Complete Security Solution For Android Tablet

AVG has released a new and a complete security solution named Mobilation for Android tablets. This new app is based on AVG’s free security solution for Android AntivirusFree and has a unique feature for remotely wiping and locking tablet to protect your privacy, incase it has lost or stolen.

Find out your lost smartphone with free F-Secure Anti-Theft

F-Secure Anti-Theft is a free application for your smartphone (Android, Windows, Symbian) that provides a great way to protect your phone if it gets lost or stolen.

With this application, you can remotely lock your lost phone or remotely wipe all data it contains so that your private information like SMS doesn’t end up in the wrong hands.

And also, with the help of the new remote locator feature, you can find out where your phone is located.

Moreover, if the phone is stolen and changes the SIM card, the application locks the phone automatically and informs you of the new number.

Interested smartphone users (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android) can download it free at source.

Free antivirus for Smart Phones

Nowadays Smart phones are used not just for calling and messaging but widely for browsing, downloading, socializing, shopping, banking, etc.

As these devices are connected to the internet, there are high chances for virus infection. If infected, your passwords, bank details, and other personal information can be stolen.

Lookout is a free mobile antivirus software for Smart Phones (Android, Blackberry, Windows mobile) that keep your mobile device safe from viruses, malware and hackers.

Besides the antivirus protection, the program has other two features. It can locate missing phone and back up your contacts, photos and other data.

More information and download Lookout at source.

Making ringtones online for free from YouTube video

Customizing your ringtones normally involves downloading a third-party app to edit and crop audio files. This can be painstaking, time consuming and some times expensive.

Tube2Tune is an online service where you can make ringtones from YouTube video. The service is free and no registration is required. You can instantly use the service either by entering a YouTube video URL or by searching a video from it.

After loading the video, you can drag the slider to select any part of the video, and then record the selected part by clicking the record button.

The length of the record is limited to 40 seconds and recording will stop automatically after that or you can stop recording manually at any point. After that, click ‘Create’ button to make ringtone.

The ringtone are available for download in several audio formats including iPhone, WMV, MP3, WMF and AAC. You can also send ringtone as sms to your mobile phone or send it to your email.

Visit Tube2Tune to create ringtones from YouTube video

Photo Slideshow Maker for iPhone 3G, iPod and PSP for Free

If you own an iPhone 3G, iPod or PSP, there is a cool giveaway for this holiday season. Ourpix.com is offering you Slideshow Maker (worth $30 each) absolutely free as a holiday gift for iPhone, iPod and PSP.

Another free offering is Spring StylePack (for Wondershare Photo Story Platinum) which contains a variety of style effects to let you make a holiday photo story in seconds.

The free giveaway includes:

1. Spring StylePack: Each style comes with a variety of effects to let you make a holiday photo story in seconds
2. iPhone 3G Slideshow Maker: Free photo slideshow maker to make some holiday movies for your new iPhone 3G.
3. iPod Slideshow Maker: Make something new for your iPod. It's not only a mp3 player, but a home movie theatre on the go.
4. PSP Slideshow Maker: Like the iPod, PSP could also be a home movie theatre for playback your home-made movies.

Download the free offers from here

TwitBird Pro - Twitter client for iphone/ipod touch for free (today only)

TwitBird Pro (formerly known as iTwitter) is a fast, flexible and feature rich twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch.

It has several cool features to enhance your twitter experience like multiple account support, push notifications between other TwitBird users, landscape mode, icon badges, address book, group feature, reply directly to tweets and send direct messages, and many more.

TwitBird Pro offers everything you'd expect for a good twitter client and it should make your Twitter experience with your iPhone or iPod touch that much more enjoyable.

Users who likes to get it for free (today only), just visit here for downloading TwitBird Pro. The program normally costs around $2.99.

DriveSafe.ly reads incoming SMS and emails in real-time and auto responds to messages

DriveSafe.ly is a mobile phone application that can read SMS and email messages aloud in real time and can automatically respond to incoming text messages without drivers touching the mobile phone - useful while driving.

Currently the program works only on Black Berry and mobile phones running Android, for iPhone and Windows Mobile will coming soon.

DriveSafe.ly basic version is free, and reads up to 25 words per message (enough for most people) and includes the optional text and e-mail auto-responder.

The paid version can read up to 500 words per message and lets you choose between a female or male voice. The basic version has only the female voice.

Features:

- Reads your text messages and emails out loud in real time
- Hands Free - No need to touch the phone while driving
- One-touch activation - no complicated setup
- Bluetooth and radio transmitter compatible
- Reads text message shorthand (lol, brb)
- Optional customizable auto-responder

More information and download [via]

ESET Mobile anti-virus for Symbian S60 phones for free download

ESET has released first beta release of Mobile Antivirus for Symbian OS powered smartphones (Symbian S60 3rd Edition, and Symbian S60 5th Edition phones) and now available free for beta testing.

Derived from their well-known NOD32 Antivirus engine, it protects against a variety of threats (including unknown malware with heuristics scanning) for Symbian OS phones.

A few features of ESET Mobile Antivirus:

1. Heuristics scanning - pioneering proactive protection for mobile platforms
2. On-Access Scanning - scans newly-created and opened files; scanning of files received via Bluetooth, IR and Wi-Fi
3. On-Demand Scanning - scans running processes and storage (including specific sub-folders); standardized logs (more)

Remember that it is a beta release and is intended for experienced users only. It should not be installed on devices which perform critical tasks because it may cause errors or crashes.

For more detailed information and free download (334Kb) visit at ESET. [Via – Webtrickz]

How to locate your stolen or lost windows mobile based phone?

Remote Tracker is an open source security software for Windows Mobile 5 or 6 based devices to locate in case you lose the device or if it was stolen. This software has several other usages; for example, you can use your device for security purpose to track your car.

RemoteTracker works intercepting formatted SMS (Text Message) sent from any mobile phone. If you want to know where your device is, you have to use any other phone and send a SMS to your disappeared device.

Main security features of this program:

- SIM Card Change Protection: If someone installs an unknown SIM card on your lost phone, you will receive messages alerting you about the change and you will know the new mobile number to let you keep tracking your device.
- Hidden mode: RemoteTracked is not show in Uninstall Application list and it's moved to another folder;
- Password: You can only uninstall RemoteTracker or answer a command after type/send the password.- Locate your device using its coordinates from its internal GPS, if it has. See the path someone did with your device using Google Earth.
- See the information of device's "owner"
- Self Rescue (Anti Kidnapping) function; and more.

Details on how to use Remote Tracker, Download the application.

Free mobile phone browser Skyfire officially launched

The mobile browser Skyfire is officially launched and is available for free download for Nokia Symbian and Windows mobile phones. This new mobile browser guarantees a complete web browsing experience exactly like PC browsing on your mobile phones. The good things about this browser are that it supports flash contents and gives a better rendering of pages.

Currently, Skyfire runs on Windows Mobile (smart phones and PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones.

However right now, Skyfire officially launched in the US, Canada and UK only, but is possible to download and install it from anywhere in the world. [Via]

Trend Smart Surfing: A secure browser for iPhone and iPod touch

Trend Smart Surfing may be the first, free and secure browser for iPhone and iPod touch devices that provides smarter and safer experience when surfing the Web. Nowadays every one is dependent on the internet through their computer or hand held, but as you know the internet is not a safe place anymore with zillions of viruses doing the rounds of cyberspace. Whether you are using a mobile device or a computer for surfing the web there should be an eye on these threats.

Smart Surfing is powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network using advanced “in the cloud” Web Reputation technology to protect you from Web pages with malicious intent. If you attempt to access a bad or malicious URL, Smart Surfing is designed to block access to the URL and a notification will appear in the browser.

Features of Smart Surfing includes: Secured by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, Blocks access to Web pages with malicious content, Helps protect against phishing and pharming attacks, Provides color-coded search results to easily identify harmful Web pages, Easy-to-modify protection strength level and notifications and Supports browsing multiple Web pages at the same time

When you use Trend Smart Surfing to browse the Internet, before the URL is accessed it is quickly and invisibly checked in the background and if the url is known to be a phishing site or contains malicious content such as spyware, malware or other potentially harmful content the Web page is blocked with a notification

How to download You Tube video directly onto your mobile phone via Bluetooth?

Here is an interesting service, Blueding that allows us to download You Tube video directly on to our mobile phone through Bluetooth. To enjoy the service, of course, we need a Bluetooth-enabled phone and a computer with Bluetooth device connected. Enter at Blueding, type the URL of the You Tube video that you want to download (or find it directly from this site), click on download and play.

Blueding support most of Bluetooth devices, but not all. You can check it here. Required a computer with Bluetooth device, Mobile phone with Bluetooth, Windows XP/Vista or Mac OS X and Java installed for using this service.[via]

Download free mobile phone applications and games

There are many sites out there for downloading applications and games for mobile phones, but to find an appropriate one for your phone is quite difficult. If you want to download free mobile phone games and applications for your phone, here is a community driven site, Phoload, where you can browse and download free, quality applications and games quite easily. Whether it is a java driven phone or more advanced one, you can find something interesting there.

Applications and games are categorized in different sections like social networking, SMS, IM and email, security, maps, music, arcade games; puzzle games, board and card games etc.

Downloading applications and games from Phoload is quite simple, just select your phone model and company and view the applications available for it or browse through the gallery and select according to your phone and choice.

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