'Must Needed' Apps on your android device - 2014 List (Utility & Productivity Apps)(*India)(Part II)

This is the continuation of the previous post regarding the  'Must Needed' Apps on your android device. Check out the remaining list of apps:

 Utility Applications (Continued...)

ixigo indian rail train irctc

The best Indian Railways / IRCTC train info, now with hotels. (No ads !!!)

** Winner of the 2013 Mobby's Award for the best app. **

ixigo trains solves the problem of finding train tickets and getting accurate train running information, PNR Status and more. Our all new app helps you find the best hotels for the places you are visiting. Find budget hotels in most Indian cities, classify them by area, get the best hotel deals and most importantly, call hotels for free and book online! The app now automagically scans your SMS inbox for PNRs and also provides PNR status change updates and delay notifications.

You can also find which days a train runs on, or which class to choose, find availability, PNR status, routes or accurate fares, just like before!

ixigo trains & hotels app uses the power of India’s leading trip planning site, ixigo.com to search across all hotel information and train routes in India, with comprehensive data and an awesome user experience across all mobile devices!

With the all new ixigo trains & hotels app, you can:

- Find Budget Hotels everywhere: cities, localities, near airports & train stations or even near you.

- Call budget hotels for free

- Get the best budget hotel deals

- Compare hotel prices from many booking websites

- Find hotel amenities, see photos of rooms, read ratings and reviews and access location & maps

- Get automated PNR status updates and train delay notifications.

- Search for trains between destinations by simply typing the name of the stations / cities / towns

- See train timetable for all passenger and express trains

- Check Train availability 6 days prior and post the desired date

- Check real-time availability for over 2500+ trains running under the Indian Railways

- Find trains with train numbers and names

- Trains running status

- Rate & review trains

- Browse through routes of multiple trains to choose the most convenient option

- Receive quick PNR status updates

- Explore seat/berth maps to find convenient seats

- Get real time running status of trains

- Add trains to your Favourites to create a ready reference to plan your trip

- Redirect to IRCTC Official app for bookings

This app covers all major trains in India, including:

- Shatabdi Express Trains

- Rajdhani Express Trains

- Duronto Express Trains

- Garib Rath Trains

- Jan Shatabdi Trains

- Inter-city Trains

- Superfast Trains

- Select Passenger Trains

- Coming Soon: Local MEMU / EMU Trains, Suburban Trains

Finds availability and status for all coach classes : Sleeper (SL), Third AC (3 AC), Second AC (2 AC), First AC (1 AC), Chair Car (CC) etc.

Coverage:

- Northern Railway (NR), Southern Railway (SR), Konkan Railway, Eastern Railway (ER), Central Railway (CR), Western Railway (WR), and all other railway zones.

ixigo train & hotels app provides information of budget hotels and all trains running across India with their current schedules, fares & routes clearly displayed for passengers to make informed decisions while planning their trips. Backed by intelligent technology, the app is very light on the phone’s memory and is available for free!

So leave all your travel worries behind with ixigo trains & hotels app, brought to you by ixigo.com!

ixigo believes in making cool apps for travelers - do write a rating/review if you love the app !

Disclaimer: This app relies on public information available on relevant websites that you choose to access, at will, through the app. By using it, you are responsible for any legal implications that may arise from such usage. You'll need to visit IRCTC official website / app to make your bookings.

Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

In addition to all the definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, this app offers voice search – to let you look up a word without having to spell it – along with synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, Word of the Day, and more. It’s a great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.

The app is free, and supported by ads.

No internet connection is required to view the definitions or thesaurus (although you do need a connection to view illustrations, hear audio pronunciations, and use voice search).

Features:

* Synonyms & Antonyms

* Voice Search

* Example Sentences

* Audio Pronunciations

* Word of the Day

* Favorites - lets you keep a list of words that are particularly interesting to you

* For Tablets: Scrolling Index - lets you browse the entire dictionary

* Recent History - lets you keep track of the words you've looked up

MP3 Video Converter

You can convert video files to audio files (MP3, AAC) with various options ( bitrate, meta data)

1. Supports various types of videos (3GP, FLV, MP4 and so on)

2. Supports various types of audio (MP3, AAC)

3. Supports editing meta information (title, album, artist)

4. Supports application based integration.

MX Player

 MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies.

a) HARDWARE ACCELERATION - Hardware acceleration can be applied to more videos with the help of new H/W decoder.

b) MULTI-CORE DECODING - MX Player is the first Android video player which supports multi-core decoding. Test result proved that dual-core device’s performance is up to 70% better than single-core devices.

c) PINCH TO ZOOM, ZOOM AND PAN - Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across the screen. Zoom and Pan is also available by option.

d) SUBTITLE GESTURES - Scroll forward/backward to move to next/previous text, Up/down to move text up and down, Zoom in/out to change text size.

e) KIDS LOCK - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry that they can make calls or touch other apps. (plugin required)

Subtitle formats:

- DVD, DVB, SSA/ASS Subtitle tracks.

- SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass) with full styling.

- SAMI(.smi) with ruby tag support.

- SubRip(.srt)

- MicroDVD(.sub/.txt)

- SubViewer2.0(.sub)

- MPL2(.mpl/.txt)

- PowerDivX(.psb/.txt)

- TMPlayer(.txt)

NewsHunt : India News | eBooks

NewsHunt, India's #1 mobile newspaper app brings together the News from 100+ regional newspapers in 11 languages, and the largest collection of regional language ebooks from the world.

‘NewsHunt : India News | eBooks' is free and is used every day by millions of users around the world.

- Recipient of GSMA Mobile Awards 2013 for Best Mobile Publishing Product

- Recipient of mBillionth 2013 award for News & Journalism

- Number 1 News App on Google Play in the free ‘News & Magazines’ category on Google Play

- India's Best News App & in top 10 smartphone consumed apps across all platforms by Neilsen Consumer Rankings
- Named the ‘Most Downloaded News App’, by GetJar.com with over 8 million downloads to date
- Users spend more time on NewsHunt than on YouTube, according to a report by Nielsen Informate Mobile Insights

News Features:

•Read News from 85 national & regional Newspapers, Websites & other News sources

•Home screen widget that shows latest news stories from recently read Newspapers.

•Read News in English & 10 Indian languages, even if your phone doesn’t support the language & font. Available in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Oriya & Urdu

•Get Local News from over 600 Indian districts & towns, plus Cricket scores, weather, horoscopes, stock updates & classifieds

•Get Alerts & Notifications of Breaking News even when you’re not using the app

•Partners: The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Mid-Day, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Malayala Manorama, Dinakaran, Dinamalar, Rajasthan Patrika, Eenadu, Sakshi, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, Deccan Herald, Sakaal, Divya Bhaskar, Jagbani, India Today, BBC (Hindi), Siasat & more

•Share News over SMS, Email & Facebook

*Large Collection of Indian language eBooks on ‘NewsHunt: India News | eBooks*

Now, ‘NewsHunt : News | eBooks’ lets you browse, download and read the largest collection of regional language eBooks. Read authors including Surendra Mohan Pathak, Chetan Bhagat, Rajesh Kumar, Sudha Murthy, Kannadhasan, and Deepak Chopra as well as international best selling authors.

Features:

• Read Free Books—Choose from thousands of free ebooks such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to Alice in Wonderland

* Shop for Books—Easily shop for ebooks, including new releases

* Pay using your mobile phone in addition to your credit/debit cards - Buy eBook using your mobile operator. Available for Indian customers only.

* Customize Your Reading—Choose your preferred font size, and background color to read your books.

* Read in English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam or Marathi. Additional books in other languages being added every day.

Mobile, DTH Recharge &Shopping

All new Paytm is here.India’s no.1 mobile & DTH recharge app now brings an all new mobile shopping experience with a revolutionary concept to bargain for a product before you buy it. You can do much more than recharging your mobile phones & DTH, so we have added many more categories to shop.

At Paytm, we push the envelope and challenge status quo of innovation and experience in mobile commerce. This shining new app comes with one such unique first:: Bargain Chat. You have a real-feel of bargaining over-the-counter via our in built messenger for apparel, electronics, home décor and much more.

We have added a bargain icon on every product. You can chat live with sellers and negotiate your best deal! The merchant will give you a bargain code that you apply while you check out.

PicsArt - Photo Studio

Install PicsArt Photo Studio - where everyone becomes a great artist! It is the most popular free mobile photo editor with over 100 mln installs, one of the fastest growing photo artists’ social networks and galleries of artwork. Users are constantly discovering new ways to unleash their inner artist using this app.

>> "It’s somewhat surprising that an app with a more complex feature set has actually done so well on mobile"

Techcrunch

>> "PicsArt incorporates user-suggested changes often--because the company isn't afraid of frequent updates. - Inc.

>> "PicsArt Transforms Your Smartphone Pictures Into Works of Art" - Mashable

>> "Their app.. allows you to create artwork from photos with a functionality close to what you get on expensive professional tools like Photoshop. But PicsArt is free and requires no instructions or training." - Fast Company

PicsArt is a free photo editor, drawing tool, art network, photo grid, collage maker and more. It’s a one-stop shop for your artistic and editing needs, used by both professional and novice photographers, artists and graphic designers from around the world. It includes tools such as:

-A photo editor, providing tons of options for photo manipulations and a wide array of effects, masks, text tools, clipart graphics, frames, enhancement tools and more.

- A collage maker allowing you to create collages in photo grids, free form, or with photos in the background.

- A drawing tool, with abundant features including artistic brushes and layers to create mobile images that look like real paintings.

- A DrawCam mode which allows you to combine real-time photo taking with drawing, editing and layers.

- A Social Network which allows you to share your images with the largest mobile art-based community; be inspired by interact with other users; and participate in contests for photography, drawing and graphic design and more.

Quickoffice

This free app from Google lets you create and edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your Android phone and tablet. Sign in with your Google Account to save work in Google Drive, which gives you up to 15GB of free storage and lets you access your files from any mobile device or computer.

With Quickoffice and a Google Account you can:

- Create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files

- Access files in Google Drive and on your device

- Open and view PDF files

- Share files through previously shared Google Drive folders

                                           - Attach files to emails

Shazam

Shazam is the best way to identify music and TV. In seconds you’ll know the name of any song, or more about what you’re watching - touch to Shazam to start your journey.

Once you Shazam music, you can easily:

• Preview and buy tracks on Amazon or Google Play

• Sing along to the beat with real time lyrics

• Share your discoveries on any social network

• Watch music videos on YouTube

• Share your discoveries on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google+ and Pinterest

• Listen to full tracks with Rdio, Spotify or Deezer

• Connect to Rdio to create a playlist of your Shazamed tracks, or add tracks to any Rdio playlist

• See song recommendations from others like you

You can also use Shazam with TV:

• Shazam your favorite TV shows for the cast, soundtracks, and more

• Shazam ads to watch again, share with friends, or get special offers

Want even more?

• Go to shazam.com/myshazam to see your entire Shazam history; sign in to Facebook to get started

• Check out News to discover great new videos, updates and more, from artists and TV shows

you’ve Shazamed; plus see what your friends are Shazaming

• Explore shows you what’s trending around the world and zoom in for local chart knowledge

• Book concert tickets for artists you’ve Shazamed

Software Data Cable (Pro)

Connect and share everything among phones, Pad, PC, Mac, Laptop, Google TV, Cloud storage, Xbox etc.

An must-have App that will save you time and eliminate the need of USB data cable for file transfer. Once you've tried it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it!

It's fast, free, secure and NO impact to mobile data plan!

BENEFITS WITH SOFTWARE DATA CABLE

• The fewer cables to carry the better

• The computer doesn't need to have drivers it does need installed

• Send photos, music, videos, Apps etc. to other phones, tablets or TV anytime, anywhere

• Auto-sync photos and other important files to computer or cloud storage (on a daily, weekly basis to backup data)

• Extend mobile storage space without any cost

Key features

SYNC PC

• Send files to computer (and vice versa) without USB data cable (without external network support)

• Data transfers in private (local) Wi-Fi network (easy, secure, fast and no data plan impact)

• Transfer speed up to 54Mb/s

• Compatible with Windows Explorer and other FTP client tools (such as FileZilla)

SYNC PHONE

• Send files (Video, MP3, Apps etc.) and folders to other phones, Pads wirelessly

• No mobile data plan impact

• Transfer speed up to 54Mb/s

• Integrate powerful and easy to use File Manager

SYNC AUTO

• Sync folders to family cloud storage (PC, laptop, file server etc.) automatically

• Sync folders to cloud storage (such as Microsoft SkyDrive, Baidu etc.)

• Auto-sync tasks can be scheduled on a daily, weekly or monthly basis

• Extend mobile storage space without cost

SuperBeam | WiFi Direct Share

SuperBeam is the easiest and fastest way to share large files between Android devices using WiFi direct. Devices can be paired using QR codes (with the included QR code scanner) , NFC or manual sharing key (PRO).

No more clicks and manual approvals for connections. SuperBeam makes file sharing as convenient and fast as it should have been, because it is 2014 already!

Features:

• Blazing fast transfer speeds using WiFi direct.

• Pair devices using NFC or QR code scanning.

• Sharing with devices that do not have SuperBeam through web interface.

• Share single or multiple files of any type (photos, videos, zip files, APK's... You name it!).

• Supports Android 2.3.3 and later.

• Uses port 8080 for all types of transmissions, which means more compatibility on restricted WiFi networks.

• Light and dark color themes.

All received files are stored under "/sdcard/SuperBeam" directory by default, this can be changed in settings (PRO). Don't worry about duplicate files, SuperBeam will automatically add unique numbers to duplicate file names.

SuperBeam Switches to hotspot mode automatically for devices that doesn't support WiFi direct. Also, it can use existing WiFi network connection between devices in case WiFi direct fails.

Tube Mate

Tube Mate downloader is an app for downloading Youtube videos directly to your mobile phone. It allows you to have your favorite videos on your device’s SD card to watch them whenever you want.

Using the app is as simple as accessing the video that you're interested in on the "browser" that comes integrated in the app itself and touching the green arrows that you'll see located on the bottom part of the screen.

At that moment you can select the video quality you want to download. It normally has many different resolution options adapted to the different Android devices compatible with the application.

The downloaded videos will be stored on your SD card by default, but you can move them around from one location to another, however suits you best.

Tube Mate downloader is a very easy-to-use video downloader whose main strong point is exactly that--you can have get your hands on any video in seconds.

Courtesy: Google Play and App Developers of above mentioned applications.

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'Must Needed' Apps on your android device - 2014 List (Utility & Productivity Apps)(*India)(Part I)

Folks through this post I would like to share with you the most needed applications on your android device.Hope you know that android is having a well stocked app store for their users and only some of them are useful in your daily life.So from my android experience I would like to share with you the same.

For the past 2 years I have been using numerous android based devices and in my personal collection I have a Google nexus 7 Tab & Sony Xperia Z smartphone. I like them a lot and I spend most of my free time with them and pass my time, ironically 'waste my time'. And I have downloaded hundreds of apps from the Google Play Store. I have also downloaded some other apps outside the market which would help me in my day to day life.

Initially, I would like to classify the whole Play Store Apps to two sections:

• Utility Applications
• Games and Time Pass Applications

And in this post I would like to discuss about the 'Must Needed Utility Applications' of android, I would like to do a discussion on the 'Games and Time Pass Applications' on android in my next post.

Utility Applications

Amazon Kindle

The Kindle app puts over a million books at your fingertips. It’s the app for every reader, whether you’re a book reader, magazine reader, or newspaper reader—and you don’t need to own a Kindle to use it. Choose from over a million Kindle books from the Kindle Store or enjoy popular magazines like The Economist and Reader’s Digest with high-resolution color images.*

• Read Free Books—Choose from thousands of free ebooks such as Pride & Prejudice or The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

• Shop for Books—Easily shop for ebooks, including new releases and New York Times Best Sellers.

• Use the Built-In Dictionary, Google, and Wikipedia—The Kindle app has a built-in dictionary that allows you to look up words instantly while you’re reading your ebooks. Simply tap and hold a word to view its definition or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information.

• Sync Your eBooks—The Kindle app lets you read the same book across devices and automatically syncs where you left off so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another device. The app syncs your furthest page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights between Android, PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8, and any of our Kindle devices using our Whispersync technology.

• Sample Books Before You Buy—Read the first chapter of a book for free before you decide to buy.

• Customize Your Reading—Choose your preferred font size, screen brightness, background color, and orientation (portrait or landscape) to read your books.

• Borrow eBooks from the Library—Check out ebooks from your local library and have them delivered wirelessly to your Kindle app.

• Read print replica textbooks on Android tablets. Print Replica Kindle books maintain the rich formatting and layout of their related print editions and provide features to help students study smarter including ability to highlight passages, add margin notes, and search for keywords. Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your bookmarks, notes, and highlights across your devices.

* Selection for U.S. users only; selection and price of ebooks and e-periodicals vary by country.

AppLock

Most downloaded app lock in Play Store

★ #1 App lock in over 50 countries.

★ Over 50 Million users, supporting 24 languages.

☞ AppLock can lock SMS, Contacts, Gmail, Facebook, Gallery, Market, Settings, Calls and any app you choose, with abundant options, protecting your privacy.

☞ AppLock can hide pictures and videos, AppLock empowers you to control photo and video access. Selected pictures vanish from your photo gallery, and stay locked behind an easy-to-use PIN pad. With AppLock, only you can see your hidden pictures. Privacy made easy!

★ With the help of App Lock, you may:

Never worry about a friend borrow your phone to play games again!

Never worry about a workmates get your phone to have a look again!

Never worry about private data in some apps may be read by someone again!

Never worry about your kids may changing phone's Settings, paying games, messing up it again!

---- Features ---

• Protects any apps using password or pattern

• Photo Vault, hide pictures

• Video Vault, hide videos

• Customize background, set your favorite photo

• Themes

• Fake cover

• Profiles, easy to change the locks

• Automatic lock at given time

• Automatic lock at given location

• Random keyboard

• Lock switch(WiFi,BT,3G/4G Data...)

• Widget for quick locking/unlocking

• Locks incoming or outgoing calls

• Lock system Settings

• Lock Google Play Store

• Quick lock switcher on status bar

• Re-lock policy: allow short exit, no need to unlock again

• Prevent apps from being uninstalled

• Hide AppLock's icon from launcher

• AppLock can be prevented from being uninstall

• AppLock cannot be killed by task killers

• Little memory footprint and power-saving

CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator

* The world’s No. 1 mobile document scanning and sharing app today!

* Installed on over 60 million devices in over 200 countries and regions around the world

* Over 50,000 new registrations per day

* CamScanner, 50 Best Apps, 2013 Edition – TIME

* Top Developer – Google Play Store

* “The application employs its own image cropping and enhancing algorithm that leads to clearer images.” – Makeuseof.com

* “CamScanner may just be the best deal for scanning documents on your phone.” – CNET.com

CamScanner helps you scan, store, sync and collaborate on various contents across smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers.

Features:

*Quickly Digitize Document

Just use your phone camera to scan and digitize all kinds of paper documents: receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, etc.

*Optimize Scan Quality

Smart cropping and auto enhancing ensures the texts and graphics in scanned documents are clear and sharp with premium colors and resolutions.

*Extract Texts from Image

OCR (optical character recognition) feature recognizes texts in document images and extract them from images for later searching, editing or sharing.

*Share PDF/JPEG Files

Easily share documents in PDF or JPEG format with friends via various ways: post on social media, send attachment or document download link through email.

*AirPrint & Fax Documents

Instantly print out any documents in CamScanner with nearby printer via AirPrint; directly select document and fax to over 30 countries from the app.

*Collaborate on Documents

Want to get feedback on your documents? Invite friends or colleagues to collaborate on documents. They can view, comment and exchange ideas on documents in groups.

*Advanced Document Editing

Make annotations on documents with a full set of editing tools. Also adding customized watermarks are made available to mark your own documents.

*Quick Search

When you have plenty of documents, you can use Tags to categorize and easily find them. In addition, OCR for Search helps you find texts inside image and notes. Just enter one keyword, you can quickly find the document you want.

*Secure Important Documents

If you want to protect confidential contents, you can set passcode for viewing important documents; also, while sending document download link, you can set password to protect others from seeing it.

*Sync across Platforms

Sign up to sync documents on the go. Just sign in to any smartphone, tablet or computer (visit CamScanner website) you own and you can view, edit and share any document.

Premium Subscription Service:

-Get 10G cloud space for storing documents

-Add extra 40 collaborators

-Extract texts in images for later editing or sharing

-Documents link shared with password protection.

-Unlimited document annotations

-No default watermarks on PDF file generated

Dolphin Browser for Android

Dolphin for Android makes mobile browsing easy, surfing the web with a personalized home screen, voice and gesture control.

★ #1 Mobile Web Browser on Android Market

★ Over 100,000,000 downloads on Android and iOS

With lightning fast speed, Dolphin for Android provides you the best experience to browse and search the web. Download Dolphin Android Browser for free to surf the web with exclusive features of your very own mobile browser.

From Users

“Best browser for an Android phone: This browser offers a fast, smooth web browsing. I recommend this browser for all!” – Aziz Al-Haji

“Far better than Chrome: This is the best browser I’ve had to date, for more stable than Chrome and Firefox and with many more features too. Frequent updates tend to fix issues as opposed to Google Chrome updates.” – Omar Davis

In the Press

Dolphin Browser's Gestures and sidebars make web surfing fast, intuitive and fun while on the go. - USA Today

“…it’s a great, simple browser that feels more at home on a touchscreen device than pretty much anything else you’ll try.” – Lifehacker

Dolphin is my browser.

Features:

★ Gesture - Access the web by creating a personal Gesture (symbol) to you use the most.

★ Sonar – Dolphin for Android listens and lets you use your voice to search, share on your favorite social networks, bookmark favorite website and navigate.

★ One-tap Share - Tweet, Post to Facebook, grab any content and share them, or save it directly to Evernote or Box.

★ Tabbed browsing - No need to toggle between screens, tabbed browsing lets you browse as if you are on desktop.

★ Add-on – Beef up your mobile Internet browser experience by installing the Add-ons for the tasks you need at your fingertips. With more than 60 and counting, Dolphin Add-ons enables any action to be done right within the mobile browser. You can check out the Add-on features with 3 preloaded on your right Sidebar.

★ Dolphin Connect - Sync history, bookmarks, passwords and open tabs easily across Android, iPhone, iPad and desktop browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

★ Home Screen – Add most visited websites as speed dials to your home screen. And organized them easily with one touch access.

★ Theme – Customize theme colors, wallpapers and skins to make Dolphin your own

★ Web App Store - The all-new Dolphin web app store offers access to the most popular web sites so you never have to leave the browser. Choose from over 200 web apps, including Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon and more.

★ Send to device: Send links, maps, phone numbers, & more from your desktop to your phone and vice versa with Dolphin for Android’s Chrome, Firefox and Safari extensions.**

★ WiFi Broadcast - Share links with friends nearby on your wifi network.

ES File Explorer File Manager

ES, 300 millions global downloads, file manager trend leader on Android!

Rated as one of best resource management tools on Android market.

ES File Explorer is a free, full-featured file and application manager.

It functions as all of these apps in one: file manager, application manager, task killer, download manager, cloud storage client (compatible with Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box.net, Sugarsync, Yandex, Amazon S3, and Ubuntu One...), FTP client, and LAN Samba client.

It provides access to pictures, music, video, documents, and other files on both your Android devices and your computers.

ES File Explorer allows Android users, no matter where they are, to manage their resources freely. You can access all of your files from your mobile device and share them with others. This app makes it easy to stay connected over 3G, 4G, EDGE, or Wi-Fi to share with friends, upload photos, and watch videos.

ES File Explorer 3.0 currently supports 30+ languages:

English, Russian, Japanese, Korea, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Tamil, Catalan, Turkish, Lithuanian, Portuguese...

This standard version is for Android 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1,4.2 and 4.4. Android 1.5 ~ 2.0 users, please use ES File Explorer Cupcake.

You can download older version from our official website.Classic Theme can be downloaded on Google Play.

Features List:

* File Manager – Manage your files like you do on your desktop or laptop using Multiple Select, Cut/Copy/Paste, Move, Create, Delete, Rename, Search, Share, Send, Hide, Create Shortcut, and Bookmark; operations can be performed on local files (on Android device) or remotely (on your computer)

* Application Manager – categorize, uninstall, backup, and create shortcuts to your apps

* Remote File Manager – when enabled, manage files on your phone from your computer

* Built-in ZIP and RAR support allows you to compress and decompress ZIP files, unpack RAR files, and create encrypted (AES 256 bit) ZIP files

* Built-in viewers and players for various file types, including photos, music, and videos; supports third-party applications, such as Quick office, for opening others

* Shows thumbnails for APKs and images

* Text viewers and editors

* Access your home PC via WiFi with SMB

* Functions as your FTP and WebDAV client. Manage files on FTP, FTPS, SFTP, and WebDAV servers just like you manage files on your SD card

* Supports Dropbox, Box.net, Sugarsync, Google Drive (Google Docs is now a part of Google Drive), SkyDrive, Amazon S3, Yandex and more.

ES File Explorer is an enhanced cloud storage client with more functions than the official versions,

it can save photos, videos, and other files to your internet drives and share them with others.

* Bluetooth file browser You can copy and paste files between Bluetooth ready devices. It supports OBEX FTP for browsing devices and transferring files between Bluetooth devices.

* Kill tasks with a single click, increase memory and speed up your device -- includes a simple widget that stays on your home screen for knowing your current RAM situation and automatically killing tasks, with an ignore list to ignore the applications you want to keep running.Task Manager module required

* Cache Cleaner and Autostart manager -- Delete those junk files that take up valuable storage space.Task Manager module required.

* Root Explorer -- the ultimate set of file management tools for root users. Provides access to the entire file system and all data directories, and allows the user to change permissions.

Eureka

Eureka is the WORLD'S FIRST APP THAT PAYS YOU MONTHLY REWARDS to watch cool deals, relevant ads and quirky content on your smartphone!

** Every 30 days as long as you are still using Eureka, you will receive rewards in the form of talk time top-up or mobile bill discount **

** In order to handle a large number of growing subscribers and to streamline the credit process ** WE WILL NOW BE MAKING ALL PAYMENTS ON THE 10TH OF EVERY MONTH **

 ** After Eureka is active, WHEN YOU UNLOCK YOUR PHONE, sometimes during the day you will see full screen ads, deals and content **

 ** And if you introduce a friend to Eureka, you will earn even more rewards! (just ask them to enter your mobile number as their Referrer at sign-up time) **

The app is available in India across all mobile networks on the Android OS.

We hope to announce an exciting Eureka Loyalty Programme shortly where you can earn Eureka loyalty points and redeem them in exchange for rewards.

You keep earning rewards as long as the app is installed and you continue to use Eureka. Remember when you pause the app the ads will not be served on your mobile and you won’t be eligible for rewards.

Highlights:

• Amazing deals right at your fingertips

• Interesting and quirky content, like Movie of the week, Recipe of the day, the latest in technology, entertainment, sport, fashion and health tips delivered directly to your phone

• To see more, simply double-tap on the ad to ‘Launch’ it

• Re-visit the last 15 deals, discounts, ads and other content that were sent to you any time by going into ‘My eureka’ in the eureka app

• Save preferred content to your ‘Favorites’ in the Eureka app and view them anytime you fancy

• View your next reward date and approximate reward amount by going to ‘My Rewards’ in the eureka app

•‘Share’ the deal, ad or content image with friends. Also share the Eureka app with friends (from ‘Settings’ in the Eureka app)

•If you are busy, you can request the ad to be shown ‘Later’

•You can pause the Eureka service for 2 days and resume it whenever you want to start earning your rewards again (remember, pausing it won’t earn you rewards)

•See 'How It Works' to learn more about the Eureka service or manage other settings.

Expense Manager

Manage your expenses directly on your smartphone. Easily keep track of your finances.

This app allows you to record your expenses easily. Optionally you can assign a category to your expense in order to get detailed statistics and helpful insights.

Features:

- Holo style

- Ad-Free

- Record expenses

- Assign categories

- Manage monthly overheads

- Manage categories

- Set a monthly limit

- Homescreen widget for even faster usage

- DashClock Integration

- Expense History

- Spreadsheet Export

- Group your expenses by week, month or year

- Backup/Restore Feature

- Record incomes (In-App purchase)

- Detailed Stats (In-App purchase)

- Expense Distribution (In-App purchase)

Super-Bright LED Flashlight

Super-Bright LED Flashlight instantly turns your device into a bright flashlight. The ultimate lighting tool takes full advantage of the LED light. Strobe/Blinking Mode is also supported and it's FREE!

Features:

- Super Bright Flashlight - Guaranteed!

- Convenient - Switch On/Off the light just like using a real flashlight

- Strobe/Blinking Mode supported - Blinking frequency adjustable

- Stunning graphics - This is the most beautiful flashlight you can get in hand!

Flipboard: Your News Magazine

Flipboard is your personal magazine. It is the most popular way to catch up on the news, read stories from around the world and browse the articles, videos and photos friends are sharing. To begin, pick a few interests and tap any of the tiles to begin flipping through your personal magazine.

Add blogs and publications like The New York Times, PEOPLE magazine, Fast Company and many more by using the search bar or tapping the red ribbon to open the Content Guide. You can also connect your social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Google+ to see what friends are posting and easily share articles with them.

Save the things you find on Flipboard. Tap the “+” button to collect items into your own magazines on any topic, from Great Hikes to Gear & Gadgets. Go to the Content Guide and select “By Our Readers” to explore magazines others are making.

Highlights:

★ All your news, interests and social updates in one personalized magazine.

★ Save stories you love into your own magazine. Use the “+” button on any item, select ‘create a magazine’ and collect favorite stories, images or videos.

★ Search for anything—people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your favorite sites—and flip through the results in a beautiful magazine format.

★ Connect Flipboard to up to 12 social networks, streamlining your reading and activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Services include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, SoundCloud, Sina Weibo and Renren.

★ Read Cover Stories for a quick check on what’s happening now. Cover Stories is created just for you and is filled with popular items from everything you’ve added to your Flipboard.

★ Enjoy Flipboard in 18 localized editions—for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, U.S. and U.K.

★ Explore hundreds of staff picks in the Content Guide (tap the red ribbon at the top), including must-read magazines and blogs, gorgeous photography and special curated sections devoted to the news of the day and other interests.

★ Use the Flipboard widget for quick access on your Android device.

★ Add content to your Flipboard magazines through the bookmarklet at share.flipboard.com

Chrome Browser - Google

Browse fast on your Android phone and tablet with the Google Chrome browser you love on desktop. Pick up where you left off on your other devices with tab sync, search by voice, and save up to 50% of data usage while browsing.

 • Sync Across Devices - seamlessly access and open tabs and bookmarks from your laptop, phone or tablet 

 • Save Data - reduce mobile data usage by up to 50% while browsing

 • Faster Browsing - choose from search results that instantly appear as you type and quickly access previously visited pages

 • Voice Search - use the magic of Google voice search to find answers on-the-go without typing

 • Translate - easily read webpages in any language

 • Intuitive Gestures - open as many tabs as your heart desires and quickly flip through them by swiping from side to side on the toolbar

 • Privacy - use Incognito mode to browse without saving your history

Google Drive

Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Get going with up to 15GB of storage. Free.

- Upload files to Google Drive directly from your Android device

- Share photos and files with friends, family, and colleagues

- Access files others have shared with you on Google Drive

- Make any file available offline

- Manage files on the go

- View Google presentations with full animations and speaker notes

- View your PDFs, Office documents and more

- Scan documents, receipts and letters with your device camera then search by contents

- Print files stored in Google Drive on the go using Google Cloud Print

- Open files stored in Google Drive through Drive enabled apps in the browser

- Optimized experience to take advantage of larger screens for tablet users

- Optimized experience to take advantage of larger screens for tablet users

iTriage Health

Created by two ER docs, iTriage helps you answer the questions: “What medical condition could I have?” and “Where should I go for treatment?” Save, easily access, and share the healthcare information that's most important to you. iTriage has 4.5 star rating from our millions of users in over 80 countries.

Features:            

* Proprietary Symptom to Provider pathway: You can search symptoms, learn about potential causes, and then iTriage will help you find the most appropriate treatment, facility or doctor

* iTriage Doctor Search lets you find any doctor or physician quickly and easily

* Thousands of medical symptoms, diseases, conditions, procedures, medications and drugs

* Clear, concise, and useful information

* Find the nearest hospital, emergency room, urgent care, retail clinic, pharmacy, physician, doctor, imaging center, mental health clinic, substance abuse clinic, and community health center

* Average Wait times for select Hospital Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care facilities

* Check In from your phone when you're on your way to select Hospital Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care facilities.

* Appointment Setting through iTriage for select doctors and providers

* Emergency hotlines, and physician and nurse advice lines

* Save your personal healthcare facilities, doctors, diseases, conditions, procedures, medications, insurance information and health plan advice lines

* View your Personal Health Record (PHR) stored with Microsoft Health Vault.

To be continued in next post... 

Courtesy: Google Play and App Developers of above mentioned applications.

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