Do you own a smartphone? If yes, then your phone can literally help you parent your kid well. Gone are those days when you would just give your phone to your kid to keep him busy, your Android phone can do much more than that.

With literally zillions of Android apps being developed and are specifically being tailored for kids, your Android phone can  not only help your kid being entertained, but rather it can also educate your kid, sharpen his/her mind, hone your kid’s creativity and much more. Here are 10 Irresistible Android Apps for Kids that are both entertaining and educational, just check out the list below.  (more…)

 The era of low-cost, DIY song recording and publishing has been boon to indie musicians who lack the funds to book professional studio time. It’s a trend that’s here to stay thanks to inexpensive, readily available sound recording equipment and versatile software. Once the tracks are cut, the real challenge is getting people to listen to your unique musical stylings. The hottest cloud-based music sharing application at the moment is SoundCloud, an innovative service on the rise with an ever-expanding base of loyal customers.  (more…)

An increasing amount of e-commerce is moving from the laptop to the mobile phone. We all know that having a dedicated mobile website optimized for smart devices is a must, but many neglect to tune their e-commerce stores for mobile as well. Mobile commerce or m-commerce is just anther way to facilitate buying and selling online. People will go out of their way to buy from Amazon, but a lack of an m-commerce portal for mobile users can be a deal breaker for smaller shops. MobiCart is an easy way to create mobile stores quickly for free.  (more…)

Android market place is stuffed with thousands of Collage Maker Apps, with help of these wonderful apps you can make collage right from your favorite Droid within minutes. You can even give different styles to your collages and share it with your friends.

So if you are a photography enthusiast or an avid photo-sharer, try out following 5+ Best Free Collage Maker Apps :-  (more…)

Roboto is a font that was created in-house at Google, to be specifically used for their Android operating system. It was introduced in the 4th release of the OS, which is codenamed “Ice Cream Sandwich.” The designer of Roboto is Christian Robertson, one of Google’s interface designers. It serves as the default font of Android and comes with every 4.0 device, but now it can also be freely downloaded and installed on your computer, as of January 12, 2012. Also the app developers for Android can use Roboto to give their apps native look. As far as fonts go, Roboto is very reminiscent of the beloved Helvetica typeface, but it has some of its own charm that comes from the small differences between the two. Google has called the font “modern, yet approachable” and “emotional.”  (more…)

Viber might be the new app on the block, but it’s worth checking out for anyone who goes over their monthly voice or message usage. This can result in costly extra fees that can add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars over the typical 2-year cellular contract. Viber aims to help consumers to reduce these fees by providing a way to make free calls and send messages over 3G or wireless networks from your iPhone or Android mobile devices. More than 40 million users have already downloaded Viber. (more…)

One of the hardest things to do for many people is staying on track with their goals. Sticky notes, reminders, and to-do lists are all designed to help with this, but one of the major flaws of this system is that it only works if it’s directly in front of you. Wunderlist takes the idea of the to-do list and makes it work no matter where you are by creating a platform for reminders that works on just about every device available. Wunderlist is claimed to be the best GTD (Getting Things Done) app out there by leading tech blogs and tech evangelists.   (more…)

 You must have heard about recent news of 3.7 million new Android devices activated on Christmas alone. And according to July 2011 report by Nielson, Android has market share of 39%, larger then Apple’s 28%. For any smartphone platform to grow, apps availability is the primary reason. As per the announcement made on official Google Blog , there are 100 million total activated Android devices, 400,000 new devices activated everyday, 200,000 total apps available in Android marketplace and 4.5 billion apps installed. And if we believe this report, then there are around 350,000 apps in the Android marketplace now.

But why so many statistics, number crunching and built-up about Android? Because, the conclusion is Android is popular and have millions of users. So there must be evil people out there who are just waiting to do harm to masses. As we know Android is open source and thus it makes it more vulnerable. Anybody with sound knowledge of hacking can find the loopholes in the system and make virus which can affect millions of users worldwide. There comes the need of robust and trustworthy Antivirus software for Android which can protect from native viruses as well as virus originates from apps or web. Businessinsider ran a report about virus threat for Android platform. It discusses various security threats and virus attacks on Android platform in detail.

And here comes Avast with its latest offering in mobile security which is primarily targeted for Android platform. Avast is the best free Antivirus software for PC and I am using it for almost 3 years on my PC. It always has protected me from malware, Trojan software and malicious links on the web. So I can obviously claim that they have came with the best offering for Android devices too. Let’s see what kind of mobile security Avast provides for Android.  (more…)

With unprecedented success of Android in smart phone’s world, more and more major brands are now coming up with specialized apps for Android.

Almost all top brands now have their app listed in Android market place, so that their customers can remain connected to their brands. According to mobile analysis firm Distimo’s report, 91% of the top brands have presence in at least one app store. These top brands include names like Coca-Cola, BMW, Disney, GE, IBM etc.

In this article I have listed Android Apps for few of the major brands.  (more…)

One of the major benefits of faster mobile broadband speeds through 3G and 4G service is that it makes sense to have documents, music, pictures, and other files stored in the cloud to be accessible from anywhere. As storage space is precious in phones as it is, keeping these files in the cloud to have access to them whenever you need them is a real time saver. The only downfall of this method is keeping track of all your cloud services and their respective apps for Android. SanDisk has solved the problem with the SanDisk Memory Zone app, an app that will read and store data from both your internal and external SD cards, as well as various cloud services. (more…)