ANDROID APPS MANIA

Google sky map : This app is very cool and really easy to use. Once this app is downloaded into your Android, you can point the phone to the sky the Google Sky Map will show the stars, planets, constellations, and will help you identify the celestial objects.

Astro File Manager: Astro File Manager is an app that lets you navigate through the Android file system. It is like a Windows-style file explorer. If you would like to directly install Android APK files yourself, you will require this or some other navigation app in your system. The Astro File Manager makes your phone feel like a computer.

Seesmic : There are many Twitter apps on Android. Additionally, Twitter also launched its own-brand app recently. However, Seesmic has had some loyal followers. One of the most advantages of Seesmic is that it offers support for multiple accounts, it has a home page widget that shows latest tweets, and has an incredibly slick and professional design.

Mobile Maps : Developed in UK, Mobile Maps is downloadable directly on to your Android smartphone. It helps you get free satellite navigation facility and images onto your Android devices. The app works like a sat navigation device that is switched on with every turning direction. Your phone’s GPS works by plotting the directions and the journey ahead of you as per traffic conditions.

Beyond­Pod : The Beyond-Pod application integrates with the Android music player. It helps you find and manage audio and video podcasts. Though the base version is free. The premium version at $7 provides better controls to update and manage subscriptions.

Weather Channel : As the name suggests the Weather Channel is a weather app. It offers accurate current conditions with extreme detail down to wind speed, humidity and UV index. Additionally, the Weather Channel’s app also offers hourly and 10-day forecasts for planning ahead. In addition to this it also provides advanced features like animated weather radar.

Google Voice : Google Voice is an application that provides you a phone number that can ring at multiple places or devices. It allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. For people who need privacy, the app can also make outgoing calls such that the receiver gets only the Google Voice number and not your phone number.

Advanced Task Killer : Advanced Task Killer (ATK) is one of the apps whose features should have ideally been built into the Android. It helps you manage your apps to ensure that the performance or battery life is not hurt. It comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.

Opera Mini Beta : There have been many debates on which browser is better – Opera or SkyFire. Though the jury may be out on the answer, it doesn’t take away anything from the fact that your Android needs a browser. Opera Mini is the pick here, cause it has been around for a while.

Astrid : Astrid is also called Android’s Simple Task Recording Dashboard (ASTRID). It maintains and follows up on to-do lists and helps you organize your life within the phone. It integrates cleanly into the Android interface, and can motivate you on your deadlines and give humanizing reminds.

So which are your favorite google andriod applications? also let us know if we missed out on any cool yet helpful apps!

THINGS WHICH WILL DISAPPEAR

9 Things That Will Probably Disappear In Our Lifetime...

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come  1. The  Post Office.  Get ready to imagine a world without the post office.  They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term.  Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive.  Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.  2. The Cheque.   Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018.  It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks.  Plastic cards and  online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check.  This plays right into the death of the post office.  If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.  3. The  Newspaper.  The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper.  They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition.  That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man.  As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it.  The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance.  They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.  4. The Book.  You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages.  I said the same thing about downloading music fromiTunes  I wanted my hard copy CD.  But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music.  The same thing will happen with books  You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy.  And the price is less than half that of a real book.  And think of the  convenience!  Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.  5. The Land Line Telephone.  Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore.  Most people keep it simply because they've always had it.  But you are paying double charges for that extra  service.  All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes  6. Music.  This is one of the saddest parts of the change story.  The music industry is dying a slow death.  Not just because of illegal downloading.  It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it.  Greed and  corruption is the problem.  The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing.  Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with.  Older established artists.  This is also true on the live concert circuit.  To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book,  "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies.."   7. Television.  Revenues to the networks are down dramatically.  Not just because of the economy.  People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers.  And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.  Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator.  Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds.  I say good riddance to most of it.  It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery..  Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.  8. The "Things" That You Own.  Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future.  They may simply reside in "the cloud."  Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents.  Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be.  But all of that is changing.  Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services."  That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system.  So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet.  If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud.  If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud.  And you may pay a monthly  subscription fee to the cloud provider.  In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld  device.  That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?"  Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical?  It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.   9. Privacy.  If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone.  It's been gone for a long time anyway.  There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone.  But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View.  If you buy something, your habit is put into a  zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.  And "They" will try to get you to buy something else.  Again and again.   All we will have that can't be changed are Memories. ( In my case, even these are fading).