Top 5 Business Apps For Android Phones

Android is going to become the world’s second most popular smartphone platform by 2012, according to the analysts at Gartner. Android will be topping all the platforms so with the growth of popularity and users of Android, apps in the Android market are also growing by day.

Mobile Phones are all about apps, and Android Market is providing numerous apps for its users which include, entertainment, fitness, social networking, games, utilities, news and many more genres.

Today, we are here with the top Android business applications in our choice. All of the following apps are free and easily available at Android Market.

1. Documents To Go 3.0

Documents to Go 3.0 helps you to manage your files and documents, just like you used to do all that on your PC/laptop. Now, you can manage your files on your Android powered smartphone. All you need to do is just download and install Document To Go 3.0 app in your phone and you are good to go. The Global Giant in developing mobile Apps; DataViz has created this masterpiece.

Mainly the features of this app are, you can edit, view and create Office files and documents. You can also filter, sync and backup you documents too. Password protected files from older Office versions are also supported and you can download files directly in to this app from your Google Docs account. Last but not the least, you can view PDF files in this app too, with extra features like pinch to zoom or animated double tap zoom etc.

2. Days Until Widget

This is a very simple widget which’s main purposes are to schedule your events and reminding those events as well. When you add an event to your schedule in this widget, it will show you the days remaining for that event. This cool feature of reminding the scheduled events makes it a must have app for your Android powered smartphone.

3. Metal Price Ticker

If you have business related to the dealing of metals, copper and aluminum in particulars, then this app is bestfor you. Metal Price Ticker can provide you the updated rates and latest price of copper and aluminum anytime and anywhere you want. The widget also displays a chart which shows the trends and developments in the markets of copper and aluminum for a period of 90 days, thus helping a lot in making business deals and transactions.

4. All Expenses Paid

If you are on a business trip, then it is very hard to keep a track of your expense receipts and causes a lot of irritation to maintain the piles of the receipts. So, this app is a best way to get out of all the expense related problems. You can save all your receipts data, expenses paid in this app and keep a record of every transaction which you want to claim expenses for. You can also send these expense details to any email address within the app.

5. Call My Meeting- Trial

If you are in a business which involves a lot of conferencing and meeting, this application is specially made for you. Call My Meeting, automatically searches through the calendar for upcoming meetings and notifies you. You can also get details of conferences, such as call details, phone numbers etc. It is an one click app, which save a lot of time and keeps you right on schedule.

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5 Simple Tips To Speed Up Your iPhone

How many times you have scrolled thorough the menu of your iPhone and have waited for it to swap to the next page, or how many times you have felt annoyed when you tap to open an App and it takes considerable amount of time to load.

Well, if this is the case with your iPhone particularly iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, then probably you have not optimized your iPhone for optimum performance.

We have some tips to enable you a smoother ride on your iPhone.

1. Empty your “Safari” Cache

We surf the internet a lot, more and more websites are cookies enabled means greater amount of cache, studies tell the “Safari” Browser is a key-source to sip the hardware resources of iPhone, therefore, clearing-out its cache regularly can reduce the burden on Safari, so Safari will reduce the burden on iPhone’s RAM and processor.

2. Clear your inbox

We text and we text all day-long, does that suppose to mean that we keep a record of all the text-messages dating a year ago, absolutely not, iPhone has a certain resource allocated to the messaging and messaging related operations, if you cut-down the number of text-messages you save in your phone, it will pay you back with smoother surfing through your iPhone.

3. Use a Task Manager

Many iPhone users don’t know or rather get to know after quite sometime, that, iPhone Apps , Browsers, other operations are held on standby when you switch back to Menu or other Apps, these Apps, operations silently use your iPhone’s battery + processor + RAM, thus, clearly showing you indications that your iPhone is not as fast as it was when it was new.The Solution is to download some good Task Manager from the App Store or Cydia. Task Manager would enable you to view standby Apps and kill any app which you are or will not use.This would save you resources for faster working.

4. Restart Sometimes

If your iPhone is jailbreaked the the tether allows you to restart your phone, it is better to restart your iPhone once a week to clear the data which might be directories on RAM, to clear them, and refresh your iPhone.

5. Upgrade your iPhone Model

This would be the best option, iPhone 5 is around-the-corner with a launch rumor, you may be the lucky to find a iPhone 5 from Vodafone, the premier Mobile service provider, this would enhance not only your operational speed due to its rumored dual-core processor and high-packed hardware, it will also give you the latest and hottest iPhone Model to date.

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Convert 1GB Memory Card to 2GB in Size

Memory cards are used in all forms of digital media like digital cameras, computers, mobile phones and music player. So they are widely used but what if you have purchase a card some months ago and you feel that its storage in not enough to fulfill your needs. Well, there is a good news for you. You can convert a 1GB memory card to 2 GB with the help of free software.

Note: This trick only works on 1GB memory card.

1. First empty your memory card and store data in other media or on your computer.

2. Download Skymedi-2GB-Fix-Software given at the end of this post.

3. Right click on file 1GB_to_2GB.exe and select “Run as Administrator“.

4. Select the drive from the drop down menu you want to fix.

5. In picture below you can see that software in showing the memory card space which is 955 MB.

6. Simply click on Fix button to start the conversion process and click Yes button.

7. Congratulations you have successfully converted a 1Gb memory card to 2 GB.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Computer While Surfing

The World Wide Web consists of more than 150 Million Sites, you would be lucky enough if you could visit just a Million of them, but you will be more luckier if your PC/Laptop/Tablets survives uninfected of any viruses, worms, trojans and hundreds of thousand of illegal means out there waiting like a hungry dog to hunt your device while you enjoy the streams of World Wide Web.

Keeping away from visiting 2 out of 4 sites you visit just on the condition that you feel it doesn’t look safe is just a source to kill your opportunity to visit a potentially great site.

On a better note, I have some greats ways in which you can surf like a Lion and gain information on the biggest virtual world.

1. Discourage Pop-ups

9 out of 10 times its a possibility that pop-up windows are advertisement, mostly-fake subscriptions, data-feeders, spam or an unwanted piece of information.So I advise you to turn-on the “Block Pop-up” option in your browser, possibly because you may even by mistake click on it and then lead to some sort of virus/spam site, other third party unreliable locations.

One more thing to add here is the need to learn that sites which possess multiple pop-ups on their home-pages are the highest possible stop for a free-virus gain, so simply, avoid them.

2. Don’t Compromise on Security Parameters

Users many-a-times reduce the security-level in their browsers feeling that some content might be invisible to them, well that’s not true. If a content is worth reading,watching, enjoying the website are credible enough to secure a reputable position to accommodate the firewall, so the security-level ideally should be the medium/moderate.

3. Click But Think

Websites which come-up on top slots of search-engines when You search a term, and when you land-up on them, you find it taking you to another site, I don’t give you a one-size-fits-all formula but be sure what your doing, see that the click-n-new window style doesn’t continue because the first website was probably deceiving the search-engine for the content which it doesn’t have and definitely they have some other motives such asmalware, make-ad-money, spam, transfer malicious content, Porn, deceive the firewall.So, what I say is rely on sites which seems presentable, hold the content themselves.Still if you encounter any such Site, close them immediately.

4. Don’t Receive Unknown Files

If you receive any unknown files on the internet and the file download window appears by itself while your surfing, this is the Warning Alarm, discard the file, no matter how attractive the file name appears to be, don’t open or download it, because it is a Trojan or a virus/spyware which would reveal your computer and can harm you in many ways.

5. The Best Defence is Attack

Before spam sites attack you, you defend yourself, anti-viruses today are a must have from protecting you from hundred of thousands of sites, I believe a common internet user visits 10 sites a week which are possible threat to the users Data/PC.Use only credible anti-viruses, such as Norton Antivirus Tools, which has spear-headed the anti-virus regime since I was a toddler learning to use Computers.

Surely, these tips would enable you to feel more secure on the web.

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