Titanium Backup – Requires Root

Titanium Backup is probably the most useful app in the android market.  While it wou1ld be gr1eat if all android phones had this app you MUST HAVE YOUR PHONE ROOTED in order to use it.  You can tell if your phone is rooted when you run Titanium Backup because it will tell you if its not or it will as for superuser access if it is.  Be sure to allow superuser access and remember the decision for titanium backup to work properly.

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Scan Code to Download Titanium Backup

Features of the Free version:
  • No time limit
  • Very fast app listing (~1 second for 300 apps)
  • Sort apps by name / last backup / backup frequency
  • Filter apps by name / type / status / Apps Organizer labels (also affects Batch operations)
  • Backup/restore regular apps + their settings
  • Backup/restore protected apps + their settings
  • Backup/restore system apps + their settings (incl. Wi-Fi AP list)
  • Restores the Market links when restoring apps
  • Zero-click background batch backup
  • Interactive batch restore
  • Many batch scenarios (eg: if more than N days since last backup, etc)
  • Zero-click app un-installer
  • Zero-click system app un-installer
  • Desktop widgets
  • A single weekly or biweekly scheduled backup
  • User-defined apps lists with filtering, coloring and scheduling support
Additional features of the PRO/Donate version:
  • Multiple backups per app (history length can be chosen)
  • Zero-click background batch restore
  • Encryption of your backups (asymmetric crypto: the passphrase is needed on restore only)
  • Batch verification of all backups
  • Ultra fast HyperShell (much faster for almost everything)
  • Market Doctor can remake any broken Market links (only for apps that were backed up with the link in place)
  • App freezer can disable an app (and make it invisible) without un-installing it
  • Batch app freezing/defrosting
  • Unlimited, independent scheduled backups (each of which can run 1 to 7 times a week)
  • Dalvik cache cleaner can free up precious internal memory
  • Integrate updated system apps directly into your ROM to free up even more internal memory
  • Synchronize all (or some of) your backups to Dropbox
  • Retrieve all your backups from Dropbox (in case of lost phone or SD card failure)
  • Brand the app with your name

 

SMS Popup – Texting App

If your like me and moved from the iPhone to an Android phone you miss only a few things.  One of these is the fact that when you receive a text message it just makes a noise and shows up in the notification bar.  With SMS Popup, text messages popup on the screen and give you the options to delete, close, or reply to them.

While using the SMS Popup app we have noticed a few different benefits.  One of the features that we found useful is the fact that when your on your device running an app that goes full screen texts pop over the screen.  This allows you to close it out or answer it without leaving the app your currently in.

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Scan to Download SMS Popup

SMS Popup Full feature list:

  • convenient popup window on incoming message
  • quickly reply, delete or close the message
  • built-in “quick reply” for even faster messaging directly from popup window
  • have your messages read to you using text-to-speech
  • reply to messages using the system voice recognition
  • customize notifications including sound, vibrate pattern, LED color (if available) and notification icon
  • also customize notifications for individual contacts
  • setup notification reminders (repeating notifications if you miss the first one)
  • optional privacy mode to hide sender name and message contents

UPDATE: After using the SMS Popup app for a while I decided that I like it better than the native SMS notifications that I generally get on other devices and now actually have this one on my daily use device.  Those of you that have been using it for a while I would love to hear how you like it.  There are others like it but this one seems  to be the best so far.

Setup Youmail on your Motorola Atrix

First thing you need to know is that trying to let YouMail change the settings on your Atrix will not work. This will create an error saying something like “Invalid MMICode”. To get YouMail working follow the few simple steps below.


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Scan Code to Download YouMail


1. Go to the Android Market and download YouMail. Once its installed run it and go through the process of setting up your account.

2. Go to your Phones call settings and click on voicemail settings (Settings — Call Settings — Voicemail Settings) and change the voicemail number to 1-949-265-2922 and click ok. What this does is tells your phone to call that number to check your voicemail aka when you get the new voicemail notification and click it what the phone should do.

3. Go to your phones call settings and near the bottom select call forwarding (Settings — Call Settings — Call Forwarding) and change forward when busy, forward when unanswered and forward when unreachable to 1-949-265-2922. What this is doing is telling your phone where to send the person calling. Changing this number will send incomming missed calls to YouMail instead of your default carriers voicemail.

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Dropbox – Share files across all devices

Ever needed to access files between computers and had to use a jump drive or email files to yourself? You will never need to do this again. You can use Dropbox to share files and folders across your Android, Apple, windows and linux devices with ease.

Sync

Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.

  • 2GB of online storage for free.
  • Sync files of any size or type.
  • Sync Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.
  • Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected.

Use the following link to get 2.25gb of space free instead of the standard 2gb
Signup Free Here

File Sharing

Sharing files is simple. It takes only a few clicks.

  • Shared folders allow several people to collaborate on the same files.
  • See other people’s changes instantly.
  • Use your “Public” folder to link directly to files.
  • Control who has access to your shared folders. Kick people out and remove the shared files from their computers in the process.
  • Automatically create shareable online photo galleries out of regular folders.

Use the following link to get 2.25gb of space free instead of the standard 2gb
Signup Free Here

Dropbox has a free application for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android that lets you access and manage your Dropbox on the go.
reference: http://www.dropbox.com/features