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Google Search

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:37:39 +0000

Google Search app for Android: The fastest, easiest way to find what you need on the web and on your device.

* Quickly search the web and your phone or tablet
* Use your voice to search and more
* Get personalized results based on your location

Plus: *Google Now* gets you just the right information at just the right time. It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and more (Google Now is currently available on Android 4.1, Jelly Bean).

Recent changes:
For Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean):
- Reminders (e.g. say "remind me to buy milk this evening", "remind me to take out the trash when I get home")
- Upcoming books, music albums, tv shows and video games you may like
- Real time public transit updates (select cities)
- Last train home (Japan only)

Clean Master (Cleaner)

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:16:53 +0000

☆Over 10 million users, 25 languages.
☆Featured by Lifehacker & XDA.
☆Voted #1 Cleaner APP in 48 countries, top 10 in 39 countries in Tools.
☆Scroll down for more info & DEMO VIDEOS ;-)

Clean Master is an all-in-one cleaner app on android for cleaning app cache , unused files, residual files, search history, uninstalling apps as well as APP2SD. With this apps user can also Kill running Tasks and releases more RAM to boost your phone performance and save battery life without granting superuser permission.

"Android: If you're running low on space on your Android device, Clean Master makes it easy to identify what's hogging your storage, and helps you get rid of it." - LifeHacker.com

"If you want to get your Android device clean and free of junk files, head on over to Clean Master." - XDA-Developers.com

Language Support
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Localized in Deutsch, Español, Français, Indonesian, Italiano, Magyar, Português, Română, Slovenčina, Thai, Tiếng Việt, Türkçe, Eλληνικά, Pусский, Українська, עברית, 한국의, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體), 日本語, العربية, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski.
******Anyone who are willing to help us localization (translating app/introduction, suggesting poster ideas etc), you can join our collaborative translation platform.
http://crowdin.net/project/clean-master-localization/invite
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Here is what Clean Master can do for you

[History] - Clean Cache and Residual Files
History Eraser will help you erase caches and residuals files easily with only one CLEAN click. On Android devices, cache and residual files will be generally accumulated to approximately hundreds of mega bytes or even GBs. Now clean master bring you an excellent cache and residual file cleaner to you and make your phone simplified.

[Privacy] - Delete History
Privacy apps are important for every Android users. Once you play with smart-phone, it knows every personal information silently including SMS/MMS, web browser data, Google search history etc. The history clear module of Clean Master can perform message deletion and also can clear browser data, clipboard data and history data of many other apps like Wechat, Whatsapp, Spotify, Pinterest, Line etc.

[Task Killer] - Advanced Task Manager
The tasks running in background not only occupy system RAM, but also waste your battery life. The Task Killer can kill apps and release more RAM to speed up your android device. Root permission is not necessary, but if Task Killer granted root permission, it will perform better.

[1 Tap Boost] - Memory Booster
1 Tap Boost is a shortcut comes along with Task Killer, it is a more convenient way to boost android memory.

[App Manager] - Backup & Uninstaller
App manager consists of uninstaller and backup assistant. Clean master offers you an opportunity to uninstall apps easily with just one simply click. Also, you can backup apk files onto SD card and reinstall them later using the apk installer of app manager.

[APP 2 SD] - Move Apps to SD Card
APP2SD is a new killing feature in 3.4 version. It can move your whole app data (not just apk file) from system to SD card which can save spaces significantly. Currently it only works on rooted device which has external SD card.

Full Features List:

1. History Eraser
Clean cache
Clean residual files
2. Privacy Protection.
Clean selected messages (SMS&MMS)
Clean selceted call logs
Clean Google search history
Clear clipboard data
Protect other app privacy such as wechat, whatsapp, etc.
3. Kill running tasks/release RAM/1Tap Boost
4. Application manager
Uninstaller
Backup
APP2SD

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kscleanmaster
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ksmobileinc
Forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clean-master

KW: cache, clean, residuals, unused, gameloft, apk, privacy, history, cleaner, 1tap boost, task killer, eraser, uninstaller, app2sd, android booster

Recent changes:
3.4.0.229
An important update for Snapchat users to clean their privacy photos. (Available on Privacy and History.)

3.4.0.224
1.Support moving app data to external SD card. For example: Moving the large game data of NFS on Note2, S3, S4. (Root required.)
2.Add details page for Tasks. (Data will be reset when device powered off.)
3.Built-in updater is removed.
4.Other bug fixes.

AppBrain Ad Detector

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:13:18 +0000

Free your phone from potential concerns and ads! This app detects all annoyances of apps installed on your phone, such as Push Notifications, Desktop icon spam ads or privacy concerns.

- Helps you to get rid of annoying ad notifications (Airpush, Leadbolt) and bookmarks on your desktop.
- Find out what apps have permissions to access your messages or accounts and could thus invade your privacy, or can use services which could cost you money.

This app detects over 70 different aspects of apps, including:

- Concerns such as Push Notifications (ads and non-ads), putting spam icons on your desktop, and privacy related concerns such as the ability to access your location, contacts, messages or accounts.

- Android Ad Networks; this app tells you which ad networks are embedded in apps, such as Admob, Millennial Media, MobClix, Tapjoy, AdWhirl, Greystripe, InMobi, Airpush, Startapp, Leadbolt, Pontiflex, MobFox, Komli Mobile, MoPub, MdotM, inneractive, Adlantis, Smaato, Daum, AppLift, Mediba, Cauly, YouMi, AdMarvel, madvertise, Sellaring, and more.

- Social SDKs; detect whether apps have SDKs like Facebook, Twitter4j, OpenFeint, HeyZap, ScoreLoop, jTwitter, Papaya, and more.

- Developer Tools; detect libraries like Google Analytics, Flurry Analytics, Google Play in-app billing, Android support library, Google Gson, Google Licensing Service, ViewPager indicator, ACRA, Phonegap, libgdx, Unity, Amazon AWS, Paypal and more.

Detect apps that have push ads.

This is not an ad blocker / adaway / adblock but can still help you make your phone annoying ads free by suggesting which apps to uninstall.

Recent changes:
- Detects more ad networks and concerns
- Improved notifications (especially on Jelly Bean)
- minor fixes

Google Translate

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:06:56 +0000

Break through language barriers with Google Translate:

• Translate text and speech between more than 70 languages
• Listen to your translations spoken aloud
• Input using your voice, handwriting, and camera
• Save your favorite translations and sync them across devices
• View dictionary results for single words or phrases
• Translate without a network connection with our offline language packages
(Camera input and offline translation are available for Android 2.3 and above.)

Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

Recent changes:
• Save your favorite translations and sync them across devices
• More languages for camera input

Adobe AIR

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:11:17 +0000

Enjoy your favorite web applications with Adobe AIR.
Adobe AIR enables you to have your favorite web apps with you all the time. AIR apps run on your device without a browser, providing the convenience of a native app. You can learn more about AIR at http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html. See what the most popular AIR apps are right now at http://gaming.adobe.com/showcase/.

By clicking "Install", you agree to the Software License Agreement found at http://adobe.com/go/eum.

Recent changes:
What's new in version 3.7.0.186:

Bug fixes, Security enhancements.

The complete set of release notes can be found at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_117_air_37_release_notes.html

History Eraser

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:52:28 +0000

It's a history eraser for android device, and it can clean history of apps by only one tap. It's similar to the "ccleaner" on PC. It can help you to protect your privacy, and it can also help you to free up the internal storage. No root premission required!

Feature:
★Clear Browser History
★Clear Call Log
★Clear text messages
★Clear Market Search History (including new android market history of v3.0.26+)
★Clear Google Map Search History
★Clear Gmail Search History
★Clear Clipboard Data
★Clear Youtube Search History (assist)
★Clear Google Search History(Android >= 1.6) (assistance)
★Clear all app cache files
★Clear Frequently Called (Frequently Contacted)

Feel free to send feedback to us other than 1 star!!

If forceclose happens, please use our another app named 'App Cache Cleaner' to do a clean-all action, and then open History Eraser again

#How to clean your Google Map history
If your Google Map history still comes out after clean, please visit http://www.google.com/history to disable the history records for your Google account.

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INFOLIFE, Make Life Easier!
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----version 2.5.5 changes:
1.add sms clear options to one touch clear list
now we can seperately del 4 kinds of thread,including:
a) Sent SMS/MMS
b) Received SMS/MMS
c) Failed SMS/MMS
d) SMS/MMS Draft

By using setting menu, you can alse choose not to del sms/mms when screen off or you can choose not to delete locked/protected sms/mms

----version 2.5 changes:
1.add auto clear and preference setting
you can have schedule clear by menu-> setting -> select Clear When Screen Off.It will auto execute your last clear operation when screen off.
you can also set notification bar icon here and turn on phone rom memory statistics display.

2.add frequently called (Frequently Contacted) clear
some devices have a frequently called list in favorites tab.now the delete operation of this list is available.

3.add phone memory status showing
show your phone rom memory statistics.you can see how much memory freed after clear.

4.use new text message deletion and move this function to menu options
txt message deletion option moved to menu,you can delete all of your sms/mms by menu-> Del All SMS/MMS,Be ware that ALL of your text message will be deleted even if they are locked!

5.add option to show notification bar
you can show notification bar to have a quick switch.to enable this:
menu->Setting->check Notification Bar Icon.

6.adjust item display order.
move clear all apps cache function to the top of the list.

***Features under development***
1,contacts history or sms history in motorola phones:
Motorola doesn't share their communication logs with other apps,I am still working on it to figure out a way to clear this history.

To help us translate thiss app to your native language, please sign up in http://crowdin.net/project/history-eraser
thank you very much

Recent changes:
#4.4.6
add Danish Hungarian Polish and Ukrainian localization

#4.4.3
trivial bug fixes

#v4.4.2
1. improve user experience of widget
2. add localization of Czech
3. fix a bug of translation setting

#v4.4.1
fix a little bug of ui

#v4.4
android 4.0 style UI

#v4.3
fix a few bugs

#v4.2
fix cache cleaner for android 4.2

#v4.1.1
fixed a fc bug caused by banner

Clueful

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:12:55 +0000

Clueful for Android is a FREE product that shows you how installed apps use, and possibly abuse, your personal information and treat your PRIVACY.

You'd be surprised how many things an app can learn about you. Without you ever knowing it.

Clueful is like your own personal “Privacy Consultant” giving you detailed info as to what your installed apps are doing in the background without your knowledge. It checks your apps against Bitdefender’s constantly updated Cloud database, calculates your device’s “Privacy Score”, and then informs you as to which apps are sacrificing your privacy.

Did you know that apps can:

- Leak your phone number, e-mail address, contacts from address book to aggressive ad networks or third-parties
- Play audio ads while you’re on the phone
- Spam you in the notification bar, even if not accessed
- Send your password unencrypted over the Internet, a password that can be easily intercepted
- Upload your calendar
- Read your browsing history, which contains sensitive data
- Read and send SMS with or without your permission, thus incurring charges to your bill
- Intercept SMS
- Make phone calls with or without asking for your permission
- Monitor your phone calls
- Upload your device ID. (This unique ID can be used by developers, advertisers and analytics tools to track your location or behaviour across more than one app)
- Track your location and share it with third-parties
- Access your photos

…and many more. Really know you apps with Clueful!

THE INDUSTRY’S MOST DETAILED ANALYSIS OF APPS
Clueful doesn’t only display a list of permissions requested by apps upon install, it goes even further by showing you what apps REALLY do behind your back: leaking your phone number, spamming your notification bar, playing audio ads while on the phone, sending your password unencrypted over the Internet, or even send text messages without asking for your permission!

IMMEDIATELY INFORMS YOU OF ABUSIVE APPS
Bitdefender Clueful monitors apps that you install from the Google Play Store and immediately tells you if they’re not respecting your privacy.

PROVIDES AN INDIVIDUALIZED PRIVACY SCORE
Bitdefender Clueful examines the apps on your smartphone and calculates a precise and personal overview of how vulnerable you are, so that you can evaluate and take appropriate actions for each installed app.

ALWAYS UP TO DATE
Clueful utilizes the Bitdefender Cloud to access the very latest information from a growing database comprised of hundreds of thousands of apps that is updated 24/7.

UPGRADE TO TOTAL SECURITY FOR ANDROID DEVICES
Try Bitdefender Mobile Security and you’ll gain an array of additional cutting-edge capabilities. This Total Security package includes the on-install & on-demand scanner, real-time scanning of pages you're viewing online, as well as the ability to lock, locate, and wipe your Android device in case it become lost or stolen.
Download the 14-day Trial Version now – http://bit.ly/Aa7ZyO

Speedtest.net

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:04:19 +0000

Use Speedtest.net for easy, one-tap connection testing in under 30 seconds—accurate anywhere thanks to our global network.

Millions of users have made Speedtest.net the #1 app for testing internet speeds, and it’s trusted by the professionals like Anandtech, Engadget, and even the BBC and New York Times!

- Discover your Download, Upload, and Ping
- Real-time graphs show connection consistency
- Troubleshoot or Verify the speeds you were promised
- Track past tests with detailed reporting
- Easily share results

Recent changes:
- User interface enhancements
- Improved error handling
- Library updates
- Bug fixes

Tiny Flashlight + LED

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:22:09 +0000

Flashlight app for your device! Incredibly simple and yet very useful flashlight application. Will use your device's camera LED / flash / screen as a torch.

Tiny Flashlight is currently the best led flashlight app on the Android Market, because:

- It supports the widest range of devices with camera flashlight (led flash)
- It's also the brightest flashlight / torch, because of the camera flashlight, which emits very intense light in the dark.
- Has different widgets to choose from
- Has great and diverse screen lights
- Has the best flashlight support
- The best tablet app
- Free of Charge

Light sources:
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* Camera LED flashlight - Uses your phone's camera flashlight to emit bright light. Note that some devices don't have a camera flashlight. In this case the led flashlight option will be disabled, but you can still use one of the screen lights.

* Screen Light - This is the basic white screen flashlight, which is bright enough for daily use. You can use it as your primary flashlight option in case your device doesn't have a camera flashlight or you want to save the battery.

* Warning Lights, Police Lights, Color Flashlight, Strobe Flashlight, Morse Code, Text to Morse, Manual Morse Code, Camera Light - Different light sources, which may be useful in many situations. You can change the brightness and the colors.

The Best Free Flashlight app when you need reliability, functionality, and lights diversity

CAUTION: Strobe lighting can trigger seizures in photosensitive epilepsy!

Flashlight Widget and Lock Screen widgets:
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Tiny Flashlight is one of the few applications on the android market, which is free and has different widgets to choose from when the device has an option for a led flashlight. Also, Tiny Flashlight supports the newly added lockscreen widgets in Android 4.2 and later.

Flashlight Permissions:
============
Why Tiny Flashlight needs so many permissions and how are they used:

* TAKE PICTURES AND VIDEOS (CAMERA flashlight)
- In order to start the camera flashlight on some devices, Tiny Flashlight has to use a small part of the camera hardware and it needs this permission. Don't worry, I'm not taking any pictures or videos without your permission. Tiny Flashlight is just accessing the camera LED / flash.

* CONTROL FLASH LIGHT
- This is the old method of accessing the camera flashlight on Android 1.5 and 1.6.

*** As you know, Tiny Flashlight is free, but also is one of the best supported apps on the Android Market. Currently, this is the only app that supports almost all devices with camera flashlight and fully supports all versions of Android (1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 4.0). This takes huge amounts of time and effort and in order for Tiny Flashlight to remain the best flashlight on the market, I have to use ads inside it.

The following permissions are required by Google's own ad provider (Admob) and Millennial Media (the biggest independent ad network). Both are respected industry leaders.

* INTERNET
- Used to load ad info from their servers. Nothing more.

* READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY
- Some Motorola devices have factory bugs. These devices don't have unique IDs and this became a problem for ad networks, because they can't function without it. There is a workaround for this problem by using the PHONE IDENTITY permission. This permission is used only for getting a unique id.

Keywords:
Flashlight
Torch
Best Flashlight
Free Flashlight
Flash
android, torch, strobe, brightest, linterna, фенерче, El feneri, best app, best flashlight, best tablet app, free phone app, tablet torch, free flashlight

Recent changes:
* Added support for Android 4.2's Lock Screen widgets
* Fixed Toshiba AT200
* Fixed Panasonic Eluga

Toucher

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:25:55 +0000

V1.6
New theme -- EVA, added in Theme settings, new Sci-Fi look, FREE to use!
Point Settings, DIY your point appearance -- Size & Alpha(Transparency)
Most importantly, we've fixed this point disappearing issue which existed in v1.5, sorry for being late!

#Custom Panel
We’re trying to make Toucher more efficiency, so we offer you various features to choose. Meanwhile, we’ve been told from our users that they would like to change the default cross-like main panel, and move some frequently-used features — such as clean memory and screenshot — to the main panel. Since main-panel is not enough for us to place the feature icon, in that case we let you to DIY — custom panel.

Click the “+” to add or change icon.
Long press to remove the icon.

Find the Custom Panel feature entrance at:
1. Default theme – Touch – Custom Panel
2. Toucher Settings – Custom Panel

#Theme Settings
‘Blue Light’ was a hit, and more themes are on their way. In that case, we make a new theme setting interface of Toucher, where you can switch themes you installed, download new themes.
Also we transfer Toucher Settings entrance to the right corner of Theme settings. Don’t miss it~

#HOW TO HIDE THE POINT
app drawer - Toucher - Toucher Point Enabled, turn off.

Toucher, enhanced version of TouchHelper, more themes and more features!

Toucher is a tool application specially designed for Android devices. We expanded the concept of the iPhone AssistiveTouch, and redesigned for the Android devices, both mobilephones and tablets. Toucher gathers most commonly used and needed features of Android system in this suspending point.

Besides, we're taking further steps on personalization and trying our best to bring you more themes, it may appears just like another suspending frame, or a full-screen theme(like what we did in WP theme and TouchHelper default theme"colorbar"), also the point skins. And we're aiming at being better than Assistive Touch. So, just try this on and keep focus on Toucher!

#How to switch theme
"App drawer - Toucher icon - theme settings"

#How to uninstall
"App drawer - Toucher icon - Uninstall"
or "default theme - Touch - Uninstall"
(Once you activate lock screen feature, you cannot uninstall Toucher in app drawer directly.)

#Feature lists:

*Lock Screen
*Home - Long press to open recent app list
*Favor app
*Device switches (eighteen types in total)
*Menu: right now you can change themes and uninstall Toucher.
*Clean up memory
*Recent apps
*Themes: colorbar, WP

Looking forward to your feedback!

Recent changes:
v1.6

(Add) New theme -- 'EVA'
- Find it in Theme Settings

(Fix) Toucher disappearing issue solved
- Fixed the point missing bug which existed in v1.5

(Add) Point settings
- DIY the size and alpha(transparency) of the point

(Improve) Reduce memory occupation

(Add) 5 languages supported: Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

New Toucher Theme -- 'EVA',