Android apps by Noah Seidman

Shady SMS 3.0 PAYG

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:39:33 +0000

After opening Shady for the first time WOW, THERE'S NO ICON, NO OPEN BUTTON!

Welcome to Shady SMS 3.0; Shady SMS is by far the best dial to launch secret/hidden SMS messaging application on Android. Once opened there is no icon and no open button!

** How to open Shady **
Once Shady is opened for the first time it is impossible to open the application via any button whatsoever, you have to dial your secret code to open the application. The default dialing code is 123 or 321 and is as simple as opening your telephone and dialing the code and pressing the call button.

** Introduction **
Shady SMS brings you a really cool Android 4.0 optimized user interface, with a fast and secret SMS/MMS messaging experience! The entire contact list is super-fied with complete drag and drop capabilities. Contacts with new messages are automatically moved to the top of the list, and tap to change the star color. Yay for gesture detection!

Shady is the most powerful secret messaging application on Android and beats the pants off anything that can be made on Blackberry, or iPhone. It is a contact list, and all messages sent to contacts in the list are only visible within Shady; Shady contacts are completely invisible to the device, and no longer appear in your phones native messager app.

Unlike the stock messager Shady SMS notifications do not show the content. It is discrete, hidden, SECRET. You can configure the Shady notification message to be anything you'd like, so at 2AM when you get a message from Bob's BarBQ there will appear to be nothing Shady going on. Shady provides maximized confidentiality, and optimized security protecting you from prying eyes. Shady is a vault, THE supreme Android vault solving countless problems!

** The Good Stuff **
24/7 email support, noah@noahseidman.com
19 free messager themes
25 Free contact list fonts
5 Contact list styles
4 Animation settings
51 free custom notification icons
Full support for 2G/3G/4G
Powerful backup and restore feature
The only fully functional Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich optimized secret SMS messager on Android

** New Contact List Sorting Features **
Shady SMS has the only complete, gesture detecting, drag and drop contact list of all secret SMS messagers on the Play Store. Truly an awesome feature, and it gives the Android contact list a run for its money. Choose from 4 different sort methods including an alphabetic sorting feature.

** Notifications Replacement **
Shady SMS replaces the stock SMS/MMS notification mechanism. Shady's complete notifications system fully manages all Shady and regular contact SMS/MMS notifications. The stock notifications mechanism is disabled by opening the default messager,and by un-checking the "notifications" checkbox in the settings.

** MMS filtering **
Shady features the best MMS filter on the Play Store. After your device downloads the MMS attachment Shady will filter it! You logically want to enable "auto download" in your stock messaging application so the filtering process is seamless. Shady handles video, images, audio, and texts flawlessly. Don't forget to enable auto download MMS attachments in your stock messager for a seamless filtering experience!

** Third Party Messagers **
You must remove Chomp, Handcent, and Go SMS to receive technical support; it is preferred to use Shady ONLY with the stock/default messager that comes with your phone.

** Market Download History **
Use of App Locker 2 is officially recommended to lock down the Play Store downloads tab. Its an ingenious app, with a free version. Apps cannot be removed from the downloads tab :-/

** Affiliation **
Shady SMS is not affiliated with Blackbook, SPC, Blacklist, Redlist, My Calculator, Private SMS/MMS Box, Fox Private Message, Horizon, Locky, Hide Text & Call logs, Conspirator, Call Guard(SMS & Call Blocker), CATE Call and Text Eraser, Secret Vault-Hide Picture&SMS, and Mr. Number: Text, Call & Block.

Recent changes:
Fixed crash setting default custom contact notification values before making any customizations

Samsung Log Converter 4.0+

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:16:54 +0000

Why is there an sms in my call log? My call log is cluttered!!

With the new 2.2+ operating systems deployed on Samsung phones, the call log has been replaced with a special super log. The super log contains information about transmitted and received sms, mms, sns, im, and email messages.

Who misses the good old days when it was simply a call log?

For as long as you can remember you open the telephone and you would be able to dial a number or see your call history. Now Samsung wants you to see your "all" history, and many of us are extremely frustrated by this.

I'm not going to switch my telephone to another manufacturer simply because of this extreme annoyance. Samsung does indeed make an awesome product, but holy lord I hate all the clutter in the log. All I wanted was the log to go back to the good old call log that it once was pre Android 2.2.

Well now you have it! Samsung Log Converter automatically removes all entries from the log other than calls. This application is built in an install and forget style! This app could be called the Log Reverter, because you will have your old call log back free of all the clutter now plaguing Samsung devices around the world.

Recent changes:
Reduced the package size to next to nothing :)

Added support for Android 4.2 which NO Samsung will have for a heck of a long time.

Shady SMS 3.0

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:11:54 +0000

Shady Camera Widget

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:00:25 +0000

A full camera right on your homescreen!
This has never been done before!
Absolutely no root needed!

So, your on the subway, or walking and want to take a photo but don't want to open the camera app because everyone will see. What do you do? Shady Camera Widget is the ultimate solution to situations like this, your entire camera is now a widget on your homescreen. Shady camera widget takes full high definition photos, and gives you a preview directly on your homescreen filling the space of about an icon. The size is adjustable, so you can have it as small as 2x1 or as large as you'd like. Your photography can be concealed, your pics can be captured privately, and all from the super powerful and incredibly unique Shady Camera Widget.

This application is a widget, there is no icon, or application to open. Please refer to your devices instruction manual for more information about adding widgets to your homescreen.

Sprint phones WILL make a shutter sound, they have a privacy policy forcing manufacturers to uphold the shutter sound no matter what. ALL other carriers, and likely all other Android phones, there will be NO shutter sound.

Shady Camera Widget goes nicely with Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ :-) Take your photos, and store them secretly. Take a peek at all the Shady brand products available on the Play Store today.

Because of hardware, and performance requirements this application will only install on Android 4.0+ xhdpi devices! Is your device compatible?

Recent changes:
Supporting resolutions up to 2448x3264 if your camera can support it.
The Nexus 4 cannot! You'll need to drop the resolution likely to 1080!

MetaWatch Mgr - Noah Edition

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:45 +0000

This manager is a fork of MetaWatch Community Edition by grapefruitopia.com. I made, and update this manager for my own personal use, but I'm also happy that other MetaWatch owners are getting good use out of it. The Noah Edition manager take the user interface to a modern Android level complete with a Holo Light theme, view animations, and a host of other changes. I've rebuilt many parts of the application, taking stability and reliability to the next level. So far the manager works wonderfully on my Galaxy S3, my HTC Droid DNA, and my Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.2.1. Feel welcome to email and say hi, I'll be happy to address any user interface requests.

Generally this manager has:
* An almost instant connection process, like warp speed.
* Auto reconnect is extremely fast, and very smart.
* Much better WakeLock management, the phone should be able to deep sleep now and still push updates to the watch. Bad ass battery life in other words.
* Excellent memory management, excellent cleanup especially when the service is disabled. Disabling and enabling the service literally is a clean slate.

Recent changes:
4/22/13 - Fixed incoming call crash condition

Thanks Rick Heising for the configurable font size in the incoming call notification :--)

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:59:15 +0000

After you first open Shady there is NO ICON and no OPEN BUTTON!

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ only opens by dialing 456 in your telephone and pressing call; simply activate the dialing code by pressing the open button above after installing. You can change this dialing code to anything you'd like.

**New** Full tablet support! Shady is the only secret Gallery app on the Play Store for tablets that has absolutely no icon and no open button. Shady uses NFC technology to open on Tablets. Install Shady on your NFC equipped tablet, and on your NFC equipped phone. To open Shady on your tablet, simply login to Shady on your phone and perform an NFC event with your tablet. Simple as that :) NFC support requires Android 4.1+ Jelly Bean!!

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ is the only 1080p 440ppi secret gallery app on the Play Store. Fully optimized for complete hd photos and videos take your high definition media on the go in Android's ultimate secrete gallery app; there simply is no competition.

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ now fully supports external sd cards! You can save your media anywhere you'd like, without restriction using the Custom Storage Path feature :)

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ features a new touch to import system. You'll see your entire photo and video gallery within Shady and all you have to do is touch the image or video you want to import, and Shady will handle the rest. All data is stored in internal memory, by default, that is NOT mounted to a computer unless you are rooted. This means for the vast majority of users Shady is the supreme way to hide your most naughty of photos :)

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ feature insta-cache technology producing an almost insta-loading gallery that makes it one of the best gallery apps on all of Android.

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ is based on over 75 updates for version 1.0 and 28 updates for 2.0, and 45 updates for 3.0. It has countless tweaks and enhancement over the original versions including:

* Multi select add to folder and delete
* 100% lossless image handling
* A convenient export all features
* A new awesome/custom image and video view with full pinch zoom support, and landscape gallery mode
* Perfect layout in portrait and landscape mode
* Support for unlimited photos and videos; go ahead and fill up your memory :)
* Support for unlimited folders for ultimate organization
* Select any cover image for your folders

Shady features a unique and innovate photo viewer with a cool landscape fullscreen slideshow :) With creative photo management and the largest 5 image wide grid view Shady is by far the most unique hidden photo gallery on the Play Store and gives the stock gallery a run for it's money!

Shady Photo & Video Safe 4.0+ is fully integrated with Shady SMS 3.0 supporting direct MMS image exporting!

Not affiliated with Vaulty Stocks, Hide Pictures with Keep Safe, Photo Safe (PS), Gallery Hide, Hide Pictures in Stocks App, Vaulty Free Hides Pictures, Top Secret Picture, FotoStop, Obscura, RedPics Media Vault, Privacy Protector(PhotoVault+), Smart Gallery(Photo Vault++), PhotoVault, Gallery Lock, and Media Locker.

Recent changes:
Substantially improved startup time of application by loading the Shady Gallery and Folders pages completely in the background

To clarify tablet support, you will be using your phone to open Shady on your tablet. Install Shady on both your tablet and your phone. Open Shady on your phone and NFC bump your tablet to open Shady on the tablet. Both the tablet and your phone need to be running Android 4.1+ for it to work.

VirtualBox Manager

Sun, 16 May 2010 06:10:50 +0000

VirtualBox Manager 4.0+ is now available on the Play Store 100% free.

This application is only here for nostalgia, it was my first application I ever made. It's recommended to not use this application because the new 4.0+ version is super duper cool!

VirtualBox Manager 4.0+

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:28:37 +0000

VirtualBox Manager is back and better then ever. Fully optimized for Android 4.0+ Ice Cream Sandwich, the application has been completely rebuilt.

VirtualBox Manager is an SSH based remote management solution designed specifically for Linux hosts. If your host is on the internet with an SSH server that's all you need for completely secure access.

With full support for 4096 bit RSA public key authentication your server management tasks can be done remotely using a maximized security protocol.

The entire interface has been tweaked with proper ActionBar design patterns, and is extremely memory efficient. Each host can have a custom image selected from your phone's Gallery and you can have as many hosts as you'd like. There are no limits to the amount of hosts or machines that you can manage.

VirtualBox Manager is completely automated, and here's how it works. First you setup your host's info, including a username and a password. You'll need to connect first using password authentication, then VirtualBox automatically handles uploading the public key to the server and adding it to your authorized_keys2 file; you simply press the upload key button in the action bar. Public key authentication is then enabled, and you can completely disable password authentication on the server to maximize security.

You can enable and disable public key authentication at any time, and you can re-generate the RSA key at any time. VirtualBox Manager uses a single RSA key, which can be uploaded to as many hosts as desired.

Start, stop, pause, restart, and save your virtual machines from anywhere your phone has data connectivity. VirtualBox Manager was built because I found a use for it, and I publish it on the Play Store so others can enjoy its powerful functionality. VirtualBox Manager is 100% free and is my way of contributing to the power of Android :)

Recent changes:
Full support for Android 4.2+, added future compatibility too

Samsung Log Converter

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:22:36 +0000

Why is there an sms in my call log? My call log is cluttered!!

With the new 2.2+ operating systems deployed on Samsung phones, the call log has been replaced with a special super log. The super log contains information about transmitted and received sms, mms, sns, im, and email messages.

Who misses the good old days when it was simply a call log?

For as long as you can remember you open the telephone and you would be able to dial a number or see your call history. Now Samsung wants you to see your "all" history, and many of us are extremely frustrated by this.

I'm not going to switch my telephone to another manufacturer simply because of this extreme annoyance. Samsung does indeed make an awesome product, but holy lord I hate all the clutter in the log. All I wanted was the log to go back to the good old call log that it once was pre Android 2.2.

Well now you have it! Samsung Log Converter automatically removes all entries from the log other than calls. This application is built in an install and forget style! This app could be called the Log Reverter, because you will have your old call log back free of all the clutter now plaguing Samsung devices around the world.

Recent changes:
Tweaks to market filtering to ensure the app is only installed on Samsung compatible devices.

Shady File Manager (root) Free

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:15:44 +0000

**Welcome to Shady**

Shady is the supreme file manager for root users. Shady is the only root file manager, other than Root Explorer (File Manager), that has full support for the elusive /data folder!!

Shady is the ONLY Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich graphically optimized file manager available! With cool graphical graphical tweaks Shady is an attractive new competitor to existing file management applications.

Shady has several root features including folder creation, file/folder renaming, delete, multi select delete, root editing of text files (build.prop, etc...), and you can even paste files/folders to root directories! Simply press the up icon in the action bar to navigate to root directories.

(Only for Phones!) Shady is the only secret file management application on the Android Market. With powerful AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding encryption you can hide and secure your files with the longpress of any file. Shady incorporates dial to launch technology pioneered and perfected in my Shady SMS line of products; with no icon and no open button you can use Shady File Manager to encrypt your files and use the dial to launch technology to prevent access to the app thus securing the decryption of your files.

**Features**

- AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding encryption
- Grid and list view modes
- High definition backgrounds from SD feature
- Powerful multi select mode with cut, copy, paste, and delete
- Root folder creation, root file/folder deletion, root file/folder renaming, root pasting of files/folders, root editing of text files
- Integrated Dialer Killer feature pioneered in Shady SMS
- Fully customizable dialing code for maximum security
using the dial to launch technology. The dialing code is entered into the telephone directly, there is no password prompt whatsoever
- Shady's launcher icon is enabled by default, and can be toggled on and off in the Shady Options menu. With no icon your telephone based dialing code is your password, and with no icon there is no was to bypass the dialing code
- 10 sort orders for your files
and folders
- Ability to set the default folder to anywhere in your filesystem
- Cool clipboard viewer allowing you to see what your about to paste. The clipboard viewer has a convenient delete feature to remove individual items from the clipboard
- Shady supports unzipping .zip, .gz, bz2, tar, and rar files
. Overall there is full support for Zip, Gzip, Bzip2, Tar, and Rar files.

**Shear Awesomeness**

Learning from the mistakes and successes of competing applications Shady has optimized speed without sacrificing functionality. Encrypt and decrypt your files, continue navigation, cut/copy/paste as required. Take your file management to the next level with Shady File Manager (root).

**Not Affiliated with**

Astro File Manager, ES File Explorer, File Manager by Rythm Software, Root Explorer (File Manager), Linda File Manager, AndroXplorer File Manager, Blackmoon File Browser

Recent changes:
Full support for the Nexus 10 and root recursive file searching.