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Well, today's topic is not about how to stream video from your Android phone to TV or from computer to your phone. It's just about the apps for online video watching. Maybe you are keen on watching different kinds of videos from worldwide, and really enjoy the online videos with your computer. But now, you can use your Android phone to enjoy the online videos anywhere, only with one app from the 5 apps which I will introduce to you.

Hulu Plus (Rated: 3.0)

Hulu Plus. Unlimited Instant Streaming (Subscription Required). Hulu Plus supports select phones running Android 2.2+ and select tablets running Android 3.0+ in the United States. If you are the fan of Hulu, I think you will be so disappoint to this app. Many people feedback that this app havs some troubles in video playing and devices supported. Be cautious.

Features:

Watch the full current season of popular shows including Modern Family, The Office, Family Guy, and many others
Enjoy classic series including Lost and Battlestar Galactica
Resume watching from where you left off on your TV or other supported device
Watch over WiFi, 3G, and 4G

Vimeo (Rated: 3.1)

Vimeo is the best way to get your videos online in the highest quality with great tools to share publicly or privately. There are many reasons millions use Vimeo and Time Magazine voted us a Top 50 Website for the last two years running.

Features:

Watch and manage all your existing Vimeo videos and download them to your camera roll
Quickly search for videos on vimeo.com
Easily upload your raw footage in HD
Pause and resume uploads
Replace existing videos
Edit title, description, tags, privacy and credits
Share with Facebook, Twitter, Email or SMS
Add your clips to your Groups, Channels and Albums
Stats on daily plays, likes and comments

Dailymotion Video Stream (Rated: 3.7)

Discover a new way to experience millions of videos in an immersive interface. Follow your favorite users, playlists, channels by adding them to your own personalized dashboard.

Features:

Watch millions of Dailymotion's videos
Personalize your video dashboard
Enjoy an immersive video experience
Follow users, playlists and channels
Share videos on Facebook and Twitter

VEVO (Rated: 4.2)

VEVO's free high-quality music & entertainment programming experience is now available within a gorgeous new Android App. Discover, watch & share your favorite music videos wherever you want, whenever you want. Use voice-activated search to find your favorite artist or song, be the first to see exclusive new video premieres and watch live streaming concerts. If you are a big fan of music video watching, this app you should install it!

Features:

Access VEVO's entire music video catalog – 45,000 videos from more than 7,500 of your favorite artists
Features include: exclusive videos, premieres, top charts, top playlists, artists on tour & VEVO original music programming
Share any video easily with friends via Twitter & Email
Purchase your favorite music from Amazon
Use Voice Control to search your favorite artist and/or song
Have fun with music trivia before watching each video
Download VEVO now and join the millions who are already experiencing high-quality music videos from VEVO while on-the-go.
VEVO for Android will work over 3G network connections, but for the highest quality music video experience, we suggest accessing via Wi-Fi whenever possible.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the nature of some licenses from the content owners, Features and Videos may not be available in all regions.

YouTube (Rated: 4.2)

OK, about Youtube, I think I needn't introduce too much for you guys. As the largest video sharing site in this world, the official app also have built in the Android system. Enjoy it!

I just known most of people would install YouTube app, but I still make a collection about this kind of apps for you prefer.

As you navigate your Android 4.1 Jelly Bean-stocked phone or tablet, you might come across a new, built-in feature called Google Now.

Often mislabeled as a Siri competitor, Google Now is not an intelligent voice recognition service. Instead, it's a built-in assistant that serves up Google search-based answers to voiced questions.

Google Now also tries to give you those answers before you even pose a question by predicting the data you want, based on your search history.

Voice search and shortcuts

To access Google Now, swipe up from any screen. Whether you're in the browser, at a home screen, or anywhere else, you'll always be able to call up Google Now by swiping up from the bottom edge of the screen.

At the top of the Google Now interface, you'll see a standard search bar. Here you can type your search term, or say, "Google" to activate voice search. Once you say "Google" you can perform a search, or use one of these search shortcuts.

With some searches, like for sports teams and definitions, Google Now will "speak" the found data out loud. (For a demo, watch the video above.)


Cards

As Google Now gets to know you through your search history, custom-tailored "cards" will appear below the search bar on the main Google Now screen. A static weather card will appear by default, but to see more cards, simply tap "Show more cards" at the bottom. Or, to see the sample cards, tap "Show sample cards."

Currently, Google offers the following cards: traffic, weather, places, public transit, flights, sports, upcoming appointments, translation, currency, and "time back home."

As the cards populate, you'll see that each one has a submenu (three dots) that allows you to edit the data or access its settings. At the top right of any card's settings menu, you'll have the option to turn that card off, removing it from the Google Now interface.

Since the cards appear in reaction to your searches and location behavior, it's impossible to force them to appear. You can, however, trick Google into making them show up by searching for your favorite sports team a couple of times, or searching for your upcoming flight.

Problem: "My cards aren't showing up."

If you're searching, and searching, and cards aren't appearing in Google Now, it's likely because you have Google Web History disabled.

Back when Google implemented its unified privacy policy, many users (including myself) rushed to disable Web History, the tool that tracks your activity when signed into your Google account.

It turns out that if you have Web history disabled, Google Now will not show you things like sports cards or flight cards, which are both based on your search activity. So, if you'd like these features, you must enable Web History by visiting Google.com/history/ and clicking "Resume" at the top.

If your traffic card isn't showing up, it's likely because you have disabled location history. In order for this feature to work, you have to give Google permission to internally track your location data.

Annoying, right? Since Google Now is a prediction service, its efficacy relies on you reporting your location and search data. No one will blame you if you decide to pass on this service, but if you want to take advantage of the traffic card, do the following:

On your Android device, launch the Latitude app. Locate your name on the map and tap it. Then tap "Location history." At this point, you may be asked to give Google permission to track your location. (Note that Google will never share your location data, but does store it on its servers.) Once you agree to the terms, tap "Change home location" and "Change work location" and enter the appropriate addresses.
Once you define those addresses, the traffic card will appear in Google Now.

Disabling Google Now

Whether it's because you keep calling it up by accident, or don't want to use a service that demands so much personal data, you have the option to turn Google Now off.

To turn it off, open Google Now, tap the menu (three dots at the bottom), then slide the switch at the top right to off. Also remember to turn off Location reporting and Web History, if you enabled those while using Google Now.

From Cnet

As we known, the quadrennial Olympic Games will be hold in London on July 27th, 2012. If you were the big fan of sport, or you really cared about how those athletes challenged themselves, how many prizes you loved athletes would take, but you don't have so much time to spend in the front of TV and computer. I think you can use these 2 Android apps to get all news and results from Olympic Games immediately. They are come from official. And the other apps from third party can also provide you full information. You can use some apps to watch live with your android devices.

Official Apps:
The first one is London 2012 Join In App. This Join In app is rich in data. The initial download is 8MB, but the app requires approximately 60-80MB once fully installed. Some data will download on demand, such as overlay maps, for which a data connection is required. Phones with limited memory and disk space may experience degraded performance. Please scroll down for handset compatibility.

Key features include:

• What’s on: full and up-to-date event listings for thousands of exciting activities, including free events, London 2012 Festival cultural events and big screens (Live Sites), across London and the UK – find out what’s happening near you, on an hour-by-hour basis.
• Torch today: view the Olympic Torch Relay with street-level routes for 1000+ communities over 70 days, and details of Torchbearers. View the current Torch position in real time using the Torch Tracker function. See daily video highlights and photos as the Torch Relay unfolds.
• Paralympic Torch Relay: find out about the Flame Festivals taking place across the UK in August.
• Spectator guide: get details of facilities and information about how to get the best out of your historic day out.
• Road events: find out about free medal events such as the Marathon and Road Cycling Race.
• Jump to: interactive, searchable maps of the Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays, the UK, London and the Olympic Park.
• Detail maps: access and seating maps for the Olympic Park and 20+ venues.
• Live updates: news, photos and social commentary from the Games.
• My Games: create a personal schedule creation to help you plan your Olympic and Paralympic experience.

Other Apps:

Besides those 2 great apps from official, you can also keep track of London Olympic 2012 with the third party apps. Those apps also will show you the full information from Olympic 2012 in time. Hope you can enjoy them.

London 2012, an app provides detailed information about Olympic 2012. This app has collected lots of data and tried to present it in simplest possible way. It is loaded with features like Schedule, Sports played, Countries participating, Venues, Daily updates, NEWS, Reminder and much more.

Key features include:

• Detailed information about Olympic 2012.
• Medal tally updates along with countdown ticker. Touch on the country to find out participation details.
• Detailed schedule based of selected sport.
• Information about Olympic venues. Long press on venue picture to find out details about sports being played on that venue.
• Latest news about Olympic 2012.
• Easy access to fixtures details based on date selected.
• Set reminder for favorite Olympic event.

As the largest broadcaster in this world, BBC also released the Olympic 2012 app for Android. That is BBC Olympics. Exclusive to the BBC in the UK, this is the only app on which you can watch up to 24 live streams of Olympics action and catch up with all the key highlights and medal moments. But the live and on demand video is only available on 3G and Wi-Fi. However, most users leave the comments to complain this app can't play video totally.

Key features include:

• Top stories
• Daily live text commentaries from BBC journalists
• Up to 24 live video streams
• Video highlights of the action, features and interviews with athletes
• Detailed schedule and results for every event
• Medals table
• A page for every Olympic sport
• A page for every competing country
• A page for every Olympic athlete taking part
• Read the homepage top stories offline
• Share stories, videos and results by email and on social networks

Actually, it's a common situation there is a new icon added on your screen after you installed a new app. But it doesn't always come out. Sure it can come in handy, but it also can be pretty annoying. Now, let's me told you how to disable it on the Android devices.



Disabling the auto-add widgets (or shortcuts) feature is easy.

1. Launch the Google Play Store on your Android device.
2. Tap on Menu and then Settings.
3. Uncheck the box next to "auto-add widgets."

Easy enough. Now, you can install apps, be it from the Google Play Web site, or through the Play Store app on the device itself and not have to worry about your home screen(s) being cluttered up with your latest downloads. If you love auto add shortcut on screen, you can go back into Settings in the Play Store and turn it back on. Will I told you actually I read this article from CNet? Obviously NO!

Today I will introduce you a PC tool which named SnapPea. It's a powerful tool for you to manage your Android devices just like manage android apps, contacts and send message from your computer. And what's more, this is a freeware to use, and have become the most popular Android device management tool in China.

What SnapPea can do for you?

1. Manage your Android from your PC
Organize your contacts, music, and pics from the comfort of your desktop. Transfer any file in the blink of an eye.

2. Download apps for FREE
Download thousands of apps for your Android, instant and free of charge. Current content partners include 1Mobile and TED talks, with more are on the way.

3. Save your data plan
Apps download to the desktop, so you no longer need to worry about your mobile data plan.

4. Text message from your computer
Send text messages from a full-size keyboard, without touching your phone.

5. Import your iTunes music
Importing your iTunes library to your Android is just a click away. Don't leave home without your music ever again.

Click here to check whether your device be supported or not.

If you are interested in this software, just click here to download it.

As we know there is a function with Android, that is call blacklist to block someone's call which you wanna ignore it. But I think that function is not so easy to use. To black list a caller, press the "Menu" button, from the main screen. Then select "Settings" and then "Call Settings." Scroll to the bottom of the list and select "Black List." Click "Add Phone Number" and then you can either manually type in a phone number in the text box or you can click on the silhouette icon along the right of the text box and select an entry from your contact list. Click "OK" to finish. Actually, I think with the help from some powerful apps, you can block the call or SMS much easier than this operation. OK, let's check those 3 top call blocker apps from Google Play.

3. Call Blocker (Rated: 4.3)
The latest Call Blocker with Premium features will be a good call filter just for you. We now support Chinese,English, German,French,Portugal and Spanish languages.

Block unwanted calls now and protect your privacy. Now with better developed features, you will no longer need to worry about privacy leak. Protect your private info 24x7.


Features:

Black List

–Block unwanted calls (Reject calls, forward or reply with an auto-SMS)
–Block spam SMS (accept phonebook only or simply block black list)

Contact Backup

–Back up contacts to a server, so you never lose them!
–Transfer data to new phone (available cross-platform to Symbian / Android / BlackBerry device)

Privacy Eraser

–Quickly and easily erase the call history, delete SMS messages between your phone and individual contacts permanently to protect private data.

Private Space (Premium)

–Automatically move private contacts’ messages and call logs to a Private Space so that they don’t appear in the phone’s regular SMS and call logs
–Keep secrets by hiding the icon as displayed on the main screen, so that nobody knows you are using Private Space.
-Protect your REAL space by creating one or more fake spaces. If anyone wants your password, show her/him the fake one!

2. Call Control - Call Blocker (Rated: 4.4)
Full featured Call Blocker and Blacklist app. Easily block anyone from calling.

Block unwanted calls and text messages in a snap with Call Control. The #1 Call Blocker and Blacklist app for Android and the only app that blocks FCC Do Not Call offenders automatically!

Call Control is the ONLY Call Blocker for Android with a Community Blacklist – unwanted callers that are flagged by our community of over 2.5M Call Control users and FCC Do Not Call reporters are blocked automatically. You’d have to enter 1,000’s of numbers into other call blocking applications to match the power of Call Control!

Features:
- Block Unwanted + Spam Calls and SMS/Text Messages... All in ONE App!
- Community Blacklist - Thousands of spammers blocked right out of the box!
- Blocked Calls Don't Ring! Send calls to Voicemail or Hang Up on the caller.
- Personal Blacklist and Whitelist - Add any phone number or area code (3 number limit in free version).
- FCC Do Not Call integration, reported offenders are blocked automatically.
- Pickup and Hang up mode, blocked calls don't go to Voicemail. (Works on Gingerbread!)
- Online and Local Backup - Save all of your lists both online and to your SD card for easy restoration or transfer to another device.
- Free Reverse Lookup – Search any unknown telephone number and find out who’s calling you.
- Community Blacklist Sample One Time Update - Go Pro for Full Blacklist and Daily Updates!
- Free Automatic Community Blacklist Updates (Pro version).
- Block by Area code (i.e. 206, 888, 800)
- Block Private & Unknown Callers
- Call Log Integration – Blacklist, Whitelist and Lookup right from your Android’s Call Log.
- Privacy modes – Contacts Only, Whitelist Only, Contacts and Whitelist and Block All Calls.
- Call waiting blocking supported.
- 100% Ad Free!

1. Mr. Number Text, Call & Block (Rated: 4.4)
Fast, free texting with your friends. Screen everyone else.

Mr. Number replaces your old text and calling apps so you can:
- make texting fast and free and know when messages are delivered and read
- identify unknown callers with true Caller ID (US only)
- block calls and texts from people and companies you never want to hear from again
Every phone should work this way.

Features:
- Complete dialer and text messenger
- Fast free messaging to friends on Mr. Number with delivery and read-receipt
- Quick reply to messages without opening the app
- Caller ID (automatic reverse lookup) for every number that is not in your contacts, outbound and inbound (US Only)
- Block calls and texts from one person, an area code, or the world
- One inbox for all your calls and texts or swipe to see calls, texts, MMS, or blocked
- View all contacts with phone numbers, your top 25, and everyone you know on Mr. Number
- Keep track of who you need to call back and who you never call at all
- Catch telemarketers and debt collectors before they waste your time
- Report spam calls, SMS, and MMS to warn other users
- Create your own Caller ID and text message signature

You can go to Google Play to check these 3 apps details, and choose the best one for yourself. So, do you have any other good apps? Please leave it in comment. 

Well, today I go to Google Play and searched with various of keywords. Because I want to find out some really good apps. And I picked out 3 great switch apps to turn on or off some data and power section with only one click. Android have such kind of default widget also, but I think it's so limited. We need the widget can control everything what we can controlled with our Android phone. OK, let's check them now.

Power Controls (Rated: 4.6)

An free advanced power control widget without ADs.

Here contains the following toggle options:
Wifi, Mobile Data (3G/4G), 2G/3G toggle (2-Click), WiMax (4G for EVO), Bluetooth, Bluetooth discovery, Data Sync, Airplane Mode, Screen Auto Rotate, Wifi Hotspot, Volume toggle, GPS* (shortcut to gps settings), Four brightness modes (low, mid, high, and auto), Auto brightness, Flashlight, Screen Always On, USB Tether, Screen Timeout toggle, Battery info, Multimedia buttons (play/ next track/ prev track), Multimedia mute, NFC, Custom application shortcut


Power Widget lite (Rated: 4.0)

With Power Widget you gain quick access to most of your important settings. And most important it is highly customizable. Change background transparency, the order of your toggles or even how much toggles you put on your toggle bar is up to you.

What are this app contain:
USB, Airplane, WiFi, Bluetooth (only >2.x), Silent-Vibration-Normal, Lock Pattern (<2.2) Brightness Toggle Brightness Slider (with auto for >2.x), Sync (only >2.x), Orientation, GPS (since 2.x link to the settings page), 2G/3G (since 2.x link to the settings page), Stay awake, Always On, Screen Timeout, Wifi Lock

GO Switch Widget (Rated: 4.3)

GO Switch Widget provides you a fast way to turn on/off the functions in common use, such as Wifi, GPS, brightness, screen lock,flashlight, battery etc. In 4x1 style, up to 12 toggles and 2 controls are supported. Compare to other switch widgets, you can just simply drag the toggles to change their positions in the widget.

What are this app contain:
Wifi, Ringer, Brightness, Bluetooth, MobileNetwork, GPS, Auto-sync, Airplane mode, Auto-rotate, Vibrate, ScreenTimeout, Lock screen, Ringer volume, Media volume, Toggle position modification

Obviously the switch widget is so powerful and convenient to us. If you have ever find other great switch apps, please don't forget post the name in the comment. I will test for you!