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The calendar is an important tool in our life to remind us about the work, outside, make call or other events. And this app is indispensable for the business men. The Android default calendar app is good for some  people. But the functions are too simple to arrange some busy guys' life. Here I will introduce you 5 best free Android calendar apps for replacements.

5. Business Calendar Free (rated: 4.5)

Business Calendar might cost the most in our selection, but we feel its time-proven functionality is making it worth it. It comes with a great and smooth interface where you just pinch to zoom in and out. The widgets along with it are also great and informative. It, of course, syncs with online calendars like Google. The list of advanced functions starts with searching for events, a one-tap access to calendars and tons of options for recurring events.

Features:

• smooth scroll- and zoomable multi-day view (1-14 days)
• graphical and textual presentation
• month, agenda, day and event view
• quickly fade in/out calendars using the favorite bar
• search function
• configurable widgets in different sizes for month, week, agenda and day view (3 design themes for each widget type)
• easy switching between timeline bars and event titles in month view
• intuitive new handling option: just move your finger over some days of interest in month view to open them in the multi-day view
• quick day overview when adding a new event
• many options for recurrent events (e.g. to add a recurrent event that takes place every other week on Tuesday and Thursday)
• context-sensitive help system to optimize your work with Business Calendar

4. Smooth Calendar (Rated: 4.5)

This app is a simple to use, clean, highly configurable screen widget for the built-in calendar application. Smooth Calendar sets itself apart from widget-only apps by allowing you to select only the calendars you want to display and allowing you to very granularly configure the display.

Features:

• Many different options and features, can show up to six different events
• Smooth Calendar has one of the highest satisfaction rates currently off all android widgets, currently a 4.5 rating on the android market.
• Can schedule events up to one year into the future!
• Much more useful than the default android calendar program.
• Ability to sync up with your Google calendar on your desktop computer is painless and easy.

3. Simple Calendar Widget (Rated: 4.6)

A minimalist-looking but high configurable calendar widget. Bear in mind that this isn't an app (you won't find it on your app drawer): it's a widget so you need to long-press on your screen > widgets > simple calendar widget to set it.

Features:

• Different skins
• Possibility to choose which calendars to show
• Font style and background customization
• Show or hide current day of month
• Possibility to choose which application to open
• Support of tasks using Dato GTasks or Astrid and more...

2. Jorte Calendar (Rated: 4.4)

Jorte is a personal organizer (calendar) application, developed with a particular emphasis on making its interface resemble as much as possible the look and feel of a real paper organizer. With an appealing appearance and ease of use.

Whether it is for personal purposes or for business, Jorte is a helpful application to assist you to manage your daily schedule. With plenty of widgets types available, it can also be used as a calendar.

Features:

• Can be displayed in either monthly or weekly views. Its display can be rotated sideways.
• See at a glance important events displayed in red, change the background color for the day and configure many more options in order to create your personal calendar style.
• Change the start day of the week, import national holidays data and set your own optional holidays.
• When managing tasks, you can change the color of an important task to be displayed in red and change the order in which tasks are displayed on the task list.
• Synchronize your tasks with Google Tasks.
• Data from schedules and tasks can be either imported from or exported to a CSV file.
• Can be controlled using Google Voice Search and it can display Google Maps when entering a place.
• Comes with many functions available such as synchronization with Google Calendar and support for a wide array of widgets.

1. MyCalendar Free (Rated: 4.6)

MyCalendar Free is a simple reminder application that takes note of your friends' birthdays and sets up notification so you don't forget to wish them a happy day.

First of all, select the friends from your contacts' list and from your Facebook, which will be imported. The app includes a calendar that lets you know visually which are the birthdays coming so you have time prepare presents, surprise parties and cards.

Features:

• Import birthdays from Facebook
• Add birthdays of all contacts from your phone and add custom birthdays
• Customizable reminder settings: delivers notifications straight to your iPhone)
• Easily message your friends and wish them "Happy Birthday " along with custom message with just one click!

Wish you have a better life with one of those apps. Thanks for reading my post. And sorry for AFK again.

All along, the films occupied an important position in most people's entertainment lives. I am also a movie fan, I prefer to watch some films which have good reviews in the theater. I think some of you guys like me to do so. So I come to recommend you 5 best movie apps for Android.

At first, IMDb Movies & TV, a comprehensive movie app which include movie & TV trailers, news, reviews etc. I believe most of people are so familiar with IMDb. So I bring the official android app in here.

This app allows you to look up movie information without breaking a sweat, no matter where I am. If you’re living in the US, you can use the app to look up movie showtimes, TV listings based on your timezone, and even view recaps from last night’s shows. Users around the world can view film trailers, user and critic reviews, quotes, trivia, and of course all the different IMDb’s movie charts.


The Second one is Movies by Flixster. With Movies (Flixster) for Android, you can watch high quality trailers and video clips for almost any movie, see the top box office, hot upcoming movies and new DVD releases, get info on any movie in theater or on DVD, get local showtimes, read critic reviews from RottenTomatoes and user reviews from Flixster.com, and connect with Facebook to save your ratings and share them with your friends.

And then is Fandango Movies. This app focus more on tickets purchase. Fandango is fast, snappy, and has some of the most up-to-date and accurate movie showtimes we've seen. A lot of apps offer showtimes, but Fandango takes the cake because it also allows you to go ahead and buy your movie tickets without being shunted to another app, see movie reviews and scores before you buy, and even read fan reviews and commentary to help you decide whether that 174-minute runtime is worth sitting through.

Refer to the tickets purchase on android phone, I think I need also recommend you Moviefone - Movies & Showtimes. With this app, you can find movies and showtimes near you, view movie trailers and get movie info. If you were ready to go to the movies, this app also can provide you maps and directions to theaters across the U.S (tap the red location bar to change zip codes). Over 300,000 movies in our immense database and thousands of photos and movie trailers, Moviefone is all about movies! Ticket purchasing is now built right into Moviefone. Just look for the red "ticket" next to the theater and purchase your tickets through movietickets.com without leaving the app. Moviefone has gone social! You can invite friends to a movie, post a movie with comments to your wall and see how many people "like" that new movie.

And the last one is Netflix. Netflix is the world’s leading subscription service for watching TV episodes and movies on your phone. This Netflix mobile application delivers the best experience anywhere, anytime.Get this app as a part of your Netflix membership and you can instantly watch thousands of TV episodes & movies on your phone.

I think with only one or two apps from above all, you can know which movies is on or sooner, and decide which movie you want to watch in the theater. You can also buy the ticket on the way to theater.

Actually I am not so like reading news on the internet or newspaper. But reading news can make us to clear what happened around this mess world. If you like reading news. I think the follow content is just writing for you. Today I will introduce you 5 best news apps for Android with different style to present the news. Let's check them now.

5. Google Currents (Rated: 4.1)

Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for high speed and offline reading.

Editions are all free and include:

Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes, The Guardian, TechCrunch, PBS, Saveur, and more have produced hundreds of editions including in-depth articles, videos, fine photography, slideshows, live-maps, and social streams.

Google trending editions - Google Currents uses Google search technology to hourly build a set of editions tracking the five most recent trending stories in categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more. Each story is presented through a fresh edition of articles, videos, and pictures.

Your favorite blogs and feeds - Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel.

Each edition is available for high speed offline reading, and provides quick-touch sharing. Google Currents self-adapts to differently sized phones and tablets, with your subscriptions synchronized across devices. Google Currents - a reading experience not to be missed.



4. Pulse News (Rated: 4.4)

Pulse News is a beautiful app that takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps.

Features:

All your content in one place: So easy to add any content you want, from Huffington Post, Time Magazine and Vanity Fair to your Facebook feed.

Dual view: For each article on Pulse, you can switch between a clean summary of the article or go to the website directly. When you tap on an article, both are ready to view, almost instantly!

Offline sync: No internet? No problem. Pulse loads the news stories you read, and makes them available wherever you are.

Save Stories: Collect your favorite stories using your Pulse.me account. Send to Instapaper, Read it Later, Evernote and Google Reader, all in one tap.

News discovery: Pulse features new publishers each week. You can also search for a news source by simple keywords.

Easy share: Found an interesting news article? Sharing a news story on Pulse via Email, Facebook, and Twitter is as easy as two taps.

Source Syncing: With your Pulse account, sync your favorite sources across your all your devices and platforms.

Integration with Google Reader: Pulse allows you to directly import all your RSS feeds from Google Reader. Your stories are synced with your Google account.

3. Flipboard: Your News Magazine （Rated: 4.5）

Flipboard's award-winning experience lets people see everything in one place. By bringing together the world's stories and life's great moments, you can stay up to date with the things that matter most. Flip through the news from your Twitter timeline as well as from outlets like the BBC, USA Today and The Verge. See everything from posts and photos shared by friends on Facebook and Instagram to videos from Stephen Colbert and pop culture nuggets from Rolling Stone. Find inspiration for your travel, style and life from places like National Geographic, Oprah and Cool Hunting.

Features:

Be amazed by what you see when everything people are sharing, collecting and publishing in every moment comes together in a single place.

Search for anything—people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your favorite sites—and flip through articles, updates, photos and videos in a beautiful magazine format.

Connect Flipboard to 12 social networks, streamlining your reading and activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Services include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren.

Get a quick dose of what’s happening now, in Cover Stories, a constantly updated selection of articles, photos and videos shared by your friends.

Save anything to read later using Instapaper, Pocket and Readability.

Create a Flipboard account to access your favorite content and social networks on different or shared devices.

Enjoy Flipboard in 14 localized editions—for Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, U.S. and U.K.

Explore hundreds of staff picks in the Content Guide, including must-read magazines and blogs, gorgeous photography and special curated sections devoted to the news of the day and other topics of interest.

Access Flipboard quickly through the widget.

2. Feedly (Rated: 4.6)

Feedly is a fresh, bright RSS reader that integrates smoothly with Google Reader and comes with a host of settings, functions and options. This app also integrates with Google Reader, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Read it Later and Instapaper. The app comes with a funky widget too, so you can get your feeds direct to your homescreen.

Another great part about freely is that is also has a Chrome app for use while on your computer so you can switch systems and still get all your news in one place. If you use Google Reader or any RSS reader I recommend giving freely a try both on a phone and tablet and as some style to your daily news.

1. News Republic (Rated: 4.6)

News Republic is a powerful application with a separate phone version and a tablet version. It can be described as somewhat of a combination of Pulse and Currents with your news separated into topics, brands, and even athletes instead of specific sources or websites. News Republic offers all of the news while the developer also has different versions of the app for a more specific focus such as Appy Geek wich provides all tech news and the recently released Sports Republic.

Features:

Personalize: Create your own channels and follow only the topics that matter to you.

Explore: Browse the news through the innovative TagNav™ explorer.

Get Alerted: Set custom alerts on your favorite topics and never miss important news.

Share: Read any article and share it with friends by email, Twitter or Facebook.

React: Express your mood on any topic and read the articles with the most reactions.

Extend: Find out more about the article you just read from a selection of top online resources.

That are all  top rated news apps for android I collected for you. I am using Current and Flipboard. Both of them offer me the great experience. You can just choose one from those 5 apps according to your demand. If you also have another good app, please leave your comment with only text. Thank you!

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!