Top 10 Security Tools For Your Smartphone

Our Top 10 Security Tools

Lookout Mobile Security

Lookout is a free app that protects your iOS or Android device around the clock from mobile threats such as unsecure WiFi networks, malicious apps, fraudulent links, etc. You can also use it to backup your contacts by scheduling automatic backups and then accessing the information online, or using it to restore your device in case of a crash or data loss. If you lose your phone, Lookout can locate it on a Google map – even if the GPS is off. It will also activate a loud alarm – even if your phone is on silent.

Want more features like remote locking, safe browsing, phishing protection, privacy scans and app reports? You can upgrade to Lookout Premium for $2.99/month or $29.99/year.

Snap Secure Mobile Security

Snap Secure will securely and automatically back up your data to your online account so that you can access it, restore or transfer data to a new device if needed. It comes with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, and will scan all of your new applications for malware. It also includes a call-blocking feature that lets you block calls from unknown or unshown numbers. You can even block unwanted emails on your BlackBerry device, and block unwanted SMS messages on Android devices.

The Privacy Manager can also let you know how apps are using your personal information, and it has an anti-theft and location tracker which will help you catch the thief who took your phone. Best of all, it has a unique feature called the Personal Guardian. This is a panic button for the user to silently send out an email, SMS message, or tweet along with your location in case of an emergency. Snap Secure is available for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices. There are both free and Pro versions. Most of the better features are only available with a Pro account, but you’ll get a 30-day free trial of Snap Secure Pro with the free version. The Pro version is $3.99/month or $17.99/year.

BullGuard Mobile Security 10

With BullGuard you get an online account that lets you remotely access your smartphone, along with a Mobile Security Manager that works with your device’s GPS. If you lose your device, you can lock it remotely and wipe it clean. It also includes a Parental Control module so that you can keep your kids protected without having direct access to the phone. It includes anti-virus and anti-spyware, firewall, spam filter, backup/restore feature for contacts, and SIM card protection.

BullGuard is available for Android, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry, and is available at the cost of $29.95/year.

IHound Phone And Family Tracking

iHound is great for families and includes various tracking tools, yet it is also a great tool for protecting your device. iHound can use your phone’s GPS to track your device and report its location. It includes an alarm that can be set off via a push notification and heard even when the device is silent. If you use this on an Android device, you can also remotely wipe your data and lock your device. iHound can also protect you with the unique geofencing feature that automatically checks you in on Facebook or Twitter when you arrive at your destination.

iHound is currently free in the iPhone App Store and includes 3 months of service. After this, you can extend your subscription for 3 months ($3.99), 6 months ($5.99), 12 months ($10.99), or 24 months ($19.99). If you’re on an Android, it’s only $3.99/year after a 7-day free trial.

McAfee WaveSecure

McAfee has also created an excellent mobile security application for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian OS, Windows phone, and Java. It includes all of the same features as the rest: remote wiping and locking; backup and restoring of data; and location and SIM tracking. With WaveSecure, not only can you backup your contacts, but you can also backup photos and videos.

Also, the tracking feature does not only track the current location, but plots several locations on a map so you can see the vicinity of your device. This feature works even if your GPS has been turned off. McAfee WaveSecure is available for all devices at $19.99/year.

Kaspersky Mobile Security 9

Kaspersky Mobile offers many features, but includes the most features for Symbian and Windows mobile devices. These features include: anti-theft, anti-virus, anti-spam, privacy protection, data encryption, parental controls, and firewall protection. The phone tracking feature shows your device on a Google map and provides coordinates.

One of the unique features it has is the ability to wipe your device clean even if the SIM card has been replaced. The Private mode feature is also useful because you can completely hide incoming calls and SMS messages manually, automatically, or remotely. So if your device is stolen or someone is trying to hack into your phone around, the joke is on them because they won’t be able to access that data.

Kaspersky Mobile is currently on sale for $9.95/year (regular $29.95) or $29.95/2 years (regular $59.90). If you want to try before buying, there is a 7-day free trial.

F-Secure Mobile Security

If you’re using an Android, Symbian, or Windows mobile device, you may want to try out F-Secure. It offers the basics such as protection against viruses and malware, parental controls, safe browsing, identity protection, location tracking, and call/SMS blocking.

There is currently a 30-day free trial of the Mobile Security service after which it’s $3.50/month or $39.50/year. If you prefer something totally free, you can download the always free Anti-Theft app, which protects the data in your phone if it is lost or stolen. The app will help you locate your device and let you wipe out the data contained and lock it remotely.

Norton Mobile Security Lite

Here we have Norton, another well-known anti-virus provider. Norton Mobile is unfortunately only available for Android devices. It protects you against unauthorized access, viruses, malware, phishing, and theft. If your device is stolen, you will be able to locate it, wipe the data within, and lock it remotely. Even when you’re browsing the Web, you’re being protected with a privacy guard. If your device is compromised, it will detect and eliminate the threat. All apps will also be scanned to make sure they’re not malicious. Calls and SMS messages can be blocked as well.

Norton Mobile Security Lite is free in the Android Marketplace. Norton also offers the Mobile Utilities and Task Killer, Snap QR Code Reader, and Anti-Theft plug-ins all for free.

A very similar Android-only mobile security app you might like is by Trend Micro. It offers all of the same features as Norton Mobile and comes with a 30-day free trial, after which it’s $17.99/year.

I’ll throw AVG for Android in here as well. Along with all of the same features, it also helps to enhance the performance of your device by identifying applications that may be slowing it down. AVG for Android is also free.

Avast! Mobile Security

Avast! Mobile is yet another Android-only application, but I wanted to address it in more detail because of the many features it offers – all for free. When compared to the other free and paid mobile security options, Avast! delivers the same features and more. It has real-time protection, customizable updates, privacy reports, a Web shield, call and SMS message filtering, a firewall and application manager. If your device is stolen, you can do everything except access or restore your contacts – because it doesn’t include a backup feature. Yet, you can locate your device and wipe or lock it remotely, set off an alarm, and even receive a notification if your SIM card is changed.

Now for the more: The App Disguiser is a unique feature that lets you choose custom names for your apps so that if your device is stolen, it will be harder for thieves to find the apps containing your personal data. Another great feature is called “Stealth Mode”. Once the anti-theft feature has been enabled on your device, the Avast! app icon will be hidden so that the thief can’t detect it; they’ll never even know that they’re being tracked.

GadgetTrak

Lastly we have GadgetTrack, an app only for iOS devices that not only tracks your stolen device, but takes a snapshot of the thief! If your device doesn’t have a camera, you can still use it to create tracking reports with and give you coordinates for your missing device.

While you’ll get better location-tracking with the GPS on, it’s not required. You can also lock the settings on the device so that the thief can’t change them. Plus there’s a “Deleting Apps” restriction that you can enable so that the thief cannot delete any of your apps – including GadgetTrack.

GadgetTrack is available in the App Store for $3.99.

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VirusBarrier

iOS users, if you’re looking for something only for your device, check out VirusBarrier. This app is $2.99 and can be used to scan email attachments and other files as needed. It checks for spyware, trojans, adware, hacker tools, dialers, keyloggers, and more. VirusBarrier even works with remote services like DropBox, iDisk, and WebDAV.

Due to the limitations of iOS, this app cannot automatically scan files or schedule automatic scans; this is probably the reason why most of the abovementioned apps are mainly for Android.

Webroot SecureWeb

Here we go, iOS users, an application that you can use too! Webroot SecureWeb is available for iOS and Android, and mainly focuses on securing your Web browsing experience. On the iOS app you can browse using the integrated and secure tabbed browser and safe search feature, which identifies phishing and malicious websites. There are no anti-theft features included, unlike the Android version.

For Android there is both a free and Pro version (for $9.99/year – regular $19.99/year). In the free version you get secure browsing along with an anti-virus, location tracking, alarm, call and SMS message blocking, and remote locking. The PRO version has all of the above plus SIM card locking, remote wiping, and app scanning.

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Get Truecaller for Android, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Phone etc.

What is True Caller? :-

A global phone directory to find people from all over the world through name and phone number look up. Get the app for free to your Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Blackberry and Nokia Symbian phone.

 How True Caller Works:-

In short, people basically upload their phone book to True Caller's servers which contains names, phone numbers and other details. Once the information is uploaded, True Caller knows which number corresponds to what name. Each person who installs the app uploads the phone book and the overall database at True Caller keeps on growing. So even if you shared your phone number with only one of your friends who is a True Caller user, your number has been shared with True Caller and if you call any other True Caller user, you won't be anonymous.

It's a very simple concept that's executed very well. I have big concerns over the privacy breach this causes because your friends and relatives are sharing your phone number - something which you just cannot control. 

What do you think about True Caller's technology and modus operendi?

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How to earn money through mobile apps?

Mobile apps have become the call of world due to list of reasons. They have simply become a media via which people communicate with their gadgets. People are relied on their mobile for everything today including search of hotel, movie halls, direction or any other requirement. Indirectly it has become an indispensable part of anyone’s life. Android OS and IOS are the major player of mobile world today. OS is a free software by Google and iOS is invented via Apple Inc. Android has shaped the mobile industry in a much different manner. it occupies almost 1/3 of market is being hold by this industry. There are list of companies that had emerged in this foray in order to make money by the apps.  There are few things that you need to keep in mind before making an app if you want to earn good money from it.

1) Easy to access- if you will research all about the popular apps than you will understand the apps that had attained the height of popularity is due to the fact that they are easy to operate.

2) Economical- the price of app should be affordable for mass so that anyone could afford it and should have mass appeal.

3) Utility- the app should have some amount of benefits in it and the customer should never feel that it is a mere waste.

4) Development of app- the app should be developed in a manner that people will choose it to buy. Perfect platform selection is another wise way to get it. The moment you are settled on an android you can shift towards the next agenda. You need to do the research for innovation any new app that could earn fame soon. Generally the app that solves the problems is more popular. If there is similar app available, never forget to tweak them. After research develop your app with agile style of development. Ensure that your app undergo the best stages of polish before exploring the market.  Test the developed app to remove any possible bug.

5) Finally submit it to the father of app, to the Google and don’t forget to spend quality time in advertisement as marketing plays a vital role in popularity. Social networking platform will be the best tools to do it. If you succeed in earning a positive review than fame and money will be in your feet. You can choose to sell your app or to supply it free for trial with paid advertisements.

startapp.com is a great way to make money from your free android app, they offer pay per download as well as CMP, depends on the monetization model you choose to work with.

Final verdict

If you really want to enjoy the opportunity than you have to really move with a planned strategy. By this you could easily earn money and fame by your developed app. Mobile industry has never turned back since its emergence and now it’s your turn to grow with it.

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Five Best Car Apps for Android

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riving a car, a vehicle or moving by a mean of public transport sometimes makes us restless. What we seek is our own space, a kind of privacy where you are the boss. Driving a car becomes steering“The Mother Ship” of the aliens out of this planet, or moving in any public means becomes a DJ Club or An Arcade, where you are so into it that you forget, what are you doing and that too where. Here, we were referring to the music, or fun games we play.

But seriously, being in a vehicle becomes a monotonous task when it comes to a regular basis. There should be something, that could give or add a little bit of spark to that very existence of your in that mode of transport.

And this is what came into the minds of the working heads of the developers’ team in various Tech Giants like Apple, Google etc. And to add that little bit of newness or awesomeness into your daily routine, many apps were developed. And here we, bring to you some of the best apps that could that *spark* into your driving experience too.

Voice Actions:

When Apple came up with the Siri, many statements surrounded the tech world, conspiring that now all apps are acting similarly. But Voice actions have got something different or out of regular scales. The developers added the basic functions like writing texts, making and receiving emails and setting up meetings. There’s also ability to set-up reminders which are from the Voice Actions app itself, and you can also tap into phone and contacts.

The app can also work with maps, translations, opening specific websites, searching Google, and playing music. The feature list is definitely extensive, and there are many things you can find and do with your voice. So just try it out, as it would be fun to give instructions while driving. You can get it on iOS, Mac or Android app store.

iOnRoad:

The name is just as appealing as the app is for the drivers, since it is just based on the basic aim of safety. Suggestive name; “eye on the road” to that of “iOnRoad”.

The app  iOnRoad is a driver safety app that uses a combination of GPS data and augmented reality to monitor the road ahead for potential collisions. So we are talking about Augmented Reality, that is something to look for. By warning distracted drivers that they’re too close to the vehicle ahead, iOnRoad could save money on low-speed fender benders or save lives when speeds get higher.

Gas Buddy:

It’s best when we get something for free, and if not then for cheaper prices. So here is an app, which solves one of the issues of your rising gas prices or bill.

Gas Buddy helps you find the cheapest gas prices. You can either search gas prices by city or zip, or you can search using your location too. Its data is crowd sourced, meaning users enter the gas prices when they fill-up at a station. The app tells you underneath each price when it was last updated. And the best thing, since it is an open source based app, you get the best and at its best.

Waze:

We rarely ever lose our direction, or get lost in our place. But sometimes it requires a push to go to new places and that’s the time when you look out for GPS and other directional devices.

Waze is one such app that solves your problem right away. Waze is a social app, which collects data as you are driving and lumps it together with data from other drivers to relay real-time traffic conditions. It uses data points, search, voice recognition and calculations to get you where you want to go, with turn by turn and sharing interesting places and favorite eatery and details about your trip. A truly fun and useful app.

iWrecked:

This is one of those apps that you should have, but hope you never have to use. iWrecked is a kind of a helper in the event of an accident.

This app gives easy to read instructions as to what to do after an accident. You can use the app when an accident occurs, just click a pic and a tore it in the photo album. The app tags the location, date and time of the incident. You can even fill out an accident report and find the nearest towing location. A helper in time of bad situations and during the worst case scenarios it helps by providing you the quickest help. Go and Get it.

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HTC 8X GETS A BIG PRICE DROP IN INDIA

HTC has not been doing really well globally but the company has a small following in India. The company has given its flagship Windows smartphone, the HTC 8X a major price revision and the device is now on sale for Rs 22,899 on snapdeal instead of the Rs 27,999 it was retailing for.

You can also buy it from flipkart for Rs 22,999 and get a portable charger as a freebie with it.
Here’s a list of its specifications of HTC 8X

· 4.3-inch Super LCD 2 Capacitive display
· Windows Phone 8 OS.
· 1.5GHz dual core Scorpion processor and Adreno 225 GPU.
· 1GB RAM.
· 16GB non expandable internal memory.
· 8MP rear camera, 2.1MP front camera.
· Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G.
· 1,800 mAh battery.

The smartphone has not sold in decent numbers in India because it was up against the likes of the Lumia 920. But with the revised pricing, it enters the territory of the Lumia 820 and can pose some threat to the Nokia offering.

Our Take: The smartphone makes for a decent buy after the price drop if you are in for a Windows Smartphone and non-expandable memory is not an issue for you.

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Best Diary App For Android Phone

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything’s different?” —  C.S. Lewis

Writing a diary or maintaining a journal of memories is a hobby shared by many, who prefer keeping an archive of their life events privately instead of posting them to Facebook. Similar to all tangible things, this hobby is also slowly transitioning its existence to a virtual one — from pen & papers to now smartphones & styluses.

For Android, there’s no dearth of diary / journal apps. Unfortunately, only a handful few of them are worth using and if you were looking for such apps, this list if for you.

1. Flava

 

  

 

Flava is the first app in our list and perhaps also the best one. It sets itself apart from the competition with its incredibly designed user interface and its large set of included functionalities — all for free.

Presenting memories in a timeline fashion, Flava is exactly how diary apps or other time machine apps should be designed. And with every memory, Flava lets you attach huge amount of data — photos, voice recordings and videos as well as songs, books, movies (all three fetched from Amazon), locations info and web addresses.

Furthermore, memories can also be tagged with weather conditions and your mood at that time along with a theme, using which, memories can be sorted later on.

Most importantly, Flava is cross platform. Apart from Android, it’s also available on iOS as well as a web interface. And not only this, it even lets you download your memories. What this essentially means is that you’ll always have your memory archive with you even if you decide to switch platforms (Blackberry and Windows Phone obviously do not count) or apps.

My personal favorite feature of Flava is definitely its Replay option that presents a slideshow of past events. My timeline is kinda empty right now, but it’ll obviously hopefully be very enjoyable in the future when I look back my memories. Sadly, it only supports photos for now and text-only memories do not find a place in it, which is a bit disappointing.

You get a storage of 305 MB for free when you sign up which can be increased on demand by paying a price.

Quirks

• Praises aside, there’s definitely some room for improvement in Flava. For instance, Flava has a separate search pane, but I’m yet to figure out how to get it working. Even after tagging memories with random tags, the search page doesn’t return anything — it always stays blank.
• Next, either Flava’s servers are incredibly slow or the app is. It took me multiple failed attempts to log into my account in the app.

And as a person who’s in love with the new ‘hamburger’ sidebar trend in apps like Play Music, Google+, Gmail, etc., I personally think that Flava’s sidebars would look a lot better if re-designed in that manner.

Flava has a PRO version as well, which provides the user with an additional storage of XX Gee-Bees for storing media — aimed specifically for long term users. What really increased my likeness for Flava is that, unlike various others apps, it does not poke you at regular intervals for upgrading to a pro customer. Users are initially provided with XXX MB storage and if you start enjoying using Flava, you’ll definitely want to upgrade for logging more life events with attached medias.

DOWNLOAD FLAVA FROM PLAY STORE (FREE) 

 

 

2. Friday

  

This one is an unique journal app for Android. Unlike Flava, Friday is an automatic journal that records your life events using your social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google and Last.fm. Once setup, it’ll start capturing events happening around you without requiring you to input anything — like the people you talk to, the places you visit, the photos you capture, the songs you listen (on last.fm) , the emails and messages you receive or send and much more — automatically.

Friday helps you forget to remember. The app does the remembering for you.

It also includes an option for manually adding memories in a la-Twitter 140 characters, but that’s not really the point of Friday. The concept is super cool, but the UI seriously needs a visual overhaul — it’s just bland.

In case Flava and Friday do not satisfy your requirements or are too complicated for you, you might want to try out Private Diary – a very decent diary app with a very decent design and a very decent set of functionalities.

DOWNLOAD FRIDAY FROM PLAY STORE (FREE) 

 

 

 

3. Private Diary

 

 

Private Diary is the simplest diary app among this list. It doesn’t boast a plethora of features, but at-least supports adding photos (pro feature), categories, tags and moods to memories as well as an option for online synchronization of memories with its website.

It would have been an excellent app if only the UI was not so bad — it still resembles Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Nevertheless, it isn’t even half bad as the slew of other badly designed and coded diary apps floating on the Play Store.

Simply put, if online interfaces, memory tags, weather conditions, moods, etc., seem too fancy to you, Private Diary might just be the diary app you were looking for — A simple, no frills one.

DOWNLOAD PRIVATE DIARY (FREE) DOWNLOAD PRIVATE DIARY (PRO) 

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With these mentioned three, the list of worth-using diary apps for Android ends here, although the quantity of such apps available in the Store is much more. Yes, just 2-3 apps was all I could find which didn’t look as if we were still living in the 1990s. But for most of the casual users, these three should be enough.

Drop in a comment if you’ve a better suggestion!

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