Saturday, October 29, 2011

Android TV App 3 - Watch Live News, Music, Sport, Movies, Business, Entertainment, Kids And Educational TV Channels

This is a live TV App for Android with large collection of TV channels from different countries and languages. This app has high definition TV channels and you may love the kind of video quality you would experience with this Android TV App. With this TV app installed on your Android phone, you would be able to watch live TV shows from every corner of the world, no matter where you are and what time it is.

This is the third of the best TV Apps covered here. If you have not read about previous two wonderful and free TV Apps then you can read about them at - Android TV App 1 and Android TV App 2

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theChanner - An Android TV App  : This Android TV app not only comes with a wide range of free TV channels but it also comes with integrated social networking features. You can navigate and look for the TV channels by given language, alphabet, country or category. If that is not sufficient and you want some more then you can even search to find the TV channel that you are looking for. You can save your frequently viewed TV channels as favorite and can access those easily.

First Look At theChanner Android TV App : When you first launch theChanner app it prompts you with login / registration screen. It allows you to skip this step if you are very eager to go ahead and try the app first. Tap skip button to proceed using TV app or log-in by providing credentials. Next it will ask you to select your country for providing you channel suggestions. Select your country and proceed. This would display the first screen and one suggested TV channel would be played for you. It may take few seconds to start TV show depending on speed of you internet connection.

Android TV App theChanner - First Screen
Android TV App theChanner - First Screen
Top half of the screen shows you live TV channel while bottom half of the screen shows you social networking information, user ratings and other information. You can use the features from the bottom half of the screen to post messages to your favorite social networking sites. At top of this screen you would see the name of TV channel being played.

Live Android TV With Full Screen Mode : You can simply rotate screen shown in above screenshot to watch the same TV channel live in landscape mode. This automatically hides social networking features and whole screen is occupied by the live streaming of the TV show.

Android TV App - Live Streaming
Android TV App - Live Streaming
As you can see in screenshot above, whole screen is occupied by streaming of live TV show. You can see that picture quality of this app is very good. You would enjoy picture sharpness and sound quality as well. You can tap the screen at any point of time and it would display the user controls. Tap the stop user control to stop playing TV. Tap "next" or "previous" arrow user controls to watch the next or previous TV channel. This feature is very handy because you can switch TV channels directly on this screen using "next" and "previous" arrow controls. This is very similar to how people generally change channels on their TV.

Android TV App Menus : You can rotate your phone to switch back from full screen TV playing mode to the previously shown portrait mode. On portrait screen you can tap the TV screen to display app menus.

Android TV App - Menus
Android TV App - Menus
These menus are displayed in form of button overlays as shown in screenshot above. You can tap "Pause" button to stop playing TV channel. Tap "Info" button to see the information of the currently selected TV channel.

Tapping "previous" or "next" button would change the TV channel. You can read the name of  previous and next TV channel below these buttons.

One of the menus is "heart image with plus sign" on it. Tap this menu to add or remove current TV channel to your favorite list. You can see the list of your favorite channels by tapping just heart shaped menu which is labeled as "Favorites" menu.

Tap search menu and it would display search screen with text box. Enter the text in to text box for searching TV channels that you are looking for and tap magnifying glass icon next to it. This would display the list of matching TV channels.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Language : Tapping "TV List" menu icon displays the screen where channels are grouped by language, country, category etc. Various grouping terms are displayed as tabs at top of this screen. Tap the language tab and it would display language list as shown below.

Android TV App - Channels By Language
Android TV App - Channels By Language
As you can see in screenshot above, there are TV channels grouped by various languages on this screen. You can select from English, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Creole, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Netherlands, Parsian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Valencian and Vietnamese.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Country : Tapping the country tab displays the channel listing grouped by countries.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Country
Android TV App - Channel Listing By Country
On this screen you would find almost every country name. Tap the name of the country and it will expand to display the TV channels for the country. Screenshot above is showing where "United States" is tapped and is expanded to show the TV Channels for US.

You would find here list of TV channels from "United States" and can select from 7News Boston, Bloomberg US, C-SPAN, Fox 11 LA, Fox 4 Dallas, Fox 5 New York,  Fox Chicago News, Miami TV Models, Smile of a Child, TV Scuba, TVKnob 7 FLX Movie, TVU Live, C-SPAN2, C-SPAN3, Fox 5 Washington DC, TVKnob 10 Lifestyle, TVKnob 5 Comedy, Cal Poly Pomona Classic Arts, Channels 125, JCTV, KTBS 3, Miami TV Life and Health, MNN 4, NASA TV Media Channel, NTDTV, TBN, Tele Miami, The Church Channel, TVKnob 4 Sports, Access Sarasota TV, CCM, Clark County TV Channel 4, Dakota Media Access Channel, Dunedin TV, ETCTV3, MNN 2, stpeteTV (WSPF), WEWS NewsChannel5, Miami TV, Mission Viejo TV, 17 Access Sacramento, AMGA, ATL 26, Catholic TV, CBN Espanol, CBN News, CBN TV, CBS News 2, Channel 27, Channel 77 Miami, City Cable 5, Connecticut Network, CSU TV 11, E2 Channel, Enlace Juvenil, EWTN, Fairfax Channel 16, Fort Myers CFM-TV, Fox 6 Alabama, GBN TV, GMU-TV, Greek Voice (WZRA-48), HCGB Channel 622, HSNtv LIVE, HTV Hillsborough County, KAMU-TV, KBSV TV, KCLV Channel2, LA CityView 35, LA36, MNN 3, NASA TV Education Channel, News 4 jax, OCTDC 13, OCTDC 16, Olelo Focus 49, PCMA TV199, SFGTV2, Superchannel WACX, TCT, The Healing Channel, The Word Network, TubTub, TV33 WHPR, TVKnob 11 World, TVKnob 12 Business, TVKnob 3 Music, TVKnob 6 PTTV, TVKnob 9 Education, Watchmen - WBPI-TV 49, WBAY Weather, White Spring TV and WTAP Weather.

You can see there is large list of TV channels from United States. You would find similar collection of channels for other countries as well. This should give you an idea about how large is collection of TV channels available with this Android TV app.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Category : Tap the category tab to see the list of categories by which TV channels are grouped and can be accessed.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Category
Android TV App - Channel Listing By Category
As shown in screenshot above there are various categories by which you can access the various TV channels quickly. Tap the category to see the channels for it. You can select from Art/Culture, Business/Financial, Cartoons/Children, Education, Entertainment, Games, General, Leisure, Lifestyle, Movies/Films, Music, News, Politics, Science, Sports and Weather. Above screenshot is showing channels for Business/Financials.

You can download this TV app from Android market and start enjoying live TV on your Android phone. As mentioned earlier this is the third of the best TV Apps covered here. You can read about previous two wonderful and free TV Apps at - Android TV App 1 and Android TV App 2

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Android TV App 2 - Watch Live News, Music, Sport, Movies, Business And Entertainment TV Shows

This is one of the free and best TV Apps for Android. After installing this app on your Android phone, live TV would be just finger touch away from you. You would be able to watch news, movies, sports, music TV shows anytime and anywhere. This app comes with large collection of TV channels and it is absolutely free. This is the second TV app that is being presented to readers. You can read about two more exciting and free TV apps at - Android TV App 1 and Android TV App 3

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TV App For Android - FilmOn TV : This app is simple to use and has large collection of online and offline channels. This TV app comes with movie channels, news channels and lifestyle channels like fashion TV. If you are looking for a specific TV show or channel on Android phone then check out this app and most likely you may find that TV show with this app.

Android TV - Types Of Channels : When you start this app, it displays splash screen. It takes some time to load and once loaded displays full screen ad. Press back button of your phone to close the ad and go to the types of TV channel screen.

Android TV App - List of TV Channels
Android TV App - List of TV Channels
As you can see this screen lists the categories of TV channels. You would find categories like Documentary, UK TV, Lifestyle, Music, Kids, Shopping, Education, Interactive, Asian, Horror, BattleCam TV, Latin, News, ET Europe, Sports, Movie, Free and Mind Body & Spirit.

Android TV - UK TV Channels : You can tap the category from the screen above to see the list of channels from that category. Tapping the category "UK TV" would launch the screen with list of "UK TV" channels.

Android TV App - UK TV Channels
Android TV App - UK TV Channels
There is a good collection of UK TV channels on this screen. TV icon at right of each channel name indicates that it is online TV channel. If this icon is not present against the name of channel then it is internet video channel. Here you would find TV channels like ITV2, BBC1, Channel4, Channel5, ITV1, BBC Two, ITV3, ITV4, E4, More 4 and "men and movies".

Android TV - Music Channels : When you tap the Music category then you would see the list of music channels.

Android TV App - Music Channels
Android TV App - Music Channels
On this screen you would find list of Music channels like "Urban Music Network", "The Country Network", Havoc, RockOn TV, ClubLand TV, 4 Music, Viva and "Music Legends TV". You must have noticed that there is TV icon at right side of few channel names and it is not there against few. As mentioned earlier the channels with icon are live TV channels. Channel without icon is internet video channel.

Android TV - News Channels : Tap the News category from the list of categories to launch screen with list of news channels.

Android TV App - News Channels
Android TV App - News Channels
You can see that there is a good collection of news channels and you would find here popular TV channels. You would find here BizTV, WeatherNation, NASA HD, Pentagon, "Ap Breaking News", "Russia Today", "BBC News", "Al Jazeera" and Bloomberg.

Android TV - Movies Channels : Tap the Movie category to display the screen with list of movie channels.

Android TV App - Movie Channels
Android TV App - Movie Channels
On this screen you would find movie channels like Cultra, Soundtrack, "My Family TV", "GrabBag TV", "Film 4" and "FilmOn Classics". Check out these TV channels specially "Film 4" to see movies live on your Android mobile phone. You can see classic movies on "FilmOn Classics" channel.

Android TV - Lifestyle Channels : Tap category "Lifestyle" to see the list of lifestyle channels. You would find channels like "ComedyTime TV", "Legacy TV", "Jewish Life TV", "Fashion TV", VMAS, "Unreliable Source", Motorz and "Wine Channel TV".

You can tap the channel that you want to watch. Tapping "Fashion TV" channel would launch the screen where live streaming of the fashion TV is played.

Android TV App - Fashion TV
Android TV App - Fashion TV
You can see in screenshot above that video quality of TV programs is good. You can tap the screen to see user controls. Use these user controls to zoom picture to full screen and change the volume level. For stopping the TV channel tap the "Stop" user control and then press the back button of your Android phone. This would bring you back to the list of TV channels.

You can download this app from Android Market or App Store of your choice and start enjoying these TV programs on go.  If you like this app then you may like to read other posts about more such wonderful apps here. Bookmark this url and keep checking back for more such exciting, coolest and best apps for Android.

As mentioned earlier, you can read about two more exciting and free TV apps at - Android TV App 1 and Android TV App 3

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Android Yahoo Mail App - Setup And Sync Emails With Official Yahoo eMail App For Google Android

If you are a person who likes yahoo email and want to stay connected with your network on the move then this Android Yahoo mail app is for you. Setup this official android yahoo email app on your mobile phone once and keep in sync with your yahoo contacts and emails wherever you go. All your yahoo emails would be just finger touch away anytime and anywhere.

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Android Yahoo Mail App : The color scheme of this app is that of yahoo email and is familiar to you. It is feature packed and you would be able to perform almost all email operations that you perform using normal desktop yahoo mails. You can compose, read, reply, search and delete emails. It is simple and easy to use.

Android Yahoo Mail Setup : When you install this app and launch it first time then it would prompt you to  setup it by adding your yahoo id.

Android Yahoo Mail Setup
Android Yahoo Mail Setup
If you already have yahoo email account then just enter your yahoo email ID, password and tap "Add Account" button. When you tap "Add Account" button then it takes you to next screen "Sync Contacts". Here you can decide if you want to add your yahoo contacts to your phone book and sync the contacts. Tap "Done" button at the right hand top corner of the screen to move ahead from "Sync Contacts" screen. This setup you need to perform only first time. Android yahoo mail remembers your account information when you start the app next time.

If you do not have yahoo email account then tap "Get a new Yahoo! ID" button for creating a new yahoo account. Follow the steps to create your new yahoo email account.

Android Yahoo Mail Folders : When you setup your app first time then it would take you to the folder screen.

Android Yahoo Mail Folders
Android Yahoo Mail Folders
As you can see in screenshot above, you can access all your yahoo mail folders. Scroll down this screen to see remaining smart folders and other folders if you have created. The number next to the Inbox is indicating the number of unread emails in the Inbox folder. You can tap the folder you want to see the list of emails in that folder.

Android Yahoo Mail Inbox : When you tap the inbox item from folder screen then you would see the list of emails in your inbox.

Android Yahoo Mail Inbox
Android Yahoo Mail Inbox
Screenshot above is showing the list of emails in inbox. At right hand top corner of the screen is "Edit" button. You can tap this button to switch to edit mode where you can select multiple emails and move or delete them.

Press the menu button of your phone to display the app menu as shown in above screenshot. Using this app menu you can compose an email, refresh list of emails, start yahoo messenger, search emails or change the android yahoo mail settings.

Composing Android Yahoo Mail : You can tap "Compose" menu to start composing new email. It would display the compose screen as shown below.

Composing Android Yahoo Mail
Composing Android Yahoo Mail
Type the recipient email IDs in "TO:", "Cc:" or "Bcc:" field. Alternatively, you can tap the button with plus sign icon at right of the field to select the email ids from your contact list. Tapping the message body of the email displays a toolbar at bottom of the screen, as shown in above screenshot .

First icon from left on the toolbar allows you to change the text style, size and color. Second icon allows you to insert imoticons in message. Third icon allows you to choose the files as attachments. Forth and last icon allows you to select an existing photo, take a new photo or record a new video for attaching to an email.

Once the message is prepared then tap send button at the right hand top corner of the screen to send that message.

Android Yahoo Mail Search : When you tap "Search" menu of the app then you would see a search screen.

Android Yahoo Mail Search
Android Yahoo Mail Search
Type the text that you would like to search for in your yahoo emails. Filter the search by using the criteria provided by two drop down boxes. The first drop down box allows you to select from "Entire Message", "From", "To" or "Subject". Second drop down box allows you to select from "Emails", "Photos", or "Attachments"

After entering the search text and selecting the filter criteria, tap the button at the right hand top corner of the screen, with magnification glass icon on it. This would display the list of emails matching your search criteria.

Android Yahoo Mail Reader : From the list of emails within Inbox or any other folder tap the email that you would like to read and it would be displayed in email reader screen of Android Yahoo mail.

Android Yahoo Mail Reader
Android Yahoo Mail Reader
At left hand top corner of the screen is displayed a button with folder name from where you came to this screen. You can tap this button to go back to that folder. The title of this screen shows the serial number of this email and total number of emails in the folder. At the right hand top side of the screen are two arrows which you can tap to navigate to next or previous email message in the folder.

When you press the menu button of your Android phone then app menu is displayed as shown in screenshot above. You can perform operations like "Reply", "Reply All", "Forward", "Delete" and "Mark as Unread" using the menu items. "More" menu provides you additional menus to perform few more email operations.

You can download and install Android Yahoo Mail app from Android Market or App Store of your choice. If you like this app then you may would like to read about few more wonderful and exciting apps here. Bookmark the url and keep coming back to find and read about more such useful, coolest and best apps for Android.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Android Hotmail App - Setup And Sync Emails With Official Microsoft App For Google Android

This is official Microsoft Hotmail app for Google Android phones. Once you setup this app on your Android phone then you can sync up your Hotmail emails at predefined frequency or on push. Receive instant notifications of new emails, reply to urgent emails, compose and send emails anytime and from anywhere. Read how to setup your Hotmail account on your Android phone and stay in touch on the move.

Android Hotmail App
Android Hotmail App : This app comes with wide range of settings and you can do almost everything which you are doing with Hotmail using desktop. You receive a notification for new emails, you can compose new emails, reply to received emails with CC and BCC options, you can delete emails, mark emails to "read" or "unread" and so on.

Android Hotmail Setup : When you launch this app first time you would be prompted to accept the terms of service. Once you accept the terms you would be taken to next screen as shown below.

Android Hotmail Setup
Android Hotmail Setup
You can do the setup of your Android Hotmail app using this screen. Enter the email address and password of your Hotmail email account and tap the next button. This would register your Hotmail account with this app. This way you can register as many Hotmail accounts as you want by entering email address, password and pressing next button. Once you finish registering your Hotmail account then probably you would see a email notification icon in notification area of the phone as shown in screen shot above. Once you finish the setup of your Hotmail ids then press the back button of your Android phone and launch the Hotmail app again.

Android Hotmail Inbox : After you do the one time setup as explained in earlier section above then whenever you start the Hotmail app then it does not ask you again your Hotmail credentials. When you start the app next time it would launch with "Home" tab as active tab and you can see the all Hotmail accounts you have setup with the app. You can add more Hotmail ids here by tapping to "Add Hotmail Account" button.

Tap the "All Emails" tab to see all the emails from various registered Hotmail accounts together. This tab is handy to check quickly all received emails.

Android Hotmail - Inbox
Android Hotmail - Inbox 
When you press menu button of your phone then you would see two menus as shown in screenshot above. As name indicates "Sort by" menu can be used to sort the emails by Date, Sender or Subject. Compose menu is used to start composing new email.

You can select one or more emails by tapping the check box against each email. Then you can mark those selected emails as "read' or "unread" by tapping appropriate button. You can delete selected emails by tapping "delete" button.

Android Hotmail - Composing New Email :  When you tap the "Compose" menu then you would see a screen for composing a new email.

Android Hotmail - Compose Email
Android Hotmail - Compose Email
When you start typing email id in "To" text box, it starts giving you suggestions based on your contacts. Press the menu button of your Android phone to see additional features available while composing an email. "Toggle Bcc" menu is used to show or hide "Bcc" text box for composing an email. Tap "Add recipient" menu to select the options from "Contacts", "Group" or "Search Contacts". As name suggest you can add attachments to your email by tapping "Add attachment" menu.

Android Hotmail Settings : When you tap the specific Hotmail account tab of this app then you can see the emails only for that specified account. When this tab is in focus and you press the menu button of your Android mobile phone then you would see more menu options than shown in earlier screenshot above.

Android Hotmail Settings
Android Hotmail Settings
The menu "Account Settings" is one of the important menus because it allows you to fine tune the behavior of this app. Settings screen provides settings menus "Email", "Folders", "Contacts", "Quite Time", "Synchronise at" and "General settings". It also provide two action menus "Refresh data" and "Remove Account".

How To See Custom Hotmail Folders Other Than Inbox : If you tap "Change Folder" menu shown in screenshot above then you would be able to switch the folder from Inbox to "Drafts", "Outbox", "Sent Items" or "Trash". These are the folders which you can switch to by default settings. If you want to access your other custom Hotmail folder other than these defaults then you have to work some more.

To display other custom folders first tap the "Account Settings" menu and "Folders" option. This would display the screen with folder list showing all the available folders of your Hotmail account. Select the folders that you would like to access from Android Hotmail app. Once this is done then you can see these selected additional folders also when you tap the "Change Folder" menu. Now you can see and select additional other folders to access from Android Hotmail app.

Android Hotmail - Read And Reply Emails : When you tap any of the emails displayed in "All Emails" or specific account tab then it would be opened in separate screen to read.

Android Hotmail - Read Email
Android Hotmail - Read Email
You can swipe the email by your finger to pan it horizontally or vertically. Panning email would also display the magnifying glasses as shown in screenshot above. Tap these magnifying glasses to zoom in or zoom out the email content.  You can tap "Hide Images" or "Show Images" toggle button to display or hide the images in email. Press the menu button of your Android phone to see menus which you can use while reading email.

Android Hotmail - Email Menus
Android Hotmail - Email Menus
You can use these menu options to perform various operations on the email. Operations which you can perform are - "Delete", "Forward", "Reply", "Reply All, and "Mark Unread".

You can download this app from Android market or app store of your choice. Once installed and setup you will be just finger touch away from your Hotmail emails.

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