Android Units Converter - Convert Currency, Temperature, Time, Angle, Area and Many More Unit Categories

This is one of the best Android unit conversion apps which can convert from currency to cooking units. You name the unit category and most probably you would find it in this app. This app works in offline mode and needs connection only when you want to sync currency rates. It allows you to define your own units and you can extend the app to suit your need.

Android Unit Converter - ConverPad : With this app on your Android phone, you don't need to look for separate app for currency conversion and you don't need to use calculator for converting units with effort. Just tap the ConvertPad and within seconds you would be able to do the unit conversions, be it Temperature, Time, Angle, Area, Length, Distance or any other unit you may need. Being a Android app you can do these conversions anywhere and anytime you need it.

Android Unit Converter - Introduction : When you launch the ConvertPad, you would be taken to the unit conversion screen with the last category and unit you had selected.

Android Temperature Converter

As you can see in screenshot above, it is very simple and intuitive. This screen is displaying the temperature conversions. You can tap the value to change it to any temperature value for which you want the conversion. Currently the source unit is degree Celsius. Tap the unit to change it to any other temperature unit you want.

You can see in screenshot that given 18 degrees Celsius temperature is converted to Fahrenheit, Rankine, Kelvin or Reaumur. You must have understood now, how handy and useful this app is.

Android Unit Converter - Unit Categories : You can tap the category displayed under "Category Selection" title to select any other category for units. This would display the popup with the list of categories to choose from.

Android Unit Conversion Categories

This is a big list. You can select from Acceleration, Acceleration - Angular, Angle, Area, Astronomical, Charge, Concentration - Molar, Concentration - Solution, Cooking, Currency Exchange Rate, Current, Data Storage, Density, Efficiency - HVAC, Electric Capacitance, Electric Conductance, Electric Conductivity, Electric Field Strength, Electric Potential, Electric Resistance, Electric Resistivity, Energy / Work, Energy Flux, Enthalpy, Entropy, Flow - Mass, Flow - Molar, Flow - Volume, Force, Frequency - Wavelength, Fuel Consumption, Fuel Efficiency - Mass, Fuel Efficiency - Volume, Gas Constant, Heat Capacity, Heat Density, Heat Flow Rate, Heat Flux Density, Heat Rate, Heat Transfer Coefficient, Henry's Law, Illumination, Image Resolution, Inductance, Length / Distance, Linear Charge Density, Lumber - Volume, Luminance, Luminous Intensity, Magnetic Field Strength, Magnetic Flux, Magnetic Flux Density, Magnetomative Force, Moment of Force, Moment of Inertia, Permeability, Power, Power Density, Prefixes, Pressure, Radiation, Radiation Absorbed Dose, Radiation Activity, Radiation Exposure, Sound, Specific Heat, Specific Power, Specific Volume, Surface Charge Density, Surface Current Density, Surface Tension, Temperature, Temperature Interval, Temperature Conductivity, Thermal Expansion, Thermal Resistance, Time, Torque, Typography, Velocity, Velocity - Angular, Viscosity - Dynamic, Viscosity - Kinematic, Volume - Dry, Volume / Capacity, Volume Charge Density and Weight / Mass.

Now you may have understood why I am saying that there is a big list of unit categories supported by this Android Unit Conversion app.

Android Unit Converter - Unit Selection : You can tap the unit displayed under "Unit Selection" title to select any other unit from list of available units. This would display the popup with the list of units to choose from.

Android Unit Converter - Unit Selection

As you can see in screenshot above, the popup displays the available units from the selected category. In above case, units for Angle Conversion are displayed. Here you can choose from different Angle measurement units namely degree, radian, grad, gon, minute, second, sign, mil, revolution, circle, turn, quadrant, right angle and sextant.

Tap the unit you want to select from, say "degree". This would select degree as source unit and it would convert entered value into other units in same unit category.

Android Angle Converter

You can modify the value by tapping the number displayed below "Value" title. In above case, 45 degree angle is converted into various other angle measurement units. You can quickly know that 45 degree is equal to .785 radian or 2700 minute or 162000 second.

Android Currency Converter : This unit conversion app comes with handy currency conversion feature as well. Tap the category to select "Currency Exchange Rate" and you can start using it for currency conversion.

Android Currency Conversion

Process for using it for currency conversion is very much the same. Tap the source currency below "Unit Selection" and select the currency from the list of available currencies namely, USD U.S. Dollar, Eur European Euro, AED UAE Dirham, AFN Afgan Afghani, ALL Albanian Lek, AMD Armenian Dram, ANG Neth Antillies G, AOA Angolan Kwanza, ARS Argentina Peso, AUD Australian Dollar, AWG Aruban Florin, AZN Azerbaijani Manat, BAM Bosnian Conv Mark, BBD Barbadian Dollar, BBT Bangladeshi Taka,  BGN Bulgarian Lev and many more. There are more than 160 currencies to choose from.

Android Currency Converter Settings : This Android Converter app allows you to customize many of its features to suit your need. Press the menu button on your Android phone to display the app menu and select settings menu. This would display the settings screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Unit Converter Settings

First section of the settings screen is related to Language settings. Here you can select primary and secondary language for the app.

Next section is related to Layout settings. Here you can select text size, color and alignment.

Nest section is related to Sequence settings. Here you can select if Categories and Units should be listed in alphabetical order or by Characteristic order.

Next section is for Currency Exchange Rate. Here you can decide which currency exchange service to use, whether to display the country flag image and how frequently to updated currency exchange rates.

Next section allows you to take the backup to SD Card and restore from SD Card.

You can download this app from Android Market or Android App Store of your choice. Install this app on your Android phone and all unit conversions would be at your finger tips.

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Contacts App For Android - With Themes, Backup & Recovery, Sync And Contact Management Features

This is one of the best and free Contacts Apps for your Android mobile phone. It comes with very cool user interface and plenty of useful features that you may be looking for in Android Contacts App. You can change the default theme of this app and alter the the look & feel so as to match with your persona. It comes with fancy 3D transition effects for swiping screens from one to another.

This is second Android Contacts App that is presented here. If you have not read about the first one then you can read it at : Android Contacts App - With Manage, Search, Sort, Sync, Groups, Speed Dial, Ringtone, Events and More Features

Android Contacts App - Go Contacts Ex : This cool android app comes with many contact management features including contacts backup and recovery.  It comes with very cool Dialpad for dialing numbers form your contact list and your call history. Once you try this app then you may not go back to older contacts app you were using on your Android mobile phone.

Android Contacts App - Contacts List : When you install this app on your Android phone and launch it first time them you would see the contacts list screen. On this screen, pressing the menu button of your Android phone would display the menus of this app as shown in screenshot below.

Android Contacts App - Menu

As shown in above screenshot there are menu useful features which can be accessed through these menus. Apart from these menus you can also long press the item from contacts list to display context menu with quick and handy features like "Call", "Edit before call", "Send SMS", "Send contact by SMS", "Add to favorites", "View Contact", "Edit Contact" and "Delete Contact".

Notice the search box at the top of the screen just below the title bar. You can type here the contact name that you want to search. It starts showing you the matching contacts as soon as you start typing in this search box.

Android Contacts App - Creating New Contact : You can either tap the "+" button at top right hand corner of the screen shown above or tap the "New Contact" menu shown in screenshot above. This would first prompt you to select from the list of accounts including "Phone". Select "Phone" to create phone contact and it would display the new contact screen.

Android Contacts App - New Contact

You can enter all contact information for your new contact using this screen. Tap the photo icon to take a snap or select the photo from android Gallery.

Tap the down arrow button at the right of "Given name" text box to see and make other contact entries related to name.

Tap "+" and "-" icons at the right hand side to add or remove additional phone entries.

Tap the drop down button at the left of phone or email text box  to select the type of phone number or email id.

Other information that you can enter here for the contact being created is "Postal address", "Organisation", "Groups" and "Ringtones". Once all the required information of the contact is entered then tap "Done" to create that contact.

Android Contacts App - Themes : Tap "Themes" menu and it displays the themes screen as shown below.

Android Contacts App - Themes

There are two tabs on this screen. "My Themes" tab displays the themes which are already downloaded and available. "More Themes" tab displays additional themes which can be downloaded.

Tap the theme you want to apply from the list of themes from  "My Themes" tab. This would apply the new theme to change the look & feel accordingly.

Android Contacts App - Contacts Backup & Recovery, Export & Import :   This app comes with a very handy and useful feature where you can take the backup of your contacts. You can restore contacts from backup when required. Especially when contacts get deleted for some reason or when phone is lost. Tap the "Im - Export" menu to launch the "Import - Export" dialog box as shown in screenshot below.

Android Contacts App - Import/Export contacts

Select "Export to SD card" for taking the backup of the contacts and it would prompt you for confirmation with the name of the backup file. On confirmation, contacts are backed up to the SD card.

For restoring the contacts from backup file tap "Import from SD card" option and select the backup file from your SD card. This would restore the contacts from that backup file.

Android Contacts App - Contact Accounts and Sync : Tap "Contact Acc..." menu to display the "Contact Account" screen as shown below.

Android Contacts App - Contacts Account

Using this screen you can choose accounts from which contacts should be displayed in this app. You can choose to display and sync the contacts from "Phone", "Google", "SIM", "Facebook" and "Twitter". Mark the check box "Show contacts with phone numbers only" to hide the contacts which do not have phone number.

Android Contacts App - Dialpad : This app has a toolbar at the bottom of the screen. The left button on this toolbar is "Dialpad". Tap this button to display the Dialpad screen of this app.

Android Contacts App - Dialpad

You can see the call history on this screen. Typing the number directly starts filtering the contacts and matching numbers are displayed. Once the number is entered then tap "Call" button to dial that number.

This app comes with cool 3D transition effects. Swipe the app screen horizontally and you would be able to switch from once screen to another with 3D cube transition effect.

Download this app and it's themes from Android market or app store of your choice and start enjoying this cool app from today.

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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 : 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

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 

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

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

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

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

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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Android Dropbox - File Sync App For Music, Videos, Photos, Text, PDF, Office Documents And All Other Files

If you are looking for a free cloud data storage for your Android mobile phone then Android Dropbox is one of the best options available for you. Once you start using Dropbox for Android then you are no more limited by storage space available on your SD Card. You can sync your Dropbox with your desktop computer and mobile devices. With Dropbox on your mobile you can carry with you all the files in your Dropbox wherever you go and whenever you need it. You can carry all your Music, Videos, Movies, Photos, Pictures, Images, Text files, Word Documents, Excel files, Presentations, Pdf files and all types of files wherever you go.

Android Dropbox - A File Sync App : Dropbox is a cloud storage and intelligent file sync app which syncs your folders on various desktop computers and mobile devices. After you register and install this application on your desktop PC and Android mobile then you are for sure that all your devices are in sync as and when you need them. In nutshell, Dropbox is your portable free online storage and free online backup with intelligence of syncing files and folders across all your devices. You will learn "How to use Dropbox with your Android mobile phone" in Dropbox review given below.

If you are new to cloud drives or online data storage then you can get up to speed quickly by watching the video given below. This will help you understand what is Android Dropbox is all about and how it can help you.

Android Dropbox Introduction

Registering for Dropbox : First thing you need to start using Dropbox is to register for a free account so that you can start using it. With free account you get handsome 2GB of free storage space. For registering a free Dropbox account you can click : "Register Dropbox Account" and you would see a registration page with following box on it.

Register For Free Dropbox Account

As you can see it is very simple form and these are all fields that you have to enter to get your free Dropbox account. Once you click "Create Account" button then you are done with registration. Note down email address and password as you would need it to use your Dropbox.

Android Dropbox Login : You can download Dropbox Android app from Dropbox website given above or from Android market. When you install and launch Dropbox app for first time then it shows you an intro screen and on next screen you would see two buttons "I'm already a Dropbox user" and "I'm new to Dropbox". If you are following me so far and have already registered a free Dropbox account as explained in previous section then you can tap "I'm already a Dropbox user" button to see the Dropbox login screen.

Android Dropbox Login

Enter email and password on login screen that you previously used during Dropbox account registration and tap "Log in" button.  This would connect you to Dropbox. You have to enter the log-in information only first time and next time when you launch Dropbox app it will automatically recognize you and will connect to Dropbox. If at any point of time in future, you want to use different log-in credentials then you can press menu button of your Android phone and go to Settings menu and tap "Unlink device from Dropbox" menu. This would allow you to go to log-in screen and use new log-in credentials.

Android Dropbox Folders : After login and on successful connection you would see Dropbox folders screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Dropbox Folders

You would see only two folders and "Getting Started.pdf" file. Folders "Photos" and "Public" are two folders which are created by Dropbox by default. Other folders shown in screenshot above are created later and you will learn to create those soon.

Now if you exit from your Dropbox app and go to file manager then you may not find the folder structure in SD Card that you just seen in your Dropbox. The reason is that Android Dropbox does not automatically sync your Dropbox to save your precious mobile data charges. Once you download one of the files from Dropbox folder then that folder gets created in SD Card. For example, you can tap "Photos" folder and then "sample Album" sub folder to see few sample images. Now long press one of the images and you would see popup menu. Tap "Download" menu to download the selected image. Once image is downloaded then folder structure for Photos would be created in SD Card of your phone. Now if you browse to Dropbox folder on your SD Card using file manager then you can see folder structure as shown in screenshot below.

Android Dropbox Folders in SDCard

Above screenshot is showing two additional folders which are created later and you would learn how to create new folders soon.

In case of Dropbox for desktop you can choose the location of your Dropbox folder by going to preferences and then Advanced tab and entering the required Dropbox location. But with Android Dropbox you can not change the location of Dropbox folder. It is always at the root of SD Card as shown in screenshot above.

Dropbox Sync For Android : In case of Dropbox for desktop PC, all the files that you just copy to your Dropbox folder and sub folders are automatically synchronized. But in case of Dropbox for Android automatic sync is not done to avoid higher mobile data charges. For syncing any file all you have to do is perform an upload or download. For doing upload launch Dropbox and navigate to folder where you want to upload the file. Then press menu button of your Android phone and tap "Upload" menu. This would launch popup menu as shown in screenshot below.

Android Dropbox Sync - Upload

Here you have to select the type of file that you want to upload. For uploading photos and images tap "Picture" menu. For uploading movies and other video files tap "Video" menu. For uploading music, songs, ring tones, audio books or any other audio files tap "Audio" menu. For uploading any other file types including text files, office documents, pdf files or any other filetype tap "Any file" menu. Each menu would launch different type of interface to select the file to upload. For example "Video" and "Picture" menu would launch Media Gallery and you can tap the photo or video that you want to upload. Similarly "Audio" menu launches the Music Player interface to select the audio file that you want to upload. "Any file" menu would launch OI File Manager or Astro File Manager if it is installed on your phone. You can install one of these file managers from Android market.

Android Dropbox - Adding New File or Folder : You can create new folders in your Dropbox easily. For creating new folder launch Dropbox and navigate to the folder where you want to create a sub folder. Then press menu button of your Android phone and tap "New" menu. This will launch popup menu shown in screenshot below.

Android Dropbox - Creating New Folder or File

Tap "Folder" menu and enter the new folder name in text box displayed and tap "Create" button. This would create a new sub folder with name given by you.

For creating new files tap one of the menus "Picture", "Video", "Audio" or "Text file" from the popup menu shown in screenshot above. This would launch specific app for creating that kind of file. Fox example selecting "Picture" or "Video" would launch Camera with appropriate mode. Selecting "Audio" would give you choices to select from various apps including voice recorder.

Android Dropbox As Cloud Storage For All Your Music : One of the important applications of Android Dropbox is you can store all your music files on cloud and access them from your Android phone anywhere and anytime. Android Dropbox app comes with search feature and you can search your music folders before actually downloading any files. Once you find the music file that you want then you can download it to your Android phone and start playing it. This way you can have all your music at your finger tip even while on move.

One drawback here is you need to download the music file for playing it and you can not just start playing it from Dropbox. If you are true music lover and looking for cloud storage for your music collection and want to play streaming music from your cloud music collection then you can check out Amazon Cloud Storage and Cloud Player.

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