Avast Free Mobile Security for Android - Not just an Antivirus!

Is your Android phone still unsecured ? or are you still paying for antivirus on your Android phone ? If your answer is yes for any one of these questions, you need to change something to something better, or even best !

Avast has come up with a full featured antivirus and anti-theft security for your Android phone, available for free. Yes, you really don't need to pay anything! If you are using Avast Free Antivirus on your PC, you will be aware of mighty power of it. Now this impressive security solution has been extended to your Android phone as well.

Recently, Avast purchased ITAgents, maker of Theft Aware, and has combined the best anti-theft solution of Theft Aware with Avast's award winning antivirus technologies to build Avast Free Mobile Security. Avast Free Mobile Security features many amazing features, which, even paid security doesn't provide.

Some of the amazing features of this app are listed below.

~ Antivirus - Perform on demand scan of all installed apps and memory card contents. You can also schedule scans.

~ App Manager - Know which apps are running on your phone, how much memory they are consuming, and their CPU load, with options to stop or uninstall a particular app.

~ Great User Interface - Easy to use and well formatted user interface.

~ SMS/Call filtering - Filter unwanted calls and messages, based on many parmeters.

~ Web Shield - Scans each  URL that loads on your browser and warns if they are malware infected.

~ Firewall - Stop hackers from running unhealthy apps to gain access to your phone. (works only on rooted phones)

~ Stealth Mode - Makes the app invisible, creating complexities for thieves to detect and remove.

~ SIM card change notification - Get notified when new unauthorised SIM card is inserted. (you can authorize SIM cards)

~ Remote Controlling features - Control your phone through SMS commands! On theft, activate Siren, lock the phone, locate phone location through Wi-Fi, GPS or mobile network, remotely wipe all the contents of your phone including SMS/MMS. You can remotely send SMS from your phone to another phone! All the anti-theft settings can also be changed remotely.

You can find the complete set of SMS commands here. Click here to download Avast Free Mobile Security. Still, what are you waiting for ?!

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Carry 300,000 free music tracks in your pocket !

Everyone love music and the hunger for new music is always alive in everyone. Now a days, most of the people own a smartphone. Whether it is iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android, Jamendo offers you a mobile application which gives access to huge music catalog of Jamendo, and most importantly, it is ads free, and totally free !

Unlike other online music services, you don't need to buy a subscription to stream or download the music tracks from Jamendo. You can browse songs by genre, top-rated, newest and artists. Or create your own personal playlist to listen to your favorite artists and tracks later ! It is still not available for Symbian phones, but they are thinking of releasing one in near future. So why don't you give it a try ? After all, you have nothing to lose, but everything is to gain !

You can download Jamendo app for your BlackBerry from BlackBerry App World. [Thanks to Teleca Poland]

Download for your iPhone from AppStore, available in French, English, German, Itallian, Polish and Spanish languages !

Download the regularly updated app for your Android from Android Market. [Again, Thanks to Teleca Poland].

So, which track are you listening to ? ;)

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Downloading YouTube videos can be no more easy than this !!

There are many softwares to download online videos from YouTube to your computer for offline viewing. But most of them are bulky and really mess things around. When YouTube is updated, you need to download updated version of those softwares to work correctly. So this has been a big problem for sometime.
Other way to download YouTube videos is to connect to websites like keep-tube.com and download. This requires you to have Java installed on your computer.

Both the above mentioned ways have their own disadvantages. How nice it would be if a simple javascript do this work for you ?!! Yes, now you can download YouTube videos without downloading big big softwares or connecting to external sites, and even in any of the available video resolutions !! Just download a small (about 30 KB !) script, install it and you are ready to go !!

> If you are using Firefox, first you need to install GreaseMonkey and then download Youtube Video Downloader Script.

> If you are using Google Chrome, Just download the Script and drag it on to your Chrome window to install.

> If you are using Opera, Just save the Script into user javascript folder.

> If you are using Safari, install GreaseKit first.

Now you are just one click away from downloading your favorite YouTube videos !! Goto your favorite YouTube video page, now you can see a download button next to share button below the video, click on that and download video in desired resolution !!
Happy Downloading :)

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