Friday, 26 October 2012

5 Useful Widgets Every Androider Must Have

Widgets helps you to do certain useful stuffs with your smart-devices. These special applications are pretty useful; they boost the performance of your device, serve unique functionality and make your daily tasks easy.  Android users will find numerous widgets in Google Play; here we have listed the most useful ones which are available for free.

1. Netquin: Android Booster

The Netquin Android booster is a system optimization tool. As the name suggests this widget boosts the performance of your android device by maintain the optimum performance. It comes with features like battery saving and task management.


The users of this widget can optimize their devices in just one tap by closing all unwanted application, connectivity options and freezing the memory for better processing. The application is also internally linked with other free utilities of Netquin.


The most interesting and useful feature in this widget is the presence of 'bandwidth manager’; this feature supervises the data usage of the device and therefore keep a check on your data consumption.



2. Evernote Widget
The Evernote Widget application lets you jot down all the important stuffs on your smartphone. So, with Evernote at your service you don’t have to worry much about your forgetting habit. With Evernote you can take notes in simple text or pictures, and you can even make it an audio or video file.

The Evernote Android app is as efficient as its web version for PCs and it provides all the similar functionalities for Android devices. The note created in Evernote gets automatically saved on the Cloud servers of Evernote. This means users can access their notes anytime later with any device having an internet connection.


With this widget sitting at your home screen, you just have to select the type of note you want to create and the rest is done by the widget. This application also lets you to tag the location from which you created the note with the usage of GPS technology.


3. Audio Manager

We all know that Android platform is quite open when compared to iOS and Windows Phone, but still androiders crave for more customization especially in terms of audio and this need is somewhat fulfilled by the Audio Manager widget.


This simple widget lets the user control the volume and sound levels of the device for different functions like ringing, alarms, media and even for notifications. Even though there are some options in Android to the do the same tasks, but the Android Manager does it in a more simplified and elaborated way.


With Android Manager you can set different profiles to make you device behave differently at different places and situations. All this happens in just one touch.


4. Battery Solo Widget

If you want to see the full glory of your device battery, then have this widget. This application lets you know how much juice is left and also gives you a detailed numerical clarification if you need any.


The widget lets you know the battery health and temperature so that you can maintain the device is a better way to have the best possible performance. It also reveals the weekly usage chart and will make you understand which usage patter is the best.



5. Tiny Flashlight
Tiny Flashlight is an incredibly simple and useful widget which converts your device's camera LED or flash or screen into a torch. As most of the smartphones now days comes with LED flashlights this application is a very much useful at times of need.

This Tiny Flashlight supports features like SOS signaling, strobe light and hazard lights as well. There are Warning Lights, Police Lights, Color Flashlight, Strobe Flashlight, Morse Code, Text to Morse, Manual Morse Code, Camera Light - Different light sources, which may be useful in various situations. The users can even change the brightness and the colors, and the application also offers different widgets to choose from.


To make your camera flash work as a torch the application asks permission to access a small part of the camera hardware. But don’t worry about this; the app is not going to take any pictures or videos without your knowledge.

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