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This one is for those who breathe, eat, drink cricket !
A swash-buckling century from Sachin Tendulkar, or a game changing hat-trick from Lasith Malinga; Chasing down a total of 434 or bowling a team out for less than 50 – never miss out on anything spectacular that happens on the cricket field. The guys at Cricbuzz present to you, the best cricket and the most reliable cricket app for your android – Cricbuzz for  Cricket Scores and News.

It has quick score updates and ball by ball text commentary that helps you visualize the action as and when it unfolds. There is an Audio commentary in English and other regional languages – if listening is your thing. Gives an updated list of schedules and results of recent matches.

You also have photos, player profiles, player and team rankings and much more. You can even share the score on Facebook / Twitter with your friends.

A must for all cricket lovers – Enjoy your cricket on the move !

I often get disturbed late night by unwanted, unimportant calls. Also, many a times, I get a wrong number at 2.30 am ! Sounds familiar ?

Well, this app helps you avoid such situations. Aptly called “I’m Sleeping”, once you activate it, and set your sleeping time (going to bed and waking up), it will put your phone automatically into silent mode during those times. So no more annoying late night calls !

But, what if there is an emergency ? Well, you have an option for setting a whitelist of  numbers which can call you any time of the day or night. So you need not worry about missing a single call from your old mother or your loving son from anywhere in the world. There is also another setting which allows calls to get through, if the caller is repeatedly dialling your number.

A great app for sleeping soundly !

This one is extremely useful when one is in a new place and would like to withdraw cash.

This application can be used to locate nearest ATM centers of all available banks in India.
It works without using GPS. You can get a list of Public ATM centers available within 1000 meters in a sorted order from nearest to farthest. You also have an option to get a quick map view which is integrated in the application.

You can also get address, phone number (if available) of the nearest ATM center. Keeping in mind Indian customers optimized in such a way that it works great even in 2G internet connection.

Very good for emergencies and late nights !

This nifty app, helps you learn more than 100 management, business and personal productivity skills from the MindTools.com toolkit. Build useful skills whenever you have a spare moment.
Skill types include leadership, team management, strategy, problem solving, decision-making, project management, time management and personal productivity, stress management, communication, creativity and career development.
With more than 100,000 downloads, this is a useful resource for all those who want to move up the management ladder – on the move !

This is one of my favorite task managers. You can enter the tasks by date and time, give priority to each task by assigning colors and best of all, you can manage your tasks from anywhere – your phone (there is a version each for android, ipad & blackberry phones) or your computer.
You can manage your tasks offline, integrate them with Google Calendar. Sharing of tasks is easy and so is getting reminders – by Email, by Instant Messenger or by SMS
In short, it is the best way to manage tasks – Never Forget the Milk or anything else again !

Many costly phones have this feature – in a single click, you take many shots (as many as 30 per second) and then select the best one – maybe where the smile is best or the eyes are not closed.
This simple app, allows you to do just that. It takes upto 30 shots per second. Just hold the shoot button for continuous burst. There is no lag. The full, paid version also supports flash, focus and zoom.
The app is great for sports shots, pictures of kids or pets or even analyse your cricketing action, frame by frame !
It is a must-have for those who want great photos with no second-chances

This one is just for making noise ! It has a variety of Sirens and Horns which you can play at will, for fun, entertainment or just to irritate a friend !
What you will find here are ambulance sirens, police sirens, different types of bugles, Air Raid, Air Horns, etc. etc. Each of them is an actual, high quality, loud sound which is fully realistic. The sounds are updated often for your hearing pleasure, with new ones being added periodically.
If you press and hold a particular link, you can set a unique horn/siren ringtone to a contact, set it as the default ringtone or create a unique sound for notification or an alarm.
Have some fun and let nobody accuse you of being the silent type !

For phone and tablet, this application includes Currency Converter, Loan, Loan Comparison and Refinance Calculator, Compound Interest Calculator, Credit Card Pay Off Calculator, Regular Calculator, Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator, IRR NPV Calculator and Percentage Calculator. It is like an all-in-one for Calculators.
It also allows you to edit and prioritize the list of calculators for easy access.
So forget the complex, old-fashioned Calculators – you have a winner here for all types of Financial Calculations. Available free on the Google Play Store.

Download the Magnifier app for free on your phone. And what does it do ? It just magnifies !  This simple app uses the in-built camera of your phone to magnify the material to which you point and displays it on your screen  – pretty cool for older people and also reading the fine print for the not-so-old !  You can adjust the zoom with the help of the on-screen slider or with the Volume Control buttons on your phone. It also has a built-in sensor, which senses low light – if you are trying to read something in poor light, it will also activate the flash of your phone, so you can read it like normal.

Everyone has heard of the Amazon Kindle – a book reader which costs about Rs. 17,500 on which you can read a zillion books by downloading them, some free and some paid for. Your smartphone can double up as a Kindle Book Reader. Just download the app and you are ready to use your Smartphone as a book reader ! Apart from reading a variety of books, you can bookmark the pages, increase / decrease the fonts, highlight portions of text and add your personalised notes to any section ! Further, if you want to know the meaning of a word, you can look up the dictionary right there. You can Search for words or phrases within the book, in Wikipedia or on the Web, right from your reading page.
As I said earlier, the books can be free or paid for. So how does one reach out for free books available on Kindle ? Head straight to http://www.hundredzeros.com and you will get a list of hundreds of books at zero price ! So go ahead – HAPPY READING FOR FREE !