Android market is growing tremendously. Almost in each corner of the world there are Android devices. They are fast, fashionable and intuitive. Android phones have everything for your entertainment: games, apps, chat, video storage, social networks and much more. However, if you are offline, let’s say on vacation, you need to download apps and videos in advance to enjoy them on the go. Plus, your videos should be transferred to Android video format for successful Android upload. To get help with it, search for a video downloader or look at the overview of best online video converters for Android gadgets:

Free YouTube Converter

Free YouTube Converter downloads and converts videos for Android. The program is easy to use. Launch the program and select the “Convert to Android” preset in the upper right corner.

Then go to YouTube, copy a video URL and click “Paste” button in YouTube Converter. The freeware automatically grabs video and prepares it in Android-compatible format. One more good feature of this tool is batch video download mode. You paste a list of video links and rip them all off the Internet. But remember – your Internet connection speed may decrease if you extract a dozen of high-load movies simultaneously.

Media Converter

Media Converter is free online video converter that turns online videos into mpeg4 format. MP4 (MPEG-4 file extension) is Android-friendly video format. Thus, you need to convert videos to mp4 file type.

The web app is intuitive and fast. Copy YouTube link, paste it in web form. After that, you see “Go to the next step” link which transfers you to conversion settings page. Adjust settings, proceed to download and enjoy YouTube videos on your Android phone.

What I like about Media Converter is Mozilla Firefox add-on called “Media Converter”. It lets you download and convert videos directly via your browser.

Zamzar

Zamzar is another web video tool. It has inbuilt download options. Plus, Zamzar converts videos to Android mp4 video format.

Open “Download Videos” Tab, paste YouTube link, select video file format, enter your email and get your video for Android to your email account. Though the app is simple, it requires your email address.

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Plants vs. Zombies was still is one of the best games on the PC delivered by PopCap Games. And this is one of the games that made them so famous and profitable as they are these days. This extremely popular game has already been available on the iOS and now the developers have finally ported to the Android. Indeed an exciting news… Note that due to the holiday sales you can get this game for discount along with a handful of other games like Tetris, SimCity Deluxe, and more – up to 65% off during this time! So hurry up and go get it while you can at a discount.

Game Features

• Conquer all 50 levels of Adventure mode — through day, night and fog, in a swimming pool and on the rooftop
• Battle 26 types of zombies including pole-vaulters, snorkelers and bucket-heads
• Earn 49 powerful perennials and collect coins to buy a pet snail, power-ups and more
• Open the Almanac to see all the plants and zombies, plus amusing “facts” and quotes
• Collect 10 fun-dead achievements
• Enjoy all the zombie-zapping fun of the hit PC/Mac game — fully optimized for Android!
• Hilarious graphics, great soundtrack and a bonus music video

Download Plants vs. Zombies [Android Market Link]

Also have a look at this related article: Download Famous Android Apps Free Like Beautiful Widgets, Smart Office, Paper Camera, Advanced Task Manager, Fruit Ninja HD

Download Plants vs. Zombies For Android [Holiday Discount]

It looks like there are a lot of free games/apps offers during the Christmas time. Earlier we mentioned that Android users can download more than 100 apps/games for free from GetJar which would normally cost money. And now there is Samsung that announced on their Facebook page a handful of paid full version Android games for free for Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy SII (S2) users. If its not available yet in your regions then you can try the Market Enabler tool to try with another region. Here is the list of paid games that are available for free:

• Air Attack HD
• Artillery Brigade
• Bubble Fish
• European War
• GROW AN
• Guru Planet
• Riptide GP HD
• Roboto
• Sprinkle
• Trial Xtreme
• Paladog

Go get while you can this great Christmas gift from Samsung for all gamers on Samsung Galaxy S and SII! You might also be interested to have a look at the Samsung Galaxy S II section on our website where we have covered a large collection of tweaks, tips&tricks and rooting and custom ROM installation guides for the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII).

Download 16 Full Version Android Games For Free – Air Attack HD, Riptide GP HD, Roboto, Sprinkle From Samsung Apps!

GetJar a well known mobile app distribution platform and an alternative to the Android Market is running a fantastic deal these days. Namely they are offering more than 100 paid Android apps for free! This indeed seems to be too good to be true. And these are not your average low quality apps/games as there are some really popular titles included in the offer that would normally cost a lot more money and now you can download for free. There is no mention that for how much time this deal will last and most of the deals here last for a limited time. So better hurry to avail the great offer form GetJar.

If you follow the link to the list of app on their website you can navigate either using the alphabets or manually in horizontally scrollable list. On a mobile Android device any of the apps can be easily download if the GetJar app is installed. Don’t forget to enable the unknown sources to allow installations of these downloaded apps in Settings –> Applications. Here are some of the popular apps/games you can download right now for free:

• Beautiful Widgets
• Unlock with Wi-Fi
• Advanced Task Manager
• BeWeather Pro
• Smart Office
• Tapatalk
• Paper Camera
• Fruit Ninja HD
• Samurai 2: Vengeanc

Hurry up – don’t miss the chance!

Download Famous Android Apps Free Like Beautiful Widgets, Smart Office, Paper Camera, Advanced Task Manager, Fruit Ninja HD

While it might not be a wise idea to download large file on your small and limited capacity iPhone but on the other hand there are indeed some practical use cases where ability to download torrents on  a mobile device can come handy. For example, music files or movies and some other media types along the same lines. iTransmission seems to be the best app available for the iDevices to do so. Process to download the torrent files after the installation of the app is quite typical of what you will follow on a desktop such as a Windows PC with popular clients like uTorrent. First copy link to the torrent file (or a magnet link) and then add it to iTransmission using the plus sign to add it (see fig. below). iTransmission will download the torrent for you and downloaded data can be accessed by using a file navigation utility on a jailbroken device like iFile.

Here are key features of iTransmission as mentioned by the developers:

• Adding task from torrent URL, magnet or local file system.
• Transmission’s web interface.
• Automatic port mapping (UPnP) for users behind routers.
• Choosing which network interface (Cellular network or Wi-Fi) to use.
• Connection and speed limits
• Pretty UI

iTransmission includes common features such as bandwidth capping, port forwarding similar to the popular desktop counterparts. iTransmission should work with the iOS 4 and above. Download the latest version from here.

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Download Torrents on iPhone/iOS Devices Using iTransmission

If you are playing around with a beta build of Windows 8 and kind of frustrated by the Microsoft’s habit of disabling some experimental features you will love a free tool called BluePoison. BluePoison is very nice tool that supports a variety of convenient features among the most useful is the ability to enable the disabled Windows 8 features such as Application folder, Immersive Start Menu and so on. BluePoison can also be used to download the latest builds of Windows 8 and Office 15.

Here are the key features of the BluePoison as provided by the developers:

• Download the latest build of Windows 8 and Office 15, and consult the installation guides.
• Refer to the build-list, constantly updated, the development of Windows 8 [this function will be reintroduced in the next version].
• Unlock the Applications folder (BluePoison 1.x and 2.x).
• Disable the Start Menu Immersive (BluePoison 1.x and 2.x).
• Metro also activate the snap on screens smaller than those supported (BluePoison 2.x).
• Unlock the Ribbon interface (UI BluePoison 1.x).
• Unlock the Modern Task Manager (1.x BluePoison).
• Unlock the Modern Reader (BluePoison 1.x).
• Unlock the theme Auto Color (BluePoison 1.x).
• Webcam unlock the application (BluePoison 1.x).
• Unlock the Immersive Browser (BluePoison 1.x).
• Unlock Pattern Logon (BluePoison 1.x).
• Unlock the Logon Metro (BluePoison 1.x).
• Start Moorea in Office 15 (BluePoison 1.x and 2.x).

Latest version of the BluePoison can be downloaded from the official website.

Enable Disabled Windows 8 Features Using BluePoison

ProxTube is a simple extension that is focused on a specific function and does it very well and also it works very fast as compared to proxy based solutions that comes to mind immediately. Proxies does work but they are slow and sometime can be tricky to use. ProxTube is much more elegant solution that just works. Countries like Germany, Netherlands, Spain are confirmed to be working and are mentioned by the developer. I expect that it will also work in other European countries as well and may be in some other parts of the world. Its functionality can enabled or disabled from a simple toolbar button that is added after installation. One advantage that ProxTube has over the other solutions/services that are available is that unlike many other it will not redirect to any other website as user will stay on YouTube to unblock the video, so its more safe to say from security and user privacy perspective.

Firefox users can download the ProxTube from official Firefox extension repository.

Unblock Blocked YouTube Videos Using ProxTube in Firefox [Tip]

But in the mean time while you wait for the official update for your device, there is no harm in checking out and enjoying the Android Ice Cream Transformation Pack for Windows 7! This transformation is released by hameddanger – a Deviant art user and is available for download for free. As one can expect from its name its heavily inspired by the ICS and includes a custom boot screen, changes to the Start Menu that appears on the top-left on the screen instead of bottom-left as default. There are also new icons inspired by the latest Google OS and host of other enhancements to give you the Android look&feel as much as possible on a Windows 7 system.

After download just install and restart your system once to get changes applied. Android Ice Cream Sandwich Transformation Pack is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

Download Android Skin Pack 2.0 (x86)

Download Android Skin Pack 2.0 (x64)

Also, have a look at our recent articles: Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) Review of Best New Features and as well as: Some Impressive Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) Features That You Don’t Know! to get hang of what the recent ICS craze is all about!

Download Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Transformation Pack For Windows 7

Low Quality Flash is such an extension that approaches the problem of low performance of flash from a different perspective. Basically it modifies the JavaScript on HTML pages to alter OBJECT and EMBED tags on a page setting Adobe Flash objects to "Low Quality." This can vastly improve performance on lower-powered platforms like older computers, cheap netbooks, and cellphones using Firefox Mobile. Latest version of the Low Quality Flash even includes an option to turn-on the medium quality flash in contrast to the low quality flash which is a compromise but might be suitable for some users which consider the contents rendered in low quality to be really not acceptable but medium quality might be ok for them as a good compromise. This is because changing the quality of the flash as done by this Firefox extension can improve the performance (or frame rate) of the flash content but it will also reduce the rendering quality of this content, and it might be very noticeable in some cases depending on the content that a user is viewing. In any case, this is an attractive option for the low-end PC users or for those users using flash in Firefox Mobile version.

Download Low Quality Flash Extension for Firefox

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Improve Flash Performance & Frame Rate in Firefox Using Low Quality Flash Extension

Mozilla has recently released the Firefox 8.0 final version and the number of changes as compared to the previous version are minimal at best. One of highly demanded features that Firefox users have been asking for a long time is the official support for 64-bit builds of the Firefox. Unfortunately, we didn’t get it yet – not even with the recent release of the Firefox 8.0. Firefox 9.0 is not expected to get this 64-bit support either. It seems from some reports that Firefox 10 might be the release when Mozilla will finally add the support for 64-bit builds. Situation is quite frustrating considering that how many users these days are using the 64-bit builds of Windows 7 (or Vista).

Luckily for us, all the Windows users on the 64-bit OS there are some third-parties that are releasing the custom compiled and highly optimized builds of the Firefox for the 64-bit Windows. Pale Moon is one such project that is currently releasing these optimized custom builds of the Firefox which are available for not only 32-bit but also 64-bit. Both types of builds are optimized for speed, efficiency but keep in mind there are some small set of features that are disabled to gain the maximum performance. There are related to accessibility and parental controls and as such not a big issue for the most users. But just a thing to keep in mind. Currently latest Pale Moon builds are only available for Firefox 7 but we can expect that Firefox 8 builds will also be added soon. In any case, as I said in the start the number of new features in Firefox 8 is underwhelming at best.

Highly optimized for modern processors
100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4+)
Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings with this migration tool

Head to the Pale Moon project page to download the optimized custom builds of Firefox for Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available).

Download Highly Optimized Firefox 64-bit Version For Windows [Pale Moon]