Heart rate app

Instant Heart Rate: Pretty crafty app that turns your phone into a heart rate monitor. One of the most accurate apps to monitor your heart rate. All you have to do is place the tip of your index finger on phone’s camera and in a couple of seconds your Heart Rate will be shown.It uses your phones built-in camera to track color changes on the fingertip that are directly linked to your pulse. This is the same technique that medical pulse oximeters use.A real-time chart will show your every heart beat. You can use it for optimizing your exercise and to track your progress. Here's the link. From the phone search for "instant heart rate" and install. Here's to your health!

Storage app

Google Drive: This is a service offered by Google and it allows you to save your pictures, videos, documents and other files on the Google cloud. Then you'll be able to access these documents from anywhere and share them with your friends. You can make any file available offline, so you can access it even if you don't have Internet access. Also, create and edit Google documents with rich text formatting.  Edits to your Google documents appear to collaborators in seconds. Another feature allows you to take a photo of printed text and convert it to a Google document. Here's the link. From the phone search for "google drive" and install.

Weight Watchers app

Weight Watchers Mobile: If you are using Weight Watchers or want to find out what it is about, try this mobile version of it. With it you can get the latest recipes, health news, exercise ideas, and more right from your phone. This app is fully compatible with their Points Plus program so you can keep track of your weight loss anywhere, anytime. Other features include: a new recipe daily, and save 10 favorites, create shopping lists from recipes, make smarter food choices with interactive Cheat Sheets, get inspired by Success Stories, find tips and helpful articles and also find Weight Watchers meetings in your area. If you subscribe to Weight Watchers Online or eTools you get extra features through your subscription. Very nice. Here's the link. From the phone search for "weight watchers mobile" and install.

Game

Six Guns: If you're a fan of the Wild West and like games, give this one a try. A very nice shooting game that will take you on 40 different missions, where you'll ride horses, take out robbers,  fend off waves of enemies and more. You’ll need to unlock all 8 different horses, 19 weapons and a wide selection of clothes, ammo and other items to help you on your adventure. Here's the link. From the phone search for "six guns" and install.

Coupon app

Groupon-Daily deals: This app gives you daily coupons to use locally. You can get deals on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 500 cities around the world. The coupons get you 50-90% discount from normal prices. The categories are many and include: dancing lessons, hot air balloon rides, pizza and more. You get a new deal every morning and you can search for other deals available any time. You can redeem the deals from your phone and also keep track of your purchased Groupons by location and expiration date. Here's the link. From your phone search for "groupon" and install. Good luck!

Game

Tiki Kart 3D: Pretty nice and easy game with very good graphics. Tiki Bobby challenges his friends and his enemies to a kart race. The choice of cars is very vast and also very funny (a fruit with wheels, a turtle shell with wheels, or a fruity tropical drink, umbrella and all). The game has 15 different tracks and many levels. You can also collect different weapons, mines, fireballs, rockets that will be used to slow down or destroy your competition. Pretty cool. Here's the link. From the phone search for "tiki kart 3d" and install.

First aid app

First aid: This is a good app to have in an emergency situation. The app is designed to help you provide first aid to people in need or to identify different medical problems. It provides pictures, videos and short texts that show you how to take the necessary action step by step and in the right order. Very nice and it will help you in a pinch. Remember always check with your doctor for serious issues. They always know better. Here's the link. From the phone search for "first aid" and install.

Horoscope app

My Horoscope: If you are interested in this kind of things, this is one very good horoscope for Android. It has horoscope for all the signs for 5 days (previous 2 days, today and next 2 days). You can share info with Facebook, Twitter and other social media. According to the developer the horoscope is prepared by an astrology expert. Here's the link. From the phone search for "my horoscope" and install.

Car Shopping app

Cars.com: If you're looking to buy a car or just trying to research cars, give this app a chance. It provides tons of information that you can use in the process of buying a new car. It's a cool tool you can use in the middle of negotiation with that mean car dealer.You can search for new cars or used cars, you can see photos and details, save your favorite car or dealer, calculate car payments or get directions to a dealership or a private seller address. Very nice! Here's the link. From the phone search for "cars.com" and install.

Entertainment app

The Daily Show Headlines: If you like Jon Stewart, now you can have access to his show from your phone. With this app you can watch headlines from the last 2 weeks, a clip archive, upcoming guests news and schedule alerts. It doesn't have full episodes (at least not yet), but it has a lot of content. If you like politics with a hint a humor you might like this app. Here's the link. From the phone, search for "the daily show" and install.

Fitness tracking app

Endomondo Sports Tracker: Another good app for those interested in keeping their fitness. It allows you to track your fitness, challenge friends and send them pep talks in real-time. You can use this for running, cycling, walking or other activities. It has a real time GPS tracking of time, distance, speed & calories,audio feedback for every mile or km, workout route on a map, history with lap times and many more cool features. Here's the link. From the phone search for "endomondo" and install. Be happy, be healthy!

Web surfing app

StumbleUpon: If you like to surf the Internet looking for interesting stuff, give this app a try. With it, you can discover new and interesting stuff across the Internet. It allows you to discover photos, videos, web pages and more, recommended by people sharing your interests. You can also follow Channels (sites, people and brands you may already know) and explore content hand-picked by Channel curators. Or you can search by typing specific words or phrases. There is a way to share your finds with your friends via email, StumbleUpon, Google+, Facebook, Twitter and more. Here's the link. From the phone search for "stumble upon" and install.

android reverse tools - ART

here's a cool tool i was shown the other day. it's an easy-mode gui for all your decompiling and recompiling needs. ordinarily this would be rather unimpressive. it's not too hard to write a little wrapper for some java commands, but he/she really put some polish on this.

not only does it come with everything you need, including java and bits of the android sdk, but it even has a slick manual and a complete walk-through for my lesson0.crackme0.

here's a screen shot of the app:

 

here's the link to download (24mb): http://ul.to/or3kme6t
virus scan: https://www.virustotal.com/file/f6ac4279161b666811d80736a7a23790709c5b3ccb36a8f83dd138d9601eb480/analysis/1334082130/

as a first exercise, i recommend that you update the apktool included with the pack. it may have gone out of date. you can update the other components if you're so inclined but it might not help much.

if you have any trouble decompiling or compiling, remember it's using apktool under the hood so trouble shoot apktool first.

and if you want some more crackmes to try, here's deurus' profile on crackmes.de: http://crackmes.de/users/deurus

Game

Scramble With Friends: Another great game from the developers of "Words with friends".  Same as the other one is fast, fun and it can be played even with friends that have IPhones. The objective of the game is to find words on a board full of scrambled letters, by choosing adjacent letters before the time expires. Very simple and fun. Here's the link. From the phone search for "scramble with friends" and install. Have fun!

Travel app

Hotels.com: This is one of the best hotel booking app available for an Android smartphone. It provides you with access to over 140,000 hotels in over 200 countries. Many cool features: "tonight's local deals" has special daily deals available only to Hotels.com mobile users. You can search for hotels close to where you are or search on an interactive map. Plus, the app will remember your past, present and future reservations with access to them even offline. The app is available in  34 languages in more than 70 countries. Here's the link. From the phone search for "hotels.com" and install.

Photo sharing app

Instagram: This is a cross between Facebook and Twitter type of apps that allows you to find friends and share all kind of pictures with them. Just like with Twitter you can follow people and like Facebook you can post pictures online for your friends. Then you can "like" some one's photos and others can "like" yours. The app provides several filters that help you touch up your photos before you post them. You can also share your pictures to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare. Here's the link. From the phone search for "instagram" and install. This is a very popular app. Go ahead. Try it and see what the big fuss is all about.

Social app

Moco: This is an app for our younger users. Within the app you can play games, make friends, meet new people. A cool place to socialize with people and have fun in the same time. The games are not top of the line but they're fun and easy to enjoy with your new friends. Here's the link. From the phone search for "moco" and install.

Personal finance app

Mint.com: This is an app that allows you to track, manage and budget your money. With Mint you can keep track of your accounts in one place, so you can track your spending, create a budget and save more money (nothing wrong with that). You can also set up the app to send you email or text alerts that notify you of upcoming bills, fees, low balances, unusual activity and more. The app is passcode protected and if you lose your phone you can log in to Mint.com and terminate access to the account from the device. Here's the link. From the phone search for "mint.com" and install. Happy saving!