This Week's Best Android and iOS Apps!

This Week's Best Android Apps:

Purchased Apps

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TruBackup

Description: "truBackup - The easy-to-use backup and restore app. truBackup is the backup assistant you need, with its great features and simplicity, it makes phone backup and restore activity very simple. truBackup - Backup and Restore app is designed with the principle: "My Backup My Cloud"."

MyCar Locator

Description: "My Car Locator Free is the easiest to use free car locator in the Google Play Store, with all essential information displayed at all times. MyCar Locator uses your GPS to remember where you park with the push of just one button and guides you back to your car easily. Never again forget where you have parked!"

This Week's Best iOS Apps:

Calendate - Most Stylish Calendar - Jitkem Tienngam

Description: "Enhance and personalize your calendar with Calendate, plan your day according to the weather, decorate your calendar with icons and themes, never miss your friends’ birthdays and public holidays, instantly share your events to your friends."

Ita - A List App To Do List-Making. Beautiful, Quick, Simple Lists. - Nice Mohawk

Description: "Ita makes list-making and note-taking quick, fun, and simple. In other words, better. We’ve made it easy to mark stuff you’ve done, move items around, and keep track of everything you want to remember."

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GO Backup (Android) - Super fast and easy backup

The GO development team has done an excellent job with their launcher and a slew of other great apps and add-ons, so it should come as no surprise that they've done it again with a simple, fast and smooth backup solution for everything that needs backing up on your Android device.

Developer Quote:

Stable,fast,simple and totally free. Backup all your contacts,messages and apps. Official backup app developed by GO Dev team.

Main Features：
-Backup contacts,messages,GO launcher settings and apps;
-Backup apps data（needs ROOT）;
-Hide annoying app installation interface when restore apps（needs ROOT）;
-GO Account supported


GO Backup is FREE on Google play
 
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Sprite Backup (Android) - Backup everything!

A bit costly at $4.95 on the Android Market at the time of this writing, nevertheless what the app offers makes it worth it. Free online backup of everything you can imagine on your Android 2.2 phone.

The video below will give you a good overview.



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Toucan - Portable sync, backup and secure

Many of you know the usefulness of portable apps, which you carry around on your thumb drive. Here's one that is so tiny, yet provides more features than many full desktop apps. From the developer:

"Toucan is a small utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want. This version features:

* Four synchronisation modes, copy, update, mirror and equalise.
* Backup and restore in industry standard zip and 7-zip files, with support for complete backups, updating existing backups and differential backups, as well as restoring files from an archive.
* AES-256 encryption using ccrypt
* Command line support, allows you to create a batch file for repeated jobs
* Variables, point to places on you USB drive no matter what its drive letter is."

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Backupify - Online backup of your online presence

Sign up for the service and get it free if you sign up by January 31. From the developer:

"Your lifestream contains important data, but all those pictures, videos, documents, and blog posts are exposed to potential loss. Some web 2.0 services shut down without warning. Others are hacked. Sometimes data is lost from basic human error, or the intentional actions of a disgruntled employee. Don't put your lifestream at risk when there is a simple, easy, low cost way to back it up."

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Everyday Auto Backup - The name says it all

Guess what. If backup isn't easy, very few people will do it. And they're not the kind of people you'd want to drink a beer with, most likely. So that's why the world needs simple and automated backup solutions like this one. From the developer:

"Everyday Auto Backup is an easy-to-use software designed to backup files automatically. After you added or modified a backup project, this software will immediately generate the list of today's tasks according to the project's settings. When the start time of a backup task arrives, this software will automatically start the backup task in the background without manual intervention."

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GoodSync - A powerhouse of file syncing and backup

In the pantheon of syncing and backup gods, GoodSync lives among the clouds with the best. I love it for how it plays so well with RoboForm, its close cousin developed by the same company, Siber Systems. I use it primarily to keep my logon info synced between computers, and it does this easily and efficiently, but it can do so much more: It syncs all kinds of files, photos, emails, etc. between various devices and performs backups of same.

GoodSync has a free and a paid version, Pro2. The paid version adds unlimited jobs and file syncing.

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SpiderOak - Another free (2Gb) online backup/storage solution

Does backup intimidate you? There's no need for that with applications like this one. With online backup there's no need to decide where you're going to backup to. And this app allows you not only to use it for backup, but also for synchronization, sharing, remote access, and storage. From the site:

"Whether you need to access a document you have stored on a remote server, synchronize data between a Mac, Windows or Linux device, share important business documents with your clients, or just rest easy knowing all of your data is safely, securely, and automatically backed up - SpiderOak's free online backup, online sync and online sharing solution can handle all your needs!

SpiderOak offers a different approach to online backup by combining a suite of services into one consolidated tool - free online backup, synchronization, sharing, remote access, and storage. This difference is further measured in our zero-knowledge privacy policy - the first one ever employed in this setting. Our flexible design allows you to handle data from any operating system (Mac, Windows and Linux) or location (external drives, network volumes, USB keys, etc...) using just one centralized account."

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GFI Backup Home Edition - A simple and free backup solution

I won't talk about how you hate the task of backing up your data, because my readers are very intelligent people and I know you already do regular backups. Right? Right. So instead I will suggest that GFI is a free and simple way to accomplish your backup tasks. From the website:
"GFI Backup 2009 allows you to back up all your important documents, photos, music, emails and program settings using a simple but smart wizard-driven interface to nearly every storage device (including local and external disk drives, LAN, CD/DVD, removable devices, remote FTP servers, etc.)."

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gdocbackup - Download and Backup all your Google Docs

This nice little utility app will quickly and easily download an offline copy of your Google Docs.

"GDocBackup is simple utility to backup (export) all your documents from Google Documents to local disk. It's open source, freeware and licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0
It does a simple backup: for each document in Google Docs, it downloads the document if the document is not present on the local disk or if it has a different date.
GDocBackup uses the official Google Data APIs (.NET version). The GDocBackup.x.x.x.BIN.zip file contains all required files."



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CrashPlan - Planning for the inevitable

Computers crash. OK, not always, but often enough that it makes sense to have a plan for the possibility. Here's an app that makes it (relatively) easy to be ready if (when) it happens. From the website:

"No buttons to push or CDs to burn. Simply install CrashPlan and it quietly runs in the background protecting your files without slowing you down.

It's free to back up personal files to your own local and offsite destinations.

Your files are encrypted at your choice of multiple offsite destinations. Only offsite backup protects your files from theft, fire, and other local disasters. CrashPlan insures your privacy by encrypting your files before they are sent, keeping personal files personal.


With CrashPlan you have the freedom to choose your backup destinations. Back up your new Mac to your old PC, your laptop to a friend's desktop, whichever you want. Worried about using too much space on a friend's computer? Just attach a USB drive and back up to it using CrashPlan."

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BackUp Maker - A simple and free backup solution

Whether you want to backup your data to a CD or hard drive, this app will make it simple to set up and forget. From the website:

"BackUp Maker is the professional solution for creation of data-backups. The ease of use as well as the range of functions enable you to create backup tasks for saving files and folders with a lack of time.

Once the backup task has been configured you may forget backup creation confidently - BackUp Maker saves your files fully automated, depending on time and interval settings or on system events like Windows log-on or log-off.

Reduce data capacity by using partial backups or limit data with the power of wide-ranging filter options. Go the secure way creating multiple backup generations."

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KLS Mail Backup - Free, easy email and profile backups

Protect your email and Firefox profile data from loss with this super-simple backup utility. KLS Mail Backup will backup "and restore your Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox profile files."

KLS Mail Backup

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