NextCall Knows the Last Time You Called Someone, Reminds You to Stay In Touch

Android:  The app keeps track of the last time you called your contacts, lets you set how often you want to stay in touch, and reminds you when it's time to call them again.
NextCall is free, and is designed for people who have a tough time staying in touch, whether it's with friends, business connections, or current customers. After all, part of building a professional (or personal) network is to make sure you stay in touch with the people that matter to you, even if you're busy and otherwise engaged.
Once installed, NextCall ranks your contact list by last-called, but if you're like me and have a lot of contacts, you can break it into business and personal groups so you only see the people you want to speak to regularly. From there, you can set how often you'd like to be reminded to call someone, and the app handles the rest, popping up a push notification when you should call your client, new sales prospect, or your mother.

Lookout Helps You Get Your Lost Phone Back

Protects You Against Mobile Threats

Lookout's new "signal flare" shows you where your phone is on a Google Map if it's ever stolen or you lose it in the back of a cab. The feature works much like previously mentioned Prey, which also supports iOS and Android, but signal flare even works when your phone's battery is weak or about to die. As soon as your battery gets low, the service sends its position to Lookout, just in case. That way your phone doesn't even have to be on for you to get a lead on where it may be now. Additionally, the new version protects against dialer-based attacks, like the kind that that popped up last month, on all Android devices.
Lookout also sports a sharp-looking dashboard that shows you all of the security-related events and activities happening on your phone. Since the app can back up your contacts, call history, and photos, this dashboard shows you whether a backup job is in process. The dashboard also shows you which apps you've installed most recently and whether the app scanned them for known malware, URLs you've visited in your mobile browser and their scan status, and more. The app includes all of this, and still manages to be lightweight.

Lookout's basic features are free, but if you sign up for the company's $3/mo premium service for Android, you unlock the app's real-time URL scanning for phishing and malware attacks, and the Privacy Advisor, which shows you at a glance which apps have access to your personal data.

How to Sideload Android Apps

1. Get apk files
2. Transfer those .apk files from your PC to your Android however you like: on a microSD card through a cloud service such as Dropbox, via a USB transfer, etc.
3. Tweak Application settings (default setting in Android is to not allow the installation of non-Market applications)
4. Go to your Android device's Settings, and under Applications, check the "Unknown sources" box allowing you, in effect, to sideload.
5. To install your .apk apps, you essentially launch the files through a file manager app. Many Android devices come with a file manager preloaded. Good onees are Metago's Astro File Manager or Rhythm Software's File Manager HD for Honeycomb tablets. For folks locked into the Amazon Appstore (users of the Grid10, Kindle Fire, etc.),  ES File Explorer is good
6. you just need to launch your file manager and find them
7. Touching an .apk icon will open the Package Installer, where you can touch the Install button to finish the deed

The Kindle Fire is easily accessible via the mini USB connector. I created a directory called Temp and dump my apps to sideload into that. Once the app is copied onto the Fire, I open Temp with the Astro File Manager and select the app. It will ask if you want to install them.
Some of the HD apps that work with the Fire include:

• Pinball HD for Tegra
• Air Attack HD
• Majesty
• Star Traders