Best New Year's Apps For Android

It's time for the last party of the year! And to help you celebrate, I have put together some Android apps to help you ring in the New Year in style. So get a babysitter, put on your best outfit, and get the noisemakers and champagne ready. We're gonna party like it's , errr 2011!

Times Square Official Ball App by Countdown Entertainment (free)
Just because you are out and about in Middle Of Nowhere, USA, don't feel like you have to miss out on the traditional New York celebration. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square LIVE to your phone! Join millions of revelers around the world to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2011 LIVE. The Official Times Square Ball App is your exclusive access to be part of the activities in Times Square as you watch the LIVE co-hosted official show featuring A-List musical performances, celebrity appearances, first Times Square Wedding, hourly countdowns and the midnight Ball Drop!

Features:

• Participate in the celebration by submitting your New Year’s photo for friends, family and other revelers to vote on. Their favorites may be selected to be seen on the Toshiba Vision sign atop One Times Square directly beneath the Waterford Crystal New Year’s Eve Ball on December 31st! The selected photos will also be featured on the LIVE Show.
• Discover everything you need to know about the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration including the history, news, weather, photos, relevant maps and LIVE Show schedule.
• Send New Year’s Eve kisses and share photos with friends and family.
• Watch live streaming of the events in Times Square leading up to New Year’s Eve throughout December as well as the highlight promo and other exclusive video content.
• Customize your Toshiba Countdown Clock with your personal photo and time zone.
• Check-in via Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter to find out how far away you are from Times Square.

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New Years Buzzer by Iconosys Inc (free) 
This app covers all of your New Year's requirements by providing a count down, tracking your resolutions, and letting you send out a quick "Happy New Year" to all your friends with no effort. New Year’s Buzzer let's you:

• Place and track your 2011 New Year's resolutions. A daily tracking prompt is presented where you can confirm that you kept your personal commitment to bettering yourself. Celebratory congratulations are given each day where the resolution is kept. 
• Display an attractive New Year’s countdown running on your phone. 
• At 10 seconds to New Year’s, the phone wakes, strobes, and a huge crowd counts down with you and your party until the stroke of midnight. 
• Gives you the ability to text simultaneous your custom Happy New Year’s wishes to anyone and everyone in your contacts list. But beware - the default adds everyone in your address book unless you edit it.
• New Year’s Buzzer is available in English as well as Spanish.

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New Year Greetings by XStudio Technologies (free)
Need a toast or want to appear a little more coherent than the multiple alcoholic beverages you have consumed would normally allow you to be? Then this is the app for you. Get a collection of all types of New Year Greetings - inspirational, funny, motivational and poetic that you can send via SMS, Gmail, or post them on Facebook and Twitter.

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New Year’s Eve Multilanguage by Neuro Software (free)
Do you want to impress fellow revelers by wishing everyone "Happy New Year" in several languages? Then this is the app for you! Multilingual "Happy New Year" greetings for 91 different countries in more than 30 languages. Actual pronunciations are provided via google translation. Send greetings by text, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Messenger, and Yahoo e-mail. LONG PRESS on a country to say Happy New Year translated that language to your foreign friends
sort by population or alphabetically.

New Year's Eve Multilanguage

New Years Tidbits by Radiant Monkey Software (free)
Be the geek of the party by providing a plethora of informational tidbits about New Year's Eve in true Cliff Claven fashion (reference to the TV show Cheers). You can also send the info via email and Facebook.

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New Year’s Eve Toast 2010-2011 by Neuro Software (free)
We don't need no stinkin' champagne!!! Not when you have your Android Phone with the amazing New Year's Eve Toast application. With it you will have all the well known drinks to toast with and also, when shaking (toasting with your phone) you will hear a crystal clear toast sound coming from the glass inside your phone. So enjoy a high tech way to toast everyone in a sober but festive manner without having to resort to drinking that awful sparkling apple juice.

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Best Free Android Christmas Games

Merry Christmas everyone! I've put together a collection of some of the best Christmas games to play on your Android phone this holiday season. There's something for everyone - from kids to teens to adults. So start downloading and start playing.

Angry Birds Seasons by Rovio Mobile (free)
This is the Christmas version of one of the most popular mobile phone games out there. Don't pass this one by! The cold weather and Christmas season hasn't slowed down the birds or the pigs at all. Launch the birds at the pig's hideouts to squash the hiding pigs.

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WHAC-A-MOLE Whacky Xams FREE by Kilo Games (free)
Get rid of some of your Christmas frustrations by taking a mallet and whacking a couple of moles with this fun, mindless game. Oh, I think the mole on the right looks like Uncle Stanley - you know, the one that is always sitting there around the Christmas tree quietly passing gas with a smile on his face.

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Bubble Blast Holiday by Magma Mobile (free)

In Bubble Blast, you have to destroy all of the holiday themed christmas bubbles that appear on the screen. Each time you touch a bubble, it either expands to the next size, or it bursts. When a bubble bursts, it also impacts the surrounding bubbles by either bursting them or increasing their size. You have a limited number of touches for level. Therefore, you need to plan out your touches.

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Christmas Puzzle : Jigsaw by MobileMelon (free)

This is a jigsaw puzzle game where you drag the pieces around on the screen to complete the holiday image. The more you advance, the harder Christmas jigsaw puzzle gets.

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City Jump Xmas Season by DroidHen (free)

In this game, you help either Santa or Rudolph jump between buildings, avoid obstacles, and kill enemies (I guess Christmas just got a little more ruthless this year!). Tap screen to jump. Kill enemies by jumping in the air. Avoid hurdles on walls. Power up by eliminating 3 enemies of the same kind.

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GRave Defense Christmas by ArtofBytess (free)
It looks like zombies aren't just for Halloween anymore in this game where in a post apocalyptic world you try and save the few remaining humans from zombies decked out in their holiday finest.

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Kids Connect The Dots Xmas by Anahoret (free)

This is a dot-to-dot kids game for preschool-age kids. Kids join all the dots and reveal colorful image that is sure to excite your kids. 25 puzzles are included.

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Christmas Slots by Apostek Software (free)

If you have to take a break from the casino in order to celebrate Christmas with the family this year, then this game is for you. Play a slot machine with Christmas images. C'mon Santa, mommy needs a fur coat!

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Santa's helper by Apostek Software (free)

Help Santa deliver Christmas presents this holiday season by tossing gifts to the waiting children.

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RINGTONES FROM YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES AND SHOWS

Everyone has their favorite scenes from different Christmas movies or shows. It may bring back a fond memory or it may just be something that makes you crack up every time you see it. I've scoured the Android app market to find some free apps that take these scenes and turn them into ringtones that you can put on your phone.

NOTE:  There are other apps out there that provide ringtones for other classic Christmas movies and tv shows such as Elf, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Frosty The Snowman, etc. I didn’t provide info on these apps because they either are NOT free (Bah Humbug!) or require you to install another application in order to work (I think we already have too much to do this holiday season). If you want to give some of these a try, just head over to www.appbrain.com and perform a search.

Christmas Vacation Ringtones by Oliod (free)
This is one of my favorite Christmas movies, as it provides some some relief from the non-stop barrage of sappy holiday shows and captures the reality of what most people are really experiencing while getting ready for Christmas. This app provides various sound bites from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation movie. While it would be hard to get all of the great sound bites from this movie, I found a lot of the more classic lines were either missing or cut short, including one of my favorites by Clark Griswald:

“Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy s@$%! Where's the Tylenol?”

The sound quality is mixed with some clips being clear and others not. Also, the volume level seems to fluctuate from clip to clip. Be aware though that this app will copy the audio file to your SD card and does not provide a way to delete the file within the app. To delete, you will have use a file manager such as Astro or connect your phone to your computer and delete it that way. The developer is working on adding a delete function to the app. In the meantime, here is how to delete the file from your computer: 
1. Close down the app, and plug your phone into a PC (mount as external disk).
2. Browse to the folders on the device.
    \media\audio\ringtones
    \media\audio\notifications
    \media\audio\alarms
3. Delete the files in those folders.
4. Reboot the phone.
Now the ringtones will be gone from the lists in the phone settings.

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A Christmas Story Soundboard by Dream Portal Entertainment (free)
This app has a collection of sound bites from the infamous A Christmas Story movie. Over 80 sound bites are provided and cover most of the classic lines including, “You'll shoot your eye out, kid.” and dialogue from when Flick is triple dog dared to lick the flag pole.  Clips are broken into five categories:  Narrator, Ralphie, Randy, Family, and Other. Sound quality is good.

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A Charlie Brown Holiday Sounds by Dream Portal Entertainment (free)
This app provides sound clips from A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. All of the best known clips from the shows seem to be available, however, the sound quality on some of them seem to be lacking. A list of interesting facts are also provided about the two shows.

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FREE CHRISTMAS WALLPAPER APPS

Amid all of the holiday craziness that seems to be in full swing now, I have put together a collection of Christmas wallpaper apps. Because let’s face it, after decorating your house, the yard, the tree, your office, the car, Christmas cookies, and the dog, how can you not decorate your phone?!?!
 
Christmas Wallpapers by Sancron (free)
This app provides over 50 different Christmas themed wallpapers.  A wide range of images are provided, including, photographs, graphics, Winnie the Pooh, a Charlie Brown Christmas, Anne Geddes, etc. Open the app to scroll through the different wallpaper images and then press and hold the screen to open the wallpaper menu and set your new wallpaper.

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Christmas Wallpapers by App Elves (free)
This app provides a collection of over 100 Christmas themed wallpapers to choose from. Images consist of strictly graphics. Open the app to scroll through the images. A set wallpaper button is provided in the app.

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Christmas Wallpaper Changer by Ubergraphic (free)
This app is different from a lot of the other wallpaper apps in that it can be set up to automatically change the 19 different wallpapers provided. You can set up the app to change the wallpaper randomly and set the interval at which the wallpaper changes. 

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Christmas Lights LiveWallpaper by Applet Turnover (free)
This app provides a live wallpaper of multi-colored Christmas lights around the edge of your screen that blink. To install, press Menu > Wallpaper > Live wallpapers > Christmas Lights.

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Christmas Magic Live Wallpaper by Wolf Labs (free)
Here is another live wallpaper app. Snowflakes gently fall on a snow covered landscape of Christmas trees. Touch on the snowflake and see it change into something interesting. Shake your phone for more surprises. You can customize the settings and edit the snowflake into different sizes and transparency, speed etc.

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Christmas Tree Live Wallpaper by 1473labs (free)
This live wallpaper app shows a decorated Christmas tree with lights and snow falling in the background. In the settings, you can change the type of tree, speed or snow, quantity of snow, color of lights, shape of lights, number of lights, and the sparkle of the lights. You can also purchase (for $0.93) the MyTree option which will let you design your own Christmas trees for this wallpaper.

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Sleeps to Christmas Countdown by Neuro Software (free)
This app is a live wallpaper that displays an image of Santa Claus holding a sign that says how many “sleeps” are left till Christmas. I don’t know why it says “sleeps” and not “days”, but to each their own I guess.

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