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On any mobile phone, you need to backup your data and that too, regularly. Well, your favorite android phone is no exception to this ultra-true rule. So, today, we have got 6 Top Free No-Root-Required backup applications for you, right here. Without wasting much time lets just go straight into applications. Note: There are other (than what we’ve discussed below) great backup apps like Titanium Backup ( link to Android Market ), myBackup, etc. but we’ve just picked up only those which don’t require Root access and that they are not just trial apps too. BTW, we’ll cover such apps shortly in our upcoming article on Best Backup Android Apps for Rooted phones — paid and free.  For now, if you’re looking to back up yous apps with app’s data too, Titanium backup is the best choice, provided you’ve rooted you phone. Backup Everything Backup Master     Backup Everything isn’t available in the Android market now, but the good news is this that another app called Backup...

You may need to backup your data if you are planning on changing your phone, be able to get back everything in case of a theft/loss or to just get the phone the way it was before (without losing Contacts/SMS). I did it for the last reason & surprisingly the battery life doubled, exactly what I needed (probably because of lots of background services not running anymore). Better backup before the world gets upside down on you. (Note: This guide is for both non-rooted & rooted phones but users having root access should try Titanium Backup) Things we will Backup Contacts System Settings SMS Call Logs - Applications Software you’ll need Astro File Manager SMS Backup & Restore Call Logs Backup & Restore AVG Anti-Virus Free  (Optional) Contacts & System Settings If you have a Gmail account associated with your phone (& definitely it is) than it’s a non-issue because all your contacts are automatically backed up with Gmail & in the ...

From the Newspaper |  Cyril Almeida  | 26th August, 2012 IT began with the flag. A strip of white slapped on, but separate and away from the sea of green — the problem was there from the very outset: one group cast aside from the rest. A more prescient mind would have thought to put the white in the middle, enscon-ced in a sea of green, a symbolic embrace of the other. But why blame the flag? It began with the founding theory. A country created for Muslims but not in the name of Islam. Try selling that distinction to your average Pakistani in 2012. 1947 was another country and it still found few takers. Pakistan’s dirty little secret isn’t its treatment of non-Muslims or Shias or the sundry other groups who find themselves in the cross-hairs of the rabid and the religious. Pakistan’s dirty little secret is that everyone is a minority. It begins with Muslim and non-Muslim: 97 per cent and the hapless and helpless three. But soon enough, the sectarian ...

From the Newspaper |  Cyril Almeida  | 26th August, 2012 IT began with the flag. A strip of white slapped on, but separate and away from the sea of green — the problem was there from the very outset: one group cast aside from the rest. A more prescient mind would have thought to put the white in the middle, enscon-ced in a sea of green, a symbolic embrace of the other. But why blame the flag? It began with the founding theory. A country created for Muslims but not in the name of Islam. Try selling that distinction to your average Pakistani in 2012. 1947 was another country and it still found few takers. Pakistan’s dirty little secret isn’t its treatment of non-Muslims or Shias or the sundry other groups who find themselves in the cross-hairs of the rabid and the religious. Pakistan’s dirty little secret is that everyone is a minority. It begins with Muslim and non-Muslim: 97 per cent and the hapless and helpless three. But soon enough, the sectarian ...

Why you should read  Obama's Wars Hours after his election as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama learned details of the top-secret circumstances that defined the Afghanistan conflict, a war characterized by inadequate resources, incomplete planning, inchoate strategy and ongoing bloodshed. Bob Woodward of  The Washington Post  applied his legendary reporting skills to reams of meeting notes, classified reports and interviews to recreate the often tempestuous policy making on Afghanistan that marked Obama’s first 18 months in office. Woodward’s trip to Afghanistan and his unfettered access to top officials in more than 100 interviews, including more than an hour with the president, put you at the center of marathon meetings, disputes and discussions peopled by contrasting personalities and their shifting allegiances. getAbstract  recommends this masterful work of reporting, an engrossing book on how the US is managing a war “with no good option...