My Favorite Android Apps
Mar. 1st, 2010 11:44 pm[Based on a list by Bill Yerazunis]
- Seesmic: the best Twitter client I have tried for Android, by far.
- Google Voice: replace Verizon voicemail with a free, well-integrated voicemail service from Google
- A Online Radio: Stream your favorite station live over your 'Droid.
- eBuddy: client for all the major instant messengers
- Fandango: find where that movie is playing and score some tickets
- Foursquare: tell all your friends where you are
- Moby: share your image, video, and audio files simply and easily
- FBReader: MobiPocket book reader
- PicSay: caption your phone pics, right in the phone. can haz?
- Advanced Task Killer: make it stop!
- Antivirus: speaks for itself
- Apps Organizer: better use of your home screen
- Compass: find the directions
- Digital Clock: throw away your travel alarm
- DroidLight: emergency flashlight
- HandyCalc: symbolic calculator with graphics and solver. It's not Matlab, but it's not bad at all for a phone.
- Alarm Clock: Handy handy handy, especially in situations where Digital Clock would be in the way.
- Tricorder (and Audalyzer): use your phone's sensors for something useful!
- ConnectBot: SSH for your phone.
- AndroidVNC: VNC for your phone
- Ultrachron Lite: a stopwatch, done right
- Where's My Droid: how to find your phone in the couch cushions, even if it's in "totally silent" mode.
- SavvyShopper: scan a bar code, and get a price for it, both local bricks-n-mortar stores and online (Amazon, et al).
- Pandora: Music to Go. 40 hours a calendar month limit unless you give them some money, which in this case I am willing to consider it because it is _so_ good. Try "blue oyster cult" as a seed.