Just a run down on some android apps in case I lose my phone and have to re-install. These are all free. I can’t find many educational apps unfortunately:
News
- NYTimes – more up to date
- USA Today – more graphical
- 1Cast News – video news stories
- Sports Tap
Social Networking Tools
- Twidroid – there are too many twitter apps out there
- Facebook – comes with Android 2.0 on the droid
- WpToGo – wordpress client
- NewsRob – google reader client
Utilities
- Barcode Scanner – to read QR codes
- DockRunner – for the droid if you don’t have a multimedia dock – activates the multimedia interface
- Advanced Task Killer – android apps don’t have a quit/exit button
- Astro – file manager – read your SD card, etc. – very nice
- Digital Clock – smaller clock widget
- Gmote – run the gmote server app on your computer and you can remotely control it
- Locale – change android settings based on location or other triggers
- The Weather Channel – there are some other weather apps & widgets too
- Teradesk – store files on the cloud – DropBox app in the works too
Productivity
- AK Notepad – there are numerous sticky note / notepad apps
- Astrid – there are also numerous todo list apps
- Documents To Go – read word, ppt etc.
- Evernote has a web-accessible site, too, with a forthcoming android client app
- Voice Recorder – app & widget for quick voice notes
Google Apps
- Voice – essential – use for voicemail, forwarding calls, etc.
- Listen – podcasts
- GDocs
- Maps – navigation in android 2.0
- Market – of course to find other software
- Talk – built-in for instant messaging
Educational
- Aldiko – incredibly nice e-book reader application
- Google Sky Map – incredible app, point it at sky and it shows the stars & planets
Games
- Labyrinth Lite – tilt game to get ball through maze
- AirAttack – click on planes and helicopters flying overhead to shoot at them
- Air Hockey Demo
- Craigs Race – tilt to race a little car on a track
- Speed Forge 3D – very nice 3D tilt racing game, see this video
- PapiJump – tilt game to bounce a ball upwards
- Robo Defense
- Bubbles – blow on microphone to create bubbles
Music / Video / Photos
- Music – built-in app, plays videos too
- Youtube – built-in app, plays youtube videos embedded on webpages too.
- Qik, Ustream – broadcast live video, and record it
- TV.com – app for watching CBS and related videos. NBC has a mobile-accessible website: m.nbc.com
- Pandora – listen to music online
- Photoshop has an android app now, see also PicSay and others
- Picasa photo album support is built-in to android now
Development
- ConnectBot – ssh
Miscellaneous
- Amazon, Amazon MP3
- Bubble – bubble level app
- Compass
- ShopSavvy
I’m also keeping an eye out for note taking / handwriting recognition apps for a research project:
- MyScript – not out yet, but see the videos
- Whiteboard – 99 cent app
- JotNot and ShareYourBoard – takes a picture of your paper/whiteboard notes and enhances them
- other related note taking apps
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