Useful Apps
A list of things as I find them that I think are nifty-
Silenced Silenced allows you to configure your phone to automatically change profiles when you move in or out of certain locations or on a scheduled basis.
Adobe Flash Showcase Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software enables the full web experience on mobile devices, including videos, games and more rich, immersive content. Visit M.flash.com to experience mobile optimized sites and more than 60 additional sites with Flash content. Propose your favorite Flash sites for the Showcase to mflash@adobe.com.
NB: mostly to see how it looks, not a keeper
Ruler Lite Ruler Lite is a simple application which converts your Android phone to a small ruler. You can measure things right on your Android device screen. This application supports dimmensions in centimeters and inches.
Smart Measure Smart Measure allows you to measure the approximate distance and height of an object.
To measure, no movement is required. Just stand up, and touch the shutter two times.
content. Propose your favorite Flash sites for the Showcase to mflash@adobe.com.
NB: mostly to see how it looks, not a keeper
MapMyDROID
NB: mostly to see how it looks, not a keeper
Fake Call Scheduler The Fake Call Scheduler application gives you option to schedule Fake Calls to your phone from any phone number that you enter.
NB: possible roleplaying use - assuming I do roleplay again oneday
Wheres My Droid Ever lost your phone and you go to call it to listen for the ringer and remember its on silent mode? Now when you lose it you can text your phone and it will turn silent mode off, the ringer vol up, and start ringing
RealCalc Scientific Calculator A fully featured scientific calculator which looks and operates like the real thing.
Unit Converter - ConvertPad Fully featured Unit Converter and Calculator.
Tricorder A multi-sensor environmental monitor -- turn your Android device into a working tricorder!
NB: Geek toy, not a keeper
Apps Organizer Organize your Android applications using labels. You can create a label shortcut (or a widget) with a custom icon on Android home (long touch on home and select shortcut
File Manager File Manager allows you to browse your SD card, create folder,copy,move,delete,rename,zip and unzip file,launch app according to file type
Gesture Search Gesture Search lets you quickly find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items by drawing gestures on the touch screen. Gesture Search continuously updates search results as you add each letter or digit and improves search quality by learning from your search history.
Google Goggles Google Goggles is a visual search app. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles can also recognize English, French, Italian, German and Spanish words and allow you to translate to other languages.
NB: More ER/AR goodness
Sketcher A fun procedural drawing tool.
AppRemover Easy to use and extremely fast uninstall app.
SwiFTP FTP Server SwiFTP is an open-source FTP server that allows you to connect to your phone over wifi or cellular/3g to upload and download files. Any FTP client can be used.
NB: A great geek app and a good reason for me to go android
SMS Popup An app that allows in depth customization of SMS/MMS notifications including a popup dialog that shows when a message is received.
FBReader An ebook reader. Supports epub, oeb and fb2(.zip) file formats. Visit 5 popular network libraries for a large set of e-books. Download and read a book directly from the program! Or put a file manually into /sdcard/Books directory
WiFi Manager A program to manage WiFi connections. Scan, connect, remove WiFi networks.
iReader (Free version) iReader is a offline e-book reader application for TXT, CHM, UMD, Palm PDB format.
AndFTP AndFTP is a FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. It allows managing several configurations of FTP servers. It comes with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser. It provides download and upload features with resume support. It can open, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste and more. Intents are available for other applications.
Boardgame Geek apps-
http://skylupus.com/category/bgg
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-boardgamegeek-xwE.aspx
Silenced Silenced allows you to configure your phone to automatically change profiles when you move in or out of certain locations or on a scheduled basis.
Adobe Flash Showcase Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software enables the full web experience on mobile devices, including videos, games and more rich, immersive content. Visit M.flash.com to experience mobile optimized sites and more than 60 additional sites with Flash content. Propose your favorite Flash sites for the Showcase to mflash@adobe.com.
NB: mostly to see how it looks, not a keeper
Ruler Lite Ruler Lite is a simple application which converts your Android phone to a small ruler. You can measure things right on your Android device screen. This application supports dimmensions in centimeters and inches.
Smart Measure Smart Measure allows you to measure the approximate distance and height of an object.
To measure, no movement is required. Just stand up, and touch the shutter two times.
content. Propose your favorite Flash sites for the Showcase to mflash@adobe.com.
NB: mostly to see how it looks, not a keeper
MapMyDROID
NB: mostly to see how it looks, not a keeper
Fake Call Scheduler The Fake Call Scheduler application gives you option to schedule Fake Calls to your phone from any phone number that you enter.
NB: possible roleplaying use - assuming I do roleplay again oneday
Wheres My Droid Ever lost your phone and you go to call it to listen for the ringer and remember its on silent mode? Now when you lose it you can text your phone and it will turn silent mode off, the ringer vol up, and start ringing
RealCalc Scientific Calculator A fully featured scientific calculator which looks and operates like the real thing.
Unit Converter - ConvertPad Fully featured Unit Converter and Calculator.
Tricorder A multi-sensor environmental monitor -- turn your Android device into a working tricorder!
NB: Geek toy, not a keeper
Apps Organizer Organize your Android applications using labels. You can create a label shortcut (or a widget) with a custom icon on Android home (long touch on home and select shortcut
File Manager File Manager allows you to browse your SD card, create folder,copy,move,delete,rename,zip and unzip file,launch app according to file type
Gesture Search Gesture Search lets you quickly find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items by drawing gestures on the touch screen. Gesture Search continuously updates search results as you add each letter or digit and improves search quality by learning from your search history.
Google Goggles Google Goggles is a visual search app. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles can also recognize English, French, Italian, German and Spanish words and allow you to translate to other languages.
NB: More ER/AR goodness
Sketcher A fun procedural drawing tool.
AppRemover Easy to use and extremely fast uninstall app.
SwiFTP FTP Server SwiFTP is an open-source FTP server that allows you to connect to your phone over wifi or cellular/3g to upload and download files. Any FTP client can be used.
NB: A great geek app and a good reason for me to go android
SMS Popup An app that allows in depth customization of SMS/MMS notifications including a popup dialog that shows when a message is received.
FBReader An ebook reader. Supports epub, oeb and fb2(.zip) file formats. Visit 5 popular network libraries for a large set of e-books. Download and read a book directly from the program! Or put a file manually into /sdcard/Books directory
WiFi Manager A program to manage WiFi connections. Scan, connect, remove WiFi networks.
iReader (Free version) iReader is a offline e-book reader application for TXT, CHM, UMD, Palm PDB format.
AndFTP AndFTP is a FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. It allows managing several configurations of FTP servers. It comes with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser. It provides download and upload features with resume support. It can open, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste and more. Intents are available for other applications.
Boardgame Geek apps-
http://skylupus.com/category/bgg
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-boardgamegeek-xwE.aspx