Q. I download the most convincing;)
A. The list
1. Google Voice
Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.
2. Advanced Task Killer
One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.
3. Dropbox
Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.
4. Evernote
Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.
5. DroidAnalytics
For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.
6. Documents To Go
The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.
7. Amazon Kindle
I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.
8. Places Directory
This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.
9. Tripit
I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.
10. Seesmic
Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.
11. FCC Speedtest
Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.
12. Astro File Manager
Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.
13. Got To Do
There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.
14. Gist
Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.
15. TED Mobile
TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.
1. Google Voice
Google Voice is a service that is so useful I consider it one of the top benefits of Android itself, especially since Apple rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a phone number that can ring to multiple places or devices and it allows you to access all of your voicemail and text messages over the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like theyâre coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.
2. Advanced Task Killer
One of the realities of having a multitasking mobile OS in Android is that you have to manage your apps so that they donât hurt performance or battery life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It even comes with a widget that you can tap once to kill all open apps.
3. Dropbox
Dropbox is a great cloud service that automatically syncs a folder of files between multiple computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with other apps (such as Documents To Go) to open the files.
4. Evernote
Once you get used to typing on a virtual keyboard (and it honestly took me over a year to do it), then these devices are great for note-taking, and Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.
5. DroidAnalytics
For some reason Google doesnât have an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one Iâve found on Android is DroidAnalytics. Another good one is mAnalytics.
6. Documents To Go
The free version of Documents To Go offers a great little reader for Word and Excel files. You can upgrade to the full version (for $15) if you want to edit files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do want editing capability, Iâd also recommend taking a look at QuickOffice.
7. Amazon Kindle
I never warmed up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but Iâm a big fan of the Kindle mobile app. Since it was released Iâve read a lot more books simply because my smartphone is always with me and I can pull it and read a few pages anytime Iâve got a couple minutes free.
8. Places Directory
This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to movie theaters to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone.
9. Tripit
I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app Iâve found for keeping track of all my travel itineraries. It runs on some great backend systems. You simply forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.
10. Seesmic
Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence engine and it was made for mobile browsing. Although thereâs an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.
11. FCC Speedtest
Iâm obsessed with running speed tests to check my bandwidth in various places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to check the quality of Wi-Fi. There are a number of really good speedtest apps, but my new favorite is the FCC Test app.
12. Astro File Manager
Another one of the great things about Android (if youâre a geek or a tinkerer) is that you have lower-level access to the system itself. Astro is an app that lets you navigate the Android file system.
13. Got To Do
There are plenty of to-do apps to choose from on Android but I prefer Got To Do because of the solid interface and the fact that it can sync with the online service Toodledo.
14. Gist
Many of us have contact lists scattered across various computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web service that can bring them together and even pull in stuff from the Web to help you stay up to date with your most important contacts. Thereâs an Android app as well as an iPhone app.
15. TED Mobile
TED is a fascinating event that features a meeting of the minds of some of societyâs most influential thinkers. Youâll definitely disagree with some of them, because thereâs a large diversity of opinions, but many talks are worth listening to. What I love is that theyâve taken the videos from their conference and made them freely available on the Web. This app provides a great way to access the videos. I hope more conferences follow TEDâs lead on this.
I really want a new phone,?
Q. Basically i have the iPhone 3G and i don't want another iPhone and i've been using my dad's old BlackBerry Bold 9700 and im not impressed, so what phone can i get that's comparable to the iPhone and won't disappoint? And preferably touch screens please (:?
I was thinking about the Palm Pre Plus, anybody know anything about it?
I was thinking about the Palm Pre Plus, anybody know anything about it?
A. I'll answer by asking: are you a *very* technical person?
If so, the Nokia N900 is amazing ... but it's surely not for the faint of heart. Sure, very few of its apps cost money, but with kernel editing and beta software being the rule instead of the exception, there's the room for danger. I love mine -- I can FTP, DLNA, edit word docs with Abiword, check my wife's cycle on MaeGirls, blog with MaStory, edit images with Ansel-A, use Evernote and have root access. I even started using it as an MP3 player, keeping 30 GB of MP3 on it (did I mention it has 32GB of space built in and will take a 16GB Micro-SD card?). However, I'm very experimental.
The Palm Pre platform is gorgeous, with amazing multitasking and user interface. The hinge on the phone was a problem for my co-worker, who sent his back, saying it felt "fragile." If HP updates the OS (they bought Palm recently) and supports it (and the deal with the privacy concern -- Palm was collecting user data that was so not cool, but then again so do many Android apps), I could see myself being swayed back that way with decent productivity software. For now, though, I love the freedom of my Linux phone and don't mind the risks (I back up everything all the time).
Good luck!
If so, the Nokia N900 is amazing ... but it's surely not for the faint of heart. Sure, very few of its apps cost money, but with kernel editing and beta software being the rule instead of the exception, there's the room for danger. I love mine -- I can FTP, DLNA, edit word docs with Abiword, check my wife's cycle on MaeGirls, blog with MaStory, edit images with Ansel-A, use Evernote and have root access. I even started using it as an MP3 player, keeping 30 GB of MP3 on it (did I mention it has 32GB of space built in and will take a 16GB Micro-SD card?). However, I'm very experimental.
The Palm Pre platform is gorgeous, with amazing multitasking and user interface. The hinge on the phone was a problem for my co-worker, who sent his back, saying it felt "fragile." If HP updates the OS (they bought Palm recently) and supports it (and the deal with the privacy concern -- Palm was collecting user data that was so not cool, but then again so do many Android apps), I could see myself being swayed back that way with decent productivity software. For now, though, I love the freedom of my Linux phone and don't mind the risks (I back up everything all the time).
Good luck!
Recommendations for mac apps?
Q. So i got my imac 3 months ago
i'm interested in mac apps
so far i have the following apps that i have downloaded
Adium (use this and microsoft messenger)
Alarm Clock (use it before i go to bed)
Anxiety (use it almost everyday)
AppCleaner (handy)
AppFresh
Blender for mac (learning)
Bodega (has some apps but it feels like it's missing alot)
Boxee (love how it looks)
Bullet (fun)
Comic life (fun to use, play with it alot)
Evernote (handy)
Expod (free and better than senuti)
FastIcns (haven't tried yet)
Fetch Art (use it b/c its free)
Firefox (but primarily use safari)
Focus Booster (love the pomodoro technique)
Framebyframe (Stop motion to the max!)
Genius (Love useing this and it's free use it often for school)
Hydrogen (fun to play with, i think it was originally for linux)
I Love Stars (easy way of rating my songs)
iCurser (fun to use, play with it sometimes)
iFlash (don't use as much as genius)
iGetter (boosts my downloads by alot, use it often)
iProcrastinate (don't use it as often as i should)
iReadFast (interesting app, sometimes helpful, sometimes not)
iStache (love putting mustaches on my friends pics)
iWisdom (handy especially because i need to memorize quotes and stuff for improv speeches)
Lezioni - never used it
NewsFire (my prefered rss reader of choice right now)
Notational Velocity (interesting app, don't think i'm using it properly though)
Notebook by Circus Ponies (like it)
OmmWriter (use it, dunno why)
Paintbrush (my first download app its ok nothing special i don't use it)
Pencil (fun to play with)
Phun (helpful for physics, and just fooling around)
Poladroid (fun to play with)
pomodoro (i support the pomodoro technique!)
RAAViewer (not as helpful as it should be)
Schoolhouse (stoped using it, too lazy)
SelfControl (use it religiously)
Senuti - don't use b/c have to pay so use expod (works great)
sixtyforce (i love it n64 ftw)
Skype (don't know if that's already in my mac when i got it)
Smell-O-Mints (use it b/c havn't memorized the periodic table)
Spark
Split & Concat (use it religiously)
SunFlower (use it often)
Sweet Home 3D (fun to play with)
Task List (don't use it, i use anxiety)
The Hit List
Things (interesting to use, trying to get the hang of it)
Think (use it often)
Tidy Up! (useful, use when i have to)
Tunatic (doesn't always work for me)
VideoMonkey (Love this!)
VisualHub
VLC (Nice, but want something that just looks better with my mac if it's possible)
Voice Candy (fun to play with)
WeatherDock (useful)
WriteRoom (my demo is over :(
xVideoServiceThief (use this b/c none of the mac ones i could find worked, this works, and yes i know firefox has a plugin for this)
So yeah i didn't mention anything that was included in my mac
If anyone has some ideas of what i should download (preferably free apps but paid is also fine)
please tell me thx :)!!!
And i'm also searching for some apps for my dashboard thx again:)!
i'm interested in mac apps
so far i have the following apps that i have downloaded
Adium (use this and microsoft messenger)
Alarm Clock (use it before i go to bed)
Anxiety (use it almost everyday)
AppCleaner (handy)
AppFresh
Blender for mac (learning)
Bodega (has some apps but it feels like it's missing alot)
Boxee (love how it looks)
Bullet (fun)
Comic life (fun to use, play with it alot)
Evernote (handy)
Expod (free and better than senuti)
FastIcns (haven't tried yet)
Fetch Art (use it b/c its free)
Firefox (but primarily use safari)
Focus Booster (love the pomodoro technique)
Framebyframe (Stop motion to the max!)
Genius (Love useing this and it's free use it often for school)
Hydrogen (fun to play with, i think it was originally for linux)
I Love Stars (easy way of rating my songs)
iCurser (fun to use, play with it sometimes)
iFlash (don't use as much as genius)
iGetter (boosts my downloads by alot, use it often)
iProcrastinate (don't use it as often as i should)
iReadFast (interesting app, sometimes helpful, sometimes not)
iStache (love putting mustaches on my friends pics)
iWisdom (handy especially because i need to memorize quotes and stuff for improv speeches)
Lezioni - never used it
NewsFire (my prefered rss reader of choice right now)
Notational Velocity (interesting app, don't think i'm using it properly though)
Notebook by Circus Ponies (like it)
OmmWriter (use it, dunno why)
Paintbrush (my first download app its ok nothing special i don't use it)
Pencil (fun to play with)
Phun (helpful for physics, and just fooling around)
Poladroid (fun to play with)
pomodoro (i support the pomodoro technique!)
RAAViewer (not as helpful as it should be)
Schoolhouse (stoped using it, too lazy)
SelfControl (use it religiously)
Senuti - don't use b/c have to pay so use expod (works great)
sixtyforce (i love it n64 ftw)
Skype (don't know if that's already in my mac when i got it)
Smell-O-Mints (use it b/c havn't memorized the periodic table)
Spark
Split & Concat (use it religiously)
SunFlower (use it often)
Sweet Home 3D (fun to play with)
Task List (don't use it, i use anxiety)
The Hit List
Things (interesting to use, trying to get the hang of it)
Think (use it often)
Tidy Up! (useful, use when i have to)
Tunatic (doesn't always work for me)
VideoMonkey (Love this!)
VisualHub
VLC (Nice, but want something that just looks better with my mac if it's possible)
Voice Candy (fun to play with)
WeatherDock (useful)
WriteRoom (my demo is over :(
xVideoServiceThief (use this b/c none of the mac ones i could find worked, this works, and yes i know firefox has a plugin for this)
So yeah i didn't mention anything that was included in my mac
If anyone has some ideas of what i should download (preferably free apps but paid is also fine)
please tell me thx :)!!!
And i'm also searching for some apps for my dashboard thx again:)!
A. I use Handbrake to rip DVDs for my iPod. Stanza is a good ebook reader app, and Calibre is good for organizing ebooks and converting between formats. I also use apps like Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and NeoOffice.
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