sanchezero
Newbie
mine tops so far -
- xscope lite - browser. works alot like chrome. small and fast. tried opera mini and dolphin. both are cool, but xscope just fits me better
- google translate - when integrated with voice to text/text to voice, it's my one stop resource for figuring out what the hell is going on around here. my german is passable, but sometimes, i'm just in over my head
- laputa - ebook reader. i also use the kindle app, but there're tons of free books on laputa
- astro - almost necessary for file management and finding shit once you get a buncha stuff on the phone
- assistant free - one password lets me control all my account info from the phone plan, to bank statements, or even tracking packages. it does a buncha other stuff that i just don't use, too
- gesture search - with a longpress on the search button, you get a search engine you can use by drawing with your finger. each letter narrows the results. voice search works too, but this is just cooler
- juice defender - lets me control alot of the background apps and syncing that drains the battery. turns on that stuff for a coupla minutes outta every hour instead of just letting it gogogo
- quick settings - a pulldown from the notification bar that has access to all of the switches you might need (customizable, too) in one place - gps, sync, wifi, sounds, etc
- mixzing - free media player. there are a buncha these, but i liked the interface on this the best. it has a kinda 'genius' sorta playlist builder which was one of the things the iphone did so well
- meebo - pulls all of your IM/chat buddies into one app and it stays accessible in the background so it can work just like texting. good here, since in germany there aren't really any decent unlimited anything plans
- swiftkey beta - alot of people are really into swypetyping, but i just couldn't make it work for me. now usually i hate predictive text but this thing works really well and has almost zero learning curve
- navigation - google's nav just crushes the balls off of my garmin. of course, it needs a data connection so it's limited in the boonies and i can't use it when i go to france or whatever, but for finding even the most obscure places it hasn't let me down
- launcher pro - just started playing with this and i like it so far, particularly the scrolling dock feature
there are 2 apps i've paid for -
- widget locker -i had alot of random pocket activity and this has totally fixed that. it also allows you to put widgets on the lock screen and control how accessible you wanna make 'em. i have a clock, battery indicator, and a music controller as well as a separate wall paper.
- isyncr - lets me sync with itunes playlists. i spent a coupla years dealing with itunes and didn't wanna try to deal with switching everything over. this just locks onto whatever playlists i choose. quick and easy
- xscope lite - browser. works alot like chrome. small and fast. tried opera mini and dolphin. both are cool, but xscope just fits me better
- google translate - when integrated with voice to text/text to voice, it's my one stop resource for figuring out what the hell is going on around here. my german is passable, but sometimes, i'm just in over my head
- laputa - ebook reader. i also use the kindle app, but there're tons of free books on laputa
- astro - almost necessary for file management and finding shit once you get a buncha stuff on the phone
- assistant free - one password lets me control all my account info from the phone plan, to bank statements, or even tracking packages. it does a buncha other stuff that i just don't use, too
- gesture search - with a longpress on the search button, you get a search engine you can use by drawing with your finger. each letter narrows the results. voice search works too, but this is just cooler
- juice defender - lets me control alot of the background apps and syncing that drains the battery. turns on that stuff for a coupla minutes outta every hour instead of just letting it gogogo
- quick settings - a pulldown from the notification bar that has access to all of the switches you might need (customizable, too) in one place - gps, sync, wifi, sounds, etc
- mixzing - free media player. there are a buncha these, but i liked the interface on this the best. it has a kinda 'genius' sorta playlist builder which was one of the things the iphone did so well
- meebo - pulls all of your IM/chat buddies into one app and it stays accessible in the background so it can work just like texting. good here, since in germany there aren't really any decent unlimited anything plans
- swiftkey beta - alot of people are really into swypetyping, but i just couldn't make it work for me. now usually i hate predictive text but this thing works really well and has almost zero learning curve
- navigation - google's nav just crushes the balls off of my garmin. of course, it needs a data connection so it's limited in the boonies and i can't use it when i go to france or whatever, but for finding even the most obscure places it hasn't let me down
- launcher pro - just started playing with this and i like it so far, particularly the scrolling dock feature
there are 2 apps i've paid for -
- widget locker -i had alot of random pocket activity and this has totally fixed that. it also allows you to put widgets on the lock screen and control how accessible you wanna make 'em. i have a clock, battery indicator, and a music controller as well as a separate wall paper.
- isyncr - lets me sync with itunes playlists. i spent a coupla years dealing with itunes and didn't wanna try to deal with switching everything over. this just locks onto whatever playlists i choose. quick and easy
so well.
