and why?

GTasks – useful

Google Goggles is bonkers.. just hold your camera over a books barcode..
Endo is becoming my new best friend, it works, doesn’t nerf my battery too much neither.
PowerAmp is blistering in its eq output,
Angry Birds cos’ thats good on trains,
Google Translator does what is says on the, erm, tin.
Find Sta*bucks, works, though i’m not a fan of sta*bucks
Sky+ is utterly brilliant
Samsung kies air for simple sync
Little Photo for photo enhancements
Picasa for uploadability
Torrent for erm playing torrents
TuneInRadio for a spectrum of internet radio
OS maps, says it all
Movie Finder is handy when it’s raining outside

Google SkyMaps and Heavens Above for astro freaks

+1 for Sky Maps and PowerAmp.

Google My Tracks is ace for free.

quickgo for typing addresses to navigate to quickly when the phone is on a car dashboard (I’m biased though, I wrote it!)

google sky pointless but fun
seismos is cool but pointless
sportypals is useful for tracking my rides round london town and comparing whats the quickest route etc
but my absolute favourite is this
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLoPeQP0ni0[/video]

coz im a geek

On a Xoom tablet;
Angry Birds – Obviously! Great timewaster
BA.com – Really useful for travelling
Alchemy – Rather fun, witty game
Skype

Also useful – DVD Catalyst – file converter. Very good!

dolphin browser – its a good browser
marvin spectrum emulator – to tell you those games really were shyte
sky+ – when you forgot to record something
mytrails – OS maps which work offline
rocket bunnies – good game
intercall conference dialler (well, it is a work phone)

In alphabetical order:

Battery Graph – useful when figuring out what eats battery

Dolphin HD – best web browser by a mile

iPlayer – you knows it

iNap – if you often fall asleep on the train

Quickpic – because the HTC gallery browser stupidly always starts at your oldest pictures

RealCalc – a proper calculator

Tasker – 110% of awesomeness

Twicca and Tweetcaster – the best Twitter clients IMO; former best for single account, latter for multiple

Viewranger – the best logging, navigating and tripcomputering app

Vignette – for setting up a page of shortcuts to useful settings, including fixed focus modes for fast shooting

Cut The Rope. Cracking game that’s been out for ages on Jesusphone but only just out on Android. Free for now as well.

Evernote – Great for dumping loads of info into and being able to search it on a phone or PC browser. You can send it pictures, text, and web pages from a PC or smartphone, and tag them. You can then searc/read them easily. It also does optical character recognition if you take clear enough pictures, so that you can search the text of a manual page or document that you took a photo of. Useful for taking pictures of the scraps of paper that sometimes pass for manuals, so you can throw them away.

Llama – Once you train it, it recognises different locations and changes your phones settings appropriately, i.e Wireless off at work, bluetooth on at home, etc … can save batteries and the faff of doing this manually.

And another vote for Viewranger, just getting into it, but very impressed with this app so far.

cut the rope isnt free, it’s 62p to me.
Just bought it. It had better be good sir, or you are on the naughty step! 😉

EDIT: BTW, my top tips:

Gin rummy: very powerful AI gameplay.
Backgammon: same
Dolphin browser
RVolumeControl: easy to control volume.
Real Calc: Proper scientific calulator
Toddler Lock: keeps Jr from bothering me in the pub 😉
Handcent: SMS, better than HTC
Gmail mailbox counter: great widget that shows you unread mail number on the mail icon
Tricorder: for wifi and 3G/GPRS sniffing
WiFi analysis: for wifi sniffing
Antennas: for GSM/3G mask mapping.

*Hijack*
Stoner, don’t suppose you’re at a loose end in the Smoke….
*Hijack*

not right now. Just been tinkering on the ol solar thermal stuff.
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/solar-water-thermal-panels-the-installation-w-pics

Pah. Never mind!

Another to add – Bubble Blast. Mindless, but addictive, game.

Pah. Never mind!

Another to add – Bubble Blast. Mindless, but addictive, game.

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Angry Birds is overrated monkeycock.

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Swype for really quick typing.

i can only record 24hrs ahead on sky+ is this right

My favorite is the ‘Ultimate Farts Soundboard’- theres a multitude of amusing parps and they all have ridiculous names like ‘Colon Powell’ or ‘Tuna Melt’.
You can even set them as your phones message alert- great when it goes off unexpectedly in a crowded lift!
And then theres the fart bomb…….

Hours of childish fun for sad people like me!

I have a fair few, most of these are always running in the background and i still get over a days worth of use.

winamp – loud music player and access to shoutcast streams – great for playing music in the background whilst you do other things, and works seamlessly with my bluetooth headphones
quake3 droid – great game and graphics
asphalt 6 – another great game, reasonable graphics
google goggles – for identifying those odd things
kindle app – for reading on the train
bbc news app – for keeping up to date
trillian – all my messenger clients into one location (yahoo, gmail, msn, skype, twitter, etc…) synced with pc
ebay – obvious
kies air – turns phone into server for downloading stuff to pc /backup/managing via browser
voice commands, esp driving mode – for reading out texts etc whilst driving etc…

mytrails for downloading os maps mmtracker for creating routes sky remote record bar code scanners

Drop box
Yoo ninja
Evernote
Flixster movies
Pocket Auctions

OnTrack – only useful if you have diabetes as it can record bloods, insulin dosages and many other things. Been very good.

evernote
swype
camera zoom
handcent
meridian
barcode scanner
tripadvisor
file expert
synch now
sugar synch
xe currency
pulse

Touch Calendar
To-Do List ( integrates with Toodledo which has a good firefox plugin )
OI Shopping list
AndFTP
CoPilot
My Movies Pro
Power Amp
Shop Savvy

DarkyROM v10.2

android apps…..

What are they then?

SB

Flight24 pro, its interesting (and definitely not sad….) to know where the planes you see above you leaving white lines are going to and coming from.

Blast monkeys, fav game at the moment.

On my Samsung S2:

GoSMS. Better than the standard SMS client
GoKeyboard. Better than the standard Samsung S2 keyboard (Gives you a comma on the main keyboard screen!)
BatterySolo – good battery display
Opera Mini – fast browser, useful when you have limited signal
Advanced task killer – keeps my battery happy
Thetrainline – free train time app.
Mytracks – Handy gps logging thingamygig
Angrturds -because the bloke at work likes playing it
Plants vs Zombies (dubious legality!) fun “tower defence” type game. If you go looking for the .apk, make sure it’s the 74MB version, not a really dodgy rip-off 2.5MB one.
BeautifulWidgets lite – A useful clock/weather widget that does what the HTC clock does.
IMDB – Handy pub argument setting app.

Edinburgh bus tracker.

Can even set an alarm to get the bus, very handy for pub time.

Aldiko ebook reader.

Installed Oruxmaps and playing with that…good so far. Does similar to Endomondo and MyTracks but does so much more…which I’m yet to discover. Also syncs with MapMyTracks website.

Alpinequest + an older version of Mobac on a pc to download os1:25 and 1:50k maps to the phone for free. Which may or may not be of dubious legality, so i’ll leave the details as an exercise for the interested reader…

gvSIG Mini Maps – ace if you want mapping from every map provider out there

Go – the game. Still can’t win

Solitaire!

google listen.

Set to monitor 6 music podcasts, and whenever its in wifi range, downloads them.
mine is set to store 10 only, and dumps the old ones.
its like a constantly updating mp3 player 🙂

still struggling to find a “tasks” list that i like that syncs with google tasks properly.
suprised google havent pulled their fingers out and done one, as the calender and gmail is all excellent.

Anyone got a good photo album? Looking to add folders so I can sort the 700+ pics on the card…the HTC Sense thing seems ok but doesn’t allow folders…