Current Droid Apps

By Jesse Morgan

This is how the game is played… Here’s what I have installed.

  • Task Killer – Kill background tasks when you’re feeling sluggish
  • Wifi Analyzer – Find nearby wifi nodes and their source
  • Lookout Mobile Security – Remote GPS locater and lock
  • Titanium Backup – Awesome backup and recovery app
  • Meridian Media Player – nice Widget player that only places a given directory
  • My Verizon – Examine your verizon account
  • WordPress – WordPress client for multiple sites
  • Barcode Scanner – Scan barcodes, usually works pretty crappy.
  • Aldiko Book Reader – Simple book reader, works well for those without a kindle or ipad
  • Flickroid – Flicker API addon for uploading pictures from the gallery
  • Facebook for Android – Facebook client.
  • Fruit Ninja Kaka – Chop fruit.
  • Twitter – For the Twitter Shitters out there.
  • Tuner gStrings Free – guitar tuner; works well.
  • Google Books – potential replacement for aldiko, haven’t played much with it
  • Rom Manager – useful for loading your own android rom (I use Cyanogen rather than motorola’s version )
  • Google Earth – duh.
  • Basichords – Guitar chord app, nifty.
  • Applause – for the few occasions when you want to embarass someone with applause
  • Toddler Lock – keeps the kid busy.
  • Wireless Tether for Root Users – never used it.
  • Google Voice – ties to google voice account
  • TuneIn Radio – hundreds of radio station’s online streams
  • Yahoo Messenger – yahoo IM
  • Yahoo Messenger plus – video and voice chat plugin
  • Google Maps – duh
  • winamp – haven’t used it, but I suspect it whips the llama’s ass.
  • Angry Birds – catapult game, very fun
  • Angry Birds Seasons – expansion
  • Mint.com Personal Finance – client for mint.com
  • Adobe Reader – pdf reader
  • Stopwatch and timer – simple stopwatch/timer for the few times it would be convenient.
  • ConnectBot – ssh client
  • Nagroid – Nagios client
  • Faves – Phone usage info (who calls the most, etc)
  • MotoTorch LED – flashlight app with awesome pushbutton widget
  • Voice Recorder – good for taking notes.
  • The Weather Channel – weather stuff
  • Meebo IM – Multi-protocol IM client
  • BatteryLife – nice widget for displaying battery usage