Thursday, April 9, 2009

Android G1 Apps which I use



I had been looking to buy a smartphone for a long time and finally decided to get an Android G1. I have loaded some applications from the App market, after reviewing them online and on the market itself, and they are given below:

Newly downloaded apps are:

1. 1Cast

2. ACast

3. Butters soundboard

4. Email

5. Labyrinth App.

6. Locale App

7. Locations App.

8. Moxier Mail

9. Mr. Mackey Soundboard

10. PF Voicemail +

11. Restaurant Search

12. RoadSync - Another Outlook client wiith ActiveSync

13. Save MMS application

14. Sipdroid - to setup SIP-based calls.

15. SkyMap

16. SnapPhoto - I have to check if it has been re-updated for the Cupcake.

17. SouthPark Open Home Skin

18. Star Translate

19. Steamy Window - fun app !!

20. Stream Furious - excellent audio streaming solution.

21. Translate App

22. TTS Service

23. Tunes for Android

24. TuneWiki

25. Voice Dialer

26. Voice Recorder

27. Voice Search

28. Web Server

29. Wertago

30. Where

31. WikiMobile

32. Wikitude

33. Wordoholic

34. Yellowbook v2.0

Old apps are stated below:

1. Astro.

2. Backgrounds.

3. Barcode Scanner.

4. Bubble

5. Bush Jokes(!)

6. Calorie Counter - via this app you can have quick access to nutrition details of a very wide spectrum of foods and drinks.

7. Cartman sounds :D

8. Chess - pretty challenging.

9. ConnectBot - for SSH'ing.

10. ContactsSync - for sync'ing with my company / professional contacts.

11. Doom (!) - one of my all-time favourite 3-D FPS games.

12. eQuotes - because I feel that quotable quotes can be inspirational, and a little inspiration does no one any harm.

13. Finance - I am not an investment junkie yet, but it is always good to keep a track of what's going on with some of the larger companies and stock exchanges.

14. Flashlight.

15. Free Dictionary - Though I don't foresee a need to be an english-language expert in the near future, I still decided to download this app, just in case because it's good to learn a new word once in a while.

16. Gmote - This is one of my favourite apps, which I downloaded on the very first day I got the G1. Using this app, you can setup your laptop / desktop as a server, and your G1 as a client, and then use the G1 as a remote for multimedia control. Other than that, you can then use the G1 to remotely browse the files on your computer and play the desired ones. Further, the G1 can then be used as a wireless keyboard. And last but not the least, using this software you can stream music from your computer to your phone. Pretty neat.

17. GV app - short for Google Voice - use all the features available in Google Voice via bypassing the browser completely.

18. Hot Giggity - Quagmire's sounds !

19. imeem mobile.

20. J2ME Explorer - to run Java-based apps.

21. Lyric Search.

22. Meridian Video Player.

23. Mother TED - to see videos on the awesome TED website.

24. NPR Podcasts - to listen to the very informative NPR podcasts.

25. Owner app - to display owner info once the phone is locked.

26. Parallel Kingdom - Localized, city-based social network.

27. PdaNet - awesome application, allows you to tether any computer. Tethering, in simple terms, means the capability to use your mobile device as a modem for another device which cannot directly use the internet. This app was not available directly on the Android Market, and I had to download it from the original PdaNet website.

28. Peter Griffin sounds !

29. PicSay - great app. Using this, you can take pictures and modify them directly on your G1.

30. QuotePro - using this you can stream quotes, in real-time to your G1.

I have many more apps to go, but I shall stop for the time being and come back with more info later.

Happy Android'ing !


On Excellence


I have found that excellence is a habit, and it is not like a feature which can be turned on or off selectively. That is, if you excel in a certain sphere of life, then I believe that your chances of excelling in other, seemingly unrelated areas are high. That is because the secrets to success, in seemingly unrelated areas are the same, only their implementation is different. As a side note, my personal experience has been that there are some days, when I am more diligent than the average, and on such days the quality of my work, irrespective of the domain is of a fulfilling nature. On other days, the exact opposite is true.