Quote Originally Posted by TANKJR
So Emmie...what are some cool apps I should ck out? I found an AK47 app but it turned out to be a crappy little game with a Russian rifle...:wtf: LOL! I keep forgetting its also a gun...:stoned:
I have a lot of apps that are specific to my field of study and my other major hobby (Ham Radio), but I have found a few that are just so cool that I had to have them. Two you mentioned before, first the Google Sky app. It always annoyed me that others could recognize things in the night sky and that I couldn't. It's not that I use this a lot, but it sure is a cool way to show off the phone. Also Pandora... I find that this project fascinates me as to how it tries to figure out musical artists that I have not heard before and yet will like, based on the musical qualities of artists I have told it that I listen to.

As far as must have utilities, get the Easy Uninstall and the Advanced Task killer. You also want to have apps that can individually toggle wi-fi, bluetooth, gps and sound so that you can manage battery use a bit better. If you are around a lot of other smart phone users, especially those who think their I-Phones are superior, get Bump so that you can toss applications, files etc to those nearby you.

Personal use items include Cardio Trainer. Its like an old fashioned pedometer on steroids. It not only counts your steps and gives you a very accurate count of how far you went, but it monitors heart rate and calories burned.

Have you ever had a need to monitor an area for noise level and alert you if the noise exceeds a certain volume? Using Noise Alert, you can use your phone as a sensor, and if it senses the volume hit a threshold (like during a break in) it will call another number and alert you. I have used this to let me know when someone arrived and had it call my friends phone. Then I showed up as if somehow I mysteriously knew of the arrival. It just adds to that mystery we all know as Emmie.

Another very cool app is Google Goggles. It allows you to take a picture of something and use that as the search criteria in Google. It can identify the most amazing things sometimes. Take a picture of a store front, it will return to you the hours, phone number and web page of the business you are looking at. Take a picture of a bar code... you will get instant reviews of the product. Take a picture of a leaf... it will tell you what species it is. This I find very cool.

Then of course there are the apps for comparative shopping, such as Bar Code Scanner. Scan the code in the store and it will tell you of other stores in the area selling the same good, and give you price comparisons along with warranty information and other things... very nice.

Feeling paranoid? Turn on Police Scanner and dial in your country, county and specific department to listen in on.

How about Shazam? Let it listen to a song playing in your local environment from the radio or tv or wherever... sometimes even live music, and it will identify the song for you and give you some information about it, link you to lyrics and stuff. Very impressive.

Find yourself in a location where you find it hard to sleep? Try Relax and Sleep. It is more than just a white or pink noise generator, it will simulate many sounds from our lives, fans, refrigerators, ocean, forest... many many others... and allow you to mix them all together into a background noise of your choosing to lull you off to dreamland.

Going to a ball game or the Mall of America and worry about being able to make it back to your car? Or for the older set, just want to be able to find your car when you come out of Wal*Mart? Try My Car Locator. It will set a GPS point at your car and will lead you right back to it.

To reduce the amount of those little discount tags that grocery, drug and hardware stores use that you have to swipe and put on your key ring... put them all in your phone instead with Key Ring. Eventually I would like to see this to include credit and debit cards and just have one central device to manage all that, with the necessary security precautions... but that is for the future.

And then lastly, to reduce tension you might find it cool to use magic vibrator. It uses the phones ability to vibrate in about 10 very unique ways. This of course might make you think carefully about where you carry your phone. I will leave that to your imagination.

I love apps. This is why I got my smart phone. That and to look cool of course. Having an old dumb flip phone is so last century you know.

Emmie
emilya Reviewed by emilya on . Droid phones? Smart phones? I just got a new Droid Incredible w/ google phone and being a "really old guy", (thanks for reminding me, Em! ;)) I think they sure named this phone right! I've been playing with it and d/ling apps for four days now...LOL! I'm not sure I need a laptop computer anymore....this thing IS a hand top 'puter! Anybody else have one of these? Recommend any favorite apps? Games? Being a "really old guy", I can remember the first 'puter I worked on took up an entire floor of a large office Rating: 5