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Favourite Android Apps

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by trelawney, Mar 27, 2012.

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  1. trelawney

    trelawney KAG Guard Tester

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    Wading through the murky waters of ad-infested applications. I'll be your guide. For starters, most of the following applications have sane permissions (no location snooping / irrelevant, possibly spammy network connections etc):

    My Installed Android Apps (in alphabetical order)
    • Battery Circle (vnull) - shows a nice battery percentage icon on your status bar, open-source. Virtually no battery drain.

    • Bubble (v1.9.2) - impress your handymen friends with a digital spirit level

    • Chroma Doze (v1.1.1) - white noise generator (not sample-based) for those sleepless nights. Open-source

    • Coloured Paper (v2) - the only live wallpaper you'll ever need. Resonates the colours of the rainbow based on your phone's angle/accelerometer

    • Counter (v2.1) - keeps a tally of (cigarettes smoked, in my case). Open-source

    • CPU Spy (v0.4.0) - Check how your CPU governor performs, report on various states. Open-source

    • Doors (v1.11) - Hellish puzzle game, just turn sounds off , really annoying and loud bleeps

    • Egg Timer (v1.4.2) - Stock AOSP Android lacks a countdown timer, this one's simple and does the job

    • Frozen Bubble (v1.12)

    • Gmote (v2.0.7) - use your phone as a remote control for your PC (Windows/Linux)

    • imo beta (v2.5.0) - multi-IM chat

    • Irssi ConnectBot (v1.7.1-irssi) - ssh client and terminal application with irssi-specific bindings. Indispensable

    • myDialer (v2.3.1) - best t9 dialer on the market, take it from me

    • Push Ups (v2.0.2) - uh huh, OCD

    • Puzzles (v9306.11) - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzles for Android

    • Set as Wallpaper (v1.01) - Pixel-perfect wallpapers (android does a really bad resize when left to its own devices)

    • Status Notes (v0.91) - Add short notes on your status bar , open-source

    • SuperSU (v0.87) - if you have a rooted phone

    • SwitchPro Widget (v1.9.5) - power control widget with various options. The only paid app on this list

    • TaskManager (v1.1.1) - self-explanatory

    • Torch (v0.2) - Use your camera's LED flash as a torch. Open Source

    • twicca (v0.9.31a) - best twitter client on any handheld platform

    • Vector Pinball (v1.3.1) - self-explanatory. Open Source. Enjoyable soundtrack

    • Yaaic (v0.9)- Yet Another Android IRC Client. Open Source

    List Generated By: MyAppsList (web download | mobile download) - export your apps list in BBcode/html/text


    What are you favourite apps?
     
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  2. saniblues

    saniblues KAG Guard Tester

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    Superuser
    Tetris
    Screen capturing software (Dabbling in various apps, have yet to find a decent one)
     
  3. Downburst

    Downburst Mindblown Global Moderator Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Don't use many apps:

    Andchat (IRC)
    9292ov (app of public transport in NL)
    Bankieren (app of my bank)
    Google maps (orly?)
    WhatsApp (free text messaging to all of my friends)
     
  4. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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  5. Inexorable

    Inexorable The おっぱい lovin' nipple wizard. Donator

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    Sorry you rich bastards, I'm sorry my phone didn't cost more than 80NZD X3
     
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  6. trelawney

    trelawney KAG Guard Tester

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    Hey, I got a budget android phone, they do exist.
     
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  7. FliesLikeABrick

    FliesLikeABrick THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    pdanet for mac/windows users who need to tether and whose phones don't do wireless hotspot mode
     
  8. FinDude

    FinDude KAG Guard Tester

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    Ur-Quan Masters, Angband, Armada Arcade are good games to keep boredom at bay.

    HiSurfing for cockblocking all data communication. They told me you require a data plan to use this phone. Sure showed them (Requires root)
    'Sound Manager' is useful if you go to school or somesuch and don't want to worry about muting/unmuting the phone all the time.
     
  9. Inexorable

    Inexorable The おっぱい lovin' nipple wizard. Donator

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    Don't go starting no flame wars now FLAB....
     
  10. Downburst

    Downburst Mindblown Global Moderator Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    I used pdanet for 2 weeks when I had no internet at home, got 2 letters from my provider telling me I used too much data. Stupid 'fair use' policies. :bird:
    But yea, 10gb in 2 weeks is quite a bit for a phone connection...
     
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