Tier 1: On my home screen (most useful/most potential):
Gdocs notepad (syncs with google docs, others use ak notepad)
Gtasks (syncs with google tasks on gmail)
LockPattern OnOff (careful, don't forget your pattern, can brick your droid this way - google login to override pattern lock does not work on some droids including mine. Hopefully they'll fix this soon)
Shopsavvy vs barcode reader
Keyring
Pandora (or last.fm if you prefer)
Weather (that's the full name, i like their widget better than all others)
Power manager full (may want to wait till they fix the bluetooth toggle to buy, but i like having dif power profiles to switch to for home vs out and about - i place shortcuts to the profiles on my home screen and oneclick to activate. Alternative is 'locale' but locale doesnt work very well for droid)
Bluetooth toggle for droid (using this till power manager fixes itself for bluetooth)
Advanced task manager (i like that there's auto-end on the full version...saves me the trouble of closing programs manually. Is also a great easy interface for uninstalling programs)
Gps status (i use this for remembering where i parked my car, free and better than other parking apps. Just go to 'radar' view and click 'mark')
Meebo IM (better than IM+ lite, free, create a meebo acct and just sign into one acct and you'll have all your IM including facebook chat!)
Google navigation (included, it takes a while to get used to, but the key is making a 'my maps' on google maps on your computer, hitting 'layers' on google nav and 'more layers' and choosing your 'my maps'. Easier to get places this way than thru 'contacts' in my opinion. Also try mounting the droid vertically for gps use, i like it because you see forward more rather than to the sides - i wonder why other gps dont do that, it makes so much more sense!)
Buzzlock
Where
Google voice
Quickpedia (wiki reader, better than the rest bc font size adjustable)
Gmote (havent tried yet but looks promising)
Funny jokes (heh heh)
Easy dialer (my go-to for making calls to family and friends quickly)
Battery widget (this is the exact name)
Cardiotrainer (better than andando i think)
Bff photo (facebook photo albums of friends)
Instant lyrics
World weather (i use mainly the widget x 2 to see the time in asia so i know when i can call family and weather in chicago so i can gloat at my freezing friends =)
Facebook (from facebook inc)
SportsTap (best sports app. Period.)
Tier 2: Not on home screen but good to have:
Owner
Saymyname donut (talking caller id, make sure to get donut version, not the old one)
Ringdroid (make own ringtones)
Tone picker (set anything as a ringtone)
Where's my droid
Tier 3: Other useful apps:
Shazam
Places directory
aCar (mileage, maintenance, etc)
Astro (file explorer manager)
B-folders (for keeping sensitive data, can't speak for security, but better than nothing)
Backgrounds
Bible (all Bible versions, but needs data connection)
Dockrunner
Documents to go
gStrings (great free guitar or other instrument tuner)
Guitar chordz
Mabilo ringtones (a team, airwolf, stargate...need i say more? =)
Movies
My coupons
Prayers to share (share and pray for requests anonymously)
Poke a mole
Robo defense
Amazon
Amazon mp3
Motorola media link (program for your pc, havent used yet but looks to be best solution for syncing music)
the tip for the Navigation with Google Maps is a great one, but when I go to try it, I try to add a location to My Maps on the website, but when I go to look in my locations and had saved the address with a title, it just brings me to the town, not the exact address.
How did you get your addresses saved in Google Maps?
Google navigation (included, it takes a while to get used to, but the key is making a 'my maps' on google maps on your computer, hitting 'layers' on google nav and 'more layers' and choosing your 'my maps'. Easier to get places this way than thru 'contacts' in my opinion.
Ah...this is the way to save favorites (like on a Garmin), maybe? Cool! I'll give this a try at lunch. Thanks for the list. I'm a Google Market addict.
the tip for the Navigation with Google Maps is a great one, but when I go to try it, I try to add a location to My Maps on the website, but when I go to look in my locations and had saved the address with a title, it just brings me to the town, not the exact address.
How did you get your addresses saved in Google Maps?
Thanks,
Ben
So go to google maps, make a "My Map", then click on "My Map", then click on the map name "Home" or whatever, and it should show a map that has all your locations on it, add different locations. to get the exact address, click on the particular address listed under your "Home" map.
So go to google maps, make a "My Map", then click on "My Map", then click on the map name "Home" or whatever, and it should show a map that has all your locations on it, add different locations. to get the exact address, click on the particular address listed under your "Home" map.
So while you're in the car mode, it will pull these saved favorites?
Also, it says these are public on google maps?
Great list, thanks for posting. First list I've seen in a while where I found some new ones that were worth downloading for me.
Add a few that I like:
Spare Parts - look at battery usage and other settings beyond the normal set available
Home Switcher - if you're using multiple home programs this is a must
OI Notes - allows import/export of CSV files from Outlook/Palm, etc.
Ring Toggle - Chose vib/ring, vib, ring, or silent w/a single click
MountUSB - simple app gives one-click mount. Minor savings of clicks, but I really like this one for some reason.
Bookmark Importer - allows importing of bookmarks from popular browsers
Just put EasyDialer on my home screen...very nice, especially the backup option.
So go to google maps, make a "My Map", then click on "My Map", then click on the map name "Home" or whatever, and it should show a map that has all your locations on it, add different locations. to get the exact address, click on the particular address listed under your "Home" map.
There is an app called "My Maps Editor" by Google in the Market, with it you can save your current location, but you have to open My Maps editor, can't do it from within "Maps". Hope this helps.
My most commonly used apps are (must like them if I use them a lot, right?)
Palmary Weather (looks much better than the Weather Channel Amp, and updates better)
Handcent for SMS
Beautiful Widgets (with Beautiful Home on my primary screen)
Calculator
Sound Manager (to enable vibration when I set the phone silent)
FML (when e-pinching)
Daily Dilbert
AK47 (for when I want to kill a mo****f***er)
Locale (for toggling settings, with the dock plugin)
here is a few, that were not mentioned
Aim
Bar control ( simply adds icons for apps to the tool bar up top)
color note
Fios mobile (set a recording from anywhere to your home tv)
Fios mobile remote ( use your droid as your tv remote control , uses wifi)
screen mode
screen on
rain alarm
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