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- Hacker News Droid - HN Reader
- Hooopla - to find out fun activities going on nearby
- Todo.txt Touch - can be synced and edited on all my computers, and used the cl
- Opera Mobilestuff i use:
* dropbox (for accessing keepass)
* keepass
* beyondpod (for podcasts, it's meets my stream/download needs but there's probably better written apps out there. for those looking, just pay for a good one instead of wasting your time getting frustrated with the free ones)
* rhapsody (music)
* gcalwidget (might have mispelled this)
* yelp
* google voice
* renderFX widgets at night. I'm a f.lux fan.
stuff i formerly used:
* gtasks (I've moved to trello, which has a mobile webapp, hope they make an offline mobile app)
One big thing to note is that I use far less apps than i used to, but this maybe because I can easily tether my phone and quickly open up my macbook to do things. I even preferred checking yelp via my laptop in the car during my last roadtrip. That said, I'm burning to get either an ipad or a thinkpad tablet soon as a book-reader/travel-laptop-second-screen/drawing tablet.
I've also never liked typing on a small keyboard.
* Smart Keyboard Pro: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeybo... -- Allows me to use a Dvorak keyboard on the phone, but even if you don't use Dvorak it's still a great purchase. It has a lot of options to make your typing more efficient that the stock keyboard doesn't have.
* The Kindle app to read books. Now I mostly use it to read .mobi files I've downloaded instead of buying things at the Amazon store, for which it works brilliantly. I wish it allowed copy/pasting of text though.
Google Reader for RSS/Atom
* GMail application for GMail.
* The stock Mail application for work IMAP, although I'll test out K-9 mentioned in this thread
* ColorNote for taking notes / shopping lists.
* live logcat for the novelty of having a l33t boot sequence (and getting rid of that annoying Samsung boot-up sound): https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.livelogca...
* Root Explorer to manage root-only files.
* Skype to make video calls
* ConnectBot to ssh from the phone, although I haven't found out how to enable landscape mode in it, which is annoying.
* Listen for podcasts, although I haven't found out how to make it auto-download say the last 3 podcasts of everything I subscribe to.
* BBC News and Al Jazeera video for some world news
* Gh4a to browse GitHub
* AdFree to block spam
* Screenshot to take screenshots
* WolframAlpha for any sort of conversion / math queries.
* A PushUp / SitUp / Squats app (all separate apps) for managed stationary exercise. Although I'd like to find something that I could turn on and would give me instructions for a general N-minute workout that could be done at home.
Things I wish I didn't have to use, or don't know how to do, but haven't found out how to replace / do:
* The default Samsung camera application. There's no way to turn off the shutter noise on it, and it'll plain refuse to take pictures if the battery is low.
* The default task switcher, which often doesn't list the application I've just switched from (even though it's still open)
* The default system clipboard which doesn't seem to have a history / search feature like Emacs's kill ring.
* Having the default Samsung apps installed on the phone. I tried to use Titanium Backup PRO but it didn't work for removing or freezing them.
* Having something like Gesture search which searches across the entire phone but doesn't require me to draw on the screen, I just want to type a query.
* Sometimes the phone will go into some sort of voice command mode. I haven't found out how to disable it.
Lastly I plan to write an application that hooks into the "Share" handler for text/plain content and extracts the content of the clipboard, scans it for a URL, and pastes that to the clipboard.
I've found that quite a few apps have a "Share" functionality, but no "copy the URL of what I'm looking at to the clipboard", and I haven't found any existing app that works around this.
I'm running a Samsung Galaxy S2 that I've rooted. Here's my most commonly used applications, all of which I recommend: * Smart Keyboard Pro: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeybo... -- Allows me to use a Dvorak keyboard on the phone, but even if you don't use Dvorak it's still a great purchase. It has a lot of options to make your typing more efficient that the stock keyboard doesn't have. * Th…
Use root explorer to find the sound files (sorry I can't remember where they are off the top of my head) rename them or just delete them and restart your phone.
You need make sure you get all the focus/shutter files.
incidentally the stock galaxy s phone app does allow me to tun off the shuttet.
also run my own app, a live wallpaper water simulaytion linked to online weather. com.heyesjones.rainwallpaper
Apps aside, I can recommend putting the latest beta MIUI ROM on the Samsung. The default Samsung UI is kind of ugly in my opinion. With MIUI you get a beautiful interface which is very customizable. Standard disclaimers apply. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130951
I'm running a Samsung Galaxy S2 that I've rooted. Here's my most commonly used applications, all of which I recommend: * Smart Keyboard Pro: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeybo... -- Allows me to use a Dvorak keyboard on the phone, but even if you don't use Dvorak it's still a great purchase. It has a lot of options to make your typing more efficient that the stock keyboard doesn't have. * Th…
You can actually use the default Google Search app that comes installed on most versions of Android. You just have to go into its settings and tell it to search more than just the web.
And as far as removing those default apps that you can not uninstall: since you already have your phone rooted, you can just delete or rename their process files and they will be effectively uninstalled.
I'm running a Samsung Galaxy S2 that I've rooted. Here's my most commonly used applications, all of which I recommend: * Smart Keyboard Pro: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeybo... -- Allows me to use a Dvorak keyboard on the phone, but even if you don't use Dvorak it's still a great purchase. It has a lot of options to make your typing more efficient that the stock keyboard doesn't have. * Th…
Worked for me. What happens if you launch them after attempting to freeze?
>> Screenshot to take screenshots
You don't need an app for this. Hold menu + power button.