{"id":5018,"date":"2012-05-26T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T03:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2012-06-06T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T22:13:22","slug":"android-essentials-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/android-essentials-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Essentials Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are all Android apps I heartily use and recommend for my AT&T Galaxy S phone.
\nFind all these apps on Google Play<\/a> for your Android phone.<\/p>\n

RealCalc Scientific Calculator<\/strong> – a great calculator. The stock calculator suuuuucks but RealCalc is great (and costs like a buck or something!)<\/p>\n

NoLED<\/strong> – It turns on the screen and tells you when you’ve missed a call or text. Essential (I can’t believe Samsung forgot this functionality!)<\/p>\n

Google Goggles<\/strong> – great for scanning QR codes (those fancy new computer bar codes). It holds promise for doing a lot more, but not much more yet.<\/p>\n

Fish Bowl<\/strong> – photo gallery<\/p>\n

Clock<\/strong> – The built in Clock app with the wake-me-ever-so-gently “Smart Alarm” is my daily alarm clock and I love it.<\/p>\n

Lord Of Magic<\/strong> – fun shoot’em up<\/p>\n

Gmail<\/strong> – of course
\nGoogle Maps<\/strong> – of course<\/p>\n

Silent Time<\/strong> – Works great to keep my phone quiet for my weekly appointments.<\/p>\n

SwiFTP FTP Server<\/strong> – I use this and an FTP client on my home computer to move files from my computer to my phone<\/p>\n

Hi-Q MP3 Recorder<\/strong> – Rock solid
\nI use this every day to record lectures and people giving me information. It is indispensable.<\/p>\n

Chase Mobile<\/strong> – it’s pretty convenient depositing checks remotely!<\/p>\n

Google Voice<\/strong> – works great. Once every couple months it doesn’t let me listen to voicemails but generally works great.<\/p>\n

Andmade Share<\/strong> – makes sending \u00a0attachments \u00a0and such way easier<\/p>\n

Astro Player<\/strong> – Music playback. Love it for the equalizer and playback speed adjuster. I record lectures in school. I use the equalizer to make the recordings listenable and I use the playback speed changer to scroll through the lectures quickly. Win!<\/p>\n

BART Usher<\/strong> – It’s my go-to schedule travelling through BART<\/p>\n

Data Traffic Monitor<\/strong>– Helped me diagnose a bandwidth hog program<\/p>\n

Screen Filter<\/strong> – Indispensable brightness control for my AT&T Galaxy S phone.<\/p>\n

Tasker<\/strong> – It is supposed to be super-duper powerful but the best use I found was that I created 6 (pretty useful) buttons with it that have obvious purposes: Sound On\/Off, Wifi On\/Off, 3G On\/Off.<\/p>\n

Wifi Manager<\/strong> – Lets me see the wifi networks around me at a glance. Nice.<\/p>\n

Google Authenticator<\/strong> – If you use Gmail, you should use 2-Step Verification to protect your account! How to enable it<\/a>. And a friendly video that walks you through it.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHere are the maybe\/maybe-nots<\/p>\n

Groupme<\/strong> – I WANT to love it but 2 of my friends don’t receive the messages reliably :-(<\/p>\n

SomaFM Radio Player<\/strong> – I WANT to love it but It uses a bit (30kb\/min… 43 megabytes\/day) of bandwidth and a lot of battery even when paused. I don’t have unlimited monthly 3G bandwidth so I’m wary to use the app.<\/p>\n

Prey<\/strong> – It is supposed to track my phone in case I lose it. So far I haven’t gotten it to work right. But I’m on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are all Android apps I heartily use and recommend for my AT&T Galaxy S phone. Find all these apps on Google Play for your Android phone. RealCalc Scientific Calculator – a great calculator. The stock calculator suuuuucks but RealCalc is great (and costs like a buck or something!) NoLED – It turns on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}