Crash's Android Stuff: April 2011

HBO Go Available Now, Actually

HBO Go Available Now, Actually If you have HBO you can now watch just about all their content on your phone, on demand.

NASA TV for Android launches just in time for shuttle launch (and delay) | Android Central

Today’s Free Amazon App: Fast Food Calorie Counter

Quick Look at Today’s Free Amazon App: Fast Food Calorie Counter

HP ePrint app brings FedEx Office Print&Go service to Android | Android Central

Be The Next Picasso From Your Android Device With Fresco

Droid 2 CAD

This app has an interesting premise - use your GPS to capture points into a DXF file for use in CAD. Probably not accurate enough to be tremendously useful, but interesting anyway.

Droid 2 CAD - Android Market

Viewdle SocialCamera now available, uses facial recognition to automatically tag photos | Android Central

How to Get Better Battery Life from Your Android Phone

Google Docs Brings Native App with Editing, Optical Character Recognition to Android

Google Docs Brings Native App with Editing, Optical Character Recognition to Android: "Today, Google released a native app for Android devices that makes it easy to create, edit, and upload documents on-the-go.... Undoubtedly the coolest feature, though, is the ability to take a picture of a hard paper document and convert it to Google Docs format. By creating a new "Document from Photo", Docs will filter the picture through its optical character recognition system to turn the image into a fully editable document. "

This is one I've been wanting for quite a while. About time.

TurboFly 3D Demo - Android Market

Control on this is pretty smooth - if you like this kinda game it might be worth the 2 bucks. Also available from Amazon.

Featured App of the Day – WiFi Status [Video]

Featured App of the Day – WiFi Status [Video]: "The way WiFi Status works is easy. Simply install the app from the Market and it goes straight to work. Whenever you leave or are out of range of a connected WiFi hotspot, it notifies you that your WiFi is still on and clicking on the notification will turn it off"

Comments...

I'd love to see some comments to reflect your experiences on anything I post here that you actually try out, use, or simply have a strong opinion on. Maybe one day I will start putting category tags on these posts, but today is not that day.

Get Your Life In Order And Be More Productive With TaskPad Lite

Mobile news app - Politico, and links to other sources

Politico app hits Android, mobile news users cheer | Android Central If you want to read news on your android, you might like this.

Attention AT&T users...

Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine v. 1.2 - Android Forums This tool can apparently let you install Amazon's App Store, weaseling around AT&T's restriction on non-Market apps (which Amazon App Store is). I've become quite a fan of the something-free-every-day on the Amazon store, and if you're feeling adventurous now you can enjoy it too.

Android Quick App: Systerac Memory Cleaner | Android Central

Android Quick App: Systerac Memory Cleaner | Android Central this sounds simple, handy, and pretty safe.

SugarSync unveils latest update, frees you from wires (and thinking) | Android Central

SugarSync unveils latest update, frees you from wires (and thinking) | Android Central This sounds like it could be quite useful

Remote Desktop Clients for Android

I looked up for remote desktop access clients for android, and found the following all seemed promising. I have installed 2X Client and it works pretty nicely to connect to my office desktop; the other ones promise better speed or interface, but I see no need to pay when the free app works fine. Recommended.

2X Client

http://amzn.com/B004N8CP8K

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tux.client&feature=search_result

Price: $0.00

iTap mobile RDP remote client

http://amzn.com/B004X7CAO0

Price: $13.00

https://market.android.com/details?id=at.co.hlw.remoteclient&feature=search_result

Price: $17.49

Xtralogic Remote Desktop Client

http://amzn.com/B004W48QFG

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.xtralogic.android.rdpclient&feature=search_result

Price: $24.95

Five Guys Burgers & Fries

Five Guys Burgers & Fries Online ordering via Android. Excellent. Dangerous.

Zedge Gives You Ringtones, Notifications And Wallpapers For Your Android Device

Track Your Vehicle Maintenance And Expenses With aCar For Android

Flavortown - Android Market

Flavortown - Android Market: "Find Diners, Drive-ins and Dives locations from the TV show hosted by Guy Fieri on the Food Network.
This application is by a fan (Rick Graner) and for fans of the show plus we love to help promote those great american mom and pop restaurants all over the USA.
This application is a quick way to find all of those Diners, Drive-ins and Dives locations so you can visit them and support local business.
Some locations have daily specials which are highlighted in yellow as those locations are updated on the website http://www.flavortownusa.com by the owners themselves.
If a location has a YouTube image showing that means the video clip is available.
Don't you think it's time for a road trip for some good local eats!"

How Stuff Works - The official app now available in the Android Market | Android Central

Grid Size File Manager Shows You What's Taking Up Space on Your Android Phone's SD Card

Zeam Launcher 2.9.1

Zeam Launcher 2.9.1 Brings a Fast, Simple, Customizable Launcher

Platform game, Toki Tori

Polarbit releases another top notch game for Android Called Toki Tori | Android Community

Glowing review - game might be good fun.

ESPN fantasy baseball manager

Android Quick App: ESPN FLB | Android Central

AutoCAD WS

AutoCAD WS - Android Market

Finally we have AutoCAD on Android!

Skype Update Patches Security Hole, Adds 3G Calling Too

WidgetLocker Lets You Customize Your Lock Screen, Available In The Market

Quick access to stuff from the unlock screen.

K-9 Mail Is What Android's IMAP Email App Should Be

Exchange server support. I think I'm gonna need this for work soon.

Notification Notes - Android Market

Notes in your notification bar. Can be handy.

GeoNote Sends You Location-Based Reminders on Your Android Phone

Silent Time Automatically Silences Your Android Phone Based On Time of Day

Poynt for Android updated: New gas prices widget, sharing with Facebook and Twitter

Find local stuff.

AutomateIt Is a Simple and Free Android Automation Tool

Program the operation of a bunch of your phone's features. Kinda cool. Easy to use.

Shush! Ringer Restorer - Android Market

Lets you silence your phone for a preset duration - for a movie or a meeting or whatever. I've used once, it worked.

Over-the-Air iTunes-Syncing App Now Free for Android

Yep.

Android Quick App - GroupMe | Android Central

Texting to groups. Could be useful. Maybe. I figure it's worth saving the link anyway.

WhoIsIt Creates Contact-Specific Ringtones and Vibration Patterns on Android

I haven't used this one - but I could see how it might be useful. See also Ringdroid, which I recommend highly.

Viewdle Makes it so you don’t have to Tag Photos

Yep. And leave my name the hell out of this.

Shuffle For Android, The Ultimate Getting Things Done App

Yeah, this sucker is probably too serious an organizing tool for me to look at. But, it is very well reputed and some of y'all might find it very useful. Yeah, Mike M, I'm talkin to you.

Amazon Cloud Drive Stores 5 GB of Your Stuff Online and Streams Your Music Back to You

Check this out, seriously. Any MP3's you buy from Amazon (and lots of them are $0.00) you can store online and play streaming from there, without counting towards the 5GB storage cap. I have taken to looking for music on Amazon before I look on iTunes.