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Howzit,

I think we need one of these so that people don't have to wade through pages and pages to find what apps other people use that are useful.

Current list :
  • APN Droid - Turn on and off 3G
  • Power controls - Turn on/off Wifi,GPS,Bluetooth,Sync and adjust brightness on 3 levels.
  • Notes - take down notes (with encryption)
  • Advanced Task Killer - Kill apps to free up memory and save battery
  • BatteryTime Lite - Shows detailed information on your battery (status, how much talk time,video playback etc. you have left)
  • Google Goggles - Take a picture of products and let google identify it for you.
  • Google Sky Maps - The sky which shows starts + planets based on your GPS location
  • Shazam - Music identifier
  • News 24 App
  • First aid - basic first aid guidelines,treatments etc.
  • Dolphin HD browser
  • Camera Illusion - cool app that adds various effects for your camera
  • Apps Organiser - lets you make folders and group your apps
  • Astro File Manager
  • Google Gesture Search and Gesture Search Bar - lets you draw letters to search your phone
  • No lock - If you dont want the lock screen for some reason
  • Wave Guide - Costs $20 a year, but makes your phone unusable if it's stolen and lets you track it wherever it is
  • Barcode scanner - useful for grabbing QR codes, but doesnt pick up most SA barcodes
  • Color Note - nice way to make quick notes
  • Data counter widget - Check data usage
  • Trapster - Check and report roadblocks
  • Memory booster lite.
  • syncMyPix - great for syncing contacts photo's with there facebook profile pic with out copying all your contacts to your phone.
  • Net Billing - dont know what the other wifi/data monitors are like but this one gives you your usage for wifi & normal gprs/edge/3g. You also input your price per mb of data and it tells you how much data should have come off your account.
  • Gmote - Great for browsing your movies/music on your pc, also has basic control functions, I have found that the vlc app works better for fast forwarding tho.

Games
  • Gem Miner
  • Robo Defense - Tower defense game
  • Labyrinth Lite - Tilt game - get the ball in the hole
  • Gameboid - Gameboy emulator


Out of Market Apps:

  • HTC IME mod - gives you a couple more options for your keyboard
  • Market Enabler - allows you to fake your market info and access overseas (and paid) apps. Doesnt work for everyone
  • Brut.all Navigation Hack - enables navigation, but still has one or two bugs

Thanks for the input guys, we gonna have a duk list soon :)
 
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Me too!

HTC Desire:

  • Apps Organiser - lets you make folders and group your apps
  • Astro File Manager
  • Dolphin Browser HD - better than the stock browser in my opinion
  • Google Gesture Search and Gesture Search Bar - lets you draw letters to search your phone
  • No lock - If you dont want the lock screen for some reason
  • Wave Secure - Costs $20 a year, but makes your phone unusable if it's stolen and lets you track it wherever it is
  • Barcode scanner - useful for grabbing QR codes, but doesnt pick up most SA barcodes :(

These aren't in the market, but they're still pretty good. Search on XDA-forums for the APKs

  • HTC IME mod - gives you a couple more options for your keyboard
  • Market Enabler - allows you to fake your market info and access overseas (and paid) apps. Doesnt work for everyone
  • Brut.all Navigation Hack - enables navigation, but still has one or two bugs
 
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Advanced task killer - kill unused apps
Color Note - nice way to make quick notes
Astro File Manager - amazing

Man I'm becoming an Android fanboy of note.
 
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Data counter widget - Check data usage
Trapster - Check and report roadblocks ;)
 
alt146 said:
[*]Brut.all Navigation Hack - enables navigation, but still has one or two bugs
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Installed now, will give it a try on my drive home tonight. I can't imagine we will have to wait TOO long before Google releases Navi for South Africa though.
 
I need an app to hide "certain" files from the general photo/video browser...
 
No, just need a way to show people at work pics of stuff without having to worry about what the flick of a finger across the screen could reveal...
 
  • "syncMyPix" great for syncing contacts photo's with there facebook profile pic with out copying all your contacts to your phone.
  • "shazam "
  • "Net Billing" - dont know what the other wifi/data monitors are like but this one gives you your usage for wifi & normal gprs/edge/3g. You also input your price per mb of data and it tells you how much data should have come off your account.
  • Gmote - Great for browsing your movies/music on your pc, also has basic control functions, I have found that the vlc app works better for fast forwarding tho.

Games

  • Gem Miner
    Robo Defense
 
Has anyone looked at CoPilot Live 8? They have maps for SA much cheaper than NDrive.

Can't post a link I'm on my phone.
 
Y5 - automatically turns your wifi on and off when you enter and leave areas where you've connecred to a wifi network before.
 
rorz0r said:
I need an app to hide "certain" files from the general photo/video browser...
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Try Pandora, you can add pics you want to the 'hide' list. The pics are only viewable through pandora and its password protected.
 
VonPickle said:
Installed now, will give it a try on my drive home tonight. I can't imagine we will have to wait TOO long before Google releases Navi for South Africa though.
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It depends of if Google owns the map tiles for SA. If they don't we'll have to wait till Google get maps for here that they own...
 
JP_ said:
Is anyone using Wavesecure?
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Yeah, $20 a year is pretty cheap considering it renders your phone unuseable for everyone but yourself, and gives you the ability to track it wherever it is.
 
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