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10 Android Apps You’ll Find Useful and Entertaining

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Continuing on from part one of my favorite Android Mobile Apps here are 10 more apps on my Droid X that I hope you find useful and entertaining.

1. Spread The News – I’ve become fascinated with Pulse.me because I can tailor it to the news I want to read and easily share.  Pulse.me streams news from some standard sources as well as allowing you to customize and add your own sources of news.  While reviewing news, stories, pictures and videos, three little icons hover over them that allows you to “Star” a story, share on Facebook or share on twitter.  When you press the star, you’ll be able to review those items on a web page at Pulse.me.

2. Schedule Your Shared Stuff – I use Hootsuite to schedule some of the stuff I share online.  Couple this together with Pulse.me and you’ve got a pretty powerful news and resource sharing device.  Anytime you want to retweet something or share something on Facebook, having Hootsuite on your mobile device allows you to schedule the stuff you want to share at the times you want to share it.

3. Google+ – Google+ is out and with it came an app you can find in the Android Market or have a link texted to your phone when you join Google+.  On the app dashboard you’ll find icons that you can touch to go to your stream, photos, your circles, create a huddle and view your profile.  There’s a handy Notifications area at the bottom of the dashboard so you can gain quick access to anything new that’s come in to your Google+ stream.  You might have to sign up for an invite if you don’t already have one.

4. Organize Everything – Catch is an app that allows you to capture everything that’s important to you like notes, photos, lists, web pages, and organize it all.  Another app for organizing a bunch of stuff is Evernote.  It too has the capability to capture many different things and organize them for you.  These types of programs are called personal digital assistants and allow you to send stuff to them by email as well as tweets using twitter.

5. Let’s Have Some Fun – Have you heard of FatBooth?  FatBooth does one thing really well and that is to allow you to take photos of people and make their faces, well, fat.  It’s just pure fun and in the hands of teenager (or an adult teenager) at a family gathering, things can get pretty fun and funny.

6. Share Videos – Want to share video with your friends instantly?  SocialCam allows you to do just that.  With a clean and minimal interface you can take video of the events in your life and share immediately on Facebook or other social media sites like twitter.  You can even tag friends who are in a video you’ve taken.  Very easy to use.

7. Oh Dang, The Power’s Out!! – What do ya’ do when the power in your house goes out?  Well, after you’ve run around and found out everyone else in the neighborhood is affected too, fire up your Android device and check out what the local radio stations are saying using TuneIn Radio Pro.  This app will help your find out why it’s happening, who’s affected and how the weather might have affected the power outage.

8. Stumble The Web – Have you ever used StumbleUpon?  It’s channel surfing for the web.  It’s been around a long time and bloggers and website owners love it because it can bring tons of eyeballs to your site.  Anyway, the same concept applies to the mobile version of StumbleUpon, you stumble upon websites and blogs around the web.  You can even filter sites down to specific categories as well as what your friends on StumbleUpon are recommending.  Tip: If you stumble upon a website or blog where the print is too small, use ReadItLater to get it beautifully formatted and read using ReadItLater.

9. Do It Tomorrow – Do It Tomorrow is a smart phone app you can use to keep your to do list and  anything else you’d like to list on a daily basis.  It provides a nice and clean interface to keep track of your lists.  You can easily swipe a task for today over to tomorrow.  Editing your list allows you to mark items complete or delete them.

10. One More Music App – I’m checking out Spotify on my Droid X.  Iz pretty cool.  Just another music app but it gathers your music from the spotify website after youi’ve created an account and downloaded the program to your desktop computer.  It works kind of like iTunes but with less restrictions and the synch feature works a heck of a lot smother.  At leaset that what I’m experiencing.  You’ll need an invite first so head over to Spotify and enter your email address.

I would love to hear what you’re using on your mobile device.  Let us know in the comments.

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  1. It looks like Apple just released the Google+ app for the iPhone as well within the App Store. I personally think it’s far superior to Facebook due to its built in privacy features so hopefully it takes off.

  7. Surprise to see Google + already available on Adroid, while some people are already splurging on it. I haven’t got into it and I feel like I’m left behind. Already heard some positive reviews about it. I’ll patiently wait until its grand launch.

  8. alien workshop skateboard decks » There’s a lot going on with Google+ and I plan to write and record a video on it. Don’t feel too bad about being left behind. There’s a lot changing with it and a lot more to come. I think with any of these social networking sites it’s okay to watch, read and decide how you want to be involved with them.

  10. Graeme Icebreaker » Thanks for listing these, I’ll have to check them out. I haven’t got into the games yet so it’s time I dig in and give them a go.

  11. I would like to mention Dropbox, a cloud service that allows you to deposit and save files, making them available for use on all of your web-enabled electronic devices.

    Sonny.

  14. Is this Google+ worthy of the hype? Totally agree with you on dropbox – unless you are storing multimedia there is enough storage for free for most users. One of those things I try to keep quiet about in case they start charging. Spotify is a must on your phone if you travel by bike or public transport.

  15. I have Stumbleupon and Do It Tomorrow apps installed on my Galaxy Tab already. I use them a lot. Now, I will install and check the other apps you mentioned in your post. Thanks.

  17. I completely agree with that stumble the web app. It is sooo addicting though. You can fill in all the topics that interest you and it will keep showing you cool websites that you probably would have normally never found.

  21. Comparing the number of apps available from Apple and Android, there’s no question that Apple has a significant lead. However, more and more Android apps are being produced everyday. It’s just a matter of time before they catch up, and they will. It’ll then just be a question of who will provide a better user-experience, in my opinion. Whoever does that wins.

  22. I really enjoy using Stumble The Web surfing channels online.It is important for bloggers. Completely agree with that stumble the net app. It is sooo addicting though. You are able to fill in all the topics that interest you and it’ll keep showing you cool websites that you would have normally never found.

  26. Thanks for the good tips. I’m always looking for new or interesting apps. I like especially the Video Share app. It’s so incredibly easy to create videos on the internet its just to post.

  27. Thank you so much for the great list of apps. I use about 5 out of the 10 on a daily basis. I don’t know where I would be with these great programs. Thank you so much for you well written article.

  28. On my 3rd Android now, the Samsung Galaxy. I’ve lost interest in games, but do like to keep current with News, Weather, Stock Prices, Email. Google maps when looking for the closest good Mexican food, Yelp to make sure I won’t regret it. Google Skymap is popular with the kids on cloudless nights. Who can find Jupiter?

  29. Spotify is freaking awesome. I discovered it when I was in Europe in January. I signed up and have already loaded it on my phone. I think Itunes has a real competitor in Spotify. This is the future of music (streaming) obviously and if Apple does not attack this fast they will lose marker share. Just my opinion. Great site BTW.

  35. My HTC enjoys almost all of the named apps 🙂 Thank you for Catch and Do it Tomorrow – they are really awesome, even at first glance! I don’t quite get the point of FatBooth, though…

  37. Google+ is going to be big, it’s available on the apple app store too, but a few of the reviews make it seem not so great, although I haven’t got an android device right now so I can only go by the apple app store.

  39. I have used Google+ in my android and its awesome! but i never used other 9 application, no idea about it. i will try to used this. I have also used different apps i install in my android and thanks god its working so far.

  40. I love the list of Apps you have on your page here! I think Google +1 will be taking the world by storm here within the next year. Just you wait. Thanks for the great list

  43. Great!! I believe Google+ app is much better than the Facebook app for android. I must recommend every android owner to download and install Google+ as it is more organized and simple than Facebook especially after the new Timeline arrived. Another good app is Catch that is also a must download for all Android users. For rest of the apps, I need to download them, Thanks for sharing!!

  44. I’m using Deezer instead of Spotify, that way I don’t have to download any software onto my work computer and I can download songs to offline mode on my phone to listen when I don’t have WiFi or don’t want to use my 3g.

  45. Hootsuite sounds a very useful app to download. I like the idea that you can schedule your tweets to keep followers updated.

  46. Spotify is my favorite!
    Hootsuite allows you to organise your events properly! Must hv for those who are very particular about time management

  47. Indeed they are nice applications to be used, I would like to add one more name i.e ExpenSence, through this app one can have control over all the expences as well as track including income, accounts & budget.

  48. Instead of Spotify, why not use Grooveshark? The app got pulled from the Android market but it has since been replaced with an HTML5 compliant mobile version which you can access over your browser. Works with both Android and iOS devices.

    Also, in my review, I covered HypedMusic which is somewhat similar to Grooveshark and its an up and coming music streaming service. I thought it was quite good!

    http://www.gadgetreactor.com/2012/09/best-music-streaming-service-website-for-singapore.html

  50. I really enjoy using Stumble The Web surfing channels online.it is crucial for bloggers. totally agree with that stumble the net application. it’s sooo addicting though. You are able to fill in all the topics that interest you and it’ll keep showing you cool web presences that you would have normally never found.

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