Ok, I was just going to ask a question about one particular ap (Feedly), but I realized that the thread we had before on CoG was pretty handy about what’s hot and what’s not.
Aps I love. Pandora My Fitness Pal Waze iPP Podcast Player
Aps I tolerate.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Ap that I hate but can’t live without
Feedly
I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, Twitter and Instagram to keep in touch with my daughter and for news.
Feedly to read my comics and my news, but it is such an awkward piece of crap.If anyone uses an RSS reader that they are happy with let me know.
Waze is my go to GPS program, it may not always have the bet route, but it’s good for crowd sourcing traffic issues. Plus I get to be Pacman when I go somewhere no one else has been.
Pandora has now replaced any other form of music for me 90% of the time.
My Fitness Pal is how I’m trying to not be fat.
and iPP Podcast Player I just found and seems to be awesome so far.
Here are ones that I use a lot: Poweramp - The standard music app that comes with Android doesn’t seem to handle collections of more than 1000 or so songs very well. You pay for Poweramp, but I really like it. (I have almost exactly 9,000 songs on my phone.) OfficeSuite - You can read and edit .doc, .xls, etc files with this one Flashlight - Nice to have a light source in an emergency. ES File Explorer - Nice to be able to view the folder structure on your device. It also lets me connect to my server when I’m connected to my home domain’s wireless.
The next ones are kind of specialized, but good if you happen to be using/studying Japanese. WWWJDIC - Japanese Kanji dictionary. You can write kanji in or take a picture. OpenWnn plus - Japanese character keyboard
Steam - For access to those insane PC Game deals they do on weekends, even if I’m at my In-Law’s house.
Snapchat - Because my friend loves to send me stuff I’ll never see again.
Yelp - A lifesaver in uncharted territory.
Play Books - Google’s variant of eReader. Simple and works well. Love that I can highlight a word and I get definitions on the fly, though I doubt that’s an exclusive feature.
iHeartRadio - AM Radio, without the nasty AM sound.
Goggles - Crazy how this works, but this is actually a pretty neat tool to have.
Feedly is sadly the best I’ve come across that supports the Feedly back end. I used to use EasyRSS. I haven’t tried NewsBlur’s app though.
I love:
Crashplan for enabling me to get to my backups on the go DoubleTwist Alarm as a smarter alarm clock DroidLite, a torch app that doesn’t require funky permissions ES File Explorer so I can get to all my files Glance for turning my Pebble into a truly smart watch Google Authenticator since really, you should be using two factor auth Mantano Reader as the best eReader app that’s not linked to a single source OpenVPN Connect so that I can use that untrusted WiFi safely Play Music since I can listen to all my music on the go Plex - allowing me to watch my movies anywhere I’ve got Internet access Pushover for sending notifications from almost anything to my phone Tasker, with Secure Settings, which has automated the living daylights out of my phone (they’re also the first 2 apps I’ll install on any new device)
I like
Google Maps for getting me places, and back again HulloMail for breaking me free from my provider’s voice mail LightFlow, when it works Plume as an almost complete replacement for the standard Twitter and Facebook clients
I loathe
The official Facebook and Twitter clients. I mean, have you actually looked at the permissions the Facebook client wants?
I’m getting to like
Saga, for telling me things about my life that I kind of already knew Waze, as an interesting alternative to Google Maps
Nova Launcher
Pandora
Amazon MP3 Player
Songza
NASA App - for Third Rock Radio among other things
Smart Audiobook Player
DoggCatcher
Tasker
Secure Settings
Camera Zoom FX
Titanium Backup
SkyDrive - Where Titanium backs up to
DropBox
Sleepbot
Mileage
Gentle Alarm
Greenify - Best battery conserving app I’ve found
Chomp SMS
Evernote
Google Tasks Organizer
I like
Simple - One of the best mobile banking apps
Mint
Google Maps
Fandango
Fit Radio
Jefit Pro
MX Player Pro
Netflix
Peggle
Angry Birds
RunKeeper
Steam
StickMount
TeamViewer
TripIt
Word Search
Zombies Run
Zombies 5k
I loathe
WeightWatchers apps - Except for the scanner, they all crash on me. I just use the mobile site.
Facebook - Again… mobile site.
Twitter - Don’t use it. Don’t want it.
@Darktan - How large is your music collection? When I used the Amazon mp3 player, it didn’t work any better than the default music player. (It lost album art, crashed, it would play a song but have the wrong artist, title, album information)
I’m really happy with PowerAmp, but I’d like to know if there are decent alternatives out there.
I have a good 80-120 GB of tunes at home (depends on if I include Gratch’s stuff). I use MediaMonkey at home and have a couple of playlists that generate a good list of tunes of both old and new. The playlist is about 300 songs so it’s a couple GB in size. About once a month or so, I hook up my phone and do a push of them to my phone. Primarily, I use all my music apps for streaming. I have an old unlimited data plan so I don’t worry too much. I used to have my collection streaming but that broke years ago and I never got around to fixing it or setting up a new one.
Apollo is nice replacement. I’m waiting on the MediaMonkey app to get in better shape but I don’t have high hopes.
gReader can talk to Feedly’s cloud service and it looks/works much like Google Reader did before Google sent that service to live on a farm upstate. I had it hooked up for a while but for reasons I don’t recall I gave that up and just use Feedly’s own app. And I agree, it’s an awkward POS.
I’m biding my time till I get my own server online (in the basement or online) and then self-hosting tt-rss.
Tweetbot for twitter, Google Authenticator for 2-factor. Lots of audio books for car rides. Other than that, stock e-mail and browser and messaging apps. Everything else is banished to the the “shit I can’t delete” folder.
I’ve got both NewsBlur and Feedly, though I stopped using NewsBlur some time back. I just gave it another spin and I have to say that I prefer Feedly - it just gets little usability features right.
Now, 20 minutes isn’t enough time for an in depth comparison I’ll admit. However after those 20 minutes I had no desire to keep using NewsBlur.
I may have to give gReader a whirl though and see if it’s any better.
