Glad to be of service

Okay, so haven't written much of anything in a hot minute.  My bad.

The good(?) news is that I am going to do my damned-est from here on out to, at the very least, post even a brief blog entry every day, starting today.

I mean, if my amazing wife is going to let me have my very own wireless hotspot to play with, I better damn well use the thing, right?  Right!

And so...

This is the list of every app I have installed (or pre-installed app I have updated) that ShareMyApps generated for me, in alphabetical order no less.  The comments are, however, my own.

  1. Adobe Flash Player 10.2 - Um, yeah, it's a Flash player.  I can watch (porn) videos and stuff.
  2. aLogcat - Reads the system log in real time.  Not very useful without root, but cool to watch (sort of).
  3. Android Id3 - Allows you to edit (or create) Id3 tags on your music.  Nice if you have a lot of music that is tagged wrong or not at all, like me.
  4. Angry Birds - About the most popular free game of all (phone) time.
  5. Antigen Outbreak - A thinking-persons arcade shoot 'em up, perhaps?  Fun and challenging; worth a look.
  6. Aporkalypse - Pigs of Doom FREE - Similar to the Blizzard classic 'The Lost Vikings', it is a puzzler disguised as a top down action game.  It is a bit slow and unforgiving, but not a bad time-waster if you don't mind thinking.  This is specifically the free demo, but I imagine if you like this, you'd buy the full version.
  7. ASTRO - This is a file manager.  Google made the core apps really shitty to encourage the net nerds to do a better job.  They usually do.  Like most of the aftermarket core-replacement apps, this file manager tends to be all-around better.  Like all core-replacement apps, you still can't get rid of the one that came with the phone.
  8. Bookmarks to SD - An add-on for Dolphin HD (below), this lets you back up your bookmarks to the SD card in case you need to factory reset or something.
  9. Buka Lite - A Hexage title.  Disgustingly cute and insanely challenging at the same time.  For polished games on Android, Hexage is near the top of the heap.  Nice thing about the Hexage titles is that they are all (so far) kid-friendly, as long as your kids don't respond badly to getting their virtual butts kicked on occasion.
  10. Cardiograph - That's right, I can check my pulse rate with my phone.  No, I'm not kidding.
  11. ConnectBot - SSH client for Android.  Can you say "Badass"?  I knew you could.
  12. Curvy - Low cost, interesting puzzler, capable of generating an infinite number of puzzles.  If you like spinning tiles to make lines connect, you really could play this one forever.
  13. Descent Assistant - This won't help you down the stairs, but it will help Overlords keep track of all their beasties in the excellent Fantasy Flight Game.
  14. Desktop Toggles - Anotther add-on for Dolphin HD, this one lets you quickly flip back and forth between mobile and desktop versions of websites.
  15. Dicent - Another Descent: Journeys in the Dark helper.  This is simply virtual dice.  Helpful if you've only one set and have a very big table... or if you have players who have trouble keeping the dice on the table.
  16. DIRECTV - This one lets me see what's coming on the TV and set things to record.  I don't watch much TV (every other weekend) but this app may help me solve the 195,000,000-channels-and-nothing-is-on problem.
  17. Dolphin Browser HD - Not as fast as stock and sometimes fucks up page-rendering (reorienting the screen usually helps - portrait landscape and back, and vice versa) but it gives you tabbed browsing, customizable gestures, lots of add-ons, themeability, and configurable user agent string (goodbye to YouTube's "this video not available on mobile" message).  It is also free.  There are two other versions of Dolphin available, one that is small and one that is (supposedly) fast, similar to the mobile Opera line.  I like this heavyweight.
  18. DroidLight - Oh noes!  I needs a flashlight and I don't have one!  But I do have my phone...  Yep, all the Androids with an LED flash can be a flashlight in a pinch.  This is the Motorola version for their phones, but there are about a million flashlight apps on the Market.
  19. Drupal Editor - A good effort to start, this is a minimally-useful editor for any Drupal site.  So far, all it allows is the creation of blog entries and it doesn't do that very well.  Hopefully it gets better.
  20. EasyMoney - Expensive money-manager app.  If I used it, it'd be worth it...  I'll start using it again on pay day, if for no other reason than to justify the fact it was the second most expensive app I purchased.
  21. Elements 2.0 - A free periodic table.  I picked this one out of the many I looked at because it requires no permissions.  It isn't the prettiest or best, just the most secure and has no ads.
  22. EVAC HD - A new fangled Pac-Man for the mobile crowd, this Hexage title is oddly beautiful, fun and (again) kid-safe.  Introduces new elements to the old formula (hidey holes, push-able blocks, and a storyline) to freshen up an old classic.
  23. Facebook - This is how I keep in touch with the Bookface.  Duh.
  24. FBReader - A free ebook reader that can handle Kindle, epub, pdf, and various other formats.  Makes no attempt to break electronic books and call it progress.  I'm looking at you Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
  25. Fleya - More tech demo than game, this is peaceful and beautiful.
  26. Gesture Search - Great for drivers, allows you to search almost anything on your phone by drawing letters on screen.  Love this and use it almost daily for those contacts that don't fit in the CarDock's three quick call buttons.
  27. Glyder® 2 - A GLU game, this 3D flight game is a decent time waster.  Control is by accelerometer so playing it makes you look like a dork.  Of course, if you are playing games on your phone, you probably are a dork.
  28. Glympse - Allows you to let people track the (GPS) position of your smartphone in real time.  Very cool.  Also free.
  29. Goggles - Experimental toy from Google, attempts to recognize real world objects through the camera and perform searches based on logos, barcodes, landmarks, etc...  Doesn't work very well at the moment, but I can only imagine the possible future uses.
  30. Google Sky Map - Very cool and free, using GPS and accelerometer data, creates a map of the sky.  Find planets, identify constellations, in real time and in 360°.
  31. Graffiti Pro - Do you miss your Palm and that great, intuitive, and fast way of entering text?  That's right!  Graffiti on Android!  There is also an ad-supported free version.
  32. Grocery iQ - Have not yet tried out the syncing functionality, but this app is supposed to let you not only generate shopping lists, but also sync them to any other smartphone.  So I could say, "Hmm, I need razors." and add that to the list and the wife could buy those razors, check them off, and I'd see that I don't need to buy them.  Exceptional coolness.
  33. Gun Bros - One of the best action games on Android.  Possibly the best if GLU ever quits making lame fucking excuses and finally enables the online elements of the game.  Other than that, this is a testosterone-soaked fragfest.  Quirky, self-aware humor, giant guns, and bloody chunks make this a must-have for the penis crowd, but also probably a title you don't show the (young) kids.
  34. Gurk - Part tribute to the glory days, part actual game; this is 8-bit, party-based RPG turn-based action.  Fun and free.  No ads.
  35. HBO GO - Watch HBO on your mobile device for only what you are already paying every month to watch it at home.  No joke.  Downside, only one member of a household can watch at a time.  That's pretty fucking lame, HBO.
  36. HexDefense - Yet Another Tower Defense Game on Android.  This one is cool looking and really graphically impressive but the frame rate drops so low on my DX that it's nearly unplayable when things heat up.
  37. Hyper Jump - Go up.  That's... pretty much it.  Kid-friendly, nice graphics, some fun sound effects.  Very simple game, a bit of fun.
  38. Koala GnuGo - A version of the GNUGo program for Android for use with the KoalaGo client, below.  Play Go against your phone.
  39. KoalaGo - Use the robot above or get on IGS and play with people world wide.
  40. LovecraftFan - Looks like development is coming to a shuddering halt on this.  Makes me sad.  Free, definitely worth a look.  With all of HPLs stories in the public domain now, one could probably just as easily get them all from Gutenberg and use the FBReader (above) to read them.
  41. Majesty - Port of the PC title.  Not bad.  Not great.  Very short.
  42. MathPac+ - My most expensive app.  A complete scientific graphing calculator in my phone.
  43. Meridian - A media player.  I'm looking at a couple different ones.  This one can play (I've read) just about any type of media file, can download album art, edit Id3 tags (but only if they exist, can't make new), perform pretty smart searches of your music library, and has gesture support.  All in all, it's pretty good.
  44. META - One could almost call this one Homeworld: Ultra-light.  A space RTS where you have no control over individual units.  Your role is commander, upgrading ships, using special powers, etc.  Very original and incredibly challenging.
  45. MiniSquadron! - Fun little dogfight game in the 2D sphere.  Recommended.
  46. MixZing - Another media player.  This one can do the Pandora trick on your own music.  Play one song and it will create a playlist of other, supposedly similar songs.  Have not played with it much.
  47. Music Box Pro - Yeah, this one is... well .... yeah.  Probably a reason it keeps disappearing from the Market.  'Nuff said.
  48. NetHack - The venerable NetHack on Android.  Flawless, as near as I can tell.
  49. Ninja Kaka - Slice fruit.  Don't slice bombs.  Not very deep.
  50. Note Everything - This is the end-all, be-all note taking app for Android.  Seriously, it can do just about anything as far as taking down information quickly goes.
  51. Note Everything Pro - The expansion for the above.  Gotta pay for this, but it unleashes the functionality of the app.
  52. Pandora - Pandora Internet radio on your Android.  Love.
  53. PDF Viewer - This is a Dolphin HD add-on.  Don't have to leave the browser to view PDFs any more.
  54. PewPew - Amazing little game.  Free, no ads, cool music, classic hardcore gameplay.
  55. PewPew 2 - The sequel to the above, gotta pay for it.  This has the depth the original lacks.  More thumb-cramp-inducing fun.
  56. PinMan - Torture a stick figure.  There is blood.  Sometimes causing greivous harm to helpless things that don't really exist is the only way I can get through my day.
  57. Pixel Ants Pro - A live wallpaper that simulates an ant colony.  I am interested in ants.  If you aren't, don't bother.  Not really very cool, but it is highly customizable.
  58. Pixel Zombies Live Wallpaper - This is cool, on the other hand.  Watch brave hunters attempt to eliminate a growing zombie threat on your homescreens.  Things not going like you wanted?  Double tap and nuke 'em all!  Highly customizable and actually entertaining.
  59. Pocket Legends - Simply put:  WoW on Android.  Cartoonish graphics and simple gameplay make this fun for the younger set.  It's a freemium title, so gaining massive power or heavily customizing your characters (or having more than two of them) is going to cost you real world money.  Free if you want it to be, not if you don't.
  60. PocketGod - Apparently insanely popular on the iLine, I got this because my son wanted it.  It's okay, I guess.
  61. QR Droid - Does every trick with barcodes and QR codes that you can think of except for searching for barcodes in Google Shopper (or any shopping app) making it only minimally useful.  Sad that it does all the things the Barcode Scanner app can't do properly and does not do the one thing BS does well.
  62. Radiant - Olde skoole shooter action from Hexage.  Very cool and fun.
  63. Red - A theme for Dolphin HD.
  64. Ringdroid - Turn mp3's into ringtones, notifications, etc.  Or just chop the intro/outro off of a song, I guess.
  65. Rocket Bunnies - Great, original game.  Challenging but kid-friendly.  Makes good use of 3D graphics on what is essentially a 2D game.
  66. SBM - This is micro-GIMP.  An amazing paint program on your Android.  Worth way more than I paid for it.
  67. ShareMyApps - This is how I generated the orignal list here.  Share any or all of your apps via email, text, yadda.  No FB, though.
  68. Shift - Unique platform puzzler.  Has to be played to be comprehended.  There is a free version.
  69. Shopper - Yep, that's Google Shopper, alright.  Really, what else can I say about it?
  70. SoundHound - Hum, whistle, sing, or expose it to your speakers, SoundHound can identify songs.  Give it a good sample of a real song (like on your radio) and it can usually figure out what it's hearing in under five seconds.
  71. Space Squadron - An interesting, turn-based space combat game.  I look forward to finally beating that capital ship.
  72. SpacePhysics - A physics-based puzzler.  Cool.  Unfortunately cool can wear off.
  73. SpecTrek - Exercise for fat dorks, run around capturing ghosts with your phone's camera in this augmented reality game.  Actually very, very cool.  Now that the weather is finally nice, I plan to see how many levels I can gain by getting tricked into doing cardio.
  74. Squibble - Cute platformer that hides an incredibly challenging game.  Fun for kids and adults and equally frustrating to both.
  75. Star Traders RPG - Anyone remember Elite?  Or Space Trader on Palm?  You may like this one.
  76. Stitcher - Have not even tried this out yet, but supposedly is to talk radio what Pandora is to music.  We'll see...
  77. StumbleUpon - Waste your entire day with your phone instead of your PC!  Yay!
  78. SVOX Classic TTS - Better voices for text-to-speech (like Google Navigator).
  79. SVOX Dark Lord US English Voice - The voice I use.  The engine is free, gotta buy the voices.
  80. Terminal Emulator - Gives you something like a command shell.  Completely useless until I root in September (and my warranty expires).  Still cool to see a command line in a tiny computer with Linux in its heart.
  81. The Weather Channel - Yep.  It's the Weather Channel, alright.
  82. Totemo - Challenging (but not impossible) puzzler from Hexage.  Cool, stylized cartoony graphics.  Great sounds.  Interesting music.  Really weird grammar and sentence structure.  Totally worth it.
  83. Translate - Google Translate in your phone.  Find out what those Spanish-speakers are actually saying.  Respond in their own language (thanks to TTS capability).  Tell the non-English maintenance man that you left something in the shower room at the truck stop without having to resort to a frustrating game of charades.
  84. Tricorder - Yeah, that's right, I have a tricorder.  GPS, electromagnetic (radio), solar (courtesy NASA), accelerometer, and magnetometer readouts.  When I can scan for life signs, life will be complete.
  85. U.S. Army Survival Guide - A field manual.  Full of good stuff to know.
  86. Uloops Studio Pro - How I can make music with my phone.  Helps that music is created visually since I cannot read music.
  87. Vlingo - Amazing voice controlled virtual assistant.  Still have not explored it fully, but the car mode is a blessing.  It will read incoming texts to me (in a creepy, robot-woman voice I cannot seem to change) and I can simply speak in my bluetooth to respond.  Does a great job with voice recognition.  Even better, it will read back to me what it heard me say, giving me a chance to respeak my message, send or cancel it.  All without ever looking at my phone.  Nice.
  88. Warmux - Worms on Android using open source mascots instead of worms.  And it's open source.  And free.
  89. Zedge - Free ringtones and wallpapers.  It's just an app interface to the website.  Cool though.  And free.
  90. Zombie, Run! - Best.  Game.  Evar.   Using Google Maps and your GPS, it shows you the location of zombies in your area.  Just make it to the flag you plant (and safety) while avoiding the zombies in your path.  Another great way to trick fat nerds to exercise, you can set the number of zombies (from "Early Local Infestation" to "Total Pandemic") and their speed (from "Night of the Living Dead" to "28 Days Later") and set off across hill and dale (or town) running away from the zombies only you can see.  It isn't insanity if you have the technology to back up your ludicrous claims.  My boys and I did this several times before winter truly hit.  This is one of the first apps I ever installed and I can guarantee it'll be the last one I ever remove.  It's small, free, and stupid fun.  Got Android?  Get Zombie, Run!