vakkotaur: Centaur holding bow - cartoon (telephone)


I think I've downloaded the various Android applications that I need or want to my phone. I have:

* TweetDeck (I want it on Linux now!)
* Weight Chart
* GPSpeedo (speedometer)
* Droid48 (HP48)
* ES File Explorer
* Opera Mobile
* Meebo IM
* Periodic Table
* AndroidVNC (now if I can just get VNC working on belgian...)
* ConnectBot (ssh)
* AndFTP
* Yaaic (IRC)
* Google Goggles (Yet to have it be useful, really)
* Google Sky
* Note Everything
* As well as all the stock AT&T/HTC Inspire 4G stuff

It's always possible that I am overlooking something. Thus I now ask what applications you find useful or recommend. I do have two, well three limitations:

1. NO GAMES. I am simply Not Interested. No, I don't care how great anyone thinks Angry Birds or its successor is. Not Interested.

2. I'm a cheap bas- er, I am rather frugal and so free wins every time. "Free" demo or trial period does not.

3. My phone is not 'rooted' and while having more access/control would be nice, I have no great desire to fiddle with ROM sets and such.

And as if you didn't know, I run Linux so have no great need of things to match up with Microsoft stuff.

That out of the way, any suggestions?

vakkotaur: (computer)


While at Penguicon I found myself pondering actually using Twitter for more than Orvan's odd moo (or very odd moos...). Before, I only used Twitter via the web interface since that was all I needed, I had a {dumb, feature} phone, and no data plan at all. Now I have a limited data plan, wifi capability, and a phone that I can almost type on that can deal with Twitter clients.

I know Twitter, being short text, is not much data - but I want to be sure that client knows my intentions (rather than AT&T's) which are: Use wifi first, fall back to regular data if I have the client active (and it will be inactive much of the time, I expect), and ideally never use SMS. Or use SMS only on my explicit say-so. Ideally that last with a nice "This will be overcharged. Do you really want to overpay for bits?" confirmation.

Being capable of multiple accounts would be nice (hey, Orvan doesn't want to be left behind...) but is not a deal-breaker.

Any recommendations? And if anyone needs to know, I am trying to not (need to) root the phone.

vakkotaur: Centaur holding bow - cartoon (telephone)


[livejournal.com profile] jmaynard upgraded to the most recent iPhone and since that was going on, I got an upgrade as well. Not an iPhone, but an HTC Inspire 4G "smart" phone running Android and capable of wifi (it's already on the house network). Now that I have a "smart"phone transferring contacts and backing them up should be simple, once I have them in the phone. So far I've only done a little setup and looking around and entered just work and family numbers.

Before I enter any more numbers, I want to be sure that they are right and that they should be entered. Thus this posting. All comments will be screened so only I (and the person making the comment) will be able to see them.

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