DigitalFanGirl

Tungle has become my choice service for scheduling meetings. I find it incredibly frustrating when trying to coordinate and schedule a meeting. It always takes forever, everyone involved isn’t guaranteed to check their emails immediately and things regarding the meeting time, date and location, usually get lost in translation. When Tungle came out, I received an invite code and was able to fool around with it with a couple of friends. I admit it blew my mind because 1) it was super easy to set up, 2) it was easy to start using, 3) it allowed me to take care of all aspects of planning a meeting from within the Tungle service, 4) it’s great to be able to look and see what dates your invited meeting guests are available directly in Tungle, 5) their notifications to guests are really convenient and 6) the fact that Tungle syncs with my Google Calendar is a HUGE plus.

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However, there is something very very important missing——-Yes, you’ve probably guessed correct – THERE IS NO NATIVE ANDROID APP and that really annoys me. For services I use on a regular basis, I desire a native android app. In fact, I get a tad angry when the android community is overlooked when it comes to developing native apps. I feel as pissed about Tungle not having an android app as I did when Evernote (another service I use daily and absolutely love) took forever and a day to develop an android app (they also opted to develop an app for the Palm Pre first before developing one for android – CRAZY!).

So, what do we all do when we are not pleased with a product or service we use? We take it to Get Satisfaction. To my surprise I wasn’t the only android user wanting this app. Well, long story short, 4 months ago they posted an image of the app in the works with a message that said “GETTING THERE”.

If you want to see this app come to reality – share your thoughts with the Get Satisfaction development team – http://gsfn.us/t/11syc.

I love taking photos and taken plenty of them using my android phone. I use picplz to take photos and share via Facebook and Flickr. It’s a great app, works really well and is very simple to use.

Key Features:
- Lets you snap, upload and share pics with ease
- Clean and simple UI
- Background photo uploading
- Integration with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous & Foursquare

Validated Android Phones
Samsung Galaxy S, Motorola Droid, Motorola myTouch 3G, Droid X, HTC G1, HTC EVO, HTC Nexus One, HTC Desire, HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Hero, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

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Available platforms as of January 15, 2011: Android and iPhone

mooLa lite edition is a lot more than just a checkbook ledger. For a FREE app, it packs a lot of power. (Note: There is a platinum edition for $7.99).

Don’t use an app that downloads the data from your bank! The problem with apps that do that is that the bank doesn’t have accurate real-time information about your transactions. Credit/Debit card purchases could take DAYS to post to your account, and if you live on a tight budget you run great risk of overdrafting if you go by what the bank says your balance is (that’s always their plan though, isn’t it?)

Features:
- Multiple accounts tracking
- A Bill tracker
- Customizable categories
- Recurring transactions
- Data import/export/backup

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Available platforms as of January 14, 2011: Android only

I love my ANDROID. I love FOOD. Foodspotting is working on a BETA android app and I’m waiting for my invitation. THAT IS ALL!

So many of us use Eventbrite, why not use an app that supports its event check-ins and event management?

Eventdroid is the first FREE Android Eventbrite check-in application. You can anage your event check-in process with multiple devices which will all sync to the Eventbrite servers every few minutes.

Top Features:

Check-in Multiple Events at Once
Have two events happening at the same time? You can check in multiple events at the same time. Each device that is checking in attendees needs to have Eventdroid installed. Your representatives can check in attendee’s as they arrive at each event.

Barcode Scanning
No more manual entry after the event. Simply scan the attendee’s barcode on ticket and Eventdroid will automatically sync the check-in with Eventbrite’s servers.

Manual Check-in
Are you in low-light and having trouble scanning tickets? Not a problem, you can still check in your attendee’s with the manual check-in tool. For each ticket the attendee has, click the “+” button. If you messed up and checked the wrong person in, you can undo it by clicking the “-” button.

Sync To Eventbrite’s Servers
Eventdroid will connect to Eventbrite’s servers every few minutes and attempt to sync the registrations with the server. As each device checks in attendee’s the devices will update themselves every few minutes, therefore sync’ing devices as the event attendees show up.

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Available platforms as of January 13, 2011: Android only

I recently got into food & wine pairing and I find Hello Vino so helpful when I’m grocery shopping for the week and want to buy the appropriate wines to compliment my meals.

Hello Vino is a FREE mobile wine app that assists the beginner wine consumer with recommendations for wine to pair with food, wine for occasions or gifts, and also suggestions based on personal taste preference.

Watch how Hello Vino works:

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Available platforms as of January 12, 2011: Android and iPhone

If you’re looking for an app to help you figure out how much each person should contribute to the dinner meal (including the tip); try out Check Split; a FREE app for android. It’s a super easy app to use and does what it says.

How It Works:

Simply enter bill amount, tip in percent you want added and person count. When you calculate result you will get tip amount, and money which each person must pay.

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Available platforms as of January 11, 2011: Android only

I absolutely love apps like this….

Have you ever been in the situation where you need the perfect excuse to get out of the room or step out of an annoying conversation?

With “Saved by the bell”, simulate an incoming call: both on the need and by setting a specific time of salvation.

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Available platforms as of January 10, 2011: Android only

Obsessed with your stats and need to check them on the go? Try mAnalytics. There are roughly five or six apps in the market for Google Analytics, but the only one that works fairly decent is mAnalytics.

mAnalytics is a program to view your basic Google Analytics stats on your phone. There is a FREE and a paid version. The paid version costs $1.36.

FREE Version Features:
- Supports multiple accounts, profiles, basic statistics and charts for visits and pageviews.

mAnalytics FREE version

mAnalytics FREE version

PRO Version Features:

- Multiple account support.
- Two stats visualization modes (landscape & portrait).
- A lot of charts.
- Stats for visits, page views, keywords, referrers, browsers, and more.

mAnalytics Pro

mAnalytics PRO

Download mAnalytics [FREE]

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Available platforms as of January 9, 2011: Android only

I’ve been hoping Google would put out an official Google Docs app, but they haven’t and they probably won’t. I guess it isn’t in high enough demand. However, for folks like me who use Google Docs exclusively, we hope for an app that will give us access to our docs from our android devices. The only app I’ve found is GDocs. It is not a perfect app and although I see some improvements from when I first installed this app over a year ago; it still has room for improvement. I wish it mimicked Google Docs a little more in terms of how the files and folders are named, organized and structured. But, I can’t complain to much. This app does a lot and the developer continues to improve it.

GDocs is a editor/viewer for your Google Documents. It is a FREE Android application that allows you create, edit, view, import, export and send documents as well sync documents with your Google Docs account.

Features of GDocs:

• Multiple accounts support
• Support of Google Apps accounts (Google Premier accounts)
• PDF viewer
• Automatic document synchronization
• Localized to multiple languages (French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian, Romanian)
• Android 1.5 supported (Motorola Droid, Nexus One, Hero, Touch, G1 & etc.)
• Import/export of documents and files from Google cloud and your Android device

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Available platforms as of January 8, 2011: Android only

If you’re an android user who’s been looking for a Flickr app, join the club. I’ve been looking for one for quite some time as well. When I was using the MyTouch 3G Slide, Flickr was integrated in that phone. When you took pictures you had to option to upload them to your Flickr account and the stock gallery app that came preloaded on the phone also had Flickr ingrained in the gallery itself. My Droid 2 lacks the Flickr relationship, which is a little disappointing considering how much I love and use Flickr.

I tried almost every Flickr app from the android market, but the only one worth keeping is Flickr Companion. Flickr Companion is the pro app for Flickr Free and it only costs $0.99. I’ve only been using it for roughly three months, but it has been a consistent app and I really don’t have any complaints.

Flickr Companion features:

* Access multiple Flickr accounts
* Browse your Flickr photos, sets, collections and favorites you have saved on Flickr.
* View your Flickr groups and contacts.
* Download Flickr photos.
* Upload photos and videos to Flickr.
* Search Flickr for users, groups, tags and photos.

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Available platforms as of January 7, 2011: Android only

I am what you call a super texter. I text people all the time. I certainly send and receive text messages more than I talk on my phone. I actually hate talking on the phone and only do it when I have to. There’s only a handful of people I talk to on the phone at least once a week. I’d have to say texting is my main means of communicating.

I find the standard text messaging application that comes on the android phone is mediocre. Since I text so much, I admit i want something a little sexier; more pleasing to the eye and an application that has a bit more speed and more features. Handcent SMS has served my purposes well. I started using this app when I first switched to android and although I’ve tried other SMS apps, I still go back to Handcent SMS.

Handcent SMS is a FREE enhanced SMS & MMS application for Android.

Features include:

• Full Support SMS, MMS including attaching pictures, movies and audio
• Customization; you can define many options in settings window
• Power SMS POP UP Window including SMS Template (Quick Text) and speech recognition
• Group Send SMS & MMS, simple contact & group selection; syncs with your phone address book
• Beautiful UI; including different themes, conversation bubble styles and more
• Define different ringtones, vibrate, LED, backgrounds, signatures and bubble styles for different contacts
• Support additional font packs for more stylish fonts
• Supports 15+ languages
• Blacklist and search functions, batch mode for threads & messages
• Support Handcent keyboard (A T9 predict Text keyboard)

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Available platforms as of January 6, 2011: Android only

Gmail is my primary email and I have a very organized account, which means I use lots of labels to categorize and organize my emails. The one drawback with Gmail via my android is that you only get notifications for new emails in your inbox. So I found I was seeing my labeled emails late due to this lack of label notification.

I ran across an app called Gmail Label Notifier that does per-label notification. AND it has a widgets option. In addition to the widgets, you can choose a different color for each widget, choose an LED color for each label you select for the widget and choose a sound for label notifications. The extra nice thing is when you open one of of the widgets (say its the jobs label) it opens the jobs label; not the inbox. So, I find that really handy as well; saves me an extra step. Not bad for $1.56. Some apps are truly worth paying for.

It’s a great app and I just hope the developer(s) continues to update this app.

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Available platforms as of January 5, 2011: Android only

SendContact is a wonderful and super useful app that allows you to select the contact details of one of your contacts to send to another contact. I find myself using this app on a regular basis. Someone is always texting or emailing me asking me if I have so-and-so’s number, email or mailing address.

It’s really easy to use and only takes a few seconds.

1. Press the Select Contact To Send… button and select some data to send.
2. Enter the Recipient’s phone number or press the Find… button to search for one.
3. Once you have entered the Recipient’s phone number you can click Quick Send to send the contact information.

You can’t send a contact QR code or a vcard, but I still love this app. When I first installed this app a little over a year ago, it was free. However, I believe there is now a $1.00 (US) fee. It’s totally worth the one dollar…

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Available platforms as of January 4, 2011: Android only