Author Topic: Smartphone App Recommendations? (Read 14707 times)

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2012, 11:22:30 AM »

-Amazon app
-mint.com app
-newegg
-AAA discounts (if you're a AAA member, shows all the business nearby you on a map that offer AAA pricing)
-Pulse newsreader is okay, not all the sources I want to read, but great interface
-Dolphin browser (default android is lame for getting me locked into too many mobile sites, and chrome for android seems to have been pulled)

-evernote
-dropbox
-scanner radio (a police/fire/EMS scanner app)
-amazon mp3, pandora, iheartradio

-a couple bank apps (much faster than visiting the website via the phone browser

-and our city has an app that lets me report potholes, graffiti, etc.

Busillis · « **Reply #16 on:** March 30, 2012, 12:47:02 AM »

I'm using Dropbox, Pulse and Dolphin too.

I also just got Lapse-It, which creates time lapse videos. I tried it out washing dishes and set some music to it. Really great program.

And also Wifi File Explorer, which allows access to android from a web browser.

Also got a free app called Panorama, which takes panorama pictures.

I want to get a bigger smartphone in the future with more internal storage. This Optimus only has 175 mb.

scolairebocht · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2012, 11:50:53 PM »

In android market - or play as they call it now - you could type proofs of God's existence for an interesting app.

Busillis · « **Reply #18 on:** April 05, 2012, 08:26:37 AM »

Is that last post a troll?

I made some time-lapse videos recently. What a great app! I would say the guitar tuning app and the time-lapse app make it worth having, even if i didn't use it for anything else.

Now if I can find a way to block the government from being able to turn the camera and audio on. There have to be some hacks out there.

Busillis · « **Reply #19 on:** April 10, 2012, 09:18:59 AM »

App 2 SD is another good one. It moves all your apps to the SD card to free up internal storage space.

I recently scanned a 100 page book with Camscanner. It's tedious, but it got the job done. Camscanner has a batch scan option, which sped up the process. After scanning I checked each page for legibility, and only had to rescan 3 or 4 pages. The less motion of the camera the better, and it's best if you can make the page you're scanning as level as possible, which can be difficult with bound pages. There are different settings for scanning quality, with High Enhance being the best and Gray Mode being the weakest. I went with the High Enhance mode, which produced a 19mb file made up of 100 pages. Gray Mode is okay, but it just looks like photos of the pages, and doesn't have the familiar bleached look of a PDF. The High Enhance mode gives you a pretty nice looking PDF.

After I was done scanning the book and creating the PDF I uploaded it to my Dropbox account. I opened it up in Adobe Acrobat, and using the "Recognize Text" tool (which is an OCR), I scanned the PDF to make it searchable.