iPad/iPhone Android phone/Tablet app recommendations, son

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Posted by aNYthing on Mar-24-2012 21:18:

iPad/iPhone Android phone/Tablet app recommendations, son

Inspired by movie recommendation thread...

An app for your smartphone is like an asshole - chances are you got one or you know someone who got one. So, recommend/warn away.

Recommend:

Obviously, the obvious ones out of the way first:

Pandora
Skype
Facebook
Google Earth
Netflix
Showtime on Demand
Angry Birds
Kayak
Sling Player

Moving to less obvious ones:
2X - best damn damn RDP client and it's free! If you work with Windows and/or want to have windows on your iPad - setup your Win7 system to allow it to be remotely controlled, load up 2X on your ipad and get your Win7 desktop on your iPad. Faaaaaaaantastic!

Osmosis - very cool and very chill game, especially if you're the kind that enjoys planets, trippy apps, etc. Great for a come down/chilling. Sadly, too short and gameplay gets a bit repetetive after a while. So, only for those moments when time seems to stretch indefinitely.

Wireles Keyboard Mouse - if you have a Mac/PC that you use for media center, connected to TV - this app will allow you to use it as a remote keyboard and mouse. Wooot!

Air Display - for $10, use your iPad as an extra display. Got 3 displays? Make iPad your 4th. Also useful to mirror what's going on on your screen but with touchability. Cool app.

Notability - great app for writing down notes, with recorder feature. Good for meetings/lectures/etc. Only $0.99 - worth much more.

Animoog - Awesome, fat and lush synth by Moog. 'nuff said.

Korg iElectribe - bought it back when it was $10 - nice toy, if you're Electribe fan/like making beats.

What do you recommend?

Posted by Meat187 on Mar-24-2012 21:35:

Fucking Apple hipsters.

Posted by srussell0018 on Mar-24-2012 21:51:

Draw Something.

Posted by kamil on Mar-24-2012 22:03:

For android phones, you'll want an app called 'Player Pro'

Its completely customizable. It's way better than *any* mp3 player software i've ever seen.

Posted by aNYthing on Mar-24-2012 23:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
Fucking Apple hipsters.

btw. it DOES say "android" in the topic, in case you missed it.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Mar-25-2012 03:10:

AContact - great third party dialer (especially if you don't have the Touchwiz one)
Airpush Detector - useful for detecting apps that spam you
Dolphin Browser - only browser that's worth anything on Android
Kingsoft Office - for all your doc, pdf, xls, etc needs
Mantano Reader - useful reader meant for PDF books (better than kingsoft in that regard)
Pansi SMS - nice texting app. Gives you the option of using the modern chat bubbles or the old school way of texting (inbox, outbox, sent, drafts)
MX Video player - plays everything I've thrown at it
Transit Now Toronto - if you live in Toronto and use the TTC then this is a MUST. Real time GPS tracking of streetcars and buses (you can see where they are on a map + there's a counter)
Tonido - browse your PC file system remotely. stupidly easy to set up.

Posted by Trance-M on Mar-25-2012 19:34:

Tasker and Total Commander (for Andriod of course)

Posted by Reza on Mar-26-2012 07:10:

shazam
viber
wheres my water
camscanner
beatport
whatsapp

Posted by Moongoose on Mar-26-2012 07:45:

Apart from the usual ones i use these on my android devices.

Whatsapp - instant messaging
Skype
HandyCalc - for when the usual phone calculator isnt enough
MathPac+ - for when the above mentioned graph calculator isnt enough
AndroZip - obviously to unrar and unzip archives directly on the phone/tablet
VLC Direct - for media streaming
Cool Reader - for reading books
Pocket Manga - for reading manga
iGo MyWay - GPS navigation
FPse - Playstation 1 emulation

Posted by r5a on May-03-2012 19:31:

Just came to say this

Epicurious
MagicPlan
Flipboard
Dropbox / Skydrive
Evernote
Mint.com

all useful and not dogshit apps

they need to make a section in store

"dogshit" "not dogshit"

95% of apps in the dogshit the rest in not dogshit.

Posted by Acton on May-03-2012 19:35:

Bloomberg
TripIt Pro
FlightTrack Pro
SkyScanner
British Airways
TripAdvisor City Guides

Posted by stren on May-03-2012 21:25:

unified remote- android- you can contol your computer remotely ( mouse keyboard, media players etc)

quote:
Originally posted by kamil
For android phones, you'll want an app called 'Player Pro'

Its completely customizable. It's way better than *any* mp3 player software i've ever seen.

yeah its good, but for some reason, the switching songs with volume buttons has stopped working for me

Posted by Moongoose on May-03-2012 21:56:

Replaced the stock android music app with ZPlayer. Looks like a WP7 music player, but with the benefit that you dont actually need to use WP7 and Zune which is a great plus. Its quzite good, has a couple of functions still missing (like deleting songs directly from the app, and storing podcasts on the sd card instead of just streaming them), but ultimately worth the 2,5 euros.