My “can’t do without” Android apps (with QR codes)
Click the app name to be taken to a page with the QR code for easy download. Here we go:
- YouVersion – the best Bible app for Android
- Seesmic – for Twitter. Free, fast and easy to use.
- Vignette – the best photo app out there, period.
- Barcode Scanner – for scanning product information and QR codes
- Listen – integrates with Google Reader to pull in podcasts to your phone automagically
- bTunes – duplicates the iTunes on iPhone music player experience. Yes, Apple got this right.
- Pandora – quality streaming radio
- Advanced Task Killer – kills those tasks that eat up battery life
- 360 Live – for keeping track of my friends on Xbox Live
- Bedside – the best alarm clock app out there
- redbox Codes – use it to find codes for free rentals at redbox kiosks
- EasyTether Lite – free tethering app, get online anywhere you have 3G!
- Not Call Log – sends you back to the home screen or the dialer after a call instead of the call log (where it’s easy to accidentally call someone)
- Simple last.fm Scrobbler – so you can scrobble what you listen to in bTunes
- SugarSync – keeps my files synced between my computers and my phone
What are your “can’t do without” apps? Tell me here!
Introducing Google Buzz
What is Google Buzz?
Think Twitter and Facebook updates sprinkled with goodness from such sites as Picasa, Flickr, Gowalla and Foursquare.
If you have an iPhone or Android phone go to http://buzz.google.com on your phone’s browser to get started.
Otherwise you can connect to Buzz right inside Gmail.
Don’t have Gmail? You should fix that.
Can Buzz kill the others to reign supreme? We’ll see.
Um… you guys just bought Pastor Gona a netbook
It took you guys, the readers of this blog, some of whom I’m friends with (in reality and virtually) and some I’ve never even heard from before, just under a week to put together the funds to buy a computer for a pastor in India who couldn’t afford one.
I am in awe. And you guys are my heroes.
My take on the Apple iPad
In list format no less:
- iPad? Seriously? When someone from Boston says iPad how will I know they’re not saying iPod?
- Do Apple fanboys really want to carry around three devices? I’m weighed down enough by my phone and laptop, why would anyone want to carry around an “in-between” device that’s too big to be a phone but not big enough to be a full-on computer?
- What niche does the iPad fill, other than the “look, we wear money hats!” niche for Apple?
- Hey Apple, laptops already have keyboards! Why make a keyboard attachment for the iPad?
- Wow, only $30/month for unlimited data? Great, let me add that to the $30/month I already spend on my phone’s data plan and my $50/month Internet bill.
- No, seriously… iPad?
Take the 30 day Seesmic Look challenge
This post is for those of you who don’t use Twitter or don’t actively use their Twitter account today.
I’m asking you to take the 30 day Seesmic Look challenge. Why?
If you use Seesmic Look for 30 days you’ll be hooked on Twitter.
Seesmic Look is a fancy new Twitter client (read: a program that runs on your Windows PC that brings Twitter to your desktop) that will make using Twitter a much more fun and easy experience.
Don’t believe me? Check out the image below and tell me that doesn’t look like quality stuff.
So, go grab Seesmic Look (if you already have a Twitter account just sign in; if you don’t, click Create Account in Seesmic Look to create a Twitter account) and start tweeting.
Last but certainly not least – be sure to click here and leave your Twitter name in the comments so I can follow you! You can go to http://twitter.com/shawnw to follow me.
I’ll make a follow up post in 30 days to see what you think.
Let’s go!