My Favorite Android Apps

Here are some of my favorite Android applications that I have on my G1 phone, in no particular order.  What are yours?

Social Software

Facebook
Facebook for Android™ makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. You can share status updates from your home screen, check out your news feed, look at your friends’ walls and user info. Share photos from your phone and can even look up up to 125 friends’ phone numbers from the home screen.

Twitter Lite

the smallest twitter app Update: open many tabs!

Games

Pac-Man

PAC-MAN, the world famous arcade classic, returns in this faithful rendition for Android complete with Trackball Mode! Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent avoiding pesky ghosts while chompin’ on dots and gobbling up the fruit for bonus points? Relive the retro arcade action!

Labyrinth

Labyrinth is the classic game where you control a steel ball by tilting a wooden labyrinth. This is the lite version with 10 fully playable levels and you can easily create 10 more of your very own.

Miscellaneous

Live Bible

LiveBible is a simple but powerful Bible Web browser tool. Use it to learn the Word of God, take notes, and share the good news of the Gospel.

PicSay

Improve your photos with sharpen and color corrections. Be creative with paint, word balloons, and props. Or have fun with distortions, cutouts, special effects, and more. All in an intuitive easy-to-use interface, making PicSay Pro the perfect all-in-one solution for editing images on your Android powered device.

Google Sky Map

Google Sky Map turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a dynamic window on the night sky. When you point your phone up you will see a map of the brightest stars, constellations, and planets in that part of the sky.

The Weather Channel

Whether you’re planning your week, your day, or the next hour, The Weather Channel delivers the tools you need to be prepared. From customizable weather maps to video forecasts and severe weather alerts, The Weather Channel has you covered.

Great Dad

GreatDad.com Activities proactively pushes real time recommendations to dads wherever they are on all the things they can be doing with their kids. In addition, based on their preferences, dads can simply glance at their phones and find which museums, attractions, friends, favorite businesses and events are close by.

Barcode Scanner

Scan barcodes on CDs, books, and other products, then look up prices and reviews, or search for a word in a book and find where it occurs. You can also scan QR Codes containing URLs, contact info, calendar events, and more.

Unemployment Everywhere

Have you ever had a sleepless night? Well, I had one tonight as my son is very sick. But it reminds me of others I’ve had recently. Yesterday, Andrew McAfee had an interesting session of andyasks on Twitter.

#andyasks (recession week) what’s the most tangible evidence of the slowdown that you seen / experienced personally?

I responded, but 140 characters is not enough for the full story. There is a couple with a child that is in my daughter’s preschool class. The father lost his job and subsequently the house they were staying in. Now, they are living with family members. We invited them over for a night of pizza and play for the kids. I also got online to desperately look for some work so that they could get back on their feet.

Another couple I know with 4 children experienced a job loss. The father had to leave his wife and kids to go to New Orleans to find work (plenty of construction work there). He found work there and they are doing fine, but the thought of leaving my wife and kids in that manner really makes grateful for the job I have.

These are just a couple examples that hit close to home. Seeing these children experience these hard times keeps me up at night. Hopefully we get out of this economic slump soon, but regardless, we Americans need to reach out and support each other.