Motorola Milestone, Apps that I use

Here is a list of applications that I have downloaded from Android Market and use them.

• Barcode Scanner -- Really essential app, can use the camera to scan any barcode. This app is also used by many other apps for that functionality.
• Bubble -- A surface level testing application
• Calorie Counter -- A client for weight losers' social network http://www.fatsecret.com
• Cardio Trainer -- Can record your running sessions along with a google map
• Compass -- A regular direction compass, has analog and digital settings. Pretty useful
• Documents to Go -- Office compatible document reader and editing capability
• Facebook for Android -- What would be life without facebook
• Finance -- Client for Google Finance
• Fring -- IM client for many systems, supports skype
• Goggles -- Nifty app that can decipher things based on their pictures, Just point the camera and it would tell you what it is.
• Voice -- Client for google Voice. I have it but can't use it in India
• Layar -- Augmented Reality app, overlays stuff on google map. Pretty cool
• Listen -- Podcast finder
• Locale -- Very nifty app to change the settings of your phone based on time or your location.
• My Tracks -- Records your movements. Very useful to share directions with others.
• My Backup -- Backups all the user data on SD card. Useful when changing phones.
• Places Directory -- Another cool app from Google, nice to find places around you.
• Seesmic -- A twitter client
• Shazam -- Can decipher song details by listening to it.
• ShopSavvy -- Retail app, not very useful for India but apparently very popular in Japan
• SMS Backup -- Backups all your SMS messages to your gmail account under a specified Label.
• Toggle Wifi -- Does what it says, I place it as a shortcut on home screen to control WiFi
• TouchDown -- Exchange App, I prefer it over what is already on the phone
• Twidroid -- Client for twitter, I prefer it over seesmic
• Unit Converter -- Converts pretty much any unit to any other unit
• Ustream Broadcaster -- Broadcast yourself. Pretty good
• Voice Recorder -- Record voice

Let me know you any of you people out there use any other app that you find useful. I can try that out.

Locale: Application review

The cool thing about android is the number of interesting applications that are available from Market they may be simple but do interesting things. Here is one such application that I downloaded and installed recently.

Locale is an application that can customize your phone based on your location, time and many other parameters. For example you can automatically send out a tweet when you are at a certain location. You can change the screen brightness, ringer and other stuff.

From what I have seen till now, I like this one. Let me give it a try for couple of more weeks before I pass judgement on it.

Application review: PostBot

I installed application PostBot from the android market and it is really cool for posting to your wordpress based blogs. The blogs could be hosted on wordpress.com or at your own website.
The application supports multiple blogs, adding images and multiple categories. It does not support adding tags to posts.
Overall an interesting application you like to blog while being mobile.Way better than some of those SMS based blogging softwares.