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My reviews of apps for my (wonderful) Samsung Galaxy Nexus Google Android phone
- One Bus Away. My very favorite Android app is One Bus Away This fantastic free app allows you to get real-time arrival info for buses coming to any King County Metro bus stop. This app uses the phone GPS to figure out where you are and shows you the bus stops nearest you. It is soooo great to know when your bus is going to arrive!
- Flixster. Another great free Android app is Flixster This gives you all the info you need (capsule description, cast, reviews, etc.) to figure out which movie you want to see and where and when it is playing. Nice user interface.
- SkyDroid. This is an absolutely terrific app for golfers. SkyDroid - Golf GPS is worth many times the $1.99 cost. Using your phone's GPS, this app instantly and accurately tells you the distance from where you are to front, back and center of the green. It often also provides distances to some bunkers, water hazards, trees, and target points. Heck, this app even phones the pro shop with a simple tap on the screen! I used to use SkyCaddie, but this app is so much better and far less expensive. All you pay is the $1.99 one-time charge; the courses are free to download. The SkyDroid Web site so far has had nearly every course I've looked for. If your course isn't there, you can create it yourself online using the tools on the Web site to do so. There is a short, clear video tutorial telling you how to do it.
- Sibley e-Guide to Birds. Some apps are pricey, but still worth it. In that category I place The Sibley eGuide to Birds, which costs $19.99. This is essentially the Sibley Guide to Birds brought onto your phone, except that it also adds recordings of bird calls and songs. It also allows side-by-side comparison of birds. If you're a birdwatcher who wants to have a great bird guide and bird recordings in your pocket, you can't go wrong with this app.
- FoxFi. Install FoxFi and it will turn your Android phone into a free wi-fi hotspot. You do not need a tethering plan with your phone company to use this. So far I've hooked up my netbook several times to my phone and it has worked flawlessly and was even zippy. FoxFi, which is free, is simple to use.
- Words With Friends - Free. Play this free Scrabble-like game called Words With Friends - Free at your own pace. I've been playing with a friend and getting my behind kicked really bad, but I still enjoy it. Since it's the free version, it does have ads, which are a bit annoying, but at least they come AFTER you've made your move. You can have games going with multiple people. Other games I've downloaded are Free Cell Solitaire and Hearts Free. Both are fine.
- StopWatch & Timer. A very handy (and free) app I've had occasion to use several times is called StopWatch & Timer. The name pretty much says it all. Works like a charm.
- TweetDeck. This free app is for Twitter and Facebook users: TweetDeck. If you want to manage Twitter and Facebook posts in a single app on your phone, TweetDeck is a good way to do it.
- WSDOT. If you get around by motor vehicle, you will find this Washington State Department of Transportation app a must-have: WSDOT This free app gives you traffic maps, mountain pass info, variable toll rates, traffic bulletins and ferry schedules in a very clean and easy to use interface.
- Barcode Scanner. Barcodes and QR codes are becoming ubiquitous. To read these codes, you should have a Barcode Scanner on your phone. Then you just scan the barcode or QR Code and, bingo, you can get the price or reviews of a product, links to Web sites or other information. This free app has performed admirably for me.
- Skype. The wonderful and popular video calling Skype app was one of the first apps I downloaded. It works great on my phone.
- Sonalight Text by Voice. Sonalight Text by Voice. allows you to send and receive text messages by speaking to your phone. It was easy to use and quite accurate. Speaking the message is much faster and easier for me than typing it on my virtual keyboard. At first you might be bothered by the absence of punctuation and occasional flubs such as "Bass Center" for "Bay Center." But you quickly get over that as you realize that the recipient perfectly understands what you're texting. And it's fun when your phone suddenly comes alive and starts reciting the reply to the message you sent. But is a little unnerving when the microphone is sitting there demanding an immediate response from you -- no time to think about what you might want to say. Probably not an app you'd want to use if you're trying to text in public or during an important meeting! I ultimately uninstalled this app, because I preferred the speaking option in the Messaging App that comes included with the phone. The main reason I prefer it is that it allows me to use the virtual keyboard to edit the transcription of the text that I've spoken and thus get rid of the flubs.
- Brightest Flashlight Free. Use this free app to turn your Android phone into a very bright flashlight: Brightest Flashlight Free It works well and is quite bright. I would guess that it's quite a drain on my battery life, though I've never left it on long enough to test that impression out.
- Aldiko. Here's a nifty little free e-book reader and book organizer for your phone: Aldiko There are both a free and a non-free premium version of this app. I have the free version and have found it to be quite good. I've bought and downloaded a book using the Aldiko app. I've also imported miscellaneous .pdfs and several Project Gutenberg books from my own desktop PC. They all display fine. The bookstores that you have direct access to through the Aldiko app include Feedbooks, Books On Board, All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords, and O'Reilly Ebooks. Feedbooks offers many free books in addition to the ones they sell. I have found reading on my phone to be a quite satisfactory experience.
- ES File Explorer. The excellent ES File Explorer is a file browsing app that allows you to see the files residing in the folders on your phone. It allows you to call up a file by tapping on it, giving you a list of appropriate programs to choose among for handling the file. When I clicked on a .pdf file, it allowed me to choose among Adobe Reader, Document Reader, and Aldiko for reading the file. It even offers its own nice audio player when you click on an mp3 file. ES File Explorer also allows you to delete files from your phone. And it also includes an "app manager" program that will provide you with details about each of the apps on your phone and also provides a button to uninstall apps. I have used ES File Explorer a lot and found it really invaluable.
- AndFTP. AndFTP allows you to connect to an FTP server on a PC, phone or other device and download files. You have to have a wi-fi Internet connection. You fill in the hostname or IP address of the FTP server you are trying to connect to, you click on "Connect" and, bang!, you very quickly connect to it and can download files. It's a really fast and convenient way to move files from your desktop PC to your phone - no cables required. I've been very satisfied with this app, which has worked beautifully.
- VoiceSMS - voice2voice. VoiceSMS - voice2voice allows you to record your message by voice and then send that voice recording as an SMS message to another phone. The recipient clicks on the SMS message and hears your recorded message. I'm not positive this will work with just every phone you ever send your recording to, but it has worked several times so far for me and is a nice option to have.
- KeePassDroid This KeePassDroid app is a password manager. It stores your numerous user names and passwords in a secure database that you open with a single password. There are seemingly gazillions of password managers available in the Google Play store. I chose this one because I use it on my desktop PC and have liked it there. Whether it is better or worse than some of the other password managers, I can't say. It works for me.
One weird thing to note: I could not find KeePassDroid in the Google Play store when I looked for it using the Google Play Store app on my phone. However, I did find it in the Google Play store using my Google Chrome browser on my desktop PC. I then entered that address into the browser on my phone and went to that Web page, where I was able to download it to my phone by clicking on the "Download" button and then the "Install" button. You can get to that page by clicking the KeePassDroid link above.
- Podkicker. I started out using the free Google app called Listen to subscribe to, fetch and listen to my podcasts. But I wasn't really happy with Listen. I found the user interface confusing, and the program crashed several times. So I decided to try out another podcatcher, the free app known as Podkicker. Podkicker is much better than Google's Listen. One of the best things about Podkicker is that it gives you a very clear choice to either download or stream a podcast. When I'm in the kitchen, I don't have access to wi-fi, so I prefer to listen to podcasts that I've already downloaded earlier via wifi, thus avoiding racking up megabytes against my cellular data caps by streaming. I like the Podkicker interface. You can look at a list of what's newly available for all subscriptions or look at your list of "channels" (i.e. subscriptions) and get a list of podcasts for each channel. One gripe about Podkicker is that it, unfortunately, cannot handle the XML format that The New Yorker uses for its podcasts.
- Evernote. The ever-popular Evernote is useful. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable. It stores them in the cloud (i.e. the Web) so that you can access them from anywhere and synch them on all your devices. I am using the free version.
- Compass. I haven't really had occasion yet to use this free Compass app and not quite sure when I will use it, but the old Girl Scout in me can't brook the idea of being out and about without a compass!
- Google Reader. This free app known as Google Reader allows you to follow all your favorite Web sites and blogs in one place. Much faster and handier to browse through a list of linked articles than using the Web browser to go around visiting these sites one by one. Also makes it easy to catch up if you haven't visited a site in a while, because you see a list of numerous articles over a period of time and don't need to go rummaging around a Web site in search of old articles.
- Slacker Personal Radio. When you feel like listening to a stream of a certain genre of music, then open the free Slacker Personal Radio app. Choose your station (Mine is "Alternative: Singer/Songwriter") and listen away. In addition to providing a fresh listening experience, it's a nice way to discover new artists and/or albums. I also have the similar Pandora app, but I prefer Slacker, because it seems easier to figure out how to listen to the music you want. Also, Pandora's ads are pretty intrusive.
- Tip Me. I haven't used this free app yet, but I can't help thinking I will really love it when I do have occasion to use it. It's a tip calculator called Tip Me. It's got a cute user interface. I've experimented with Tip Me, and it seems very easy and quick to use, which is just what you want when you're in the restaurant trying to figure the bill, the tax, the tip and divide it among x number of people.
- Daily Mariner by Stat Sheet. I use this free app to keep tabs on the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Daily Mariner gives you the box score for the most recent game, including letter grades for hitters and pitchers, which is kind of fun. You know at a glance who's been naughty and who's been nice! In addtion, you can get player stats. The hitters' stats include OBP, OPS, SLG and wOBA. Pitchers' stats include WHIP and Quality Starts. Fielding stats are barebones and do NOT include UZR. You can click on the column heading for any of the stats and this app will automatically arrange the players in order of their performance on that stat. So you can see who has the highest OPS, who has the best WHIP, etc. In addition, the app provides team stats, team standings, schedules, MLB scores, and team rosters. It also provides a brief write-up of the most recent game, though it is apparent that the write-up is done by a robot (literally) using a formula. The output is sometimes unintentionally amusing. My other gripe about this app is that it does not publish the game box score or write-up until well after the game is over. Stat Sheet needs to operate a little faster!
- Gate Guru. Here's another one I haven't had occasion yet to use but which I expect to be useful at some point. This free app is called Gate Guru. It lists all the food outlets, shops, and services in each terminal at an airport and gives ratings and reviews for them plus tips from other users about the terminal.
- Bathroom Finder. Yet another app I haven't yet used, but which might be useful at some point. This free app is called Bathroom Finder. It uses your phone's GPS to figure out where you are and then shows you the addresses of all the nearby public bathrooms. It tells you whether the bathroom is free (refers to money not occupancy) and also is supposed to provide ratings, though it seems as if many of the listed restrooms don't have ratings. It's too early to tell how helpful this app will be.
- Content Apps. I've also got content apps for New York Times, Seattle Times, KUOW News, Golf Channel, and The Hill. I recently downloaded Google Currents, a magazine reader that provides a wide choice of free magazine and magazine-like content, including Slate, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Forbes, The Daily Beast, Global Politics, Good, and others. The articles are presented in a very easy-to-read format and type-face.
- Included Apps. My Samsung Galaxy Nexus came loaded with calendar, calculator, phone & address book, clock, alarm, e-mail, Internet browser, Google Search, camera, the Google Play Music audio player, the fabulous Google Earth, Google+, You Tube and instant access to the Google Play store, where you find thousands upon thousands of Android apps to download.
Also included on the phone was a GPS Navigation app that gives turn-by-turn directions to your destination. Latitude is a location-sharing app that tells you where your friends are at the moment and tells them where you are. I don't use this, because I can't get over the creepiness factor. The excellent Google Maps also came with the phone. Places is an app that uses the phone's GPS to figure out where you are and tells you what shops, restaurants, churches, bakeries, grocery stores, etc. are nearby. This has really worked well for me a couple of times.
The phone also comes with the Gallery app, which displays photos from your camera and from the Internet. Without your having to do anything, it very nicely displays any photo albums you've put up on the Web at Picasa or Google+. The phone also includes Movie Studio, a video editing app that I have not used.
Another app that came with the phone was a News & Weather app -- click on it and you instantly get a seven-day forecast from The Weather Channel and "Top Stories" from many sources.
The phone also included Messaging, a text messaging app that I have used quite a bit, and Messenger, an instant messaging app that I haven't used. Another included app that I haven't used is "Voice Dialer." With the easy-to-use phone & address book app, you almost don't need a voice dialer -- unless you're phoning while driving. Tsk tsk -- don't do that! One of the things I like about the phone & address book app is that I can enter all the info on my desktop PC using the Google Voice interface and it automatically and instantly synchs with my phone.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a Google phone and it integrates and synchs extremely well with most Google services. When you use as many Google services as I do, this is a real bonus.
Free software that I use on my desktop PC
and recommend:
- Google Chrome browser
I switched from the Firefox browser to the Google Chrome browser. It's faster to start up and has a pleasingly simple interface. It's very fast. And it's now got a great Chrome Web Store of extensions and apps, mostly free.
- Thunderbird e-mail client
- Open Office (excellent word, spreadsheet, presentation, database suite)
- Google Earth (truly amazing)
- Foxit Reader (small fast .pdf reader that lets you type onto .pdf documents)
- Grsync (backs up your files simply and safely and does not encase them in some weird format that you must "restore")
- Google Calendar (easy to keep all entries in one place online accessible from anywhere)
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Photos
2012
- Spring Migration Count at Conboy National Wildlife Refuge (May 12)
- Three-week Trip to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuadoran Andes (January)
- Birds of the Galapagos & Ecuadoran Andes (January)
2011
- 2011 Golf Outings (May, September, October)
- Short Kayak Trip in South End of Puget Sound (Aug 23 - Aug 25, 2011)
- Field Trips for WOS Annual Conference in Port Angeles (Aug 20 - Aug 21, 2011)
- Our Trip to Okanogan County (Aug 9 - Aug 13, 2011)
- Hadley Reunion in Lawrence, KS (June 2011)
- My 65th Birthday Celebration in Portland (June 2011)
- Whidbey Birthdays (March 6, 2011)
2010
- Our Trip to Chile & Argentina (Nov 13 - Dec 8, 2010)
- Chile & Argentina Birds (Nov 13 - Dec 5, 2010)
- Bill's Birthday Hike & Camp at Mowich Lake (Sept 25, 2010)
- Judson Lohman and Sara Speelman's Wedding in Toledo (Sept 18, 2010)
- Birthday Hike on Grand Ridge in the Olympic Mountains (August 22, 2010)
- Kayak Trip to Barkley Sound on Vancouver Island (August, 2010)
- Golf at Gold Mountain (July 31, 2010)
- New Hampshire Visit (June 26-30, 2010)
- Toronto Sibling Reunion (June 22-26 2010)
- Ann Dillon's Visit (June 2010)
- Kerry's Birthday - Hike to Rattlesnake Lake (May 2, 2010)
- Easter 2010 (April 4, 2010)
- Kayak Trip to Baja, Mexico (March 23, 2010 - April 1, 2010)
- Celebrating Jim, Rich and Randy's birthdays in the Methow Valley (February 6, 2010)
- Randy's 60th Birthday Slide Show (February 2010)
- The Big Island of Hawaii (January 2010)
2009
- Christmas Letter (December 2009)
- Thanksgiving at Linda's Cabin (November 2009)
- Scottish Lakes (September 26, 2009)
- Kayakers at Bay Center (September 6, 2009)
- Birthday Hike on the Noble Knob Trail (July 18, 2009)
- Our birdwatching trip to Montana (June 22-29, 2009)
- Sarah and Mary-Carter's Birthday Garden Tour (June 13, 2009)
- Mary Hadley's 75th Birthday Party (May 3, 2009)
- Birdwatching With Friends in Arizona (April 11-18, 2009)
- Sibling Get-Together in Charleston, SC (March 8-12, 2009)
- Big Sky, Montana skiing trip (February 14-19, 2009)
- Eastern Washington Birdwatching Trip (January 30, 2009)
- San Diego Birdwatching Trip (December 27, 2008 - January 4, 2009)
2008
- Kate Dillon and Gabe Levin's Wedding (December 28, 2008)
- Thanksgiving at Linda's Cabin (November 27, 2008)
- Jane and Randy preparing brunch (November 23, 2008)
- Randy's Kayak - finished (November 2008)
- Carlisle Reunion (October 23-26, 2008)
- Bill's Birthday at Ross Lake (October 18-19, 2008)
- Elinor's 70th Birthday (October 14, 2008)
- Lake Chelan Trip (September 29-30, 2008)
- Hiking and Fishing at Greenwater Lakes (August 12-13, 2008)
- Jane's Golfing Birthday (August 3,2008)
- Kayak Trip to East Thurlow Island (June 29 - July 5,2008)
- New Hampshire (June 13 - June 17, 2008)
- Sibling Reunion in the Hudson Valley (June 9 - 13, 2008)
- Kerry's Birthday on Whidbey Island (May 4,2008)
- Bay Center Birds (April 25-May 3, 2008)
- Our New Zealand Trip - long version (Feb. 24-Mar. 25, 2008)
- Our New Zealand Trip - short version (Feb. 24-Mar. 25, 2008)
- New Zealand Birds (Feb. 24-Mar. 25, 2008)
- Rich Bard's 60th Birthday Celebration in the Methow Valley (Feb. 1-4, 2008)
- Rich Bard 60th Birthday Slide Show (Feb. 2, 2008)
- Birdwatching in Eastern Washington (Jan 14-17, 2008)
- Randy and Jane's winter vacation to Central California (Jan 3-9, 2008)
2007
- 2007 Christmas Letter
- Jane and Linda's Excellent Adventure in Fresno (Nov 30-Dec 3, 2007)
- Thanksgiving at Linda's Cabin (November)
- Kayak Trip to Ross Lake (August 12-19, 2007)
- Sibling Reunion in Northern Michigan (July 17-21, 2007)
- Road Trip: Seattle to Wisconsin and Back (June 4-23, 2007)
- Final night at Union Bay Cafe (June 2, 2007)
- Klickitat County Migration Count (May 12, 2007)
- Some Bay Center Birds (April)
- Easter 2007 (April)
- Devon Warshaw's Bar Mitzvah (March)
- Birding and Baseball in Arizona (February)
- Florida Keys (January)
2006
- Christmas Letter 2006 (Dec)
- Don's 80th Birthday Party (Dec)
- Thanksgiving 2006 (Nov)
- Biennial Gathering (Sept-Oct)
- Columbia Gorge Camera Photos (May and Sept)
- 60th Birthday Trip to Portugal (August)
- Sibling Reunion in Portland, OR (June)
- Kayak trip to Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia (June)
- Hike on Mt. Tenerife (May)
- Jane and Ann's Great Three-Day Adventure Out and About in Washington State (April)
- Visiting My Godson Cam on Vashon (April)
- Easter 2006 (April)
- An Evening with Tony and Janet in Silver Spring, Maryland (March)
- Skiing on Mt. Tahoma with Birthday Boys (February)
- California Here I Come (January)
2005
- Christmas in New Hampshire
- Christmas Letter
- Thanksgiving at Bay Center
- Freda Brooks Hadley Funeral (Oct. 1)
- Bill and Martha Jones Visit (Aug 27-28)
- A Birthday Picnic at Lakewood Marina (June 19)
- Paintball in Eastern King County(May 15)
- A Merry Mary Easter(March 27)
- A Day on Vashon (March)
2004
- Christmas 2004 in Kansas City
- Thanksgiving 2004
- Ichiro Breaks Sisler's Record (Oct. 1)
- Mt. Baker Outing (September)
- Ann Musche's 60th Birthday Party (August 2004)
- Alaska Kayak Trip (August 2004)
- Randy's Kayak
- Sarah's 50th Birthday (June 2004)
2003
- Ruth-Anne's Shower
- Thanksgiving at Norwell
- Wedding of Madeline Lohman & Brian Sofen, Oct. 4, 2003, St. Paul, MN
- Bill's 60th Birthday at Mt. Rainier, September 27, 2003
- Kayaking the Lower Columbia River June 2003
- June Birthdays 2003 (Mary-Carter and Sarah)
- Rich's 55th Birthday January 2003
2002
- Thanksgiving 2002
- Giambrone/Kentro Visit August 2002
- Dick Clever's 60th Birthday
Misc
- Bay Center Guide
- Don and Pearl's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party - June 1998
- Lake Cavanaugh Farms Web site
- Conibear Rowing Club Web site
- Times/P-I JOA Key Pages
- Jane's Calendar
- Jane's Notes Nexus
- My Bookmarks
- Randy's and Jane's Bird List
- Jane and Randy's Recipes
- Seattle-Area News Sites
- System76 Starling review