For a list of apps that I use, see Self:tips-computer-android-apps.

Apps that I have that I think may be useful someday but that I've almost never actually used

are on my secondary home screens for now

Arity		calulator; open source; graphing; solver
Calculator (builtin)		big buttons
CarDar? Lite or Carr Matey		mark where you parked when you park, then find your car later. CarDar? Lite has radar UI, and Carr Matey Has space to draw info about which parking section ur in
Carr Matey		mark where you parked when you park, then find your car later.
CPR-choking		short video on how to do CPR, Heimlich
DriveSafe?.ly		when enabled, incoming SMSs are read aloud
a movie app		see below
a radio app		see below
Profiles		quickly switch a bunch of settings at once
timer

Calculators

The two I use are:

Arity		open source; graphing; solver
Calculator (builtin)		the built in one; big buttons

Two others that some people might like are:

HandyCalc?		most featureful; graphing; solver
GraphLite?		just graphing

Media and entertainment

Movies

These apps usually provide movie trailers, showtimes, reviews.

Movies (by Flixster)		Rotten tomato ratings, gross of top movies, in main listing
Movie Finder		After selecting a movie, you can sort theatres by next start time
Fandango		Buy tickets

Music/Internet radio

DroidLive? Lite		internet radio by music type
Pandora		recommender system by song similarity over curated attribute set
Live.fm		recommender system by collaborative filtering?
iheartradio		internet radio by location
slacker radio		recommender system
streamfurious

Misc media and entertainment

Cinema		video player
music (builtin)		play stored music
tube downloader		download youtube videos

Yellow pages and restaurants

Google maps w/ popular categories labs
foodfinder		for its browsable complete category list
StoreHour?		Lookup nearby store hours
Where		for its other features
Yelp		for its Yelp reviews, and filters

For more info, and my opinions on some yellow pages/restaurant apps I uninstalled, see also Self:tips-computer-android-comparisonOfLocationAwareYellowPagesApps

Product identifiers and finders and barcodes

barcode2file		scan a bunch of barcodes in a row and it makes a text file out of them. perfect for inventorying stuff.
Barcode Scanner		scans barcode and tells you what the product is; fast; copies the barcode to the clipboard; share contacts
Google Goggles		take a picture and identify landmarks, storefronts, logos
ixMAT scanner		scan matrix barcodes
Plink Art		take a picture of a painting and the phone identifies it
Mobile Shopper		barcode scanner; history, wishlist, local stores with item. ShopSavvy? found many more Local Stores (Mobile Shopper missed Target, Best Buy and Borders for a test CD), but tries to reside in memory upon boot and after running. ShopSaavy? also has a long startup time, and has lots of needless animation when selecting menu items, which slows everything dow
SnapTell?		take a picture of a product (i.e. book) and the phone identifies it. history, email history. can also identify from an old picture in the gallery.

Misc communications

Bluetooth file transfer
Bump		quickly transfer your personal contact info to someone else's phone
Google Talk		IM
Hoccer		quickly transfer your personal contact info to someone else's phone
Skype
Qik		stream video recording from your phone's camera, LIVE

Misc travel and spatial

cab4me		location-aware taxi company finder
Compass
FlightStats?		flight status
key ring		take pictures of store loyalty cards, and then scan the pictures displayed on the phone
My Tracks		GPS track, export as GPX or KML
NYC Bus and Subway maps		(subway map is better resolution than the one from Transport Maps)
Panoramio		find user pictures near your location
point inside		database of mall maps
ruler
transport maps		database of mass transit maps from all over the world
tripIt		email your plane confirmations to tripit, and then the app displays your itinerary
radar now		weather radar

Stuff to read

BeamReader?		PDF viewer. $2
Formulas Lite		some math formulas
kaka flashcards
studyDroid		flashcards

Sound and fun

Chord Bot		musical chords
Frequency Generator		enter 3 frequencies in Hertz, play the sum of sin waves at those freqs
ggNES Lite		NES emulator
g-tar free		guitar; shows fingering; pick/strum
godroid		GNU Go game
guitar chordz		shows fingering for chords; play chords
guitar scales		show, search for, display (not play) scales
musical lite		play chords with hard keyboard
NESoid		NES emulator
ripchord		play chords, display guitar fingerings (and alternate fingerings), select by which frets to finger on
robotic guitarist		display fingerings for chords, pick, strum
signal generator		generate sound as white noise, pink noise, or sound wave
solo lite		strum/pick guitar chords
sound recorder (builtin)
spectral		convert a picture to a sound, or a sound back to a picture
spectralview		spectrogram
The vOICe		really cool!

Misc

androidVNC		used in place of an X client with Debian on the phone
camera (builtin)
Drocap2		screen capture
DroidDice?		Dice
startranslate		translate, autocopy result to clipboard, round-trip translate, text-to-speech (TTS) read results
stop watch
talk to me		speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) translate (i.e. a "universal translator"!
thinking space		"mindmap" editor/viewer (i.e. a diagram of a rooted tree)
voice dialer (builtin)
voice search (builtin)

config stuff

intent playground		(developer tool) generate arbitrary intent
mobentoo market		alternate market
MyCon?		show the IP addrs of all active outgoing IP connections from the phone
share by QR code		share URLs from browser and youtube with another phone by displaying a QR barcode on your phone that the other phone can scan with its camera
spare parts		various config stuff, usage statistics
terminal emulator		terminal
volume control		set all the different kinds of volumes (system, ringer, notification, media, alarm, in-call)
wavesecure		lock phone if SIM card changed. remotely locate or lock phone
WhatIsMyIp?
Wifi Helper		advanced wifi network config
Wifi Lock		toggle for Wi-Fi Sleep Policy
Wireless Tether for Root Users		tether (http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/)

For a list of apps that I've uninstalled but that I might reinstall, or that other people might want to check out, see Self:tips-computer-android-appsUninstalled.

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