Thursday, June 24, 2010

Mobile Applications for Apple, Android, Symbian, Windows

The table below is a list of FREE mobile applications for these platforms:
And = Android
App = Apple
Sym = Symbian
Win = Windows

Please let me know if you know of other good free applications.

In the table, the first 4 columns show which platform the application is for. The mobile application names are given and a brief description for the mobile applications is given unless it is a well know application.




And App Sym Win Mobile App


x 0 0 0 3G Watchdog
x 0 0 0 Picsay - picture editor
x 0 0 0 Backgrounds
x 0 0 0 BBC News
x 0 0 0 Twidroid - twitter app
x 0 0 0 Dolphin Browser
x 0 0 0 Jewels  - game
x 0 0 0 Task Manager
x 0 0 0 Sweetdreams - organise email, phone calls, etc
x 0 0 0 Barcode Scanner
x 0 0 0 Quickpedia
x 0 0 0 Uber Keyboard
x 0 0 0 Locale - using GPS
x 0 0 0 Plink Art - camera for paintings
x 0 0 0 Double Twist - Multimedia player for photo, music, video

x x x x Rebtel - international calling
x x x x Trapster - GPS for speed camera

x x x 0 Shazam - identify songs

x x x 0 Facebook
x x x 0 Tunewiki - media app
x x 0 0 ISP Usage

x x 0 0 Google
x x 0 0 Last.FM
x x 0 0 Photoshop.com Mobile
x x 0 0 Bigoven - cooking recipes
x x 0 0 Around Me - GPS to locate ATMs, shops, etc
x x 0 x Evernote - note taking
x x 0 x Aloqa - using GPS
x 0 x x Wavesecure - security for smartphone




0 x 0 0 Echofon for Twitter
0 x 0 0 Mobyko - transfer phone contacts
0 x 0 0 Flickr - for photos
0 x 0 0 Logitech Touch Mouse
0 x 0 0 Audiboo - audio blogging
0 x 0 0 Units - conversion
0 x 0 0 Metro - public transport
0 x 0 0 Blurb - make phone to banner
0 x 0 0 Ski and Snow Report

0 x 0 0 TVGuide
0 x 0 0 ABC - news service
0 x 0 0 My First Words Lite - educational
0 x 0 0 Wordweb
0 x 0 0 Kindle for Iphone
0 x 0 0 Ebay
0 x 0 0 Domain - real estate search

0 x 0 0 Seadragon - artwork
0 x 0 0 Simplify Music 2 - stream music PC-iPhone
0 x 0 0 Ozweather
0 x 0 0 Currency
0 x 0 0 Filmtrailer
0 x 0 0 Time Magazine
0 x 0 0 Tripit - travel itineraries to iPhone
0 x 0 0 Tip and Split - calculates tips at restaurant
0 x 0 0 Lasoo - shopping app
0 x 0 0 Paypal
0 x 0 0 Gorillacam - camear app
0 x 0 0 Epicurious - cooking recipes


0 0 x 0 Ovi Maps 3
0 x x 0 Fring - phone and video calls via wifi

0 0 x x Opera Mobile browser
0 x x x Skype
0 0 0 x Live Mesh - file synchronisation


Android Apps
Dolphin Browser HD
Amazon Kindle
Google Sky Map
Google Maps
Google Translate
YouTube
Instant Heart Rate
One Note - with access to cloud storage via SkyDrive
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2012/02/07/connect-your-android-device-to-skydrive-with-onenote-and-other-apps.aspx

Navigation
How to make use of navigation from FREE apps.
GPS - needed to locate where the device is. Do not need WiFi or internet
Maps - Needed to show the map of where you are and where to go. Google Maps have the ability to cache maps and can be useful later when there is no internet connection.
Navigation - this software calculates where you are to where you want to go.

This site explains the requirements for navigation apps in much greater details.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/rkSBMoJD14s

Other navigations and map apps are:
Navit
Route 66 Maps and Navigation,
MapsWithMe

Adobe Flash
Apple does not support Adobe flash on its devices.
The latest Android JellyBean is also dropping its support for Flash.
But it may yet be possible to install flash by yourself. This website seems to have a step to step guide on installing flash for Android devices.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/641869/installing-adobe-flash-on-android-jelly-bean-devices



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