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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)
Drocap2screen 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/)

More

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.