My most used Android Apps

I’ve been on Android for a year now and it has made my communication life awesome!

There are plenty of apps that are just fun and goofy and seem like a good idea, but at the end of the day all they do is take up room on my phone. I don’t do a lot of goofing around with my phone so I am finding that besides the core communication tools I only use a few apps with any frequency:

Twidroid | Does your twitter app notify you of a mention or a direct message regardless of it being open? Twidroid does. It’s a solid app that handles all of the twitter essentials as good as any I have seen or used. I have heard of a few apps on the iPhone that will push notify you, but I don’t know anyone using them and this feature is the main reason I won’t consider any other phone.

PixelPipe | Take a picture and send it to all your online spaces at once. I snap a pic and send it to twitter, facebook, Tumblr, Posterous, Flickr and Picasa with one click. Simple.

Shazam | I thought this one was a gimicky app that I would soon forget, but it has earned a place on my main screen because I use it all the time. Shazam will listen to a song and let you know who/what it is. A must-have in Austin where our mainstream stations make your indie station look like ClearChannel headquarters….lots of new music.