You can get market links and package names of android apps using and – as of today, I believe – you can visit the market links using any browser as google opened the market for the web.
Small app for tracking fuel consumption and gas station prices.īy the way: I used the QR Code generator by Jason Delport of Paxmodept to create the QR codes.
Given a scanned barcode of a grocery item you can look up it’s caloric values or where to get it with best price. I’ve been using it for ICQ chatting sometimes. Instant message client for Gtalk, msn, icq or yahoo. I’m much in favour of XKCD, Dilbert and Peanuts.
Very handy for quicky looking up a movie or what actor did which movie and such.Įver looked to the night sky and wondered: what’s the name of that bright star? Google sky map can tell you, just point your phone into the direction of the target.Can also guide you to find a specific galaxy or star.ĭisplays comic strips which you can chose from a large list. if there’s no network in the woods.Īccesses movie information from the internet movie database. You can store geocache information for later use – e.g. Comes with Google maps overlay, GPS compass, detailed cache information with riddles, coordinates and user hints. Just connected my account and turned on GPS and it worked like a charm. Just place your ships wise and try to nuke the CPU one’s.Īll-you-need for geocaching. Using arrows shot by a bow you have to save Newton from apples falling from the tree.Ĭlassic sea fight game. Gensoid is an emulator for good old SEGA games, such as Sonic the Hedgehog or Street Figther.Įither you have to chose the correct country name according to a shown flag or the other way around. By turning the phone left and right you have to get rid of red shapes while preventing the blue ones from falling down. You can set the CPU strength which gives even my bad chess skills a chance to win.įun with the position sensor of the phone. Yet another Sudoku game with many variations and thousands of levels. The kids just love it, though the lite version does not come with many levels. Thousands of levels and you can set the difficulty in various steps. Rushhour is a puzzle game where you have to move cars out of the way so a yellow can drive to the exit. Like the bridge builder and Pontifex games in X Construction you have to compose stable bridges for a train using metal segments. I successfully played Monkey Island 1 + 2, Zak McKraken, Sam & Max and Day Of the Tentacle (though the sound is sometimes cracking). You can get some of the old games from abandonware games website on the web or just copy the data from your 3.5″ floopy disks :-). You’ll need some files from the scumm VM project ( datafiles) – just stick to their FAQ and it should work.
Till now I could only find a very early ported version for android but following the instructions in the website at: I got the manually installed apk running. The scumm VM is a virtual machine for the best adventure games ever – created some years ago by Lucas Arts. Maze game which get’s quite tricky in the later levels. I might add a list pretty useful iOS apps in another article together with Benjamin in the next days. The actual Huawei-manufactured Vodafone 845 comes with a pretty small resistive 320×240 pixel display – but: hey, it came only 100€!Īfter trying many many apps the following list is an overview of my favorite ones. As I’m not that in favour of spending so much money for an Apple phone I ordered a startup Android 2.1 phone some time ago. Most of the time we use these devices for testing our mobile websites and to find out how the rest of the mobile world does it.
For half a year my job has been getting me in “touch” ? with Apple devices: an iPad 3G+WLAN and a new iPod touch.