Tech Tuesday - Further Exploration of the Galaxy Nexus - Apps - Galaxy Nexus Series - Part 2

Last week I posted Tech Tuesday - Getting to know the Galaxy Nexus in which I gave some of my initial impressions of my new (and first) mobile phone, a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. At the end of that post I wrote that I hoped to write a future post about some of the different apps I have been trying. Interestingly, in this past week the Android Market relaunched itself as Google Play. To celebrate the launch, Google Play has made various apps available on sale for 25 cents and 49 cents. I have purchased a couple of on-sale apps in the last few days including: Camera Zoom FX, Paper Camera, TuneIn Radio Pro and Smart Tools.

Other apps I am trying including the following:

Genealogy

Ancestry
FamilySearch Indexing Beta
BillionGraves Camera App
Family Bee (free trial)

Communications / Social Media 
Blogger
Gmail
Google Reader
YouTube
Google+
Twitter
Facebook

Notes / Documents / Bookmarks
Google Docs
Evernote and Skitch
OneNote Mobile
Power Note by Diigo
Springpad

Files
Dropbox
ES File Explorer

Search
Google Search
Google Googles
Gesture Search

Photography / Scanning / Creative
Pixlr-o-matic
Camera Zoom FX
Paper Camera
SketchBook Mobile Express
CamScanner

Web Browsers
The default browser which came installed.
Chrome Beta
Opera Mini
Dolphin Browser Mini

Maps / GPS
Google maps
Google Earth
My Tracks
Street View on Google Maps
GPS Test

Shopping
Amazon Mobile
Ebay
Out of Milk Shopping List

Reference
Google Translate
Dictionary.com (I removed this app due to privacy concerns about the 'nearby' feature, there appeared to be no way to opt out of it)
Wikipedia

Books / E-Reading
Google Play Books
Adobe Reader
LibraryThing Scanner
Scanner for Zotero
Kindle
Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss (because I love that book!)

Australian Government Apps
DisasterWatch
FireReady (Victorian CFA)
Fires Near Me NSW
VicEvents
State Library of New South Wales

Educational / Games
PowerVocab
Spell Me Right: Word Scramble
Words, Words, Words
Spelling Bee
Chess Free
MapMaster - Geography game


Entertainment
SoundHound
TuneIn Radio Pro
IMDb Movies & TV

Travel
TripAdvisor
Transport Info (NSW)
Metlink Beta (Vic)

Tools
StopWatch & Timer
Tiny Flashlight + LED
Smart Tools

Christian / Catholic
Divine Mercy
YouVersion - The Bible App
Laudate

Obviously not all of these apps have a relevance to genealogy research. For the apps that are relevant to genealogy research, I will choose one app (or a group of related apps) each week to review on this blog. To do proper justice to the Galaxy Nexus and to each of these apps I will make sure I am in an area with a strong mobile data connection, or I am connected to a Wi-Fi network, when I try each of the apps. Each review will give my general opinions of the app, potential uses for the app in my genealogy research and links to other blogs and web site with further information about each app. I hope by committing to write these reviews I will learn more about the capabilities of each app and unlock the full potential of the Galaxy Nexus as a tool to assist me on my genealogy journeys.  


I also hope to review some of the features particular to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (such as the camera, the photo gallery, calendar, settings and general user interface etc.) in upcoming posts. After that, I think I will then finish my series of Galaxy Nexus posts with a post describing some of the apps I would like to use if they exist sometime in the future.

Do you know of any other great android apps I could try? Please let me know about them. Thanks. 

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