Day Gamer

Here are some more useful android apps:

• 3 Banana Notes (Catch.com) is a note taking program that is compatible with your Google account, and let’s you share notes via email, Facebook, Twitter, and QRCode. You can attach photos to notes, use the passcode lock, and use the quick note widget.  Easy to use and very useful after a sarge when you want to enter notes about HBs before you forget details.
• Google Maps is a given as far as usefulness, and probably comes installed with your phone.  It can help you find your date location regardless of if you are wlaking, biking, driving, or using public transportation.
• Fresh Face (MaPPN, INc.) is useful for customizing your homescreen and is free.  There are better programs if you want to pay.  I am using the beach theme, which HBs seem to like–it’s peacocking for your phone.  It isn’t designed for the Droid X but works fine, although installing it wiped my widgets out–I reinstalled one ones I still wanted and left one screen blank.

Actually, it is a memory hog and wound up having problems on Droid-X. Uninstalled. I kept the beach wallpaper though.

• Flashlight–there are various ones you can use…useful for dark clubs…and some have colored or strobing lights which can be used as peacocking.
• Urban Spoon (and Yelp and Loopt) are useful for finding restaurants and such to plan dates. Yelp has tons of review of all kinds of businesses.

I recently bought a Droid X, and have been trying out various apps.  Here are 5 apps that are useful to PUAs.  I’ll followup with more in separate articles.

• AutoContact (ZeroTouchSystems) is nice because on incoming calls it automatically asks you if you want to save the number as a contact.  I paid a dollar and change (converted from British Pounds) to have this feature for outgoing calls as well.  Now I don’t forget to add contacts from new phone calls. This is the only app I’ve paid for so far.
• QuickContact (Gizmog Software) is an easier way to enter contacts, since the default way of adding contacts (without having dialed them first) is clunky.  You can just go through a bunch of your handwritten or business card #s and enter them all as contacts without dialing them first. Then you can text them all, and I’m sure there are some good apps for group texting…I may look into that for a followup article.
• Online Game: OKCupid has a Droid  app, while Eharmony and Jdate do not. OKC should have  away to rate people on the app like you can on the site…I do feel like it is missing some functionality in general, but it works.
• Meebo IM combines various IM programs, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, etc.  It works fine but was much better when it included Facebook chat.  You can set it up to log your conversations. I hear Trillian is coming out with an app soon–it might be better.
• Pickup Artist Seduce Women (Buzly Labs) is a collection of articles (within the topics of Inner Game, Outer Game, Routines, and Other) by gurus such as Style, Deangelo, Carlos Xuma, Mystery, and Sinn.
• Cocky and Funny PUA (Buzly Labs) is another collection of articles and material.