THE TOP 20 BEST ANDROID APPS FOR LIBRARIANS
Tech Camp Rochester 2012 | Presented by Pat Rapp
ReadingCommunicatingProductivityReference and NewsRandom Information
Apps for:
APPS FOR READING
Kindle for Android is a free app Buy books from Amazon Borrow from your library
But have you considered…
Import any epub or pdf file Download from Feedbooks,
Smashwords or other online sites such as Project Guttenberg.
Aldiko Book Reader
Or…
Free or cheap ebooks Epub format Read-out-loud feature allows for
listening to book passages
Legimi ebook reader
Monroe County Library System
Access to ebooks owned by MCLS Decide on your loan period – 1, 2, or
3 weeks Automatically returns books on due
date
LS2 Library Catalog
Read it Later
For online content
APPS FOR COMMUNICATING
Skype
Video chat IM Voice calls
GrooVe IP – Google Voice
Use data plan instead of phone minutes
Tweetdeck
Synchronizes your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, and Foursquare accounts
Hootsuite
Manage Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn
Get stats Use multiple accounts
STFU
Shut the Phone Up
APPS FOR PRODUCTIVITY
Evernote
Take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable
Colornote
Multi-color sticky notes
Organize lists by color
Easy to use for home and work
Tape-a-Talk
Record lectures Create voice memos Use it as a
dictaphone
Dropbox
Save your file to Dropbox
Access it from all your computers or mobile devices
Google Docs
Create, edit, upload and share your documents
APPS FOR REFERENCE AND NEWS
apps.usa.gov
More apps.usa.gov
News Apps
Voice Translator
Supported languages : Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.
APPS FOR RANDOM INFO
Find a Restaurant
Find Your Car
MyCar Locator
Find a Bathroom
Sit or Squat Locates bathrooms
and provides ratings from other users
Speaking of Bathrooms…
HTTPS://MARKET.ANDROID.COM/
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