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I see that their definition of "potentially harmful app" doesn't include those which send whatever personal data they can get access to into the "cloud". IMHO there are hardly any Android apps that are not potentially harmful, except those in the open source F-droid.org "app store". Of the top 40 apps in the Google app store, only Avira Antivirus and WhatsApp don't have one of the ad trojans embedded, but of course one is snake oil and the other is an app that only an exhibitionist wouldn't find offensive.

Sorry, I provided the wrong link. To capture wifi traffic with an Android device, you'd need this instead.

This app has been available since Android 2.1 or earlier, and needs root access of course:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/pe...

Google has had years to implement user-chosen permissions revocation. Even hidden in Developer Tools under Settings would have at least given app developers the chance to test their apps against losing permissions.

s/AirDroid/AirDroid/ in previous, sorry about that.

Why are you even wasting time looking for a USB cable?

Next, on Amazing Discoveries... Wifi-enabled devices can share files using existing network protocols!

On my home network I use SharesFinder and AirDroid. (If anyone cares to recommend better and/or more secure alternatives for either or both of these, feel free to do so!)

I never had a single problem that I can recall with the GMail app freezing up on any of my 3 Android devices but I suppose MMMV.

Chat, email and video conferencing are quite comfortable on my phone.

Chat and video conferencing are real-time interaction that can be done with a phone call. Email is only time sensitive if you choose to make it so by letting people know that you check it from your pocket.

Firstly, I use an Android smartphone.

And you believe that it is less of a toy because? Android is in worse shape, with business apps being the 10th most popular category.

Basically you made a generalised statement that you fabricated and you still haven't proven anything.

If one of my life's goals were to prove to you, an anonymous coward with nothing to back up his opinion, that smart phones are mostly used for entertainment, I'd be a sad man indeed.

And of course, dmomo's law rings true once more:
"The Internet already did your idea":
http://www.appbrain.com/app/the-cell-slammer/The.Slammer

Don't need to buy a white (actually, pink) noise generator when you've got a computer. Get sox. Simple white (actually, pink) noise script, with many comments and variations, here: http://unreasonable.org/node/303. (Someone even ran with the idea and made a fancy, documented script and put it on github: http://gist.github.com/1209835.) And/or, if you have an Android phone or tablet, try the Relax and Sleep app. (Free as in beer.) Kept me napping on a long plane ride to Japan last year in the midst of coach-class noise.

Android has 611,161 apps in the Android Market. In December, around 37,500 apps were released in the Android Market. http://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps Of course, this does not include apps released in other market places. For example, of my 30 or so Android apps, only 3 are released in the Android Market due to their limitations on content.

Now hopefully they actually write an app that uses Android properly instead of some stupid iOS port - I've seen so many that are hard to use on Android because of this.

Which version of Android would that be? Development often revolves around the least common denominator, which in Android's case is 2.2. In the real world ~15% of the market is still a significant figure. What new and useful features have been added since then? Are you aware of how many different implementations which are vendor specific, things like graphics, button functionality (interesting related blog post illustrating these points) which might hamper development? I know this isn't an end user concern but you're experiencing the symptoms of Android fragmentation. What version of Android are these handsets running? Take a look at the SDK usage and OS versions as of this month. Looks like Gingerbread, which is from December 2010, in handset terms that's nearly a generation or two.

At least with IOS you're dealing with pretty current hardware since Apple (love it or hate it) makes it a point to support only the last two releases, and over 2/3 of devices upgraded to the newest version within a month, wish it were the same for Andorid.

I see ads in free applications for Android (a Linux-based operating environment for phones and tablets) all the time.

AdFree Android.

DroidWall.

You're welcome.

There is an android app that does (or tries) to do just that.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/sonar/com.dicon.sonar

Let me correct a bit my statement.
It doesn't do the same as Soundwave, it just measures distances but it is quite a similar concept.

There is an android app that does (or tries) to do just that.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/sonar/com.dicon.sonar

Until then we can use Encryption Manager.

Actually that would make for a really good App - an open data server that collects signal data from all the folks who have signed up and agreed to contribute the data, and constructs a dynamic map of coverage. There must be one already... ... [rummage, rummage] ... ... Like this (first one found): Crowd Sourced CoverageMapper. :D

However, that won't cover the vast majority of 'casual' users, i.e. regular folks... at least, not until "there's an app for that."

There is an app for that. http://www.appbrain.com/app/ssh-tunnel/org.sshtunnel

The problems with that app are

A) requires a rooted device, and

B) is not a 'one-click' solution, requiring (what a typical user would consider) extensive setup on both ends of the connection.

These factors combined ensure that, while useful for techies, this app in particular will never see mass adoption, which was the point I was getting at.

However, that won't cover the vast majority of 'casual' users, i.e. regular folks... at least, not until "there's an app for that."

There is an app for that. http://www.appbrain.com/app/ssh-tunnel/org.sshtunnel

Maybe they could call it appbrain...oh wait...

Even if they are, that doesn't help many Android phone owners.

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-phones

sure it does. it's called density changing

Keep in mind that the terms are a bit obscure so you probably wouldn't know this if you didn't look in the right place.

Check out the excellent Droidwall app. It requires root of course to run iptables, but shouldn't we all have root on our phones?

To the GP, I agree android should support finer grained permissions (and each version of the OS has more perms) in addition to selecting which permissions the user wants to grant the app! (Not just "OK" to allow all the permissions the app asks for, but the user could pick and choose which perms to give it; obviously not granting some perms would cripple some apps..) Without that ability, Droidwall at least blocks internet connectivity for all apps in whitelist mode.

And you will both learn when running Droidwall that each app runs as its own user on the phone. Hence it gives you the requested GUI to allow each app access to the net (over 3G and/or wifi).

I get my retro geek on via the C=64 emulator on my Motorola Droid.

You mean like installing Droidwall does?

It's in the market and on XDA-Devs.

If you root you can use AdFree too.

You mean like installing Droidwall does?

It's in the market and on XDA-Devs.

If you root you can use AdFree too.

First year FREE! ($1.99/year after)

Source: http://www.appbrain.com/app/whatsapp-messenger/com.whatsapp

My Sister came back from Tenerife raving about it and saying how useful it was, so I checked the permissions. I wouldn't dare install it to my Android, even without the bait and switch.

True, but again, this is a cell phone app. You don't expect document management system level capabilities, especially not in release 1.0.
If you want that level of quality you bring something more than a cell phone to the task. Maybe a flatbed or something.

My point here is this: I've had much better luck going direct to PDF On the phone than via Google Docs.

Try this test if you have a Google Docs account, (even a free one):

Upload some PDF, even one created using something on your phone like CamScanner..
Then, once you have a document in Google Docs, select it and from the menu choose Make a Google Docs Copy. It will OCR it for you.

Now if you uploaded a quality PDF (say something scanned to pdf directly from your scanner) the OCR will be close to flawless.
But even those shot with the camera and cleaned up by CamScanner will be better than the ones created directly in Google Docs on the android, probably for some of the reasons mentioned in TFA.

You can get better results by using CamScanner to capture the image, then upload the JPG to Google Docs. I found that uploading the JPG works better than uploading the PDF.

Yup, you can. Any big chunk of text can be shoved into a QR code, depending on the generator.

Any Android phone can also turn a contact into a QR-encoded VCard with the free Barcode Scanner app.

it's still 10.1 you can see the update history at the end of the page http://www.appbrain.com/app/flash-player-10-1/com.adobe.flashplayer

I have no interest in paying separate 3G fees or contracts, and I already have an Android phone. So I thought the NOOKcolor would be a great way of playing some games and reading some free e-books on long airplane flights.

I bought one, and within an hour had it rooted, replaced the sucky built-in "Home" activity with LauncherPro, replaced the sucky built-in soft keyboard with Smart Keyboard Pro, and re-mapped the hardware volume buttons into the missing hardware MENU and BACK buttons. (You can do the last part with a "Soft Keys" service, but I prefer the hardware keys.) It plays Angry Birds and even X Plane 9 Mobile very well. The orientation sensor seems to be a bit weaker, tipping acts more like a 20-sided die vs a sphere.

In fact, since I have very little interest in paying the same price for electronic books that cannot be copied, shared, or transferred like real books, I have been returning to the classics - authors that have enriched the public domain after their years of exclusivity. I find the free FBReader to have a better interface than the built-in Barnes and Noble book reading interface.

Many other games have not yet fixed their assumptions about maximum screen pixel dimensions, so they have hit-testing or background art scaling problems. Those will get fixed over time. Some apps or games like Alchemy Classic work better with more real estate, and some apps or games like my own Qwiz - Hiragana make use of the bigger screen with larger print or graphic elements.

I have no interest in paying separate 3G fees or contracts, and I already have an Android phone. So I thought the NOOKcolor would be a great way of playing some games and reading some free e-books on long airplane flights.

I bought one, and within an hour had it rooted, replaced the sucky built-in "Home" activity with LauncherPro, replaced the sucky built-in soft keyboard with Smart Keyboard Pro, and re-mapped the hardware volume buttons into the missing hardware MENU and BACK buttons. (You can do the last part with a "Soft Keys" service, but I prefer the hardware keys.) It plays Angry Birds and even X Plane 9 Mobile very well. The orientation sensor seems to be a bit weaker, tipping acts more like a 20-sided die vs a sphere.

In fact, since I have very little interest in paying the same price for electronic books that cannot be copied, shared, or transferred like real books, I have been returning to the classics - authors that have enriched the public domain after their years of exclusivity. I find the free FBReader to have a better interface than the built-in Barnes and Noble book reading interface.

Many other games have not yet fixed their assumptions about maximum screen pixel dimensions, so they have hit-testing or background art scaling problems. Those will get fixed over time. Some apps or games like Alchemy Classic work better with more real estate, and some apps or games like my own Qwiz - Hiragana make use of the bigger screen with larger print or graphic elements.

I have no interest in paying separate 3G fees or contracts, and I already have an Android phone. So I thought the NOOKcolor would be a great way of playing some games and reading some free e-books on long airplane flights.

I bought one, and within an hour had it rooted, replaced the sucky built-in "Home" activity with LauncherPro, replaced the sucky built-in soft keyboard with Smart Keyboard Pro, and re-mapped the hardware volume buttons into the missing hardware MENU and BACK buttons. (You can do the last part with a "Soft Keys" service, but I prefer the hardware keys.) It plays Angry Birds and even X Plane 9 Mobile very well. The orientation sensor seems to be a bit weaker, tipping acts more like a 20-sided die vs a sphere.

In fact, since I have very little interest in paying the same price for electronic books that cannot be copied, shared, or transferred like real books, I have been returning to the classics - authors that have enriched the public domain after their years of exclusivity. I find the free FBReader to have a better interface than the built-in Barnes and Noble book reading interface.

Many other games have not yet fixed their assumptions about maximum screen pixel dimensions, so they have hit-testing or background art scaling problems. Those will get fixed over time. Some apps or games like Alchemy Classic work better with more real estate, and some apps or games like my own Qwiz - Hiragana make use of the bigger screen with larger print or graphic elements.

I have no interest in paying separate 3G fees or contracts, and I already have an Android phone. So I thought the NOOKcolor would be a great way of playing some games and reading some free e-books on long airplane flights.

I bought one, and within an hour had it rooted, replaced the sucky built-in "Home" activity with LauncherPro, replaced the sucky built-in soft keyboard with Smart Keyboard Pro, and re-mapped the hardware volume buttons into the missing hardware MENU and BACK buttons. (You can do the last part with a "Soft Keys" service, but I prefer the hardware keys.) It plays Angry Birds and even X Plane 9 Mobile very well. The orientation sensor seems to be a bit weaker, tipping acts more like a 20-sided die vs a sphere.

In fact, since I have very little interest in paying the same price for electronic books that cannot be copied, shared, or transferred like real books, I have been returning to the classics - authors that have enriched the public domain after their years of exclusivity. I find the free FBReader to have a better interface than the built-in Barnes and Noble book reading interface.

Many other games have not yet fixed their assumptions about maximum screen pixel dimensions, so they have hit-testing or background art scaling problems. Those will get fixed over time. Some apps or games like Alchemy Classic work better with more real estate, and some apps or games like my own Qwiz - Hiragana make use of the bigger screen with larger print or graphic elements.

I have no interest in paying separate 3G fees or contracts, and I already have an Android phone. So I thought the NOOKcolor would be a great way of playing some games and reading some free e-books on long airplane flights.

I bought one, and within an hour had it rooted, replaced the sucky built-in "Home" activity with LauncherPro, replaced the sucky built-in soft keyboard with Smart Keyboard Pro, and re-mapped the hardware volume buttons into the missing hardware MENU and BACK buttons. (You can do the last part with a "Soft Keys" service, but I prefer the hardware keys.) It plays Angry Birds and even X Plane 9 Mobile very well. The orientation sensor seems to be a bit weaker, tipping acts more like a 20-sided die vs a sphere.

In fact, since I have very little interest in paying the same price for electronic books that cannot be copied, shared, or transferred like real books, I have been returning to the classics - authors that have enriched the public domain after their years of exclusivity. I find the free FBReader to have a better interface than the built-in Barnes and Noble book reading interface.

Many other games have not yet fixed their assumptions about maximum screen pixel dimensions, so they have hit-testing or background art scaling problems. Those will get fixed over time. Some apps or games like Alchemy Classic work better with more real estate, and some apps or games like my own Qwiz - Hiragana make use of the bigger screen with larger print or graphic elements.

There is a 3rd party app for Android already out called "Starbucks Card Widget" that has all the same functionality as the iPhone and Blackberry apps.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/starbucks-card-widget/com.birbeck.starbuckscard

http://www.appbrain.com/app/button-savior-(root)/com.smart.swkey

Shame you have to root to use it, but as I have rooted (typical geek with Android, rooted and perma-rooted custom Froyo ROM) it works great.
Up and down, left or right, the trigger pixels are mostly undetectable in daily use and there are a few themes included.
I can't see my < £100 phone's buttons lasting very long so this is a great option.


PS If the developer reads this; saviour. That is all.

If you have to spend a couple of hours upgrading your interface before you can use your new toy then you should really think about finding a better toy.

A couple of hours? Not sure.

A couple of days? (Like a standard Windows or Linux install) Yuck.

The 5 minutes it took me to flash the G Tablet with a custom Rom? Totally worth it.

Do you buy a car and install a new steering wheel, gas pedal, and in-dash system before you drive it?Do you spend an hour putting the keys in your keyboard so the layout is just right?

No, but when I sit in a car, I adjust the mirrors, play with the Nav system, connect the bluetooth. I change the various user-specific settings, setup a user profile (in my Cadillac), and check the default tire pressures. I also like to review the manual. Maybe 30-60 minutes of setup time.

A new desktop?? 60-90 minutes of setup time, by the time I've routed the cables where I need them to be, plugged everything in, and organized my desk. Also install the default set of widgets on my OS X install, setup my E-mail account, sync LastPass, download my bookmarks, and start TeamDrive syncing to my data-in-the-cloud. Not to mention install the latest versions of iWork, iLife, Office, OpenOffice, Firefox, Chrome, and Skype. Oh, and run a standard "System Update".

Perhaps that's more like 120 minutes for the Desktop, and 60 minutes for the Laptop.

For my G Tablet? Plug in the USB cable. Copy over Clockwork Mod. Auto-flash it by holding down "Power" and "Volume UP". Copy over Vegan Rom. Flash it by holding down "Power" and "Volume Up", and scrolling down to "Update.zip". Wait 1 minute while the G Tablet reboots on its own.

Then setup my Google Account. Gmail/Contacts/Calendar/Talk are automagically configured. I manually setup Skype; but Titanium Backup can be used to handle stuff like that.

Total setup time? 10-15 minutes, including all the application installs. Easily the fastest gadget to setup in my stable; including Vehicles, TVs, Receivers, Game Consoles, etc! How do I know this? I just setup flashed mine from scratch. This after I set my dad's up two weeks ago.

Sure, an out-of-box iPad, iPhone, or iPod might be slightly faster. But you don't get as many of the "Google" in the cloud services, and the $200 savings is easily worth 15 minutes of my time (I like to think that I'm worth about $800 an hour). This is hardly an arduous process involving hours of work.

For those who want to know how it is done: click here. Also, it is my understanding that ROM Manager is rolling out G Tablet support, and can be directly installed after Z4Root. Both of these can be installed directly on to the G Tablet; simply click on the APK links you'll find online.

Now, I don't know what kind of toys you use, but the average gun nut/music nut/car nut/console nut/hunting nut/camping nut/painting nut will polish/oil/wax/arrange/organize/paint/sharpen/wire/whatever their gear for 15-20 minutes. That's not an unreasonable thing to recommend to someone.

"Users will be able to shop for applications from their PCs, which isn't possible with the existing version of Android Market"

Guess they haven't heard about AppBrain.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/appbrain-app-market/com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.apps

But there is lots of competition for video calling on Android.

A partial list:
http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=video+calling

Lets face it, most people only want to video call ONE OTHER PERSON, their girlfriend/boyfriend, and nobody else. So its not too hard for two people to find a service that works for both.

What is hard is finding a girl that uses Android.

Heretofore, android usage has been something like 95% male. That is only slowly starting to change, now only about 75% male.

You can use send fake GPS coordinates to every app with programs such as My Face Location. All you need to do is enable the fake GPS feature under development in the phone settings and install the app.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/my-fake-location/com.my.fake.location

Here, try this: http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=translation

There are many to choose from. None have the cutsy, but useless superimposition upon the original, but digging around in there will find page after page of ocr and translation apps.

Lets be perfectly frank. This is an app you will use three times then forget you even have it. It is simply not useful. By the time you run around shooting pictures of signs and finally find one that says "El baño" you will have already peed your pants in Mexico.

Far more useful is Google Translate, which uses voice recognition allowing you to speak your sentence, and will then speak it back in the language of choice. (You can use text input and copy and paste from dozens of free scanner apps as well).

Here, try this: http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=translation

There are many to choose from. None have the cutsy, but useless superimposition upon the original, but digging around in there will find page after page of ocr and translation apps.

Lets be perfectly frank. This is an app you will use three times then forget you even have it. It is simply not useful. By the time you run around shooting pictures of signs and finally find one that says "El baño" you will have already peed your pants in Mexico.

Far more useful is Google Translate, which uses voice recognition allowing you to speak your sentence, and will then speak it back in the language of choice. (You can use text input and copy and paste from dozens of free scanner apps as well).

I have owned an iphone 3g, 3gs and an iphone 4.
Recently the attitude from apple, in my opinion has been worse than Microsoft, some may claim otherwise but the 'our way or the highway' and general attitude specifically from Jobs himself in emails to people (on the occassions they leak out) is just awful.

The overall lock in bugged me a little but overall I was generally quite happy with my iphone, the itunes aspect I detested mind you.
Every now and then something would bug me, for example - at work when supporting my clients, I can backup and /selectively/ restore what I want to their BlackBerries - the iphone however is an utter nightmare for anyone with any real technical knowledge and wantign to do something even slightly out of the box. The lack of SMS tone changing (finally here, christ!) was ridiculous.
I also feel the lack buttons is holding the iphone back, despite what 'focus groups' claim about the buttons, you simply end up wasting screen real estate with onscreen buttons. I don't think the iphone needs 12 buttons mind you but even just THREE might be nice on the device - people are dumb but not that dumb.

So anyhow, I decide I might try Android out, I copied a guy at work and purchased a HTC HD2 (Leo) - which is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone which can have Android hacked on to it if you fiddle about.
I have done so and been most impressed, there's a few small niggly issues some of which may be from using a non native Android phone, some are just design issues but overall I'm substantially more impressed than I expected to be.

There's an app called Appbrain http://www.appbrain.com/ which is kind of like an all in one sync tool, once installed it catalogues all you have installs and ties it to an account (in my case my google sign in) - I can add and remove applications from that website, anywhere in the world and sync entirely over 3g. It handles the updating of apps, it provides a better search interfact than the stock market and feedback too. It's really nice.
Someone showed me http://www.appbrain.com/wallpaper that today and I thought 'oh how cute, it's going to queue up a new background to download next time I open the application and run a sync' - only not, I clicked a button on the website, picked up my phone about 2 seconds later and it had pushed the picture down and set it as my background already. - incredible
I can take a photo of a Qcode (qrcode?) image and it too can queue up the installation of an application just like that.

I can add widgets to the desktop and while many are a complete waste of memory and cpu time, there are some genuinely useful weather / data usage / stock information I can drop on the home screen or a few screens off it.
I can set the tones I like, I can share my device as a wifi access point - the list goes on.

It's not without it's flaws, sadly I don't know if the small niggles I've had have been due to being non native or not but I hope to learn over the coming days. Also the way they handle podcasts boggles my mind, I do really just wish the music app searched in /podcast/ for podcasts /music/ for music and so on - nothing comes close to apples music player unfortunately. Fortunately for me I don't listen to much anyhow.
Email client searching actually works for gmail and the vast majority of my apps are on the device - tweetdeck, email, facebook, rdp clients, shazam, ebay, skype - it's all there and in 4.3" on this model, not 3.5" - honestly at 32, with my eyes - that's a bloody godsend.
We use these things more and more, I think 3.5 is really holding back the iphone, resolution or not (as I said, I own a 4, I know how pretty it is, it's just too small)

I could go on for ages, I'm really pretty happy overall though and the hippy open source fanboy in me says it's only going to get better with time, let's hope I'm right.

I have owned an iphone 3g, 3gs and an iphone 4.
Recently the attitude from apple, in my opinion has been worse than Microsoft, some may claim otherwise but the 'our way or the highway' and general attitude specifically from Jobs himself in emails to people (on the occassions they leak out) is just awful.

The overall lock in bugged me a little but overall I was generally quite happy with my iphone, the itunes aspect I detested mind you.
Every now and then something would bug me, for example - at work when supporting my clients, I can backup and /selectively/ restore what I want to their BlackBerries - the iphone however is an utter nightmare for anyone with any real technical knowledge and wantign to do something even slightly out of the box. The lack of SMS tone changing (finally here, christ!) was ridiculous.
I also feel the lack buttons is holding the iphone back, despite what 'focus groups' claim about the buttons, you simply end up wasting screen real estate with onscreen buttons. I don't think the iphone needs 12 buttons mind you but even just THREE might be nice on the device - people are dumb but not that dumb.

So anyhow, I decide I might try Android out, I copied a guy at work and purchased a HTC HD2 (Leo) - which is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone which can have Android hacked on to it if you fiddle about.
I have done so and been most impressed, there's a few small niggly issues some of which may be from using a non native Android phone, some are just design issues but overall I'm substantially more impressed than I expected to be.

There's an app called Appbrain http://www.appbrain.com/ which is kind of like an all in one sync tool, once installed it catalogues all you have installs and ties it to an account (in my case my google sign in) - I can add and remove applications from that website, anywhere in the world and sync entirely over 3g. It handles the updating of apps, it provides a better search interfact than the stock market and feedback too. It's really nice.
Someone showed me http://www.appbrain.com/wallpaper that today and I thought 'oh how cute, it's going to queue up a new background to download next time I open the application and run a sync' - only not, I clicked a button on the website, picked up my phone about 2 seconds later and it had pushed the picture down and set it as my background already. - incredible
I can take a photo of a Qcode (qrcode?) image and it too can queue up the installation of an application just like that.

I can add widgets to the desktop and while many are a complete waste of memory and cpu time, there are some genuinely useful weather / data usage / stock information I can drop on the home screen or a few screens off it.
I can set the tones I like, I can share my device as a wifi access point - the list goes on.

It's not without it's flaws, sadly I don't know if the small niggles I've had have been due to being non native or not but I hope to learn over the coming days. Also the way they handle podcasts boggles my mind, I do really just wish the music app searched in /podcast/ for podcasts /music/ for music and so on - nothing comes close to apples music player unfortunately. Fortunately for me I don't listen to much anyhow.
Email client searching actually works for gmail and the vast majority of my apps are on the device - tweetdeck, email, facebook, rdp clients, shazam, ebay, skype - it's all there and in 4.3" on this model, not 3.5" - honestly at 32, with my eyes - that's a bloody godsend.
We use these things more and more, I think 3.5 is really holding back the iphone, resolution or not (as I said, I own a 4, I know how pretty it is, it's just too small)

I could go on for ages, I'm really pretty happy overall though and the hippy open source fanboy in me says it's only going to get better with time, let's hope I'm right.

then why not go android and not have to hack at all?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.magicandroidapps.bluetoothterm

Found the app... Doesn't really seem to work though. Just displays a list of stuff that's been mapped out with checkboxes... no way to actually display a map :(

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.MapiaExplorer

ASpotCat is the one I use. There are possible alternatives listed on the right of that page -- one is called Permission Viewer.

I've been SIP on my G1 over 3G/wifi for a long long time:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.sipdroid.sipua

i use g-mon

http://www.appbrain.com/app/de.carknue.gmon2

capture ssid, lat long. pretty neat and free.

You should try the app "appbrain". ^_^ It is like the market, but much better organized... You can see "what is hot today / week", you can search through categories, etc. You can even install stuff directly to your phone.