Taking part in MobiMOOC has given me the opportunity to take stock of my own MobilePLE – the top 5 tools I find most useful as part of my ongoing learning.
- Catch Notes (previously 3Bananas) – mobile note taking the most critical component. Whenever I get a new device – this is what has to be installed as one of the first actions. For those not familiar with this software – it’s like Evernote without the bloat.
- TwiDroyd – mobile Twitter / Status.Net client. This could be replaced by similar Twitter clients
- GoogleReader – RSS reader client
- Flickr – image upload and sharing
- FourSquare – location based sharing
These are the main applications I use pretty much constantly, however here are some other useful services I use regularily:
- Delicious – Online Bookmarking (this is an old one, but a good one). Unfortunately there are not a great deal of mobile interfaces for Delicious as Yahoo has publicly stated that it is trying to offload the project
- Pixelpipe – universal uploader (upload to multiple services such as Flickr, Picasa, Youtube from mobile)
- BeyondPod – podcast client
- GoogleGoggles – image recognition software to allow searches based on camera input
- Zxing Barcode Scan – open source barcode scanner (QR codes as well as EAN type)
- WordPress Client – mobile client to edit wordpress blogs
- Sketchbook – mobile drawing application from Autodesk (you need a reaonable screen for this – tab preferred)
- UStream Broadcaster – streaming video producer from mobile handset
One thing worth noting is that this is very much the “CURRENT Mobi-PLE”. The one sure thing with mobile tech in general is that it tends to change quickly over time and with need.
Looking forward to hearing about things I am missing – comments welcome !
Hi, this is Jonobie from the MobiMOOC – one question, do you find that you actually use GoogleGoogles that much? If so, for what? I had it on my Droid for a while, and eventually removed it because although it seemed cool, I never really figured out what to do with it, precisely.
Cheers,
Jonobie
Google Goggles is not an application i use a lot, but i do find it useful sometimes.
1) image to text conversion. since the last major update it is quite accurate for ocr on short text pieces from printed text
2) demonstrations. i use it frequently to show people the potential of image recognition
3) when travelling in countries where you dont speak the language it is handy to find info on symbols and words.