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All the Android apps I have

Last autumn, I made several rash promises to friends who were considering buying an Android phone, that I would at some point blog the list of applications I had on my HTC (slogan: "quietly brilliant") Magic, and what they were good for. I procrastinated sufficiently that this eventually became a Christmas holiday task, and then my phone decided on Christmas Day that it no longer wished to turn on, causing me to spend nearly 3 weeks without it, and also necessitating a complete reinstall of all my apps. Luckily, my phone did have a rough idea of things I had downloaded before (thank goodness) so reinstalling was not as painful as I had anticipated. Nonetheless, I am now writing that blog post... If you are not interested in Android, you should stop reading here, as it is about to get boring. The HTC Magic has three "home screens", where shortcuts and so on live. On one, I have useful things I often need (email, calendar, weather, RSS feeds). On the main first sc