Type: official Motorola accessory for the Droid and Droid 2 Price: $29.99 MSRP Get It: Highly recommended, especially for people who travel or anyone who wants to ditch their alarm clock I resisted getting the home dock for my Motorola Droid for a long time. It seemed like a lot of money to pay for a small addition to functionality and I’m a girl on a tight budget. Yet… yet… I kept finding myself fondling them at the Verizon store, debating the merits with friends and even...

As a DroidWoman on the move, I tend to spend a lot of time on the road/in the air/not directly connected to the internet. I have lamented the lack of a Google Reader app because of this. How else can I check on my ever-growing RSS feeds and keep current with the multitudes blog posts, web news updates, and cute kitty pictures? FeedSquares for Google Reader is the answer, and not only is it a useful solution, it is an elegant and attractive solution. Looks may not be everything with some apps,...

App Type: e-book reader Price: Free Get It: Yes if you like reading, definitely if you own a Kindle. Hello, I’m known as CraftLass and I am a Droid accessory addict. I have the dock, a spare battery, an external charger, so many charging cables I can’t even figure out where one of them came from, and even a car charger despite the fact that I don’t own a car. I would have the car dock if I did, of course. I may get it anyway for when I rent cars or ride along on road trips, it’s pretty...

App Type: guitar tuner that also works as a pitch pipe Price: Free (ad-free) or €1.00 Plus version with adjustable range nonlinear scale and doubled processing power. Get It: Any musician should have this. Even if you don’t need a tuner it can’t hurt to have one on hand in case someone playing with you needs it. I’m coming up on two decades of playing guitar, with a variety of other instruments earlier. Needless to say (if you know anything about stringed instruments), I have owned...

One of my favorite relatively new Android functions is the ability to send web pages to your phone from your computer’s web browser. AppBrain added some new functionality yesterday that allows you to send links or wallpapers to your phone from their website (in addition to the ability to send apps, which they already had with their “Fast Web Installer”). However, if you don’t have an AppBrain account, there are two apps that were already sending web links to phones long...

We started this series of 3 giveaways to celebrate finally exceeding 500 @droidwomen followers on Twitter, but we’re already up to 554 followers! Wow, thanks everyone! This time our prize is from another etsy seller you’ve seen on Women With Droids before, RainyDaye. This second giveaway is for a hand-knit case by Rainydaye. Her Etsy store is filled with unique colorful hand-knit sleeves for electronics, coffee cups, and arms! The winner of this giveaway gets to choose from any...

Game Type: Arcade, Casual Price: Free Get It: Absolutely, if you like arcade games or take subways, this game is a must. When I was a kid games were pretty simple. You could learn the rules in about 5 seconds and jump right in on mastering the straightforward skills required. Oh, they would take a lot of effort to master and some people are still pushing the envelope on high scores in those classics, but anyone could play and enjoy them without any preparation or even a tutorial. While I’ve...

If you’re a fan of the stars then you’ll want to check out Google’s Sky Map for Android. Self-described as a “window to the night sky,” this app does a great job of rolling together a telescope, the Hayden Planetarium, and your phone into one. Just launch the app and instantly your phone kicks into a kind of telescope-mode with six visible layers of astral information. A handy dis/enable feature allows you to view any combination the Stars, Constellations, Messier...

You may have noticed a lull in our posts lately as we recover and regroup after the loss of our dear friend and Women With Droids contributor Elmyra Jemison, whom we knew as Ellie. We learned a little over a week ago from her siblings online that Ellie suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. We had all been concerned after not hearing from her for several days (it was unusual for her not to post anything on Twitter for any extended period of time), and this horrible news came as a huge shock...

As an entrepreneur/writer/musician on a very tight budget I have hit the point where much of my financial life involves PayPal. It was inevitable, really. I log in almost daily on my computer but the old Android app was essentially useless. I needed ways to withdraw, look up histories, and my dearest dream was to find a way to use it to charge people for merchandise in person reliably. The wait is over. PayPal has released a new and sublimely improved app, available in the Market. When you...