Thanks, will take a look.

Although WiFi connection seems somehow restricted (Samsung tweak or something?)… I am unable to ping phone over WiFi and was unable to connect to couple of HTTP/FTP servers on the phone.

And here’s android notifier:

http://lifehacker.com/5633074/android-notifier-sends-notifications-from-your-phone-to-growl

Pushes notifications from the phone to your PC.

Not much into games. Installed sudoku and several prominent titles like Angry Birds.

For a map – as above. Went with Yandex maps. Good map of my city and I could just download 600MB of cache and drop on SD card for very complete traffic-less coverage.

Took a look at Ringdroid, but mostly when looking up way to assign custom ringtones to Google contacts (which is all of mine since I migrated that way). Went with Ringo Lite in the end.

nesoid lite (emulator)
snesoid lite (emulator)
gensoid lite (emulator)
ROM Gripper (game rom catalog and download client)

Also, I believe MapDrid and/or Rmaps do a good job of offline map caching/storage. I haven’t played with them much, but heard good things about both so check em out.

Ringdroid is a great app for cutting ringtones from music on your phone. Super easy to use if you’re in to ringtone mania and don’t want to waste data use or edit on your desktop.

Lately I just mostly prefer to read feeds at my desktop through FeedDemon. Too many conveniences with filters and such.

I wish Google Reader implemented some of that functionality. Really, sync is cool but totally no synergy between Feed Demon and reader.

Re: Google Reader – I find myself using both. I use Pulse as a way to quickly check the nerdy tech blogs as it offers up a picture snapshot of the article, but Reader scales nicely with large lists of feeds (and is fast).

Yeah, discovered conveniences of AppBrain already. It’s strange native market is not something like that (I hear some updates coming in that department).

I am not much into GTD… Tried RTM in the padt but didn’t “get it”.

Not sure what “Android Notifier” you mean, don’t see exact match in market.

@Rob Dunn

How does Pulse compares to mobile version of Google Reader? Decent one at /i/ not terrible one at m.google.com

Second mention of gtasks, but I can’t find it in the market. :(

btw Samsung did quite nice job with their TouchWiz UI, so I have little immediate need for alternate launchers/togglers/etc.

Also for the context – data rates are killer around here, so I mostly need apps that work offline or on minimal traffic.

Youlou = Contact manager and dialer replacement.
Pulse = NewsReader with selective Google Reader implementation (you decide what you want to import)
K-9 = email client, supposedly can support Exchange, but I’ve not gotten it to work
arcMedia = Video player
gTasks = Google Tasks “client”
.Podkast. or Google Listen = Podcast catchers
QuickDesk = Give yourself an extra screen page
WiFi Widget = Nice widget that gives you wifi IP, MAC address, Speed and toggle switch
Edwin = Entertaining but useful speech to text app (requires data connectivity)
Skype = VOIP over wifi (not Skype Mobile)
Stumbleupon = Great way to find fun and useful apps (for the Android!)

Enjoy! I love mine (Droid Incredible)

appbrain is absolutely a must have. Ditto dropbox.

Other general must haves:

Evernote. It’s pretty slick for android.
Remember the Milk: You’re either an RTM guy or you’re not. If you are, you must have this app.
google Voice: just for vm transcription.
Android Notifier
Chrome to Phone

Already googled and applied that. Not the issue… I actually set really long sleep time (10 minutes) and it keeps loosing connection even if phone never went to sleep.

If I just leave it lying at the table for several minutes then it fails to connect to anything until I toggle WiFi off and on again.

Just installed some network status app to see what is going on with connection.