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  • 27 September, 2010
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This Week’s Market-Fresh Apps

As you’ve likely heard from one source or another, Android Market is growing at a phenomenal pace with thousands of new apps being added each month. It’s a given that there are going to be some cool apps that you missed, and here are some that might make your life a little better.

Note: all links point to Android Market

VIP Calls

£0.80. Sometimes you want only certain people to be allowed to call, while others may not disturb. With VIP Calls you create and maintain your own personal VIP contact whitelist. When these numbers call, your phone will ring,  otherwise it will stay silent. Runs as a background service, can be switched on and off at any time.

Ema Personal Wiki

€4.00. Ema Personal Wiki is a notebook with linkable pages for tracking your ideas, information, todo lists, tasks, bookmarks, projects, notes, brainstorms – in short, your life – in the most flexible way. It has two versions: an Android and a free Windows version, which are synchronized with your Dropbox account.

Ledgerist Free

Free. Ledgerist is a simple and intuitive checkbook register for all your financial accounts. An easy-to-understand interface combined with powerful features—including repeating transactions, advanced sorting and filtering, and backup—makes keeping track of your personal finances easier than ever. This version is ad-supported.

Prey Phone Tracker

Free. Prey is a simple yet powerful application that will help you track and find your phone if it ever gets stolen. By sending a custom SMS, Prey will start reporting its exact location to a Control Panel in which you can also trigger different actions.

SI Fantasy Football

Free. Maintain your fantasy football lineup from SI’s Fantasy Football game on Facebook. Stay up to date with player news updates and the latest columns from SI.com fantasy football experts. Get live scoring updates for all your teams.

Compare Cities beta

Free. It’s a simple app, that let you compare cities (towns) by their population, area, density. Has a data base of more than 1,000,000 cities around the world and can be enriched and corrected by users, people who live there. Supports short names, nick names of cities and different languages.

Liquid Journal

Free. This is the Android application for Liquid Journals. It enables your android device to: browse the list of your journals, browse the list of your subscriptions, browse the content of a journal, add a paper to a journal by taking a photo of the paper.

CTA Bus Locator

$2.99. View a map of the Chicago Transit Authority Bus Stops, Routes and Buses. Tracks buses in real time, Tap bus to get more bus info, Tap stop to get more info including next bus, Tap route button on top to change current route, Set auto-refresh interval, Set auto-refresh timeout to conserve battery life.

Today in Geek History lite

Free. What happened on this date in history that might be of interest to a geek? Over 1500 geeky facts and growing!
Upgrade to the full version and: Share facts via Twitter, email, SMS, Select from 12 backgrounds, See what geeks were up to on dates other than today, Get a random fact with the desktop widget, Remove ads

Sam’s Club

Free. The must-have app for every Sam’s Club Member. Whether you’re on a road trip and need to find your nearest Club or in your own backyard planning a shopping trip, you can locate convenient services and find out more about the items on your shopping list. For Plus Members, your eValuesSM are now right at your fingertips!

Gap Style Mixer

Free. Swipe your way to perfect style. With this app you can CREATE: Slide & tap to design new outfits in the Mixer. SHOP: Purchase items from Gap. BUILD: Build a wardrobe with your own photos or from Gap’s collection. SHARE: Post outfits to Facebook or the StyleMixer Community for fashion advice, kudos and more.

Henry Ford ER Locator

Free. Henry Ford Health System wants you and your family to be covered in case of emergency. That’s why we have developed a free app that not only navigates you to the nearest location, but also stores important information that could help paramedics and other medical professionals treat your emergency faster.

Super Call Recorder

$1.50. Record your Android Cell Phone Calls!  Once you end your call, the app will ask if you want to save your call. Selecting “No” deletes the call. Selecting “Yes” saves the call onto your SD card!  Simply access the files on your SD card! All files are saved as .AMR. Use a Free Mobile Media Converter to convert to .wmv

Plane Finder

£2.99. Want to know what planes are flying overhead or where they are going? Want to see friends and family in the air? Plane Finder provides near live info on planes across the USA, Europe and Australia.  Check out our live coverage map at planefinder.net as we are always adding ADS-B feeds.