FRAMINGHAM, 1 APRIL 2011 - Let's face it: Whether you get your apps through the Android Market (about 100,000 apps) or the Apple App Store (about 350,000), it can be hard to figure out which ones you want to try out. And there are a lot of recommendation lists out there (Computerworld has already published a few of them). But how to find the really great stuff?

In an effort to provide some guidance, we asked the staff and writers of Computerworld to tell us about their favorites -- no matter what type of smartphone they use.

The results are listed here. The apps are varied and interesting -- they include a variety of choices for music, video and photos; apps that help to find restaurants, detect earthquakes or track all your digital data; two games and two e-readers. There are also a few that make life easier on the job, including one that takes credit card purchases.

To try to make some order out of this plethora of apps, we've divided them into several categories:

Media on the move -- music, photos and video
Leisure time -- e-readers and games
Interesting information -- news, restaurants and running
Useful utilities -- storage, remote logins and browsers
On the job -- dictation, notes and finances

The reviews below include apps for smartphones that run Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Palm's webOS operating systems. But we didn't want to leave anyone out, so for each app we've listed other OSes that it works with, which can include RIM's BlackBerry, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile, and a few other, less-known formats.

So take a look and see if there's anything here that you might want to try -- some of these might become your favorites as well. And if we've left any out that you think we should try, don't hesitate to let us know in our Comments section.

Media on the move

AT&T U-verse Mobile

This is a great app for those times when you are at a dinner party and a friend recommends a particular TV program for you to watch. You can program your AT&T U-verse digital video recorder from your iPhone and not have to worry about missing the suggested show.

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