I'd have to add a vote for VPlayer. All the other players, like MXplayer and Dice player, do a mostly good job, but fail when it comes to mkv files with AC3 audio. Or at least certain ones. With those other players, the video plays but is silent. VPlayer's the only one I've found that does the job.

Props to ES file explorer, though I also quite like Ghost Commander, which has the split-screen view.

The TED app is great, and although it handles text content quite poorly, the NASA app is worth getting for the constant release of Curiosity images and video right now.

Don't forget to get Camera Launcher for Nexus 7 - which does what it says in the description, and which let's you record images and video.

I'd also like to commend Google for including the store credit, which was a really smart way to convert Freetards like me into paying customers - and support the little guys - by getting me over that stubborn reluctance to pay even a few pennies for worthy games and apps. It makes me realise there are worse things than paying for software, namely advert-festooned apps and being nickel-and-dimed to death through pay-2-play disguised as free-2-play games.

The only major thing I'm lacking right now is a decent replacement for Google's Listen podcast app. I have Pod Kicker, but I'm still looking for something better.

Swiftkey lasted a minute...

Before getting kicked off my Tab. Once I'd done the setup, I opened a document to test the keyboard out. After failing to type "testing" 5-6 times in a row (It predicted something like ssstwss - wtf?) and only showing me the prediction instead of what I'd actually typed, the backspace key suddenly decided that it would only delete the last few letters and refused to go any further back despite repeated taps and holding. Avoid.

I think the biggest takeaway from this article is the Revelation from Richard Lloyd above that Adblock Plus is available on Android. Come back Firefox, all is forgiven...

Total Commander File Manager

I realy like Total Commander a lot . 2 screens and plenty of options . Also GO Launcher kicks butt .

And Sophos for AV . Also . I like Ttorrent because it has a very good search option .

I use these on a Samsung Tab 7.7 on ICS 4.0.4 it is rooted but still running stock ICS .

I have loaded jelly but no GPS made me go back to ICS .

The XDA -Devs ....... the best :-)

Dice Player is the best media player.

V Player is rubbish!

V player is a pile of poo, on my N7 with 720p MKV's if you jump to a point in the show the audio slows & goes out of sink badly, eventually it just gives up the ghost and crashes. Unfortunately the also appears to not have been updated in a long time so I doubt the bugs are going to be fixed anytime soon. Diceplayer or MXPlayer are much better alternatives and are also free!

Interesting

So these are essential app? Which make it look like a tablet instead of a phone? Wtf? Install a useable keyboard opposed having a good one in the first place? Wtf? Make it look like iBooks with a blatantly obvious knockoff? Wtf? Install a file explorer to clear the junk? Wtf? That is so last century to do that manually.

Damn and I was expecting to see some killer apps in there. Where are they?

Ps. What about the iOS killer feature flash? Surely that was the reason iOS never takes off, so why isn't that in the list? Then again still just software to make it useable opposed to great apps.