Essential apps to make the most of your iPhone or iPod Touch
So you got a new iPhone or iPod Touch and you don't quite know what apps to spoil your phone with? Theres an applist for that! This list will help you get started with some of the best and most essential apps so you can enjoy your iPhone or iPod Touch to the fullest!
Price: $4.99
Want to get the name of the current song playing? Find out with one tap with Midomi. You can get detailed information about the song, buy it on iTunes, bookmark it to buy later, or watch a youtube music video!
Price: Free
The official app for your facebook account. You can check up on the latest news feed, import and sort photos, chat with facebook friends, and just about everything else that you can imagine! I find myself using this app more than the web version because of its mobility and slick user interface!
Price: Free
Unlimited hours of commercial free radio that only plays songs that sound like your favorite artists and songs, with skip capabilities, WOW. Just ask your friend for a song or artist they like and you will instantly play something they can move to. After creating your customized station you can "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" each song so Pandora learns what to play next.
Price: Free
This is the free version of the best in what iPhone gaming has to offer. Try out the first world, and then you can buy the rest of the game as in-app purchases in chapters. The platformer where you tilt to roll multiple rolandos in beautiful 2.5D worlds. The full game is the same thing, but you buy it all now rather than trying the first world out with no strings attached. Full Version
Price: Free
Get info on all the latest movie releases, dvd releases, and upcoming movies! You can also watch movie trailers, check out user and critic ratings, and buy tickets right from the app!
Price: $9.99
A great universal IM app that lets you chat with people on multiple services. You can use this for facebook, myspace, MSN Windows live, AIM, and more! The app features group chats with chat history and emoticon support. You can also get push notifications every time someone sends you a message so you are always connected!
Price: Free
This award winning twitter client lets you stay up to date on the latest tweets, manage multiple accounts, view conversation threads, and much more! This app has it all and has won the Apple Design Award for best social networking app!
Price: Free
This app is made by AppAdvice.com! It pushes App Store price drops directly to your iPhone. You can setup a custom watch list of apps you care about, and BargainBin will push you a message when it meets your watch price. You can also setup push subscriptions, so you can get notifications for the types of apps you never want to miss (example: popular apps that go free). On top of that it offers a live feed of app "sales" in each category.
Price: Free
A really neat app to show off what the iPhone can do. It feels like you're actually rolling dice in your hand. Beautiful graphics, and can replace the need for physical dice. If you like it definitely check out the full on game Poker Quest for poker dice fun with an egyptian theme and battles against the gods.
Price: $79.99
Navigon is simply the best app for turn-by-turn directions. It has features even the top end PND can't offer, such as Google Points of Interest search, and real time traffic. Real time traffic will set you back another $20 via an in-app purchase if you want it. It speaks street names, allows you to make a multistop route, and everything else you'd ever want in a navigation unit.
Price: Free
Need to crop a photo, rotate a picture, turn it black and white or add some color? Photoshop mobile makes taking photos on your iPhone a lot more fun. It's so easy to use that for quick edits you might load the pictures onto your iPhone just to use the app rather than fire up the full PC version.
Price: Free
If you want sports scores any time anywhere Sportacular is the best of its kind. It even pushes you score alerts at the end of quarters or when the score changes. Completely customizable with quick load times, and a nice interface.
Price: Free
When you want just little more than the default weather app, this app has it all! Get detailed daily, hourly, and 7 day forecasts along with different locations, wind speeds, and more!
Price: $4.99
Keep track and budget all your expenses with this simple yet powerful app. You can create a detailed budget for each spending category and monitor it each time you enter a receipt. You can also make detailed monthly reports of all categories spent.
Price: Free
Manage all of your important information with this univeral app. Personal Assistant is a one stop app for information about your phone bill, bank account status, youtube, or email account, alerts and much more!
Price: $1.99
Use this mouse as an air mouse for your computer or you can change the method to use it as a trackpad. There is also a keyboard function that makes entering text on your computer very slick!
Price: Free
Free note taking on the iPhone that can rival any paid version. Take notes on the go, and you can sync them with the desktop version. Text, voice, and image notes included.
Price: Free
Want to see the true power of connectivity on the iPhone. What stands out is that you can play online against anyone around the globe in a matter of seconds over wifi or even 3G. Download this free first person shooter which is as beautiful to look at its fun to play.
Price: $6.99
Enter and organize tasks with this innovative 2Do app. You can also receive alerts via push notification!
Price: $9.99
Things, the iPhone version of the well known mac desktop app, is an awesome todo manager. Things real power is its UI, it features the traditional task editing functions and a very advanced classifications. You can add new tasks in an inbox, just to put down what you've got to do. Then you can classify them under today, later, someday or schedule them. You can also bundle more advanced tasks as projects. Finally another differentiating feature of the app is its ability to sync with the mac desktop app which makes it a must-have.
Price: $1.99
CNN pushes you the latest news headlines on the biggest national stories and lets you set topics you want to follow so you can keep up with the things you're most interested in. CNN even has live video and stories come with highlights right at the top so you can see what matters most right up front. Though paid, the app also has a lot of advertising. For what you get though it is worth it.
Price: $5.99
Who says you need a phone and an enormous bill to text you friends? You can use TextFree to send any texts to anyone. All you need I an Internet connect. You can also receive texts via push notification!
Price: Free
View the earth in it's 3D Google earth mobile. You can tilt your phone up and down to change the viewing angle of the earth and you can also find addresses or points of interest.
Price: Free
One of the most amazing apps in the App Store that truly epitomizes the uniqueness of the iPhone. Use multi-touch and tilting to wrap the rope around wooden blocks in an immersive zen like experience. Moving the block in 3D space is amazing. Full Version
Price: Free
The lite version of Real Racing to get your mouth watered for the gaming power of your new iPhone or iPod Touch. This is an amazing game to bring with you everywhere. Full Version
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Whether you are Irish or not, these St. Patrick's Day iPhone apps should help you get in the spirit of the holiday and show your greenest side.
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With the 2010 Academy Awards a few short days away, you may be looking for the best way to stay on top of all the Oscar news. The App Store has all the answers with a variety of choices to get up to the minute news and gossip straight from the source. There are also a couple of apps to help pass the time as you wait for sunday night to arrive.
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Valentine's is a very special occasion and well, as usual, there is an app for that. Actually, there are tons of apps for that so we decided to put together a selection of apps you might enjoy or find usefull for the occasion.
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