Thanks James :)

Interesting, albeit messy, read.

Is there a BBS app yet ..?

Yep it's called placing a link on your home screen :-)

Still playing Trainyard

Infinity Blade 2 out today! Must purchase!!

Downloaded the lite version and thoroughly enjoyed playing it.

Zombie gunship. Very addictive.

Star Walk, for the geek novice astronomers out there. I imagine good to teach kids. If you are using on your iPhone with location services on, point camera towards a clear night sky, and it will tell what star is what or planet or galaxy.

The 12 days of Christmas App 2011 has just sent me a push to say theres a gift today. I opened it and it was a free one called soundhound but for anyone that doesn't already have it, its well worth downloading.

Its basically the same as Shazam where by if you hear a song that you like but you don't know what it is, open the app, tap the main button and it will analysis the music and tell you what is it.

Then why have it over Shazam which is free?

I've personally had better results with Soundhound. I have both on my phone and have tested them both with some fairly obscure stuff and for me SH seems better on the less commercially known stuff.

Soundhound is free as well. :confused:

Personally I've found Shazam to be more accurate as it happens. Soundhound failed on four tracks in the pub last night all of which Shazam correctly identified.

Grand theft auto is out now :)

Temple Run is pretty good. Is free too.

I think Soundhound also allows you to sing a song to it and it will try to identify it. Mixed results so far with my singing abilities!

Is Bloom.fm out yet? Have been beta testing it for the last couple of weeks.

Nice little music app.

Sorry, I presumed as it was on the 12 days of Christmas thing you usually have to pay for it.

I've found Shazam to be pretty good, tested it on what was to me some pretty obscure music, including Marks & Spencer music which had lyrics, and also on some background instrumental music in a Radisson hotel bar. Whether they are correct is a different matter.

Apparently not, but there's a new version on TestFlight. Now has playlists :)

I'm confused now, all the downloaded '12 days of christmas' content is free. or at least it has been up till now IIRC.

Me too now, I thought that usually you would have to pay for the apps that are appearing as part of the 12 days of Christmas, but as a christmas present apple are giving them away free.

In previous years, the 12 days items were 'gifts' and I have no doubt that they will be this year too.

Fifa 12 is 69p at mo instead of £5, ive been told.

On the iPad it is, not sure about iPhone

contre jour.

Cover Orange - FREE for one day only.

Seriously everyone - grab this while you can. It is the best game for the iPhone after Angry Birds.

Still free! Grab it quickly!

I got it free in Australia. Cheers

Just downloading CO now.

By the looks of the shots, I'd want to punch that game square in the gut.

Angry Birds may be the most popular, but it is nowhere near the best.

How does one suddenly see that these apps are free or on special offer? Is there a daily release of apps via a news letter or something?

Appshopper is quite good fit seeing what apps are reduced are free

Another decent game is free today - Crossfingers.

This is really worth downloading. It's a clever and challenging game with dozens of levels.

It works best in HD on the iPad, but is perfectly playable on the iPhone.

Monopoly is down from about £7 to just 69p today. This is a very good representation of the original (UK version, and multi-play available).

Also, FIFA Soccer 12 (the latest version) is also available for the same price today.

Waze gps. Free gps with a community angle. Interesting idea.

Anyone playing Temple Run? My best so far is 879,456

I have just spotted that Zarik HD for the iPad is free for a limited time.

This is another of my favourite games. This is a very challenging game, with 100 levels. Highly recommended.

Yes, my best is about 1.8m, but beware there is a cheat where you can get an endless score so dont neccessarily believe people who claim to have high scores of 20m etc.

Never mind that - have you installed Zarik HD yet?

James, as a worshipper of all things Pilkington, you might this little app I knocked up:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/karl-...498972789?mt=8

yeah have mine up to 1.4m now

I will install it now. Did you really do this yourself?

Should rename thread iOS game recommendations

Yeah...listening to all the XFM shows, podcasts and watching An Idiot Abroad to come up with the questions was a real chore! :D

There is a free Atlas HD knocking about for iPad - really worthwhile.

- Maps (several views i.e - Political and Time Zone)
- Weather
- 100 World 'Wonders' with descriptions

I can't remember every feature, but it is a decent app.

EDIT - it is called 'World Atlas for iPad' but appears to be priced at £1.49 now.

I got one the other day, that can take a heart rate.

It uses the camera and the light (4s only I'm afraid) to detect a heart rate in your finger tip.

I have one like that. It is a bit temperamental.

name?

This is the one I have

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/insta...395042892?mt=8

It's good. I've given it a 5* rating.

Just says Heart Rate on my iPhone, great little app, just upgraded to the pay version (69p).

I am not sure why I need it, but I like it.

Thats the one.

Trial Xtreme HD 2 is a great biking game. Free on iPhone and download on iPad when it was free on there, though now not free I see.

Just got an iphone 4s. What apps do people think are a 'must have' for weather, sport, tv, torch!, etc?

Evi.

About to be pulled apparently.

Very patchy reviews on iTunes.
Seem to have a lot of server down problems...
But if Apple are going to pull it I guess it can't be all that bad.
What's your own experience?

Works for me. Knew the currency in equatorial guinea (which Siri on Mrs A's 4S did not).

Bump.

Weather - Don't know, normally just use the Apple Weather function.
Sport - Sky Sports Football, ESPN Goals
TV - Got Sky + and Sky Go. Dont use it much as I don't have unlimited data.
Photography - Instagram, Colorsplash and PicFrame
Games - Temple Run
Vouchers - Voucher Cloud, Vouchercodes and if on o2, o2 moments.
Educational - Star Walk


That should keep you busy for a bit.

Weather - WeatherPro. Not the nicest looking, but excellent. If you want a free one try Met Office
Sport - ECB Cricket, Sky Sports Football, ESPN (RTE GAA if that's your cup of tea!)
TV - TVCatchup, AVPlayer or Aceplayer, Air Video, ITV Player, iPlayer, 4OD, TV Guide, Media Burner
Torch - I use flashlight. Imagine they are all the same, just turns the light on the back on after all

Tunein radio is the first App I would install. Listen to and record live Radio (and 'listen again') - including all the usual UK stations and a thousands of specialist stations from around the World (I listen to Beatles Radio quite a lot, for example).

Sport. You like baseball? Even if you don't, get MLB at bat, 2012 version out tomorrow. Will be lots, worth every penny. Best sports app out there.

I get it for free. Huzzah.

EDIT - turns out everyone gets the basic app for free. Enhanced content will be at extra cost (which i get for free).

I'm a little bit addicted to NFL flick QB. Also got NFL kicker but yet to play it.

Why (and/or how)?

MLB.tv premium subscription then it is free.

Why have you started capitalising random nouns like some 18th century fop?

Well, it isn't 'free' is it? You have to pay about £80 for the premium subscription. It's no more 'free' than the Sky Mobile App is free.

Awesome
 

Zombies - Run!



http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/zombi...503519713?mt=8

Seriously, just awesome.

I don't know if this is the same as the above cos it's blocked at work, but the 2000AD Judge Dredd game is a good laugh (and free I believe)

It's more free than it was last year. Then you had to pay the subcription and another £9 for the app for each mobile platform you had it on. Now I don't have to pay for the app, and I have always had the premium subscription for MLB.tv. That's free in my world.

Also this year people can pay £10.50 and get 180 odd live games. I pay £80 and get a few thousand.

Still it remains comfortably the best sports app out there.

Very good!

I would get it if we had decent broadband - but at just under 1 meg, it probably wouldn't work very well. Does the At Bat App work on 3g?

With the premium subscription, can you choose any game that's being played - for example could I watch all the Blue Jays games during the season? Many years ago, I used to get one of the BJ's games each week sent to me on VHS.

Any issues with the App on a jailbroken device?

Never tried it on 3G due to data limits but just swapped to 3 so will let you know.

And yes, any game at all. In HD.

You also get any game with the normal MLB.tv subscription (which is a little bit less than premium) but you have to pay for the app then as well.

Also with a new iphone 4S; - How can I install Tunein radio Apps?

Cheers all.

What about a QR app?

Very easy - either go to iTunes on your computer and search for Tunein radio and buy it - or go to the iTunes icon on the first screen of your iPhone 4s and do the same.

Thanks I found it and installed it.
Is it better than Wunder Radio?

This is free again now...

Yes - much better.

Thank you, I'm deleting Wunder.

The Tunein Radio is brilliant.

Thank you for recommending it!

Guys you have to get the draw something app, its the reason I am now doing less work than usual so nothing really. Think pictionary and playing with your mates watching them draw then you guessing what it is, so simple but genius!

I'll second that. Draw something is amazing

why didnt we think of that? must make a bomb off the adverts and paying for extra crayons!

Any BBS usernames for Draw Something?

littlealcpfc

Randomjack

thom dorke

rednblue69

Is there any apps out there that allow the iPhone to be used like a Dictaphone?

Alon Dictaphone. But it's not free

Dragon dictation is supposed to be goog and theres a philips one ai think - just go to appstore and type dictate

Dragon dictation is not great.

Went for iTalk in the end and it was excellent.

Angry Birds Seasons HD is free today. This is one of the best and most highly rated games for the iPad. Get it now, while you can.

The iPhone/ipod touch version is also free and available HERE.

Trying to purchase a music downlaod and have been offerd 3 options:
MP3 (320kb)
Apple Lossless
FLAC

Want to put it in ITunes

Which should I go for?

It depends what you use it for. All mine is apple lossless but then I stream music round the house on some decent kit. If it is just for iPod and will only ever be for the iPod I would go for the 320.

Apple lossless, for archive.

320 mp3 for playing and Ipod.

If its bandcamp you can download all formats once you've paid.

FLAC is actually the smallest lossless format but Itunes won't touch it.

Morning all. I have just got a new Iphone but I am rubbish with technology! I have some internet allowance on the phone but it also connects to peoples wifi when I have the code. However, how can I tell if it using the wifi or the data allowance that comes with the phone as I am a bit concerned out getting a massive bill for constantly being connected to the data usage without knowing!! Cheers.

If you see this next to your network name then you're using wifi and not your data allowance :p

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1...2020.15.08.png

Brilliant thanks a lot! Phew!! haha