The Addison Lee app is pretty cool. It will send you a cab to your location by knowing where you are from your phone location.

You have to have an Addison Lee account but they are pretty easy to get.

Need some help, considering 32gb Ipod Touch for one if not all my kids, are they any good for games? Are they better or worse than a DS lite or two different beasts?

My personal opinion is that the ds lite is much better for gaming, the real keyboard and dual screen as well as better games

Have to agree. Standard rules apply most of the time.

If you want to play games, buy a games console!

If you want to listen to songs, buy an mp3 player!

It seemed a do it all purchase, email, web, skype, games and music. Looked at games on you tube and the graphics looked better than the DS. but hadn't considered the lack of dpad, which means all games are movement or touch, which I can now see isn't ideal.

She has on her list a DS lite to replace her aged old original DS, and MP3/Ipod.

Iphone is a decent mp3 player albeit flawed

:D

Decent but flawed! Good summary :p

Ok slightly off topic but I could do with getting a Touch this Christmas. I don't want an iPhone as my Hero sits nicely in my pocket and I don't want an iPhone sized device with me all of the time.

8gb is £139 compared to 32gb at £209. Various relatives seem to be hinting that they are up for getting me the 8gb but I'm wondering whether it's worth throwing another £70 towards it myself for the bigger storage?

Ordinarily I'd take the opinion that you can never have enough storage but the only issue I have is that I never used to fill up my 4gb Mini. I prefer to rotate my music every now and then. As a case in point I have 40 songs on my Hero!

Obviously I didn't have apps or games on my Mini - but are they likely to take up that much space?

Games/Apps on the iphone/ipod touch normally take up about 2-4 meg each so it depends on how many apps you're planning on having

8 gig one is old version (despite being branded as 3rd gen by Amazon etc), only 32 & 64 offer the upgraded hardware.

Is that likely to make a huge difference to `the experience` though?

You won't miss what you have never had but I'd always try and get the latest hardware rev from Apple

i can't think of any flaws

Having to use iTunes and very limited format support are two I battle every day

No new apps?

Camera Plus is a rather good FREE app to give 3G iphone users a camera that has a zoom and better focus

Just been looking around the app store, not sure if it has been mentioned, but PandoraBox is a great little app which tells you which apps are on sale, what price they are at, for how long, and then links you to the app store.

Sounds good, cheers for that :p

Theres a free photoshop for iphone now which is quite ok all be it a bit basic

also if you find you are using all your texts if you get whats app you can text other people with the app for free!

Vendy

All though I agree the ds is probably better overall for games unless you are a torrent junky and know how to get round it you will be paying £20+ for games and its bulkier than the iTouch.

Whereas with the touch you can get games from as little as 59p and also have a decent mp3 player to boot which can also go online to websites etc etc etc

Shaun White Snowboarding is pretty fun :)

my baby is going crazy for the Bubble Wrap game

My wife is too and she's 30! ;)

TimeAdder is a time calculator, so you put in the minutes, or seconds, or hours, or all three, and it converts into any of them. Very useful when dealing with large hours, like 23798 in minutes.

If you have toddler age kids the following are great:

ABC Phonics
Old Macdonald
Wheels on the Bus
Little Red Hen
Matching Zoo
Toddler Shapes
Itsy Bitsy Spider

Might download those for the wife :p

baby's gone crazy for Old MacDonald , she was in bed , heard the tune , woke up run into the living room and snatched my iPhone out of my hand

:D

If you are looking for games go for the DS it wins hands down IMO.

If you are looking for music and play games every now and again go for the touch. I wouldn’t sell my PSP/DS for a touch if it was on games personally.

What do people think of the new Bing App?

There is a Bing app?

I hate Bing, but will give it a go

iTunes 12 days of Christmas app looks helpful

What is it called?

If you're asking about the Bing app, its' called 'Bing' ;)

I searched that and nothing came up, do you have a link?

You're right, i cant find it on there now! Maybe its been pulled?!!

Paperboy, the original arcade classic, is now available. Not quite bored enough at work to buy it but I am tempted.

Can you listen to Palace radio with Wunder Radio app?

I've not found it on there

no you cant unfortunately. I even contacted them - all you get is a religious show!

Love the Bubblewrap app. Although it's frustrating me cos I can't beat my high score :(

For jailbroken phones, ProSwitcher. Enables you to easily keep apps running in the background and switch between them. Great for having Last.fm or radio on while still using the phone for other tasks. Quite impressed so far

http://www.iphoneheat.com/2009/12/do...pp-for-iphone/

The iPot

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...ala/ipot-1.gif

:p :D

If anyone wants a good free poker game, been playing the lite version of Govenor of Poker which is quite cool. You can play an online version on www.miniclip.com.

Really really like F.A.S.T. Air combat! Dagadagadagadaga

Apps that made it through the year!
 

I've tried loads of apps, but many get deleted or shelved once they've served their purpose (like the snow report, or airport maps). What apps have survied the year and are on your phone right now, including the ones you wonder why you haven't deleted? For me it's

Not Games:

Awesome Note
WeatherPro
CameraGenius
National Rail
Thetrainline
Appbox Pro
Dishy
Get Running
Redlaser
Amazon UK
Comic Reader Mobile
Nearest Tube
TomTom UK & Ireland
Tap & Track
Rightmove
ShakeItPhoto
Sleep Cycle
Facebook
Google
Skype
Wikipanion
AroundMe
TVGuide
Urbanspoon
GPush
London Bus, Tube and Rail
Tube Deluxe
Tube Exits
Cydia
Traffic Info
ITN News
Sky News
The Independent
The Guardian
Flixster
Showtimes
Last.fm
Stanza
Joost
Great Books
Shazam
xGPS
UniCon
Stachetastic
ColorSplash
Google Earth
XE Currency Convertor
Fitness
Good Reader
Remote
Sky Sports Football
ECB Cricket
Taptu Search
JotNote
Viz profanisaurus
Time Out
AutoStitch
Backgrounder
ProSwitcher
Outside
Kayak
Movie Genie
OrbLive
QuickOffice
Cocktails
TVcast (weblink)
Trails
UK Car Theory Test
WunderRadio
Yelp
Mixologist
WiFiTrack
Perfect Browser

Games

Snaffle
Strategery
2 Across
Sudoku
TrivialPursuit
Ragdoll Blaster
Trace
Airport Mania
Bejewelled 2
Blocked
Bookworm
Crash Bandicoot Racing
Chopper
CreepyTown
Assassin's Creed
Canablat
Chuzzle
Topple
Cube Runner
Tap Tap Revenge
Crossword Helper
Crazy Machines
DoodleJump
Dr. Awesome
Edge
Enigmo
Fieldrunners
Dragon's Layer
Shaun White snowboarding
Harbour master
Touch Pysics
Paper Toss
Flick Fishing
Flight Control
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Game of Life (so shit its brilliant)
Gangstar
Geared
Guinness World Records
HoldEm Poker
IQ Booster
Kenken
Let's Golf
Metal Gear Solid Touch
Minigore
Monster Pinball
Moron Test
Peggle
Pocket God
Price is Right
Real Racing
Rolando
Rope n Fly
Scrabble
Spider
Taxiball
Tiki Towers
Virtual Pool
Warfare Inc
Monopoly Worldwide
Worms
JellyCar2
Zenonia
Fling
Clue
Poker Quest
TVShowKing
Ravensword
BrainExercise
Physics
Beneath a Steel Sky

How can anybody not have doodle jump?

I have doodlejump

Downloading that now along with Crash Bandicoot Nitro Racing!!

The Guardian App

Fantastic app, iPhone optimised browsing is great, but in itself not worth the £2.39 price in my opinion. However, the ability to download all or individual sections for offline browsing makes this a fantastic app, even at twice the price!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iphone

If anyone who has ColorSplash could do me a favour, I would really appreciate it.

There is a free app called Splash of Color, does the same as ColorSplash but is free, does anyone know which is better since I would rather not buy the first one only to find the free one is better.

Thanks

BE

My iPod App List 2009
 

hiya, just got a 32g touch, never had 1 or an iphone before but have ipods

can i get my fliphd home videos onto my touch?

what apps should i load up first? whats essential? many thnx

couldnt find me songs and vids that i loaded from my itunes but theyve suddenly now reappeared, weird, anyways seems a gr8 little gadget

have i just ****ed up? i bought real racingand doodle jump on the pc in the itunes store, i cant drag them into my touch

do you have to buy them via the touch? have i just wasted my money? cheers

Disco mixx kidd, if you get it in time, download the app 12 days of christmas, I think its number 1 free download on the app store.

I recommend all of my apps, cannot say any of them don't work, they have all suited their purpose this last year hence why they have stayed on my iPhone and not been deleted.

The 12 days of xmas app there is another thread for have a look on there free downloads, todays is a film you might want, tomorrows a tv show.

You haven't fuccked up, just plug in the ipod to itunes and click sync and everything will be transfered across if you have the sync apps option ticked.

Any more problems just post.

thnx fella, yeah that worked! :-)

lesbian vampire killers!

Tomorrows is an episode of Outnumbered

cool

ive loaded loads of songs and a few movies

afew times now its saying i have no songs and no movies, whats going on?

no problem finding photos etc

I had that this morning, just sync it and it should be fine, if not try restoring it.

This one was developed by someone I know.

http://www.iblushbabes.com/

I have very few apps compared to the rest of you.

Got Ronnie O'Sullivan's snooker the other day. Reasonable.

hi,i synceditouchwith itunes via pc but the movies/tv showsand music still arnt showing on the touch although they show up as loaded on itunes
and the memory capacity

how do i restore it?

only had it aday, argos dont let you return it apparently
should i take it back to an apple shop?

also browsing the bbs is very difficult
can you zoom in somehow? the page no.s are so small
its difficult to go back a page, am i missing something obvious?

is there a tv listing app
and a set your sky box by remote app? cheers

I love ronnie snooker.

You are missing quite a lot.

You do know about pinch and grab?

and if you use safari there is a back arrow at the bottom of the page - it's pretty big and hard to miss.

A woman teaching a dude technology.

Oh the shame

TV Guide is the best one, it has a heart for it's picture if you don't know which one it is. Sky+ is the only sky app by sky so you can trust it

;-) cheers lizzy, got it now, never had a touch screen b4

Turn the thing on its side, innit.

I have fallen in love with both Airport Mania and MX Mayhem

If you tap the top of the screen it scrolls to the top automatically too which is very handy

lots of good cicket apps, thnx 4 the recommendations fellas! ;-)

any good cricket apps?

I'm sure the ECB app has already been mentioned but it's still breathtakingly simple genius.

what? Where'd my link gone? Goddamnit ;-)

Aye. It's brill.

At times like this when England have a Test Match, I have it on my homebar at the bottom.

The new update for the facebook is app is great

Just read through all 29 pages of this thread and have only downloaded 15 apps! Tap tap is awful and cost me money :(

Really liking the information apps and the guardian. Doodle jump and traffic rush are both good games :)

I think the iPhone is the best thing that has ever happened in my life :)

I have just started to use the Cricinfo app which is darn good

Just downloaded it, thanks for that, a really good app! :p

Does anyone know of any good fitness applications? Not something that just times how long you've jogged for, but something with some exercises to do in the comfort of your own home :)

I've downloaded loads and loads of apps. The majority last a couple of days and get deleted

How are people getting on with Championship Manager? I wouldn't play it on the desktop but could see myself having a game on the bog or ting.

Agreed

Its a little buggy and can be infuriating but otherwise very good! I'm about to take Palace into the champions league this season! - so therefore maybe a little easy!

Bugs
It crashes a bit more than most games but it tries to do more than most games - if you get a phone call it wont return to the game itll quit you out
When you save games it doesnt always return to that point, and as there is no quit button this can be quite annoying as it normally returns to one of the autosaves it does

cons
Its very hard to move players on that are crap - so maybe realistic in that sense?:D
Can be a bit slow moving from section to section

EDIT:They've just brought out quite a big update which i havent gone into yet but theres loads of new screens and fingers X its more stable now-will report back when had a chance to muck around with it

I found my 9 year old listening to a kids technology podcast last night, all these 7-11 year olds emailing in about best apps etc for their ipods, made me feel old.

might have been mentioned but the "Moron Test" is well worth 59p of anyones money.

Playing with TouchMouse this morning which allows you to turn your iPhone into a remote control for your mac.

Works really well and as well as being able to control the mouse pointer, it has a keyboard layout so you can actually remotely type type on your computer!

I bet you one million pounds you will use it less than five times

I'll have the million pounds then as i used it last night whilst hooking my laptop to the tele to watch a film.

Plus used it this morning to click licensing and agreeing buttons on installations on a machine that was on the other side of the room!
Very useful to save getting off your arse! :)

If you need a remote control WHY ON EARTH would you use a mobile phone and NOT a remote control?

I can use my electric toolbrush to play ping pong, doesn't mean I should.

Oh you love a good discussion dont you! ;)

Its a funky FREE app and my phone is always next to me to use as a remote is all.

Mellors tried to convince me that using your phone to control XBMC was cool.

It's not.

All to your own then.

The thread is called 'recommendations'. So we can all post we we think, doesnt mean anyone else has to use them.

Whatsapp

Lets you instant message, including picture messaging, using your internet allowance so you dont pay for any text messages or picture messages again. Only works between Iphones but if oyu have a lot of mates with Iphones it is worth using

Remote to control iTunes is pretty useful during a party/gathering when you can hand the phone around to get people to add songs to a playlist.

I think they are arguing about airmouse rather than the remote control app (which is very very good).

I used airmouse to control my Mac when i want to actually use it as a PC, instead of a media center.

My wireless mouse is too jerky at that distance away.
I need a bluetooth one I think

Anyone has a look at Vouchercloud? Was in today's Sun and is quite good. Picks up your location and shows you any shops and food around your area with vouchers. U can then get the voucher on ur phone to use.