7 posts from January 2009

Here's a list of what i think are the best free, paid and 3rd party apps available for the iphone and ipod touch. I personally have all of these apps on my phone and am kept quite busy with the ones on this list, my list is not a finished product since i keep searching for and adding and deleting different apps from my device but these ones as of today are the ones that have survived the cuts. If your a big fan of the iphone or ipod touch you might want to give these a try im sure you'll enjoy them.

Top Free iphone Apps

Shozu - ShoZu means you can share the moment, be it photos or video or a blog. You can send your stuff to friends and family, email or social networks as simply as pressing the button.

Tap Tap Revenge - is an iPhone music game that puts your rhythmic skills to the test in all-new ways. Tap through the beats or shake left and right as the arrows fall. Download exclusive tracks or take on your friends in Tap Tap's unique two-player mode.

fring -  Voip

& Chat service for mobile phones has launched their much awaited iPhone App via the App Store that allows iPhone users to make Skype and other VOIP calls over Wi-Fi and also chat with others on a variety of networks  including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ.

Truphone - Truphone is a free application that lets you make international mobile
calls from your own phone over the internet at incredibly low rates.

Evernote - Evernote lets you remember anything that you want using your iPhone. You can jot down stuff that you need to buy for home, save interesting pictures when you're out with friends, take a snapshot of a product that you'll purchase later or capture an interesting quote from a conversation.

Exposure - Exposure brings the wonder of Flickr to your iPhone and iPod touch. If you like great photography, Flickr has the images and Exposure brings them right to your mobile device.

Last.fm - Listen to free streaming radio on your iPhone with Last.fm. Last.fm allows you to listen to your favorite artists, discover new music, and share music with the friends in your iPhone contact list. Based on your music taste, Last.fm creates radio stations from its 5 million+ track music catalog.

Midomi - Sing--just sing or hum a few seconds of a song; Say--just say the song or artist name you're looking for; Type--just type a song or artist name the way it sounds, regardless of spelling; or Grab--just hold your phone to a speaker playing original music for a few seconds. Regardless of which way you search, midomi will find your song. Once you find a song, you can share it with friends, watch it online, or buy it from the iTunes store. You can also browse artist photos, albums, and biographies.

Stanza - Stanza is a free and fantastic ebook reader for your iPhone.

The free application comes pre-loaded with several sources for downloading free or public domain books (including the entire Project Gutenberg library), so you can easily download books like The Art of War, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, or Walden in just a few seconds without spending a dime.

Top paid iphone apps

OrbLive - OrbLive has released a 2.0 version with the ability to record live streams for later playback, zooming during playback, and a few other playback enhancements

Ocarina - a networked musical instrument that allows you to listen to songs being played around the world in real time.

RSoccer09 - For all you soccer fans, the best soccer app for your device!
High quality soccer game with many licensed teams.

Ace Tennis Online - Play 3D tennis on your iPhone with players online from around the world. Find an opponent and get going in a few seconds. Keep playing while you chat, manage a friend list and more. Moves use the accelerometer. You can also play offline against the computer.

iShoot - Battle your friends or the computer as you compete to be the last tank standing in this new take on the classic artillery game genre.

iShoot features 25 different weapons including shells, missiles, cluster bombs, and nuclear weapons which blast huge holes in the destructible photorealistic landscapes. Bury your opponents under a Portable Mountain only to watch them escape using the Excavator and repay the favor!

MONOPOLY Here & Now - Go Global with MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition on your iPhone! Why buy Baltic when you can own Istanbul? Trade in your Race Car mover for a Sumo Wrestler. The ultimate family-friendly entertainment comes alive with animations, multiple board views and customizable rules.

iBeer - Brew and drink beer on your iPhone and iPod touch.
This hilarious sight-gag is fully interactive and behaves like a real glass of beer thanks to the iPhone sensors and our spare time.

Tilt to sip, shake for foam, even pour iBeer from iPhone to iPhone. Modeled after our original e-spresso from 1999 this virtual pint of beer takes full advantage of iPhone's high-res screen, accelerometer, and speakers.

PocketGuitar - PocketGuitar turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a virtual guitar. You can press and strum strings, just like a real guitar.

You can choose the sound from 6 instruments - Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Muted Guitar, Electric Bass and Ukulele. You can also choose effects from Distortion, Chorus and Delay and edit parameters.

iFitness - iFitness is a comprehensive exercise database that provides clear pictures and instructions – all within the palm of your hand.

Regular exercise is essential for becoming and staying fit. Experts recommend changing your workout routine regularly to keep your body from growing accustomed to the same old routine and to keep things interesting and enjoyable.

Top 3rd party (jailbroken) iphone apps

Cydia - It’s with Cydia that you download third-party applications to your iPhone or first-generation iPod touch. (Included are applications for regular folks as well as developers.

Cycorder - Cycorder lets you shoot videos with your iPhone’s camera at frame rates from 6 to 15 frames per second. The resulting movies are encoded with MJPEG compression lets you shoot videos with your iPhone’s camera at frame rates from 6 to 15 frames per second. The resulting movies are encoded with MJPEG compression

Snapture - Snapture 2.0,brings multi-touch gesture zoom, cleaner user interface a delay timer and four color modes. You can also now delete pictures on the "viewfinder" which is nice, or go slightly more advanced with the self-timer and the ability to shut off rotation. It's free as long as you jailbreak your iPhone, but $7.99 if you want the premium version without ads and with QuickView delete/thumbnail stack/thumbnail enlarge.

Twinkle - Discover, connect, and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account. Contact old friends and make new ones, all with Twinkle, the location-aware network for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

SmartRSS - The app is an RSS Reader and it has a wonderful GUI. It includes features like adding, deleting, editting feeds and refreshing feeds. The GUI is the best part of the app which uses many transitions. This app is a must have. The app is available in French and English versions.

VNsea - Now you can control your computer from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Install a VNC server on the one you want to control and setup the details in your device.

BossTool - When you run out of space to install applications. . .BossTool is here to help. This will move all of your applications to another partition(media). Once you do this you can install hundreds more(depending on the size of your device).

PhotoDial - Call your contacts by finding their photo.

Pageonce - allows you to monitor all your accounts in one easy to use, clean interface. With once touch, and on one screen, I have all the critical information for my bank accounts, Netlifx queue, cell (including minuets and texts message count), credit cards, PG&E etc. I highly recommend it, but schedule about 30mins to setup your account at www.pageonce.com. Your passwords and sensitive account information are never displayed incase your phone goes missing.

The Bloomberg app is one of the best apps out there. The app is a shinning example how great design can make mountains of complex information accessible and easy to understand. Through this app I have a much better grasp how the stock market works, and I finally have a solid definition on the term blue-chips.

Jaadu VNC, you can connect to your computer from anywhere in the world as long as you have cell phone reception or wi-fi hookup. Awesome. From the remote location, you can view files, open apps, run a presentation etc. The biggest feature is that it turns your iPhone into a second monitor with touch controls. Here is a link with more info and screen shots. Download VNC lite for free to get the basic idea.

Day 1 of the 2009 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo is now complete. Almost too much to see and do at this very popular gathering. Add into the mix the 100K plus crowd in town for the CES expo and is is too much. After chasing around collecting press credentials, secret decoder rings, and other media stuff I quickly settled in and collected images from the acres of exposed skin.

I have quickly gone through some of today's shots and present them here. Most of them are after the jump, some of them are revealing, and all of them are photos of people having a good time and acting quite natural. If you're easily offended by normal sexual behavior then you could better spend your time browsing our shopping directory.

AVN AEE high quality images will be posted in the 2009 AVN AEE Photo Gallery later this week. Photos from the expo will be posted daily.

Michael Jackson.

* Pop royal Michael Jackson has apparently given up on plans for jump-starting his career with a permanent show here in Las Vegas. He’s moved out of town, and overnight reports from Los Angeles say he’s leased a Bel Air gated estate for at least 12 months. The whopping annual rental of $1.2 million gives him a mansion in the style of a French chateau and comes with 12 fireplaces, 13 bathrooms, a wine cellar and tasting room, a theater and seven bedrooms -- just about the perfect size for Michael and his three kids.

The property was one of the most expensive homes listed for sale in 2008, according to real estate experts, but was taken off the market after Michael signed the $100,000-a-month lease. It’s believed that Michael’s real estate dealings with Las Vegas Hilton owner and Station Casinos investor Tom Barrack of Colony Capital provided him with sufficient monies for the Bel Air mansion. Colony and Michael entered into a joint venture when the pop star moved to Vegas and surrendered title to the Neverland Ranch to develop the 120 acres of Santa Barbara land.

* I've got an update from yesterday’s report on the debut of the weekly industry party at the new XS megaclub in the Encore. Turns out that by the time dawn’s first light broke, more than 4,300 revelers had walked through its doors. There were so many people trying to get access to XS that Metro Police report that three lanes of traffic on the Strip were in total gridlock from the resort’s entrances on Wynn Way all the way back to the Fashion Show and Palazzo intersection. Among the celebrities in attendance were UFC fighters Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture and Forrest Griffin, actors Dennis Haskins, Obba Babatunde and Anthony McKay, Joe Jackson (patriarch of the Jackson pop music family), magician David Darkstone and former NBA player Jerome Williams.

* Kid Rock spent an hour in the Imperial Palace Auto Collections, having met owner Rob Williams last year at a car auction in Lapeer, Mich., so he decided to swing by the center-Strip showcase while he was performing at the Palms. The rock rapper also hit Drai’s After Hours inside Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall at center-Strip.