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xfeed - RSS reader with subs for textsfromlastnight.com, fmylife.com, and of course, penny-arcade.com
Facebook - facebook
Twitterfon - twitter client
MyWireless - AT&T bill / usage checking client
Tap Tap Revenge - DDR for your fingers!
Going to exclude stuff like Safari, e-mail, iPod etc. because those easily get the most use. In no particular order:
1. USA Today - Who needs newspapers
2. Sportacular - Have to be up to date on everything sports
3. AOL Radio - Has a comedy station and ESPN radio (the only 2 stations I listen to)
4. AroundMe - I travel a lot and this thing is damn useful
5. The Weather Channel - Being in 4-5 different cities during the course of the week, it helps to be prepared for inclement weather
* AroundMe - Ridiculously useful
* Urbanspoon - Occasionally useful if you're looking for a restaurant
* XBMC - Specifically the remote for it (but it costs £)
* BBC Mobile - Not an iphone app as such, but the BBC has a large amount of its content available online for mobile devices like the news, weather, iplayer (think hulu but on your iphone)
* Google mobile - Again, not an app itself but all of Googles mobile stuff is pretty fantastic
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Not a very original list but geared is furiatingly addictive. I like tweetdeck for an occasional blast of stephen fry and david mitchell, and the others pretty much speak for themselves.
We've got a fairly populated games thread in G&T; in terms of apps that aren't games and Facebook, I'd say:
- PandoraBox and BargainBin: They list apps on sale and create your own wish lists; BargainBin has Push with 3.0, so it'll give you a message when an app you've marked drops in price.
- AccelaStudy GRE Vocab: Been using to study for my GREs and it's a godsend at $6.99. 600 common GRE vocab words, can break them into different study sets, has a few different ways to quiz yourself (basic flash cards, definition quiz, tiered definition quiz that lets you rank words from Easiest to Hardest).
- NYC Subway Map: Free, and it's just a simple picture with Manhattan subway lines and stops.
- PhoneFlicks: Manages Netflix queue for free.
- TweetDeck: I'm considering switching to Twitterific, but TweetDeck has been sufficient enough, since I only follow people and don't really post my own stuff.
If you're looking for games, I highly suggest:
- Space Invaders Infinity Gene: $4.99 now, shit-hot trance-electronica shoot-'em-up, tons of unlockables, also can generate stages based on your music library.
- GeoDefense Swarm: Only 99 cents, just got released. I don't even like Tower Defense games that much, but I like this a lot. Geometry Wars-inspired aesthetics, you create your own paths with towers instead of a fixed path.
- Peggle: It's fucking Peggle.
- Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor: Made by an indie studio headed by a few of the guys who made some of the Thief games. On the surface it's a puzzle-platformer that has you as a spider catching bugs, but there's a really intriguing mystery storyline that's entirely optional and only made available through the backdrops and scenes you discover.
- Civilization Revolution: I think it's $4.99 now, though it's been as low as $2.99. It's a really well-done version of Civ. I think it's based on the DS version and costs about one-fifth of the price.
I was curious if anyone used New Addict. It aggregates a lot of news sources. Does it work ok across the different sources? Anyone use any other kind of news aggregation app for article reading?
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2. Alive 4ever - zombies. the name annoys me
3. Word Ace - scrabble poker
4. Peggle - peggle
5. Fandango - movies
games are apps too!
Facebook - facebook
Twitterfon - twitter client
MyWireless - AT&T bill / usage checking client
Tap Tap Revenge - DDR for your fingers!
WHAT THE HELL IS YOU AVATAR OH MY GOD
1. USA Today - Who needs newspapers
2. Sportacular - Have to be up to date on everything sports
3. AOL Radio - Has a comedy station and ESPN radio (the only 2 stations I listen to)
4. AroundMe - I travel a lot and this thing is damn useful
5. The Weather Channel - Being in 4-5 different cities during the course of the week, it helps to be prepared for inclement weather
Game wise
1. Infinity Gene
2. Let's Golf
3. Spider
4. Peggle
5. Tetris
* AroundMe - Ridiculously useful
* Urbanspoon - Occasionally useful if you're looking for a restaurant
* XBMC - Specifically the remote for it (but it costs £)
* BBC Mobile - Not an iphone app as such, but the BBC has a large amount of its content available online for mobile devices like the news, weather, iplayer (think hulu but on your iphone)
* Google mobile - Again, not an app itself but all of Googles mobile stuff is pretty fantastic
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
A monkey orgy
twitterfon
fml
word ace
X2football
Stanza (ebook reading, I like to get short stories off of Tor.com)
NYTimes
Planets (basic night sky object locator)
Dictonary
Fandango
Facebook
The Weather Channel
FML
Road Trip LE
TWI (Texting While Intoxicated)
Bonus Round:
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Flixster
Flashlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btN5yuVcRes
2. Word Ace
3. Last.fm
4. Facebook
5. Geared
Not a very original list but geared is furiatingly addictive. I like tweetdeck for an occasional blast of stephen fry and david mitchell, and the others pretty much speak for themselves.
- PandoraBox and BargainBin: They list apps on sale and create your own wish lists; BargainBin has Push with 3.0, so it'll give you a message when an app you've marked drops in price.
- AccelaStudy GRE Vocab: Been using to study for my GREs and it's a godsend at $6.99. 600 common GRE vocab words, can break them into different study sets, has a few different ways to quiz yourself (basic flash cards, definition quiz, tiered definition quiz that lets you rank words from Easiest to Hardest).
- NYC Subway Map: Free, and it's just a simple picture with Manhattan subway lines and stops.
- PhoneFlicks: Manages Netflix queue for free.
- TweetDeck: I'm considering switching to Twitterific, but TweetDeck has been sufficient enough, since I only follow people and don't really post my own stuff.
If you're looking for games, I highly suggest:
- Space Invaders Infinity Gene: $4.99 now, shit-hot trance-electronica shoot-'em-up, tons of unlockables, also can generate stages based on your music library.
- GeoDefense Swarm: Only 99 cents, just got released. I don't even like Tower Defense games that much, but I like this a lot. Geometry Wars-inspired aesthetics, you create your own paths with towers instead of a fixed path.
- Peggle: It's fucking Peggle.
- Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor: Made by an indie studio headed by a few of the guys who made some of the Thief games. On the surface it's a puzzle-platformer that has you as a spider catching bugs, but there's a really intriguing mystery storyline that's entirely optional and only made available through the backdrops and scenes you discover.
- Civilization Revolution: I think it's $4.99 now, though it's been as low as $2.99. It's a really well-done version of Civ. I think it's based on the DS version and costs about one-fifth of the price.
For me, it's:
Google
Facebook
Civ Rev
Amazon
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