iphone apps

johnboy183

Hi Folks
Just been 'conned' into getting an iPhone by a sweet talking salesman. Best con I've ever been subject too though :P . Anyway question is...Of all the apps that are out there, which is the best one you've got? Whether it be cycling specific or something else. Can recommend iSteam and Facefighter. Missus really loves that one....not sure if she has a picture of me on it or not.

ean

Cyclemeter is good for logging your rides.
Met Office is good for weather
Lightsaber is fun.
Ebay App is good if you use the bay.
Around Me and Layar are good augmented reality thingumys

itchieritchie

Depends how old skool you are but don't get Street Fighter, whatever you do.

I did and it's ruining my life. Too addictive. The only app I paid for but HOURS (maybe millennia) of fun.....

HAD-OUUUUU-KEN....!!

CrackFox

Star Walk is my favourite app. For games, Dragon's Lair is arcade perfect (if you're old enough to remember it), Ancient Frog is a very purty little puzzler and X2 Football is worth a look too.

johnboy183

thanks for replies. my 3 yr old loves lightsaber and gets it to work with no help from me...bit scary he's so bright. also got around me which is okay. probably more interesting when i travel further afield i think. not tried bike one yet cos i'm off bike for a while. will look at others later. i also have mycarpark and petrolprices which imho are worth using

Cleat Eastwood

Try these, most are free. Bloom is a brian eno invention and is really relaxing.

Angry Birds...simply brilliant best game for the iphone at the moment.
Cluck It.........like frogger but with manic chicken highly recommeded
Touch Physics....addictive real time physics puzzles great music
TuneIn radio....stations from all over the world
Eye Tricks....optical illusions
Jungle swing...addictive best of the swinging genre games
Face Goo...manipulate faces from stock photos or your own
Ipint....stunning representation of lager in a glass
Planets...real time update of the sky at night, see the sky as xray or gamma ray etc
tchess Lite...best free chess app
Bloom...the eno one
Blowfish...free and kids love it
Fairies Lite...free disney app worthwhile just to see the standards of graphics nowadays
World Books...a collection of books you can tell your mates you'll never read
Yahtzee...best of the dice games
Finger Piano...show what notes to play classic tunes
Bad Apples...a bit like tetris but more engaging
Flixster...app for latest cinema releases and local cinema times
Jigsaw...keeps the kids amused, and its free
Air Assault...impressive shooter
Big Oven...recipes
Animatch...best kids game ever for the iphone/itouch, gets better with every update
Ragdoll Lite....great puzzler
Darts...passes teh time
iHangman...its hangman against the clock loads of categories
Audi A4...use teh iphone accelerometer liek a steering wheel.


There are some great games for kids on the iphone. theres one called Hatch which involves simply tapping an egg till a ceature appears, but teh latest update makes it crash.

for your 3 year old try Animal Drop, Puzzles(free) and Iplay and Learn.

Also a tip, most of the best apps dont show up in the app store, so its best to click one you liek and follow the "users also liked link", as some o fteh older apps are simply forgoten about. Who know sone day you might be competing against me in cyber space onjungle swing. Enjoy.

balthazar

Guardian – newspaper
Instapaper – "read later" web articles. When you get used to this, it's irreplaceable
Radiobox – internet radio
Hipporemote – wifi remote control for Mac/PC
Stanza – nice ebook reader
Camerabag – silly stylish photomanipulation
Mill Colour – grown up photomanipulation
Birds UK – confuse your cat with bird calls from behind the sofa
SketchBook – draw masterpieces with your finger
MotionX GPS – generally good GPS app, records tracks and so on
Canabalt – the only game I still play
pUniverse – VR planetarium: "indistinguishable from magic", with compass and GPS on

chunkytfg

Redlaser is my latest addition to my Iphone and it's a greta gadget.

Basically turns your phone into a barcode scanner and then lists all the prices of that item online

philip99a

Oh dear this could be a very long post!

I've paid for very few. I'll try to point out the ones below I did pay for. Assume they're free otherwise.

Google app is terrific and the voice recognition is pretty darn good, I reckon (if slow). It knows correctly what I've said about 19 times out of 20, but it hates any background sound.

Wikipedia app. Great, use it to death all the time

Opera Mini. Downloaded it the day it came out as did 100,000s others. But I've not really used it yet!

Sky News. Sorry, it's just way better than BBC News. Much more on video and it starts up immediately.

BBC News. Sorry, it's just looking so old-fashioned. Needs a freshen up. And I thing the front page is just hap-hazard, it's kind of grown up by default. The local news isn't very interesting much of the time. Good for sport.

Radio Times. Paid for this and it's good. I use it often.

Facebook App. OK, I use it often but it should be better. Not nearly as involving at the full online version. Very oddly designed interface (as lots of these apps are)

IMDb. Essential if you like movies. And every bit as good as the online version.

F Brain Free. A silly memory game I play every day for a minute or so. Then it keeps a record of my slide downhill into dementia as I start to lose my marbles. Recent research shows these memory trainers do no good at all in terms of keeping your marbles in place. You just get better at playing memory games. But this one's fun, flashy and it's free.

Guardian. Paid for this and it's OK. You get most of the articles you get in the printed version (but not so many photos). So it pays for itself in a few days. Can't really understand why the papers do this. I now never buy a printed Guardian.

Outside. Brilliant silly app that tells you the weather conditions outside, er without you having to look out the window! The GPS tells it where you are and it gets the info from your nearest weather station (temperature, wind direction wind speed, barometric pressure). Wow.so much technology for such a tiny gain.

Convert Units. Exactly that. And the best one of many that I've tried. Oddly includes Time. So 1 week = 10,080 minutes.

Cycling Grub. A very odd app, all I look at is the media bit. Which gives you news from Pro Cycling, Cycling Plus, BBC Sport, RoadCycling.com etc etc ie a strange set of sources but it's free and all in one place.sources

Battery Master. Gives you details about how long till yr battery runs down for various phone activities, ie talk, audio, video, 3G etc Much better than the tiny little battery symbol top right on the home screen.

Huff Post. Very well informed, clearly written news articles from the USA. Very good if you're interested in what's happening over the pond.

BibleReader. I like to be able to refer to and read my Bible. This gives you 5 or 6 versions. But I don't find it as easy to use as the one I used to have on my old Palm.

Tunein Radio. Mentioned earlier. Fantastic. 40,000 radio stations from all over the world. Very easy-to-use interface.

Voice Memos (comes with the iPhone). Seems a good idea. I never use it!

ASBOrometer. Tells you number of ASBOs, numbers of crack houses shut down, Eviction Orders issued etc etc for wherever you happen to be standing. BUT it's city by city, not postcode by postcode which is disappointing, you can't enter other localities to set up comparisons and what it calls "the level of anti-social behaviour" is not fact, it's just how safe people say they feel. Very unsatisfying app.

Chirp (paid for). Identify birdsong etc but very odd selection of species. Very few sea birds for example. So incomplete that it's not really much use.

Flixter. Mentioned above. Unmissable. Tells you what's on at yr local cinema, times reviews etc.

AllCounties. Good. Factual info on every country you can think of.

rightmove. I'm thinking of moving. This seems a good place to start.

TimeOut. very incomplete info about what's on in London. A Smirnoff advert really.

Italian Arias. Sing-along. Fun idea but clunky design

British Film Locations. What it says on the tin but should be much better.

TubeMap. Just that. Very good, if you don't want the all-singing commuter one.

AmazonUK. Yup, very good. Just like the online. Powerful, uncluttered and quick.

Bebo. I never use it, I'm over 20.

DrinksTracker. Very sobering app from the NHS. Good use of public dosh.

Jamie Oliver 20 Min Meals. Paid for, and I never use it. Not as good as a big comprehensive book.

Shazam, also SoundHound. Amazing that it can identify any piece of music. Used it lots for two weeks, now I'd forgotten I had it. Neither are much good at classical music, but they're still amazing! Even when you sing them a tune, they get it!

I've got 15 different apps (all free) that translate from and to various languages, including Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin etc. All designed to get you to buy the full versions. Fun if you're interested in foreign languages, which I am. The good ones have audio ie will speak the translation when you type in English. Seem pretty darn good to me. I've not been prodded into buying any of the full versions, but I've not travelled much abroad in the past two years.

ArtLite. Quite good on History of Art info. Again trying to get you to buy the full version.

Spotify. I've just not somehow got into this yet. I think you have to be invited to join!

Plenty of others including lots of quizzes (mostly not very good)

WikiHow is OK or better.

VideoCamera seems to work

W&G is an enjoyable, free Wallace and Gromit comic.

I have lots more on my iPhone, but I'm losing the will to live!

syncro

Latest one for me is TV Catchup.
Google "TV Catchup iPhone". Set up a free account then save a link to your home screen.
Hey presto, broadcasted tv on your iPhone. Needs a 3g connection but works a treat.

hammerite

I use some that the guys above use, but also look at these.....

Weather Pro
Eurosport
Sky Sports score centre
Appbox Pro - about 20 little apps packaged in one - no need to take up the space of icons just for a spirit level, currency converter, unit converter, language translator, battery life meter, etc.........
TV Guide
If you are into skiing - Ski Club snow report, View2Ski (loads of resort webcams)
Worldview - webcams in different cities around the world, again good for ski resorts or any holiday destination
Dictionary.com app
Thetrainline - train times
28inone - 28 little games in one app.
Scrabble
QuizQuizQuiz - quiz game
iFishing - go fishing!
Showtimes - cinema times
RAC traffic
Various twitter apps if you use twitter
Ebay
Wifitrak - detect, see strength and connect to wireless networks.

pneumatic

Stanley spirit level (utterly useless but free and pretty)
Similarly, the Zippo Lighter and iPint (an old time night at the pub without the financial and physiological damage)

Tunein radio (as mentioned above; sometimes you just need to listen to Beijing Radio!)

I have a self-imposed ban on games apps as I am already a black belt at displacement activity and the device is supposed to be for work!

However, my life would be complete if there was a mobile Bikeradar portal (the ordinary version is just too fiddly on the small screen).

pastasauce

LIGHTBIKE

Tron style bike racing game thats free.

johnboy183

people have been very busy looking for apps. not checked them all out. i do have one question though, why are you not out riding your bikes instead of playing with iphone?

paully617

try out "trails". its a mtb app that you can import trails onto and follow GPS styleee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

johnboy183

coincidentally just found this this very minute!!

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/s ... -app-26007

johnboy183

coincidentally just found this this very minute!!

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/s ... -app-26007