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#261

To continue in Solai’s vein: (nearly all of them are free in the AppStore; in BOLD what I highly recommend you)

Safari, Wikiamo (Wikipedia app), Music and Settings: Normal, although I’m not sure why I have Wikiamo up there, maybe because I wanna have the bottom row complete

Mail, Weather: Duh
Bloomberg: Watching from time to time how the Commodity prices are developing
Fahrplan: German short-range transit and train app for departure times etc.
Facebook: Normal feature on an smart-“mediaplaying” device (since it’s no phone, although I can Skype with it)
Dictionary: To learn a new English word every day lol (works offline)
dict.cc: German-English dictionary (works offline)
Free RSS: RSS catcher to save pages for “Read It Later”
Echofon: Standard Twitter app
Read It Later: Saves web pages from all kind, also compatible with saving them with Firefox. The 90 unread pages refer mostly to the bunch-load of LOST recaps I’ve amassed over the last 3 months and still have to read.
Eurosport: Sport news app
radio.de: more than 4.000 Radio streams from all over the world
AppStore, Maps, iBook: standard equippment; iBooks is still buggy when you try to save bigger PDF-files
Miso: app to record what movies/TV shows I’m watching

Notes, Stock Market, iTunes, Calculator, Calendar: Standard apps
WorldView: Webcam pics from all over the world
Google Earth: Has to be there, since I study Geography
MVG Fahrinfo: Munich short-range transit app
Skype: mostly for chatting, if no computer is near.
BR Radio: Bavarian radio app
Beg I: Spanish Beginner Lesson, but will do a course next semester; only recently acquired that app

Seldom Used

TweetDeck: It allows you to make individual timelines of tweets with search fords or only from selected people
SoundHound & Shazam: You play a song and it’ll identify it
Blanks: English synonym word quiz
Spanish LE, Basic Spanish for Dummies: Spanish learning apps
Units: For all converting topics
20 Minuten; World news: Swiss and BBC news apps
Dropbox: Saving files on your Iphone/ipod Touch

Games

Four Free: Classic, especially if you have a good friend as opponent
VW Touareg, Seat Cupra Race 1 & 2, Mazda MX-5: Racing cames
Hangman: Fun retro game
Tap Tap Revenge 3: If you like listening to tunes and move your fingers fast
Trivial Pursuit (International Edition): One of the best quiz games out there
Let’s golf: For improving your handicap
South Park: Steer the 4 main characters on a skateboard/Rollerblades through an obstacle course (includes a soundboard)
The Simpsons: Arcade game where you have to steer Homer through Springfield
Star Wars - Trench Run: Attack on the Death Star and shooting down TIE Fighters, what more do you want? lol

Games2

Assassin’s Creed: Man, I really need that on for my PC!
WordsWithFriend: Scrabble clone, don’t play against Badgerspoon, he will CRUSH you!! lol
Dexter: Very comprehensive game by Marc Ecko, great graphics and you have to sneak up, kill the victim and then dispose the body.
QRANK: Fantastic quiz game with daily updated questions; sadly only playable once per day
Star Wars - Battle for Hoth: Only got it yesterday, so I still have to check it out. looks a bit like Command & Conquer
Dharma LOST Trivia: The title says it all. Questions are up until Season 5
Star Wars Books: So you don’t loose track of your Star Wars collection of novels, comics, reference books etc.
WordBook: Another book of reference for the English language

#262

Free Tron game app! Woot!

#263

Link

#264

Some nice news apps:

Newsy - aggregates top news stories from a decent number of sources and gives them to you in a very cool presentation layer that includes video and transcript formats. You can easily share stories via Facebook or Twitter, or even email.

Engadget - all the geek device news you need in a slick app that runs like BUTTAH. It quickly became a favorite.

Huffington Post - nice all-around news app, nice presentation and functionality. You can save entries, move sections around and more. Loaded with content.

Also, a fun podcast for Mac geeks is “Mac OS Ken”. Ken Ray does a great job of bringing Mac news to you with his humorous, snarky delivery. I don’t recommend his $2.99 app (awful piece of programming), but I do recommend downloading his free podcast.

#265

Finally! Jailbreaking my iPhone 4 with the just released one. It’s pretty sharp, I just visited jailbreakme.com in Safari on my phone and it was able to JB it from there.

If you do it, back up your phone in iTunes first obviously. w00t! I’m getting my apps back!

#266

Nice! I always find it amazing how fast these things get re-cracked. I’ve known for a while how to jailbreak an iPhone, though I’m a bit ignorant as to what extra functionality or apps people are using once they’ve jailbroken their device.

TS: What apps or addons do you use that aren’t from the Apple App Store?

#267

What he said cause I jailbroke mine and now I dunno what to do with it lol

#268

The great thing about jailbreak is that I can do stuff Apple or AT&T don’t like.

*iLocalis - I can track my phone anywhere if it gets lost, no need to spend $100 a year for MobileMe. Plus, it updates my Google Latitude automatically, which is nice. Finally, I can have my phone mail me a recording of anything happening nearby it if I’ve lost it. So GPS gets me to the building then audio lets me know what’s happening nearby it for instance.
*My3G tricks apps into thinking they’re on WiFi, so I can potentially use facetime if I’ve got a good enough 3G.
*MyWi turns my phone into a secured wireless access point so I can use it as a tether for my devices out on the road if I need it. No monthly fee.

  • I have a replacement SMS program with which I can send messages while in other programs. It opens as a window. Slightly less improved now in 4.0 than previously because of the task switching, but still great.

Go launch Cydia and start browsing stuff, it’s a whole new app store.

All sorts of great stuff!

#269

NES Ringtones. Free. (also available for non-iPhone types.)

#270

This is the greatest thing ever. Thank you for sharing.

#271

Picked up Civilization Revolutions for the iPhone yesterday and lost about 24 hours to it. It’s digital crack.

#272

I saw it was free (don’t know how long that will last), downloaded it immediately, setting aside some time this coming weekend to play. It looks good! Any tips?

#273

Thanks for making us aware on that offer.

Do you get a newsletter or RSS feed that informs you of such specials??

#274

Oh, I didn’t even realize it was still on special. A friend who’s a heavy gamer told me about it.

#275

There’s an easy RTS time-waster called “Highborn” out there that is written in good humor and even mentions “The Guild”. There is both a single player campaign and online play, player-to-player chat. Fun stuff.

#276

Because every computing device I have needs to have a nice aquarium app or screensaver:

Tropical Aquarium and it’s sister app, MyReef3D Aquarium are just stunningly beautiful and fun to watch. Tropical Aquarium is $0.99, and you can (and should) upgrade to Premium via an in-app purchase of $0.99. MyReef 3D Aquarium is $2.99. I believe there’s a free version out there to try first, if you like.

#277

iphone 4 jailbreak: so easy, you can even do it at the apple store

#278

Not any more tho, recent patches have closed this loop and I am sure the Apple stores all updated rather promptly.

#279

Anyone recommend a good photo editing program on the iPhone? I recently picked up Pano which is an awesome photo stiching app to make panoramic shots. The only problem is that occasionally I want to rotate the picture so it looks right on my phone and I can email it right side up.

So that is the only function I need, to rotate the pic. I suppose other photo editing features would be good as well.

#280

I haven’t really used it much, so I can’t speak to its merits, but Adobe Photoshop Express is free. Can’t beat the price. :slight_smile: