Friday, August 07, 2009

App-licable.

A friend just got an iPhone, and I offered to recommend some aps to him. These are my go-to apps. I do experiment now and again, but these are what I come back to:

App Name

App Type

App SubType

Comments

iExpenseIt

Finance

Expense tracker

I use this for tracking the money I spend on shirts and cocktails and stuff (where I need to know it balances out). Also useful when you think "It's the end of the week. Where's all my money?"

Worms

Game

Action

Just like the Game Boy, DS, or whatever version with all weapons and levels.

Space Deadbeef

Game

Arcade-Style Shooter

Side-scrolling shooter. Fun times.

Spore

Game

RPG

A mini-version of the real thing.

Flight Control

Game

Skill-based

A very popular Air Traffic Control game. Far more fun than it sounds.

Dactyl

Game

Skill-based

Very quick I-need-to-kill-5-minutes game. Defuse the bombs in time!

TapDefense

Game

Tower Defence

A good (free) beginner Tower Defence game, just enough to get you hooked.

FieldRunners

Game

Tower Defence

The next step, with place-anywhere towers and path-building.

GeoDefense

Game

Tower Defence

The big daddy. Tower Defence with Geometry-Wars-style effects and a crazy difficulty level

Star Defense

Game

Tower Defence

Tower Defence in 3d on a globe. A good game for when you're sick of Geodefence kicking your ass.

KarmaStar

Game

Turn-based Strategy

Cute, quirky stat-based Strategy game involving dice-rolls & attacks.

I Can Haz Cheezburger

Humour

Picture Feed

For all your daily LOLs.

Urbanspoon

Lifestyle

Restaurant Finder

Great for picking where to eat. You can also use the randomise feature to come up with something out of nowhere.

Stanza

Reader

Book Ereader

Reads PDF e-books (for free). Also can have new (pirated) ebooks uploaded from a desktop app.

iVerse

Reader

Comic eReader

Actually a series of apps, each one representing an issue of a comic. Some free, some not.

Ebay

WebApp

eBay

Just what it says on the tin.

Facebook

WebApp

Facebook

Just what it says on the tin.

Twitteriffic

WebApp

Twitter

My go-to Twitter app, until the 3.0 Software update made it go screwy on the iPod touch. Easy to use, plus easy re-tweeting and marking for later.

Twitterfon

WebApp

Twitter

Twitter app, part two. Visually similar to Twitteriffic, but actually works on the touch. Also has auto-twitpic, auto-friend-name-add, and other nifty features.

TweetDeck

WebApp

Twitter

Organises tweets into columns. Some like it, but it's not my favourite.