iPhone Apps

[DisneyKevin]

I have found two new iPhone Apps that I like.

The first is Backgrounds. It's free and offers 100s (if not 1000s) of backgrounds for wallpaper and such. Found a cool holiday background.

The second (and much more fun) is called Word Warp. It's currently .99 cents. It's a Scrabble / Boggle type game for one player. The rules are fairly simple, but I havent been able to put it down.

Just thought I'd share.

 

[MinnieMommy]

Thanks Kevin!
I love word games like scrabble.
I hope my kids don't find out you can play games on my touch!

 

[Annette_VA]

May can't come soon enough. Our Verizon contract is up then and I can finally get an iPhone!

The 1st app I'm buying is Urban Spoon. DH & I can never decide on a restaurant. In fact, I bet within the next 2 minutes, he comes downstairs and says "So, where are we going?"!

 

[Michele]

I like those too. Kevin, have you found Wurdle? It is a fun word game too. $1.99

 

[OKW Lover]

I had also stumbled across "Backgrounds". Fun app! I've currently got Wall-E as my desktop.

 

[simonkodousek]

Thanks Kevin!

I've had Word Warp for a few weeks and I haven't been able to put it down either.

I'll download Backgrounds either tonight or tomorrow morning... thanks for the tip!

 

[OKW Lover]

Also wanted to mention an App that will just amaze your friends (if they are easily amazed) - "A free level".

Yes, it turns your iPhone into a bubble level. Haven't you ever needed a level when you weren't near your toolbox?

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Kevin - You have EXCELLENT timing! I came to the boards to see if I could find a thread about apps and lo and behold, here is a new one! I am bookmarking this one and hope that many others put in their 2 cents. I got my husband an iPhone tonight and want to download some really cool apps to sync to it for when he opens it on Christmas. I went to iTunes but it is a bit overwhelming!

Good news Annette, Urban Spoon is FREE!

 

[DisneyKevin]

I find Recorder to be useful as well and it's either free or 99 cents.

It's turns your iPhone into a voice recorder. I think you can record up to an hour.

I find it useful for things like "turn dryer on when you get home" kinda stuff

I also like Ambiance. It's a "white noise" thing. I used it flying to and from Las Vegas. It drowns out the airplane noise.

Pandora is also cool. It allows you to create your own internet radio station based on a certain artist. An example....you like Bruce Sprinsteen....you enter his name and it plays music by him and other stuff that is similar. It's free too. You cant rewind and you are only allowed something like 5 skips ahead per day or something like that...but it's great if you are sick of your own usic The other cool thing is that you can jump from there to iTunes if you hear a song you really like and want to buy.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Pandora is also cool. It allows you to create your own internet radio station based on a certain artist. An example....you like Bruce Sprinsteen....you enter his name and it plays music by him and other stuff that is similar. It's free too. You cant rewind and you are only allowed something like 5 skips ahead per day or something like that...but it's great if you are sick of your own usic The other cool thing is that you can jump from there to iTunes if you hear a song you really like and want to buy.

Noted. Thanks.

 

[lorax123]

May can't come soon enough. Our Verizon contract is up then and I can finally get an iPhone!

The 1st app I'm buying is Urban Spoon. DH & I can never decide on a restaurant. In fact, I bet within the next 2 minutes, he comes downstairs and says "So, where are we going?"!

good news Urban Spoon is free! I've used that quite a bit. But it still never helps me decide. I always think the next spin will be better than the current.

right now i'm into playing ifishing lite. I never thought i'd like to play a fishing game, but it's fun. I caught a 58lb musky. A fish that big and with that many teeth would be enough reason to "Stay out of the lakes!"

 

[simonkodousek]

I LOVE Pandora! It's definitely one of my favorite apps out there. I love being able to listen to a 'radio' station with music that I actually like instead of switching between 2 or 3, waiting for a song that I may or may not like. They also don't have Frank Sinatra'esque music on normal radio (or XM which I'm shocked at) so that's an added bonus for Pandora.

 

[Jacksmom99]

Thanks Kevin....I've been playing with Word Warp all night I noticed that I have Pandora on my phone, Jack must have put it on. I must say, the app I have fun with is bubble wrap. Who doesn't like to pop bubble wrap??

Kim

 

[drakethib]

I have found two new iPhone Apps that I like.

The first is Backgrounds. It's free and offers 100s (if not 1000s) of backgrounds for wallpaper and such. Found a cool holiday background.

The second (and much more fun) is called Word Warp. It's currently .99 cents. It's a Scrabble / Boggle type game for one player. The rules are fairly simple, but I havent been able to put it down.

Just thought I'd share.

Kevin.

One word.

iBeer


Let me know.

 

[SueM in MN]

Thanks Kevin....I've been playing with Word Warp all night I noticed that I have Pandora on my phone, Jack must have put it on. I must say, the app I have fun with is bubble wrap. Who doesn't like to pop bubble wrap??

Kim

I love bubble wrap.

What I usually do once a week is just look at the top 50 free apps. I can usualllt find something cool to download and the price is right!
A lot of the paid apps have a free version you can try out first. If you like it, you can either just keep the free version with less features or decide to buy it and know you will like it.
One game I like is Gaia and I just downloaded a bookshelf of books called CLASSIC that is really amazing.

 

[OKW Lover]

You know, I was thinking of suggesting a "meet within a meet". At the TSM PodCast meet event next week, all the iPhone owners would meet and ride together.

But then I realized we would all have some pretty poor scores because we'd all be more interested in playing with our iPhones.

 

[lorax123]

::insert evil snicker:: its great having an iPhone.

we should all do that program that lets us stalk, um i mean track, each other.

 

[cocowum]

Can I just say that I'm very jealous of all your iPhones! I just bought DD a touch for Christmas, but sadly my budget (DH)(grumble grumble) would not allow for an iPhone.

I have iPhone envy...

 

[lorax123]

Can I just say that I'm very jealous of all your iPhones! I just bought DD a touch for Christmas, but sadly my budget (DH)(grumble grumble) would not allow for an iPhone.

I have iPhone envy...

the trick is, let DH have an iPhone, you'll have one shortly afterwards. Once you drink the koolaide, you have the need to pass it along.

 

[Bell30012]

Due to still having a contract with another provider that doesn't offer the iPhone... I have to suffer with the iPod Touch for now or pay some unGodly cancellation fee.

Having said that I splurged and paid 99¢ each for interactive maps for MK, HS and EP. There wasn't one available for AK, yet. I, of course, had never heard of these apps before they were mentioned on the podcast.