Apple iPhone Applications

Apple have made the iPhone interface extremely user friendly, and adding applications to your iPhone, such as games and other widget-like functionality, is simple thanks to the Apps Store that is easily accessible from the menu of the iPhone 3G.

There are some great little apps out there that are either entertaining or useful and should be worth a look, but equally there are also some pretty rubbish apps that you should try and avoid. Here are two lists detailing the 5 best and 5 worst, or rather most useless apps available from the Apple iPhone’s App Store. However, whether you think an app is useful or not is down to personal taste.

Top 5 Most Useful iPhone Apps

• BeeJive – This is an incredibly useful little app for people who are really into their social networking, as it combines and syncronises all of your contacts from MSN, Myspace, Yahoo! and many other social networking and messaging services all into one convenient box which is updated with the goings on from the various services.
• Sketches – Drawing on the iPhone is made possible with this App which can be used for artistic creativity or crude doodling
• Pandora – You may have filled your iPhone with your favourite music, but Pandora allows you to listen to a constant stream of free new music, which might help you to find a new favourite artist. Different genres are catered for as well
• Yelp – This is great if you’re on the move in an unfamiliar city as it offers tons of user reviews of restaurants, bars and cafes and uses the iPhone’s GPS capabilities to locate them relative to your current position.
• ShoZu – This little app makes it easy to upload any photos you’ve taken with your iPhone to your blog or any number of social networking sites of which you’re a member.

Top 5 Most Useless iPhone Apps

• iDial – This may be pointless but it is retro and fun in an odd way. It replaces the numerical iPhone dialling pad with an old-style rotary dialling wheel from the phones of the 60s.
• iBeer – Again, useless but quite fun, it fills the screen with a virtual pint which then drains away as you tilt it to your mouth, thanks to the iPhones accelerometer.
• Hold On! – Pointless app that simply requires that you hold on to a button on your iPhone’s screen for as long as possible. A funny idea but in practice it’s entirely pointless and a waste of time.
• Touch Train – Attempts to train you to use the touch screen. The problem is that the iPhone’s screen is already incredibly intuitive and easy to use, so this program is unnecessary
• Flashlight – Just presents you with a completely white screen on your iPhone with the intention that you use it as a light source. This could easily be done by taking a picture of a piece of blank paper. Ineffectual and costly

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