Best Applications For The iPod Touch and iPhone:Gaming

Action Bowling ($2.99 USD) is a fun bowling game. The ssound effects are awesome, you can design your own ball, and you can throw the ball like you do bowling at your local alley. Just be careful when throwing that strike that you don’t throw your device across the room. You can download it here.

Best Applications For The iPod Touch and iPhone:Social Networking and Reference Apps

This post is the second of the series (part one here, part two here) on the best iPhone/iPod Touch applications by categories of apps. All applications I’m review are currently running on my 2 generation iPod Touch. Today I review social networking applications and reference apps.

Social Networking

Facebook (free) I’m sure this is a great app for iPhone users, but for Touch users I find the user interface a bit clunky. I prefer using the Blackberry application on my phone. The only time I’ve used this application is when showing my friends at work pictures of my son. You can download the app here.

Best Applications For The iPod Touch and iPhone:Time Management and Productivity

I’m sure that many people who received either an iPod Touch or iPhone for Christmas this year are looking for good applications for their device. This post is the second of the series (part one here) on the best applications by categories of apps. All applications I’m review are currently running on my 2 generation iPod Touch. Today I tackle ways to use your device to make your life easier and more productive.

Offline RSS reader
Byline ($3.99 USD) is one of my top five used applications. This is a great app. For a long time Google Reader had become an exercise in frustration for me. Leo Laporte has said that RSS is dead, and before this app I agreed with him. If I didn’t read my feed in a few days it would be come downright unmanageable. I’d end up missing a lot of content because I got frustrated and marked massive amounts of my feeds as read when I hadn’t viewed them. If I tried to, I’d be tied to the desktop for hours. This application basically mirrors your Google Reader feed and allows you to cache them locally on your iPod. Now when I’m standing in line at the grocery, or any other place I have to “hurry up and wait”, I’ve got content to keep me occupied. There are many other options to Byline of which you can see in the review below. You can download Byline here.

Best Applications For The iPod Touch and iPhone:Communications

I’m sure that many people who received either an iPod Touch or iPhone for Christmas this year are looking for good applications for their device. I’m going to do a series of posts on the best applications by categories of apps. All applications I’m review are currently running on my 2 generation iPod Touch.

As I’ve written before, I love the iPhone, but I don’t like AT&T. The iPod Touch is perfect for people like me that love their Blackberry phones and Verizon service, but still want the utility of the iPhone.

Communications
Skype (free) is a voip app that allows you to chat free to other skype users and allows you to make voip calls. I’ve used this app to make short calls and it worked fine. I don’t believe it’s of such a high quality it should replace your phone, but it’s very useful if you want to chat with users for free. If you have an iPod, you’ll need headphones with a microphone (standard iPhone headphones work perfectly with the Touch.  You can download Skype here.