Suggestions for iPod Touch apps?

[FooFa]

Aside from games, what is it that these apps do for you, that couldn't be accomplished by googling. I'm just curious because I'm hesitant about new stuff. Like I didn't get a cell phone till about '05. The devices that utilize apps are something that I probably won't be obtaining for at least another 3 years.

 I just use a cell for what people have used phones for since the rotary was invented, aside from speed dial of course. Maybe technically my iPod classic(hello, coolest thing ever)utilizes apps of some sort but I'm referring to the popular use of the term such as a gps app. I think I just kind of answered my own question but aside from that...

[jen]

for me it's quicker access and possibly better interface. For example, The Weather Channel app, instead of going to google on the phone, typing in the address, hoping it fits well and I don't have to zoom etc, I can just click on it and it brings up something that fits on the screen and is made for the phone.

Another example is the Starbucks app. Instead of going to google, looking up Starbucks, and hoping I know where I am, I can just go to that app, it finds me via GPS and tells me where the closest ones are (can sort by drive thru, etc) and a map and then it will even give me directions.

Now I only use free apps but that's where they are helpful to me.
Also if I use the google maps app it does the same re GPS and can give me directions, show traffic, etc based on current time and location. If I just went through Safari to Google then it would just be the map you see on your computer.

[Iceman2469]

for me it's quicker access and possibly better interface. For example, The Weather Channel app, instead of going to google on the phone, typing in the address, hoping it fits well and I don't have to zoom etc, I can just click on it and it brings up something that fits on the screen and is made for the phone.

Another example is the Starbucks app. Instead of going to google, looking up Starbucks, and hoping I know where I am, I can just go to that app, it finds me via GPS and tells me where the closest ones are (can sort by drive thru, etc) and a map and then it will even give me directions.

Now I only use free apps but that's where they are helpful to me.
Also if I use the google maps app it does the same re GPS and can give me directions, show traffic, etc based on current time and location. If I just went through Safari to Google then it would just be the map you see on your computer.

WSS

[JonCole]

Yeah, I'm with Jen on this one... one of the best features of various apps is just an experience better suited to the mobile device.  The Engadget app is one of my favorites because it just makes the website so easily browsable on my iPod Touch and the Tweetie 2 app is just a better way to use Twitter on the run.

[Iceman2469]

Yeah, I'm with Jen on this one... one of the best features of various apps is just an experience better suited to the mobile device.  The Engadget app is one of my favorites because it just makes the website so easily browsable on my iPod Touch and the Tweetie 2 app is just a better way to use Twitter on the run.

i run with tweetdeck on mine.

[FooFa]

Thanks, it makes more sense to me now. I wonder if some of the free ones are going to charge eventually. I saw a good article recently about how the NYT is starting to charge again for online access and how it had failed the 1st time that it tried. The writer made the point that you can't expect people to pay for something that they are already accustomed to getting free.

It went on to say that maybe a lot of the older demo may go for it but that younger generations will by in large, not. News is so easy to get free that papers are going to be like American car companies if they don't get a few steps ahead of the game while they still have a chance.

[SomaCowJ]

I know that CONgregate makes a whole line of apps and games that you definitely want to stay away from:

Whoopi Goldberg Pap Smear Simulator
Tickle Me Homo
Identity Theft Accelerator
0 Differences
L'il Warden Body Cavity Search
Feminine Hygiene Product Tycoon
Rapebook (social networking)
Battery Drainer 2.0
iPus
Michael Bolton Ringtone Expansion Pack

[JonCole]

i run with tweetdeck on mine.

I used to use TweetDeck, but I figured that it'd be worth paying the $3 or whatever for the horizontal keyboard in Tweetie 2.  Just a whole lot easier for me to type when my fingers aren't cramped in portrait mode.

[spb13]

i run with tweetdeck on mine.

I used to use TweetDeck, but I figured that it'd be worth paying the $3 or whatever for the horizontal keyboard in Tweetie 2.  Just a whole lot easier for me to type when my fingers aren't cramped in portrait mode.

The new version of tweetdeck has a horizontal keyboard, and it supports lists.

[Iceman2469]

i run with tweetdeck on mine.

I used to use TweetDeck, but I figured that it'd be worth paying the $3 or whatever for the horizontal keyboard in Tweetie 2.  Just a whole lot easier for me to type when my fingers aren't cramped in portrait mode.

The new version of tweetdeck has a horizontal keyboard, and it supports lists.

yup, and it is awesome.

[JonCole]

Popcap's latest, Plants vs Zombies, is only $3 in the App Store.  I'm so addicted to this goddamn game.

[jen]

i run with tweetdeck on mine.

I used to use TweetDeck, but I figured that it'd be worth paying the $3 or whatever for the horizontal keyboard in Tweetie 2.  Just a whole lot easier for me to type when my fingers aren't cramped in portrait mode.

The new version of tweetdeck has a horizontal keyboard, and it supports lists.

reeeeeally?
I have Tweetie 1 from when it was free and also tweetdeck.
I use Tweetie exclusively but if TD supports lists I am so there!

[Iceman2469]

i run with tweetdeck on mine.

I used to use TweetDeck, but I figured that it'd be worth paying the $3 or whatever for the horizontal keyboard in Tweetie 2.  Just a whole lot easier for me to type when my fingers aren't cramped in portrait mode.

The new version of tweetdeck has a horizontal keyboard, and it supports lists.

reeeeeally?
I have Tweetie 1 from when it was free and also tweetdeck.
I use Tweetie exclusively but if TD supports lists I am so there!

It does... So Be there...

[FooFa]

I don't mean to be the "gramps" at the party who needs new fangled things explained all the time like internet? But was does-lists-mean, in the sense that you are referring to them? I take it has something to do with you kids and your damn tweetering.

[ELROSS]

I don't mean to be the "gramps" at the party who needs new fangled things explained all the time like internet? But was does-lists-mean, in the sense that you are referring to them? I take it has something to do with you kids and your damn tweetering.

It is pretty complicated, you take people on twitter and "group" them together in a vertical baseline tweetstream.

Kind of like this:



but with people. PEOPLE!