Fun iPhone Apps to Pass the Time
A few friends on Twitter have mentioned recently getting iPhones and iPod Touches. Thought I’d review a few of the apps I use, most of them for entertainment.
1. iMob Online. This is a FREE game, similar to Mafia Wars on Facebook (FREE app here). You start out as a lowly mobber and slowly build your mob by performing missions and buying properties that yield hourly incomes. I spend way too much time on this game.
Add me, my iMob family code is 144-886-434. My name is Don Karlione.
2. Mafia Live. On sale right now for 99 cents. Same game, basically, with a different name. Yeah, I’m hooked on two of these games. Build your mob, buy new weapons and vehicles, etc. etc.
My Mafia Live family code is 194-000-323. Again, name is Don Karlione.
3. MMS Buddy. $4.99. Yes, MMS is coming to the iPhone this summer in OS 3.0, but for now there’s not a lot you can do with those occasional MMS messages sent to your phone. Unless you use MMS Buddy.
Basically, you look in your text messages, scroll til you find the MMS message with username and password. Then do a screen capture of your iPhone or iPod Touch. Load MMS Buddy, have it fetch the screen cap, it’ll run character recognition on the screen cap – pretty accurately – then fetch the MMS message.
I don’t get MMS very often, but this app is invaluable if you get any at all.
4. Tweetie. $2.99. My favorite Twitter app by far.
Streamlined interface, very intuitive. Click the TWEETS button on bottom, go to a window full of all of your followers. Click REPLIES, see all of the Tweets that @ your name. Click MESSAGES for your direct messages. FAVORITES, obviously show you your favorites.
Then there are other features in the MORE tab. My favorite allows you to search for Twitterers that are close by you.
Runner-up Twitter app, and FREE: TwitterFon
UPDATE (January, 2010):
These days, my number 1 Twitter app is Twittelator Pro.
Close 2nd is Tweetdeck.
5. Zombieville USA. $1.99 for the full version. FREE lite version here.
Nothing more than a very fun shoot-em-up. You against the zombies that pop up out of the ground and lurch in your brainy direction.
Side-scroller where you walk to the right, occasionally going inside houses for money and bullets, all the while blasting zombies brains all over the pavement.
Try it out for free on the Lite version, which gives you a feel for the game with one level. The full game gives you more than 15 different weapons to choose from, multiple zombie types, and different difficulty levels.
UPDATE (January, 2010): There’s a brand new update to Zombieville and it adds a slew of new characters you can play as. This game is still on my iPhone’s home page. Will review again soon, more in depth.
6. Distant Shore. 99 cents.
Purely pointless app that is kind of hard to describe. Most of what you do in this app is “walk the beach shore,” looking for shells and bottles. Collect 5 shells and get yourself an empty bottle. The bottles you find on the shore contain messages to read.
You can read the messages you find, reply to them, and then toss the bottle back into the ocean for them to find on THEIR beach. Use empty bottles to pen messages and then throw the bottle into the water for some random stranger to find on their beach.
And that’s pretty much it. Think of it as Twitter, except that instead of throwing out messages to people following you, you’re throwing out random messages to random strangers.
Filed under Reviews, iPhone | Comments (23)23 Responses to “Fun iPhone Apps to Pass the Time”
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that’s cute. i wish i have an iphone.
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
@munkymunch, I do love my iPhone.
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Fun stuff.
I like the bubble wrap app, puzzle quest, joost, and one more but I’m having a brain fart, ha!
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March 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
@CheekySweetie,
Oh yeah zen bound!
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@Cheeky, I have Zen Bound. Haven’t been able to get into it much.
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I’ve downloaded the zombie game and I totally suck at it…. Everytime they devour me I can’t help but to cringe, its graphic! One of My fav apps is “annoy a teen” – I like trying it out whenever I’m waiting some where that has a lot of people, especially young kids. I tried it out on my niece who is 12 and it drives her insane. For some reason I get some sick pleasure from it. Clearly I have issues!
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@Faith, Annoy a teen, heh.
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I’ve downloaded the zombie game and I totally suck at it…. Everytime they devour me I can’t help but to cringe, its graphic! One of My fav apps is “annoy a teen” – I like trying it out whenever I’m waiting some where that has a lot of people, especially young kids. I tried it out on my niece who is 12 and it drives her insane. For some reason I get some sick pleasure from it.
Clearly I have issues!
Oh, I almost forgot – Pocket God is a must too
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
@Faith, Pocket God is fun.
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Woo hoo! I shall now live in infamy as the guy who tweeted on Karl’s iPhone that I stare at women’s boobs! I shall be an internet sensation!
shiny’s last blog post..List on the 3s: Top 6 Good Songs Shiny Wouldn’t Mind Never Ever Listening To Again
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
@shiny, Your fame shall only grow.
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Put. The. Phone. Down.
Sybil Law’s last blog post..You betta (you better you better you bet)!
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
@Sybil Law, Nevah!
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I could use a distant shore right about now.
Black Belt Mama’s last blog post..There Are No Stances in Kobudo
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March 24th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
@Black Belt Mama, Heh, me too.
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I’m addicted to Wurdle, which is a stupid silly word game — and am incessantly blocked by Blocked.
But I’m liking the idea of Distant shore. I am eyeing the Zombies with interest too. Thanks for this.
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March 25th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
@Nat, I enjoy Wurdle, too.
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My reply on that Tweetie screen shot looks really inappropriate. I’m so classy.
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March 31st, 2009 at 1:51 pm
@*pixie*, Maybe you can dance in mayo when you do your video.
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Try iKite (http://ikiteapp.com) too! I think it’s pretty fun though I am the developer
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May 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
@Jeffrey, I’ll go look. Haven’t heard of iKite before. Thanks.
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Here’s another one — iMEvil at the iTunes store is a neat little App and great if you get stuck in a meeting, or standing in line somewhere. The scary voice of David Sobolov (from video games like Call of Duty, Halo Wars, 50 Cent’s Bulletproof, and a ton of others) is bound to break the monotony. It’ll be particularly useful at Halloween!
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@SD, Thanks, I’ll take a look.
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