Top 7 iPhone Apps

The iPhone4s is quite chunky

iPhones are a necessity of life for those with short attention spans. But how to choose which of the 500,000 apps to install? Fret no more. I've personally inspected over 16 of them, and here are my top seven*.

1. Word with Friends - lose simultaneously at Scrabble to friends world-wide. Much more exciting than just losing to one person at a time.

2. Fark Reader - weird news about goats driving tractors and babies with two heads. Read it here first, and two days later see it in your local newspaper.

3. Skype - free phone calls and messaging and video calls. Get in fast before Microsoft microsoft it up, now that they've purchased the company and will inevitably break it for non-Windows devices.

4. TuneIn Radio - streaming radio from anywhere in the world, but mostly Nigerian hip-hip.

5. Peggle - addictive game, a mixture of pinball and lacrosse and tossing the caber

6. Flixster - find local movie times and reviews, and send rude messages to the director if you don't like their work

7. Around Me - locate nearby theatres, bicycle shops and Lebanese restaurants. It's a great concept but sometimes you wonder why they don't diversify and help you locate other places. I'm sick of eating kebabs.

*  I chose a top seven rather than a more usual top five or top ten so this post is more likely to be discovered by a googler. Nobody thinks of lists of seven except heptathletes and there are only two such people in each country. In Australia we have Jane Fleming and some tubby bloke who wanted to be a decathlete but doesn't have the energy.