Best iPhone Apps Of The Week

1.Stanza-Brilliant iBooks app, not the official but has lots of free books unlike the official.

2. WhatsApp-Cool messenger client, that has push notifications.

3.Rope 'n' Fly 2-Addictive game where you swing a man like Spider Man across buildings.

4.Riddim ribbon-Tilt the iPhone to keep the ball on track and the music will play, flick up and you can get brilliant remixes.

5. Rolando-Cute and fun game where you guide small balls to the end of the level.

Oprea Mini is now Oprea Tiny

As expected I downloaded the new Oprea mini browser for the iPhone and found the perfromance to be slow when loading web pages, the menus however were fast and had nice animations. I found the bars at the top and bottom to be too big, and take up more of the screen than Safari. Nice try, but perhaps these issues will be solved in a later version?

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Oprea Mini for iPhone

The title says it all, its been approved by Apple and is now free in the app store. Just search oprea mini, and yes its spelt wrong.

Swoopo

Just reading my windows magazine, when I came across an ad for swoopo.co.uk. I had heard of this before, but don't know where, Turns out, it is electronic goods auction site selling 13" Mac Book Pros for 20 UK pounds (sorry couldn't do the sign, using a US keyboard). HTC HD2s for 7.64, iPhones for 20 and (drumroll) 42" TVs for a jaw dropping 16.22.

The downside is, I don't know how reliable, I hate ebay because the goods are always damaged, not worth it or just don't turn up. Also another thing worth investigating is postage, will it be a 2.00 (pounds) item 150.00 delivery?

Check it out at www.swoopo.com

iPhone OS 4.0 WOW!

Its that time again that Apple releases a new iPhone OS update, and not just a minor one, a huge improvement. You can finally multi-task, just double tap the home button and a bar of open apps appear. You can also use some of the new features on the iPad on the iPhone and iPod Touch, such as, bluetooth keyboards, iBooks and custom wallpapers on the home screen, which many jailbreakers will be familiar with.

Another jailbreaking favourite, setting up folders. All of this should be available in the summer of 2010.

First YouTube Vid!

Check it out, rate and subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWaHUBSCjFg

My New YouTube Channel!

Hooray, my new youtube channel is here it is youtube.com/iteknology and you are welcome to join me there. My first video will be on the Gadget Show live exhibition that is running in the UK from Wed 8th-Sat 10th.

OpenSource Software

My last post was an introduction to open source software, if you Google some of the below applications, you should find some quite useful!

Browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Sea Monkey

E-Mail: Thunderbird, Live Mail

Messenger: Pidgin, AMSN, Skype

Music Player: Win AMP, Songbird, Real

Music Editor: Audacity, Wave Pad

Video Player: Real, VLC, GOM

Video Editor: Wax, Live Movie Maker, Video Spin

Picture Viewer: Cornice, Live Photo Gallery

Picture Editor: GIMP, Inkscape

Office Suite: Open Office

OpenSource

Why pay for Microsoft Office, Photoshop or alike when you can get alternatives for free, with OpenSource software! Open source means the source code (programming behind software) is open and free to use. If you are a programmer you can edit the software but best of all, anyone can use it.

Firefox is a very famous example, if you've been using computers for any length of time you've probably heard of it. When you turn your computer on, to access the internet you most likely click on Internet Explorer on a PC or Safari on a Mac. This is all fine, but did you know you can get alternatives. Firefox, Chrome, Sea Monkey, Opera, Flash Peak, Avant, Flock and many more!

If these names sound familiar, that's because in Europe, Microsoft recently rolled out its browser choice with lots of options. This was following a company suing Microsoft for mis-leading customers into thinking Internet Explorer was the only browser.