The following are the best Iphone applications that you can get for free, each of the five are in seperate catagories.
Best free game
Is a tie! between Tap Tap Revenge and Tap Defense
Tap Tap Revenge
Tap Tap Revenge: is a half ass version of Guitar Hero/Rock Band. With constant updates, free music and online multiplayer modes this is one free game you can’t do without.
Tap Defense: is a line war or tower defense type game free in the App store. On Dec. 30 a new update was released for the game providing new types of game play, new towers and now the possibility to make it past level 30.
Coolest App to save you Moolah
Ping Phone: Why pay for text messages and run over excessively? That’s right you don’t have too anymore because Ping Phone allows you the ability to send free Web based texts to your friends phones and receiving them in the same manner.
Downside of Ping Phone: It’s a bit buggy still and the design is rather sloppy. But this App will save you tons in extra texts you don’t need to be paying for.
Best Radio device
Pandora Radio: This App is hands down the best way to stream free music onto your phone. Although there is a banner ad now at the bottom of the stations, you can pick from practically any type of music and it will play from the artists you bookmark.
Honorable mention: Flycast is a pretty bad ass way to hear actual radio stations but they are generally limited. We replaced our Sirius Satallite radio with a simple FM transmitter and Pandora/Ipod music/Flycast. Save you some more moolah.
Best source of news
Mobile News Network (AP): While the New York Times may have great columnists the news on the Mobile news Network created from the AP wire service has the most worldly news and is always up to date. It can even list your local news if the newspaper is an AP affiliate.
Best blogging tool
WordPress: How ever could we forget the best tool on the Iphone. The WordPress Application, which not only allows you to blog from whereever you may be, you can also add photos from where you are at that exact moment.
The twitter app is also a momentous app as it had previously informed Americans of a blogger who was captured abroad and later helped lead to his release.
In Feburary of 2009 a new addition to Grand Theft Auto IV will come in the form of a downloadable expansion. The downloadable content known as The Lost and Damned is a play on the recent TV series Sons of Anarchy.
While Rockstar is known for it’s risky behavoir, having an idea based on a TV show is not illegal although one of the characters in the new expansion is also named Clay. This is most likely a tribute to them, according to gamer nerds via the internet.
Free Credit Report.com not only is using annoyance as a form to capture it’s audiences’ attention (like the $5 foot long Subway commercials) once you sign up the process can be beyond annoying. Play This signed up to Free Credit Report so that we may tell you why you should avoid it all together and other ways to check your credit report 100 percent free (at bottom of article).
Here is the drill for freecreditreport.com:
You put in all of your very private information, such as credit card information, addresses and worst of all social security. You should never provide anyone with your social security, even the president (I take that back if Bush wants it just throw a shoe at him, he doesn’t even know what they are for). Your SS number can allow people to access details about your life that you may not even remember and can register credit cards under your name so try to avoid giving it out if possible.
After your private information is entered it than allows you access to your credit report, shows you any history on your credit report and if there is currently anything on your public records in the form of collection companies and bankruptcies on your accounts. As these songs are mostly geared to the 20-35 year old range, chances are you won’t see much on the credit report. Unless you are terribly in debt the services that this Web site provides will be more or less worthless to you and signing up for it is just a waste of time.
Here comes the fun part, ending the services before your seven day free trail is up.
Cancelling the account:
There of course would be no way to simply opt of of the service through their Web site, a fully online only service. You must call the number listed in their FAQ section or 1(888)829-6560 and wait through a few boring messages. The fun part is when the foreign person answers and her accent is to thick to understand or she can’t understand your English very well.
Now I have no issue understand people and their accents, but it’s as if they find anyone off the streets in India to give them a job. They ask you for your private information once again, SS number and all to prove who you are, than ask what you are needing of them.
Like many places you call, they have canned scripts that they will read to you based on your response to them. When you say I would like to cancel they will give you 20 bull shit reasons why you should keep the service. The best reason was, you still have six of your seven day trial left, you may as well keep it and cancel it later.
After finally getting through all of the bullshit they finally cancel your account only to say, “You will still have six days of this service and than it will automatically close out and not charge you at all.” That’s right one of the ladies BS reasons to keep you on is still provided after you cancel.
Now that you see Freecreditreport.com is a worthless service and will only cost you time and sadly for those who do not read well, money, you can easily avoid it’s use. Below is listed the proper annual report that our government has put in place and is 100 percent free. You can only check it once a year though as it is an annual report. It does not cost very much to check again in needed as well.
How to get your free annual report:
Going to the following Web address, https://www.annualcreditreport.com will provide you with your actual annual free credit report. Signing up with Web sites like freecreditreport.com is worthless, can incidentally cost you money, cause you a major pain in the ass to cancel and you may very well forget you ever signed up costing you even more money.
Your credit is important because: Helps you get a loan, approval for an apartment, home or even vehicle. Some employers check your credit as well for unknown reasons.
So be sure to pay your credit cards off on time and avoid ads to confuse the masses. You do get a free annual credit report from all three credit providers. Freecreditreport.com makes people think they can only access one but this is incorrect.
This is how Freecreditreport.com had originally advertised it’s Web site, clearly not very effective. With the help of annoying jingles they were back on top.
Although the game may not look like much and is not visually exciting, Mob Wars provides a great deal of boredom killing fun. Although Zynga has a newer version, the concept of Mob Wars has been around for at least a decade stemming all the way back to our faithful TI-83 graphing calculator.
This game is a Web based, Play This will not hold it to the same standards as the next generation consoles games.
Pictured below is a display of the current amount of property editor EvO has.
*”Office hours cause us to have to much free time… this is my main solution”
Mob Wars is not a game that you have to put much time into it, which makes it great to go back and forth to as you have time to kill. Obviously you would not be wasting your time when at home when you can choose Bad Company or Left 4 Dead (review up this week).
Simply buy as much property as you can, fight when you have a few moments and pull in as many mobsters as you can.
The biggest difficulty in the game is starting up, once you are pulling in a good amount of cash flow you can basically just deposit your money once a day. Second pain in the ass is getting your mob to epic proportions. Most of your Facebook friends hate you for sending them all those invites, so the best bet is to add random people into your limited friends profile.
More tips listed below…
The replayability keeps you coming back and ranking up is easy as pie. A great boredom killer but in the full view of Web games it’s only so-so.
We give this game a 4/5 burritos.
*Tips:
When purchasing properties, buy 10 at a time for each time you buy something it’s value goes up.
Do not attack people with mobs larger than yours… but do attack ones closet to your skill for the most experience.
Check out a persons stats before you attack, if they have a casino there is a better chance of them having more money.
Before depositing money, try to purchase as much as you can because the 10% tends to hurt.
Any questions you may have about this game, EvO the editor would be happy to assist. Get at us at editor@playthismag.com
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