iPhone apps

Review:

Great little searching tool to find your nearest bar, dentist... whatever - the clever thing is that it links to a map and gives you GPS directions for wheels, feet or public transport.

cost: free

Review:

You can't beat the crucial basics in typography as a game. What it does is challenge you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures! My high score is 130.23pts - love the new meaning to point size.

cost: 59p

Review:

Make tiresome train or tube journeys a thing of the past with iShoot! Think of the classic Worms combat you may have wasted your teenage years upon (like me!) but with tanks, and you'll be under no illusion at how difficult it'll be to put this down once you start. The lite version is free, but I can assure you you'll be paying for the upgrade pretty soon after!

cost: free for the lite version

Review:

One of the things that really bugged me when I first got my iphone was the inability to receive MMS (i.e. picture) messages. It used to be a long winded process that involved visiting the O2 site and entering a password - major drag - especially if no 3G network is available! Needless to say, I was more relieved than anything to hear that this has now been sorted with a cheeky little app from the app store. Once downloaded, you need to bang in your mobile number and password and that's the lot - just like having a separate inbox for your media messages.

cost: free