| One of the more entertaining aspects of owning an | | | | Challenge your friends to a duel, maybe? |
| iPhone is the plethora of apps that are available for | | | | One that may seem silly, but has popped up at |
| your use and enjoyment. Some of them are really | | | | concerts and rock shows a lot lately, is the Virtual |
| helpful, informative, or at least interesting: weather | | | | Zippo. Gone are the days when you hold up a lighter |
| updates, celeb gossip, directions, movie times, etc. | | | | at shows if something moves you - now you have |
| Then there are the completely superfluous apps that | | | | the virtual version. This is admittedly better than |
| make you scratch your head and wonder why | | | | people just holding up their cell phones, which has |
| anyone would ever need that -- right before you | | | | always looked silly. |
| download it yourself.iBeer is probably one of the | | | | CoinFlip is another that goes into the "is that really |
| most pointless apps, yet everyone seems to have it. | | | | necessary?" category, yet everyone seems to have |
| It's an app that turns your screen into a full pint glass | | | | it. It does exactly what its name indicates - it flips a |
| of beer, and you can "drink" it by tilting your iPhone | | | | coin. |
| downwards. The beer then flows out of the pint | | | | A pretty amusing app is the Abacus, which seemingly |
| glass. Sounds simple enough, yet it's enough to | | | | goes against everything the iPhone really is - cutting |
| reduce grown men to giggles when they all use it. | | | | edge technology. But again, maybe for the drunk |
| Tickle Me! is another app that seems to be mainly for | | | | folks trying to figure out how much money they |
| the amusement factor - even if that factor does | | | | have at the end of the night, this might work. |
| wear off pretty quickly. The app enables your | | | | Too tired to yell enthusiastically for your sports team |
| touchscreen to respond to you tickling it, with a | | | | of choice? Then the "Wooo!" app may be for you. |
| slightly irritating child's laugh. | | | | It's a button that shows up on your touchscreen, |
| One that still makes no sense is Hold On, an app | | | | and every time you hit it, a tinny voice says "wooo!" |
| where you hold your finger in one spot on the touch | | | | Very exciting. |
| screen for as long as you can. That's it. This could | | | | Lastly, there is the I Can Has Cheezburger app, which |
| probably be amusing for a bunch of drunken people | | | | sends you an update every time there's a new |
| who are pretending to be sober, but that's about it. | | | | location posted. Who doesn't need that? |
| Everyone loves to pop bubble wrap, which is most | | | | There's something compelling about some of these |
| likely why the Bubble Wrap app is so popular. It just | | | | iPod touch apps, even though they do absolutely |
| fills your screen with bubble wrap that you "pop" by | | | | nothing useful, and in fact, just mostly take up space |
| touching each bubble. | | | | on your iPhone or iPod touch. However trivial some |
| While this one doesn't do it anything useful, it | | | | of these applications may seem, they offer |
| certainly is cool – the PhoneSaber. It basically | | | | enjoyment to the hundreds of thousands of users |
| turns your touchscreen into a light saber, complete | | | | who download them. After all, isn’t that the |
| with visuals and sounds. It's pretty awesome, yet | | | | point of these applications? |
| there seems to be limited things you can do with it. | | | | |
