iPhone Apps I'm Currently Addicted To

In my last post, I talked about a useless iPhone application. Today, I'll talk about the ones I do like.

But first, a disclaimer. I still do not own an iPhone. My contract expires later this month, and I will be buying myself (and my little brother, who's broke in med school) an iPhone 3g. However, my boyfriend owns an iPhone. Often times in our apartment, he'll want to do work or play some game (currently PixelJunk Eden, so during those times I get to borrow the iPhone, buy whatever games I want, and keep myself entertained.

Trism

Trism is a game like Hexic or Bejeweled, but with the added component that you can tilt to decide which way things slide back into place. I have to say, I didn't quite understand all the aspects of the game through the tutorial, but I found a lot of non-cheat videos on YouTube like this one that explains what starwalking is that have helped me understand the game better. Either way, I found it addictive.

Crosswords
My bf and I both enjoy doing crosswords. When we went to Spain at the beginning of the year, we had two crossword books with us and we kept fighting over which ones we were each allowed to do without the other person. Sundays often include lying on the couch together working on the Washington Post crossword together.

We tried both Crosswords and 2 Across. While Crosswords is more expensive, it does come with a free demo now.

Having tried both, we prefer the interface on Crosswords even though 2 Acress includes the Washington Post crosswords. But there are more than enough puzzles that show up every day, that we don't even fight over doing them. Usually I go in, fill in all the answers I know (or "know" as the case may be, since I've put a lot of wrong answers down too), and later he goes in and fills in more of the puzzle. Afterwards, I go back and look at what I did wrong, and help him fill in some final details that I could only get after I saw some of his answers. It's been working out great. Also, you can work on multiple crosswords at once. Crosswords also includes a daily cryptic crossword, which I'm hoping to get into someday (Especially after a friend who was also at the Las Vegas NABC showed me how they work. I learned that the rules to cryptic crosswords are important to actually being able to fill one out. Hey, I'm normally a ignore-the-manual-and-just-try-the-game type of girl).

I'm sure after I own my own iPhone, I will discover new apps (I will definitely be acquiring Shazam) and post new reviews after I've used them enough, but these are the ones so far that I will definitely have to get for my own phone since I'm already addicted.