Best Entertainment Applications for iPod Touch and iPhone
1. Last.fm
Listen to free streaming radio on the go. Last.fm is a popular Internet radio site for streaming music. Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the songs the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices; transfers it to Last.fm's database and then displays the profile data on the user's profile page.
2. Joost
Get the latest videos at your fingertips with Joost. Watch the latest celebrity news and gossip, music videos, action sports, comedy and web originals – for free!
Find what you want to watch by:
- Browsing by category
- Viewing the "most popular" videos
- Watching our favorites
- Or searching for a specific video
If you’re looking for on-the-go video entertainment, download the Joost app today!
3. Pandora Radio
Pandora Radio is your own free personalized radio now available to stream music on your iPhone or iPad. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and more music like it.
Pandora on the iPhone is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. Enjoy all your existing stations - and create new ones right from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
4. Truveo Video Search
There's more than one site for videos on the iPhone and iPod touch -- find and watch videos from all of them using the free Truveo video search app.
Truveo is one of the leading video search engines on the Web and now we've made it quick and simple to find videos on the iPhone and iPod touch. Looking for the most Twittered video? We've got that. The latest music videos or clips from Comedy Central, CNN, ABC, Newsweek and other video sites? We've got those too. Full episodes from your favorite TV show? It's there as well. Whether you're looking for professionally-produced or popular, user-generated videos, Truveo video search makes it easy to enjoy millions of videos that are optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch experience.
- Search through more than 150 million videos, with new sites and videos added daily.
- Discover videos that people are talking about. We collect statistics every day on videos shared on Twitter, and show you the ones that got the most tweets.
- "What's Hot" features the most popular videos that users like you are searching for and watching. You can also find full episodes of your favorite TV Shows here, that you can watch right on your phone.
- Easily share videos with your friends.
5. Flixster Movies
Movies by Flixster is the #1 movie app to watch movie trailers, find showtimes, get critic reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, and share movie ratings with your friends.
Features
- View the top box office leaders, upcoming movies and new DVD releases
- Browse a DVD catalog of over 50,000 films
- Watch high quality trailer and video clips for over 10,000 blockbuster and indie flicks
- Read movie reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
- Search for movies by title, director or actors
- Look up showtimes and buy tickets from movietickets.com (for participating theaters that sell movie tickets online)
- View maps of all theaters playing a particular movie in your area
- Find restaurants near theaters and read reviews with the Yelp app
- Buy or rent movies from iTunes right on your device
Extra Features for iPhone & iPod touch (not yet on the iPad version)
- View and manage your Netflix queue
- Create a Want-to-See list and rate and review movies
- Connect with a Facebook or a Flixster account to share your ratings with your friends
- Play movie trivia quizzes
For other iPhone and iPod Touch Applications: Best iPhone Applications and iPod Touch Apps.
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6. Bump
Bump makes sharing with people as simple as bumping two phones together. Just pick what you want to send, then hold your phones and gently bump hands with another person using Bump.
Bump with iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and many other phones. All that is required is an internet connection (WiFi or cellular).
7. iheart radio
iheartradio delivers over 750 of America’s favorite radio stations right to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Bookmark your favorite stations, tag songs for purchase on iTunes and view lyrics to your favorite songs. iheartradio also features the best selection of exclusive digital stations including Slow Jams, White House Brief, erockster, Pride Radio, Smooth Jazz, AT40 with Ryan Seacrest and some of the top talk stations in the country featuring Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dr. Laura and many others. All stations are streamed in Apple’s high-quality AAC format for a superior listening experience.
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8. Cooliris
All your favorite content in one place. Cooliris for iPhone is simply the fastest way to find, consume, and share photos, videos and news on your iPhone.
Content is displayed on a stunning, endlessly streaming Cooliris Wall, and lets you easily search across YouTube, Google, Flickr, Picasa, deviantART, Yahoo, and more. You can watch music videos and TV shows, or catch up on Twitter with just the flick of a finger. If you find something cool, whether it is single photo/video or an entire stream of content, save it to your Cooliris Favorites to re-visit, or share it with your friends via Email or Twitter.
FEATURES
- The Cooliris Wall makes finding and viewing the best content easy and fun
- Find Photos, Watch Videos, Read News, or View Twitter Timelines: stay on top of the latest current events, updated in real time as they happen
- Twitter Integration - "Tweet" or "Re-Tweet" your favorite content directly from the Wall or "Follow" new people
- Access your Cooliris "Favorites" - View, Add and Remove media on-the-go (to sign up for an account, please go to http://register.cooliris.com)
- Favorite and save any Wall, whether it is a search or stream of content
- Subscribe to Media RSS feeds on your Wall, or launch any Media RSS feed from Safari using cooliris:// (Try cooliris://feeds.digg.com/digg/news/popular.rss)
- Save interesting content straight to your device - check out our Wallpaper Channel
INTERACTIONS
- 1-Finger Swipe - Scroll the Wall
- Pinch / Expand Wall - Zoom in/out
- Single Tap - Select Media or go full screen
- Tilt Wall - Scroll the Wall by tilting the device left or right
- Click the "Home" Button - Show the main menu
- Click the "Twitter" Icon - "Tweet" or "Retweet" content upon account login
- Click the Metadata/Caption of a Tweet - Follow this Twitter user
- Click the "Star" Icon - Add/remove this content to your Cooliris Favorites or subscribe to a Wall/feed (revisit it via Cooliris Favorites)
- Click on the "Save" Icon - Save images to your photo roll
- Click the "Envelope" Icon - Share media via the default Mail Client
- Click the "i" Info icon - Shows/hides the metadata/caption panel
- Click the Metadata/Caption in Channels, Searches, and Feeds - Opens the containing page web page without leaving Cooliris
9. LiveMixing VideoBox
LiveMixing VideoBox Solution is a video searching and sharing service across mobile, PC, and web.
It enables users to search and play videos from popular video sharing site on mobile device. In addition, user can share online videos to friends with VideoBox service.
Features
- Search online video sites with keywords
- Watch videos online
- Share online videos to friends
- Push online video to phone from PC
10. iMovie
Requires iPhone 4! Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fun, feature-rich video editing app only for iPhone 4. Create a video postcard of your day at the beach and publish it to the web — without ever leaving your spot in the sand. Or make a movie of your child’s birthday party and send it to your parents — while the party is in full swing. With iMovie for iPhone, you can start several projects and finish them whenever you want and wherever you are.
Made for Multi-Touch
- Tap to add or record video right into your project.
- Drag to trim the lengths of video clips and photos.
- Pinch to zoom the timeline and get a closer look.
- Slide to scrub through the video in your project.
Give it a theme
- Choose from a selection of themes including Modern, Bright, Travel, Playful, and News.
- Each theme includes a matching set of titles and transitions – plus its own soundtrack.
- Instantly change themes or swap themed elements in your project.
- Titles and graphics automatically update with location data from your video.
Add music and photos
- Select from included music that matches each iMovie theme, or select from your own song library.
- Enable ducking to automatically lower the volume of background music and highlight audio from video clips.
- Add photos from your own library, or take a picture and drop it into your project.
- Customize each photo with a unique “Ken Burns” panning effect.
Share your movie
- Export your movie in one of three sizes: Medium, Large, or HD.
- Share your movie on the web in a MobileMe gallery or on YouTube.
- Send your movie to friends and family in an email or via an MMS message.
- Easily sync your movie back to your computer.
11. Big Button Box Pro
Big Button Box Pro gives you 81 individual BIG BUTTONS that let off the BEST BOOMING SOUND EFFECTS!
There's nothing more satisfying than pressing a massive button and hearing a cool extra-loud, over-amplified, ear-piercing sound... and Big Button Box Pro let's you do this over and over and over!
Features
- 81 Big Buttons
- Three buttons modes: Use them as big buttons or choose to play them from the menu in two different ways
- Sort the buttons into the order you want
M & P button modes
- M: Monophonic mode: Pressing another button stops the sounds from the previous button pressed
- P: Polyphonic mode: Sounds overlap each other. Press as many as you want and the sounds keep playing!
The big buttons included in Big Button Pro are:
Dynamite, Ka-Ching, Alarm Clock, Buzzer, Scream, Gong, Bleep, Woo!, Service Bell, Jackpot, Game Show, Cat Call, Gunshot, Woohoo!, Applause, You Suck!, Alarm, Loser, Ha-ha!, Uh-oh, Dog, Cat, Truck Horn, Burp, Fart, Excuse Me!
12. Type n Talk
Does your iPhone talk? With Type n Talk by Jirbo, you'll have your very own handheld robot friend. Simply type in a word, or even a whole phrase, and tap "Speak" to hear your iphone talk in a robotic voice. Confuse your friends with a mysterious voice coming from who knows where.
- You type, it speaks
- Cool robotic iPhone voice
- Yes, it will say anything you type!
