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For iPhone / iPod touch owner, what is your essential apps? Gizmodo has come out an Essential Apps Directory with monthly update.

Gizmodo Essential Apps Directory

Most of the apps inside I never see before. Some saw before but don’t need or already have similar app. There are total of 67 apps listed as essential.

I’m curious to know how many essential apps I have in my iPod touch 2nd Gen. I count one by one then found own only 8 of them! Means 12% out of 67 essential apps. Anyway, that’s enough for me (more…)

Warning to iPhone / iPod touch owners. Your MAC mobile doesn’t 100% free from worm or virus anymore!

The First iPhone Worm Discovered

Australian iPhone users reported their iPhone infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley. It seems harmless with just wallpaper change, but could mean more serious attacks in future.

Infected iPhone lock screen changed to Rick Astley wallpaper with the message

ikee is never going to give you up

In fact, the message come from Rick’s best known hit song “Never Gonna Give You up”. Perhaps the hacker is one of his BIG fan? (more…)

My new favorite iPod touch game – Need For Speed Undercover. It is an awesome 3D racing game. Best ever racing game in iPod in term of its 3D graphics, Performance, Realistic, Story line, and Multiple race mode. The cars are real too!

There are 20 different dream cars for purchase, from Nissan to Porsche. You win the race, earn money and upgrade performance like Boost, Acceleration, Speed and Handling. If not, also can upgrade visual looks such as Body color, Spoiler, Body kit and so on.

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Map is important for travel, especially self travel. It is not cheap to get a detail map. I want to get detail map for few countries prepare for my trip next year: Macau, Zhuhai, ShenZhen, Hong Kong. I didn’t any Zhuhai’s map exist in travel magazine.

It is time to explore more power in iPod touch! How good if I can utilise iPod touch “Maps” feature offline. The Maps app detail enough for me, it includes some place of interest, hotel name, location name, and subway station.

Google Map Enhancer

There are so many offline maps app but most of them retrieve map from Open Street Map which is too rough. They don’t have details and even don’t have road map for some locations. The best still Google Maps! (more…)