funny, it's programmed by Discovery Channel - I like the idea of ad-sponsored free apps

That's the one, comes up as "CannonGame" on the iPhone screen.. Obviously "challenge" wouldn't fit.

I have a uk itunes account. why would the swiss store block it?

krlock3

If I download an app from the american itunes account or uk one or whatever will it work on a swiss iphone?

I mostly use my UK account and have had no problems with any apps downloaded from the UK itunes store...

Stanza - absolutely brilliant.

I now have a whole library on my iPhone of over 60 books.

Superb!

WhitePages (free) is great for finding telephone numbers, addresses and names in the USA. It also does reverse phone (If you have an unknown number on your phone you can find out who it is and show on maps where they live.

Shazam is truely impressive. The remote is fantastic as well, though it's going to cost me another airport to get wireless music in every room.

I dowloaded a free compass which turned out to be absolute crud, it's more of a sundial, you have to stick your finger on the screen and judge the shadow, at least it was free.

The Facebook app works for me, but I still prefer using the website on the browser as it has more functions.

SBB timetable, brilliant.

Flashlight is another useful app.

I saw there was an English-German dictionary program to buy, anyone tried it, can you recommend it?

Ultralingua? Yeah I forked out and I think its worth it. Its a very comprehensive dictionary and has all the verb conjugations. I don't use it continuously, but it is useful for the word you don't know when your out and about.

Just about worth 22 fr, I think.

I have just added, IMPlus, this seems to work ok with MSN,

T

I saw that, does it continue to run in the background though?

does not seem to,
but the location i am currently the connection is rubbish, so its complaining that, its not connected...
i am connected a mo, as soon as i move back to the main screen my pc reports that my Iphone account is off line...

so does not seem to work in background mode

t

I downloaded that last night and added my MSN jabber and aol accounts and none of them were showing up as having any friend lists - looked a bit rubbish

I uses the web based IM skype and its pretty good

I still use Palringo, as its features are enough for me due to not needing to be online that much when out and about.

There is a Eng-Ger dictionary available for jailbroken phones. You download the free WeDict application from the Apple App store and then download the dictionary files using Cydia (obviously the jail broken part).

I couldn't get this to work either? maybe its just me and i'm not setting it up correct

Probably

You have to register with the site, and I think it took me one or two attempts to get it to work also.

Love the remote application, though it makes me wish the phone had an IR transmitter so I could control all my gizmos through it. That day may soon be near though, as a bunch of home automation apps were shown off at a show.

Sync contacts over the air:
http://www.funambol.com/solutions/iphone.php

Fring has been released (for free) - allows you to chat using several protocols but also to place voice calls using your Skype account.

peter