Top Ten Favorite iPod Touch Apps

These are my top ten favorite apps for the iPod touch.

#10 Word Warp - It's a fun word game in which you find words using letters from a longer word.

#9 Speed Fiend - It's the same game I used to play with my friends in high school.

#8 Awaken - It's an alarm clock that wakes me up to my music.

#7 Dictionary - This app is from dictionary.com. It's great for trolling words during an intense game of UpWords. Our family rule is to allowing this word hunting to occur. It's easier than looking up all sorts of words after someone plays them.

#6 DirecTV - I can program our Tivos anywhere my iPod can connect to the Internet.

#5 OliveTree NIV Bible Reader - It's easy to navigate, has lots of settings and is easy to carry to church in my pocket. For my morning Bible reading I almost always still grab my leather bound Quest NIV Bible.

#4 Pandora - I love the QuickMixes. Pandora is really good at figuring out songs I might like, based on a few songs it knows I do like. It's sort of like how Tivo is supposed to be able to record shows you might like based on shows you give a Thumbs Up. Pandora's algorithm works. Tivo's, not so much.

#3 AOL Radio - It has all sorts of music mixes, streamed right to my iPod. Any app that streams "the best of 1988" music is top notch!

#2 Scramble 2 - It's like Boggle, one of my favorite board games. It's fun to play online to see how well you can do against the other 100 or so people playing online.

#1 USA Today - Downloads the most recent news stories in six categories in a flash. You can then read them anytime later online or offline.