Music

UberHype

Recommends music based on what people are blogging about. As a result you can impress people at parties by talking at them about your love for top new artistes Scragnugget, DJ Plum and Zyyxxyl 37.

Price: Free

Time Waster

Flick Golf Extreme

Tee off from canyons, fighter jets and icebergs, in this game of quite literally crazy golf. It’s from the folks behind the truly immense Flick Kick Football.

Price: £1.49

Epic Game

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation

Amazing first-person shooter with 12-player multiplayer mode and graphics that make most other mobile games look like Snake and finally justifies the investment in a dualcore handset.

Price: £4.99

News

Tech City

Keeps you up to date on the government’s Tech City initiative of startups and companies around Old Street’s Silicon Roundabout in east London. Invaluable for tech groupies and movers and shakers.

Price: Free

Cooking

170,000+ Recipes BigOven

As the name suggests, over 170,000 recipes on your phone, with a recession-busting, waste-reducing mode that suggests what to make with leftovers.

Price: Free

Business

YousendIt

Now, not only can you send large files from your phone, you can sign documents, modify files and save them in the cloud, too. Free (sub required to send files larger

than 50MB)

Price: Free

Networking

Chime.in

Like Twitter, but built around specific interests rather than an endless stream of disparate guff. You can share on Twitter and Facebook, too.

Price: Free

Video

Escape and Control

Jon Ronson’s acclaimed, ongoing documentary series about the dark forces trying to control the internet. At time of writing there were six episodes, but look out for more soon.

Price: Free

Organisation

Awesome! Notifier

Not a great looker, but does let you reply to texts straight from a locked screen, so handy if you’re busy.

Price: Free

Education

My day with WH Words

Uses a story to encourage kids with autism and Down’s syndrome to talk about their day. Also helps with other conversational skills.

Price: £1.93