I Phone Review

Since the App Store turned one only recently at iTunes, the team there has decided to list out the favourite apps downloaded so far. These apps are cool and fun to have and some have some neat uses; but despite the fact that you may not use it on a daily basis, it's still sure to increase the coolness quotient for your iPhone. Take a look at some this on the A-list of featured downloads.

Wikipanion- Do you find yourself referring to Wikipedia for everything that you seem to need? And it's sometimes a pain to log in to the website from the browser on your iPhone. The best thing to do in such a case would be to download the Wikipanion app for your iPhone, and it's truly the best companion that Wikipedia lovers can hope to have. Everything is made much easier and things are streamlined in a fashion that makes searching for things a snap. Wikipanion is a free app that is loaded with features.

AP Mobile- News lovers love this app, it's called the AP Mobile app. Coming from the Associated Press room, this is an amazing amalgamation of comprehensive news which is both local and global. With this app you can choose your news preferences; from sports, entertainment or finance you find them all just under the tips of your fingers. Wherever you may be, you'll stay updated with the latest news as and when it happens, could news junkies really want more?

Weatherbug Elite- Knowing what the weather will be like is a fixation that most of us seem to have and it does play an important role in our lives considering that most events in our lives seem to depend upon good weather. So, how cool would it be if you could instantly access live weather reports wherever you are? iPhone users can now come to rely on the Weatherbug Elite app which provides you with accurate and real time weather forecast. There are plenty of features that make this app worth every bit of the 99 cents it costs.

Stanza- Reading books on your mobile phone is now so common that books are being written targeted for these users. But apart from such tiny tomes that fit on your mobile screen, you can download regular books and read them as ebooks on your iPhone too. Stanza is an app that lets you convert your iPhone into an eBook reader and lets you download the latest bestsellers on your iPhone. Ease of use is a big factor here and readers can skip to different sections without much hassle. Soon you could be reading Twilight or The Da Vinci Code, right on your iPhone.

Remember the days when family and friends would gather around board games? What lovely moments those were! To bring back the magic of the past we have made available board games that can be downloaded on your iPhone. You can enjoy a game of Sudoku or even fit pieces of puzzles together. Here are some of the popular iPhone board games on the App Store.

Teeny Checkers- With Teeny Checkers what is most assured is fun. Different color themes in the game make it easy to play even with a friend. If you want to check your previous moves, there is instant replay. Five games can be played at the same time. This game is sure to get you wired!

Tic Tac Touch- It's back to basics with this game. Everyone loves a game of tic tac toe and whether you doodled with friends during a boring class or even if you just love playing this when there's nothing else to do, this is the app for you. Rich graphics, score tracking up to ten players, and of course multiplayer games over the Internet with Wifi, Edge or 3G make this a simply fantastic game. There are also some really cool sounds and graphics which make sure that you will spend quite a bit of time playing this game.

Crack the Code- In this exciting game, players have to guess the color of the chips as in the popular mastermind game. At the outset a certain set of colors in a specified sequence will be selected by the iPhone. The player gets to arrive at the sequence in a limited number of tries. Sound effects add to the spice of the game. You can choose your difficulty level. One unique feature of this game is that it is playable even by the color-blind, since the letters- mode can be used to play it. What's more, the game gets auto saved when the phone rings.

Unblock Me- Haven't you played this game before, where you had to slide out small tiles this way and that until you could free the one differently colored tile out of the board? Yes, the same concept is applied to this game on your iPhone were you can slide the blocks with your fingers and free the red block out of the board. There are 400 different puzzles in the beginner level, and more than 200 unique puzzles in the intermediate and advanced level which are bound to give you many hours of freedom from boredom!

It is pretty evident that the iPhone is a first of its kind, a device like this has never been seen before and it's going to be a while before another device out smarts this baby. And if you're one of those proud owners of the iPhone then you're probably always on the lookout for fun and new ways to make your iPhone more attractive and stand out of course. Most people prefer to download new and exciting themes that start them up on the road to personalising their iPhones to their liking. So here's where we've made things easier for you, we've made a list for you with some of the cool themes you can download for your iPhone.

Chinese Green:

This is a really wonderful theme, totally different from what you would normally expect to see. In this, there are concentric circles of green and black and the icons are all placed centrally in a circle. This theme is also available 5 different colours which add a whole new dimension to your iPhone.

Sepia:

If you've always been a fan of sepia tones, then this iPhone theme is a good idea for your phone. The background is very retro, with a sepia map where all the icons are placed randomly. The icons also follow a very old fashioned theme which is interesting and really quite cool.

Nokia Prism:

For those loyal fans of Nokia who were only compelled switch to the iPhone, this is a nice way to rendezvous with the past. This theme has a home screen that looks exactly like the Nokia Prism series with its geometric buttons. See it all once you download the theme.

Retro Phone Dialer:

Remember the phone booths of yesteryears? With those squarish buttons and everything? Well, here's a theme that recreates that very effect remarkably! Download this theme and it's just as if you are carrying a phone booth in your pocket. And what's more, when you are dialing the numbers, you can actually see the numbers also being pushed! Very realistic indeed!

It may not make sense to you immediately, but it could be true that you iPhone could actually be your way to good health. iTunes has hundreds of apps from which you can learn to how to stay fit and healthy. While most of these apps provide hints on how to stay fit, some others are very useful and once you get the hang of it, you might start noticing some real difference in your lifestyle! So take a look at some of these apps.

iFitness: You simply cannot deny how much you crave to be physically fit, with abs and biceps and the like. But knowledge of the right exercises is what you lack most times and simply trying out random exercises isn't that good of an idea. And hiring a personal trainer, well that could if expensive is what your taste is.

One simple and absolutely free app can pave your way to fitness. With iFitness you will be provided with images of people taken while they perform over 230 exercises that focus on the body region and muscle. Just double tab the image to read up on the instructions and single tab your way to view videos of the ore tougher ones.

Meditation Timer: If you're someone keen on mediation, and if you wouldn't like to miss it even if you're not at home, then you need to download the Meditation Timer app for your iPhone. This app gives you a timer, which can be used to set the required amount of time for your daily sittings. It's available in two gentle color sequences and you even get a recording of some soothing music that can be played. If you'd rather not be disturbed during your sitting, you can just turn the vibrator on your phone, to vibrate gently and save yourself the disturbance.

7 Day Detox: If you're looking to lose weight and flushing out all those harmful toxins from your body, imagine getting to follow a perfect diet program for it? Even though such plans are available aplenty on the internet, it's not very easy to follow them because our knowledge on what is to be done is just vague. With the 7 Day Detox program that can be downloaded onto your iPhone, you will be given instructions on a daily basis as to what to eat and at what intervals.

The World Wide Web is packed with several websites from which you can download some really cool themes for your iPhone. And what's more is that some of these themes are really cool because they don't even look like your everyday regular themes and so the only question that remains is what stands out in them? Try them out because once you do, you can be rest assured you'll find that people tend to give you a couple of more glances!

Purple Sunglasses

Your first bait is that there is a picture of a very sexy lady adorning a pair of purple glasses. And well that's not all. This theme has been tactfully created in such a way that her image is on the screen in front of all the icons in your iPhone. So what you see is an impression of the icons on the screen. Dig that?

Louis Vuitton 2

Pump up your iPhone screen with the infamous LV logo of the Louis Vuitton brand and bling out your iPhone all out. For all brand enthusiasts and fashionistas, this has got to be a must have theme!

Sketched

This is a theme with a difference. If you like pencilled sketches then you're going to love this because the Sketched theme, once downloaded onto your iPhone, makes the icons on the screen seem as if they've been sketched their with a pencil! It's got a very prominent retro cartoony feel to it and this theme sure is popular and also exciting.

Ancient Custom

This ancient Custom theme seems pretty futuristic at first, but it's only after close observation that you realize the ancient theme running; with the icons nicely settled in the ancient form of communication with parchments, scrolls and quills for pens! It's quirky and fun, try it out!

Coca Cola Font

Everybody loves the legendary Coca Cola curvy font and so naturally everybody loves this theme too! It's fun and simple and yet classic and superb at the same time; with all the icons seen in the exact same with curves!

If you really want to have some fantastic apps for your iPhone, you know that the best place to look for them would be in iTunes. ITunes lists hundred, no make that thousands, of apps and new and exciting ones are getting added every single day. It's hard to make your choice from amongst so many but they've made it easier by categorizing the apps according to their function. So, you can find apps there which are based on Sports, Education, Finance or solely entertainment. Here's a look at some such apps.

Amazing Hallucinations: This is made simply to make you look, and then look again a couple of more times in disbelief. While you may be familiar with some of these tricks for your visual senses, viewing them on the iPhone makes it feel like something unreal, maybe even a hallucination. It could be a girl's silhouette changing as you turn the phone around or even the secret in the roses. There's loads of stuff here that's sure to help you make an impression.

A Mister Prank: Haven't you always wanted to make a prank call, but then you probably just chicken out because you haven't the nerve to follow your plan through? Your nerves can now relax because with this app, all you have to do is decide who you want to call; once done you turn the speaker on, turn up the volume after which you simply go back to the home screen and launch the app. You Mister Prank will take it from there by simulating over 50 sentences for simple conversations.

Music Jam: Oh the dreams of conducting your own orchestra! Well they can now all come true, only with your iPhones of course. All you have to do, and its not that easy, is to listen to the tune being played, pay attention and decipher which instrument is being played and then tap on the player playing that instrument to replicate the tune. There are 8 musicians so get ready to hear some chaotic music made by you! But if you keep trying, you might just get through all fifteen levels of the game.

Palm Reader: Everyone really wants to know what their future will hold and palm reading has always been very popular. Here's your chance to have a fun session with friends as you let the Palm Reader app on your iPhone do all the work for you. You can give serious readings and fool your friends or simply have a spate of silly ones for good laughs. Do remember that this is a palm reading simulator and does not really scan or read palms.

For many decades, Pakistan's population were forced to use an old and poorly looked after telecom network. Installation and fixing of landlines was a bothersome experience with angry customers making several trips to the complaint centers before any problem could be effectively fixed. Poor quality, expensive local and international calling prices and mismanagement all made Pakistan Telecom one of the most disliked utilities in Pakistan. But all that was altered with the deregulation of the telecommunication sector in Pakistan at the start of the twenty first century.

The plan, which was meant to help mostly the people and businessmen in Pakistan, paid off past hopes. The considerable population of near a hundred and fifty million Pakistanis was a lucrative motivation for mobile and cellular businesses all over the globe and in spite of licenses being furnished to quite a few big international firms, the pie was substantial enough for one and all to get pleasure from and earn substantial profits.

Cellular call charges dove swiftly as the competition became serious and services like incoming calls, which were formerly charged heftily, soon became free. Other services like text or SMS messages became very easy on the pocket and soon became a fresh and highly frequent style of contact. Teenagers and adults just could not get their fill. To further interest a younger customer base, special low charges were placed in effect for late night calls with added markdowns available for a decided number on the same system. Internet surfing abilities on cellular phones and picture messaging were also added on to the regular subscription features.

At nearly the same time, cellular phone equipment improved rapidly, allowing mobile phone users to carry compact, more manageable phones that were fairly low-cost. Foreign phones like LG, Blackberry, Apples iPhone, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung were all conveniently available and there was a cellular phone to match any and every customers requirements and resources. Chains of cellular phone merchants were opened up all over the nation with the most recent styles obtainable a short time after their international introduction. Chinese and resold stolen phones were also widespread at substantially lower prices with complete plazas accommodating these types of phones. Folks, who had not subscribed to a land line in their generation, now had access to inexpensive and high quality cellular phone communication.

Cellular businesses offered subscribers with a substantial number of pricing selections and packages. Several companies gave a pre-paid and post-paid billing selection, with a number of well-situated locations to pay for bills or acquire credit. Scratch cards were well circulated and were purchasable in nearly all retails super markets, huge and small. Small service providers like carpenters and electricians, who were now carrying cellular phones, could be communicated with anywhere and saw their sales build up substantially. Very rapidly a cellular phone became an important part of everybody's life. It was deemed as a easy and an vital way to communicate in case of emergencies.

The cellular telecommunication sector soon shot ahead of the standard cable based fixed lines in terms of subscription and access. So tremendous was the development that Pakistan was at one time the fastest growing telecommunication sector across the world. Competition between the principal organizations forced not only cell phone communication prices to remain affordable but also swiftly improved the services provided by Pakistan Telecommunications.

The people were not the lone beneficiaries of the telecommunication growth in Pakistan. The sales to the government from this sector grew significantly as well. Cellular communication providers are spreading into interrelated technologies, such as wireless high speed internet, as well. This means supplementary sales for these businesses and improved prices and service reliability for the communicators. With new and used PCs becoming plentiful and easy on the pocket, it appears as if the subsequent technological revolution in Pakistan is coming real soon.