Best FM transmitters: Contenders and features There are various in-car solutions for listening to your iPod while you drive, but by far the most convenient is the humble FM transmitter. These handy little devices plug into the dock connector of your iPhone or iPod and create their own mini radio station, transmitting whatever’s playing on your iPod app on an FM radio frequency that your car radio can then tune to, just as it does with normal radio stations.
Take to the skies in a top-down arcade flight shooter that was one of the first to take advantage of the iPhone 3GS performance enhancements. Continue the puzzling excitement of one of the best labyrinth games ever in the second installment. It may not be the most epic 3-D experience, but today’s doodle graphics game will get and keep you immersed in other ways.
Best apps for expanding your mind: 1-5 At what point in life did learning become a chore? Perhaps the school classroom is to blame – because let’s face it, some of our dullest days were spent there.
The death of money Every day, all over the world, currency is minted and printed in huge quantities. That currency gets jammed into pockets and organised in tills, folded inside wallets and stuffed into envelopes, paid into bank accounts and stored underneath mattresses. Money is all around us, and yet none of it actually exists. Our notes and coins and the numbers we see in our online bank accounts are mere IOUs – promises from people we’ll never meet that we’ll never redeem.
Siegecraft ($0.99) by Crescent Moon Games is a strategy game for the iPad or iPhone/iPod touch where you must use your trusty siege machines against invading armies of Vikings, knights and samurai who want to pillage your village. Hone your skills at castle defense by killing sheep and destroying bridges.