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Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Best Apps for the iPhone

I have always been a big fan of the iPhone and here is a list of my personal recommendations of my favorite apps for the iPhone.

Facebook
Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

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Twitter for iPhone
Discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world with the official Twitter for iPhone app.
Realtime search, Top Tweets, trending topics and maps show whats happening now everywhere and nearby.
Tweet, send DMs, share photos, videos and links to your friends and the world.
Don't have an account? Just sign up from the app!

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BeejiveIM 
Instant messaging anywhere. Now with Push!

Stay connected to all your instant messaging buddies anywhere you go! BeejiveIM (pronounced \bē-hīv\ IM) keeps you in touch with your friends on AIM®/MobileMe®, MSN®/Windows Live®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ® and Jabber... all at the same time, all on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Beejive's reliable and efficient networking has been tested and proven on multiple platforms. Now it is available for the iPhone. Move from 3G, Edge, and wifi connections seamlessly. Stay connected after you close the application and be notified when you get a new message through push notifications. After being out of coverage BeejiveIM automatically reconnects and picks up where you left off.

BeejiveIM uses your phone's existing data plan or wifi connection, so you can save money by reducing your text messages.

Check out how BeejiveIM works before you buy! View our instructional videos:
http://www.beejive.com/videos

BeejiveIM Key Features:
- BeejiveIM uses your existing data plan: no per-message charges.
- Reliable and efficient networking: be connected 24/7, and it's gentle on your battery.
- Be connected even after you close the application. Get notified instantly when you get a new message with Push Notifications.
- Works with multiple IM networks, multiple accounts per network: AIM®/iChat, MSN®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, Facebook IM, ICQ®, Jabber, and MySpace IM.
- Send and receive files, including pictures and voice notes. View and forward received documents.
- Desktop-like instant messaging with all of your IM buddies from a single intuitive user interface.

Chatting Features:
- Real-time chats: quick switch between multiple simultaneous chats.
- Group chats: chat with multiple buddies on AIM, Yahoo, GTalk, or MSN.
- Full Unicode support, chat in any language supported by your iPhone.
- Landscape option, type with a larger keyboard.
- Chat history: Email chat logs to save chat history.
- Hyperlink support, automatically parses links for web pages, YouTube videos, email addresses, and phone numbers.
- Emoticons support.
- SMS out, chat with your SMS buddies through AIM or Yahoo SMS out. SMS out is fully integrated with your iPhone/iPod Touch address book.

Account & Buddy Features:
- Manage your buddy-list, including add/remove, nicknames, groups, block, approve/deny requests.
- Merge multiple IM buddies for the same contact under a single buddy list entry with meta contacts.
- Sort/group/search your buddy list.
- Control your own availability, set auto-away and custom status messages, be invisible, change privacy controls.
- Configurable alerts, customizable sound, vibrate settings.
- Buddy icon support, view your friends' icons, set your own.

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Skype
Call Skype-to-Skype, wherever you are
Call your Skype contacts wherever you may be – either on 3G or WiFi. It's completely free to call people on Skype over WiFi, and free on 3G* until the end of 2010.
Great value international calls and text messages
Call and text phones anywhere in the world directly from your phonebook, and save with Skype's great rates.
Instant messages
With Skype for iPhone, you can instant message one or many people on Skype at the same time, wherever, and whenever the mood strikes.

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Read it Later
Read It Later lets you save webpages to read later, even without an internet connection.

When you come across an article or a webpage you'd like to read but can't at that time, save it to your Read it Later list. You can then read it whenever you have a moment, on the couch, in your commute, on the plane, train, or practically anywhere. This allows you to eliminate the cluttering of bookmarks and inboxes with links that are merely of a one-time interest. It's like a staging area for bookmarks.

The app is a part of the Read It Later service, used by over a million users. Read It Later can integrate with every major web browser and even has a robust Firefox extension. All of your browsers and devices are tied to a single sync account which means you can save an article from work or home and read it on your phone.

Key Features:
- Offline Reading: View complete webpages even without an internet connection.
- Sync: Use the same list between all of your computers and devices
- Text-only View: Easy to read mode strips formatting and images
- Quick Scrollbar: Quickly move up and down long articles.
- Sorting: Sort your list by date, title, and site
- Tagging: Organize your list into groups
- Searching: Filter your list by title, site, and tags
- Saved Positions: Remembers where you left off on every article, provides 'Currently Reading' section for a quick overview of open articles. Syncs your scroll position to your computer.

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Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is one of India's most respected daily newspaper brands. Unflinching commitment to the highest journalistic standards, technological innovation, and strong focus on reader service has placed Hindustan Times in the highest ranks of global news media.

This app brings to you the latest news and photos from Hindustan Times National, World, Business, Cinema and Cricket sections.

Updated round the clock, the news comes to you fresh in this simple and easy to use app.

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BBC News
Get the latest, breaking news from the BBC and our global network of journalists.

By downloading the BBC News app you can view:
News stories by geographical region
News by category including business, technology, entertainment and sport

News in other languages including Spanish, Russian and Arabic
Video including one minute news summaries to keep you informed on the go
You can also personalise the app to suit your interests and download content for offline browsing

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Bollywood-Buzz
BollywoodHungama.com proudly presents your one stop access point to everything related to Bollywood! Click now for Bollywood News, Reviews, Image and Video Galleries and more! Right here, at Bollywood Buzz!

With this app you can:

-View the latest, exclusive Bollywood clips like Celebrity Interviews, Sneak Peeks Videos, Trailers, and of course, tons of Celebrity Galleries and more

-Confused about movies? Bollywood Buzz is the place to read expert reviews from Taran Adarsh for your favorite movies!

-Get in the groove and know about your favorite to-be-released Bollywood movies.

-Wanna spread the word about movies you liked or disliked? Now, you can tweet your friends about your favorite movies, with Bollywood Buzz!

Get Bollywood Buzz for FREE !!!

--Our Trailers and Videos are optimized for WiFi connection. If you are playing the videos over Edge/3G, please let the videos buffer for 20 sec before hitting play

--Bollywood Buzz requires 'Twitterrific' application for iPhone to post stories to your Twitter

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Convertbot
Convertbot is a unit conversion robot. Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new way! Converting numbers will never again be a mundane task. In addition to its innovative interface, our robot is smart enough to convert to and from mixed units. Are you 5 foot 9 inches tall? Other converters require you to convert that to 5.75 ft in your head before being able to enter it. Convertbot allows mixed units like Foot + Inches, Pounds + Ounces, and more! Download the unit converter from the makers of the award-winning Weightbot today!

Conversion Categories (over 500 different Units supported):

✓ Angle
✓ Area
✓ Currency (Updated on application launch. Requires internet connection. Over a hundred different currencies available)
✓ Data Rate
✓ Data Size
✓ Force
✓ Fuel
✓ Illuminance
✓ Length
✓ Mass
✓ Power
✓ Pressure
✓ Radioactivity
✓ SI
✓ Speed
✓ Temperature
✓ Time
✓ Typography
✓ Volume
✓ Work

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Expenditure
★ "Expenditure is a gorgeous way to track expenses on your iPhone." -- Gizmodo

★ "Expenditure is simple, succinct and sufficient. Exactly what an expense-tracking application should be." -- 148apps.com

★ "There’s nothing not to like about Expenditure in its current form...Simply put, this is a top notch utility." -- MacTalk


Expenditure combines a beautiful interface with an intuitive way to track your expenses.

Effortlessly add a new transaction, attach a note or a photo and save it with just a few taps. You can even add a transaction in a different currency and let Expenditure convert it for you.

Categories can help you keep track of your various expenses, and you can create as many as you wish.

Visit our website to find out how Expenditure can make it fun to track your expenses.

If you have any questions or comments please send us an email at expenditure@shapehq.com. Note that if you leave a support question in the review, we won't be able to write back to you. So just send us an email.

*What we are working on for version 1.1*
- iOS 4 features: multitasking & Retina display optimization.
- Category view
- German localization
- Russian localization
- Spanish localization
- Portugese localization

*We are also working on*
- Export data as CSV by email.

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Air Sharing
The easiest way to view your documents on the go.
Now upgradable to Pro features with an in-app purchase!

FEEDBACK

"Wish you could copy that new proposal to your iPhone and review it on the plane? Now you can." — Apple Inc.

"A dream come true for mobile workers and productivity gurus" — Macworld
"Most Useful App" — 2008 Best App Ever Awards
"Editor's Choice" — PC Magazine
"App of the Week" — Apple Inc.
"It's so easy to use" — Chicago Tribune
"Our favorite file storage app" — Gizmodo
"A fantastic file storage app" — iPhone Alley
"Editor's Pick... Score: 10/10" — AppCraver

INTRODUCTION

With Air Sharing, you can:
- Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a Wi-Fi drive on your computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) or connect from your computer's web browser.
- Drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your computers.
- View and email documents in many common formats.
- Send email attachments

FEATURES

Upgradeable with in-app purchase to Air Sharing Pro features:
- Connect to your computer (on Windows, requires free desktop app)
- Mount remote file servers (MobileMe iDisk, WebDAV, FTP, FTPS, and SSH/SFTP)
- Custom bookmarks
- PDF table of contents, page thumbnails
- Download files from the web
- Get and Save Photo Library images
- File operations (Copy, Paste, Move, Rename, New Folder)
- Zip and Unzip
- Search by File name
- Playlist interface for audio files
- Print (via printers shared by Mac OS X 10.5+ or Linux)

Ease of use
- Familiar Finder-like file browser
- Use of Bonjour and WebDAV (just like iDisk) for easy connection
- Extensive in-line Help with detailed, simple instructions

Advanced image viewer
- Stable, high-quality viewing of very high-resolution image files
- Configurable image slideshow
- Swipe to previous or next image

Advanced PDF viewer
- Support for large or complex PDF documents
- Go To Page

Fast access
- Scrollbar in document viewer
- A folder popup for going back to previously viewed folders
- Automatic jump to last viewed location when opening a document

Security
- Optional password protection of remote access
- Public folder for guest access
- Local passcode lock for app security

Compatibility
- Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard)
- Windows (XP, Vista, 7)
- Linux (GNOME and KDE)
- Any web browser
- Computer-to-iPhone connection requires Wi-Fi network

VIEWABLE FORMATS

- iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), subject to iPhone compatibility
- Web Archive (web pages downloaded by Safari)
- HTML web page
- PDF
- Adobe Illustrator, saved with as PDF Compatible (NEW!)
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
- Plain text (many different file extensions), with automatic character-encoding recognition
- Source code (C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, XML, shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, and more), with color-coded formatting
- Movies, Audio, and Images (standard iPhone formats)

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Tunein Radio
Listen to and record over 40,000 radio stations including thousands of AM/FM local stations on your iPhone or iPod touch with TuneIn Radio!

New features for iOS 4!
_______________________________________

"There are some iPhone apps that it is worth parting with money for, and this is one of them."
- TechCentral.ie - Editor's Choice ✭✭✭✭✭

"...its features are incredibly well designed, and it's far better than the low price suggests."
- MacUser - ✭✭✭✭✭

"While there are plenty of internet radio apps for iPhone, you'd be hard pressed to find one as fully featured as TuneIn Radio."
- TechRadar - ✭✭✭✭✭

"The best mobile radio app" - Sync Blog

"...TuneIn Radio is fantastic. Really." - FoneHome
_______________________________________

See if your favorite stations are available by visiting tunein-radio.com.

We've partnered with RadioTime to give you access to the best radio directory available including music, talk, sports and news stations from all over the world. With RadioTime, you get more than just a list of stations. You get a radio guide that helps you find the shows and stations that matter to you.

Plus, with TuneIn Radio, you can pause and rewind live radio just like your DVR.

NEW FOR iOS 4
• Play all stations, podcasts and recordings in the background on your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and 3rd Gen iPod touch (32/64 GB)
• Control audio playback with the built-in music controls, Apple headphone controls and most dock controls

KEY FEATURES
• Record any station for playback later (on demand or with record timer)
• Alarm Clock
• Play MP3 and AAC stations in the background in Safari on non-multitasking capable devices
• Web browser - Surf the web while listening to your favorite stations
• RadioTime directory featuring 40,000+ radio stations and thousands of radio shows
• Simple, quick, and easy-to-use interface
• Browse or search for your favorite shows and find out what stations they're currently available on
• Browse local stations with GPS or WiFi location
• Search for stations by keyword
• Browse stations by genre, location or language
• Pause live streams for up to 30 minutes
• Rewind and fast forward within last 30 minutes streamed (skip directly to the beginning of songs when listening to stations with song information)
• Listen to podcasts of radio shows when available
• Bookmark your favorite stations, categories or shows
• Sleep timer
• Search for stations playing your favorite song or artist (only select US stations currently supported)

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• Bookmarks list displays current song or show for each station when available
• Show or station logo displayed when available
• Album art displayed when available
• Current song or show information displayed when available
• Tap album art, show or station logo to display additional show or station information when available
• Tap the Options button on the Now Playing view for additional listening options:
- View station schedules when available
- Report problems with streams
- Choose an alternate stream or bit rate when available
- View related and recommended streams, shows and genres
- View station website
- View station twitter page
• Tap button below the currently playing song information for additional options:
- Listen to artist station in Last.fm app
- Buy currently playing song on iTunes
• Skip back 10 second button
• Automatic restart of last playing station on startup
• Automatic reconnect on loss of connection
• Enter custom stream URLs

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IceTV Guide
Far beyond a simple TV guide, the IceTV app can remotely schedule TV recordings on your PVR, Mac or Media Center PC at home, search by keywords, show you what's popular and provide a customisable and personalised TV guide.

For non-subscribers the application provides a 7 day TV guide (registration is free), seeing what's popular with other IceTV users and recommendations. IceTV subscribers can also remotely set shows to record on their PVR at home and more.

Registering for a free account can be done via the IceTV website.

Features:
- Australian and New Zealand free-to-air TV guide for most regions with digital TV
- Remotely schedule TV shows to record (IceTV subscription required)
- Recommendations based on shows you like
- Personalised TV guide for your favourite shows and recordings
- See what’s popular with IceTV users

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Shazam
Lovin’ that tune? Shazam gives you instant satisfaction when you want to know what song is playing. Just point your phone towards the music source to identify and buy the track, or share your discovery with friends and family.

If you are a new Shazam user you’ll be limited to 5 Tags a month.  If you’ve been using Shazam on your current iPhone/iPod touch since before 9th November 2009, you still receive unlimited tagging.

Or why not buy Shazam Encore - the premium version of our app.  Encore comes with extra features including unlimited tagging, previews, recommendations and Tag charts.  Shazam Encore is the fastest, slickest way to discover and share music.

Start your music journey, and enjoy Shazam to:
• Discover and buy music: identify what song is playing; preview and buy the track direct on iTunes, or watch the video on YouTube.
• Share a music moment: Tweet your Tags, post track details to Facebook, or send a postcard to friends who share your music tastes.
• Learn more about music: read track and album reviews, view song lyrics* and artist biographies.
• Personalise your Tags: take and add a photo, or map your Tags, as a reminder of where you where when you captured the moment.
• Store pending Tags: when you don’t have a data connection, you can still capture the music moment. Untagged tracks will be sent when you’re back in WiFi or a data coverage area.

* Lyrics available in the US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.

Buying music requires iTunes Music Store in your country.

A note to iPod touch users: Shazam needs to hear the music sample, which means using a microphone (on the iPhone it's built in, on the iPod touch you can attach an Apple Stereo Headset which has a small microphone capsule). Hold the mic towards the music source and Shazam will do the rest!

None of the competitions featured in Shazam are conducted by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. Please refer to competition pages for applicable terms and conditions before entering.

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Onetap Movies
MACWORLD: “Let’s go out to the movies. OneTap Movies…provides showtime information for movies in your area, but it does it with a slick collapsible list of theaters.” Top Ten Reviews: "4 of 5 Stars."

OneTap Movies™ is the famous ultimate app for movie lovers. From now on you will enjoy the show even when you are searching for a movie now playing at your local theater near you.

With a single tap of your finger OneTap Movies recognizes where you are and displays the nearest movie theaters, along with the movies that are being played, as well as the show times, critic ratings, basic info based on box office sales, posters, etc. You can also watch the trailers or enjoy reading the details for any movie with a link to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Metacritic, & Rotten Tomatoes.

NEW: Ticket sales to theaters who partner with Fandango.

VIDEO DEMO
www.avantar.us/OneTapMoviesDemo

REVIEWS
Publication – MACWORLD: “Let’s go out to the movies. OneTap Movies…provides showtime information for movies in your area, but it does it with a slick collapsible list of theaters”

User Review – PUNKINB1: “(5 Star Rating) Freaking Awesome!...Since I travel a lot I would have to figure out what zip code I was in to find the closest theater. Now with location based services it tells me the closest theaters without the hassle. And to view trailers within 10 seconds or so is totally cool too.”

Blogger – THE FRISKY: “[One of the] 16 best iPhone apps.”

Blogger - /FILMS: “OneTap Movies is the clear winner in the presentation category”

FEATURES
- Fandango movie ticket sales
- Auto detects your location
- Interactive map with driving directions to each theater
- One tap shortcuts: Sort your results by theaters, movie popularity, star ratings, newest movies, additional info based on boxoffice sales
- Modify your default location
- View movie times now showing or up to 5 days ahead
- Links to Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic
- Choose your favorite theaters to show up top by location
- View showtimes for every theater in your vicinity by movie title under the Popular, Rating, and Newest shortcuts
- Results cashing is used to display quicker search results when doing multiple searches in a short period of time
- Refresh listings to reset cashed results

RESULTS INCLUDE
- Movie trailers
- Movie posters
- Movie theaters
- Titles
- Times
- Description
- Critic ratings (stars)
- Movie ratings (PG, R, etc.)
- Movie length

COMPATIBILITY
- iPhone
- iPod touch

COUNTRIES
- United States
- Other: May have to set your location

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Urbanspoon
Can't decide where to eat? Urbanspoon can help. Shake your iPhone and the Urbanspoon slot machine will pick a good restaurant for you to try. Keep shaking until you find a restaurant you're happy with.

FEATURES
+ Uses GPS to find a restaurant near you
+ Filter by neighborhood, cuisine, or price
+ Search and browse local restaurants
+ See a list of all nearby eateries
+ Compare restaurant picks with your friends
+ Ratings and reviews from newspapers, bloggers and fellow eaters

Available in most North American cities as well as London, Sydney and Melbourne.

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Tripview Sydney
TripView displays Sydney Train/Bus/Ferry timetable data on your phone. It features a summary view showing your next services, as well as a full timetable viewer. All timetable data is stored on your phone, so it does not require any network access.

Notes:
- TripView supports multiple bus routes / train lines in the same trip. Just edit the trip, click on the line name, and select additional lines as necessary.
- If you're going to leave a review claiming that the timetable is not accurate, please email me with details so that I can fix it. Timetable accuracy is my highest priority, and as far as I'm aware the data is 100% accurate, so if you do find a problem - I want to know about it. Thanks!
- For more news and updates, follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/nickmaher

Features:
- Define trips using presets (source/destination/lines)
- Multi-segment trips (can mix trains/buses/ferries)
- Auto route calculation for train trips
- Summary view allows you to scroll through all matching trips for the week, showing ETA and arrival/departure times
- Route editor lets you edit or extend a trip (e.g. change at a different station)
- Reverse a trip by tapping the station names in the title
- Scrolling blue "plasma" indicator display
- Full browseable timetable
- Get directions to nearest stations, using GPS (trains only)
- Automatically selects weekday/weekend timetable
- Supports services that only run on select days (e.g. late night friday/saturday)
- Supports all suburban and intercity CityRail services
- Displays special stop flags (e.g. pickup / setdown only)
- Where trains proceed from one line to another, timetables are seamlessly merged (e.g. North Shore and Northern Line)
- All views update in real time
- Information on train delays from CityRail
- Small application size (~2MB including all timetable data)
- Timetable updates can be downloaded from within the app

NOTE: Timetable data is derived from the web based timetables, so it does not take into account any delays, cancellations, or trackwork. Best efforts are taken to ensure timetable accuracy, but no guarantees are made. If you find an error in the timetable, please email contact@grofsoft.com with details, and it will be fixed in the next release.

Known issues:
- All trains on the plasma display are currently shown as "8 Cars" and "Limited Stops"
- Note that not all bus trips are reversible, because the stop names in the opposite direction are sometimes different.
- No support for public holidays or trackwork

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ESPN Cricinfo Mobicast
Get live cricket scores and Cricinfo’s famous ball by ball commentary updates pushed to your iPhone or iPod Touch in real time. This application will automatically update, eliminating the need for constant web page refreshes and long waits. With stunning game time visuals from Getty Images and the latest news from Cricinfo, this is a must have for all cricket fans. Also included are several audio podcast features from experts such as Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Geoff Boycott. This application is brought to you by Cricinfo and Plusmo.

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Angry Birds
#1 IPHONE PAID APP in US, UK, Canada, Italy, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Singapore, Poland, France, Netherlands, Malta, Greece, Austria, Australia, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Belgium, Norway, Hungary, Malaysia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Romania, New Zealand, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Mauritius, Chile, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Taiwan, Colombia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Kenya, Macedonia, Croatia, Macau, Paraguay, Peru, Armenia, Philippines, Vietnam, Jordan, Kuwait and Malta.

#1 IPHONE PAID GAME in more countries than we can count!

AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE for version 1.3.3 = 4.84 / 5.

“Lemme tell ya, these ain’t no ordinary finches we’re talkin’ about. These here are the Angry Birds, the ones that’s gonna kick you in the ‘nads. And they’re the ones on your side. They must be from Galapadapados, or sumptin’.” – Col. Angus, Bird Expert.

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 165 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.

Protect wildlife or play Angry Birds!

Features 165 levels, leaderboards, achievements, Facebook and Twitter integration, and lots and lots of Angry Birds!

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