With over 2 billion downloads already, Apple’s App Store for the Iphone and Ipod Touch is certainly very popular.

A search through Apple’s Itunes App Store either via your home computer or Iphone will bring up literally thousands of applications (Apps) that are available for instant download. From games like the increasingly popular ‘Rolando’ to major social networking apps like Facebook. The vast range of products that are presented to the consumer are constantly growing in both size and diversity.

To highly over simplify the nature of the App Store, there are basically two types of apps: free and paid.

The saying goes, ‘you don’t get anything for free’. This has become a somewhat dated quote as of late. As Apple’s App Store now allows the capability to download a wide variety of FREE full functional and useful ‘mini programmes’. These come under many categories: games, utilities, music, sports and news to name but a few. Currently I believe there to be 20 categories to search from.

Some Free Apps I have found to be of great use (or worthy novelty value)

The Big Boys
Facebook
Ebay
Flickr
Sky Sports Score centre
Rightmove
Howcast
Tv Guide

Small is Beautiful
Twitterrific
Ifooty
Sound Box
Joey Susbilla’s Feed Reader