A brief review of the best 5 iPod Touch Applications:
While it doesn't support Skype or Facebook, this multi Instant Messenger program is free and works great. It's ad supported (meaning you're going to see some ads while using it), but this is worth it because of the price - free! There is a version of this iPod Touch Application without ads, but you have to pay for it.
So what IM services does it support? AIM/iChat, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpaceIM, which is quite impressive when you think about it. No more worrying about signing into all of these networks separately. All in all, it's a great (free!) way to keep in touch with your iPod Touch.
If you use your iPod touch for email frequently, this is a must-have free iTouch app. It's so useful many people think that it should be part of the basic iPod Touch software. It's a really simple application, but it's extremely useful if you do a lot of typing. Basically, it lets you turn your iPod to landscape and get a wide keyboard.
As you can imagine, this free iPod Touch app makes it a lot easier to type, especially if you have large fingers. It would be better if you could use it for typing in other apps instead of just email, but it's still something you need if you do a lot of touch typing on your iPod Touch.
The Google Earth you know and love on the Internet is now available as a free app for the iPod Touch. The reasons to love Google Earth are the same for both platforms, but this free application is made especially for the Apple iPod Touch, meaning it works really well. Granted this might not be as useful as some of the latest mapping devices for getting you from place to place, but it is very, very cool.
You can pinch to zoom and rotate the map, really immersing yourself. You can see one third of the world's land mass using Google Earth iTouch app - using the exact same maps with Google Earth online. This makes this free iTouch apps one of the more powerful and cool ones currently available.
Another great app that comes from a cool website online is Pandora Radio for the Apple iPod Touch. If you're a music lover, you probably already know about Pandora. If you don't, you're in for quite a treat. Pandora is a free music streaming service that allows you to customize your listening experience. It does this by tapping into the Music Genome Project. Basically, you type in a band or artist that you like, and Pandora will pick similar music that you may like. By giving the songs a thumbs up or thumbs down, you can "train" your radio station to be one that you love to listen to.
This is one of the better iPod Touch apps for Twitter. While there are other applications that let you sync up with Twitter, this one is based on a website that works well. And being specialized to just Twitter, you know it's full of features that are Twitter specific. If you want a better way to Tweet from your iPod Touch, Twitterific is one terrific application.