Top 10 Free Apps Lists for the iPod

This app is perhaps the fastest growing social networking app for the iPod. It lets you find new ways of exploring your city, find where your friends are, and learn about new places they visit frequently. It's a great social recommendation site that you can use anywhere, in real-time with your iPod Touch. FourSquare has recently been getting a lot of funding as well as support from major brands. One thing I enjoy about FourSquare and is perhaps also the reason why many are enjoying this app is the cool-looking icons that you get the more information when you check-in and rate different places. If you haven't tried FourSquare on your iPod, now is the right time to give it a shot. (iTunes Link)

At first you might find this app seemingly useless. But if you connect to the Internet a lot, you certainly need this app. Basically, what it does is to scan your surroundings and identify WiFi hotspots. It automatically connects you to free WiFi hotspots as well as to those hotspots with WEP or WPA if the SSID of the access points are not hidden. eWiFi is a pretty useful app that saves money when connecting to the Internet. (iTunes Link)

This app is one of the widely used music app for the iPod Touch. It provides you with a free personalized radio that streams to your iPod Touch via WiFi. The app lets you specify the name of the artists, type of songs you want to listen to, or even the composers name, and it will create a station that streams the music based on what you've specified. Pandora's iPod Touch app integrates with your web-based Pandora account as well. (iTunes Link)

If you're a heavy Google user, there's no reason why you shouldn't get this app for your iPod. Some of its great features include search by voice, my location, search suggest, search history, contact search, and vertical search. But what makes this app so great is the fact that it integrates other Google mobile apps including Maps, Calendar, Latitude, Tasks, Reader, Docs and more. (iTunes Link)

This app could be the best way for you to follow the events of the ongoing Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. This free iPod Touch app is location-aware and gives you real-time results for each of the Olympics sporting events, lists of all sports, ceremonies, and cultural events, cultural Olympiad events, list of free concerts and festivities, schedules, maps and directions to 80 venues, personalized favorites and other Olympic news. If you want to know the latest happenings in the Olympics anytime, anywhere, go get this app on your iPhone. (iTunes Link)

Movies by Flixster is hailed as the best movie app for the iPod Touch. It's not really surprising since the app has tons of great features to give you your movie fix. This app lets you view the top box office leaders, upcoming movies and new DVD releases, watch high quality trailer and video clips, view and manage your Netflix queue, buy or rent movies from iTunes, and more great features. (iTunes Link)