Last year I recieved an iPod Touch 2nd Generation for my birthday.  My 40gig iPod photo had died and I wanted a new one.  What makes the Touch and iPhone so good is all the apps you can run on them.  Here are four of my favorite apps:

Chess With Friends is a fun and free chess game.  Whats really nice is you and your opponent do not need to be online at the same time to play.  Games within the app get updated when you or your opponent make a move.  If anyone feels like challenging me my user name is Shack70.

Tweetie is a clean, easy and simple to use Twitter application.  Even though it cost $2.99 it is worth every penny to a Twitter user.  Everything you can do from the website you can do with Tweetie and more.  Some of the extra stuff included with Tweetie are: find other Twitter users near you, follow Twitter trends and a good search.  Follow me on Twitter.

ComicZeal is a free digital comic reader.  There are several digital comic readers in the iTunes store but ComicZeal is about the best one.  Comic Zeal allows you to add your own digital comics and read them on the iPhone/Touch.  ComicZeal Sync is a stand alone application that will allow you to covert digital comics you have on your PC or Mac and transfer them to the iPhone/Touch for viewing within ComicZeal created by the makers of ComicZeal.  Comics look really good in ComicZeal and can viewed in portrait or landscape.  Zoom is also availible for thos hard to read word bubbles.

Stanza is a free ebook reader for the iPhone/Touch.  With the use of a desktop app provided by the makers of Stanza you can port you ebooks over to the iPhone/Touch and carry a small library with you.  Stanza is very customizable allowing you to adjust things such as font, font size, text color and background color.  There is no support for PDF files at this point.

I’ll post more iPhone/iPod Touch apps later.