Grab the frogs hopping by and sling them into whichever receptacle is on offer ahead of you – the directional aim line makes this very easy.

You can collect power ups by hitting them on the way to the bucket or whatever you’re aiming at, and this helps increase your score as you attempt to nab more stars per level.

It’s not a terribly original game, and the only real fun we had was the fact we could change the blood colour of the splatted frogs between red and green.

A game that passes the time and won’t cost you a dime… but not our favourite title.

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WNM is a slightly odd take on the same old thing we’re used to time and again, basically fusing Twitter and Facebook, allowing you to follow anyone but comment on a post they make.

You can search by mutual interest, or simply who is nearby – making it a very easy thing to get a little bit too close to somebody if they’re quite open with their information.

Push settings make it easy to keep up to date when someone posts a comment on something you’ve said, or people you’ve clicked to ‘watch’ (again, eerie) do something.

Unsurprisingly, it’s seemingly full of teenage girls and slightly predatory looking older gents (plus a smattering of ‘normals’) and it makes having a conversation a little tricky – although if you’re into random conversations with randoms, it’s great for that, plus you can use internet calling over 3G or Wi-Fi too.

Not our favourite app – and we’re deleting our account as soon as we can, but popular with some, so at least take a look if you’re into a social network ‘scene’.

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Sadly, the yoof of today has things like TECHNOLOGY to help it out when it comes to learning the basics of tying your first neckwear. Now when Papa comes, places a heavy hand on their shoulder and says: ‘It is time’, the kids will just go ‘nah mate, done it wit dis app and t’ing.’

It’s not the app’s fault in fairness, as it does the basics very well and helps teach you to tie several different styles of knot around your neck. We’re interested to see where the likes of the Four-in-hands are needed, but the casual look is one we applaud.

With easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, this is an application that really does show you how to tie a tie. If only it did scarves too…

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However, sometimes you’re in a shop and you simply can’t decide whether you’re being ripped off or should just pay the price and to hell with the online world. That’s where ShopSavvy comes in, offering up a wide range of prices from different stores to help you decide whether you’re getting a bargain or not.

It seems to work best over Wi-Fi in our tests, which is annoying as that’s generally when you’re at home and not shopping for bargains – or if you are, then you’re on the internets on the big computer already.

The app has a number of features: search by barcode, QR code or manual, and look for local vendors using a map and Bing Local to help you out. In our experience, it’s good for only a few things: looking to see if that box set in HMV is really worth it, or whether there’s a book on the market that can be bought new online.

While you can compare the price of beans or potatoes, it’s not really that useful, and the amount of time trekking around to save won’t be too much.

It’s also got a few foibles: a Tesco bottle of water came back as a pair of girl’s neon gloves. That would have been alright, except it couldn’t find any of them online…

A fine app, it’s free and will probably save you money on DVDs. Can’t really complain, eh?

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Tile Flood is a game that, well, floods a board with tiles of a different colour, and you get to wipe out a single hue at a time while moving from one side of the board to another. Do it in fewer than your allotted steps, and you’ll get more points. Simple, really.

It’s a game that’s been around for years as a simple Flash effort online, so most people will be familiar with the concept.

There are a couple of modes here: normal and time trial, with the latter providing a fun way to scare and destroy your own self worth as you find yourself unable to recognise colours at speed.

There’s not much more the game than that, other than being able to choose your palette of colours, which means it’s a bit steep for the game when there are so many other that offer very similar game play (minus the time trial) for free.

But if you want to stay sharp and alert in the field of Tile Flooding, this game will allow that.

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Well, worry no more as you can make HIM look like the simpleton if he doesn’t have a QR reader installed on one of his many phones.

The notion is simple – you type in some data into the given fields and a QR code is generated that can, in theory be ready by many devices. However, in practice, we had wildly varied results, with only other Windows Phone devices managing to pick up the bulk of the info.

It’s also curious that this app doesn’t let you scan QR codes as well – surely that’s a no brainer.

You can save multiple cards to the app, but we’re not sure why you’d want to do that unless you were a regular moonlighter… hmm, nope, no idea there.

A simple app that really doesn’t work in practice – this needs to be properly cross platform to be recommended.

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My Reading List is a very simple application, that will appeal to those people that want to read simply every book they find, but forget about them far too easily.

You can easily type in the name of the author and title, and pin it to a Live Tile to keep a track of all the tomes you’re thinking of reading.

You can also mark a book as borrowed, meaning you won’t incur the wrath of your friends for holding on to titles for too long.

There’s meant to be extra functionality that lets you scan a barcode in Bing Vision and it will get added to your book collection in this app, but it seems the functionality hasn’t made it to the UK as yet.

An easy to use suite of tools that let you keep track of all the novels you’ve got on the go, and is one of the few apps to let you store future tomes lest you get distracted in WH Smiths.

However, it costs a bit much for something that a little piece of paper or note in your phone could manage just as well.

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However, 3D Marble Tracks is a little different in that there’s no tutorial other than a confusing set of pictures inciting you to pull back on the marble and watch it fly – and you appear to be doing that ad naseum until suddenly a gate appears, and you realise you’ve been trying to reach that in as few moves as possible.

You can then play against yourself to try and best that, with the image of the last marble showing you want you need to aim for – although you can only attempt to beat one of you previous efforts, not a whole leaderboard.

You can play against others online, which is where this game gets most of its credit from us – you can see how far everyone else managed to fling their marble, which adds an element of competitiveness.

It’s one of the middling Windows Phone games, but for no cash up front, we can’t really hate it.

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And then a game comes along. One so simple, so infuriatingly addictive and yet so FREE that we cannot help but fall to our knees and praise any God that’s listening.

We’re fans of Physi Bricks, by the way.

It’s not very difficult to explain really: you decide how big a stone ball you want, you ping it at a block of bricks, and try to make them fall down. Certain balls cost more points, and the more you use, the more your score dwindles.

But use too many and you can’t get the Three Heart level that you will ultimately crave every time you aim at the green stacks of bricks – and that’s what keeps us going back for more.

With loads of levels, some seemingly impossible levels to beat and no price associated, we love this app: think Angry Birds levels of fun before it became all commercial.

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It’s a simple premise – you’re offered a bunch of different coloured tiles on the board, and it’s up to you to keep changing the colours from the top left hand corner to the bottom right to completely flood the game arena with a single hue.

It’s a lot simpler than it sounds, and the gameplay offered up by this application also offers a similar simplicity – there’s not a lot going on here other than the gameplay, and that’s the way we like it.

The only real things you can customise are a) the size of the board and b) the colours with which you are playing, should the day-glo affect of the default theme not appeal.

There are many other such titles on the market at the moment, but this is our favourite as it keeps your score, doesn’t cost a penny and is easy to use.

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We won’t beat about the bush here or jerk you around – this is an app offers you the chance to check out some ladies with whichever eye you fancy.

Some of the categories on offer will give you an idea of the kind of thing we’re dealing with here: Sexy Asian, Uniform and Wet & Wild. We won’t tell you which one we’re fans off, Nurse.

Tap the category that floats your boat and you’ll get a gallery of girls in said pose, with the option to download as you want.

That’s pretty much where the fun ends though, and it’s not really offering much more than a quick internet image search could muster (which we found out through our diligent research).

For the price it’s a little bit sparse on the ol’ content, and that’s what brings the score down so far – but then again, there’s always money to be made out of the chance to look at pretty girls so we’re sure this will do just fine for some.

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However, there are some fun extra features here that we’ve enjoyed, and make it worth looking at if you’re looking for your favourite way of finding out if it’s cold outside.

For instance, it uses images drawn from Bing as a background when you’re panning around, and the fact it’s all on one ‘Panorama’ means all the information you need is easily accessible.

You can see a lot of info around temperature over the coming days, pop your favourite locations as a Live Tile or simply just find out if it will be raining soon.

There are a couple of foibles though, as the Live Tile seems to struggle when updating at times, which makes it slightly redundant if you can’t trust in it.

Also it’s a little clunky to use – the layout might be simple, but each screen is a little crowded for our tastes and can make the info hard to make out a glance.

Plus there are cheaper options out there that give similar information – so this is definitely a ‘try before you buy’ in our opinion.

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This application is designed to help out the troubled user who has strayed away from home and needs to find the nearest route back – or the seasoned traveller who needs updates on when their next bus will be popping along.

You’ve got an easy to use interface that allows you to search via postcode or address, and from here users can simply see the time their next bus is due thanks to an extensive timetable database.

Live Tile updates aren’t quite there as yet allowing you to see how far away your bus is, but you can pin your favourite routes to the start screen for easy access information whenever you need it.

The icing on cake comes to the lucky Londoners, as using TFL data the app is able to mimic the countdown displays you’ll see adorning most bus stops. This doesn’t seem to work as well over 3G as it does Wi-Fi, but overall it’s a very well-thought out app that’s definitely worth considering should you be a regular user of the bus. Or just afraid of missing one…

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This Microsoft-crafted title is a rarity in the Windows Phone Marketplace, in that it’s actually a free, ad-funded application that actually offers up a lot of decent elements.

Firstly, there’s the fact you can unlock Achievement points, which you’d usually have to pay a premium for. And the gameplay is pretty smooth too, as once the tutorial is out of the way it’s pretty easy to jump from square to square.

The boards are hugely varied in difficulty as well, meaning everyone from the casual user to the extreme player will enjoy what’s on offer.

There’s the added element of Powerups too, meaning you can spend tokens (gained by playing) and these help you on your way – but we have to say it felt a little like cheating.

With leaderboards and a glut of content to play with, if you’re a Sudoku stalwart you’ll love this app.

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It’s a difficult one to review, as there’s not a lot here that we feel is missing from a Twitter app – you can check out everything from your timeline to Twitter mentions in an instant.

There are only a couple of novel things here, such as telling you the average amounts of Tweets per day (which we’ve not seen anywhere else) and the ability to Translate a Tweet. However, this latter functionality doesn’t seem to work in practice, despite confirming the translation.

It’s also light on user info from the main columns, meaning its sometimes difficult to see who is saying something without tapping into it.

Some other cool features include the ability to have a Live Tile that shows a random selection of Twitter users in the same manner as the People Hub on the phone.

Overall, and especially for the price, a really good app despite a slightly convoluted UI and the odd translation option.

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The interface is pretty nice, using the phone’s camera to show what’s in front of you (should you be unable to see over the phone) and popping the degrees of the compass on the top.

You’ve got a few options to play with here, meaning you can have the standard phone screen with slight information, or the full pointy compass like you used to get in your shoe.

The accuracy depends on the GPS chip to function correctly, and the phone can become uncalibrated easily it seems, meaning you have to flip it about a bit to get the accuracy back up – although the app is good at telling you how correct the reading is.

However, there are a few foibles: the compass is a little juddery at times, meaning a certain amount of trial and error to get the direction right.

It would be nice to see some synchronisation with mapping apps as well, but we can’t expect too much from the price.

We’d recommend the ad-funded version as it doesn’t offer a very different experience – and it helps makes up for the limited experience.

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The game play is as fun as ever (despite the annoying start up movie that’s a MINUTE long but can thankfully be turned off) and offers up a simple golfing game that comes with a variety of modes and settings, from Instant Play (a short tour through a few courses) to a longer Career mode.

The gameplay is simple enough – aim using the map to see where the ball will land, select a club (using the clever club selection wheel) and start your shot. Accuracy is gained through tapping the power at the correct points and can be achieved pretty easily when you get used to the game.

The only real problem we’ve found is properly getting the accuracy on the direction of your shots – the touchscreen doesn’t seem to register as well as we’d hope it would and you do have to spend a fair amount of time messing about when it comes to elements like putting.

The cost is high, but there are a wide range of achievements (although word is some of them aren’t achievable, so we’ll be looking to see that updated) and Leaderboards are a nice touch to enticing further game play.

A fun title that offers gameplay that mostly offers the correct level of fun for the cost – but it is a lot cheaper on rival platforms.

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So that’s why apps are such a key part of this area of life – giving you the information to hand when you need it. While we wouldn’t recommend only busting out this app when someone is choking, there’s a lot of solid information here.

However, while the likes of CPR, Heimlich manoeuvres and recovery positions are covered here, there’s not a lot more depth on offer. The instructions are rather hard to follow in places as well, with each step not superbly laid out.

It’s also clearly a translated app, with such helpful information as how to shout for help (‘Shout Help’, apparently) and many captions in another language.

But it’s free, contains the right information (once you get your head around what’s going on) and could help save someone’s life… it’s just there are better options out there on Windows Phone Marketplace.

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It’s not the world’s most in-depth applications, as it’s simply a place to activate Wi-Fi, data, Bluetooth and Flight Mode.

The key comes with being able to set the Live Tiles to activate each connection separately – only Wi-Fi and data are able to show the current status of the switch, with Bluetooth unable to repeat the trick.

Windows Phone doesn’t make it easy for applications like this, as you can’t switch things on and off from the home screen – but that doesn’t mean things aren’t made a lot easier by installing this app on your phone.

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Addison Lee is one of the biggest providers of taxis in the country, so it makes sense that it would have an application on most platforms – although the Windows Phone option is the best out there.

The reason isn’t the fact you can simply select a cab from loads of locations in the UK – it’s the additional functionality on top too.

The main, winning feature in our eyes is the Live Tile, where once you finally book the taxi a little map sits on your home screen showing the location of the cab as it winds its way to you.

If you’ve got an account with the firm already then it’s as easy as pie to book a cab and be on your way – a few taps to enter the location (or select from your current position on the map using GPS) and the cab is booked and on its way.

In short, there’s not much we could think of that we’d want in a cab app – perhaps the chance to rate your driver, but that’s being really picky.

If you’re after a slick service, this is the app to be picking up when you want picking up.

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But if you’re not at that stage yet, you’ll probably want to keep up with what’s going on, and this free app is pretty good for that.

Firstly, you can set up dedicated feeds to only stay up to date with the categories you really are bothered about – although we couldn’t find all the options offered on the main BBC site.

The breaking news stories will also appear in both push notifications and on the Live Tile as well if you keep that option set up – not a bad way to keep you interacting with the applications. It’s annoying you can’t customise these to another feed that isn’t just breaking news though.

The navigation is pretty clunky as well, with all the sections defaulting back to the old order every time the app is opened – if we’ve set up feeds, we want to see those first please.

Not a bad way to digest news on the go, and pretty speedy too – plus options to jump out to the mobile navigation. A bit of work tarting things up with more customisation and this would be a winner.

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Thankfully there’s an app that can deal with all that business – Reuters Finance might not be official, but it’s certainly got all the feeds from the website.

You can view by sector, markets or drill down to the areas you want to see more often – which is often the way you’ll want to see what’s going on in the key areas you’ve chucked your money.

You can set certain stories as your favourites to keep a track of the key timelines of certain companies, and it’s a simple tap to see them all in one place.

It’s not one of the indispensable apps in your life, but if these are the markets you need to follow, there aren’t many better free apps.

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It’s an interesting app – like most other weather software for phones, but with a distinctly Norwegian slant. For instance, all the UK regions are on offer when searched for, but the default high/low temperature information is always stuck on Norway. (How can people live in -39 degrees?)

But look beyond that and we’re offered a pretty nifty app indeed – there’s a wealth of information once you get the settings sorted. Bing Maps is integrated, periodic weather information is on offer for a week in advance and the ability to pin locations as Live Tiles is ace.

The main downside is the updating of said tile – like most, it’s not always great at keeping itself refreshed, despite telling it to do so as frequently as possible.

But beyond that we can find very little fault with this application – and if you’re into Norwegian temperature monitoring it’s very much a five star option.

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Jet Car Stunts is one of our favourite cross platform titles, and it fits nicely into the bracket of ‘more costly on Windows Phone but as good as the iPhone version’ apps that we’re getting used to.

The controls, simply managed through tilting the handset, are as nimble as ever, and aren’t over the top in terms of sensitivity (which can be levelled at some phones).

The achievements are, well, achievable all over the place, and do add an extra gaming element to proceedings.

Graphically it’s perfect for Windows Phone as well, with the polygons well rendered and frames very rarely dropped. In fact, the more we write about it, the more we want to play it now we’ve paid the exorbitant price. We’re off…

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So when THE MAN says we can’t talk to our buddies on other mobile phone operating systems, well… we’re not having that.

This is one of the big things that’s fuelled the popularity of this chatting application, allowing you to connect up simply by entering a phone number and getting access to your address book.

You’ll probably be surprised how many people are on board already – but sadly, you’ll probably be disappointed with how many are actually still active.

It’s nice to see contacts and their pictures, but not being able to see the last time someone logged in until you tap into their name renders it pretty annoying at times.

The Live Tile and push notification updates don’t seem too reliable – although do work most of the time to keep you up to date, and the location sharing could be useful.

In short, a decent cross platform application that goes a long way to solving the problem of smartphone fragmentation – but doesn’t solve it.

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