This month there's European football and old-fashioned fairground games, a notepad par excellence, notes from abroad, a novel way to exchange contact information and a singing alarm clock. Well, why wouldn't you?

Now that the UEFA Champions League and the newly formed Europa League have kicked off for a new season of thrills, spills and money-spinning, keep up to date on your iPhone with results, news, photos and videos courtesy of UEFA.com (free). Needs an Internet connection but the quality of the videos is great, and the access to key players and coaches makes this a must for fans of both tournaments.

Speaking of ‘musts', from time to time a signature iPhone app comes along that takes all that wonderful technology and uses it for something that's at once useful and head-shakingly stupid. Enter Bump (free) which lets you - yes - bump iPhones together and then exchange your photo, e-mail or contact details with your fellow bumpee. Choose the information you want to exchange from the home screen, bump phones together and wait. It takes about 10 seconds.

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We know what it's like to get out of the wrong side of the bed in the morning and grump your way through the day, so we appreciate Awaken (£1.19). Use the built-in alarms or the music stored on your iPhone, then set the timer to play you out at night - it fades gently away - and then wake you up again in the morning. Set multiple alarms, choose from three different clock styles (we especially like the flip clock) and if you're in an unfamiliar place at night, shake the phone to turn it into a torch so you can find your way to the bathroom.

There are plenty of note-taking apps for the iPhone but there's nothing quite like Awesome Note (£2.39). Cleverly organised and beautifully realised with screen furniture that reminds you just how polished an iPhone app can be, it's also got plenty under the hood. The home screen sees notes arranged in tabbed folders, each with their own style and colour scheme, together with the ability to edit, delete and add your own. Create quick notes on the fly, assign them to a folder, then export or back them up to your Google account. Version 2.0 even adds to-do lists, making this our current note-taker-cum-organiser of choice.

For notes of another kind, look no further than Postman (0.59p) which lets you take a live photo (or one from the camera roll) and turn it into an electronic postcard. Select a photo, frame it, add a title for the front and a message for the back, change the fonts to suit and then share it via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr; alternatively, use the iPhone's built-in GPS to grab your current location from Google Maps and use that for the front of the card - great for party invitations - then save the results on your phone or upload them to www.postmanapp.com and send the URL to friends.

Finally, we're going to kill whoever invented Ramp Champ (£1.19); in a good way of course. This faithful recreation of old time fairground games (although differently themed, each separate game is essentially throw-the-ball-and-win-a-prize) is one of the finest, most atmospheric - and most frustrating - iPhone games yet.

The nine-balls-a-game limit means there's always time for another go, and scores required to achieve your points goals (which are exchanged for prizes) seem tantalisingly within reach. They're not. You get four games, creepy calliope music, disturbing sound effects and at one point we're sure some crafty carny lifted our wallet.

As above. All the apps are available from the App Store on iTunes.