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We weren't exactly sure whether Apple was going to approve third-party video calling apps using the front camera on the iPhone 4, but good news: the answer is "yes." Fring just slid in a new version of its longstanding iPhone app today featuring support for video calling, which is pretty awesome in and of itself -- but the real news is that it works just fine over 3G, as you can see in our quick test above between Chicago and London. This opens the door for services that could have potentially broader implications than FaceTime itself, since Apple's service is limited to WiFi and currently only works between iPhone 4s. Just make sure you're wearing clothes when you call, alright?

fringe calls over 3G including video calls!

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Name: GateGuru

Quick Pitch: GateGuru is designed to redefine the in-airport experience.

Genius Idea: Even for those of us who travel frequently, airline travel can make the most calm among us want to pull their hair out. GateGuru’s iPhone app [iTunes link] serves as a mobile directory for 100 different airports in the U.S. and Canada, and can help you avoid travel headaches, at least for the airport portion of your trip.

The app experience is pretty much self-explanatory, and you can poke around inside the airport nearest you (and checkin if you’re at the airport), the last airport you visited or select one for the app’s list. You can then choose to peruse the entire airport or limit your digital airport exploration to a particular terminal or concourse.

The terminal/concourse guide is essentially the meat of the application, so you can see a comprehensive listing of all airport amenities, or filter for just food, shops or services. Each amenity has its own GateGuru listing so users can view the exact location, add photos, write and read reviews, update information or bookmark a place for future reference.

GateGuru also includes a gaming element reminiscent of Foursquare’s leaderboard. In the HighFlyers section, users are awarded points for checking-in to airports, rating and reviewing amenities. This month JetBlue is sponsoring the contest, so the member that accrues the most points nationally for the month of June will win two free JetBlue tickets. Regional winners will also get $100 gift cards.

Overall, we find the app to be a handy airport utility and may make those stressful travel experiences much more manageable, and possibly more rewarding.

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So...Let me get this straight...at a time when we have cars are accelerating out of control, we are going to remove the human from the control?

So...Let me get this straight...at a time when we have cars are accelerating out of control, we are going to remove the human from the control?

 Proof, if you ever wanted it, that Apple is mos' def' getting into the idea of RFID technology for its devices. The firm has lodged a patent called Concert Ticket + that will enable it to get into the gig market, selling gig tickets over iTunes. As well as gigs, consumers will be able to buy tickets for sporting events, theme parks, and even wedding invitations--more about that in a bit--and even use their iPhones to get through the turnstiles. (Backup battery power: now a must.) Kinda blows this out of the water, doesn't it?

The patent also shows a management system which lets the user's mobile device to sync with their other devices, such as a desktop or laptop computer--and, although it's not mentioned, the iPad. Apple has added a whole load of extra functions to Concert Ticket + that go way beyond paying for, and entering, an event. There's the potential to offer live CDs to the concertgoers, discounts on products, and the ability to pay for merchandise and drinks directly via their phones, access to song lyrics and buying the artist's songs during the gig, and even pre-paid, discounted parking. Hopefully Apple will supply a free lighter app to use during the slow numbers.

As for the wedding market, well, imagine being able to access tux-hire stores, maps to the event, the program, buy the music featured during the party, as well as the wedding video, or photos. If you thought there was no way Apple could monetize someone's nuptials, you're wrong.

All of this is proof of just how Cupertino envisages the future--and it's totally iPhone and iTunes-dominated. In a decade, are we going to be able to buy just about everything quick and disposable via Apple's media portal. It's a whole lot more simple to use than PayPal, for example (although the only way you can currently receive money from iTunes is through its gift certificate system--in 50 years' time, perhaps our employers will be paying our salaries via iTunes? Possibly, when all the banks have migrated there. Don't forget, Apple has got $50 billion in cash--and it's thinking very hard how to spend it.

Related Stories: Eminem's Lawsuit Against Apple Headed to Federal Court? Undead Tech: the Ultra-Thin Notebook iTunes Update Blocks Palm Pre Syncing

Topics: Technology, iphone, RFID, Apple, smartphones, concert ticket +, Apple patent, itunes, everything is apple, , Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Science and Technology, Technology, Internet

What if you could purchase concert tickets and arrive at the show with your iphone. show your iphone based tickets --> check, buy food and drinks --> check, buy cool new CD --> check -------> Priceless!

Check out this cool solution for the windowless room. I have used a few generations old solution handing outdoor stills in my office for years. While it is a bit pricey, it a very impressive use of technology.

i've enjoyed using mobile navigation maps whenever i joy riding in someone else's car or traveling as a passenger. I gotta say that using google map navigation is perhaps the best. It's completely free and it's faster at finding alternative routes if i miss my turns. and it has a lot built goodies. Neat part is when you get to a certain destination, it'll show you a 3D view of the place. Sometime it's off, but you can log on and correct it online (pending review).

Here is a list of 100 Apps for your business.  These apps are grouped by category and contain a link to the iTunes Store.  If you have others to add to the list, leave a comment.

Accounting

1. iTimeSheet: Track the time you spend on certain projects so that you’re billable hours report is accurate.
2. QuickBooks Online: This mobile version of QuickBooks will work on Apple phones.
3. iTarget: With iTarget, you can organize your target earnings and growth.
4. iSpend: Track business and travel expenses with this app.
5. Accept Credit Cards: Use your iPhone to run credit cards with this app.
6. MileBug: Keep track of mileage used on business trips and on company hours with this tool.
7. Mint.com iPhone: This basic budgeting program now works on the iPhone.
8. Financer Lite: This app helps you manage your checking and savings accounts, as well as special business accounts.
9. Calc-12E RPN Financial Calculator: Manage three different cash flow scenarios at the same time with this serious financial calculator.
10. Omni Invoice: This app is a little pricey, but it saves you a lot of time and mess when organizing and creating invoices.
11. Receipts: Save your receipts and monitor spending using this app.
12. Time Master: Time Master is another time tracking tool that lets you run multiple timers.
13. iFinance: Stay current on market summaries with this app, which grants access to NASDAQ, DOW and S&P 500 charts.
14. Payometer: When you get discouraged, use this tool to calculate how much money you’re making by the millisecond.

Calendars and To-Do Lists

With these iPhone apps, you’ll be able to prioritize tasks, schedule meetings and never get off track.

1. SmartTime Schedule Organizer: This organizer helps your prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and more.
2. iDarumaWork: Set goals with this quirky app.
3. Wall Calendar: If you miss the simplicity of a wall calendar, this app lets you use your Google Calendar as your wallpaper on your iPhone.
4. TodoKanban: This slightly bizarre but helpful to-do list manager lets you chart tasks on different colored sticky notes.
5. Hour Glass Time Tracker: This tool helps you prioritize your tasks.
6. Holidays Calendar: This app figures out fixed and movable calendars for multiple countries.
7. Gmail iPhone Sync: Sync up Google Calendar, Gmail and Google Contacts with your iPhone.
8. Toodleoo: Manage and prioritize your various to-do lists and tasks with this app.
9. Done: Use Done to save your tasks as wallpaper.
10. Masterplan: This app helps you designate tasks to other employees while keeping track of milestones and deadlines.

Travel

Use these apps to stay organized and on time while you travel for work.

1. Find a Taxi: Use this app to locate taxi and limo services based on your location.
2. TraveLog Mileage Tracker: Manage work trips more easily with this app.
3. Packing: Create packing lists for different trips using this app.
4. Airport Codes: Look up airport information with these codes.
5. Flight Status: If the ticket agents aren’t being helpful, look up your flight status with this app.
6. Here is Beijing: If you frequently travel to Beijing, use this app to learn about culture, tourist attractions, food and more.
7. My Gate Maps: This useful map helps you navigate around airports like LAX, DEN, BOS, IAH, PHX, JFK, MIA, LGA, DCA, SFO, and others.
8. LocalEats: Eat well even when you’re in a strange city. This app covers 50 U.S. cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, New Orleans, Seattle, and others.
9. Translator with Voice: This app will translate sentences in Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch, among other languages.
10. World Customs: Never be the ugly American again when you have this guide to help you understand unfamiliar world customs.

Client Relations

Make your each of your clients feel like he or she is your number one priority without compromising other areas of your business.

1. CardSnap: Upload images of business cards to your iPhone with this tool.
2. FollowUp: Remind yourself and others to follow up on conversations. This app also tracks communications and saves contacts.
3. AT&T Virtual Receptionist: Set up a pleasant voice mail greeting with call forwarding and a toll-free number.
4. GolfCard Lite: If you can’t make it to an actual country club, play golf and practice your game on this app.
5. Yahoo! oneConnect: With this tool, you can link up a social address book with social network contacts, IM and SMS support and more.
6. Loopt: Use this tool to learn about potential clients in your area and link up with the ones nearby.
7. Sendvite: Send invitations and manage RSVPs with this tool.
8. Flickr on iPhone: Use this version of Flickr to easily share photos from special events and brag about your clients.
9. Jelly SMS: Using this tool, you can send cheap text messages around the world.
10. Card Caller: Even if you’re on a budget, make a point to stay in touch with international clients using the Card Caller manager.

Security

Keep your data and passwords safe with these apps.

1. VIP Access: Block your mobile data with a security code and credential ID.
2. Keeper: This app is a password and data vault that stores sensitive information on your iPhone and backs it up on your computer, not online.
3. Folders: Password protect and hide important folders with this app.
4. Wallet PRO: This password manager keeps your website login information safe for multiple sites.

Calculators and Converters

For figuring out percentages, profits and exchange rates, these apps will help you out.

1. npdCalc Lite: Use this app to calculate how much money and product you lose when your business plan suffers and when you lose time.
2. Remote Desktop Lite: Even from your iPhone, you can access the desktop of a Windows XP Professional computer with this app.
3. Percent Calculator: This calculator has buttons for cost, sell, profit, margin, %, and more.
4. Daily Currency: Use this calculator to convert currency at the most updated rate.
5. BusinessCalc: Use BusinessCalc to figure out amortization, compound interest, simple interest, tips, and more.
6. Millionaire Calc: Find out how long it will take for your business to make you a millionaire

Office Tools and Notes

This list includes apps for sending faxes, note taking, creating documents, charting data, and more.

1. Chart It – Mobile Data Collector: Organize charts and data on this app.
2. Documents Free: This version of the Mobile Office Suite is free.
3. Fast Writer: Substitute symbols for words and letters to type faster.
4. Wi-Fi Text Editor: Create simple text documents and save photos and other notes with this app.
5. iProRecorder: This app turns your iPhone into an audio recorder.
6. ReaddleDocs: Manage MS office, PDFs, Excel and more with this office suite on the iPhone.
7. Write a Note: Use Write a Note to sync up with notes on your Mac or PC, send notes via e-mail, organize them into categories, and more.
8. NoteStuff Lite: Organize notes, save pages and add notations using this app.
9. Right Signature: Make it easy to get signatures on mobile documents, like contracts and more.
10. mmNote: Organize and prioritize memos and notes using this app.

Human Resources and Networking

Manage employees, watch the job market, review your own business skills and network with the help of these iPhone apps.

1. CareerBuilder.com: Search CareerBuilder.com for jobs and job candidates.
2. PunchClock: Track time and shifts with this app.
3. Job Hunt: 50 Tips: This app is full of networking tips, even if you’re not searching for another job.
4. Career Skills: Vol. 1 Summaries: Access summaries of career and leadership books like Influencer.
5. iFindJob: Keep your eye on the job market with this app.
6. vCarder: Send digital business cards with this tool.

Meetings and Communication

These apps will prepare you for meetings and allow you to stay in touch with business associates and partners, clients, investors and more.

1. iNvite: This app lets you send, edit and cancel meeting invitations.
2. Audio Memos Free: Record meetings and memos with your iPhone with this free app.
3. Stay in Touch: Stay in touch with colleagues and clients without looking like you planned it by setting random alerts that remind you to call or text certain people in your address book.
4. Tweetie: With Tweetie, you can mange your Twitter account on the iPhone.
5. FedEx Mobile for iPhone: Track FedEx shipments with this app.
6. Meeting Cost Timer: Discover how much money you’re wasting (or earning) when you and your employees are stuck in meetings all day.
7. iBerry Lite: Catch up with your e-mail on the iPhone and your Exchange 2003 and 2007 e-mail accounts as well.
8. Doc2email: With this app, you can convert documents into images that can be faxed from your iPhone e-mail.
9. Mr. Cricket: Get yourself out of awkward situations and meetings by setting an alarm for Mr. Cricket to start chirping in your pocket.
10. Talk Timer: Use this app to time your lectures and presentations.

Reference

These apps serve as guides when you need quick information on available real estate, business law, business news, and even debts.

1. NearBuy: Find nearby real estate spaces with this app.
2. Business Exam Bundle: MBA students and those who want to brush up on business school theories and strategies can refer to the material in this app, including Finance for Managers, Understanding the Economy, and Legal Environments of Business.
3. iTie: This app features a how-to for tying the half Windsor knot and other tie tying techniques.
4. Wall Street Journal: The WSJ iPhone app allows access to the WSJ Mobile Reader, MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com.
5. Find an Attorney: Keep your legal counsel close at hand with this app.
6. Euro Checker: Validate Euro numbers using this tool.
7. ZIP Finder: This free app figures out your zip code so that it’s easier to ship packages, find nearby hot spots, and more.
8. GrandTotal: Use this app to find out how many outstanding invoices and bills you need to pay.
9. Dictionary of Business Terms: This searchable dictionary app is just $2.99.
10. Business Law Test: Use this guide as a reference whenever you need help with contracts, partnerships and more.

Niche Business Tools

This grouping of iPhone apps will satisfy the needs of pilots, real estate business professionals, and others in very specific industries.

1. PilotLog Offline: Professional pilots can log flights and stay organized offline with this app.
2. Shopkeeper: Business owners who manage online stores can manage their e-commerce systems with Shopkeeper.
3. Bloggers Guide to Profits: Bloggers can refer to this guide for professional help.
4. Dictionary of Real Estate Terms: Real estate professionals will find this dictionary helpful.

Miscellaneous

Here you’ll find even more iPhone apps to keep your business afloat.

1. Sloganizer: Create clever slogans for your business with this tool.
2. Coffee Time: When you go on a coffee run, keep everyone’s order straight with this app.
3. iCatchall Tools: 15+ Apps in One: This bundle includes a digital clock, flashlight, unit converter, file storage, tip calculator, and shared contacts.
4. LifeTicker: Busy professionals can use this tool to stay on top of all that needs to be done in their personal lives, too, like doctor visits and birthdays.
5. Schedule Reminder: Avoid missing appointments and meetings when you use this app.
6. Spanish Class 1: Learn Spanish with this app to broaden your skills as a team leader, recruiter and global business owner.

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iPhone Apps on the iPad

Monday, 8 March 2010

Brian X. Chen at Wired, on the default iPhone apps that aren’t present on the iPad:

But if you recall, the iPhone ships with some apps that appear to be left out from the iPad: Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos. What gives?

Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment, but I’m willing to guess Apple will just stick those apps in the App Store for a free download, and they’ll be the same apps as they were on the iPhone. After all, it’s unlikely there’s much to do with those particular apps to make them visually special for the iPad.

Actually, it’s sort of the opposite problem. It’s not that Apple couldn’t just create bigger versions of these apps and have them run on the iPad. It wasn’t a technical problem, it was a design problem. There were, internally to Apple (of course), versions of these apps (or at least some of them) with upscaled iPad-sized graphics, but otherwise the same UI and layout as the iPhone versions. Ends up that just blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and feels weird, even if you use higher-resolution graphics so that nothing looks pixelated. So they were scrapped by you-know-who. Perhaps they’ll appear on the iPad in some re-imagined form this summer with OS 4.0, but when the iPad ships next month, there won’t be versions of these apps. At least that’s the story I’ve heard from a few well-informed little birdies.

(There is, alas, no secret “widget” mode for iPad in OS 3.2, either.)

Some (maybe even most?) iPhone games will work well as-is, on the iPad. Not just technically, but in terms of being fun and feeling right. But non-game iPhone apps that are just upscaled on the iPad are going to feel weird. And the run the app in a little iPhone-sized rectangle in the middle of an otherwise black screen mode is even weirder, I think. A 3.5-inch screen is just totally different than a 10-inch screen.

On the whole, it’s actually rather un-Apple-like that they’re even allowing iPhone apps to run unmodified on the iPad. It’s a huge compatibility win, of course: an instant market of thousands and thousands of titles. Given the runaway success of the App Store and the fundamental technical similarities between the iPhone and iPad, it’s the sort of decision that most companies wouldn’t even think twice about. But it’s undeniably a sub-optimal user experience. iPhone apps on the iPad are a “good enough” thing, not an “exactly right” thing. Most companies — the ones that wouldn’t even see it as a tough decision whether to allow iPhone apps to run on the iPad — settle for “good enough” all the time. Apple, on the other hand, usually goes for “exactly right”.

I’ll go so far as to predict that by the time Monday April 5 rolls around, it’ll already be an established meme that non-iPad-optimized iPhone apps are to the iPad what Classic apps were to Mac OS X — something you’ll make do with “for now” but can’t wait to abandon for the real thing.

I’m not saying it’s a mistake that Apple is allowing the iPad to run iPhone apps. I’m just saying that the iPad is not a big iPhone.

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Last Tuesday, Google launched a new Google Voice mobile web app for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices, harnessing the power of HTML5, a new web technology that makes it possible to run faster, richer web-based applications right in the browser.

While this appication is web based, it provides real time access to your communication brain. Check it out today!

Have you heard about AT&T’s A-List? (In my circle of acquaintances, surprisingly few have.) Similar to other carriers, AT&T now offers five to 10 (depending on your rate plan) numbers that are free of charge. If you combine this with a Google Voice account, you can breathe easy as you eliminate the potential of overshooting your allowance of plan minutes. This isn’t new information mind you, but if you’re not aware, we’re about to show you how to set it up for yourself.

First, the disclaimer. I have set this up for myself and it all seems to be working without any issues. I couldn’t find this to be in direct violation of AT&T’s Terms of Service (though I understand it may be for the likes of T-Mobile, and possibly other carriers as well). That said, it is definitely a loophole that is probably not smiled-upon by AT&T — and probably a big reason that there was a huge hullabaloo over Google Voice being booted from the App Store last summer. On the other hand, to have the A-List feature, you have to be paying for a certain rate plan anyway, so AT&T will be getting a guaranteed chunk of cash from you each month anyway. Consider yourself edukated, and proceed at your own discretion.

Set It Up

Okay, now let’s begin. You’ll first need to make sure you’ve got the option to use A-List, based on your AT&T rate plan. Here are the qualifying factors, direct from AT&T’s webpage:

• Individual plans 900+ minutes ($59.99 and over) per month
• FamilyTalk plans 1400+ minutes ($89.99 and over) per month
  qualify for A-List

And when you sign up for the A-List feature, here’s what you get:

• No extra charge with your qualifying plan
• Add up to 5 numbers on your individual plan
• Add up to 10 numbers on your FamilyTalk plan
• Add any domestic number, on any network – including landline numbers
• Calls to and from your A-List numbers are not charged against your rate

If you qualify, but aren’t yet using A-List, log into your AT&T Wireless account and go to “Manage Features.” Under the Shared features, you should find the $0.00 option for A-List. Choose that and update your features. After doing so, you’ll have the opportunity to populate your five to 10 numbers (dependent upon your rate plan). This is where you’ll enter your Google Voice number (if you have one, that is).

Obviously the other key here, is to have the Google Voice service. If you’re lacking in this department, don’t despair (we won’t judge you). The good news is, there are options: You can either let Google know you’d like an invite one day, or ask current users who may have up to three invites to share. Unfortunately I’m all out, or you — my favorite TAB readers — would be in luck.

Because Google Voice functions as a forwarding service, the numbers that may be calling you can potentially come through to your phone directly, and unless those numbers are on your A-List, they’ll be counting against your minutes. To avoid this, you’ll need to go into your Google Voice Settings page. On the ‘Calls’ tab, look for the ‘Caller ID (in)’ section. Make sure that “Display my Google Voice number” is selected, and then save your changes. Doing this ensures that any call in or out of Google Voice (to your cell phone) is covered by AT&T on your A-List. Otherwise those calls will be from an arbitrary number that was transfered to you.

The key to success with this setup is using Google Voice for as much of your calling as possible. That means getting the word out to those who call you too. Lifehacker has some good tips for making this transition, if you’re ready to commit. Ideally, you can access either the Google Voice webpage from the browser on your phone, or you have access to the Google Voice app which is only available to Jailbroken iPhones. (Though fear not, our very own Chris Ryan has given some solid tips for getting the most out of Google Voice, regardless of your phone situation.)

When you initiate a call using Google Voice (whichever flavor of access you opt for), the service first rings your phone, and then connects that call on your phone to the number you wanted to dial, so from an A-List perspective, it’s your Google Voice number that’s performing the call.

So that’s about it. There’s not a whole lot to it, but rather, more about connecting the dots. I think it’s a fair solution too. AT&T is guaranteed to get $200 out of my family each month, and with the huge pool of roll over minutes we’ve got built up, it’s not likely we’ll ever have an overage anyway, so we’re all happy at the end of the day. Good luck getting yours setup, and enjoy the free calls.

Related GigaOM Pro Research: How Google Voice Could Change Communication

January 15, 2010 by Christina Warren

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TCM iPhone App Brings Movie Classics to Your Pocket

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Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has recently released an iPhone app that promises to bring movie classics to your pocket. The app, which is $2.99 in the App Store [iTunes link], has movie clips and trailers, photos and access to the TCM schedule.

I’m a film fanatic (I am @film_girl, after all) and as an Atlantan, Turner Classic Movie has always held a special place in my heart (except for that period of colorization, which we should just try to ignore). TCM airs more than 300 movies every month, all uncut and commercial-free, spanning different decades and periods of film history.

What you might not know if you haven’t been to the TCM website before is that it also has quite a wealth of information and historical data, as well as essays about films and different genres. The iPhoneiPhone

app brings much of the best aspects of the website to your phone.

The schedule lets you see three months worth of data, and you can select a seven-day view or choose a specific day on the calendar. On February 1, TCM starts its annual “31 days of Oscar” celebration, and I only wish there was a search feature, similar to what HBO has for its app, to make it possible to find and set reminders for showtimes. When you click on a film, you can read a full synopsis, cast information, trivia and see any essays or other stuff related to the film.

There’s also a collection of film clips and trailers (small now, but hopefully growing) that are presented in the correct aspect ratio. It’s really neat to see how movie trailers from the 1950s and 1960s looked. You can also view photos and press kits from select films, look at classic actor and actress images, and see stuff like posters and lobby cards. You can also read the latest entries from TCM’s movie blog, though I wish the entries were a little better formatted for the app. Images are not clickable and text isn’t spaced out in a way that makes it easy to read on a handheld.

Qualms aside, this is a good app with lots to enjoy for TCM and classic movie fans.

While just on the iPhone for now, TCM plans to release a version for the AndroidAndroid

and BlackBerryBlackBerry Rocks!

platforms in February.

What are your favorite movie-related mobile apps? Let us know!

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As we begin 2010, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download — an overwhelming array of choices, but plenty of gems if you know where to look.

To help you out, we’ve compiled all of Mashable’s iPhone app reviews in a definitive list to kick off the year. From social media, to business tools, to just plain cool, the iPhone does it best with these App Store standouts.

Put your downloading hat on — there’s a lot of awesome in our iPhone Apps List 2010!

PS. Look out for more updates to this list throughout the year.

Social

Whether you’re talking about social media, or actually interacting with other humans face-to-face (shudder), there’s a plethora of apps that will help you connect, keep in touch, and avoid any unintended faux pas.

70+ Free iPhone Apps for Social Media Mavens

10 Fantastic iPhone Apps That Use Facebook Connect

5 Great Examples of Facebook Connect on the iPhone

29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared

FriendFeed on iPhone: Comparing the Options

10 Essential iPhone Apps to Avoid Dating Disasters

5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers

10 iPhone Apps That Bring Holiday Cheer

10 iPhone Apps to Help You Survive the Holidays

Business & News

Show your BlackBerry brethren that the iPhone also means business. These apps will help you get work done and stay on top of what’s happening in the news.

8 Fantastic Free Business Card Apps for the iPhone

10 iPhone Apps to Avoid Work Disasters

14 iPhone Apps With Push Notification for Productivity

A Guide to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone

10 iPhone Apps to Manage Your Job Search on the Go

50+ Free iPhone Apps to Make You Richer

Top 30 iPhone Apps for Organization and Productivity

40 Free Apps to Read Breaking News on Your iPhone

5 of the Best iPhone Apps for Political Junkies

Entertainment, Music, & Games

The iPhone is like holding a multiplex, a rock concert, and a Wii in the palm of your hand — that is of course if you have the right apps in tow. Check out these great games and other amusements that will surely keep your accelerometer… accelerating.

60+ Free Classic Tabletop Games for the iPhone

20 Free Role Playing Games for the iPhone

iPhone TV: Top iPhone Apps for Live Streaming Television

100+ Free Sports Apps for the iPhone

10 Free Music Based Games for the iPhone & iPod Touch

Social Music: 5 of the Best Free iPhone Apps

Star Trek on iPhone: 11 Apps for the Ultimate Movie Experience

5 iPhone Apps for Pulling Off Pranks and Tricks

Social Media Break: 5 Free iPhone Apps to Fight Midweek Malaise

Family, Shopping, & Travel

The iPhone is a great tool for honing your domestic prowess. These apps will help keep the kids in line, get your dream vacation in gear, and hopefully save you some money in the process.

15 iPhone Apps to Tame the Kids

20 Fantastic Free iPhone Apps for Parents

Back to School: Top 10 iPhone Apps for Students

11 iPhone Apps for Stress Free Family Travel

11 Essential iPhone Apps for a Road Trip

10 Best iPhone Apps for Dog Lovers

5 Great iPhone Apps for Pet Owners

5 of the Best iPhone Apps for In-Store Savings

Miscellaneous

Some apps could save your life, spark your creative passion, or just plain WOW you. These apps don’t quite fit in the categories above, but still deserve your attention — if you’ve got any space left.

20 Creative Apps For Your iPhone

10 Amazing Augmented Reality iPhone Apps

7 iPhone Apps That Can Save Lives

7 Soothing iPhone Apps to Help You Relax

Top 10 Free iPhone Apps to Lose Weight

Top 6 Augmented Reality Mobile Apps [Videos]

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