The regular version is all most people need—wireless file storage—while the Pro version adds printing and emailing. DOWNLOAD

Regular version $5, Pro version $10

From The App Developers: Air Sharing is the easiest way to view your documents on the go.

But this application isn't just about finding cool stuff; it's also about sharing your favorites with the world right from the App. And since it's powered by people like you who submit every day, you've got access to the best insider picks you won't find anywhere else. Plus, the App has thousands of sponsored Picks from local reviewers and your favorite stores, so you can find the best deals on everything you love.

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Product searches, comparisons and account management are a given, but what really pushes this one over the edge is a new feature called "Remembers." Just snap a picture of a mysterious product or thing, and Amazon will get back to you with a surprisingly accurate, impressively quick suggestion as to what it is. Then it will sell said thing to you. Magic.

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From the App Developers: The Amazon Mobile app allows iPhone and iPod touch owners to very quickly search, shop, compare prices, read reviews, and make purchases on Amazon.com using a simple, yet elegant, interface. Amazon customers have full access to their existing cart, wish lists, payment and shipping options, order history, 1-Click (R) settings, and Prime membership benefits.

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From The App Developers: AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio features over 200 stations that span more than 25 genres of music plus 150+ CBS RADIO stations from across the United States. For the first time, iPhone and iPod touch users will be able to access hundreds of free music stations PLUS an extensive collection of popular terrestrial news/sports/talk programming.

$10 sounds steep for a messaging app, and it is—Fring, which is also on this list, can do most of what Beejive can do, for free. The difference is in the execution: Where Fring is serviceable, Beejive shines especially when it comes to multi-account management and busier messaging sessions, and the push implementation is less quirky than its free counterpart's. It's probably overkill for anyone who doesn't spend a few hours a day pecking out instant messages, but hey, some people do that.

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$10

From the App Developers: Stay connected to all your instant messaging buddies anywhere you go! BeejiveIM (pronounced \bē-hīv\ IM) keeps you in touch with your friends on AIM®/MobileMe®, MSN®/Windows Live®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ® and Jabber... all at the same time, all on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

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$4

From The App Developers: Developed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and musician / software designer Peter Chilvers, Bloom explores uncharted territory in the realm of applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Part instrument, part composition and part artwork,. Bloom's innovative controls allow anyone to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply taping the screen. A generative music player takes over when Bloom is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualizations.

You can debate the long-term efficacy of brain training games all you want, but there's no denying that a few quick puzzles in the morning help jolt you awake, and at least make you feel a little sharper. Anyone who's used a prior Kawashima game will take to this one instantly, and any exercises that've been taken out on account of the iPhone's lack of stylus have been replaced with something equally clever.

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Lite: Free, Full: $5

From the App Developers: The original and best brain training game is now available for iPhone™ and iPod touch®. You can play the Brain Training game supervised by Dr. Kawashima.

This is an app that started out simple—it was only after a few artists really started leveraging it that it feature set caught up with its potential. Today it's got layers, all manner of brushes, multiple photo importing, and plenty more features you wouldn't expect to see in a mobile image editor.

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$5

From the App Developers: Brushes invites you to go beyond the doodle! With several realistic brush styles and the ability to select virtually any paint color, nothing stands between you and your next masterpiece.

Chorus crowdsources the effort to cut through the endless jungle of trash. Chorus is a bit like Apple's native App Store app, except with drastically shifted emphasis: instead of giving category "Top" lists, which rank apps by overall download numbers, Chorus only pitches you apps that've been explicitly recommended by someone. These someones could include other friends who use Chorus, nearby Chorus users, or a stable of "App Mavens"-online reviewers and tech journalists, mostly.

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Free

The proud will always stick with the calculator/memory method, but the rest of us can indulge in Covertbot's wheel-based controls, which, once set up properly, reduce just about any conversion into a three-second process. That's 9.50662939 × 10^-8 years, in case you were wondering.

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Mini: Free, Full: $1

From the App Developers: Convertbot is a unit conversion robot. Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new way! Converting numbers will never again be a mundane task. In addition to its innovative interface, our robot is smart enough to convert to and from mixed units. Are you 5 foot 9 inches tall? Other converters require you to convert that to 5.75 ft in your head before being able to enter it. Convertbot allows mixed units like Foot + Inches, Pounds + Ounces, and more! Download the unit converter from the makers of the award-winning Weightbot today!

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Free

From the App Developers: Recipes from the award-winning food site Epicurious.com are now available on your iPhone. Search over 25,000 delicious, professionally tested recipes from Bon Appétit, Gourmet, SELF, Cookie, and PARADE, plus recipes from cookbooks, chefs, and restaurants. Create shopping lists, save your favorite recipes, and e-mail recipes to yourself and friends. When you're ready to cook, simply turn your iPhone on its side to view recipes step by step.

What it lacks in bells and whistles, Echofon more than makes up for where it counts, at least for most: It's as quick as Twitter apps get, and caches Tweets, so you can read them later on without a connection. It doesn't support multiple accounts, but most reasonable people don't need that. (I'm looking directly at you, @mattbuchanan)

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Anything you need to jot down fast, be it in text, a photo, or a voice note, Evernote will keep it, index it, and sync it to Evernote's online subscription service. Where Evernote trumps all others, aside from its fantastic syncing abilities, is with search: You can sort your notes by all kind of parameters, and it never take more than a few seconds to find one.

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Free

From the App Developers: Evernote turns the iPhone and iPod Touch into an extension of your brain.

This multiple-award winning app lets you remember and recall anything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put everything into Evernote and watch as everything instantly synchronizes from the iPhone to the Web, to your Mac or Windows desktop. See why over a million people use Evernote.

The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're acclimated to it it's the most effective way to throw yourself, fingers first, into the black hole timesuck that is Facebook.

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Free

From the App Developers: Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

Obviously Skype is still your safest bet for making Skype calls, but Fring can do it passably well, too. Most people were excited for push notifications precisely because of how they could used for instant messaging, and Fring more or less fulfills this vision for free.

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Free

From the App Developers: fring is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their communities (Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ , AIM®) together, using your iPhone's & ipod internet capability.

Never played a text-based game? There's a learning curve, but don't be put off. I was still traipsing around in floral overalls (thanks Mom) when text games were dying, yet I've had more fun playing Zork on my iPod than just about any high-budget 3D game.

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$1

From the App Developers: Frotz lets you download and play free works of Interactive Fiction (a.k.a. text adventure games) on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Frotz plays games written in the Z-Machine format. This format was invented by Infocom and was used to produce classic text adventures from the 80s such as the Zork Trilogy, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Trinity.

It's a natural thing for a cellphone-tap a button, say what you want, and there it is. You can search the web, local results-everything the Google app could previously do. And thankfully, it knows the difference between "bare ass" and "bear market."

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Free

From The App Developers: Get the most advanced Google search experience for your iPhone, now with voice and My Location.

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Free

From The App Related: Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth. Including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass.

This app's grown all kinds of wonderfully useful appendages since its early days. On top of TV listing for every major cable and satellite company, it's got an expansive database of movie information, video clips from TV shows, and trailers. It can also manage Netflix queues and search local movie theater listings. Once DVR remote support gets bulked up, it'll be unstoppable.

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Category: Entertainment
Released Nov 10, 2008

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From The App Developers: i.TV is the ultimate movie, DVD and TV guide for the iPhone and iPod touch—and it's FREE. Quickly and easily find out when and where your favorite movies and TV shows are playing anywhere in the US or Canada and find related DVD titles.

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$2.99