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    AirSharing

    Our favorite file storage app-shoots files to the iPhone's flash memory via Wi-Fi for storage, transport, and easy retrieval. More »
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    Amazon

    Amazon's usually the first place I look during a fit of impulse buying, which their iPhone app now makes stupidly easy. More »
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    AOL Radio

    More free radio content than any actual radio could ever have. Tailored radio stations are great, sure, but old-fashioned programmed stations—AOL Radio's specialty—have their charms. More »
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    BeejiveIM

    Expensive? Sure. Totally essential for messaging hounds? Yup. More »
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    Bloom

    Generative, ambient music by Brian Eno. If I need to say more, it's also a mini-sequencer: Drop your finger on the liquidy pastel screen, play a note, make simple loops. Music For Airports that you can make yourself. In an airport, even. More »
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    Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima

    A lot of people buy Nintendo DSes for the sole purpose of having those Dr. Kawashima-approved brain-training games at hand. With this app, you get the exact same mind-juicing benefits for a few bucks, on hardware you already carry. More »
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    Brushes

    If you've ever seen on of those spectacularly detailed "paintings" done on the iPhone, chances are it was created with this. This is fingerpainting in 2009. More »
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    Chorus

    You know the App Store needs an overhaul when apps like Chorus, which help you find other apps, are necessary. But alas, they are. More »
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    ConvertBot

    Plenty of apps can technically deal with unit conversions as well as ConvertBot can, but none of them have its fantastic, super-fast interface. More »
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    Epicurious

    The only cooking app you really need. With its thousands of recipes, shopping list feature and meal suggestions, Epicurious will make you at least look like a passable cook. More »
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    Echofon

    And if you're not willing to pay for a Twitter app—understandable!—Echofon isn't too shabby. It's super-fast and stupid-simple, so it'll do well by all but the most obnoxiously obsessed Twitterers. More »
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    Evernote

    Obsessive documenters, take note(s): This is the only scribbling app you need. More »
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    Facebook

    This was an essential app from the get-go, and it's been steadily evolving—like the site—for the last year. Version 3.0 was a total refresh, and supports nearly every one of Facebook's sprawling features, sometimes better than the site itself. More »
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    Fring

    Every major instant message protocol, comfortably crowded under one (free!) roof. The addition of push notifications notched this one up from great to, uh, greaterer. More »
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    Frotz

    Laugh all you want, jocks—us geeks know where it's at: text gaming. Bringing virtually every text-based game you've ever heard of to the iPhone gives the genre a whole new lease on life, and you the most prodigious time-waster imaginable. More »
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    Google Mobile

    Google Mobile was a solid app (but not particularly essential)-and then came voice search. More »
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    Google Earth

    The same amazing Earth touring app found on the desktop, now spinnable via multitouch. Honestly if someone told me two years ago I would have a functional Google Earth app on my phone, I wouldn't have believed them. This is now. More »
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    i.TV

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    I Am T-Pain

    Autotuning for the iPhone was a fantastic idea. But autotuning for the iPhone with support for your own music library? Genius. More »