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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. 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…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

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. 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…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

Diacarta

I imagine there’s a huge group of people, like me, who don’t keep fastidious hour-to-hour calendars on Google or Outlook or whatever but whose days could benefit from a little more organization. Diacarta, a visual day planner, offers that type of organization (and offers it beautifully). The main screen of the app is a small…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 1

Dragon Dictation

DOWNLOAD Free From the App Developers: Dragon Diction is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text in email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

DreamScape

What’s the one thing I learned from playing Dreamscape? Popping bubbles is incredibly satisfying, even when those bubbles are fake. The pretty backgrounds give you a pleasant place to pop, and the bubble popping noise is just right (this, of course, is very important.) DOWNLOAD $0.99 From the app developers: jump into the #4 Arcade…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 1

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. DOWNLOAD 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…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

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. 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…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

ClearWire WiMax Reaches 10 New Markets, Mostly in Texas

If you live in Boise, Idaho or Bellingham, Wash. or one of eight Texas markets (Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls), you can enjoy ClearWire’s 4G WiMax service starting today. Clearwire Introduces CLEAR(TM) 4G WiMAX Internet Service in 10 New Markets Super Fast Mobile Internet Service is Available Today in…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 1

Evernote

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

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

Expenditure

As far as they go, Expenditure is a gorgeous way to track expenses on your iPhone, giving you big, pretty buttons to add new expenses, file them in appropriate categories, and see overviews of your recent activity. I can’t imagine many people diligently filing their every single transaction, but for say keeping track of how…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 1

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. The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you’re acclimated to it…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

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. 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…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

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. Never played a text-based game? There’s a learning curve, but don’t be put off. I…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

GetGlue

Instead of checking into pub after bar after pub, show your friends you’re not just a boozehound on Foursquare, but quite the literary creature on GetGlue’s free iPhone app, which lets you “check-in” to whatever media you’re consuming. This can be a book, film, TV show or even music-with the updates being shared across Twitter…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 1

Google Mobile

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

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

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. DOWNLOAD Free From The App Related: Hold the world in the palm of your…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

Gorillacam

DOWNLOAD Free From the App Developers: Gorillacam is brought to you by the photography experts at Joby, creators of the world famous Gorillapod flexible tripods, and the Gorillamobile for iPhone 3G!

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

Hipstamatic

Probably the most cleverly designed of the iPhone photography apps, and certainly among the most loved, Hipstamatic’s recent upgrade brings all sorts of good stuff. In addition to getting iPhone 4 optimization and background uploading, there is a new stacks feature for organizing photos and batch upload to Facebook, Flickr or email. And a handful…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 1

Hulu Plus

OK, ok, Hulu hasn’t started dishing out the $10/mo. beta invites just yet so your selection is limited to the fistful of free stuff they’ve coughed up for this early release. But, you can still view free episodes of 30 Rock, Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and a few others, including a Carl Sagan special, the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 1

i.TV

Once you’ve used a wonderful, full-featured TV guide app on your iPhone, reading one on paper—or even on your laptop—will feel stupid. iTV is that app. It also works as a remote for some TiVo boxes, with more DVRs to come. This app’s grown all kinds of wonderfully useful appendages since its early days. On…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 1

Chorus

ConvertBot

Diacarta

Dragon Dictation

DreamScape

Epicurious

Echofon

ClearWire WiMax Reaches 10 New Markets, Mostly in Texas

Evernote

Expenditure

Facebook

Fring

Frotz

GetGlue

Google Mobile

Google Earth

Gorillacam

Hipstamatic

Hulu Plus

i.TV

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