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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
Autotuning for the iPhone was a fantastic idea. But autotuning for the iPhone with support for your own music library? Genius. DOWNLOAD $2.99
Mad genius designer Keita Takahashi left the series years ago, but Katamari is still among my favorite game franchises of all time (and I’m not alone), and it’s a natural fit for the iPhone’s tilt-controls. After rushing out a release that wasn’t quite ready for prime time (read: huge slowdowns and not the most responsive…
IncrediBooth, a iPhone 4-only project from the makers of the much-lauded (and frustratingly not-yet-updated) Hipstamatic, turns your front facing camera into a beautiful, pocketable shopping mall-style photo booth. Remember how much fun you and your friends had mugging in front of Apple’s Photo Booth when it came out? This is kinda like that, but anywhere.…
Point it to your favorite web pages, and it’ll pull down every last work for reading offline on the subway or airplane. DOWNLOAD $5, with free lite version
There are a pile of eBook readers for the iPhone, but only one connects to Amazon’s book store, and more importantly, your Kindle library. As a standalone eBook reader, the Kindle app is a workhorse. Linked to your actual Kindle, it’s genius. Your progress is tracked between readers, so you’re always on the right page,…