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Help Oddy, a little ball of smog, escape from a factory by jumping and double-jumping from gear to rotating gear. The gameplay’s simple but difficult enough to keep you involved, and the whole premise and aesthetic make this seem like some sort of weird spin-off starring those little dust dudes from Spirited Away. Obviously that’s…
Actually talking to a maître d’ on the phone: Out. Tapping your iPhone a few times to get a dinner reservation at a veritable assload of restaurants: In. Just like its namesake website, OpenTable gloms together a healthy mix of restaurant listings, contact info and reviews, with an all-important reservation feature, which is literally the…
Are you a fancy businessperson, with “accounts” and “subscriptions” and, uh, “dollars?” Personal Assistant sucks your scattered financial, travel and leisure concerns all into one simple, unscary interface. I’ve got the organizational skills of a drunk five-year-old, so I can’t even put a price on the ability to keep my bank account, phone bill, Netflix…
Best internet radio app, hands down. Smartly auto-suggests music based on other artists you like. Both on the go and while at home. Streams well over EDGE and 3G. Free. What more could you ask for? DOWNLOAD Free From The App Developers: Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music…
Who knew multitouch is the perfect interface for stitching photos together into panoramas? It is. Plus if the photo you just took doesn’t work, toss it out and take another one immediately. A paid version adds even more features. DOWNLOAD FREE From The App Developers: PanoLab is the first application to enable photographers to capture…
DOWNLOAD $3 From the App Developers: Pastebot is a powerful clipboard manager that stores text & images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Organize, apply filters to, and copy clippings to be pasted or sent to other apps.
This app bears almost no resemblance to the Photoshop we all know and steal love. That’s fine though, because it’s a serviceable photo-editing (on the iPhone, this means filters, cropping, and a few other tricks) app that is free, unlike virtually all of its competition. DOWNLOAD Free
The 720P video capabilities of the iPhone 4 are fantastic-really calling into question the need for a camcorder-but there’s one gimpy limitation. You can’t upload HD videos wirelessly…. Pixelpipe is a free app that will upload your videos and pictures in full resolution to “over 100 supported destinations.” Pretty much any social networking bloggish overshare…
Kudos to Chillingo for understanding, with their companion game to the new Predators movie, that I don’t want to play as a Predator-hunting Adrian Brody but rather an Adrian Brody-hunting Predator-and that’s just what they made me. The new game, which also works on the iPad, looks gorgeous on the iPhone 4, and lets you…
Easily the most useful push app Apple’s let through the gates, Prowl lets you forward any Growl notifications from your Mac or PC—everything from Mail to IM to Torrent downloads to Tweets—directly to your phone. For anyone who doesn’t know, Growl is a free system-wide notification system for Mac OS, and as of a few…
The wildly popular visualized RSS reader for the iPad has been shrunk down for a palm size version on the iPhone. Their mosaic style of sorting through news isn’t quite as compelling as it is on the iPad, and heavy RSS users will scoff at the 20-feed limit, but if you’re just a casual RSS-er…
Gaping void in default iPhone functionality #123: Real document editing. Solution #123: QuickOffice You’re not going to be able compile any employee-of-the-month-winning spreadsheets on this thing, nor should you try—that’s not the point. QuickOffice lets you dive into Word and Excel documents for quick edits, which is all you’d want to do on an iPhone…
DOWNLOAD $5 From The App Developers: Free yourself from recipes! The best-selling cookbook, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by me, Michael Ruhlman, is now an iPhone app that will help you calculate amounts of ingredients in all the fundamental culinary preparations. When you know a ratio, you don’t know a…
Everyone wants cool stuff in their place, but when you’re faced with redecorating it’s easy to just get a bunch of decent stuff from Ikea, make a quick stop at Crate and Barrell and call it a day. Remodelista looks to at least inspire you to aim a little higher, showcasing everything from sofas that…
One of the first apps we saw, and still among the best in terms of usefulness. If you use iTunes frequently at home and especially if you listen away from your desk via a stereo hookup or Airport Express, you need the Remote. DOWNLOAD FREE From The App Developers: Be a mobile DJ. With Remote,…
A totally unique music application that processes sound from your environment and replays it according to a set program, creating a trippy, always-evolving soundscape. Hey, it’s mushrooms without the mushrooms! In the free version, RjDj simply loops and pitch-shifts sound from the microphone, allowing you to build up some pretty amazing beatbox loops or just…
An app to tell you when the boring parts of movies are so you can go pee—or if you’re feeling daring, more—without missing much. It’s a brilliant concept, with unexpectedly good execution. DOWNLOAD $2 From The App Developers: RunPee is a must have app for every moviegoer with a bladder. Run Pee tells you which…
A wonderfully full-featured run tracker that doesn’t just keep track of your exercise—it lets you keep control of your music at the same time. The full version is a steep $10, but the free version isn’t so bad on its own. DOWNLOAD $10, with free lite version
This just doesn’t get old: hold your phone to the air to grab the song playing at the supermarket and have it identified in a few seconds. We live in a privileged age. DOWNLOAD Free From The App Developer: When you hear a song and wonder what it is, Shazam is there with the answer.…
This is one of the best barcode apps for Android, and now it’s available on the iPhone. Early reviews were a bit harsh, since the app works better with the 3GS (autofocus, y’know?) and the scanning libraries needed some work. At any rate, it’s free, works well for most people and the data-even if it…