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Stream your home machine’s iTunes library and those of up to 30 friends to your phone. This app lives up to its name. Forget worries of filling up 8GB, or even 16. DOWNLOAD $4 From The App Developer: Simplify Media lets you listen to your music collection from your home computer on your iPhone or…
Speech recognition apps recognize speech. Search apps search. Concierge apps consolidate services. Siri does all of the above. The app is paired with OpenTable, MovieTickets, StubHub, CitySearch and TaxiMagic, and recognizes a respectable number of commands with surprising accuracy. Success seem to vary voice to voice, and some types of requests seem to have a…
On 3G, it’s perfect for Skype messaging and long distance texts; on Wi-Fi, it near-magically turns your iPhone into a VoIP handset. Given that you can’t make VoIP calls unless you’re connected to Wi-Fi, Skype is surprisingly useful: even if you’re tethered to your router’s range, having a phone-shaped tool to make Skype calls is…
With the 3GS, the iPhone’s camera hardware got much better. So why didn’t its camera software? That’s what Snapture is for. The best jailbreak camera app went legit in the App Store a few months ago, but it was missing a few things-specifically, tap-to-focus on the iPhone 3GS, the lack of which made it feel…
DOWNLOAD $2 From The App Developers: Imagine yourself playing a violin with an orchestra. String Trio is “Air-Violin” application with graphical guides. It plays like a real violin. Just tilt, swing and slide your iPhone/IPod as guide bars fall. Control tempo, speed, and strength of your movement, then all the accompanying music will automatically adjust…
Tower Defense games are one of the few genres that the iPhone excels at, and Star Defense, with an entirely fresh 3D take on the concept, multitouch, varied levels and multiplayer, is about as good as they get. Instead of marching baddies across a 2D plane, Star Defense applies its traditional tower defense sensibilities to…
Yet another free, customizable radio app, but one that has a spectacularly huge music library, and that gives you fine control over the songs you hear. Slacker is pitted directly against Pandora, and they do a lot of similar things. Enter an artist or term to create a new radio station, though, and they’ll give…
An amazingly faithful adaptation of the 3D life simulator that you routinely ridicule others for playing, but secretly enjoy yourself, every night, with a bottle of extremely cheap wine. Naturally Maxis had to scale its flagship title back a bit to work on the iPhone, but it’s not easy to tell where. You can still…
EBay acquired Skype back in 2005 for over 3 billion buckaroos, but apparently it wasn’t the best investment. It didn’t seem to know what to do with the Internet calling company so it did what it knows best and put it up for auction. It is selling 65 percent of its stake in the company…
If you spend enough of your day on Twitter to consider paying for an app, Tweetie’s multiple account support, uncluttered interface and impressively broad feature set is about as close to a desktop Tweeting experience as you’ll get on the iPhone. You’d think a Twitter app wouldn’t really have to do a whole lot—write some…
DOWNLOAD Free From The App Developers: Stream live from your iPhone with Ustream Live Broadcaster
Muji’s simple, iconic CD player, designed by Nato Fukasawa, costs $178. (I heart Muji.) Fortunately, its simplicity means that you can roll your own damn fine iteration way cheaper using a CD player, speakers and some cardboard: [Vvank via BBG]
One of the first apps we loved was the iTunes Remote-now, the Swiss army knife of media players VLC has one of its very own. While it can’t quite match the music library organization skills of the more OCD iTunes, VLC will play just about any video file in the world, ever. So if you’re…
There are a few voice modulation apps on the shelves of the App Store, but none has captured our hearts like Voices Says Jesus: Retro tape recorder and microphone, cute icons, simple touch interface, and sharing via Twitter, Facebook, and email, so you can spook everyone with that infernal Reverse Voice effect. For $1, it’s…
DOWNLOAD Free From The App Developers: Get the Vonage Mobile app and start making unlimited calls in the US and to over 60 countries around the world with the Vonage World Mobile plan — all for only $24.99 per month.
View and fully control my computer from anywhere, as long as I am on the same network. So I can basically be at my computer without actually being at my computer. DOWNLOAD Free From The App Developers: Mocha VNC provides access to a VNC Server. Using your iPhone, you can connect to a Windows PC…
Free, crowd-sourced turn-by-turn app Waze might not navigate quite as well as the Navigons and Telenavs of the world, but it’s got one killer feature that they don’t: Pac-man mode. The crowd-sourced data works well in some areas now, and the more people use it, the better it’ll get. For now though, it’s by far…
On the desktop, it’s excessive. But on the iPhone, WeatherBug gives you much more—and much more useful—info than Apple’s default app. And in the paid version, hyperlocal, data-driven weather nerdery abounds. DOWNLOAD Regular version free, Plus version $1 From The App Developers: WeatherBug is the only source for truly live, local weather – providing users…
Why even carry an iPhone if you can’t use it to settle petty arguments about things that don’t matter? A mercifully non-literal mobile translation of Wikpedia’s interface, Wikipanion gets you to whatever ‘pedia article you’re looking for a few seconds faster than the regular browser would, and with much kinder navigation once you get there.…
Yelp is built on the premise that people really, really love to review things, and that this bizarre impulse should be harnessed for good. With a massive database of food/drink/everything else reviews, easy navigation, inbuilt maps, and augmented reality, it’s tops. DOWNLOAD Free From The App Developers: Looking for a burrito joint open now? An…