Top iPhone Apps

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I love my iPhone most days, though I am not particularly fond of the AT&T network of late with all the dropped calls and other issues that go along with it. Still, the iPhone is a wonderful piece of hardware and one of my favorite things about the device is the wealth of apps that are available. Today I am going to run down my favorite iPhone apps for your perusal. I particularly like the iPhone as a gaming platform, so more than a few games are on the list, read on for all the details. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Sep 2009 06:30:26 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

A New Guide To The Best iPhone Apps

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Our friends over at Digital Trends take a new look at the best iPhone Apps. With 65,000 Apps to choose from it is getting more and more difficult to find all must have iPhone apps.

Quote from the Guide: "It's now been over a year since we first gazed upon the well-stocked shelves of the iTunes App Store. While our Top iPhone Apps were tough to choose the first time around, the task was even tougher a year later, with over 65,000 apps now cluttering up the marketplace. Read more

Posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blackberry Location Aware Apps Much More Costly than iPhone Apps

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Since Apple's App Store has proven to be such a successful place for third party developers to sell applications for the iPhone most other smartphone makers have come out with their own stores for selling applications. According to a new report from Skyhook Wireless, there is a significant difference in the cost of applications across the App Store, Blackberry App World, and the Android Marketplace.

The report looked at the cost of location aware application in the three stores and found that location aware apps in the Blackberry store were at least four times more expensive than similar apps in the other stores. Read more

Posted on Thu, 21 May 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Soundview Releases iPhone Apps for Busy Businessmen.

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It's a hectic time in America. The economy is bad and businesses are scrambling to cut costs and improve profits. With everything that's going on in the world today, businessmen have less time than ever for things like reading. Enter Soundview Executive Book Summaries, a company whose entire purpose is to summarize big business books for busy executives.

Right now you can find a bunch of Soundview's summaries at the Apple app store. Each of their apps contains three summaries in both audio and text, formatted for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Each app costs $9.99.

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

New iPhone Apps need to comply with iPhone OS 3.0

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According to MacRumors Apple informed iPhone developers that from now on Apple is testing new iPhone App submissions against iPhone OS 3.0.
If an App is found not compatible with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 it is not approved. Existing iPhone Apps that prove to be incompatible with iPhone 3.0 OS might be removed.

Apple is doing the right thing here. You do not want to make the iPhone App purchase/install process more complicated by having to select versions. Read more

Posted on Fri, 8 May 2009 10:33:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Reveals Most Popular iPhone Apps

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To commemorate the pending 1 billion iPhone applications downloaded milestone, Apple revealed via iTunes the top 20 most popular paid and unpaid apps to date.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and Facebook took top honors in the paid and unpaid categories respectively. Koi Pond and Enigmo rounded out the top three paid apps, while Google Earth and Pandora Radio rounded out the freebies.

The Washington Post points out some discrepancies between Apple’s top 20 and a recent comScore report. comScore claimed the free Tap Tap Revenge is the most downloaded app overall, while Apple has it ranked fourth in that category. Though, comScore was limited to PC downloads.

Posted on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:45:00 CDT | by James Douglas

iPhone Apps for Babies?

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A developer in Colorado has created an iPhone app that caters to the one demographic greatly underserved by Apple… babies. Introducing, the iPhone Pacifier 1 application.

The app teaches kids aged 1-3 basic cognitive, vocabulary, and counting skills while holding their attention with “stunning visual effects” and classical music, according to the release. The difficulty settings can also be adjusted, seemingly for baby geniuses who master the app's shape and counting games.

Posted on Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:00:00 CDT | by James Douglas

Top iPhone Apps 2008 revealed on iTunes

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In case you are wondering which iPhone Apps are still missing on your iPhone 3G then check out the iTunes 2008 top lists Apple published inside iTunes.
Apple features the Top 10 iPhone Apps 2008 in the categories apps overall, games, entertainment, social networking, music and utilities. Each category is featured in paid and the free iPhone Apps segment.
The overall top paid iPhone App 2008 according to Apple is Koi Pond. At 99c this visually calming app seems to have captured the hearts of most iPhone users. Read more

Posted on Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Guide to the Top 15 iPhone Apps

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Our friends over at Digital Trends published a guide with the Top 15 iPhone Apps available.

Quote: "Here are 15 iPhone apps we consider essential - they all work with the iPhone 3G, and many run on the iPod Touch and original iPhone as well." Read more

Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr