On the planning front, iFeast: Thanksgiving from Digital Laundry looks to help you synchronize your meal’s prep work and cook times ... read more at Macworld
Post Imagineering’s Thanksgiving Recipes and 7Zillion’s Thanksgiving Dinner both look to inspire you with ideas for what to cook come Turkey Day ... read more at Macworld
Post Imagineering’s Thanksgiving Recipes and 7Zillion’s Thanksgiving Dinner both look to inspire you with ideas for what to cook come Turkey Day ... read more at Macworld
Each recipe in the Feather & Moor app includes a big picture of the dish along with a brief description so that you know what you’ll be cooking ... read more at Macworld
The App Store offers an assortment of apps that aim to make your Thanksgiving dinner run as smoothly as possible. From dinner planning to recipes to timing ... read more at Macworld
Geared, a $1 game from developer Bryan Mitchell with a free lite counterpart, is a clever puzzle game for the iPhone. You're presented with two already-placed gears ... read more at Macworld
Geared, a $1 game from developer Bryan Mitchell with a free lite counterpart, is a clever puzzle game for the iPhone. You're presented with two already-placed gears ... read more at Macworld
Getting the most out of the limited iPhone camera is one of the hurdles facing iPhone owners, and the sheer volume of camera apps in the App Store can be overwhelming ... read more at Macworld
Mini Golf Wacky Worlds lives up to its name delivering an out-of-this-world putt-putt experience. With colorful characters and crazy courses ... read more at Macworld
Quip, a $1 app from Addy Mobile, aims to let you send photos to your friends’ cell phones without counting against your MMS quota ... read more at Macworld
The objective of Print Magic is simple: print from your iPhone to one of your network’s printers. The idea behind this $7 app from Wellala ... read more at Macworld
10 Pin Shuffle is Digital Smoke’s take on the popular sports bar game Shuffle Board. Actually, there’s two games for one—classic shuffle board and a bowling version of the game ... read more at Macworld
The app gives you information about NASA missions, lets you view NASA images (from both NASA’s IOTD [Image of the Day] and APOD ... read more at Macworld
The $1 app from Island Labs opens to a list of the current contestants vying for your vote, displaying the ten most recent contestants sorted by date from newest to oldest ... read more at Macworld
Orbital, is a $1 app from Bitforge. And what a find it was. This is a casual game with a retro flair, some serious strategy, and great re-playability ... read more at Macworld
Food IQ for the iPhone or iPod touch lets you choose any one of 18 nutrients to assign to the app’s icon badge so you can check your daily intake just like you’d check for unread e-mails ... read more at Macworld
The 1990s saw the video game market flooded with personalities desperate for the attention of gamers, as developers tried to create their very own Sonic and Mario ... read more at Macworld
once the music starts, FlickTunes makes use of your handheld’s whole touchscreen and doesn’t require you to look at it even once. ... read more at Macworld
More than a few Grand Theft Auto imitations have hit the App Store in recent months. And while games like Car Jack Streets and Payback are pretty good ... read more at Macworld
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition - Lucasfilm International Services Inc.
The Secret of Monkey Island is a re-imagining of the classic adventure game with all new art, new sound, new dialogue from the original cast, and the same swashbuckling story ... read more at Macworld
When you spot the Family Guy app from Fox Mobile Entertainment in the App Store, the question is pretty simple: Is it freakin’ sweet ... read more at Macworld
RedLaser turns your iPhone’s camera into a super-cool barcode scanner and comparison-shopping machine. Say you’re shopping for a book or music CD, or even a computer ... read more at Macworld
SoftBank Selection makes a brainteasing game that’s extremely popular in Japan, so it figures the company would see if it can capture some of that same success ... read more at Macworld
iPhones and Blackberries have made the Rolodex about as obsolete as Betamax, or at least as endangered as the Delhi Sands Flower Loving Fly ... read more at Macworld
iPhones and Blackberries have made the Rolodex about as obsolete as Betamax, or at least as endangered as the Delhi Sands Flower Loving Fly ... read more at Macworld
WorldVoice Radio by RnSK Softronicsis an ambitious project. The $3 app aims to give you the power of your own podcasting recording studio ... read more at Macworld
FaceFighter by Appy Entertainment is a funny kung fu-style fighting game that lets you beat your friends to a pulp without getting the cops involved ... read more at Macworld
FaceFighter by Appy Entertainment is a funny kung fu-style fighting game that lets you beat your friends to a pulp without getting the cops involved ... read more at Macworld
In The Deep Pinball, you’re the captain of the world’s most advanced submarine that happens to be shaped exactly like a silver ball bearing ... read more at Macworld
One of the better painting and drawing apps on the iPhone, and one of the most useful creative tools I’ve seen, SketchBook Mobile is an indispensable tool if you are a real artist ... read more at Macworld
One of the better painting and drawing apps on the iPhone, and one of the most useful creative tools I’ve seen, SketchBook Mobile is an indispensable tool if you are a real artist ... read more at Macworld
AudioBoo by Best Before Media is a quick and easy way to share audio recordings on the Internet. The app is free, and you don’t even need to create an account ... read more at Macworld
9: The Mobile Game—spun off from the recent animated movie of the same name—does not break this mold. Awkward controls, overly simplistic graphics ... read more at Macworld
If slaying mass amounts of blood-thirsty zombies in a post-apocalyptic world is your thing, look no further than Alive 4-Ever ... read more at Macworld
Memeo Share is a free iPhone app from Memeo for sharing photos with friends and family. Memeo Share started life as a Web-based app ... read more at Macworld
Wirus’s Tick Talk aspires to BuzzVoice’s excellence, but falls well short of the mark. Although the app appears under the news section of the App Store, it’s difficult to describe Tick Talk ... read more at Macworld
The good people at MediaQuake took those criticisms to heart, down to the swipe at the name. PimpMyNews is now BuzzVoice Talks. The new news service launched in September—it’s on sale for $2 ... read more at Macworld
CNN Mobile for the iPhone and iPod touch is a massively impressive news app. CNN Interactive Group’s app combines articles, videos, and photos ... read more at Macworld
PhotoBuddy from Ambertation delivers a Swiss Army knife-like combination of photographic tools. The app calculates depth of field ... read more at Macworld
Dr DOF from Phozmo takes a unique approach to the job in delivering reams of educational and informational content along with its calculator ... read more at Macworld
First up is f/8 DoF Calculator from Bitzwerk. f/8 takes a functional, “all business” approach to the task. Calculations and adjustments are made on a single screen ... read more at Macworld
If you're already hooked on Championship Manager 2010, then you'll be delighted to know that Eidos Interactive has brought the game to the iPhone ... read more at MacUserUK
The name might remind you of an unpleasant side effect of drinking the water in Mexico, but this Zuma’s Revenge won’t make you run for the bathroom ... read more at MacLife
It's you against your phone, racing to bank $5,000. You first roll a goal and then spin the slot machine's reels. When the reels stop spinning, you click on individual reels ... read more at MacLife
Some of the App Store’s 12,000-plus games are new ideas conceived expressly for this new platform, while others are retreads of more familiar fare ... read more at MacLife
Command & Conquer: Red Alert translates a great Mac and PC game into an adequate iPhone title. Instead of designing the action around the portable device ... read more at MacLife
Being a serious college football fan is hard work. Each Saturday brings a slew of games, spread throughout conferences all over the country ... read more at Macworld
Toy Bot Diaries 3 fares similarly, but is actually my favorite of the Toy Bot trilogy. This adventure takes place in space, and the physics get slightly wonkier—which works to the game's benefit ... read more at Macworld
I'm sorry to report that Toy Bot Diaries 2 suffers from the same weakness. It takes some time to really get comfortable with Toy Bot's controls ... read more at Macworld
Words With Friends is a two-person crossword challenge. It absolutely, positively is not Scrabble, so Hasbro’s lawyers can serve their writs another day ... read more at Macworld
Words With Friends is a two-person crossword challenge. It absolutely, positively is not Scrabble, so Hasbro’s lawyers can serve their writs another day ... read more at Macworld
Well, AllAboutApps has come to the rescue with AppBox Pro, an app that runs on the iPhone and iPod touch, combining 21 useful apps into one ... read more at Macworld
The interface is simple enough to master the first time you use the app. You can elect to show tool tips with instructions, but after a couple of minutes, you won’t need them ... read more at Macworld
FanGraphs Baseball for the iPhone is a must-have application for any fans interested in learning more about the game they love ... read more at Macworld
HDR photography is tricky business. Under the right circumstances, high dynamic range imaging can add a valuable level of detail ... read more at Macworld
MyBatteryLife from KVapps is a simple tool of somewhat debatable utility. The app’s clean, sparse graphic interface shows a percentage of your battery power ... read more at Macworld
For years, consumers have turned to the familiar red covers of the Zagat family of books for honest, practical reviews of local restaurants ... read more at Macworld
Moonlights is a $2 physics-based puzzler from BonusLevel.org packed with nearly 100 levels. You’re tasked with assembling a tower ... read more at Macworld
Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right ... read more at Macworld
Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right ... read more at Macworld
Josh Pressnell’s iBookshelf is a relatively modest database application for the iPhone and iPod touch designed to help keep track of your books ... read more at Macworld
Scarecrow, a $1 game from Ezone.com, fares less well: You’ll tire of playing this ragdoll-physics offering long before your first trick-or-treater arrives ... read more at Macworld
Halloween Chicktionary is a $2 word game from Blockdot. It’s a seasonal sequel to Chicktionary (also $2), and plays essentially identically to its predecessor ... read more at Macworld
Zombie Pizza, a $1 game from Appy Entertainment, feels creepy and Halloweenish down to its core. In this quick-paced game, you’re working in a pizza parlor ... read more at Macworld
Sports Cards from Alanna Webb is a set of more than 60 frames for your iPhone photos, making your pics look like trading cards ... read more at Macworld
If you’ve ever felt the urge to build a Rube Goldberg machine of your own, perhaps it would just be easier to give Crazy Machines a try on your iPhone or iPod touch ... read more at Macworld
I’ve discovered several iPhone apps that provide ways to send “canned” messages like this. Manicwave Productions’ app, Pastie ... read more at Macworld
Helping you pick the perfect costume this year, Halloween Costume Generator ($2) and Costume Ideas - Halloween ($1) approach the task of finding you the right costume pretty differently ... read more at Macworld
Halloween Experience, another $1 app, also falls into that “cute but forgettable” category. The app encompasses several Halloween-themed activities ... read more at Macworld
Halloween Deluxe—currently free—also takes the hodgepodge approach to ghostly fun, but fares better than some of its competition ... read more at Macworld
Less remarkable—though certainly loaded with kitschy fun—is the creatively-named app Halloween. It’s a $1 soundboard from Smudge Apps ... read more at Macworld
Synthetic Bit’s Halloween Costume Generator features a grim, organ-based soundtrack. You pop in 3 fields—gender, type of party ... read more at Macworld
So you think you have a first-class vocabulary? Okay, suppose you have a fair-to-middling vocabulary? Lunchbox Apps’ Word War will put your command of the language to the test ... read more at Macworld
This is where Runner’s World Shoe Shop can come in very handy. The free app includes information—a photograph and detailed text description—of 122 different men’s brands and styles, and 124 women’s ... read more at Macworld
Inkvaders is a $1 side-scrolling alien shoot-’em-up from Chillingo. The game play strikes me as very reminiscent of Zombieville USA, and that’s a good thing ... read more at Macworld
Digital Outcrop’s Mixologist app for the iPhone and iPod touch boasts 7,900 recipes, including the aforementioned abominations and hundreds more just like them ... read more at Macworld
Genetic Mistakes’ Drinks and Cocktails app makes a heroic effort to avoid the embarrassing recipes that Mixologist has on offer ... read more at Macworld
Affogato’s Top Shelf Drinks (formerly Drinks, and before that, iDrink) should win a prize for the most refined cocktail application for the iPhone ... read more at Macworld
Dance music, techno, ambient—these dominant musical styles of the ’80s are coming back in full force with bands like M80 and Shiny Toy Guns ... read more at Macworld
The Game of Life: Classic Edition is a $5 board-game recreation from Electronic Arts. It’s a faithful homage, and it’s about as fun as the family board game ... read more at Macworld
One day while at my son’s soccer practice, I took a break from watching my son play sharks and minnows and started goofing around with my iPhone, specifically ... read more at Macworld
GoodGuide is a free reference guide that lets consumers find the products based on how well they’ve scored in environmental, health, nutritional and social criteria ... read more at Macworld
Go Green from Webworks and Applications dispenses a new green-living tip every time you fire up the free app; the idea is that you’ll accumulate a long list of useful low-impact consumer pointers ... read more at Macworld
Green Book, a $6 app from Kamikaze, eschews listing specific brand names or products and focuses instead on walking users through which consumer choices to make ... read more at Macworld
Gorgeously Green Survival Guide Lifestyle - Optimum Drama
Gorgeously Green Survival Guide is a beautifully-formatted, surprisingly informative little reference guide. Its information scope is limited compared to GoodGuide ... read more at Macworld
The basics of the game are the same on your iPhone and iPod touch as they are with the board game—the letter tiles even look like the real wooden ones ... read more at Macworld
ConsumerReports.org Mobile News & Video - Consumer Reports
The ConsumerReports.org Mobile News and Video app for the iPhone and iPod touch delivers much of the content on ConsumerReports.org. But because the magazine and Web site relies on subscribers ... read more at Macworld
Penn & Teller Chat Magic Trick costs $2, but you can probably earn that back with a single bet: Get your friends to gamble on whether Penn and Teller are in your address book ... read more at Macworld
You can also try the no-cost version of the app, NotifyMe Free. It sports a 20-second nag screen when you launch it, and limits you to three scheduled reminders at a time ... read more at Macworld
NotifyMe, a $4 app from PoweryBase, is a to-do list manager that takes advantage of push notifications to remind you when it’s time to get stuff done ... read more at Macworld
In an App Store practically overflowing with racing style games, Waterslide Extreme is a simple and enjoyable game that still manages to do a good job of showing off the iPhone’s functionality ... read more at Macworld
In this $1 offering from SkyVu Pictures, you’re a brown teddy bear that has been caught behind enemy lines and must survive until air support can get you out. In order to stave off the hordes ... read more at Macworld
No one pretends that viewing, selecting, and matching colors on an iPhone can replace sophisticated color calibration hardware ... read more at Macworld
Chillingo's Minigore is a vicious 3-D shoot-em-up game. You control John Gore, who's certainly named appropriately for this gruesome game ... read more at Macworld
ivMob’s iLibrary +audio resembles many other e-book readers stuffed with public domain titles. The app comes loaded with 45 works ... read more at Macworld
Audiobooks offers a simple if unlovely interface and a vast selection of more than 1,800 public domain audiobooks from which to choose. That’s one clear advantage the app has ... read more at Macworld
Cross Forward Consulting’s Audiobooks doesn’t offer accompanying text and comes in two versions. The free “lite” version of the app is identical to the $1 edition ... read more at Macworld
Luckily, it seems like QNG, the developer of Acoustic Guitar, has realized these limitations and attempted to work around them with its $1 app for the iPhone and iPod touch ... read more at Macworld
Leaf Bound, developed by Pixel Stream, invites comparisons to Doodle Jump, another vertical jumping game that’s taken the App Store by storm ... read more at Macworld
The OpenTable app for the iPhone and iPod touch is well designed and easy to use. With just a touch or two, you are quickly presented with nearby restaurants and their available seating ... read more at Macworld
You know that little devil on your shoulder telling you to do bad things? Well, iNabler brings that kind of bad advice to you ... read more at Macworld
iSurf purports to be a “breathtaking” surfing game. You can choose from two different surfers (a caped dude and a granny with a paddle) and three fantasy locations ... read more at Macworld
Shakespeare from Readdle in association with PlayShakespeare.com does away with the essays and supporting documentation, providing the text for all the plays, sonnets, and poems ... read more at Macworld
Voice memos were among the more highly touted features of the iPhone 3.0 software update, so it might not be immediately obvious what purpose an app such as Carnation Software’s Say It & Mail It would serve ... read more at Macworld
Westbang is a take on the wild west shoot-out from Rake in Grass. The $1 tap shooter requires a quick eye and even quicker thumbs to dispatch the nasty bandits threatening the townsfolk ... read more at Macworld
Westbang is a take on the wild west shoot-out from Rake in Grass. The $1 tap shooter requires a quick eye and even quicker thumbs to dispatch the nasty bandits threatening the townsfolk ... read more at Macworld
Let me guess, you love NPR? I know I do, and lucky for the both of us, NPR loves us right back with the NPR News app for the iPhone and iPod touch ... read more at Macworld
Earth Vs Moon Ep.2-Enter The Perk Shop - Benjamin Padget
There’s a thin line between parody and imitation. If it’s funny, then it’s parody. If it’s not, you’re going to get sued. The space-based war in Earth Vs. Moon ... read more at Macworld
Rowmote Pro turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote control for media programs on your Mac, such as EyeTV. It has to be paired with a small companion application ... read more at MacUserUK
Don't bother trying to orient yourself on a map to find the closest London Underground station. Nearest Tube shows which are close by with modern flair ... read more at MacUserUK
DSLR Camera Remote lets you take pictures using a Canon or Nikon digital SLR, and review the results on your iPhone or iPod touch. It frees you to move from behind the camera ... read more at MacUserUK
Fifa 10 is the first version of EA's renowned football game to make it onto the iPhone. Fans will be pleased to hear it contains all the detail you'd expect of a franchise that prides itself on the realism ... read more at MacLife
A triumph of game design, Braid mixes 2D platforming gameplay, ingeniously crafted puzzles, time manipulation, and a melancholy story open to multiple interpretations ... read more at MacLife
Can’t put a name to the tune that’s playing over a public speaker system or at a party? Shazam can ID the song, artist, and album—then let you buy it directly from the iTunes Store. Just tap Tag Now and hold up your iPhone so it can “hear” the music ... read more at MacLife
When native apps finally became available for the iPhone, PocketGuitar was one of the first ones I bought. Having been a guitar player for most of my life, I thought this app was so cool. I was impressed by the way developer Shinya Kasatani mimicked the guitar... read more at Macworld
Textfree Unlimited, a $6 app with a free lite counterpart, aims to let you send text messages for free, without using the SMS app or your mobile provider. Other apps such as SMS Touch have the same aim, but Textfree... read more at Macworld
The best iPhone games tap into the power of the device in unusual ways. Fieldrunners is cool because the tower-defense game supports touch and pinch. HeavyMach makes ample use of the accelerometer. Likewise, Smule touched a nerve in 2008 with Ocarina... read more at Macworld
I don’t really get excited about single-purpose utilities for the iPhone and iPod touch. But Sophiestication Software’s Groceries app merits the excitement. It makes grocery lists easy to create, manage... read more at Macworld
Call it a power app for busy Mac users. Daylite Touch from Marketcircle is an add-on for the company’s full-featured Daylite () business organization tool. Using this mobile companion... read more at Macworld
Miss Spell’s Class is a $1 game from Dictionary.com for you’re iPhone or iPod touch. If the deliberate misspelling of “your” in that sentence has you beating a path to Macworld’s forum feature... read more at Macworld
What can you get for $149.7 million? How about a nice Jackson Pollock masterpiece? Too rich for you? OK, how about Art, from ADS Software?If nothing else, the $1 app will run you hundreds of millions less... read more at Macworld
Tiger Woods PGA Tour is a big game. I’m talking 160 MB big. Is it worth the $10 price and the oodles of disk space it’ll gobble up on your iPhone... read more at Macworld
The Eucalyptus reader for the iPhone and iPod touch would have been a hit even if Apple hadn’t made its boneheaded initial decision to bar the e-book reader due to “sexually explicit content.”... read more at Macworld
While the iPhone’s built-in camera is certainly convenient, its small aperture and slow shutter speed can make taking great pictures a challenge, particularly after the sun goes down... read more at Macworld
There are some iPhone apps that are just plain ridiculous, and there are others that look ridiculous, but under the surface, contain something extraordinary. Normalware’s BeBot—Robot Synth is one of those... read more at Macworld
When you launch Where To Eat, you’re confronted with a standard menu of cuisines and food types. The interface, I’m sorry to report, is a bit bland and could use some spice... read more at Macworld
You control your skier by tilting the iPhone or iPod touch left and right for turns, and by shaking it a bit to do tricks after jumping a ramp. The controls work well... read more at Macworld
Serious researchers in the sciences are likely already familiar with arXiv.org, Cornell’s open access digital repository for preprint scientific articles. Now it’s possible to browse, search for, skim... read more at Macworld
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