The iPhone has a Swiss Army-like stash of capabilities based on its built-in sensors, but practically none of the built-in apps take advantage of them. PocketTools by developer CreativeMotion LLC packs six high-quality tools into its diminutive interface, giving you access to some handy things that you are likely never carrying on your person but [...]

Alarm clock apps are probably a dime a dozen, so if you bring something to the App Store with alarm clock features it’s important to offer something unique. First Light from developer Jumbuck Entertainment aims to be more than an alarm clock, presenting you with the weather, your daily schedule, and your choice of music [...]

Let’s face it: most of us just don’t really hook our iPhones up to a computer anymore, and with the upcoming iCloud service launching this fall we’ll have even less of a reason to. I know that I rarely backup my phone unless it’s absolutely critical (read: when it’s time to update the firmware), and [...]

Albert Einstein has been quoted as saying “Never memorize something that you can look up.” In that spirit, electronics engineers with iOS devices should take a long look at Electronics Engineering Toolkit Pro from developer Thomas Gruber. It’s a massive collection of 42 calculators spread over 4 pages, covering everything from trace width to parallel [...]

We all have them: those strange calls from unrecognized numbers that haunt us periodically for days, often not even showing the courtesy of leaving a voicemail. There are countless reasons not to just answer and find out who it is… maybe we’re behind on a few bills, maybe it’s that girl from that class that [...]

One of the First World Problems we have is the requirement to carry and safeguard countless bits of information and forms of identification. Driver’s license, passport, credit card, social security card, and more; all of these things are critical to our everyday lives, but by keeping them all in one location (your wallet or purse) [...]

One of the most surprisingly useful things my iPhone 4 has is an LED flash. It’s actually terrible as a flash, but I really quickly found myself opening the camera app in order to use the flash as a flashlight. It was only a matter of time before flashlight apps started springing up on the [...]

In the movie Robots, Bigweld tells aspiring inventors “See a need, fill a need.” That’s essentially the way I feel about apps in the iPhone app store: target a need that you see not being met (or not being met as well as YOU think you can meet it), and home in on that like [...]

Tracking usage statistics for your website is critical these days, even for the lowly blogger. Every decent host provides usage tracking tools, even Google has a good free service, but none of those free offerings seem to have any flare. This is where NeoWORX (the self-proclaimed “Web Counter Specialist”) comes in. More than simply tracking [...]

The beauty of an active developer community is that occasionally you see brilliant sparks of innovation in seemingly simple applications. The concept behind iDiscrete is not new, and is well-represented in the App Store. It is an application which allows you to securely and privately store documents (including TXT, PDF, DOC, XLS, and PPT), images, [...]