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Although real software development for the iPhone lag behind, but iPhone apps pick up the slack in technological innovation. Consider that 50,000 new iPhone apps are developed every month, you can’t possibly keep up on them all. Some will leave you wondering how you ever survived without them; others just leave you wondering what’ s the point. Here are a few iPhone apps that live up to the hype.

Pageonce Personal Assistant – Is it difficult keeping up with multiple banking and portfolio accounts? Get them all on the same page with this iPhone app. You get instant online access to all your accounts, from banking to frequent flyer miles to your investments. Rather than juggling a dozen sites, use the Pageonce Personal Assistant through one application that’s easy and convenient.

Fring – Really, once you’ve got this app, you’ll never need an IM tool again. This app includes Google Talk, Yahoo, Skype, MSN, Twitter, ICQ, plus VoIP calls over Wi-Fi if your minutes are low while you are spending the afternoon in a bar or coffee shop. While many iPhone apps are devoted to a particular site, this one streamlines them all into one universally.

Routesy – Don’t roll into the city without this baby in your pocket. A great way to keep up on train and bus schedules, this app tells you what to take to get exactly where you need to be. It’s even easier than a computer because it’s simple and quick. Get all your bus and train information with this efficiently smart iPhone app.

VNC Lite – Want to turn your cell phone into your computer? VNC Lite allows you to view and fully control your computer from your cell phone, providing you are on the same network. If you thought that laptops as thin as children’s storybook was as it could get, this beauty puts your desktop in the palm of your hand to make it even better. Some iPhone apps let you connect to your computer. This app practically is your computer.

Bloom – Brian Eno’s generative, ambient music blooms on this iPhone app. You can drop your finger on the liquefied pastel screen and make simple loops. Make music yourself, and then add your own transcendental graphics. Perfect for making your fingers dance. This is one of the few creative iPhone apps that let you get creative too.

Henry Rinkle lives and breathes the iPhone. Read his blogs to discover the best iPhone apps for you.

Every day, awesome new games are added too the iTunes store, that can be downloaded for free or for a price. But whatever it is, the point is that with your iPhone you’ll never be bored. You could be whiling away time in the airport, but that can be done with fun while you play some of the coolest games on your iPhone. Take a look at some of these out:

AAA Memory Game

You might recall playing this with flash cards when you were small. A number of cards are arranged face down with matching pairs of pictures mixed up and you have to remember which cards are placed in which position. Using the same concept, this game uses tiles with question marks that are face down and you have to select the right pairs. There are 16 levels of ascending difficulty. Great way to test your memory!

Action Dot 2 Dot

Connect dots in this game to reveal images, and the faster you do it, the more rewards you win. With a total of a 125 levels split between 50 arcade levels and 5 worlds, this game is a riot! If you solve it then the world is yours! This games requires concentration and can even enhance concentration levels overall. You can choose from playing the arcade mode, the world mode or just the quick play mode which doesn’t have any levels, but can be played for some easy and quick fun!

Blowfish

When you see this game, your very first reaction will be an exclamation of how cute it is. This game has loads of cool visuals effects with a blue sea and bubbles and every time you tap on a blow fish it gets bigger and bigger and bursts when a prickly sea urchin comes by. You’ll find that there are plenty of sea urchins and unlimited levels in this game! This one is just perfect for times when you’re brain dead and don’t want any strain on it.

Bungee Boy

Become Bungee Boy for a day while you swing from buildings and have loads of fun! Pop balloons and gets points and stay away from fire rings while you swing through the city. With four difficulty level to get through and no time limit, this game is super fun! Keep playing it as long as you like because it sure as hell is addictive!

Thom writes articles for mac software leader, PocketMac. They specialize in Apple and Mac related software, including their Apple iPhone game, Rock, Paper, Airplane.

So you’re sitting down with a group of friends and suddenly there’s nothing to do. You look at your iPhone for inspiration and there they are. Loads of cool new games to play with friends and have plenty of fun. Take a look at some of these really groovy games to hit the iTunes store and you won’t regret it even a little bit!

Doodle Dots

You’ve got to know the old connect the dots game where you need to make the most number of squares by connecting dots so you can beat your opponent? Well this game can now be played on your iPhone, only thing is, you save paper, get 3 different board sizes and difficulty levels and can even pick your own colour to play with. Have fun with the Doodle Dots game!

Fly Must Die

Idle pursuits are all you plan to spend your day on, and then this game is perfect for you. In this game you have to kill flies with chopsticks. Now that is nowhere as absurd as you think it is, because the rules of the game entail that the fly must hit the exact tip of the chopstick or it will fly away. You can score different points by killing different coloured flies.

Knock Knock Zombies

This game is for those little kids in your house who can’t let go of their fascination for your iPhone seeing you tap on it. Now this could work on two extreme ways for you: they could love the game and harass you even more for it, or they could get frightened by it and not want it ever again. Though chances of the latter happening doesn’t seem likely! What the deal is, that every time they tap on the door of a crypt, a different zombie comes out of it screaming its guts out; it sounds scary but that isn’t really the case.

Push – Push

While this game may not be suitable for kids but adults sure can have fun with it! In this game you are an assassin and you have to kill the presented target with home appliances. The target keeps moving so you have to be careful because you might end up hitting a civilian or something else and then the game only gets tougher.

Thom crafts articles for mac software leader, PocketMac. They specialize in Apple related software, including their Apple iPhone application, Rock, Paper, Airplane.

But how come this happened? Did Apple go and do something in specific — something they’re still doing — that keeps them so incredibly dominant? No one has managed to hit the quality control Apple has (but the Palm Pre has made a good effort). We’ve gathered together the 5 most likely reasons why.

#5: Apple had a seriously smart plan in advance

There are several phone manufacturers who really have no sense of where their company is going (think of Motorola), and they are always stuck listening to the carriers, who drive the way phones get made. Apple stuck to a really solid roadmap, forcing their carriers to accept the phone on their own terms, and knowing they’d say yes because of how good it was.

#4: Developers, Developers, Developers!

There are loads of great developers out there doing work for the mac, and they know all about good design. Apple’s SDKs have always been extremely high-quality, and this fosters great quality in their developers, too. Naturally, this was their approach with the iPhone, and it has seriously paid off.

#3: The iPhone OS is to phones what OSX is to desktops

No rocket science here, really — if you can control your hardware well enough, and make the software, too, your quality should automatically go up, especially when your QA standards are as high as Apple’s. No huge range of phones or clones to run the software, and you avoid all those pitfalls that come with every other mobile OS out there.

#2: Apple has turned being the underdog into a fine art

There were an absolute ton of naysayers out there just chomping at the bit to see the iPhone die, and because of all the other guys in the market, there was no way Apple was going to muscle in and take over. And so when the app store really took off (never mind the initial success of the phone itself), Apple could stand there and smile.

#1: From Steve Jobs on down, high standards are crucial

Because Apple worked so hard on their operating system, phone hardware, and built-in applications, those standards are passed down to the developers. If there’s one ‘very simple reason’ why so many of those applications in the app store are so good, it’s this — rigorous standards at the top lead to high quality, all the way down the line.