Don’t get me wrong: I hate my iPhone. I only got one after I accidentally left my Droid on a bus. So I’m not coming to you as a wide-eyed enthusiast, the sort who thinks everything that Apple makes is pure gold. I don’t play Angry Birds, I don’t have a set of bejeweled Hello Kitty cases, and every day I think wistfully of the BlackBerry I had a few phones ago. That said, there are some awesome apps on the iPhone, especially for gastronomes. In no particular order, here are 10 of my favorites.

Yelp
There a million different sites and services that promise honest, crowd-sourced guidance to the baffling, brave new world of restaurants. Yelp is simply the best . The reviews are generally accurate and unbiased, and the app, like the site, features integrated maps and a linkable phone number you can click on to reach the place. As a food writer who travels a lot, I find it indispensable. And you will too. (See the top 50 iPhone apps of 2011.)

Seafood Watch
This sleek, no-frills little app was created by the good people at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It tells you how sustainable different fish are , as well as what the best choice is for any given species (e.g., coho salmon vs. sockeye salmon vs. chinook salmon). This app, by the way, is only permissible to use if you don’t start showing everybody that you are using it.

Epicurious
As with Yelp and restaurant reviews, there are a million recipe sites, but Epicurious is the best. All of its recipes have been vetted by pros, and even the not-so-good ones work. It gets bonus points for having a shopping-list applet as part of the package, demerits for too aggressive advertising. If you get fed up, try BigOven , which claims to have 170,000 recipes, with no frills – and no ads.

Jamie’s 20-Minute Meals
Every food personality has his or her own app, and really, I just chose Jamie Oliver’s because I love the way he cooks . (Also, it works very well on the Droid – sigh.) But Mario Batali, Nigella Lawson and all the rest have put a lot of money and time into their own apps, and if you like them better, by all means download them. Better still, download all of them and compare their recipes on similar dishes. You’ll be surprised how much you learn.

The Perfect Egg Timer
The cool thing about smart-phone apps is that there’s one for everything, and unlike dead-tree cookbooks, you can make room for as many as you want. Take the Perfect Egg Timer. It tells you how long it should take to boil an egg , to the second – depending on your elevation, the size of the egg and exactly how you like it, as represented by a precise closeup graphic. Why something like this doesn’t exist for steaks and chops is beyond me. Maybe I will create one. But I know it won’t be this good. (Read about tips to take better food photos with your iPhone.)

Wine.com
Wine apps, like wine directors and sommeliers, tend to have the same problem: they know too much and insist on sharing it all with you. If you want to know how the ’86 Lynch-Bages compares with the ’88, get the Wine Spectator vintage guide. If you want to know how a wine you see on a menu or in a store tastes like, or just a general guide to what to buy, this is the way to go . The intuitive interface helps those among us who are intimidated by wine jargon.

LocalEats
There was a time when you had to depend on your “foodar” to find the best places in a small city – especially those odd little ones often presumed to be of little interest to out-of-towners. Chowhound and Google changed all that, and now there is a bustling commercial traffic in local-eats apps, some of which even include GPS guidance via Google Maps. LocalEats is stripped down and simple and easy to use , which is what I like in an app.

Broadcastr
Restaurant guides, whether curated or crowd-sourced, suffer from essentially the same problem: a narrow mission and a binary hot-or-not model. Broadcastr is a social-media site for local stories; turned into an iPhone app, it provides cultural context from people who lives with and grew up around the nearby restaurants. Which is helpful because maybe you would like to know more than just whether to go there and how to get there. A happy recent alliance with the Southern Foodways Alliance has given immeasurable richness to the experience, at least when you’re traveling in the South.

Locavore
It’s one thing to be a locavore where you live; it’s another thing entirely to know what is in season in the places where you’re traveling. This handy, simple app is organized by region, and it helps you tell the difference between what you ought to be eating and what just came in on a diesel-flying fortress from Chile.

OpenTable
The most amazing thing about OpenTable has always been that it works. There are still a few restaurants that don’t hook into the centralized-reservation software, but those that do have never lost my reservation or been confused about the number of seats in my party. The software team must work as hard as Apple because the app is even easier to use than the website , and also includes detailed restaurant information and a GPS locator. Used in conjunction with Yelp, no traveler should ever eat poorly again.

Ozersky is a James Beard Award”winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History . He is currently at work on a biography of Colonel Sanders. Taste of America, Ozersky’s food column for TIME.com , appears every Wednesday.

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iPhone app developers have not only created iPhone Apps for adults. Rather, for those who trust their children with their iPhones, developers have also created applications that can help promote children’s education. This way, when parents or babysitters want a little peace, they can select the best apps by reading iPhone App Reviews and can then hand their phones over to their children feeling that they are providing an educational distraction. If you are seeking such apps, look no further; for readers’ benefit, we have provided a few such iPhone Game Reviews below:

Little Cook: This app developed by Aqility ($3.99) gives children a fun introduction to cooking. Children learn to make their own decisions as they combine ingredients in their own virtual kitchen. They can make their favorite meals or zany creations (onion and peanut butter sandwich, anyone?), and these will then be tested by a professional kid-taster. Children will improve their decision-making and culinary skills, all while enjoying an engaging game with colorful graphics.

ABC Animals: For younger audiences, this game by Critical Matter, Inc ($1.99) is a great tool to help children recognize, learn and say their ABC’s. The app provides flashcards that children can scroll between: the cards all have illustrations of animals whose names match the letters’ phonetics and provide audio pronunciations. Additionally, children have the option to practice tracing both uppercase and lowercase letters on the iPhone’s screen. ABC animals even allows children to practice their ABC’s in several languages, including English, French, German and Spanish!

Word Magic: This app by anusen.com ($0.99) was developed with preschoolers and kindergarten kids in mind, or 3-6 years olds. A picture appears on the iPhone screen, with the name of the object or animal depicted appearing below. However, these words are missing a letter, and children must therefore select the missing letter for the picture. An audio feature reads out the picture for the word, and parents can choose three levels of difficulty depending on their children’s age and ability.

Wheels on the Bus: This excellent app by Duck Duck Moose ($0.99) will delight children while encouraging language, coginitive and motor development. This is a musical book that lets parents and babysitters it and read along with children, and hear the song being played on a cello, piano, violin and a kazoo! The app is interactive, and it even lets you record your child’s singing. It would be difficult for children not to become captivated by this lovely musical app!

Smartphones of all descriptions have really been one of the defining features of a generation: with the iPhone having been the main focus of the smartphone buzzfor the last couple of years. iPhones have become the standard benchmark for smartphone technology amongst the gadget freaks of the world.

This is likely to continue for a period, but without further innovation from Apple and the army of iphone apps developers, the time is approaching when, Android for one, will be banging on the walls of the App store’s castle!

However this competition actually presents opportunities for the keen, dedicated programmer who can keep his head in two camps at once. It is clear confirmation that mobile computing applications are going to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

In fact, I can’t say it strongly enough – NOW is the time to get involved, if you have the slightest notion of programming applications: for the iphone in particular. The iphone already has two well rooted development and distribution universes running in close parallel, so it is a no-brainer to make sure you cut your teeth in the Apple iphone apps arena, to nurture your project development, programming and marketing skills in order to earn money from those iPhone apps.

Why will the iPhone apps be such a powerful breeding ground for your development career? It seems that there is, more than ever before, something to get everyone using an iPhone. Whether you are a youngster, into your music and videos, who happens to need a mobile phone to stay in touch with parents; or a high power business builder with a penchant for gadgets to organize life and leisure, then you will certainly have at least 20 daily tasks, suitable for rationalizing into apps for the iphone.

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Call it the electronic equivalent of concussion Coles Notes or study guides for coaches and soccer moms.

A newiPhone application, called Concussion Recognition and Response, is offering coaches and parents a means of identifying whether a player has possibly suffered a concussion.

Developers stress that the app is by no means a replacement for an examination by a trained professional but they’re hopeful that it could be an effective tool for recognizing a “suspected concussion,” particularly in the absence of trained medical professionals, who are often not in attendance at amateur sporting events.

Playing with an unrecognized concussion can prolong or worsen symptoms, or in exceptional cases, be life-threatening, says Dr. Laura Purcell, president of the Paediatric Sport and Exercise Medicine Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society. Players under 20 also run the risk of developing a rare condition called second impact syndrome, whereby fatal brain swelling can occur if a player sustains a second injury while they are symptomatic. “The concern we have with that condition is it’s seen only in younger age groups.”

Although a new app, the wording for certain components of Concussion Recognition and Response came from a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative that has already recorded success in concussion recognition and awareness.

The Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative created paper-based tool kits for parents and coaches, filled with fact sheets, magnets and posters. A study of that initiative found that 77% of coaches reported being able to more readily identify a possible concussion, while 63% reported viewing concussions more seriously ( www.cdc.gov/concussion/pdf/Heads_Up_Activity_Report_Final-a.pdf ).

No such figures yet exist for the app, but the technological tool looks for two key components for a suspected concussion: a blow to the head, and a subsequent sign or symptom, such as a headache, drowsiness, amnesia or loss of consciousness.

The first question in the app asks “was there likely a blow to the head or body, jerking the head?” If the person answers “yes” or “not sure” and clicks “yes” to any one sign or symptom, the app will automatically identify a “suspected concussion” and suggest the person seek medical evaluation. If you click “no” to the first question, you still have the option to go through signs and symptoms.

“In some respects we are probably erring on the side of caution and we’ll have what they call some false positives, meaning there will be some kids identified who will turn out not to have a concussion, but we want to err on that side,” says Gerald Gioia, who codeveloped the app after spending eight years developing material for the CDC initiative and is the director of the concussion program at the Children’s National Medical Center.

The app rightly acknowledges that you don’t need to have a head injury to sustain a concussion, says Dr.James Kissick, sports medicine physician at the Ottawa Sport Medicine Centre. But he notes that no matter how many symptoms you enter, if you clicked “no” to a likely blow to the head or body, the app will not indicate a suspected concussion.

In such a case, the app does respond with “although you do not indicate both elements of a suspected concussion, if you are still not sure about an injury, you should follow the rule ‘when in doubt, sit them out’,” he says, adding that while that is good advice, the failure to advise people to seek medical attention is a concern.

In addition to helping coaches and parents recognize concussions, the app also includes a concussion management section with treatment strategies and answers to commonly asked questions, such as whether a child should be riding a bike, when they can play sports again or when they should return to school.

The app will also serve as a research tool. Proceeds from purchase of the app (for US$3.99 from iTunes) will be used toward concussion research. Purchasers are asked for permission to collect their injury information, such as the signs and symptoms of the injury, the sport and the geographic location of the incident, in a central database. The data collected will allow researchers to examine “the reality of this injury literally in real time.”

Giola says the CDC is currently considering a formal research partnership with the app’s publisher, Psychological Assessment Resources. Gail Hayes, spokeswoman for the CDC Injury Center, confirms in an email that such a partnership is under consideration.

Giola adds that several other concussion-related apps are now under development. One is aimed at helping physicians assess head injuries in a more systematic fashion, while the other is a “first-responder” app for trainers at athletic events or paramedics responding to car accidents.

One of the things that has made iPhone so popular is the ability to download applications that to give the device ever growing functionality. This is made possible through the use of iPhone clients. Clients are simply applications that use a remote server or other computer to run. The advantage as far as iPhone client applications are concerned is that it is not necessary to use valuable hard drive or memory space to run complicated applications. The iPhone client runs the program on the server via a network and at the same time allows the device to remain small and compact. The client/server model is used widely on the Internet with web browsers being a particularly good example of this type of technology.

For iPhone users the biggest news in the iPhone client application arena has been the recent explosion in the field of iPhone clients that enable voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality. With the announcement by Skype that it was ready to put its iPhone client in wide distribution and Apple’s decision to begin supporting third party development of SIP client apps, iPhone and iTouch users have joined the burgeoning legion of users who are able to take advantage of the Internet for telephony services. There are now a number of iPhone client apps that are geared toward use of the devices for telephone conversation. Skype is just one of the more prominent of the iPhone clients designed for this purpose. There are many others and each iPhone client has its own unique features and advantages and disadvantages. Skype and other iPhone clients for telephony are now even available for download directly from the Apple store as well as from third party websites.

The reason that iPhone clients that allow for telephone use have been so eagerly awaited is easy to understand. When you use VoIP to transmit telephone conversations you avoid the use of costly cellular talk time minutes as well as long distance charges-together saving a significant amount of money. Of course, that’s the same reason AT&T worked so hard to get Apple to discourage iPhone users from having access to iPhone clients that would enable them use the Internet for phone calls and slowed development of iPhone clients for SIP and VoIP.

The compromise solution put forth by Apple allows users access to VoIP iPhone clients and somewhat protects AT&T’s market share is to allow SIP iPhone clients to use VoIP via wireless networks (wi-fi). While users would much prefer to be able to use cellular networks for telephony, wi-fi does work and many users are taking advantage of this. To use SIP and VoIP you just need the iPhone client application and there are many of these already currently available.

iPhone client apps for Internet telephone communications are just one small piece of the iPhone client app market. There are all sorts of applications that provide for all sorts of functionality and productivity. We will continue to see the development of client apps as demand will continue to increase. When we consider that most current apps are geared toward 3G networks we can only imagine what the options will be when 4G arrives.

I could open this review of top iPhone apps for lawyers by rolling out clichd expressions like, “it would be a crime not to purchase these apps” or “don’t be found guilty of serious iPhone mistreatment by not buying these top applications”. Because you’re likely to be rational, logical and sharp-minded individuals, I am not going to insult your intelligence with such cheesy rhetoric; instead this article will use only the hard facts and leave you to make the right choices yourself. Here are the Top iPhone Apps for Lawyers:

Pocket Lawyer
Ever wished you could shrink down a top lawyer, cram their encyclopedic knowledge into you pocket and wangle your way out of any tricky legal situation? If so, then this iPhone application is perfect. The miniature know-it-all doesn’t just offer information on the most common crimes; it also provides details of the types of sentences available for each crime and sites where the information (which document) is coming from. This application will put a library’s worth of data in the palm of your hand.

FBI Handbook
CSI has inspired a generation of wannabe forensic scientists ready to take to the mean streets of America armed with a polythene jumpsuit and a fingerprint duster. Knowing the mechanics behind the FBI’s investigations is essential if a lawyer is going to mix it up with the big boys in the courtroom. One of the most convenient ways to tap into the core procedures of the Federal Bureau is this iPhone application. It pays to be prepared when dealing with a slick operation like the FBI which is why you need a slick iPhone application like FBI Handbook to make sure you’re not caught short.

Cliff Maier Reference Apps
When you’re looking for a comprehensive, well presented and authoritative set of legal guides, you should look no further than the Cliff Maier legal reference iPhone applications. The apps are not only varied but are accessible offline which means you can always gain access to that crucial legal detail even when your connection drops. Some of the legal apps by Cliff Maier are Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, NY CPL, The Constitution, Patent Rules; the list stretches on into distance. Save yourself the torture of sitting bleary eyed, hunched over a dusty legal book and download as many of these guides as you can.

Court Days- Date Calculator for Lawyers
With so many statutes, dates and cases packed into one cranium, a lawyer can be forgiven for not remembering every date in their busy schedule. This iPhone application can easily calculate how many court, or calendar, days there are between given dates. Because every jurisdiction has different observances of holidays, this is a handy app to keep around, especially if you work in more than one jurisdiction. This application functions in exactly the way the iPhone’s built-in calendar does and allows you to store multiple dates on a single screen.

Case Mate
So many clients, so little time (and space) to look after them all… As your list of cases grows, the amount of information you need to keep organized also increases. This is definitely one of the top iPhone apps for lawyers and is a must have for those who ever find themselves sifting through endless piles of paper, case notes and lists of things to do. This all-in-one iPhone app allows you to control and store all the important information relevant to a particular case on your iPhone.

BARBRI
Reviewing for your legal and bar exams can be a stressful task and a period in your life when the twilight hours and caffeine become close friends. BARBRI is one of the top iPhone apps for lawyers and law students because it provides course outlines, lectures and practice questions that help ensure you don’t mix a single important case in your exams and beyond. The software allows you to take the “BARBI challenge” and see how much of a legal eagle you are and whether you are flying high with the top brains in your peer group or looking up at the rest.

Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th Edition
If Hollywood is to be believed, then every lawyer has an endless base of knowledge with every definition and legal acronym ready on the tip of their tongue. Real life is a little different and being a veritable stream of knowledge doesn’t come naturally for many lawyers. Black’s Law Dictionary for the iPhone is the best way to make sure that you never miss an opportunity to reel off a definitive list of legal jargon. With over 43,000 definitions and 3,000 top legal quotes, you’ll never be lost for words again.

Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite
In an increasingly mobile world, the office and all its contents are now no longer confined to, well, the office. This is an iPhone application that allows you to create, edit, send and transport vital information from your iPhone to your desktop and beyond. With this app, Word and Excel documents are now easily created and edited directly from your iPhone. Never leave home without your office again with Quickoffice, which in my opinion, is essential for all types of business people who own an iPhone. Simply put, any list of top iPhone apps for lawyers or business people wouldn’t be complete without this app.

Wikipanion
Where would we be without Wikipedia? Well, we’d probably have fewer sentences filled with Ws but we’d also still be laboriously thumbing through a traditional encyclopedia for a jumpstart on the information we need. Wikipanion is a great free iPhone app that can help any lawyer look up a term or case and get a nice overview. This app provides direct access to Wikipedia and Wiktionary by using some great search and formatting functions that add up to a sleek and easy-to-use interface.

NetNewsWire
Keeping abreast of the world’s news is important if you’re aiming to be the top dog in the courtroom. NetNewsWire is an RSS reader iPhone app that directly links to all of the weblogs and news sites across the Internet that provide RSS feeds. This app will sync to your home computer and will allow you to mark articles that you’ve read and save articles to read later. Anyone who likes to get information via RSS feeds needs to Iven Etheft

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The Apple products have taken over the world in a big way. Everyone you know either owns an iPhone, an iPad, an iPod or wishfully wants to owe one. Once you have an Apple product, one major project of your life remains to make it as exciting as possible. One way to make your iPhone or iPad seemingly interesting and exciting is to fill it with loads of apps.

The iPhone apps market is a flourishing one. iPhone Application Developers are constantly on the move to create something more interesting. Day in and day out apps are being created that facilitate you with almost everything. iPhone Software Programming is both interesting and challenging. With almost have been created everything that could have been created, looking out for something new is a big challenge. iPhone Apps Programming in India is also a popular venture.

From businessmen to housewives to doctors, everyone have amazing apps they can put to use. These apps facilitate the work in everyday life. There are over 250,000 apps at the Apple app store alone to make your iPhone perform even better. There are apps for cooks; there are apps for outdoor adventures. There are apps that keep you

For music lovers there are a number of apps for music. You can create audio and videos of high quality in perfect harmony or can even turn your iPhone into a guitar and learn to play it. There is an app that lets you hold up your iPhone to the speakers and you can see it naming that tune. You can also download an app that lets you listen to thousands of live concerts recordings.

Students too can take the advantage of the numerous applications that help them to increase their knowledge and learning skills. The students can browse through various National Geographic programs to learn better about nature. They can also use apps to discover stars, constellations and planets. Whether you want to name a word, learn the name of a bone, practice your French or prepare for your SAT, all you have to do is to download an app.

With so many apps in the market, iPhone applications programming is gaining popularity and iPhone IPad App Programmers / Developers face new challenges with every passing day so as to develop and create something new to attract the market and keep up the Apple craze.