Mobile Computing News

Now that you have an iPhone, the exciting task lies ahead of filling it with useful and fun Apps to add that extra dimension to your mobile experience.  Whether the simply making your productive life easier, keep you in touch or allowing you to share your creative talent – take a look below to find out the roundup of the best iPhone Apps.

Interactive Gaming

For mind-numbingly fun and addictive game play try WordCrasher. The aim is to recognize words (tilted at obscure angles makes it challenging), subsequently spell, by ‘tapping out’ and ‘clear’ complete words (bubbles) from the screen before it is filled!! This colourful and funky game is addictive, and you clear levels and progress to spell an array of short and longer words. It just keeps challenging you for more with its excellent blend of playability, fun and functionality. The realistic physics engine has you tilting your phone all over the place.

Creative Photo and Video Editing

For those with a fair dose of creativity try PhotoForge and its equivalent video-editing partner ReelDirector. Producing stunning, edited and tweaked photos is a breeze with PhotoForge filters, and brushes to touch up and perfect your images. ReelDirector offers the same type of control to video-junkies – editing, and stitching is a breeze. And is the final step before sharing your flicks with your friends.

Power Productivity

For those more productive-minded; many excellent business and organisational tools exist for implementation on your phone. Pocket Informant is an intricate and powerful organisational tool. At $9.99 you can get the sense it’s a serious tool for those looking to streamline and manages their schedules and tasks. Appointments can be managed via your PC as well, and synching with Google Calendar really sets this application apart from the competition.

Instantaneous News

For those who need to be regularly informed of global and local news, Byline is ideal. It synchs seamlessly with various RSS feeds (Google Reader). Additionally you can browse articles while the app runs in the ‘background’ updating the news.  For those who need access to the latest news at their fingertips this is a simple and solid application.