New iPhone Apps

At the risk of gushing over the latest iPhone updates from Apple, I must write a few words about the exciting new iPhone feature, called Apps Store.  It is a giant WOW! and blows the competitor, the Blackberry, away, in my opinion.

A few months ago, Apple made its development software available at a reasonable price to anyone who wished to develop a useful application for the iPhone.  That move, in and of itself, has been significant and unprecedented in the technology industry and enormously successful.  It has resulted in countless applications for iPhone users which are distributed through iTunes, either free or for a nominal charge.

Among the new and free iPhone applications are news resources from The New York Times and Associated Press to keep you up to date.  There’s an app called, “NowLocal,” that delivers local news and events.  There is a new Facebook app that’s simply terrific and another one called, “BoxOffice,” where you can find what’s playing at the local movies and reviews of flicks.  My favorite so far is “Dial Zero” that provides the phone numbers of hundreds of businesses and services and how to hack past voicemail hell to reach a live person.

The list of neat iPhone apps just goes on and on.