![]() You'll have to devise your own excuse for making an exit.This is exactly what I was afraid of – today the App Store has 37 new or updated applications listed. You can select the time a fake call will come in, customize the "caller's" picture and choose a ring tone. The aptly named 99-cent Fake Calls app from Magic Tap is your ticket outta there. You're on a blind date that's soured and are dying for an excuse to bolt. As with a real spirit level, you try to position the iPhone so the bubble is aligned in the center of the screen. Need help hanging a picture? PosiMotion's 99-cent A Level utility works in landscape, portrait or face-up mode. It identified images I snapped of Bose headphones and the Sling Media SlingCatcher. Amazon will try to find a similar product for sale on the Web, even at rival sites. You snap a picture of a product with the iPhone camera photos are stored at the Amazon site. Google recognized a search for "child-friendly restaurants" as "cadence-friendly."Īs part of its free app, Amazon is experimenting with an interesting feature called Amazon Remembers. Hold the phone up to your ear and bark out a query. Google also can search your phone's contacts, calendars and so on. The free Google Mobile App has direct links to popular Google programs, including your Docs, News, Maps and location-aware search. Or e-mail your list to whoever is shopping for you. You can choose quantities and sizes, and check everything off as you patrol the supermarket aisles. It has a 130,000-item database, right down to brand-name peanut butter, pretzels and pasta. ![]() Rather dine at home? The 99-cent Grocery IQ shopping list might help you bag the right ingredients. When the wheels stop, you've landed on a random listing with an eatery's phone number, address and reviews. Shake the phone to spin three wheels, one representing neighborhood, the second, a food type, and the third, price. Looking for a new place to eat? Urbanspoon helps find restaurants near your GPS location. And if you've got a loose pill lying around, you might be able to identify it by entering its color, shape and other characteristics. But the app can enlighten you about the drugs family members swallow. You'll grapple with medical jargon, since Epocrates is aimed at health care pros. Worried about adverse reactions? The free Epocrates Rx database can clue you in. You can e-mail a link or sync up recordings via Wi-Fi to listen in iTunes or another player. There are a few ways to save recordings to a PC or Mac. The 99-cent Retronyms Recorder adds the capability. Want to convert kilometers to miles? Celsius to Fahrenheit? Fetch currency rates? Western ITS Limited's simple a2z Pro Unit Converter is free and a boon to folks who travel overseas. There's even "sheet music" on Smule's website to play anything from Over the Rainbow to If I Were a Rich Man. There are 16 possible combinations, and you can alter the sound by tilting the phone. You softly blow into the iPhone's microphone and play notes by pressing and holding your fingers over any of four virtual on-screen holes. Smule's addictive 99-cent Ocarina turns the iPhone into the ancient flute-like instrument. But it correctly tagged material as varied as Come On Over from Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan and Corcovado from Astrud Gilberto. How often have you heard a song on the radio or in a club but didn't know its name? Hold the iPhone up to the radio, and let the free Shazam app identify the tune, usually within 20 seconds. But Simplify can't remotely play iTunes purchases that are DRM or copy protected. ![]() (It works on Wi-Fi, 3G or pokier Edge networks.) You can view song lyrics and artist bios. Simplify generally worked really well as I rode in and around New York City. Setup is simple, and though music sometimes is slow to start up, it sounds good. The $3.99 program lets you stream (most of) your music collection and that of up to 30 friends. If you have gobs of music on your computer, consider Simplify Media. The iPhone, of course, functions as an iPod. In some cases, you can buy the music you hear through iTunes. Fine-tune stations by indicating whether you like what's being played. Type a song or artist's name, and Pandora creates an instant radio station inspired by your selection, same as on a PC or Mac. There's a reason Pandora has emerged as the most popular free iPhone application. ![]()
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