The app only works over your home Wi-Fi connection, so you don't have to worry about anyone else controlling your tunes?except other people in your house, of course. While music is playing, album artwork is displayed on your phone and you can even edit playlists. * Remote 1.3.3 - Apple's Remote app turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote control for music on your computer or Apple TV. OpenTable makes the process so fast and easy that you might be able to do it while your date isn't looking. What to do? Time to bust out the OpenTable app for iPhone and make a reservation for a nearby restaurant. * OpenTable 3.0.2 - You're out on a date that's going better than expected, but you didn't make dinner reservations. It sounds a bit silly (and maybe it is), but there are rewards?being the person who checks in the most (called the "mayor") at a restaurant can earn you a free meal, drink, or dessert It's a hip, fun app where you check in to places you go physically and earn badges when you accomplish various things. * Foursquare 1.9.0 - Any modern social networker with an iPhone should be on Foursquare. Sportacular is also a smart sports app with similar score-tracking abilities, but we think ESPN's design is a little cleaner.
It allows you to keep track of your favorite sports teams on a single page, read the latest analyses from ESPN, and provides push notifications when games start or teams score. * ESPN ScoreCenter 1.5.3 - Sports fanatics with iPhones should download ESPN Scorecenter. Occasionally, we've seen some instances where it simply won't work, but it's useful enough that we're willing to overlook a few glitches. On iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, the app allows you to view documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and some videos and photos that you've put into your personal file space. Dropbox gives you 2GB of file storage that can be accessed from any computer.
* Dropbox 1.2.2 - Dropbox lets you access your personal files on any of them. And we'd rather have the names spelled correctly. It's a breach of privacy, but is it any worse than Facebook? Probably not. One downside: Some users have complained that Nuance goes through your contacts to ensure accuracy when you speak names. Just load up the app, tap the red button, and dictate for a one minute at a time. * Dragon Dictation 1.3.4 - Ever wanted to dictate a long series of notes and then e-mail or text them? Dragon Dictation can do that for you. Another decent free game in a similar vein is Alpha Runner. Sure, the graphics look like a 1983-era arcade game, but that's what you get for zero dollars, and some older iPhone users might enjoy the resemblance to the Atari games of yesteryear. In the background, fun electronic music jams along as you pilot your arrow. The point of the game is to avoid the cubes and fly for as long as you can. * Cube Runner 1.5 - This diabolically simple and addictive game lets you control an arrow that flies through rows of digital cubes.
CNBC's app starts with business news alerts, but we really like it because of its detailed stock portfolio tracker. * CNBC Real-Time 1.3 - One of the best business news sites has one of the best free business apps on the iPhone. Search engines might be a matter of preference but Bing actually makes search look fun. The Social tool lets you connect to Facebook and Twitter and search your results from friends. This app provides a scrolling photo search, voice search, and local shopping searches it even has a bar code scanner to look up prices on goods in stores. Why? Because Bing offers more than just simple search. * Bing - On the desktop I prefer Google, but on the iPhone I prefer Bing. As with many Apple apps, iBooks becomes more useful if you have more Apple devices you can sync your bookmarks and notations with your iPhones, iPod Touch, and iPad The app uses an attractive bookshelf metaphor to arrange your virtual books and PDFs, and Apple makes quite a few older books available for free through its online store. * Apple iBooks 1.1 - Apple's iBooks isn't just an e-book reader it's also an excellent PDF reader.
From a PC Mag article on the Top 40 Free iPhone Apps:
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