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Compose for iPhone

What is it?
Compose allows users to do something that they’ve always wondered why they couldn’t on their iPhones - compose emails horizontally (or in “landscape mode”). Using Compose, users can tap out a message with the more generous landscape keyboard and have the message be instantly moved into their familiar email “Compose” screen. [...]

Urbanspoon for iPhone
What is it?
Urbanspoon is a restaurant-centric utility and community that gathers user reviews and pulls in reviews from CitySearch and relevant local area magazines and websites to help users find a place to eat. Separated by neighborhood and type of cuisine, the site mixes professional reviews with user-generated opinions on area restaurants.
How much [...]

Pandora for iPhone

What is it?
Pandora has long been an office favorite site for free Internet radio and music discovery (like Musicovery, Last.fm, and Grooveshark, among others). The iPhone version of Pandora takes the site’s basic premise of being able to create radio stations based on a song or artist and streamlines it for mobile. If [...]

Yelp for iPhone
What is it?
With 4.6 million Americans visiting Yelp in August 2008, this application brings “Real People. Real Reviews.” to the iPhone.
On Yelp, users review and rate places they’ve been through qualitative means (i.e. “The food here sucks.”) to create a pseudo-quantitative collective rating of the place (i.e. 3 stars). While Yelp is used [...]