ArtStudio, a terrific new drawing and painting app from Lucky Clan, is now available from the app store. While many app store drawing apps allow you to sketch a rudimentary drawing or add some effects to your photos, ArtStudio blows these away by providing a ton of tools to accomplish a wide variety of tasks, while maintaining a simple-to-use, unobtrusive interface. This is what PhotoShop Mobile w... more.

Today Todo Pro by Spielhaus is (can you guess?) an app designed to help you keep track of upcoming tasks. It's well-designed, looks gorgeous, and chooses to stay simple when many apps of its kind try to cram in as many bullet-point features as possible. Today Todo Pro Pros: Looks gorgeous Smoothly transitions between input and list views Future todos can be scheduled with due dates Pr... more.

Momento by d3i is an app built to help you remember the memorable times in your life. On the most basic level, it lets you jot down notes and keeps them for you in a calendar. There are some additional ways to add more information to these entries - tagging by person, place, keyword, even taking and adding a picture from your iPhone camera. Momento Pros: Import feeds from social networks ... more.

CSS Gallery is an app by Blackwave Creative aimed at web designers. Using the RSS feeds of various web showcase sites such as CSS Mania and Creattica, it displays the latest in well-designed and good looking websites. It works well as an iPhone app because designers can pull it out when they're waiting in line and flick through a few designs for inspiration. We really appreciate that the ... more.

Do you know about the Pomodoro Technique? It's a system of breaking down the process of working on tasks into 25 minute intervals, punctuated by 5 minute breaks. It's a simple and elegant method of helping people do their work in regular, concentrated bursts without distraction. It's no surprise, then, that a number of iPhone apps in this genre have emerged. There are also Pomodoro applicat... more.

Arriving on time for the year-end travel season, Navigon’s Traffic Live feature is now available as an in-app purchase in their MobileNavigator application. Arriving on time is what Navigon is all about. Our initial review of MobileNavigator covered the core features of the app’s functionality. Now, we want to take a look at the Traffic Live paid add-on and see if it’s worth your addit... more.

Shortcovers from Indigo Books and Music Inc, is a free ebook reader that offers access to both Project Gutenberg's public domain books for free, and commercial titles that can be uploaded by publishers. Shortcovers offers content based around the idea of chapters - small chunks of content that can be cached on your iPhone for offline access. This allows many titles to offer their firs... more.

If you frequent the App Store you’ve probably come across AppBox Pro.  As one of the top selling titles in the Utilities category, AppBox Pro looks to bundle all your utility needs into one attractive package.  Although not housing everything we would like to see, AllAboutApps has included a number of features that should trim down your need for multiple single purpose apps. Sporting ... more.

Leonard Maltin. His name is perhaps one of the most recognizable in the movie industry. Yet, he has nothing to do with making movies. No, Maltin's work begins when the lights go down and the curtain goes up. Since 1969 the film historian, author, and most notably, American film critic, has been annually releasing his Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide to eager see-it-or-not fence-walkers the world o... more.

The race to dominate the turn-by-turn GPS app market is in full force at the App Store. Of course, the major players like TomTom and Navigon are all present and accounted for.  Happily though, we're seeing a number of other companies offering substantial alternatives to the GPS fray.  One of them is ALK Technologies with their attractively priced CoPilot Live North America app.  But how doe... more.