Top 10 iPhone Apps

eBay Mobile, Free

Never lose out on a bid or sale again! Manage your eBay watching, buying, and selling from your iPhone with this free app. If you're a power eBay-er, you'll appreciate the tabbed interface for its quickness and simple organization.

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SaveBenjis, Free

Comparison shoppers: Imagine you could yell out "Price check!" wherever you are. Just type in the name of a product, and this app hits you back with the lowest prices from online retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, Circuit City, and Best Buy as well as hundreds of smaller etailers.

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Mocha VNC Lite, Free

Control your computer's desktop via your iPhone, including the mouse and keyboard! The setup is pretty painless, and the price sure is right. Just to be safe, we'd only use this on a LAN, as there are security issues associated with using this over the Internet.

Pandora Radio, Free

The iPhone lacks an FM tuner, but you can use this app to get create personalized radio stations from Pandora's enormous catalog. You can also bookmark, tag, and rate tracks from within the app. Streaming works fine over EDGE and 3G, but the sound quality is best over WiFi.

SportsTap, Free

This is the best iPhone sports portal we found, with up to the minute box scores, player stats, and transaction news for 15 leagues ranging from baseball and football to soccer and NASCAR. It also works with the iPhone's GPS to find games involving teams near you.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, $9.99

Using the iPhone's accelerometer to act like a steering wheel, this driving game will have you twisting and turning — but hopefully not dropping — your phone to outrace virtual competitors. You can even pick up special weapons to blow them off the road.

Yelp!, Free

Yelp finds local businesses near either your current location (via GPS) or in any town you specify. We love the detailed business info, which includes address, category, and pricing level, as well as plenty of user ratings and reviews from the online community.

iProcrastinate Mobile, Free

This uncomplicated task-management app will keep you on track whether you're student, freelancer, or grocery shopper. You can group tasks and add "team members" from your contacts list to keep others in line, too. There's also a desktop version, and wireless sync is coming soon. Download it and get to work!

BeatMaker, $19.99

BeatMaker combines a drum machine, sampler, sequencer, and editor with an expandable sound and effects library that includes lots of different instruments. The app has a bit of a learning curve, but beat-crafters who want something for composing on the go will really dig it. The lag time (latency) is low enough that you could conceivable use it in live performances too.

Absolute Fitness, $14.99
 
If your body is a temple, Absolute Fitness makes your iPhone its guardian angel. Its polished interface lets you monitor your nutrition, weight, and workouts, so you can reach your fitness or diet goals. You can look at progress charts and get customized food analyses, or (like us) you just use it to look up how much fat is in that slice of bacon you're holding.