One of my fav "Worldictionary" app has been updated with some new features. I'm really exciting to use it. Especially recognition is good now. And the developer has added Bing search feature like Google and YouTube search. Really cool to use it. :-)

Shazam is an app that identifies songs and displays their lyrics. You can also purchase music through it. It is free and has a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars on the iTunes store.

Love the Garmin app
 

I've carried a Garmin GPS for several years, and when I moved to an iPhone I was disappointed in the cheap GPS apps. Garmin has a $.99 app that charges $3 per month, but I only used it for a few days and I realized it didn't work if you lost your cell signal.

Two weeks ago I purchased the $59 Garmin app, which downloads all of the maps & data to your iPhone and doesn't rely on cell service. I got the version that is all of North America, and there is a $49 version that is US-only. I've used it several times already and am very happy that I spent the $$. It has the Garmin screens & interface that I am used to, and turn-by-turn navigation (very important).

It is by far the most expensive app I've purchased, but well worth it. It is a 2GB download, so you'll have to download it to the computer & copy it to your phone from the PC or Mac you sync with.

You like the Garmin interface?

Really with a big multi-touch UI, there's opportunity to improve the flow of the menus. Does it at least support things like swipes and pinch-zooming?

Neat gadgets
 

Slightly OT but here are two gadgets I recently purchased [not yet delivered]:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...allet-ilidmk-1

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...kstand-for-pho

Pack Free

Keeps me organized and excited while packing for travel.

any suggestions out there for an iOS app to combine appts, todo list, etc in an all in one?

so far looking at iDashboard; pocket informant..;

thanks for your suggestions!

FlightCard is pretty good. Its pretty much an e-boarding pass with great UI and design.

I had the same experience with TomTom - I own two physical TomToms, but have completely transitioned to the TomTom Apps on the iPhone. I have US Canada and also Western Europe. The iPhone actually has a much better touch screen than the TomTom, and the speed is similar or maybe faster on the iPhone. Also, I can plug it into my car sound system, play music from the iPod, and the TomTom app fades the music when it wants to give directions.

The one possible advantage of the physical TomTom is that it has free "lifetime" traffic. On the iPhone I had to pay $20 for the year (but on the upside, I guess you get traffic even where this is no traffic radio transmission, since it comes over the cellular data). Also, although the TomTom apps are "buy once" and work on all iDevices in our family (three phones and two iPads), the traffic data is tied to a single device.

Here's a new app I found handy, has tons of potential:

Location Manager:

http://bit.ly/tUJEqX

Instead of the native Garmin app, have you tried Navigon? I use that for both my iPhone and iPad and have found it to be the best Nav program I have ever used. It also uses the Garmin maps and are updated frequently

Music - 8traks
Nav - Navigon
News - Flipboard (FINALLY on iPhone as well!!!!!)
Photo - Camera+
Productivity - Evernote

Dragon is a useful app for voice recognition, and you can then paste the text into emails or SMS. Works very well - if you speak clearly it will give you great results.

I've gotten used to saying things like this:

The problem is when you start doing this in real life! :D

IME, it's about 98% accurate, and at least half of the mistakes are quickly corrected by tapping on the misunderstood word. The other half do have to be deleted and typed manually, but it's a huge timesaver for me when I have something lengthy to produce on my iPhone.

I like Dragon a lot. I also have been using Dictamus for dictation. I can load the resulting digital recording from it onto a PC with Dragon Dictate (using Dropbox) and it will transcribe it. Alternately I can send it to a transcription service. Has really changed the way I work.