Review: More financial news apps for iPhone

Financial news apps from CNNMoney.com and Yahoo both have some worthwhile features for market watchers. But the standout app is FT Mobile, particularly if you're willing to pay for a premium membership with the financial newspaper's online site.

Review: vTie and vTie Premium for iPhone

If you're an occasional wearer of neckties or a student just getting a start in the working world, both of these apps from Lab48 offer a handy reference for assorted knots and how to tie them.

Bookmark for iPhone

Notwithstanding some annoying limitations and quirks, audiobibliophiles will find much to love about Bookmark, an iPhone and iPod touch app that gives you greater control over audiobooks on your mobile device.

Review: WritePad Pro for iPhone

Apart from some quibbles and a few trade-offs, the feature-rich WritePad Pro is a very fine personal organizational tool.

Review: FlickTunes for iPhone

This app, which makes use of your handheld's full screen for control music playback, is the ideal music manager for for drivers, joggers and multi-taskers.

Review: CardPro for iPhone

This organization app lets you keep track of your contacts by snapping a picture of their business cards with the iPhone's built-in camera and entering the name and company. CardPro has the potential to save you time in organizing the business cards you collect, though there are some caveats.

Review: The Deep Pinball for iPhone

OOO Gameprom returns with another pinball adventure, this one set in a watery underworld. It's a fun game, with the 1.1 update improving upon the original release.

Review: BuzzVoice Talks and Tick Talk for iPhone

We look at a pair of apps that read the news to you. BuzzVoice Talks is a thankfully-renamed update to PimpMyNews that adds more options for users. Tick Talk is more of an alarm clock that wakes you up with the morning's headlines.

Review: Words With Friends for iPhone

Words With Friends is a two-person crossword challenge that takes advantage of the networking capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch to help you take on far-flung opponents in a Scrabble-esque word showdown.

Review: myBatteryLife for iPhone

This app, which shows how much battery life you have remaining, is a simple tool of somewhat debatable utility.

Review: iBookshelf for iPhone

This relatively modest database app for keeping track of your books has a few annoyances. But if a simple, easy-to-use library app is what you seek, iBookshelf isn't a bad way to go.

Review: MyPhone+ for iPhone

This souped-up iPhone dialer app synchronizes with your Facebook account, pulling in photos and other information from the social networking service and linking them with your Contacts. MyPhone+'s easy synchronization with Facebook makes it a highly useful utility for the social networker on the go.

Review: Word War for iPhone

This game lets you flex your command of English as you and an opponent build words, letter-by-letter, until you can't build anymore. And who knows -- the game just might have some educational value too.

Review: More iPhone cocktail apps

In our latest round-up of cocktail recipe apps, Mixologist errs on the side of quantity over quality, while Drinks and Cocktails provides a more reasonable selection (albeit one with a few visual quirks). But Top Shelf Drinks -- a welcome update to the app formerly known as Drinks -- should win a prize for the most refined cocktail application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Review: Consumer Reports for iPhone

This app from Consumer Reports features news that may interest consumers. But the videos only preview the publication's paid content. And there's no support for subscribers of the magazine.

Review: iPhone audiobook apps

iLibrary +audio and Audiobooks have clear bottom-line advantages and trade-offs. The former app lets you read books as well as listen to them, while the latter offers a huge selection.

Say It & Mail It for iPhone

The productivity tool for recording and then immediately sending voice memos has its strong points, such as simple controls and excellent use of the location features in the iPhone and iPod touch. But it's also a memory hog and prone to the occasional crash.

Review: Documents 2 for iPhone

Business applications for the iPhone and iPod touch are becoming more sophisticated now, spurring competition among developers. Savy Soda's Documents 2 is another suite of applications designed to give users the power. But the all-in-one offering is rather somewhat less than the sum of its parts.

Review: iMEvil for iPhone

Exquisite production values and exceptional voice talent make iMEvil more than just another dopey novelty app.

Review: Time.com Mobile for iPhone

This handsome news app for the iPhone and iPod touch does a fine job with presenting the news. Unfortunately, the photo essays that are a major focus of the app don't come off well on a mobile device.