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Mossberg Picks iPhone Apps

Add more cowbell or find nearby restaurants

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(Newser) – Impressed with Apple's spread of iPhone apps, Wall Street Journal tech gurus Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret list their favorites.

  • AOL Radio: The best Internet radio player for the iPhone
  • Evernote: A good port of the elegant note-taking program
  • Instapaper: Instantly download Web pages for offline reading.
  • Travelocity TravelTools: Allows you to check flight schedules, gate assignments, and security wait times.

  • More Cowbell! Inspired by the Christopher Walken SNL sketch, you can play cowbell with your favorite songs.
  • iWant: Uses the iPhone's GPS sensor to alert you to the closest restaurants, bars, movie theaters, hotels, banks, drugstores, etc.
  • Air Hockey: Reproduces the classic table game.
  • Truphone: The first VOIP program for the iPhone, so you can make calls at sometimes lower rates than the cell phone.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gestures as he talks about new software applications for the iPhone during a news conference at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Thursday, March 6, 2008.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs gestures as he talks about new software applications for the iPhone during a news conference at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Thursday, March 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
A man uses his iPhone in Moscow, Friday, July 18, 2008.
A man uses his iPhone in Moscow, Friday, July 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
hotels.com launches new application for iPhone and iPod Touch, enabling users to research and book hotels anytime, anywhere. (PRNewsFoto/hotels.com)
hotels.com launches new application for iPhone and iPod Touch, enabling users to research and book hotels anytime, anywhere. (PRNewsFoto/hotels.com)   (AP Photo)
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