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A great place to see which iPhone App to buy

The iPhone is all about great user experience. And one of the things that makes it great is all the cool and useful applications that you can download for free or for payment. The Apple App Store now boasts of over 100,000 applications – so it is almost a certainty that you will find what you are looking for (whether its an app that you need for some work or you just want to have some fun). But, here’s the big problem – its a certainty that you will find the app that you are looking for, but how do you even begin searching in a list of 100,000. Here’s where a website such as AppVee comes in handy.

AppVee is the definitive source (as they say) for iPhone application reviews. It’s a great place to read about the top apps for a particular type of application (for example, the Top Business Apps and new business apps are on this page, and here’s the page for the best and new photography apps). The website carries out daily reviews. They have a great blog and a forum. You can follow them on Twitter to stay updated with their reviews.

One of the reviewers on AppVee, recently guest posted an article on TechCrunch about the Best iPhone Apps of 2009.

I like AppVee overall for the content that they provide, although I think they can possible improve how information is accessed on their website. So, you may have to spend some time before you figure out how to get to the information that you need, but once you do that, the information is fairly useful.

Blog to WordPress from your iPhone

Do you have a blog on WordPress.com? Or do you host your own blog using the WordPress blogging system? On top of this, do you own an iPhone? Well, if it’s yes for the above, then it would be cool to be able to blog from your iPhone using a native iPhone app. And that is exactly what this post is about. WordPress does have a native iPhone App.

You can download this application from the App Store of course. To gather more information about this application, you should visit the WordPress iPhone site. I am about to install it on my iPhone as well as on my iPod Touch. Mobile blogging in its finest form, I say.

Economic downturn taking its toll on you, try making an iPhone game

All those people who have a software development skill set should not despair if you are not being able to make ends meet, or are afraid that their jobs may be in the the limbo.

Instead, look for other venues to make money. Try doing freelance work on the Internet, have a blog and make it popular, or try the latest trend: make an iPhone application. The Internet is awash with stories of people who are generating full time incomes from the Apple AppStore. At the same time, there are thousands of application which come and get shot down even before you notice they are there.

However, here’s one story which has got to give you some inspiration to try this. Ethan Nicholas wrote a game called iShoot for the iPhone outside his regular job in a little over six weeks.

Since the launch of the game, he has made over $700,000 on it. Yes, that is right. That is over 5 years worth of pay for most people. That makes you think, that this iPhone thing is certainly worth a shot.

Here’s the story on The News Observer with some more detail on this amazing feat.

However, you shouldn’t think that this is a walk in the park. Here’s another iPhone app story which is not exactly a fairytale (covered on TechCrunch). Have you developed an iPhone app? What was your experience?