Bear Grylls: Essentials ★★★★☆ ($2.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPod Touch is an interactive outdoor survival guide and tool. Developed and presented by the most famous survival expert, Bear Grylls. The app has 18 chapters, 100 photos, 40 videos, 35 interactive illustrations and some tools like an “analog” clock and weather predictor. Although this app doesn’t contain as much details as the SAS Survival Guide, Bear Grylls: Essentials is just as good because of the high graphical presentation and video media. With this app, your iPhone may actually be of some use when there is no service and your life depends on survival knowledge.
DreamBook ★★★★☆ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is a dream interpretation guide. Everyone has dreams but we still like to think there are special meanings to them but can’t quite interpret. DreamBook was designed specifically for that task. The app has dream knowledge of Sigmund Freud, Nostradamus, Hasse, Vanga and Gustavus Miller to interpret over 15,000 types of dreams. DreamBook has a great look with a usable interface and a calendar with journal. Using the Inception dream inducer app with this could have some interesting results. Now if only it could help us remember our dreams better.
Primrose Bakery ★★★★☆ ($3.99 / App Store) for the iPhone is a cupcake specialty cook book app. Recipes are straight from the actual world famous Primrose Bakery cupcake shop located in London. The app shows in a very beautiful pastel colored user interface with delicious picture how to bake 70 cupcakes, layer cakes and other similar sinful desserts. The clever utilization of the proximity meter of the iPhone allows for touchless page turning while cooking by a simply wave of the hand. This is the ultimate cupcake app for anyone with the only thing keeping it from a 5 star app is the lack of U.S. conversions, nothing an update can’t fix - which has been promised by the developer.
Lifelike Craigslist ★★★★★ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPad is the perfect Craigslist app. There is an enormous amount of Craigslist apps (free and paid) that range from crap to great, Lifelike Craigslist is exceptional. If your a frequent Craigslister, you must get this app. It is fully functional like the website but with even more features and usability. The app looks incredible on the iPhone and even better on the iPad. In fact its so good that you will dismiss the actual Craigslist website altogether.
Tie Right ★★★★☆ ($.99 / App Store) for the iPhone is a reference and guide app that helps you tie neck ties. For some, tying ties is a difficult task that seems to be impossible to master. Tie Right is just the right application to whip out to make 6 different tie styles including: small knot, windsor knot, half windsor knot, four in hand knot, pratt knot and even a bow tie. The great part about this app is the visual guide can be viewed from a first person / real photo perspective or a graphical third person view. So now there is no excuse to not being able to tie a tie.
Momento ★★★★★ ($2.99 / App Store) for the iPhone and iPod Touch is the perfect journal / diary writing app for any mobile device. An amazingly well done writing app so good it will make you think and find reasons to fill Momento up with your thoughts. Writing is one thing and this app goes far to add to that with useful keyword tagging (even people), marking locations, adding relevant photos and easily browsable entries. The user interface is powerful, classy and beautiful all around. Other features include password protection, ability to rate “moments” and everything is fully searchable.
