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December 14th, 2009 
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Shake up your dining routine (literally) and discover new tables in your city. Give your iPhone or iPod Touch a shake, and this app’s wheels whir to provide a random restaurant pick, complete with reviews and user votes. Zero in on a neighbourhood, cuisine, or price range – or put randomness aside and search for specifics, browse by category, or see friends’ favorites. The app covers towns and cities in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
Feeling Lucky? : Urbanspoon’s slot machine turns choosing a restaurant into a game of chance. Set the wheels in motion by shaking your iPhone (or tap Shake if you’re not feeling vigorous). When the wheels for neighborhood, cuisine, and price stop spinning the app sprits out a restaurant to march. Shake again for another suggestion. To narrow teh types of restaurant, lock one or more wheels on a specific setting.
The Skinny: Get the scoop on a resto by taping its name on the shot-machine screen. The summary screen shows teh thumbs-up count from other Urbanspoon users and let’s you add your vote, too Tap the phone number to call, or tap the address to map the location. The Save button prefers options to add the restaurant to your Urbanspoon favorites or wishlist, or to email it. Twitter it, or add its entry to the Contacts app.
The Chatter: Tap the road reviews button on the summary screen to conjute the restaurant’s detail screen, which includes menus, and brief reviews from newspapers, websites, blogs, and other Urbanspoon users. Click any summary to see the full text in Urbanspoon’s built in web browser.
Ala carte: Also on a restaurant’s detail screen: Tap the “View the Menu” button to find out what’s on offer, Menus are provided by Urbanspoon users, and not all restaurants have menus. When that’s the case, the app offers to let you add a menu with your iPhone’s camera (Sorry, that option’s not available for iPod Touch).
Dish your Experience: Add your own review to the mix. Tap the “White a Review” button on the restaurant’s reviews screen to reveal a brief form. After submitting your tasteful commentary, you review appears on the restaurant’s detail screen. If you use Twitter, you can give Urbanspoon your account details and automatically post your review as a tweet too.
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Your iPhone or iPod comes with its own capable calculator; turn it on its side, and it even knows trigonometry. But when you need more hardcore scientific or engineering functions, turn to PCalc. It includes an optional two-line display, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions, quick lookup of common constants, support for binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems, and (believe it or not) much more. PCalc handles all the math you can muster. 
Don’t speak metric? Got a yen for foreign currencies? Convertbot helps you convert units of all kinds with a stylish interface that dials up the answer to your conversion conundrum. Vonvertbot handles currency, length, mass, volume, area, temperature, and many other conversions, over 400 units in all. This clever little bot can even manage mixed units: Give it lengths in feet and inches, for example, or weights in pounds and ounces. 
Are you Internet famous? Monitor the health of your online popularity with this compact, at-a-glance dashboard of personal online stats. Track the number of visits to your website, subscribers to your site’s news feed, or the Twitter followers you’ve won over Ego also monitors your site’s authority with Google, showing the PageRank for specific web pages. If you measure your self-worth in page hits, Ego is the app for you. 
Jaadu puts your entire desktop on you iPhone or iPod Touch, working your computer when it’s on the same WiFi network – or across the Internet, with a bit of network know-how. After some modest setup on your computer (it’s a snap on Macs, slightly more involved on PCs), you can do any-thing from your iPhone that you could at your keyboard. It’s pricey, but it buys complete access to your computer from anywhere in the world. 
“If you can’t stand this voicemail system, press or say one.” When calls to customer-service numbers get lost in a maze of touchtome prompts and greetings from recorded robots, Dial Zero helps you find a human voice. The app lists the toll-free numbers of hundreds of companies – that alone is useful – but also offers the precise steps for reaching a human operator.
Put Skype’s popular Internet phone calling service on your iPhone to make free or dirt-cheap calls to anyone in the world when you’re connected to a WiFi network. Skype calls don’t count against your regular cellphone minutes, so you can stretch you phone time at very little cost. Call other Skype users for free, or dial regular phones for a modest fee. Turn your iPod Touch into a phone, too, with a microphone headset. 
Liberate contacts, webpages, email, photos, and documents from your tiny touchscreen and onto the printed page. With the help of free software installed on your Mac or PC, Print & Share can talk to any printer connected to that computer when you’re on the same Wifi network – or even, conditions permitting, from anywhere on the Internet. The app doubles as a document beriefcase, letting you swap and read files from computer.
