On the reservation: The app searches for the 100 colsest restaurants with an open table, or you can select a specific city and neighbourhood to search, as shown here. Choose a date and time, add the number of people in you group, and OpenTable finds restaurants with availability with a two-hour window of the requested time. You can further filter results by cuisine, price, or restaurant name.

Dinning details: Choose the restaurant where you want to eat, and OpenTable shows you additional details, including the restaurant’s menu and a photo of the dining room. Tap the time you’d like to book, provide your personal info and you’re done. The app also offers to email the reservation confirmation details to your hungry dining companions

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.

Hot Number: Flip Pcalc on int side to see more functions. Tap the 2ed button to se the app’s trig and log functions. Tap 42 to insert constants, tap Tape to view your history or tap AB to do unit conversions. You can even change the calculator’s look and sound with custom skins.

Death and Taxes: Many things and constant in life, especially in science and math, PCalc offers an easy way to insert common constants into your calculations, all of them organized into logical categories. Tap the constant to add its value to the calculator’s digital display.

Touch that dial:Spin Convertbot’s dial to choose the type of conversion you’re after. The bottom of the dial shows the units you’re working with. Here, the mass icon is selected, and the units are set to do a conversion from pounds and ounces to kilograms. Tap one of the units to switch to a different unit, or tap the center button to convert in the other direction.

Do the Math: Tap the display screen at the top, and the dial slides away to reveal the keypad type the “from” value, and Convertbot shows you the converted value.

Whip up your widgets: Build your collection of stats by adding “widgets” to your Ego dashboard Each widget. Tap a web-traffic widget to switch among counts for daily, hourly, monthly, and yearly visits. You can add widgets for as many sites or Twitter accounts as you like, great for monitoring both personal and work sites.

Jump Right in: Choose a computer to connect to, and Jaddu teleports you in with a nifty blue spinning wormhole effect that reveals your desktop. Pinch to zoom in and out, and use the touchscreen to move the cursor around the screen, tapping to click.

Remote Possibility: Browse files and use your computer just like you would if you were sitting in front of it. Tap the keyboard icon to type email or do some remote word processing. Control your desktop in either landscape or portrait view.

Live and in Person: Tap the name of a company to get its customer-service number along with instructions for sidestepping hte answering system. Tap the number to dial. The app also includes “tips” from other callers, a good idea that unfortunately disintegrates under the pressure of human nature, while the comments are occasionally useful, most are rants about the specific company or adolescent pull-my-finger graffiti.

Call List: Browse or edit Skype users or regular phone numbers in your Skype account’s contact list view them all at once or tap the online button to see only those currently signed into skype those are the folks you can call or chat with for free. Icons show whether contacts are away, accepting calls, or busy. Tap a contact to call her, start a text chat, or view her profile, where you can also add a profile photo with your iPhone camera.

By the numbers: Call anyone you want, anywhere in the world. Punch the number into the dial pad, or tap the address book icon to pick a number instead of another Skype account does cost some coin, but those coins are usually pennies. Check Skype.co for rates. TO make calls, you first have to add credit to your account balance, which you can purchase from the My info screen.

Hard Copy: Choose what to print from the main screen, iPhone installations don’t let apps get direct access to the Mobile Safari or Mail apps, so Print & Share has its own browser and email programs, which you must use to print webpages or email messages. You can also exchange files with the came computer that you use to print. Save files on your iPhone to print or read later, and share them with others via email.

Paper Tiger: Select the stuff to commit to paper, and Print & Share searches the network to find a computer with the companion WePrint software installed. If you are not on the same WiFi network but you know the computer’s Internet address, just type it in to connect from anywhere in the world, firewalls allowing. Select your printer, and send your file, contacts, pictures, and web pages on their way.

Not to self

Speak easy: Voxie lets you pause and resume recording. During playback, skip to any part of the clip by tapping the progress bar at the bottom of the screen. File your recordings in custom categories, and email them to yourself or others. Any computer on the same WiFi network can also download the audio files via web browser. File sizes vary according to your chosen quality level; basic voice memos run about 1MB per minute

Talk Fast: “Express mode” dispenses with all the buttons, Tap the screen or shake to start and stop. Set preferences to save or email these express recordings automatically. Want taht is writing! Voxie’s paid audio transcription offers fast, accurate turnaround in just a few minutes by honest-to-god typists, The app comes with a free 100-word trial (about a minute of speech); after that, monthly plans start at $5 for 200 words/ Month.