I figured I’d give Bill Tracker Lite a try to see if it’d help me keep better track of our bills. Right now my system involves a manila folder and an excel spreadsheet that shows me when everything is due. It works but if I could find something for my iPhone, so much the better. [...]

Amazon Mobile brings Amazon.com right to your iPhone. If you’ve got an Amazon.com account you’ll want to sign in on the home screen. This way the app can access your wish list, saved cart, shipping addresses, etc. The search button lets you look for items and the app pulls up a list for you, just [...]

The DirecTV app lets you program your DVR to record shows from your iPhone. You can start by searching for shows, browsing by channel or browsing by date and time. If you find a show that looks interesting, tap on it and the app gives you a description of the show, what time it’s on, [...]

This is a great app to have on your iPhone if your kids are readers and are constantly asking you to define words. Mine will come to me with a question about a word they’ve come across in a book. My mind is not as sharp as it once was so it usually takes me [...]

I stumbled upon these apps and couldn’t believe what they’re used for. They play various sounds of running water to help you, well you can probably figure it out from their names. The idea of these apps seemed completely ridiculous to me, at first. Then my mom brain got working and I thought that these [...]

Another recipe app, this one brought to you by the folks at McCormick. The recipes featured in this app use McCormick products. It’s a decent enough app but I think I’ve been spoiled by the Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook. The McCormick Recipe Finder lets you browse through recipes – sorted by categories. You choose a [...]

Another magic iPhone app – one that somehow works but I have no idea how it does it’s thing. If you’re in the car listening to the radio and you want to know the name and artist of the song you’re hearing, you use Shazam to get that information. The app claims to work in [...]

We’re getting to the point in my pregnancy where it’s time to start thinking of baby names. With our first child we discussed names (constantly) from the very beginning. Now we’re on number four and it’s something along the lines of casually mentioning “What do you think about Betsy Sue Jane?” only to quickly move [...]

This is a hilarious app but it’s not staying on my iPhone. This is not a statement against the app, iFu Kung Fu does exactly what it promises. However, my son has seen Kung Fu Panda many times and picked up a few moves. If he found this app on my iPhone it’d be broken in [...]

  A reader tipped me off to The Weather Channel app. She said that she likes it better then the built in iPhone weather app and after using it I’ve decided that I agree with her. The Weather Channel app uses your iPhone’s current location and pulls up the weather for that area. You can [...]