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We love the calm that this app brings, and have it on whenever we're working or resting. Download the Buddha Machine ($3.99, available here) and bring some serenity to your busy life.
New iPhone owners, take note: these are the ten workhorses we couldn't live without.
Apple has been calling the iPhone a gaming platform lately, and a few more apps like I Love Katamari ($7.99, available here) could make believers out of us.
This is an iPhone version of a hugely popular bizarre PlayStation game from Japan. You play as a small prince, son of the King of All Cosmos, whose job it is to roll a small sticky ball (a katamari) around so that things will attach to it. As the ball grows, you can collect larger and larger items.
You play by tilting the iPhone in any direction, and the game is surprisingly responsive. Choose from one of four mode: story mode (roll up requested items), time attack mode (roll up as much as possible in the time limit), exact size challenge mode (get your ball to match a given size), and eternal mode (work at your own pace, without any limits).We love the silliness of the game, and dig the pop Japanese score that goes with it. While it's one of the oddest premises ever for a video game, I Love Katamari is a crazy good time.
Even though every page shows only four products, you can scroll the line of pictures to the left to see more deals in that category. It took us a while to figure that out. Not every deal has a picture, and we'd like to see that fixed. Below the line of pictures you'll see a description of the highlighted deal, and below that is a bar that shows how new or old the deal is.
When you've found something that interests you, you can e-mail it to yourself or to someone who you think would be interested. We think it's a great all-in-one tool for finding the Internet's biggest bargains.
Start by either letting OpenTable (available here) use your current location or picking another. Then select when you'd like a reservation and how many are in your party.
The app will instantly show you 20 top restaurants for your area where you can get a table. It even provides descriptions, price estimates, and a map showing all the places on your list. You'll have a great spot booked in under a minute.
In testing, we were blown away by how OpenTable removes the tedious process of calling restaurants and asking if they have an opening. We also love that registered users can send directions to friends with just a few taps. The developers have really thought of everything with this slick and simple application.
The ComicZeal library so far includes ten different titles with varying amounts of each comic. We hope the developer will add more over time. Right now, we're enjoying the available issues of Police Comics, which show the Spirit's and Plastic Man's earliest adventures.
The app remembers your place in each comic you download, so you can pick-up your comics with ease whenever you like. For less than the price of one new comic book, this is the best comic deal around.
With the well-designed WootWatch (available here), we can monitor what's on sale anywhere we go. It even let's us know when there's a woot-off-it which a myriad of helpful and hopeless items are sold off in quick succession-complete with the site's spinning lights.
Woot.com has grown and this app supports all it offers, including the daily t-shirt sale and the daily wine bargain. When you find something you like, you can buy directly through the app. The latest update includes an alert that lets you know when a new item is available.

