Nate Mordo

A cool, free alternative to Hipstamatic, allowing you to turn your iphone pics into vintage-style snapshots. The main advantage this app has over instamatic, aside from being free (which is of course huge) is that you can apply the effects after you take the shot.

Great app for quickly determining (residential) real estate prices and what's on the market. Cool maps integration.

Very cool and innovative graphical interface for browsing Amazon's product catalog. To me, this free app is worth downloading if for nothing else than interacting with it -- it really takes advantage of the tablet format to let you browse the catalog of items in a powerful way.

Very basic game concept that turns out to be pretty fun...for a little while. The game basically involved tilting the iphone/ipad to navigate up a series of platforms while collecting boosts and dodging traps and enemies. That's pretty much it. The core innovation is the use of tilting as a gameplay mechanic.

Also, my friend's 2 year old apparently likes to play. So there's that.

Awesome. With the recent addition of on-demand streaming of all their online content, there's a lot of added value for existing netflix customers. I like that it remembers where you left off for any video you've started, even if you started watching on your PC or Xbox.

Does what it's supposed to. A good alternative to loading the website.

Although overused, this is a super fun app to use, and produces interesting, vintage-style images.

It's okay. It does what I need it to do -- I can review transactions and my account balance. I guess I don't know what else I'd expect out of it. I'm excited about it the way I'm excited about banks in general -- they do what they need to do, but are aggressively un-sexy and boring. But yeah, necessary.

The thing is, Mint's website and app have a way better UI, and integrate all my accounts. From a consumer POV, it's way more convenient to assemble everything in one place.

Great app. Definitely a go-to whether I'm looking for a new place to go in the city I live in, or in a new place. Just like the full blown website experience, the app offers everything you'd expect from Yelp. Wish there was an ipad version.

Great for iphone, nothing for ipad yet. That said, the FB app is lagging behind FB proper in terms of functionality. For instance, FB's new groups feature isn't supported by the app yet. That said, this app is pretty darn well executed and I use it all the time. Then again, this ain't news -- you all probably have it installed already.

Fun, but quickly gets tiring. This game is a bit of a one trick pony, but for $1 it's a cute distraction now and then.