iPhone Guru

Check out the free iDaft soundboard for your iPhone or iPod touch. It features authentic Daft Punk sounds provided by Daft Punk themselves. Now you can remix Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger anytime, anywhere.

Earth vs Moon for iPhone is a modern spin on the Atari classic Missile Command with a twist of Space Invaders. You control the onboard missile targeting systems of three geostationary satellites hovering above Earth armed with missiles to defend our homeworld from the menacing Moon Fleet. The gameplay involves tapping in the playing field of orbital space and hoping your missile warhead will detonate near the incoming ICBMs or enemy craft, causing a lethal atomic chain reaction. The sparks will fly as you ignite an entire squadron of alien spacecraft with a well placed salvo of rockets to defend our planet. Your progress is saved as you obliterate the relentless onslaught of Moon Fleet aliens, so putting the game down and coming back to continue later makes this a casual favorite. Earth vs Moon is available now from the App Store from Low Five Games.

The Magnetic Flux application uses the iPhone 3GS magnetometer as a metal detector. Awesome!

The Battle of Pirate Bay is a naval defense game where you have 3 indestructable ships protecting your fort from menacing pirates within the harbor of Pirate Bay. You manuver your fleet around the screen by tracing lines with your finger and your armada fires cannons at the incoming pirate ships. You only have limited ammo so the strategy lies in where you place your ships and how you control them once the action begins. If you deplete your ammunition before the wave of pirates is blown to smithereens then your fort will be left vunerable by the attacking pirates. This is a fun game with a quick learning curve that anyone can pick up and get right into. The Battle of Pirate Bay is available now from the App Store.

Siberian Strike from Gameloft is a scrolling shoot-em-up designed similar to the classic 1942 arcade game. The controls are wonderfully intuitive. You just point and touch the screen and you automatically unleash rapid fire against swarms of enemy fighters as you pilot your aircraft through several well-rendered levels. There are anime/role playing elements in the game as you can choose from several different pilots who fly different types of fighters. This app is worth the price and I discovered it via the staff favorites in the iTunes app store on my mac… I highly recommend this game to anyone interested in classic arcade button-mashers like 1942 and 1943. Siberian Strike is available now from the app store.

Now it is possible to use your iPhone to search Google just by speaking your search query. Google Mobile app for iPhone added voice to search functionality with the latest version of the application that was just released on the App Store. Surfing the web by speaking is easy, simply launch Google Mobile and bring the iPhone to your ear and when you hear the loud beep just say what you are looking for. Google Mobile automatically detects your location so you won’t need to append your city or general location to the search query. With the Google Mobile app on your iPhone you will not have to type what you are searching for anymore. Give your fingers a break, let your voice do the searching! Google Mobile app is available now from the App Store.

Cats and captions, ah the fun never ends! Introducing the I Can Has Cheezburger app for iPhone. This app brings the content of any of the sites in the Cheezburger network to your pocket. Laugh at user-submitted captioned celebrity photos with RoflRazzi or visit the land of magical land of fail at Failblog. Witness comical mispelled product packaging with Engrish Funny or have some laughs with celebrity look-a-likes at Totally Looks Like. The laughs never stop with the I Can Has Cheezburger app for iPhone and it’s now available for free in the App Store.

Is the portrait style keyboard giving you a hard time when composing or replying to email? Introducing EasyWriter for iPhone, an app that finally gives you access to the widescreen landscape style keyboard when writing email. EasyWriter works great as a word-processing application because it saves your work as you type in the event of power loss or if the app crashes. The accelerometer driven interface provides both portrait and landscape keyboard modes. Replying to mail requires that you open your message you wish to reply to in mail on your iPhone and initiate a reply message then push the home button and go back to the main screen then launch EasyWriter and write your message then tap Send to Mail and your message is ready to send. EasyWriter is free for a limited time and is available now from the App Store.

Looking to record voice notes or memos with your iPhone but want the recordings to be made in high quality and easily understood when playing them back? iTalk recorder by Griffin Technologies for iPhone has superior recording quality than any other recording app that I have tested. The sound quality at the medium quality setting had great clarity. For professionals seeking a serious minded recording solution for iPhone then iTrip Recorder is for you. iTrip does let you sync your recordings back to your Mac or PC but that process necissitates that you install another third-party app called iTalkSync onto your computer. ITalk Recorder for iPhone is free for a limited time and is available now from the App Store.

One of the coolest ways to make music is with Cosmovox for the iPhone. Cosmovox actually turns the movement of your iPhone into electronic music. It is a very good example of another theramin emulator for the iPhone as this time around the tones are created by the movement of the entire device. You can choose from many different frequencies and my favorite thus far is Mystic. You simply can’t ever go wrong with music apps, they hit the spot every time. All that I ask as your trusty iPhone Guru is that you be careful swinging your iPhone around being a 21st century Mozart! Your cat will flip out and scratch you if you take this app too far so keep it mellow, eh! Cosmovox is available now from the App Store for only $1.99.