There have been countless times when I've heard a song on the radio and couldn't understand a certain part of the lyrics. It's incredibly frustrating not being able to understand what the singer is actually singing about, especially when you're on the go and don't have access to a computer. Lyrics+ solves this problem with a simple and straightforward application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app's main page only has three options to choose from. You can pick a song from your iPod's library, check the lyrics of the currently playing song and search for a song by artist and title. When you tap on "pick from library", your default iPod interface appears to choose a song. As soon as you tap on a song, it starts playing and the lyrics are displayed with album art in the background. From this screen you can fast forward or rewind the Read More

Oh, I can keep going: financial news aggregation, slideshow presentation, carrier lamentation, lyrical collect-ation, and... and... tethering? Seven out of eight ain't bad. Anyway, enough of that—here's your weekly app dump: Navigon Lite: Hark! Dedicated navigation units are dead, for the iPhone hath slain them! Except no, not at all, because navigation apps are still fresh, imperfect, and too expensive to "just try." Navigon's Lite version, then, is a great idea: It lets users test the app's routing power, nice UI, and Navteq mapset—all 1.29GB of it, taking up space on your phone. The catch—and it's a big one—is that GPS doesn't work. But even as is, it's marginally useful, and definitely worth your time if you're considering taking the plunge on the full version—whenever it comes out, that is. So you're not shocked when it does, the Euro app is $140. Absolut Drinkspiration : Drinking apps are almost invariably junkware, Read More