Dear Google: Today started out like any other day. After opening my eyes and wiping the drool off the edge of my lips I reached for my iPhone and began what I call “the cycle”. First, open up “Sunrise Sunset Lite“, a neat little application that uses my current location to calculate when dawn and dusk take place and then displays how many hours and minutes of sunlight I can expect to experience. Live in Finland as long as I have, and you’ll know why this is precious information. Next, open up “XE Currency” to see how the Euro and American Dollar are doing; it’s a basic way to gauge the health of both the American economy and the Euro Zone. After that it’s time to crack open “Facebook” and see which of my friends had a party last night and uploaded hilarious photos of their drunken adventures, and to read Read More

This week ‘s Free Reign has me really looking forward to getting my new iPhone. Ever since updating to 3.0 my 2G has slowed to a crawl in a lot of ways. But even funky iPhone slowdowns haven ‘t kept JAiB from covering these four apps this week: (really need to replace that header picture soon) Newsflash Concept: A  news app that brings you news from a large number of the leading news providers (US and international sources) and rolls them all into one fresh-looking interface, and let’s you customize the ‘front page’ in some unique ways. Strengths:  Looks good, and delivers tons of good content from lots of good sources.  Very easy to customize the front page in more powerful ways than any other news app I’ve seen.  For instance, you can not only add a section for your local area, but for any search term you want to use.  Read More