Something I really love about new technology is the possibility that it’s so revolutionary, it replaces things that have been commonplace in our lives for a long time. The iPhone is no exception to this, as it has found a way to take over the roles of all sorts of things we hold near and dear. Thanks to Night Stand, you can add digital alarm clock to that list.

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Night Stand 2.1.1
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SpoonJuice
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$2
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Watching the Clock: With a customizable look—an old-fashioned black-and-white flip-clock face in this case—Night Stand is sure to help you rise on time.
Fully customizable, this app from SpoonJuice lets you turn your iPhone or iPod touch into that glowing bane-of-your-existence friend that you have always had by your side. You currently have three color choices for the digital face (red, green and blue) and an old-fashioned black-and-white flip-clock face, all of which will self-orient themselves to however you’re holding the device.

Night Stand also gives you the option of choosing other data you’d like to display—the day, the seconds, or a 24-hour time display. You can also run the mobile device’s iPod app in the background if you’re the sort of person who enjoys some tunes before bed.

Night Stand’s alarm system is full of options as well; it’s also the only part of the app that suffers from some drawbacks. From the alarm screen you’re able to set one alarm and choose from 10 alarm sounds, ranging from a cuckoo clock to a woman screaming. To ensure that you don’t just slam your phone to the floor to turn it off, the app also asks you a simple math equation to silence it. Unfortunately, this feature is easily circumvented by pressing the home button which closes the application entirely and shutting off the alarm.

Also, if the iPhone goes to sleep, the alarm won’t go off at all. The workaround for this is to keep your iPhone plugged in to a power source while using the app or to tinker with the sleep settings in your phone, which could murder your battery life.

While I’d like to see some additional tweaks—namely, multiple alarms the phone’s built-in alarm feature offers and maybe a way to keep the user from circumventing the anti-snooze device—NightStand is a near-perfect bed-side companion.

Night Stand is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software.

Some of the best applications for your iPhone are the ones that rest on one simple and effective function. Instead of attempting to outshine all the other apps with its diversity it tries to carve itself a niche and be the best of its sort. This is exactly what Night Stand does.

Obvious

Spoon Juice’s Night Stand is exactly what it sounds like. When you open it it displays a nice digital clock, complete with the replicated slight glare that occurs from the light of the numbers. The style is supposed to be reminiscent of the digital alarm clocks that are kept on so many nightstands so people can keep a record of their insomnia. You can change settings for the application in the iPhone settings option. Once you open Settings you can just go down to Night Stand and you will have a series of possible changes for customization. You can change the color of the numbers, set it to show seconds or day of the week, or even keep it at a twenty four hour clock instead of a repeating twelve hour time table.

Nice Feature

The clock itself is bright and easy to see, even from a distance. It is touch screen reactive, so when you turn the phone on its side it will adjust the image accordingly. This way the clock can become a way to turn your iPhone into a regular digital clock to replace the others that may be cluttering up table space. It allows you to disable auto lock in its settings, which you will need to do if you want to keep the clock up for more than a few seconds. Maybe the best things about this program is that you can have mp3 playback while the clock is up. This means that you can create an entire little clock radio out of your phone, minus the alarm capabilities.

Do You Need It?

You may be asking yourself why this is a reasonable program. You already have a large clock on your phone and in any given household we tend to have several. The only reason for this is that it is a fun alternative and a space saver. If you want a clock up at all times when sleeping and don’t want to go buy an unnecessary device this may be the solution.

Do you ever use your cell phone as a flash light? Well Doapp, a registered developer of Apple iPhone applications, has a neat little application to turn your iPhone into a colored strobe and flashlight. myLite is Doapp’s first iPhone app approved for download on Apple’s “App Store.

The myLite app takes the hassle out of trying to find a flashlight in the dark or when the power goes out, and it also makes you the life of the party at rock concerts or the MacGyver on your camping trip. No more digging for a flashlight only to find the batteries dead, or late night stubbed-toe incidents bumping into the coffee table. Your iPhone is always at the ready.

But not only is this instant “night light” good for reading in the dark or finding a keyhole in a pinch, shining as bright or brighter than any traditional or LED flashlight, you can very simply adjust its light beam for both brightness and color with the two convenient “slider” controls. Make your light beam more like fluorescent (cool) or incandescent (warm) light - or any color at all, across the entire color spectrum - whatever your personal preference is at the moment.

Use the Strobe feature to flash your light in any color at just the time interval you choose. Or flash your light continuously through the entire spectrum of colors with the Trippin’ feature, which is great fun for kids or to dramatize any storytelling situation - not to speak of trippin’ out at rock concerts.

The DoApp myLite app works with both the iPhone and iPod Touch and is available now at the Apple iTunes “App Store” for free in the “Utilities” category. More information is available at

A VERY useful single function utility which fills an important function inexplicably left by Apple - no not cut and paste another function some would consider more essential The ability to create a seperate and secure password protected area to store pictures - be they photo’s taken with the camera, images stored in the Photo App, or anything NSFW scrounged from the net via Safari.
Feature Summary.
* Creates a Password Protected storage area for ANY image.
* Import photos directly from the camera or from the photo album.
* Multiple image import - Quickly import multiple images from your existing photo album.
* Familiar interface - Looks and behaves just like the inbuilt Photo application but with addition of security.
* Quick Hide - With a double tap action you can quickly remove any offending image.
* Snoop Stopper - For the persistently curious, entering the wrong pin three times will show a collection of safe images.
* Export back to photo album - As well as being able to store photos you can export them back into the iTunes photo album.
Hopefully it’ll mean an end to unfortunate events like the one that follows (as described in the AppStore Advert):
Someone - a girlfriend, boss, colleague, friend or child - picks up your cool new iPhone. Within seconds they’re hypnotized by the beauty of the form factor, the sheer coolness of using the touchscreen, the awesome graphics, the tilt sensitive controls…
“Wow! Gee this is awesome! It’s like from the future man!”
You beam with pride, smug in the satisfaction that you are the coolest person on the planet! It’s like showing a caveman fire for the first time!
That is until things come to a grinding halt!
” Err (insert name) What’s this?! ”
Aggghhh! Their random button pressing has somehow led them to stumble across your private collection of cats in bikinis wearing high-heels (*insert alternate vice here).
You try and muster an explanation - ‘errr um I’m researching the effects of high heels on cats ability to land on their feet ?’, but it’s no good you been busted! Your secret shame has been outed for the world to see!
But no more! Now with Picture Safe, those embarressing moments are a thing of the past. Picture Safe, does just what the name implies, creating a seperate discrete and password protected area for photos and pictures to be stored (be they taken with the camera, imported from your computer or scrounged from the net via Safari).
Of course it’s not just for the preservation of your stash of content of a NSFW nature, Picture Safe also serves as an easy way to back-up cherished photos of family, friends, holidays etc - helping avoid the pain of unfortunate instances where important photos are accidently deleted or lost from your phone.
Picture Safe provides a much needed way to seperate, group, organise, and back-up photo’s by subject matter, providing a secure common-sense way for you to err um… enjoy your Pictures Safely

It’s never been easier to connect your computer up to your television or have your computer form the centre of your home media system but the problem of actually controlling it can still be a problem without buying a dedicated remote. Air Mouse Pro (AMP) aims to solve this problem by giving you full control of your computer through your iPhone. Before you can begin, a helper app needs to be installed. Available for both Mac and PC and a Linux version in the works, almost everyone can get in on the action. At 10MB, I felt the Mac helper app was a little on the large side and having to install yet another app that loads at start up was a little off putting. Despite this, installation was painless and, most importantly, configuration free. The helper app connected with my iPhone without any help at all.

AMP gives two choices in how you control your system. The first is via a touch-pad-style interface where you drag your fingers around the screen in the same way you would on a notebook. In the touch-pad mode, you have access to a full keyboard, or you can tap to switch to function keys as well as dedicated keys for Firefox and iTunes. These dedicated keys work as you’d expect and make using your computer via AMP much easier. Other useful features worth noting here are the ability to go landscape and make the touch-pad fullscreen (a shake of the phone brings up a landscape keyboard) and you can shake the iPhone to hide the keyboard/function keys and have it fullscreen but in portrait mode.

The touch-pad mode similarly works as you’d expect but I did find it a little inaccurate at times. It’s not that it doesn’t work, it does, I just found sometimes I was struggling to get the mouse where I wanted it (small buttons are the main culprit here.) In a similar fashion, the support for multi-touch scrolling is no where near as smooth as that built into Apple’s notebooks, it tends to jump and I found if you placed your fingers too close together, the gesture would be ignored.

The second mode is through the use of the accelerometer. The basic concept is that you press and hold the button in the middle of the mouse buttons and then tilt the phone in the direction you wish to move the mouse. In theory, it’s a great idea but in practice, it’s nigh on useless due to it being so inaccurate. The only way I found I could slightly use it was to hold the iPhone level before I held the button but then I still found myself flicking the phone in every which way, trying to get the cursor where I wanted it to go. As with the previous mode, a shake of the phone hides the keyboard but there is no landscape mode at all. 


For light browsing and playing your music from a distance, Air Mouse Pro does its job nicely. It’s dead simple to use and the way most of the features are implemented is intuitive (such as shaking to hide/show the keyboard and such.) Having to use a helper app was a bit of a downer, especially as it was quite big, so it’d be good to see the developers try and shrink the helper app down a bit. Similarly, the accelerometer control system needs work to make it useful, some sort of calibration through the helper app (to take into account the screen resolution and such) could be something worth considering. At $5.99 it’s not the cheapest app you’re ever going to purchase, but it does work well and I would recommend it to those seeking this type of application.

There is not much thing to say about Spell Check for iPhone because it is just because. Spell Check is spell check, all you can do with it, is to use it to lookup some words. Sometime it could comes in handy in a testing situation, but just don’t get yourself expose.

This is about it. It is just a plan simple iPhone Application - Spell Check.
Check your spelling, don’t make me laugh

Do you want a keyboard that lets you type smileys, hearts and other cute icons such as within SMS, email, Notes and other apps?. Use iEmoji and get the smiley/emoji keyboard on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

How To Use Emoji

Step 1: launch iEmoji on your iPhone (or iPod Touch). Make sure you have wifi/cell connection so that your device is connected to the internet. Also make sure you have iPhone OS 2.2.

Step 2: Within the iEmoji app, click on “… > Help” at the bottom of the screen. Once you can see the help information, click on “Done” button on the right top. Exit iEmoji.

Step 3: Go to “Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > Japanese” and turn ON “Emoji”. Now the emoji keyboard is enabled.

Step 4: To use the emoji keyboard in SMS, Mail, Notes or any other application, when you are typing on the keyboard, tap on the world/globe key (to the left of the space bar) to bring up the emoji keyboard. Enjoy using the 450+ emojis with iEmoji

Note: Once the emoji keyboard is enabled, you can safely uninstall the iEmoji app.

Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and minimum requires is iPhone 2.2 software update. You can purchase via iTunes link or download cracked .ipa file link: