Maximizing your iPhone involves a balance between the iPhone’s great capability and the connectivity issues between you and networks.  Between the AT&T network, spotty wi-fi signals, and dead laptop batteries, sometimes that key bit of information is just out of reach of you and your iPhone.  For these situations, TAPFORMS is here.  A salvation to iPhone users who have been compulsive “list-makers” for most of their lives, tapforms allows you to customize and create lists that take advantage of all the ways the iPhone stores information.  By doing this in the app format, it allows these things to always be accessible to you regardless of whether you can connect to a network or another machine where it is backed up.  If iPhone’s basic NOTES program works for you, this may be wasted on you.  However, if you find yourself referencing a lot of data lists throughout your week, TAPFORMS is definitely worth the $8.99 price tag.  You can watch a great demo to see its capabilities at http://www.tapforms.com/

or you can find it at the app store at:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291405311&mt=8

While celebrating my good friend Keith’s birthday recently, I overheard some party-goers discussing noise generators.  They were the kind of people who need a fan or some other background noise to sleep.  After trying some programs I found on the App Store, I have found two that I like.  The first is a free version of WHITE NOISE that features eight different sounds that you can adjust.  I use the white noise and ‘extreme rain’ sounds to fall asleep now with the built in timer.  Check it out:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292987597&mt=8