Urbanspoon
If you are going out for dinner, but you don’t know what to eat and what is around you, it’s sometimes difficult to decide. This app does solve this problem in a brilliant and funny way. Using the GPS in the iPhone locates random restaurant around you according to area, type of food and price in a slot machine style. Just shake (yes you read correctly… shake as a martini) your iphone and the slot machine will start spinning. After a quick spin you’ll get a random choice, if you like it you can look for more info (telephone, reviews, location ecc…) or if you want another pick, keep shaking. You can also lock any or all of the slot machine wheels. So if you know which cousine to eat and how much to spend you can lock those wheels and urbanspoon will pick a resaturant based on those choices. It works in North America and London.
I was waiting for an alternative to AIM chat tool for the iPhone in order to use also MSN Messenger and Yahoo! and it looks like I still have to wait. The app is very good and easy to use. Graphically is perfect and very intuitive. Just select the service you want to use, add your account details, set your chat status (online/offline) and you are ready to chat. The problem is that this app is very unstable at the moment. Every three messages sent, it would disconnect from the chat server and set you offline. So thumbs up for the app, but wait for an update because at the moment is almost worthless and annoying.