Amount

A handy tool for bakers and travellors alike.

Not everyone has the brain space to spare in order to remember how many teaspoons or the formula for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius - let alone that morning's exchange rate for dollars to yen. For those of us who aren't pub-quiz champions, Amount is an app that will put all of those quick coversions at your fingertips. It's undoubtedly a handy tool for international travellors or serious bakers, and the app lets you save favorite conversions on a handy shortcut list. But ultimately, it's a niche app & you may balk at having to pay any amount - even 99 cents - when it's just as easy to pop your convertion questions into your nearest search engine.
99 cents, for iOS devices.

Tempo

A smarter calender

The Tempo calender app attempts to improve on the default calender program for the iPhone - and largely suceeds - by pulling information from multiple accounts, adding relevant information from multiple accounts, ading relevant information such as meeting locations from email accounts and letting users text or call contacts from within the app. Having all of that information centalized in one location is incredibly usefl, and the app is designed to pull in email attachments from your accounts to make items like meeting agendas or presentation materials easy to reach from your calender.

It remains, however a work in progress. Users can't, for example, add the names of attendees to events - one of many features developers promise are coming soon. Also, something the app does things like pull the wrong similarly named contact from your phone book into your calender. Still, the app gets better the more you use it and is an elegant alternative to Apple's baked-in offering. Free, for iOS devices.