iPlunge phone stand, $5.99 at perpetualkid.com.
Need a gift for a gadget lover?
Whether he's a gamer, a techie, a groomer or a browser, we've got the perfect $20-and-under gift to stuff in his (or her) stocking.
Guitar Hero Smash Hits
Forty-eight of the biggest hits from the rock gaming phenomenon. Players can go it alone on Sony PlayStation 2 or corral an eight-player crew for battle-of-the-bands competitions. $15, pcrichard.com.
City iPhone cover
Remember when you needed a quarter to make a call? Remind friends and family how much easier big-city life is with this protective silicone iPhone cover with an old-school New York design. Fits iPhones 3G and 3GS. $12, fredflare.com
USB Stress Ball (left)
Got a friend who needs to relax? This squeezable chill pill plugs into your laptop and makes your screen tremble in fear with every squeeze. $19.99, thinkgeek.com.
Mr. Nose and Ear Hair trimmer
If you really love someone, set their nose hair free. This electric, hand-held '70s disco all-star is every groomer's best friend. $14.99, amazon.com.
iPlunge phone stand
Suction this little plunger to the back of any iPhone or iPod for an instant armrest for easy video and photo viewing. $5.99, perpetualkid.com.
AMAZING iPHONE APPS
The iPhone comes with quite a few built-in apps and utilities, but some of them lack crucial features. These offerings improve upon Apple's preloaded content.
Grab it: Calcbot ($1.99): This well-designed calculator app has lots of advantages, but perhaps the most crucial one is the history tape. Think of it as receipts for your past transactions — and you can even email equations that you need to remember to yourself or a friend. There's also a running tally of any long equations you might have, thus preventing you from getting lost in a sea of numbers, and support for trigonometric functions and other mathematical feats normally handled by one of those big, bulky scientific calculators.
Notebooks ($5.99): This comprehensive note-taking app seems expensive by App Store standards, but its full suite of features makes up for it. You can sort your notes by whatever means make sense to you, and incorporate to-do lists as well — upcoming to-dos will be flagged by the app, and a reminder will appear on your iPhone's home screen. Another nice thing about this app: It's able to import a wide variety of files, including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents and web pages. An even nicer thing? The ability to choose the font that your notes appear in, thus making this app even more personalized.
Alarm Clock Pro (99 cents) has a super-customizable interface, multiple options for how your alarm will rouse you (if you like to fade into the day, there's an option for your music to do just that), a sleep timer that allows you to fall asleep to songs on your iPod, and the ability to wake up to the temperature as well as the time. It all makes this clock app the one to beat.
Forty-eight of the biggest hits from the rock gaming phenomenon. Players can go it alone on Sony PlayStation 2 or corral an eight-player crew for battle-of-the-bands competitions. $15, pcrichard.com.
City iPhone cover
Remember when you needed a quarter to make a call? Remind friends and family how much easier big-city life is with this protective silicone iPhone cover with an old-school New York design. Fits iPhones 3G and 3GS. $12, fredflare.com
USB Stress Ball (left)
Got a friend who needs to relax? This squeezable chill pill plugs into your laptop and makes your screen tremble in fear with every squeeze. $19.99, thinkgeek.com.
Mr. Nose and Ear Hair trimmer
If you really love someone, set their nose hair free. This electric, hand-held '70s disco all-star is every groomer's best friend. $14.99, amazon.com.
iPlunge phone stand
Suction this little plunger to the back of any iPhone or iPod for an instant armrest for easy video and photo viewing. $5.99, perpetualkid.com.
AMAZING iPHONE APPS
The iPhone comes with quite a few built-in apps and utilities, but some of them lack crucial features. These offerings improve upon Apple's preloaded content.
Grab it: Calcbot ($1.99): This well-designed calculator app has lots of advantages, but perhaps the most crucial one is the history tape. Think of it as receipts for your past transactions — and you can even email equations that you need to remember to yourself or a friend. There's also a running tally of any long equations you might have, thus preventing you from getting lost in a sea of numbers, and support for trigonometric functions and other mathematical feats normally handled by one of those big, bulky scientific calculators.
Notebooks ($5.99): This comprehensive note-taking app seems expensive by App Store standards, but its full suite of features makes up for it. You can sort your notes by whatever means make sense to you, and incorporate to-do lists as well — upcoming to-dos will be flagged by the app, and a reminder will appear on your iPhone's home screen. Another nice thing about this app: It's able to import a wide variety of files, including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents and web pages. An even nicer thing? The ability to choose the font that your notes appear in, thus making this app even more personalized.
Alarm Clock Pro (99 cents) has a super-customizable interface, multiple options for how your alarm will rouse you (if you like to fade into the day, there's an option for your music to do just that), a sleep timer that allows you to fall asleep to songs on your iPod, and the ability to wake up to the temperature as well as the time. It all makes this clock app the one to beat.
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