We first told you last year all about the UrbanSpoon iPhone app, which allows you to find a restaurant by shaking your phone. Now, the developers have upgraded the app to help you find a way to chow down by adding a new Scope feature. This feature is an augmented reality app, and is exclusive to the iPhone 3GS. All you have to do is aim your iPhone at the street to see what is out there to eat.

The team behind Dropbox, the excellent file synchronization web/desktop program, has submitted a companion app for the iPhone and iPod touch to the App Store. Dropbox regularly makes life easier for many of us, and now its convenience will most likely (barring any other Apple ridiculousness) be in your pockets soon. The app will have a veritable plethora of features…

The idea of Textopolis for iPhone and iPod touch is to use the letters of the city (level) that you are on to spell as many words as you can. There are a total of 30 cities available, and to get to the next city you must get at least 10% of all the possible words. The words must be at least four letters long. Let me say that I spell like a 4th grader, so the fact that you can use plurals is a great help for me. That also means I have not been able to advance to the harder cities in the game such as Ulyanovsk, or Saskatoon.

Although many bugs have been fixed and many features have been added to the iPhone’s OS, two key features remain missing, copy and paste. Until Apple adds in their own copy and paste method, the problem has been solved thanks to the wonders of javascript. The “app” responsible for these features isn’t really an app more »

IconFactory makes a great universal tool for designers called xScope — for people who constantly use this kind of tool, it’s a worthwhile investment. But, a new app now gives you similar functionality — for free. Rulers provides a subset of xScopes useful features in an easy-to-read format. Photoshop-style rulers appear at the side and more »

Things is another GTD (Getting Things Done) application for the Mac. Today, Cultured Code have finally brought iCal syncing to the app, similarly to its competitor OmniFocus. In the latest version, you can simply visit the preferences and tick particular calendars. For example, just the “Today” tasks or just your “Next Actions”. Alternatively, you can more »

You may be familiar with Plasq’s popular Skitch screenshot-sharing application, and their comic book application: Comic Life (which was pre-installed on many Macs). Plasq have just released another amazing application called Comic Life Magiq. It sports a brand new interface, which aims to be more easy to use and even fun to use. This is more »

Mailplane was one developer’s answer to bridging the gap between desktop e-mail clients and Google’s highly popular webmail service: Gmail. The app looks just like a site-specific web browser for Gmail – however, it has many extra functions that a regular web browser won’t provide you. Mailplane allows you to quickly browse through the iLife more »

The iPhone SDK will bring thousands of new applications to the iPhone and iPod Touch that weren’t possible to make in the past. Evolution Robotics is creating a revolutionary visual search technology they call ViPR – and it’s coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR lets you take a photo with you’re iPhone’s built-in camera of any book, movie or CD, send it to their server, and automatically get an e-mail back with all the information about it; YouTube videos, iTunes music store links, Wikipedia links and more.

The iPhone is not the only phone to be treated with ViPR. It will also be deployed in Japan on KDDI’s camera phones this Spring. Check the video after the jump, you’ll see how well this demo of ViPR performs – even when the camera angle is not straight:

An awesome VoIP client known as “fring” that was previously only available for PCs and other mobile phones has now been released for Apple’s iPhone (and iPod touch). Of course, only jailbroken iPhones will be able to run the unofficial third-party application, and its VoIP capabilities are only available over a WiFi network.

The developer of fring is labeling it as a “light, sneak preview R&D version” so it appears that they are only testing the functionality and observing the popularity of the application on jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches before the application is officially released once the iPhone 2.0 software update goes public.