Cookbooks not cutting it for you any more? If you’re anything like me, then recipes need to have pictures (at a bare minimum) to be interesting at all. But that’s not really enough, either; you need ratings of those recipes. Allrecipes puts all of this in users’ hands. Users upload recipes, pictures and reviews. And now there’s an app to make this even easier to use on your iPad.

The most romantic day of the year is just a week away. If you want to express your love in the digital style, these applications will help you to be the romantic that you should be. Let’s walk you through your enhanced romance with Valentines Countdown, Love Songs – The 100 Greatest of All Time, Valentines Day Recipes, and iKarmasutra Lite.