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I’m guessing there are few locations where the view from a hotel window could be an app, but it works with Yoritsuki. It’s beautifully designed; easily one of the all-around best looking apps I’ve ever tried, with graphics that make me wish my iPhone screen was four times larger. Yoritsuki will relax you, whether you’re using it as a calming break during your day or as a way to lull you to sleep at night.

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Adobe has been bringing us Photoshop Elements. This is a friendlier image manipulation program. Cheaper. You don’t get nearly the amount of power and control you get with Photoshop, but you do get enough to have some fun and produce some very cool images. With this iteration, Adobe has not only added some great new editing tools, by also improved the way you organize and share your photos, as well.

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A game, a touch and a guide for the Mac, and everything else is iPhone tonight. Gravity Sling, Checkers, Ground Effect, 365 Puzzle Club, and The World’s Hardest Game highlight the fun side, while computer game legend Al Lowe highlights the funny side. You can also learn stuff and check out some sexy refs…which in my book means a ref actually calling a fair game for the Seahawks.

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I like the BookArc; let’s start with that. This device from Twelve South is a simple but solid heavy gauge steel arc in which your MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air can rest in its closed position. Why would you need that? You wouldn’t be asking if you use an external monitor and keyboard with your MacBook. Small is good when you’re considering portability. But when doing work at your desk, it’s better for your eyes and your posture to hook your laptop up to a larger monitor.

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Scan your comics and scan your receipts on the Mac. You can scan other things too, but there’s nothing else here to help you with that. On the iPhone, you’ve got audio short stories, balloons to send floating around the world, a Mysterious Island to explore, a Bible study to plan, opera librettos to read, and plenty more. If that’s not enough for you, well, then you can just stick it! 2.1

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There’s no shortage of iPhone apps available to keep kids occupied while you wait for your bloomin’ onion to be served. There’s also no shortage of apps available to explain why you shouldn’t be eating a bloomin’ onion. In this review, though, we’ll focus on the kids, and take a look at a couple of Scholastic apps that can teach them a few things while they’re entertained: WordGirl Word Hunt and Clifford’s BE BIG with Words.

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You have a map for that, Verizon? Okay, well I see your map, and raise you an app. 100,000 apps, actually. Apple has announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the App Store (only a couple hundred of which have anything to do with farting). This is a number Apple’s competitors just won’t be able to reach, and I’m not even sure they understand why it’s important to try.

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Already with the Christmas apps? Well, why not. Be creative enough, and even iStopMotion and MacTuneUp could be holiday gifts, I suppose. Pretty much everything on the iPhone could, such as Minima, The Right Bite (it’ll help you lose all that holiday treat weight), Cobra, DJ Nights, and more. iMEvil, Dead Panic: Survival, and that one from the Penthouse photographer? Probably not good Christmas gifts, those.

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Sorenson Media has announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 6, their total workflow solution for video professionals. Squeeze 6 enables customers to employ innovative tools that simplify the overall video encoding workflow and allows them to more easily encode and publish video files on the Internet. Optimized video codecs and new filters have also been added, significantly improving video quality and encoding speed.

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A lot of good Mac updates today for both productivity and system management. Record audio, make cartoons, browse your media, track your references, and more. Today’s iPhone apps will improve your grammar, bring you luck, win you an unlocked iPhone, defend your bar, crash your car, dash your zombies, and prevent the swine flu…or something like that.

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