This may be one of the best free apps that is available on the iPhone. We have all been in strange cities and have had to hunt down wifi spots in order to send out a quick email or send off a report.

It is almost embarrassing asking people where to go if you don’t have an aircard, this can be a major problem. The free workplace app WorkSnug does the hunting for you and lands a quite place to do whatever you need.

After starting the app up, all that is needed is to hold the iPhone up in front of you and the iPhone starts to list the various locations that have been scouted the by the WorkSnug team. It will give directions and ratings as to what the team and other users think about that spot. If directions are needed, they are right there as well.

While there are plenty of apps that are fun to have or great games to play, this is one of the most useful and practical ones that we have seen come out in a while. Best of all, it’s FREE. No more worry about where to go when you get to town or relying on the kindness of a stranger. Anyone who travels with their laptop in tow is going to appreciate this app.

Another feature that many will enjoy is that they can add their own information about the sites and share it with their friends once they have visited it. For the most part, the sites that were checked had a very accurate review and each one of them was laptop friendly. Oh yeah, the bonus feature is that if they serve coffee, the quality of the Joe is listed as well. Not too bad for a free app.

The much anticipated release of the Amidio Touch DJ application has finally been approved by Apple for sale in the App Store and it is sure to be a top seller in no time at all.
The app enables users to mix two tracks without ever hearing one second of the song and has some special features that are pretty incredible for being use on a phone.

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DJ app’s have apparently been blocked for the iPhone for quite some time and nobody is really sure why. There has been a multitude of applications and every one of them has been turned down to this point. Whether Apple is scared that the applications will hurt their iPod sales or not is unclear as they have been pretty tight lipped about everything so far. However, users have been sending letters and petitions about approval for some type of app and Apple has finally given in.

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The Amidio Touch DJ app will retail for $19.99 in the app store and is pretty amazing. Two separate tracks can be pulled up and compared via the sound waves that

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are generated. Mixers should be able to combine the tracks by visually matching the waves. At least that is the theory behind the whole thing.

While there is a lot of upside to this app, there are also some small roadblocks that Apple has in mind for its users. For instance, if the user wants to pre listen to the songs before they have been mixed, they must buy a splitting adapter to do so. They also cannot access their current library. Any songs that they want to use in the app must re-imported through another utility on the iPhone.

Even though there are some limitations, there are also a lot of special effects that can be used within the app itself that make this well worth the money. The fact that it is the only true DJ application that is usable on the iPhone doesn’t really give us a choice though if we want to use the iPhone as mixer for our iTunes library. However, Amidio did a great job with the obvious restrictions that Apple put on them to get this approved.

CNN launched their CNN Mobile iPhone app today, and it will bring full print and video news reports, and even allow users to record their own news/eyewitness accounts of stories and submit it, if need be.

More from the app description:

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“Maximizing the revolutionary features of iPhone OS 3.1, the new CNN App showcases news of the day through text, video and photos. It also features live breaking news video, push notification, localization and personalization tools, user-generated content capture and upload functionality through iReport, and more.

“The CNN App has what we think

is one of the best user experiences around, and will quickly become an essential daily news source for many iPhone and iPod touch users,”said Louis Gump, vice president of CNN Mobile. “We tailored the best of CNN specifically for them, whether they check in from the beach, the airport or the ballpark.”

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You can even personalize the news to bring local events and new reports, weather, and videos of local interest to your iPhone. It all sounds pretty solid to us.

The app sells for $1.99 in the App Store right now.

It seems there may be a line being drawn between the Dev Team and Geohot when it comes to working together to bring what is best for the end user as a whole. While some may argue that them working together is for the best, I would argue that competition between the two may end up bringing the end user slightly better tools.

Of course, my opinion is just that — my opinion. However with that, Geohot has recently released his own solution for unlocking the iPhone 3GS which has been dubbed purplesn0w. And yes that means we have yet another strange name to remember when it comes to iPhone hacking tools.

Anyway, purplesn0w is the “geohot 3GS unlock solution” and is noted as being able to help prevent you from worrying about “Wifi fails? Battery fails? Unlock fails?” after you unlock.
Basically, what purplesn0w will do is unlock your iPhone 3GS after you have already jailbroken it using purplera1n. According to Geohot, purplesn0w is;
“A soft unlock for your 3GS that I’d actually use day to day. It’s not a daemon that takes any resources, and it doesn’t add a task to your baseband. It’s very close to a true unlock. All it does is patch three files, CommCenter, lockdownd, and your wildcard activation plist(which you need, activate w at&t sim first, no hacktivation support yet). That’s it, no other files are installed.”

As always it is suggested that you back up your iPhone before beginning, but otherwise here are the steps you need to follow in order to use purplesn0w. Keep in mind, this is also assuming that your iPhone 3GS is already jailbroken.

Be sure to have legit activated 3GS
Disable 3G if you don’t have it(like T-Mobile).
Add apt.geohot.com to Cydia
Install com.geohot.purplesn0w
Watch for success output in Cydia
Reboot, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone

Granted, there are not many apps in the App Storethat are supporting Push Notifications at this point, and for some that may be leading to a little question as to how to enable the notifications.

Well, to begin with, the “Notifications” listing in your iPhone’s settings will not appear as an option until you launch an app that has that support. In my case, you can see (in the below image) that app is Tap Tap Revenge 2.6.

Anyway, simply launch an app that has support for Notifications then go back to your iPhone’s settings and then you will notice a new listing called “Notifications” that will be listed as “On.”

Once there, you can then go in and customize the settings on an app by app basis.