Karen Freeman

StripeCam lets you turn your photos into colorful striped, partly striped, or plaid pictures. It's a fun app that makes a great addition to any iPhoneographer’s bag of tricks.

Have you seen amazing art created with words? Now you can create art out of words on any iDevice with or without any actual talent.

Dear Readers, have we got a contest for you! QuikCam needs a new name. The winner will be credited in the app’s iTunes description plus receive 50 apps!

Your iPhone is a great way to send cards with mobility and style! Choose from these apps to send eCards via email or mms for the holidays, special events, or just to let someone know you care. Alternatively, some of these apps will allow you to send hard copy postcard greetings in the actual mail.

Sit back, relax with iDevice in hand, listen to relaxing music and let ARTREE grow beautiful trees for you. It’s part art (enjoyment, more than creation) and part relaxation. It’s a great way to make custom wallpapers or simply get your zen on.

If you get a lot of business cards and just hate carrying them around in your wallet, you have probably thought about getting a business card scanner. CamCard is one of the best options. To celebrate their newest update, this app, normally $6.99, is on sale for just $1.99 for a limited time.

QuikCam, formerly known as QuickCam, has just gotten an update with some great new features. The responsive developer has already updated this weeks-old app to reflect requests from users.

Due to several reader requests, we have revisited this AppGuide. Whether you like relaxing, zen-style aquariums and ponds or tycoon/management-style aquarium games, this extensive AppGuide is sure to have something for everyone on every kind of iDevice.

In the same vein as the popular apps that cartoonize your photos, Cartoonatic lets you take video with lots of fun cartoon effects for free. With an in-app upgrade, you can take cartoon photos as well.

Vintage Video Maker is now Silent Film Director. They've added some great new features such as iMovie-like editing and Instagram-like sharing.

3D Photo is not exactly what it sounds like from the name. You might be expecting something like 3D Camera, an app which allows you to create actual 3D photos that you would look at through those funky red and blue glasses. 3D Photo is really an art-photography app, more along the lines of Fracture or VideoScope. However, it’s really something different from any other app I’ve seen. It allows you to turn your photos into bizarre, three-dimensional art.

Fun photo filter app FX Photo Studio has gotten an update to both its iPhone and iPad versions. Plus, we're giving away six promo codes.

We've updated this list of casual, fun games for people who don't really consider themselves "gamers".

Have you developed (pun intended) a bit of an obsession with Instagram lately? If you’re one of the millions of iPhoneographers around the world who have, you’re not alone. Lucky for us, some creative folks out there have come up with some really cool things to do with Instagram beyond simply using the app.

Check out how America looked over 100 years ago with the new iPad app Panoramic City Views USA. With nearly 30 major U.S. cities included, there are plenty of maps for you to see.

We don’t often review free apps, but this one is just too much fun. Tiny Planets bends your photo around onto itself to mimic the look of, well, a tiny planet. Or, you can bend your photo the opposite way to create a tube shot. Basically, Tiny Planets does effortlessly in seconds what photographers labor over for hours in Photoshop.

With the addition of the OverDrive Media Console to the App Store (and a request from one of our readers), we felt this AppGuide was due for an update. And of course, with the arrival of the iPad 2 and all the new iPad owners out there, more and more people are reading books on the iPad. Luckily there are many wonderful options for reading on the iPad. Actually, most of these apps are universal, so if you have an iPhone or iPod touch (in addition to or instead of an iPad) and you like to read, you will definitely find this AppGuide useful.

As the iPad's popularity grows, so does the number of websites with iPad apps to optimally access their sites. We've added some more of our very favorites to this AppList.

MyFont was already a fun app for creating fonts from your own handwriting. With the newest update, you can even add your personalized fonts to your computer! Read on to learn more and enter to win a copy.

Whether you’re into scrapbooking or just enjoy finding interesting ways to showcase your photography, you’ll want to check out this AppGuide. These apps allow you to create collages with your photos. Choose a background and place your photos on it at different angles, overlapping or not, for a creative photo masterpiece.

This new app is designed with simplicity and elegance in mind. It's a no-nonsense, fast, easy-to-use camera app that also contains some interesting and unusual features.

Whether you are Irish or just Irish for a day, these St. Patrick's Day iPhone apps should help you get in the spirit of the holiday and show your greenest side. We have updated this AppList for 2011, so take a look, and celebrate responsibly.