Shoebox, the iPhone App, makes it easy to scan old paper photos and share them with family and friends. It helps you bring albums, scrapbooks, and photo-filled “shoeboxes” out of the closet and into an online, shareable space where they can be organized and shared with family and friends. Shoebox’s edge detection and perspective correction make sure that the paper photographs you scan turn out beautifully. After scanning, you can quickly crop, straighten, rotate your photo, as well as record the stories behind the photographs by adding captions, dates, and tags. The quality of camera phones has increased so much that your handy iPhone is now as good as the clunky piece of hardware you have next to your computer, and with none of the wires or drivers. The new iPhone 4S offers a 8 megapixel camera that takes images at 2448×3264 resolution. Using Shoebox to scan a typical 4″x6″ photo produces a DPI of 550 – the same high quality recommended by scanning experts like ScanCafe.

Nokia Maps lijkt in grote lijnen erg op Google Maps: je kunt zoeken naar locaties, jezelf met GPS terugvinden en een route tussen twee plekken plannen met de auto of te voet. Het moet ook mogelijk zijn om een reis met het openbaar vervoer uit te stippelen, maar bij gebruik meldt Nokia Maps dat de functie niet beschikbaar is.

Maar Nokia Maps heeft ook een aantal dingen van zichzelf. Zo is er een favorietenlijst waar je locaties in kunt zetten, zodat je ze makkelijk terugvindt. Interessanter is de lokale opslagfunctie: ga je naar een plek met een slechte dataverbinding, dan kun je vooraf via Wi-Fi de kaart opslaan op je iPhone. Helemaal zonder limieten is deze functie alleen niet: je kunt hooguit een aantal MB aan kaartinformatie opslaan, genoeg om bijvoorbeeld de binnenstad van Leiden mee in kaart te brengen.

Om Nokia Maps te gebruiken ga je naar m.maps.nokia.com in je mobiele browser.

Andy Brockie from the Guardian's digital design team shares the key stages behind the design development of our new Guardian iPad app

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

Instead of using the built-in Google search of Safari, you can just search the web from Tip Toe, with a few advantages: the engine is based on Bing and Blekko, with a bit of artificial intelligence on top. It should remove all aggregated results of server farms, and the interface is free of ads. One more point: Tip Toe does NOT track your searches, and respects your privacy.

An iOS like OS X application for quickly applying presets to photos. Nice feature: you can edit applied effects, and new presets are available for download from the Flare website.

reMail downloads all your email to your iPhone and lets you search full-text at light speed

Simplenote. The easy-to-use, syncable, searchable notes application for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Type faster and with less typos on your iPhone

GottaGet is a versatile shopping list for your iPhone that helps you remember the things you've gotta get.

Due to hefty 3G roaming rates, Apple’s Maps app just won’t cut it when you’re out of the country. The oMap app lets you download maps for offline viewing — dodging a shocking bill post-vacation.

Brushes is a natural media painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.

Breaking new ground in hand-held music technology, Loopy is a sophisticated loop-based musical scratchpad and performance instrument. It’s also an easy to use, beautiful yet powerful recording studio. No musical ability required!

Convertbot Convertbot is a unit conversion robot. Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new way! Converting numbers will never again be a mundane task. In addition to its innovative interface, our robot is smart enough to convert to and from mixed units. Are you 5 foot 9 inches tall? Other converters require you to convert that to 5.75 ft in your head before being able to enter it. Convertbot allows mixed units like Foot + Inches, Pounds + Ounces, and more!

One application to catch my eye is Ecorio, a carbon footprint calculator that taps into the G1’s GPS feature to track movement. Mode of travel choices include automobile, public transit and bicycle.

Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.