A singularly-minded iPhone application that does one thing well, One Tap Dial is my life preserver in a sea of generic, boring and sometimes expensive speed dial applications.

Docked on a nightstand or desk, your iPhone makes for the perfect digital photo frame. DreamStream greatly enhances viewable photo sources by accessing pictures from MobileMe, Facebook albums and Flickr tags among others. Even your friends’ photos aren’t safe!

If the iPhone calendar and sheer absence of built-in task management leave you wanting more, check out Pocket Informant from WebIS. It is a well thought out application, adapted nicely to the iPhone. Despite some performance issues and a (current) lack of functionality compared to the more mature versions of PI that exist on other platforms, its active development ensures that this will not be the case for long.

Gas Cubby is an intuitive, well designed application that offers many customizable features for logging fuel efficiency, vehicle information and maintenance. Whether you are a bit detail-oriented like me or simply love your vehicles, it’s time to organize the glove box!

This handy little utility lets you transfer pictures and/or contacts to other iPod Touch or iPhones over a shared wifi network with a simple swipe of the screen. Free goodness!

This somewhat overhyped location-based coupon application has a fantastic, forward-thinking concept. Unfortunately it doesn’t have much to offer users at the current time.

Although limited in its feature set, this free app from Directv allows you to set your DVR to record programs on the fly. And it works!

The newest entry into the crowded field of conversion utilities is from the developers at Tapbots. That alone is worthy of our attention and Convertbot does not disappoint.

With Flixster you can watch movie trailers, view listings for your favorite theaters or check DVD release dates. Now you can also rate movies and share information with friends through Facebook. And they say there’s no such thing as free popcorn.

While we all have interesting daily events that we would like to remember, most of us gave up our diaries and journals long ago. Billed as “the weightless pocket diary”, Memiary allows us to record these events on the go.

If you find yourself in iPhone To Do list purgatory, caught between the various spartan listing apps and complex life-managers, this beautiful and highly functional new event manager may be just what you’ve been looking for.

This neat photo editing application lets you selectively highlight areas of your photos with color. It produces such nice results with so little effort that you may actually find yourself putting photos onto your iPhone just to use it!

This matching game for preschoolers offers toddlers a fun and different way to learn to identify animals, shapes and colors while offering parents a (possibly) welcome, if not temporary, reprieve.

Perennially one of the most popular downloads from the App Store, Lose It ! is a beautiful, intuitive and complete nutritional database and statistic tracker. The fact that it is available for free is icing on an already well baked cake, so to speak.

Totomi is an action-oriented stacking game that offers great graphics and surprisingly addicting intricate gameplay for something that, on the surface, may seem like another cute (read: boring) puzzler.

Within the crowded field of ambient sound generators for the iPhone, AmbiScience BP stands out with its high quality sound tracks combined with brain wave synchronization effects intended to promote sleep, focus, meditation or relaxation.

iWatchr is a relatively straightforward application designed for calculating and recording food points for those ‘Watchers’ inclined to keep track of such things.

QuadCamera is one in a series of Art&Mobile’s Toy Camera applications aimed at adding fun and often beautiful effects to your iPhone pics. It takes a series of 4 or 8 photos in succession and arranges them in a grid, with optional colorations and layouts. This wonderfully simple app can turn even an amateur photographer into a pro.