This isn’t going to be a wrap-up of holiday titles. No, we’re looking for those apps that can provide both hours and hours a entertainment while stuck in the airport — and just a few minutes of fun while you avoid try to avoid the visiting uncle quacks when he walks.

Let’s start with the games! Seems like a hundred killer games came out in the past two weeks. Many of them really good. It’s a shame but some of them are going to get lost in the rush. We’ll try to point out some of them in the coming months. But here are a few of our favorite ones that haven’t really seen much publicity.

Sneezies — it’s a great, fun little bubble popping game.

Sneezies

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-12-01 :: Category: Games

I’m a big fan of racing games — here’s a great one that hasn’t gotten too much publicity but is really good.

Fastlane Street Racing

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99
Released: 2008-11-13 :: Category: Games

How about a well-done puzzle game:

Ivory Tiles

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99
Released: 2008-12-02 :: Category: Games

One of our favorite games got a sequel recently – Dizzy Bee 2:

Dizzy Bee 2

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99
Released: 2008-12-10 :: Category: Games

Myself — I’m partial to puzzle and word games. With their infinite replay value they are great for a long trip.

Frenzic

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-11-19 :: Category: Games

wurdle

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: $1.99
Released: 2008-08-12 :: Category: Games

If you are looking for games that will give you the maximum play time, here are a few that you may have heard of — all guaranteed to give you at least a few hours, sometimes days, of fun.

SimCity™

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-12-16 :: Category: Games :: Strategy

1112 episode 01

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $4.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-11-25 :: Category: Games

Warfare Incorporated

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2008-12-04 :: Category: Games

Rolando

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-12-17 :: Category: Games

We’ve mentioned Fieldrunners in the past — if you don’t have this game yet, do yourself a favor, grab it. Good for making time disappear.

Fieldrunners

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $2.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-10-05 :: Category: Games

Seems like $0.99 is the new hot price point for games — and there are some great ones for $0.99 right now. Check out these:

Flick Fishing

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-11-06 :: Category: Games

Collapse! Chaos

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99
Released: 2008-10-07 :: Category: Games

Dropship

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2008-12-10 :: Category: Games

Chopper

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: $2.99
Released: 2008-07-11 :: Category: Games

Mouse House

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE $0.99
Released: 2008-10-28 :: Category: Games

Touch Physics

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $1.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-11-12 :: Category: Games

Might as well grab a couple great free games too. Just in case…

Topple

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE

Our Rating: :: 99 CENT GEM
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Released: 2008-10-17 :: Category: Games

TapDefense

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2008-11-24 :: Category: Games

Looking for a good read?

Stanza provides access to loads of ebooks, some free, some not. Includes access to some great current best sellers.

Stanza

Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-07-13 :: Category: Books

Classics is a fantastic, beautiful, wonderfully done app for reading some great classic novels.

Classics

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-10-30 :: Category: Books

Some other diversions…

Here’s an app to make that dinner conversation much more interesting. RJDJ takes the sounds it hears from the iPhone mic and re-mixes them into some pretty interesting electronic music. See if you can get away with listening while the family discusses all those things you just don’t care about.

Trippy - Replay

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $2.99

Our Rating: :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Released: 2008-10-10 :: Category: Music

Or you could always try to work these in, from other the table:

Star Wars Sound Board

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $0.99
Released: 2008-12-01 :: Category: Entertainment

Feeling artistic?

Here are a couple apps that can help you work on becoming the digital equivalent of Van Gogh. Though you’ll still never hear the end of it about all that money dad spent on art school.

Colors!

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $4.99
Released: 2008-09-24 :: Category: Entertainment

Artist's Touch for iPhone

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: $1.99
Released: 2008-12-09 :: Category: Photography