News Fuse is a streamlined app that gives you easy access to a wide variety of news sites. It’s not rich in features, but it makes up for it in ease-of-use. If mobile Safari is too cumbersome for you, give this app a go.

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.

App Store Insider: August Trometer Part 2

Finishing up our interview with August, I ask him about what it is like being an iPhone developer in the lime-light, or Celebrity Developer. He talks about how much fun it has been to break out of the traditional role from time to time, and how it has really helped out his programming business.

I also get his opinions on Apple’s filing to have jailbreaking iPhones judged illegal, what that means to the development community, and how jailbreaking is actually beneficial to the App Store and making the iPhone a popular development platform. August also tells us why he has avoided it.

Most importantly, August gives us the breaking story about the soon to be released app, YOWZA!!, and how it will change the way you shop and use your iPhone.

Listen to how August met Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman on Heroes) on Twitter, and joined forces with Rick Yaeger from MacMerc, to create a whole new business model for an iPhone app, and how they have tackled the problems of turning your iPhone into a money-saving shopping tool! And it’s going to be FREE!

Here is a little taste from Greg himself.

Enjoy!

You can check out August’s digital book, Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari on your Kindle from Amazon, or buy it in PDF format here.

Yelp for iPhone is an amazingly feature packed, incredibly useful app for finding services and entertainment in your urban bubble. Need to find a cafe, restaurant, tire changing station, drug store, etc that’s approved by the community around it? Yelp is here to help! (I totally didn’t intend for that to rhyme and even though it’s lame, I’m leaving it in the review)

Colloquy began life as an excellent open source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the Mac desktop, and now the fine folks at Colloquy Project have released a mobile version to the App Store. The iPhone / iPod Touch edition is an incredibly robust application, with an eye towards making mobile IRC a pleasing experience – as well as raising the bar for usability in general.

When connected to the Internet you can use Wikipedia Mobile to search Wikipedia for articles, which can then be saved to you’re iPhone for offline viewing. Pages retain their original formatting and can be searched for words or phrases, but the app has no built-in zoom, nor does it offer bookmarking or annotation capabilities. Regardless, it’s a great way to create a library of articles conventiently available whether you have connectivity or not.

Endless Walls allows quick download of random iPhone OS wallpaper sized images — but doesn’t do it with artist consent.

iPhone Mobile Site Ready

We’ve been working the past couple weeks on an Mobile Safari version of 148Apps.com. It’s now ready for your mobile viewing pleasure. Just go to http://148apps.com with Mobile Safari to see it. We’ll still be making a few adjustments in the coming weeks but let us know if you see any problems with the mobile version.