I’m shocked that I’ve been posting these picks for five weeks already. For this week, my utility of the week is the IMDB app – Movie Genie.

Movie Genie is basically just an interface to IMDB (Internet Movie Database). It allows you to search movies and actors and provides you with a ton of details about them. Movie Genie is a well developed and fast app that interfaces with IMDB perfect. The developer promises a lot of features in the feature, but the app is great as-is. Check out the review here.

If you’d like to suggest a utility for my “utility of the week”, visit my thread on our forum here. And below is a list of previous Utility of the Week picks:

Week 1 – Groups
Week 2 – Put Things Off
Week 3 – Stick It
Week 4 – Air Mouse Pro

$0.99

Movie Genie

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: :: APPLAUSE TO THE DEVELOPER
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Released: 2009-06-15 :: Category: Reference

I’ll say it now – I’m an iPhone addict.

Every week, I have to go to a 12 step program designed to wean me off my addiction.* But, you know what? It’s not working. You see, to be cured of an addiction you have to want to be cured. I love my iPhone. It’s a part of my life. It’s never far from my grasp, and I use it many, many times throughout my day. I don’t want to be cured.

Paul Pelosi (look at his hands) is also an iPhone addict.

When I first got my iPhone, I was amazed – due to the superb implementation of the web, that I could actually use it to buy my wife’s Christmas presents… from the sofa… while she sat next to me. I would ask her what she wanted, she’d have a little think, then tell me, then I’d buy it, without her even realising her wishes were coming true within seconds of her uttering the words. She might as well have been saying abracadabra. It was magical, and exciting in a way only another iPhone-phile can understand.

This is how my iPhone and I spend the day.

Wake Up Call
Even before I awake, my iPhone is there for me, dragging me from my slumber with the sound of Marimba. Clock has become my Alarm Clock. I’ve even taught it not to wake me at all at the weekend – at those times my iPhone allows me to dream on (although my daughter does not respect the covenant me and the iPhone have made).
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For week four of my Utility of the Week picks I decided to pick an app that’s already been out for a while but happened to go on a huge sale this week – Air Mouse Pro.

Air Mouse Pro is an accelerometer-controller (or touchpad-like) mouse for your computer. After downloading the app and the computer software that goes along with it, Air Mouse Pro can become your mouse, your keyboard, or even an app similar to Remote (to control your media).

Air Mouse Pro is on sale for $1.99. It went on sale on June 12th and I’ve heard that it will only be on sale for a week, so get it by June 19th!

If you’d like to suggest a utility for my “utility of the week”, visit my thread on our forum, here. And below is a list of previous Utility of the Week picks:
Week 1 – Groups
Week 2 – Put Things Off
Week 3 – Stick It

$1.99

Mobile Mouse Pro (Remote / Trackpad)

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: :: Recommended
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Released: 2008-09-14 :: Category: Utilities

This is week three of my weekly choice of a utility (or non-game) that will help turn your iPhone into the perfect pocket companion. My week one and two choices were Groups and Put Things Off, check out the links to read their reviews and the following links for the Utility of the Week posts: Week 1, Week 2. This week my choice is Stick It, similar to last week’s choice of Put Things Off, Stick It is also a sort of to do or task management app but can be used in addition to a to do app instead of replacing one.

Stick It allows you to create sticky notes as your wallpaper. This can be useful in all sorts of ways and the choice is completely up to the user. Some specific ways I have used it so far is as a shopping list, my day’s plans, and simply as decoration. Once you’ve created your wallpaper of sticky notes it becomes the quickest way to give yourself reminders… simply bring up the locked screen whenever you’d like to check your notes.

Check out my review of Stick It here. It’s currently on sale for $0.99. Suggest an app for my Utility of the Week award at our forum here.

$0.99

Sticky Notes Pro - with Alarms and Bump™ Sharing

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: :: USEFUL
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Released: 2009-05-28 :: Category: Utilities

Games are great, but when you have a device as complex as the iPhone you want it to do a little more than just play games. I have a very specific goal for my iPhone – use it to help streamline everything that I do on a day to day basis. For anyone joining me in this quest to make the iPhone simplify your life, I will be posting an app every week that I have deemed worthy of everyday use. This app can be a utility, a productivity app, an education app, a finance app, etc – anything that’s not a game or entertainment app. You can make suggestions for the “Utility of the Week” thread on our forum.

My pick this week is “Groups”, developed by Guided Ways Technologies (check out the review). For $2.99, you’ll receive the most perfect contact organization companion in the app store. This app has replaced the Contacts app on my dock, and is now sitting beside Phone, Mail, and Text. Congratulations Groups! You are officially the first non-native application to earn a spot on my dock.

$4.99

Groups: SMS, Mail and Manage Contacts

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: :: REPLACED MY 'CONTACTS'
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Released: 2009-02-08 :: Category: Productivity

Update: 8/2 – it’s gone yet again.  Hope you got it while it was available.

Yesterday, NullRiver released NetShare (App Store), a $9.99 application that lets you use your wireless signal on your iPhone on your computer.  A process knows as tethering, even if it’s done over wireless.

That application was mysteriously pulled down by Apple late yesterday. According to TechCrunch, the application has reappeared in the App Store. Tethering is something that most smartphones can do but is something that carriers generally charge extra for.

We suggest that if this application is something you might use that you grab it now as AT&T is likely to ask Apple to take it down. Here’s a quick tutorial to help you set it up.

If the application stays up in the store we’ll post a review soon.