The Iphone Blog

In this edition of Apps of the Week, we finally end the wait for an app that gives us reliable restaurant waiting times, test out our Parkour skills via the character in Mirror’s Edge, and get a good picture of what our under construction room will look like when the paint dries.

TBS Very Funny Laugh Track
Price: $0.99

Everyone’s had a moment of thinking, “I could really use a laugh track right now.” (Well, some of us, anyway.) TBS has been rolling out a slew of iPhone apps recently, and this newest one lets users play with the idea of having their own personal laugh track to use at their discretion. Tap a single audience member in the app to hear a chuckle, or swipe across an entire row to get a room roaring with laughter. Record your productions to use later; everyone will be none the wiser, really.

The developers who brought us the MyTown app, the closest competitor to FourSquare for a while there, have just released their new app, InCrowd. The app utilizes the new Facebook feature, Facebook Places, creating a game with custom avatars and simulations based on your locations shared via the social networking tool. Meet up with your friends’ avatars at locations and interact with each other (high fives, fist bumps, etc.), compete for popularity, and update your friends on what you and your avatar have been up to lately.

If you’re an avid visitor of places with food that aren’t your kitchen and you’re not already using WaitList on Twitter, you don’t know what you’ve been missing. Operated by the A.V. Club (The Onion), the Twitter feed has been a lifesaver for me in Chicago on more than one occasion, cautioning and updating me on the wait times at the most popular restaurants. They’ve finally released an iPhone app, where you can see wait times for restaurants via a map, list, or search. Get tips from others on the wait times, see info on the restaurant, or contribute a tip yourself.

We were stoked for the Mirror’s Edge release on the iPad back in April, for its promising stellar gameplay and graphics, and now the game is available for the iPhone. The interface translates surprisingly well to the small screen, and the game doesn’t lose much of its luster. Try your hand at some awesome Parkour-style moves as you run up walls, ride ziplines, and hurdle from building to building as you fight to save society from “sinister surveillance.”

Sure, this may just be another app for finding wallpapers for your spiffy new iPhone4, but the inventory is pretty solid. Find images for your backgrounds, with everything from city scenes and flowers to drawings and 8-bit renderings, all utilizing the high-resolution retina display on the iPhone4.

We’re big proponents of home improvement apps on the iPhone that really aid dwellers in their redecorating and rearranging processes. This app does a great job of helping with the most anxiety-driven part of the process: guessing what crap is going to look like when you’re all done. Edit a photo of a room you plan to paint with this app by using a pre-selected color to splash on the walls, or use a color from another photo to get an accurate-as-possible glance at what the room will resemble when the paint dries.

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Related posts:

1. Apps of the Week, September 17th, 2010
2. Apps of the Week, September 10th, 2010
3. Apps of the Week, September 24th, 2010
4. Apps of the Week, March 5th, 2010
5. Apps of the Week, August 2nd, 2010