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March 15, 2011

App Store Essentials

AppStore Apparently these have been around since July of 2010, but until recently I had not paid much attention to a section of the App Store called App Store Essentials.  This is a part of the App Store that recommends apps in several different categories.

For example, the Apps Starter Kit section recommends 25 apps for the new iPhone owner looking to cover the basics.  It is a pretty good list of apps:

  1. Amazon Mobile Amazon Mobile - AMZN Mobile LLC
  2. Brushes Brushes - iPhone Edition - Steve Sprang
  3. CameraBag CameraBag - Nevercenter Ltd. Co.
  4. CNN CNN App for iPhone (U.S.) - CNN Interactive Group, Inc.
  5. Facebook Facebook - Facebook
  6. Find My iPhone Find My iPhone - Apple®
  7. FlightTrack FlightTrack – Live Flight Status Tracker by Mobiata - Ben Kazez
  8. How to Cook Everything How to Cook Everything - Culinate, Inc.
  9. iMovie iMovie - Apple®
  10. Mint.com Mint.com Personal Finance - Mint.com
  11. MotionX GPS Drive MotionX GPS Drive - MotionX™
  12. Movies by Flixster Movies by Flixster, with Rotten Tomatoes - Free - Flixster
  13. Netflix Netflix - Netflix, Inc.
  14. NYTimes NYTimes - The New York Times Company
  15. Ocarina Ocarina - Smule
  16. OpenTable OpenTable - OpenTable, Inc.
  17. Pandora Radio Pandora Radio - Pandora Media, Inc.
  18. Pano Pano - Debacle Software
  19. PayPal PayPal - PayPal, an eBay Company
  20. Pulse News Mini Pulse News Mini - Alphonso Labs Inc
  21. Shazam Shazam - Shazam Entertainment Ltd.
  22. Tunein Radio TuneIn Radio - Synsion Radio Technologies
  23. Twitter Twitter - Twitter, Inc.
  24. Yahoo! Sportacular Pro Yahoo! Sportacular Pro - Citizen Sports, Inc.
  25. Yelp Yelp - Yelp

Other categories include Hall of Fame, Games Starter Kit, Get In Shape, Food & Wine, Traveling Home and Apps for Toddlers.  There are tons of great apps in these lists, so check them out.

Click here for App Store Essentials.

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