And the iWinner is…

It’s Academy’s night and is a good time for a geek to retrospect on the coolest 2008 iPhone applications:

• My pick: Trailguru. I’m an avid road cyclist and take the iPhone with me to log the stats of my short runs, like this one or this one or this other one. Excellent use of the GPS. The two chief shortcomings are the battery life and the UI. In spite of a few dead-on-arrival cases, I still log the iPhone and run Trailguru on all my runs;
• My wife’s pick: Hangman. Old wine in a new bottle. When it’s set on hard words, the entertainment is warranted. It can keep everybody in the car entertained;
• Children’s pick: Monkey Ball was love at first sight. They have yet to move on. Distant runner ups include: Audi A4, iTicTac, Labyrinth, and Koi Pond.

One day, I will dig into Objective-C and dust off pound defines (as in #define) to make one of my own!