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Urbanspoon
It happens to all of us: you’re hungry, but can’t really decide what to eat. Or you want to try something new, but don’t want to pay for a bad meal. Luckily, your phone can help. Urbanspoon is a restaurant app designed to help you decide where to eat. Presented as a slot machine widget, Urbanspoon reads your location, lets you pick the type of food you’re looking for, and then tells you to shake your iPhone for a restaurant pick. Not happy with the results? Shake it again. Results can be filtered by neighborhood, cuisine, price, distance, popularity, no chains and the meal you’re looking for. Urbanspoon also provides reviews from bloggers, newspapers and other users.

Bump
Typing a new person’s contact information into your phone can be sooo tedious. Bump is an easy way to share contact information and photos with your friends by “bumping” two phones together. Just open the app on both phones, bump hands with your new friend or client (with the hand holding your phone) and confirm the exchange. Everything is automatically saved in it’s appropriate place, and you can control the information you share from the home screen. Bump doesn’t store or use any of your information so you know you’re protected.

Flash for Free
If you have an iPhone, then it’s probably happened to you: due to the lack of a camera flash, any photo taken after sundown comes out dark and hard to see. Flash for Free is an application that helps users brighten already taken photos so they look like they were taken with a flash. It offers 9 fill flash levels so you can salvage photos that might otherwise have been deleted.

Flixster
Flixster is an easy way to access everything movie-related. Users can watch trailers and clips, read reviews from RottenTomatoes, get theater information with maps, ticket info and show times, and connect with Facebook to save and share ratings with friends. The newest version now offers Netflix support (add movies and update your queue), integrated movie ticketing (buy them on your phone and pick them up at the theater), a Want to See List (login with Facebook or Flixster to create/update your list), Yelp integration (find restaurants and reviews near the theater), and iTunes Movie Store Integration (buy or rent iTunes movies through your phone). All these features mean that there’s pretty much no point in trying any other movie app.

Weird Laws
Weird Laws is just what it claims to be: a listing of the weirdest state laws. Users can also publish weird laws to their Facebook account. This app is just pure entertainment, but how else are you going to know that in Sarasota, FL it’s illegal to sing while wearing a bathing suit? Or that It’s illegal to fish in your pajamas in Chicago? We rest our case.