Developer: Black Mana Studios
Category: Productivity
Version: 1.0
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Size: 0.3 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating 3/10

Screenplay formatting software is not a new scam. Many wannabe screenwriters have forked over two-hundred plus dollars for what is essentially a stripped-down word processor with fancy formatting. I know this because I am one of them.

So when I got tweeted a link to a screenplay application for the iPhone, my rational mind was mugged by my irrational mind, and before I knew it, it had dropped onto my iPhone. In my mind, I was already writing scenes on the fly, at the beach, at lunch, without the hideous burden of carrying a laptop.

Developer: Flicck
Category: Utilities
Version: 1.0
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Size: 1.6 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating 5/10

Those of you feeling bored with or limited by the iPhone's "Favorites" list will appreciate Dial 9, a graphical replacement for calling, texting, or emailing your most frequently used contacts. Dial 9 puts a photo of your contacts on a colorful screen, so calling them is as simple as tapping their photo.

When you tap the photo of your contact, a menu pops up, giving you the option to call, send an SMS or an email, view their contact information, change their photo, or show a map of their address. You can have up to nine contacts per page (hence the name of the app), and up to ten pages, for a potential total of 90 contacts. You can change the background of the application screen by page, from electric blue to corinthian leather, so that you can differentiate your drinking buddies from your church choir, for example.

Developer: Blue Ox Technologies Ltd.
Category: Games
Version: 1.4.1
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Size: 3.3 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating 10/10

From Hangman and Free Rice, to the NYT crossword puzzle, I love word games. Being a writer I guess that just comes with the territory. I feel like I'm sharper and at the end of a good word puzzler. I sometimes even play when I sit down at my desk before I start work with the excuse that I'm warming up.

Moxie is one of my go-to games on my iPhone. It lives in a row with Wurdle, Hangman, Free Rice (Cydia for anyone interested) and Word Warp. Moxie is an extremely unique and infinitely challenging game. It can hold your attention for hours on end.
 

Developer: Trivial Technology
Category: Games
Version: 1.1.1
Release Date: December 6, 2008
Size 2.7 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating 9/10

Backgammon. I have been addicted to 'gammon since I was in high school. I'm sure I would be amazed, if not horrified, if I could see a running tally of the hours that led into days that led into weeks that led into months of the time I have spent in my life trying to score bar points and conjure up 6-1's and doubles. 'Gammon buddies and I have developed full vocabularies over the game, and there are certain memorable wins that will stay with me forever, like when I beat the local Rasta champ in a dive bar in the Virgin Islands on a board that had sea-shells and sand dollars for pieces. I almost threw that win in fear of angry reprisal, but was instead rewarded with a kind gesture that sent me reeling for the rest of the night.

Developer: Aedeas Group, LLC/ApplaunchPR or Next Studios, it's a little hazy.
Category: Medicinal
Version: 4.20
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Size: 1.2 MB
Rating: It's All Good Dude

I wanted to write this review last week, but I kept putting it off. Then I would forget to do it, then put it off some more and then, whoa, like serious time had gone by without me even realizing it.

Wait.

What was I doing again?

Oh yeah, reviewing iPot! I remember now.

Wow, "big round of applause for California laws" as Fat Mike says. If you are one of those who don't know, (or can't remember) California has de-criminalized marijuana for medicinal purposes with the passing of Proposition 215. I won't ramble on about the details, but through a series of steps one can obtain an ID card, and then purchase marijuana legally to aid in the easing of a seemingly endless number of afflictions. These afflictions include pain, stress, anxiety, hair loss, toenail fungus, bad breath, insomnia, social awkwardness, un-mellowness and not feeling high unless you have smoked some really good pot. And some other things too, but I can't remember them.