We’ve got more apps this week that are either free or highly discounted.

While we can’t vouch for the apps listed after the jump since we just downloaded them ourselves, we figured we’ld pass them along now. After all, we wouldn’t want you to wake up tomorrow and say

"Man, I should have bought that app when it was free. Now I’ll have to pay $5.99."

Read on to see if there’s anything that grabs you. If it does… grab it.

UPDATE: Don’t Tough got rejected. Why? "Misuse of the standard user-interface".

In this case, however, the rejection was in keeping with the SDK-Agreement. No Harm. No Foul. No Don’t Touch for a few more days. (It has already been resubmitted.)

"iPhone Gag Apps" like iBeer, ayaPhone and TouchScan already have a long history that goes back to the likes of iWash, a bikini-clad iPhone gag from last year.

Yes, they tend to get old fast, but that doesn’t mean new ones aren’t worth a look.

Don’t Touch from Software Diner is a new prank app that is making its way through Apple’s rigorous"wait, see and wonder if there is some arbitrary reason it will be rejected" period. Since it doesn’t include bodily sounds or replicate any of iTunes’ functions it should be released soon.

Don’t Touch looks like a fun app that will be worth a laugh or three. Software Diner describes it this way

Last week we took a look at Scribular, a neat app that makes unusual use of the iPhone’s location feature.

Scribular allows you to leave notes at specific locations. When others come to the place where the note was "dropped" they can read and respond to them or create their own “Note Drop”.

At the time we introduced…

The "WOiP/Scribular Challenge". We left a Scribular note in order to see how easy it would be to leave. (It was super easy.) Then we left it and waited to see how many notes we would collect over the next week or so.

Well, a week has passed so we went back and checked on the note we had left.

We’ve read a lot about issues with the App Store but most of it has been 3rd Hand.

Earlier today we received an email from Markus Stöbe of Software Diner. Markus shared his tale of App Store Woe with regard to an update of his app TouchScan.

The update was released but ebcause of the way in which the App Store is currently sorting apps it never…

Perhaps it is better for Markus to share the story himself…

I’ve been a bit underwealmed by some of the latest offering in the App Store. Fortunately it takes just one good app to renew your faith. Today’s isn’t just good but looks to be nothing short of GREAT!

MacCoreMac Software has just released Mental Case 1.0. Primarily an app (two actually) intended to prepare flash cards on a Mac and then quickly transfer them to an iPhone/iPod Touch, I can already see Mental Case being useful in a wide variety of situations that extend far beyond flash cards.

Mental Case is two pieces of sotware: the free iPhone/Touch app and a desktop app for $25 ($15 for students).

MacCoreMac Software is running a special and the first 500 individuals purchasing the app will get it for just $10.

I have downloaded both the iPhone and Mac applications already. They  look fantastic and the sync process is flawless. If you think you even MIGHT have a use for it grab it now while the steep discount is available.

For more information read after the jump…

Look for a full review soon.

When I was a kid I loved watching the show Name That Tune. I would play along and, being a music lover, would often do better than the contestants themselves.

QuizTunes is a fun take on the same concept. The game is simple. Once you start the app it plays a hit song, lists four possible musicians and asks, "What artist sings this song?"
If you answer correctly within 20 seconds you receive points. The faster the answer… the quicker the points. Plus, if you like the second you can tap a button and jump to iTunes to buy the song.

It is fun, simple and entertaining. But it isn’t perfect.

When I woke up this morning my RSS feed indicated that over 70 new apps and an equal amount of update apps arrived in the App Store over night. That is a whole lot o’ apps and I only slept for five hours last night!!!

Sad thing was, after making my typical initial pass in which I quickly go through my new RSS posts and mark those I actually want to read, only two app were actually marked. That’s right, over 140 new or updated apps and only two caught my eye enough for me to even take a second look. How very, very, very sad…

This explains why sorting through the crApp in the App Store is getting harder and harder as each day passes.

That isn’t the only headache emerging from the App Store these days, though. We recently received an email from a developer who is continuing to run into trouble because of the way Apple is organizing the overflowing App Store… but that’s another post.

The idea is neat… create a slide show of  public images recently posted to Flickr. What an interesting way to see what is going on in the world at that very moment (okay, a few seconds prior to that very moment).

If you see a cool image you want to see again in the future all you need to do is tap the screen. Neat!

If you want to share an image with someone else it is simple to grab the link and email it out. Double Neat!!!

All of which is good fun and since the feeds are public there’s no issue with copyright etc.

But this app’s icon just creeps me out…

Documents To Go is a well known productivity suite that is currently available for Windows Mobile, Palm, Blackberry and more. Having used it during my Windows Mobile days I can attest to the fact that it is an incredibly powerful suite.

Judging by the web page to the left it is only a matter of time before this powerful application suite is also available for the iPhone/Touch.

This is huge news for those of us who use our  iPhone/iPod Touch for work (and judging from our recent "Apps you use most" poll there are a whole lot of us).

This is yet another step in the progression of iPhone as "new computing platform". Something tells me I will seen be able to leave home with only my iPhone even MORE often.

A description of the windows Mobile Suite follows after the jump.

Ah yes, thanks to the Cult O’ Trek life is about to imitate art (or at least TV). Kirk’s Communicator was just released this morning turning your iPhone into a virtual communicator.

It is pretty amazing to realize that with all its techno-goodies, Star Trek ran from 1966 to 1969 and was cancelled after just three years due to LOW ratings. Go figure. Here we are 40 years later still watching the various runs of the show and creating gadgets and gizmos to satisfy our Trek-addiction.

Similar to some degree to Jules Verne, Gene Roddenberry’s work of fiction is increasingly non-fiction. Sure, we can’t beam from one place to another any more than we can use a tesseract to quickly move from one location to another. We do, however, have amazingly powerful handheld devices just like (okay, kind of similar to) the tricorder.

So why not go the extra step and turn your iPhone into a tricorder. Now you can.