Developed by Gameloft, Pocket Chef is a cooking simulation game for the iPhone designed for the cooking-impaired.

Are You Alright? is a medical-themed time-management game

Roman Loyola takes a look at portable hard drives from LaCie, MXI Security, Western Digital, and Buffalo.

This paid version of the music-identification app delivers a number of features — chiefly unlimited tagging of songs. It’s a solid app, but unless you find yourself using it a lot or find the other features particularly appealing, the free version of Shazam will probably meet your needs

Tank Raider is a retro tank arcade game by Sunday Solutions that puts you at the controls of an arcade tank pitted against three crafty computer-controlled tanks. Your mission is to capture and hold more gems than the other tanks

Filed under: Freeware , iPhone , iPod touch , App Review Poynt has come to the iPhone, after having been a very popular free app on BlackBerry phones. Poynt provides local searches of individuals and businesses. It also shares a database with Open Table , so you can use it to make reservations at restaurants

If you like to send cutesy images with your MMS messages, txtagif will be an iPhone app dream come true, even though the free app has a few flaws.

This powerful pico projector delivers very bright images and crisp text, but lackluster color and limited battery life lower its ranking.

This app taps an RSS feed to pump out the first half-dozen words of news headlines, requiring you to play an individual game of hangman on one or more of those words. It’s easily one of the more clever and challenging hangman games in the App Store.

Birdfeed, the “very nice twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch,” has been purchased and replaced with Brizzly by Thing Labs.

Before the Mac universe is consumed by iPad madness, we turn our attention to two other topics — the state of Mac user groups and our favorite iPod and iPhone accessories.

Uncle Sam stripped your brother of his Medal of Honor. In this WWII combat simulator, you need to find out why.

At the Game Developers Conference, Ngmoco previewed two upcoming releases for the iPhone and iPod touch. We Rule and Godfinger both put you in the shoes of a usually benevolent ruler — as a monarch in the case of the former, or as god in the case of the latter.