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Nice list is an application made specifically to help you remember which gifts to buy while you're out Christmas shopping! The first thing you'll notice is that it's very pretty. To begin creating your lists, simply tap the plus button to add someone's name from your contacts. If their name isn't in your contacts, you can manually enter it.

Rise of Lost Empires is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game by Gameloft. It has a very similar feel to the computer game Warcraft and comes complete with great graphics, great soundtrack, and solid gameplay. You start as Gavan, fighting to protect his homeland against the orc hordes. You are a hero. The success of your empire falls on your shoulders as you you prepare your people for attack. Eventually the great story in Lost Empires will have you playing as both humans and orcs!!

Color Expert is an incredibly hardcore color reference app that includes virtually every color imaginable. It's a fantastic portable tool that makes it possible for artists and designers to create palettes and draw colors from surrounding inspirations. With it's beautiful color wheel interface you can choose and save multiple sets of monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, and triadic colors. Color Expert will definitely be worth it's weight in gold to any on-the-go artist or web designer.

Glide Factor, by Sprimp and Chillingo, is an action game app which mainly uses the iPhone’s accelerometer function. Tilt the iPhone to guide your spaceship through various obstacle courses in as little time as possible to get stars and badges. Blocks and enemies will cascade towards you while you choose to speed up or slow down by simply tilting your iPhone at highly sensitive degrees. With power-ups, funky graphics and music, and a variety of levels, Glide Factor will definitely keep you entertained.

Magnetic Joe 2 is the sequel to the fantastically fun and simple Magnetic Joe, both by HD Publishing. Magnetic Joe 2 maintains the original's excellent basic gameplay while adding an impressive amount of new gameplay mechanics, improved background graphics and music, 100 new levels, and even online rankings!

Police Scanner is a handy application that allows you to listen to authority radios from around the world. No longer is there a need for bulky receivers or obvious speakers... all you need now is an iPhone or iPod touch, reception or WiFi access and the stamina to wait through long droughts of silence.

Circuit Strike (a.k.a. cs.one) is the old school computer game Asteroids given new attitude and hopped up on energy drinks.  Featuring hypnotic graphics, a driving techno beat, and incredible difficulty, Cirucuit Strike will appeal to twitch-fast action gamers looking for a quick challenge. Hack your way through computer main frames and destroy as many data cores as possible before death inevitably takes you. If nostalgia for a pleasant game of Asteroids has you interested in cs.one, you should probably look elsewhere.

Stick It is a great list/memo app that's easy to use and more importantly, super fast to access. When your arms are full, the last thing you want to have to do is unlock your phone, scroll through your apps, and wait for your to-do list to load. While those things really don't take THAT long to accomplish, it can be a real hassle while trying to juggle a baby and a shopping basket. Developer Mark Peterson has created an app that can completely replaced the iPhone's default, Notes. All you have to do is make your note and then post it as your device's wallpaper.

Sly-Q is yet another one of those simple, yet entertaining puzzle games that frequently show up in the app store. Despite this fact, the developers did a pretty decent job making this particular app especially sleek and one-of-a-kind. The idea is to slide around the tiles that lie within a main shape to achieve a certain pattern in as little time and moves as possible. The tiles move in groups, horizontally and vertically, and your job is to make the overall shape look like the "goal" image.

Live Poker 40K by Zynga is about as fun as online poker can be without the stress of wagering real money. It's a Texas Hold-em poker app, which is the version of poker you see on TV and in most online poker games. No need to be a Vegas card shark; it's actually really easy to learn and play. Games are against live opponents only, and Live Poker boasts it is the largest poker game on Facebook, Myspace, and of course the iPhone. If you have friends on Facebook that play, you can log into Live Poker using your Facebook info and join your friends' table. Otherwise, just let the app choose a table for you to join.