WotWentWrong is a new web app that lets you solicit feedback about your dating mistakes from your ex-dates. Systematically useful for those who get dumped regularly and would like to inflict some serious damage to their self-esteem.

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This is an iPhone app created by the website Ffffound. It displays inspiring images that they’ve picked daily, which vary from photos, to artwork, to stationary, and architecture. A great app to go to to get inspired.

This fascinating little app was featured on a recently re-run episode of Studio360 where contributor Eric Molinsky described using the program as an antidote for his insomnia. The app taps into CCTV cameras from around the world. I don’t have insomnia, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t have slightly voyeuristic tendencies, just like the app’s thousands of other users. By far the best part: you can control the camera from thousands of miles away! Technology is baffling.

I liked the idea of broadcastr, an app that lets you record personal stories and pin them to a particular location, letting others stumble across them as they careen through cities using their iPhones like narrative-sniffing bloodhounds.

But I didn’t think people would actually use it or that the stories would be any good. There’s a lot of skill to making a personal story relevant to complete strangers. But the first two stories I listened to, from Jeff_Seal and Malaika_Gordon, about clowning outside the Moscone Center, and smoking meth to get into college, respectively, were perfect. Makes you wonder what else is out there.

Like It, Stamp It! This new, Instagram-style Iphone app allows you to give a ‘stamp of approval’ to the things you like and share it instantly. In doing so, it avoids the confusion you can experience with 1 to 5 star ratings, which can sometimes be hard to figure out. Brilliant!

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This is a bizarre and funny musical app for the iPhone and iPad. Have you ever tried to make sounds with crystal glasses? Now you can use your phone or pad as a crazy instrument with all the notes, as well as challenge yourself over 20 levels of fun. Clink clink.

In today’s day and age, everybody is looking to make a quick buck. And the latest invention to do so is a quirky new iPhone app. The Parking Space Auction app allows users to sell their exceedingly sought-after car space to the highest bidder nearby.

The app currently services Manhattan’s Upper Easter Side. When it’s available worldwide, Sydneysiders ought to download this app in summer. You will make an absolute mint at Bondi Beach.

Now this is fun. Developed by the team at Benrik, Situationist is an iPhone app that ‘makes your everyday life more thrilling and unpredictable’. How? Simple: ‘It alerts members to each other’s proximity and gets them to interact in random situations. These situations vary from the friendly (“Compliment me on my haircut”) to the subversive (“Help me rouse everyone into revolutionary fervour”). The point of it all, of course, is to interact with strangers. Clever? Yes. Frightening. Perhaps.

Is this the greatest invention ever? Mobile Art Lab, an offshoot of the giant Japanese Dentsu advertising agency which develops mobile specific content, recently launched the PhoneBook project, with the ‘aim of finding new ways to connect parents and children using the iPhone’. The project mashes up the digital benefits of the iPhone with the ‘analogue advantage of books’ to produce this epic mobile application.

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With the introduction of the free app TuneIn Radio, the charms of the ‘wireless’ (no, not that wireless. We’re talking old school here) can finally be re-discovered. With more than 50,000 of the world’s radio stations tuned in, punch in a genre and you could be listening to stations from DubstepFM to DooWop Cafe wherever you’re at. Who said Internet killed the radio star?

Social media is playing a vital role for Earth Hour 2011, not only connecting the global community that will take part in the lights-out event on March 26, but driving supporters to commit to doing something more, beyond the hour. A new 60+ app has been launched that allows people to use their iPhone to share with the world the actions they will take to sustain their commitment to the planet once the lights go back on.

The app offers all the functionality of the recently launched Beyond the Hour online platform which is already showcasing actions, big and small, from individuals and organizations across the globe on what they’ll be doing to make a difference.

A telephoto lens … for your iPhone. For real? I’m really not too sure what to make of this. Isn’t there an app for this instead?

The Echoism iphone app and website makes people symmetrical. Finally! It’s simple: ‘people take their self-portrait, then the program produces two symmetrical images, a left/left and a right/right. Users are asked to upload these to a website with everybody else’. The program, created by artist Julian Wolkenstein, seeks to answer the question: ‘do people consider themselves to be more beautiful if they are symmetrical?’

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Beijing-based electronic music duo FM3 have gone a long way with their Buddha Machine, a loop-playing box inspired by similar machines found in buddhist temples across China. They recently rolled out a new line with translucent colors as well as an app for your iPhone or iPad.

I’m really digging the Horizons app, an ‘interactive sound toy’ for the iPhone and iPad which merges the beautifully atmospheric sounds of Eli Murray (Gentleforce) with generative visuals of Lukasz Karluk. Says Karluk: “it’s an exploration of colour, sound and form. The design of the piece focuses on creating subtle colour refractions in a rich colour scape complemented by deep, immersive sounds’.

For the guys of this world that just can’t get it going, there’s this brilliant new iPhone app from Angelina Amerson. As Amerson told PixelatedGeek, My Virtual Girlfriend has twenty levels of relationship to complete: ‘To complete a level, you must make your virtual girlfriend happy and fill your heart meter up by completing an action with her, like buying her roses, holding her hands, giving her a kiss, speaking to her, touching her, and by just responding to her questions’. All together now: ahhhhhh!

Our friends over at Ghostly, who consistently dig up the glitchiest, choicest electronica, have just released a brilliant new music discovery iPhone app which is available for download through their website. This thing is smoking hot, packed with new music and beautifully designed. You can also create Playlists through it and share tracks with your friends. We’ve created a Playlist of some of our favorite Ghostly music, which you can check out above.

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