iPhone Application Watch: Direct Line, PCalc, iBlessing, Style.com, PhotoSwap, Murderdrome no more
Direct Line
The Direct Line application aims to get you through the highly irritating string of automated menu choices you’re always confronted with when you call a large company these days. I’ve a suspicion that it will only work well with US and Canadian companies at present. Plus, it won’t do anything for the annoying 0870 numbers we have to put up with in the UK. I refuse to call customer services that use these numbers from my iPhone as they’re not included in my call plan. (Via TechCrunch)
PCalc
If the iPhone’s built in scientific calculator (turn the phone into landscape mode, if you hadn’t already discovered it) isn’t enough for all your über-calculating needs, try PCalc which also offers both simple and scientific modes, but also hexadecimal, octal, and binary modes, bitwise operators, a range of unit conversions and constants, virtual paper tape, multiple undo and redo, and “shake to clear” (I never thought a calculator would use the accelerometer this way, it’s a bit “Etch a Sketch”.) Some might say it’s a tad expensive at $9.99 (£5.99), but if it does what you want, six quid for a calc isn’t bad. Now, if it did graphs, too…
iBlessing
Developed by The Jewish Learning Group, iBlessing displays and plays appropriate blessing prayers for a variety of food groups. It’s free to download… 
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