The Apple App Store currently holds hundreds of thousands of different apps for every category you can think of. With so many apps available it can be pretty hard to decide which ones are worth downloading and often apps can be somewhat disappointing- so without further ado, Cogapp have given a roundup of some of our favourite apps of the moment:

Last week, I chaired the “All in hand: Working with handheld devices conference”, which took place at the Royal College of Surgeon in London. It included various presentations from small- to large-scale UK museums discussing their experience with mobile interpretation.

Last week Joe and I attended Over The Air - a developer-centric conference focused on mobile phone technology and applications. It had been 18 months since the last conference, and the first thing to strike me was just how much has changed in the mobile landscape. A year and a half ago, the iPhone had only just started to impinge on mass consciousness and the Apple App Store hadn't even opened. Nowadays, every new phone launched vies with the iPhone for features, and there are over 20 different app stores - run by platform owners, mobile carriers and independents. This change becomes even more striking if you consider how little has altered in the world of desktop computing, or even web apps, in the same amount of time. In short, the mobile space feels now very like the start of the dot-com boom in the 90s: expect a lot of innovation, a lot of failed ideas, and a lot of attempted land-grabs by both incumbents and newcomers.

Keynote address in Imperial College's Great Hall

With six separate tracks, and a day-and-a-half's worth of lectures and workshops, it would be hard to list everything that went on, but here are a summary of some of the trends that I identified:

• Things are moving fast (see above)
• The rise of web techniques (Widgets, PhoneGap etc.)
• The rise of Linux (Android, Maemo, LiMo)
• Increased fragmentation (more platforms to support)
• Standardisation efforts (e.g. OMTP and BONDI)
• The rise of the App Store (see Distimo's report)
• Augmented Reality is the buzzword du jour

Ever find yourself standing at a bus stop, starring at a poster for the latest Hollywood Blockbuster, and wondering "well, looks exciting, but what's it all about?!"? ViPR Visual Search, developed by Evolutionary Robotics, promises an answer.

WWDC is over. And my head hurts. Just so much information packed into such a short space of time.

So I survived the queues and the frenzied Mac fanboys, and got into the World Wide Developer Conference keynote. If you haven't witnessed one of these events, they are a proper whoop-fest, with every utterance greeted with rapturous applause and celebration, like a massive high-five between Apple and its developer community.

Time for a nice cool cocktail, mixed from the finest liqueurs of our internal blog.

On a long haul flight recently, I at last got some time to take a look at the shiny new iPhone SDK, released by Apple last month. We do a lot of Cocoa development at Cogapp, having just shipped MoMA.Guide and the Prudential Eye, both of which use Cocoa extensively.