Each month, the best new iPhone apps -and some older ones-are considered for Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone Apps Directory . Who will join? Who will live? Who will die? Here’s the best of the best from February. For the full directory of Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone Apps for 2009, click here . Here are the best …

One of our favorite little Mac utilities, the iTunes controller Bowtie has just hit version 1.0! Bowtie lets you easily control iTunes with customizable shortcuts, view album art and automatically send songs to Last.fm (and mark songs you love and songs you want to ban). Even better? There’s…

With over 9 million posts and comments in two days , Google Buzz has stormed the web like a swarm of locusts. An array of strong features, integration with Gmail, and lots of press have turned Buzz into an overnight phenomenon. If you’re like a lot of us, you’ve suddenly found…

Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN sports analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five . This year’s NBA All-Star weekend will be held in Dallas, Texas, and like all others that came before, it will …

In Douglas Adams’s humorous sci-fi novel series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a special kind of fish is mentioned — the Babel Fish. When inserted into the ear, it translates any spoken language into whichever language the listener understands. It is a very nifty device, and now Google seeks …

According to Wikipedia and their Info page , Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called “ Thefacebook “, and it was originally located at thefacebook.com , but it’s definitely the same project. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, together with his college roomies Eduardo Saverin…

As of today, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others) is open and free to use. Nokia had acquired Symbian back in 2008, turned the consortium that makes the software into the Symbian foundation, and has now decided to make it…

Loving a geek isn’t hard to do, what with the social awkwardness and the over-zealous online gaming. Shopping for one however, can sometimes be a challenge. Throw in that added pressure to be extra thoughtful on Valentine’s Day, and you’ve got quite the conundrum (that’s geek…

Tim Trefren is one of the founders of Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications. When most people think of web analytics, they think about pageview tracking; basically, measuring which pages on a website are being viewed. Pageview tracking is a well-established technology, …

Last night in Brooklyn’s consummate hipster ‘hood of Williamsburg, CNN.com announced partnerships with two rather odd (yet entirely awesome) bedfellows: Vice’s VBS.TV and Sub Pop Records. This media marriage will result in two new web-exclusive video series, “VBS.TV on CNN.com” and “Indie Asia: On …