If you’ve ever wanted to add captions, thought bubbles, or add some funky effects to your iPhone pictures, you’re not alone. The folks at Plasq have created Comic Touch, an iPhone application that resembles their popular desktop app Comic Life.

There are two main aspects to Comic Touch – annotating and effects. In typical comic fashion, it is simple to annotate pictures with speech bubbles and caption boxes. In fact, there is a total four different styles of speech bubbles. All the text fields have the same customizable features – text, size, and color scheme. There are five different built-in text sizes and two color schemes. Unfortunately, there is no way to pick the custom colors.

Effects, the second big facet of Comic Touch, is by far my favorite. This tab allows you to smudge pictures, and add bulges or dents. You can also apply a stretch, or light tunnel to your photos. Comic Touch takes advantage of the iPhone’s multitouch gestures to allow for enlarging or diminishing an effect using the pinch gesture.

Getting your edited pictures out of Comic Touch is a snap. You can either email them, save them to the built in Photos app, or upload them to a Photo sharing site that takes advantage of email uploading.

Comic Touch may not be the most productive iPhone app, but it’s definitely a fun way to spice up some photos. It is available for $2.99 with a free “lite” version for sale in the app store.

In the day and age of the internet, more packages are being ordered online and delivered. For most of us, that means days of anticipation and refreshing the FedEx shipment tracker, in wait of our new packages. Delivery Status touch, from Junecloud, is designed to keep track of all of your online shipments, and track where they are.

Delivery Status Touch can track packages from a variety of sources, including Amazon, Adobe, USPS, Apple, DHL, FedEx, Google Checkout, Nintendo, as well as many other international shipping services. The interface is clean, slick, and elegant. Each shipment you are tracking shows up in the application with a big number displaying the amount of time left until that package is in your hand.

If you’ve been using the Delivery Status dashboard widget, you’ll feel right at home with the iPhone/iPod touch application. Junecloud has even created an online sync service so that you can enter package tracking information either online, or via the individual application, and have it synced across all locations. I haven’t had the best experience with syncing to the dashboard widget, yet the sync between the web interface and iPhone worked fine.

Unfortunately, Delivery Status can’t automatically pull orders from your Amazon or any other account. You are required to enter the information manually for each shipment. I often find myself copying and pasting shipment information from emails into the Delivery Status web portal. While it’s a drag to have to enter the information by hand, it could be considered worth it to have the convenience of tracking your packages efficiently.

Delivery Status is available for $2.99 in the App Store.

The search for a perfect Twitter client on the iPhone seems to be never-ending, that is until now. Tweetie, a popular new Twitter application for the iPhone, brings a set of new functionality to the iPhone for true Twitter fanatics.

Like most twitter clients, Tweetie allows you to see the recent tweets from those whom you follow, as well as post directly to Twitter. Also, you can snap photos that are uploaded to Twitpic.com and inserted as a link into your tweet. When viewing tweets, swiping your finger to the left or right opens up an array of utilities such as “re-tweeting”, adding a tweet to your favorites, as well as seeing more information about the user who posted it. Also, when opening links, the ability to send webpages to the Instapaper service is built in to the browser.

Tweetie also has an entire section for viewing “@ replies” addressed to you. There’s also a section for viewing and sending direct messages, and a tab for eyeing and editing favorite tweets.

The final tab, entitled “More”, is what separates Tweetie from the crowd. Here, you can perform a Twitter search and see the latest trends, as you would on Search.twitter.com (formerly Summize). Tweetie also allows you to save searches, and go directly to a user’s profile. Under the “More” section, it’s also possible to see all the tweets posted near you, similar to the Twitter client Twinkle. Through Tweetie, it’s also possible to view and see all of your followers, as well as those who follow you.

Some other nifty features in Tweetie include the ability to view and post from multiple twitter clients, as well as changing the theme and view of which you access your tweets. The multiple accounts feature is nice, but the themes could be improved. Unlike Twitterific (another iPhone twitter app), Tweetie’s interface isn’t very slick. While functional, and useful, the interface doesn’t knock me down with its brilliance. One of the built in themes will make your tweets tab look more like an iChat conversation, with colorful chat bubbles.

Overall, the experience when using Tweetie has been phenomenal. The amount of added functionality makes the app well worth its $2.99 price tag, if you use Twitter.

MobileMe subscribers will find a glaring omission from the feature set offered by Apple, which pertains to the iDisk. Unlike the other services offered in MobileMe, the iDisk is not easily accessible from the iPhone. While this seems contradictory to the essence of MobileMe, some developers have stepped in to change this. One such developer, QuickOffice, has created MobileFiles for accessing the contents of your iDisk on the go.

There are multiple versions of MobileFiles available in the app store, including a free edition. The free app will allow you to view and download documents from your iDisk. You can also view others’ public iDisk folders, and view multiple iDisk accounts.

Upgrading to the $3.99 MobileFiles 2.0 gives you the additional functionality of emailing documents from your iDisk and iPhone, as well as transferring files by way of the WiFi network, simillar to AirSharing and DataCase.

The ultra, big-daddy edition of MobileFiles is dubbed MobileFiles Pro. Here, you’ll be able to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, as well as all the other functionality offered by the other two revisions of MobileFiles. Even if you don’t posses a MobileMe account, MobileFiles Pro is a cool app, if you are in need of spreadsheet-editing on the go.

Unfortunately, MobileFiles can not edit Word, Pages, or Numbers documents. Spreadsheet editing is okay, but I find that I need to edit word processing files much more often. It would be nice to see iWork and Microsoft Word editing functionality added in a future release.

All three editions of MobileFiles are offered in the app store from QuickOffice inc.

There’s a whole slew of apps that allow you to turn your iPhone into a wireless drive, like Air Sharing and MobileFilesPro. One of the first on the scene, however, was Data Case, a $6.99 app from Veiosoft.

DataCase works via Bonjour on your own Wireless internet connection, or via FTP. Basically, if you’re computer and iPhone/iPod Touch are on the same WiFi network, DataCase will allow you to drag files onto the iPhone from the Mac or PC. If you’re using a mac, the iPhone/iPod touch will pop into the “Shared” section on your sidebar. From here, you can open the folder up and start adding files to your iPhone/iPod.

This way, you can access an an array of file types such as Microsoft Office files, PDF files, Text files, Images, Audio files, or videos. It’s an easy way to add and view documents on your phone without having to go through iTunes or clutter up your inbox.

The app works really well, and I’d recommend it. For advanced users the FTP, HTTP, and AFP access is nice. What’s special is that DataCase offers more advanced security features, by allowing you to create and modify permissions for individual volumes. The interface isn’t as slick though, it’s a bit more expensive, and there are some missing file formats. You can check it out for yourself in the App Store.