There’s two iOS apps that I’ve been really happy with lately. The first is an iPhone/iPod touch game I found recently called The Impossible Game (Opens in iTunes). It’s a very simple game, but totally addicting. And at only 99 cents, it’s a great value. There’s really only two levels right now, but getting through them will take most people a very long time. You can check out a video of the gameplay here. It’s a great little time-waster, and the music is fun and upbeat. Give it a try.

The other app is for the iPad and called Penultimate (Opens in iTunes). This app is one of many free-form notes/sketching apps available for the iPad. What has always set this one apart is how smooth and responsive it is. It literally feels like you’re writing with a smooth pen on paper. However, Penultimate always suffered from a lack of features. But in the last two versions, this app has become vastly more useful with the introduction of different colors, three different pen sizes, a smart eraser that changes size automatically and really amazing palm detection. This last feature is my favorite, as it allows me to rest my hand on the screen as I normally would while writing with my pogo sketch stylus. It’s really great.
As a side note, the makers of the pogo stylus just showed a proof-of-concept video that shows an app with pressure-sensitive drawing using a standard pogo stylus. They’re releasing the code for free, so hopefully it will be implemented by Penultimate. The only problem is that it uses techniques that are currently prohibited by Apple, so it might take a while…

So check out these two cool apps, and let me know how you like them in the comments.