This is note-taking up the gazumba. Now, I've just written that and don't really have a clue what it means. Yet it feels like the right description because Awesome Note is the most beautiful note taking and task management app yet for the iPhone. It reminds you of how beautiful something can be when someone can be botered to design it - like discovering a Moleskine after years of ringbound cheapo notebooks. It lacks alarms, but as soon as they've sorted that out, this should be first app on any iPhone - especially when Apple finally lifts the lid on a Bluetooth keyboard. Oh, and did I say you can back up notes and tasks to Google Docs? Well you can. Up the gazumba indeed.

I've always been a shoot 'em up sort of guy, so this appeals to me. That and the fact that it's humorous, has great graphics and makes some very satisfying sounds. It's a Defender performalike, so you just sit back, relax and blast those lunar lunkheads out of the atmosphere as they come for earth, wave after ugly wave of them, slathering (or whatever they do on the moon) for your blood. There's a lite version so you can have some fun for free, but I reckon you'll stump up for the real thing after about five minutes of this. Right, newspaper...comfy chair...ammo? Let's go.

First in a series of regular reviews of iPhone apps and we might as well start with my favourite subject - being organised. I've tried everything, everything I tell you and have still - after thirty years - ended up with a dog's backside of a system that involves Google Calendar, the iPhone, a paper notebook and now, Put Things Off. It's the simplicity I like. You can either do something today, put it off 'till some pre-defined date in the future, or leave it sat there, dateless. The update adds a badge to the icon so you can see how far behind you are and in all, it's the gentlest of taskmasters. Oh and author Nick Cernis' musings on staying organised are a real treat.