Fact. Most kids at and under the age of 9 use old-fashioned coloring books or at the most play games on their parents iPhone. Fact. iPhone SDK programming is not listed as one of their main favorite activities. But Lim Ding Wen from Singapore manages to beat facts and write a free art application for the iPhone – Doodle Kids. The app made quite an impression on users and the Apple approval team, and has had over 5,000 downloads since being launched 4 months ago.

Doodle Kids is a painting app for your iPhone that lets you draw shapes in the screen. Shapes are randomly generated (be it a triangle, square, dot or line), and they follow your finger movement as you swipe the screen, drawing in different colors and different sizes for a beautiful effect. You can clear the screen and return to its blank stage with a shake of the iPhone. By pinching the screen you can change the background from black to different gradients.

Combining Twitter and the iPhone has to be in the highlights of the day, but with Tweet Mic, the simple Twitter client app for the iPhone, you’re bound to have your own spotlight. The app lets you create audio tweets and publish them directly to your Twitter account online.

There’s nothing much to the app, in that it excels in simplicity while being extremely intuitive and effective. Benefiting from a clean and simple interface, leaving out the bells and whistles, Tweet Mic does a great job for what the development team meant it. All you have to do is push the big red button in the middle of the screen, start speaking your mind and push it again to stop recording. Nothing much to it, but there’s no limit to how much you can record, and the service comes at no additional costs whatsoever.

With the release of the latest movie in the Terminator series came Gameloft and launched the game version for the iPhone and iPod Touch. And a great job they did, as Terminator Salvation Army for the iPhone has kept us wanting more at the end, topping what we’ve seen so far in graphics and sound effects for third-person shooters in the App Store.

In Terminator Salvation Army you take control of human resistance leader John Connor and even a Terminator named Marcus Wright in an attempt to save humanity from Skynet and its army of Terminators. Although the game does a great job at not giving away the movie plot, you’ll still get to kick some T-1 and T-700 butt.

With Ice Age 3D Dawn of the Dinosaurs Scrat’s Skate Park for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you take control of your favorite Ice Age character (Scrat or Sid) and skate the pre-historic half-pipe in a futile attempt to collect as many acorns or dinosaur eggs as possible. This one was a real brain twister, because our test team couldn’t figure out if the game was still in development, whether they were playing the lite version or they couldn’t get pass the first level. Yes, they collected a lot of acorns and dinosaur eggs. Yes they looked out for icy blocks in the half-pipe. So what else was there?

Well, not much else. Catch some air, do some cool tricks by spinning Scrat around on the skateboard. Your road to pre-historic nothingness will at times be blocked by icy boulders which you either have to avoid or smash through with Buck’s sword, once you collect it.

The winning app that surpassed all organizers the mobile generation was given has entered over a year ago on the iPhone, with an incredible track record in the AppStore. With Evernote reaching out to iPhone users, it didn’t take much for it to slide to the top and establish itself as the authority in productivity apps available in the AppStore.

Remember Everything. This is what the app promises and it does deliver. The team put at your disposal a desktop application, a browser plugin on top of the iPhone app, letting you capture anything from the web, daily travels, from written notes to recorded memos, from snapshots to clippings from the web. The app takes care of everything related to organizing the data and, on top of that, syncs everything between your iPhone, MAC or PC and the Web, so you’re always organized whatever you’re using and wherever you’re using it. It’s all automatically done for you, and, yes, it’s free of charge.

After our Go Green review and while we’re looking forward to the 1 pound mark for our weblog, we’re keeping to our commitment to our planet and bringing you another interesting app from iPhactory, all sharing our green goal.

The San Francisco based company recently launched iPhorest, the iPhone and iPod Touch app that lets you play the virtual gardener. Dig the hole with a simple interface and very intuitive controls, get your seed and plant the seedling. When you shake your iPhone, you create rain and after the sun rises again, your tree begins to grow. The whole process takes six stages where you have to repeat this process to see a full-grown tree.

We all know those days at the office when every five minutes seem like an eternity and the clock handles don’t seem to be moving in the right direction at the right speed. Well, be bored no more, because from Backflip Studios came one of the greatest time-wasters we’ve yet to see for the iPhone. With Paper Toss, you have to aim for the trash can with crumbled up paper, while taking the fan speed into account. It’s a game we actually played at the office on a slow day, but the virtual version beats real life when no one has to play fetch and return the paper that rolls down on the floor.

The game is so much more than throwing a piece of paper in a trash can. You get to choose between three difficulty levels, which differ in the distance between you and the trash can. Take into account the airflow from the fan (positioned randomly either to your right or the left) and the gusts of wind of different intensity for every shot, and try to hit as many buckets as you can. The fan’s power is displayed as an arrow showing you both the direction and the intensity of the shot, and letting you plan your shot accordingly.