TaxCaster is a tax refund calculator. It gives you a quick estimate of your tax return. The tool is quite user friendly for starters. It lets you enter your personal information, including your income and deductions to get a better sense of how you can maximize your tax returns (e.g. adding expenses that you may have forgotten).

TaxCaster is a fairly sophisticated tax calculator and does take into account donations, personal, and retirement deductions and credits. It does not prepare your taxes for you but gives you a fairly accurate estimate of what you can expect to get back from the feds.

Trulia should not need any introduction for real estate professionals. It is a great community to be a part of to promote your business and generate leads online. Thanks to Trulia for Agents, you can keep up with your new leads wherever you are. The app syncs your contacts and leads with your Trulia account. Planning to explore a whole new neighborhood? Trulia offers a good amount of relevant information on each property.

This app makes setting up showings for your client easy. It helps you find open listings and provides you with directions and other useful info. Overall, this is nice tool to use for Trulia members.

SkyDrive for iPhone lets you store your files in the cloud and access them anywhere. It supports documents, videos, photos, and other types of files. Want to share your files with others? You can do so using links. The app does support folders for better file management. You don’t have to necessary start a new account if you are already a Hotmail, Xbox Live, or Messenger user.

SkyDrive is fairly decent but remains a work in progress. The uploading process need a bit of work. It is not the best when it comes to handling images. Let’s hope Microsoft fixes synching and uploading issues in this app in the near future.

Ace Budget 2 is optimized for iPhone 4/S. It lets you track your spending and set budgets for household. Adding new and recurring transactions is pretty simple. The app can serve a bill reminder too. Ace Budget charts your data to help you make better sense of your expenses. Sharing transactions between multiple iPhones is super easy.

Ace Budget 2 not only keeps track of your financial history, it also lets you export and backup your data. Password protection is offered as well. The developers have released a lite version of Ace Budget for those of you need who need to try it before buying it.

Ace Budget 2 is user friendly, stable, and quite fast. A nice tool to have to manage your personal finances with.

Rating: 9/10

SilverGold lets you convert between fiat currencies and silver/gold coins. It tells you how much each ounce of gold or silver is going for. Data from goldmoney.com are used to provide users with up to date information. When it comes to conversions, you are not just limited to the U.S. dollar. International currencies are supported too.

SilverGold has a simple interface and saves you time looking up chances in the prices of gold/silver coins. The app is free, which is always nice. But it did crash on us a few times. This does have the potential to be quite useful for those who play the commodity trading game.

Rating: 8.6/10

In this day and age, more businesses are taking advantage of QR codes to share information and discounts with their customers. That also means there are scammers and hackers who will use these to target snap-happy smartphone users. Norton Snap QR Code Reader checks the safety of websites before loading them on your phone. It shows users which sites are worth trusting.

What’s nice about this app is that it expands shorten URLs to give you more information about the addresses you are planning to visit.  Norton Snap QR Code Reader rates sites, so there are no doubts which sites are fake and deserving of getting blocked. Users can share their favorite snaps with their friends (a plus).

Norton Snap QR Code Reader is not perfect. But it does make using QR codes a whole lot safer. It identifies malicious sites and QR codes on your phone easily. The app is available for free to iOS users at the time of this writing. What’s not to like?

Scan Pages has a quite simple user interface. Just put down your document the right way and start scanning. Scan Pages organizes your images right on your iPhone. Your files are stored on your mobile device in PDF form. You can store them in GoogleDocs, Evernote, or even Dropbox. Sharing by e-mail is possible too.

You do not need to register for an online account to get started with this app. It does not have a very complicated interface which helps. Nice little app for mobile scan jobs.

Plenty of decent domains expire each day due to the fact that their original owners had no use for them. That does not mean they are not valuable. Thanks to SiteSpotter, you can search through the latest expired domains to find the ones that fit your criteria. You can choose extensions and maximum domain letters for your search.

Sitespotter lets you find domains up to 4 days in advance. Depending on your search filters, you could end up with a large number of domain suggestions. Not all of them will fit your need. The good news is you won’t have to sit behind your computer to get your hands on these. SiteSpotter is not the most sophisticated tool available for domainers. But it can be a timer saver.

Rating: 8.3/10

Tie Right makes it easy to tie those tough knots without having to use a mirror. The instructions and illustrations are quite clear. Users are provided with head on and top down views so they can put on their ties perfectly. The “top down” view is especially helpful if you have a tough time following the basic instructions provided.

Tie Right for iPhone is a life saver for those of us who are not experts when it comes to putting ties on. It has awesome tips and great instructions and makes you more productive. A nice app to have to make the process of tying a tie less painful.

TouchBase Calendar is more than a simple appointment manager for iPhone. It grabs all the relevant information from your iPhone calendar and saves you time staying on the right track. When you add an appointment to your calendar, TouchBase grabs your information and shows you where and who you will be meeting. It also gives you the option to keep the other parties updated on your status.

TouchBase Calendar has an elegant and intuitive interface. The developers have gone out of their way to make this app work as painlessly as possible. TouchBase has you covered even if you don’t know where you are going. Running late? Letting others know could not get any easier. I like the fact that it works with MobileMe, Google, CalDAV, and other popular types of calendars.

TouchBase Calendar is a brilliant calendar well worth picking up for anyone with a ton of events to keep up on a regular basis. It can act as your personal assistant and keep you on the right track at all times. When paired with Siri, the sky’s the limit for it.