“We know that you’re probably thinking, “”What’s the big deal? Any app on an iPhone is accessible in the car.”" However, these 5 apps are specifically designed around motor vehicle operation. They cover a wide range of features and functions... Read MoreSome are practical while others are just downright fun.

5: Parker for iPhone

This app hangs from the tops of high buildings swinging on spider webs to help you find a parking place … oh, wait. That’s Peter Parker, the Amazing Spiderman. Parker for iPhone doesn’t wear a spider suit, but it does pretty much the same things that Peter Parker would do if Peter Parker helped you park — namely, it gives you a rooftop view of the local street situation and tells you where the parking places are.

With the cooperation of the Departments of Transportation in several major cities, including New York,Dallas, Los Angeles and Boston, the San Francisco company Streetline has installed electronic sensors in selected neighborhoods to detect whether parking places are occupied or empty. This data is broadcast to a central location and can be accessed via the Parker app.

Parker for iPhone has a wealth of features, as well as a built-in tutorial to show you what they are and how to use them. They includethe ability to choose a city and an area within that city that has parking sensors, a map showing a numeric count of the number of open spaces within a specific area, color coded icons on that map to point you to blocks with the largest number of open spaces, and a special display showing the fee charged by meters or commercial parking garages at the place where you want to park. In some instances, you can even pay for parking directly from the app. And once you’ve started a meter ticking, Parker will not only time it for you and remind you when it’s about to run out, but will use your iPhone’s built-in GPS to predict whether you have enough time to walk back to your car before the meter expires. If you drive much in major metropolitan areas, Parker can make your life easier and save you from a lot of frustration when you need to get out of your car and walk.

But for even larger scale travel plans, the next app can help you find your way around much of the United States — and Canada too.

4: TomTom USA & Canada

At $59.99 plus a $20-a-year subscription if you want real-time traffic updates, this is the most expensive app in this list, but it may also be the most powerful. TomTom USA & Canada uses the GPS in your iPhone to turn it into, well, a TomTom GPS. So if the app seems a bit pricey, consider how much more it would cost to buy the GPS device itself.

Once installed, TomTom USA & Canada does everything a good automobile GPS should do. It calculates routes for you (and lets you customize them), depicts the routes visually on your iPhone’s screen as both 2D maps and 3D lane displays for the freeway, and shows useful information like when you’ll arrive at your destination and how fast you’re traveling. You can use the iPhone’s touch-screen to set destinations and you can listen to clear voice instructions (which in many cars can be output through the radio or Bluetooth interface) that will briefly fade any music you might be playing so that you won’t have any trouble hearing them. You can even get voice instructions, if desired,while making calls on the iPhone.

Be warned that TomTom USA & Canada is a memory-hungry program and will immediately zap 1.5 gigabytes of your iPhone’s memory for the app itself plus additional space for data. So the extra cost of turning your phone into a GPS may be saying goodbye to a large chunk of your favorite music and to that copy of Angry Birds you were planning to play at the next roadstop.

Once you’re off on that trip, you might start worrying that you left the garage door open. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could check without calling a neighbor or driving all the way back home? Now you can — with the next app.

3:  Craftsman Garage Door App

If you have a garage then you have a garage door opener, aremote control device that you can use to open and close your garage door from inside your car or even inside your house. But most garage door openers require that you be somewhere close to the garage before they’ll work. Craftsman’s garage door opener is different. It will work from any place you can get an iPhone signal.

Why would you want it to do that? Well, for one thing you might be worried that you left the garage door open, leaving all the random junk — er, valuable possessions — that you store in there vulnerable to theft. The Craftsman Garage Door app can determine if the garage door is open or closed and it can close it if it isn’t. Or if someone needs to get into your garage — a courier making an important delivery, say, or a contractor working on your house — you can use the Craftsman app to open the door for them and close it when they’re done. Special anti-burglary coding in the remote unlocking system prevents would-be robbers from emulating the remote function and opening the garage door for themselves.

So what’s the catch? The catch is that you’ll need the Craftsman AssureLink Internet Connected DC Chain Drive Garage Door Opener installed on your garage door, and that’s going to cost you more than $200 at Sears. But the app itself is free. It’s up to you to decide whether this service is worth the cost to you, but at least the AssureLink Garage Door Opener has other features, such as a keyless entry pad and a 10-year warranty on its motor, even apart from the convenience of the app. And maybe you were already planning to replace your aging garage door hardware.

Our next app also requires extra (if somewhat less expensive) hardware, but it will let you tap into the deepest computerized recesses of your car without having to pay the mechanic at your local garage to give your car a diagnosis.

2:  GoPoint App

The free GoPoint app works with the GoPoint cable (which costs $100, but can be purchased online for less) to plug into your car’s On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) port — don’t worry: Every car manufactured since 1995 has one — to give you real-time information from the vehicle’s built-in computer diagnostic system. This is the sort of thing that your local mechanic will do using a piece of equipment that cost thousands of dollars, but your iPhone can do it for the cost of a cable and the time you spend downloading an app. Some people would consider that a bargain.

What sort of information can the GoPoint app extract from the OBD port? Well, if you already know that your car is experiencing some kind of problem — for instance, if the Check Engine light is flashing — the GoPoint app can give you the Diagnostic Trouble Code (DTC) for it. These are standardized codes and the GoPoint app will define them for you in plain English. Unless you’re a mechanic, you might not be able to deal with the problem itself, but you’ll know what to expect when you take your car into the shop and can verify that your mechanic isn’t just inventing expensive problems that will cost you a fortune to fix.

Oh, yes – once you’ve purchased the GoPoint cable, there are additional apps that work with it, not just from GoPoint but from third-party developers, so that you can do things like monitor your fuel economy in real time.

The final iPhone app on our list has a funny name, but after you read about what it can do, chances are you won’t be laughing.

1: Dynolicious

If you have a hot rod, or at least you think you have what it takes to be the next John Force, Dynolicious may be the right iPhone application for you. Similar to other performance meters (some that cost hundreds of dollars) Dynolicious is the equivalent of having a radar gun, a drag strip timing mechanism and a dynamometer in the palm of your hand — all for just $12.99.
At a touch of the screen, you can measure quarter-mile (0.4 kilometer) elapsed times and trap speeds, lateral g-forces, 0-60 mph (0-97 kilometers per hour) times and speeds, braking g-forces and even horsepower (or kilowatts). Dynolicious uses the iPhone’s built-in three-axis accelerometers to calculate each parameter to surprising accuracy. Once you enter in your vehicle’s information (which includes the weight after factoring in fuel and passengers), the accelerometers inside the iPhone sense vehicle movement and translate it into to real-time data. That data can then be saved for later reference. The Dynolicious application even allows users to edit vehicle settings and enter specific modifications to increase accuracy.

With an average rating of four stars at the Apple App Store, Dynolicious can be purchased for the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, the 3Gs, the iPhone 4 and 4S as well as the iPod touch.

Make no mistake about it; Dynolicious is geared toward those with a need for speed. Of course, HowStuffWorks doesn’t encourage speeding or reckless behavior, but anyone curious about the performance of their vehicle will surely get a kick out of putting your skills to the test — even if it is in the family’s minivan.

So there you have it, 5 really cool iPhone applications available for your car. ”

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Motivation wears off. It’s like a shower. You cannot stay clean forever from one shower, you need to keep taking showers every day to stay clean. Similarly, you will need to keep pumping yourself up, if you wish to stay motivated. It is an empty pursuit.

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Using a combination of breathing exercises, acupressure, and movement, super brain yoga is scientifically proven to increase brain activity.  That being said so does any physical or mental exercise.

Have a look at this short video and judge for yourself.  Give it a try for a day or two and share your thoughts.