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apps nobody's got more of them than the iPhone but once you weed out the really stupid ones we're left with a somewhat shorter list I'm Brian Cooley let's celebrate the good ones today here's our top 5 iPhone apps as determined by the editors of C net and then verified and ranked by you because you know sometimes we all need some adult supervision here we go number 5 Photoshop calm yes Photoshop one of the most overwrought pieces of software on earth on an iPhone how does it work great because it gets slimmed down to just the features you can comprehend in a way you can figure out even better it's free which is an even bigger departure from the real Photoshop number 4 we kick in the games here flight control I don't know about you but nothing says fun like spending a little time simulating the most stressful job in the world air traffic controller in this one you vector in multiple planes at varying speeds even some helicopters and try and get them all down on the ground safely before an avatar of Ronald Reagan comes in and fires everybody in the control tower ok that last part doesn't really ever happen but this one's only a buck so you could afford it even if you have been fired number three Pandora I know what you're thinking if this isn't number one what is I mean pandora is a monster streaming music service that has everybody talking this free version on the iPhone is even better because instead of playing audio ads it pays its way with banner ads you'll never look at tell them add in the fact that it works over Wi-Fi or your carriers data network and you realize quickly why the folks who work at satellite radio are getting fitted for sandwich boards number two aha this is why Pandora is number three who tunes it rolls up some 23,000 radio station streams from over 150 countries sorts and categorizes them adds album art lyrics links to music videos on YouTube and even lets you record the streams for offline listening later now it's pricey in the cheapskate world of apps at five bucks by the way before we had our number one you can take pride in being a big spender you iPhone user according to AdMob twice as many of you buy paid apps than folks on Android or any other smartphone platform add in the iPod touch and it's not even a race I guess I gotta stop calling you a cheapskate ok what's the number one iPhone app according to you and us here at CNET it's what Angry Birds yeah it's a gaming phenomenon that lets you put a bunch of cranky birds to work hating on everything as you launch them jackass like into stuff and into other little creatures and what-have-you stupid yeah it is but I bet you can't stop playing it and there are something like a hundred and fifty levels so by the time you exhaust this game you'll have worn grooves in your screen $0.99 or you can snag the free lite version cheapskate okay there you go five more apps to put on your iPhone or iPod Touch and keep the chick with the watermelons company I'm Brian Cooley from cnet.com we'll see you next time