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This concludes my 3-part roundup of the best iPhone apps. I skillfully narrowed it down to only 42 apps. If you don’t see an app you think I should mention, or a broken link please leave a comment.

Cat Piano
	I’ve blogged about Cat Piano previously. It’s a piano of cat meows, so it’s pretty much the greatest musical instrument ever. Here is a video which demonstrates the many different voices, and a performance which attracts the attention of nearby cats.	.99¢
LOLCats
	Whenever I need a laugh I fire up this app, start browsing lulz, and instantly hilarious cat photos are delivered to my eyeballs.	Free
ICanHasCheezburger
	Similar to LOLCats, this app displays funny cat pictures from icanhascheezburger.com. Also includes other great funny pictures such as I Has A Hotdog!, FAIL Blog, and Engrish Funny. These two apps have duplicate functionality, but hey you can never have too many pictures of funny cats.	Free
Lightsaber
	Turns your phone into a Star Wars lightsaber, awesome sound FX and you can choose your saber’s color.	Free
World 9
	With this app, every time you jump with your iPhone, motion detection will cue the sound effect of Mario jumping from Super Mario Bros.(NES). Complete awesome!	Free
More Cowbell
	I got a fever, and the only prescription is the cowbell app. Includes Chris Walken’s famous quote and a cowbellometer to count your dings.	.99¢
Free Piano
	There are other free pianos, but this is the only one to fit two full octaves on the screen with large enough keys to be playable. Those other one octave pianos are silly, what the hell song are you gonna play with only one octave?	Free
Noise Trio
	An awesome collection of Oriental Flute, Eastern Bells, and Rock Guitar. The guitar kinda sucks but you can make some sweet melodies with the flute and bells.	Free
DigiDrummer Light
	Decent free drum set.	Free

What better song to play on Cat Piano than the Meow Mix theme song? You know, from those cat food commercials. Mitsy and Ajax heard the meowing and came to investigate and Mitsy adds some of her own meows.

Maybe I’ll become a professional iPhone pianist.  I’m well on my way, I recently downloaded Piano Man from the app store.  It’s like Guitar Hero but for the Piano, Piano Hero!  It’s got some sweet songs like Holst’s Jupiter, Mozart’s Turkish March, and some Beethoven and Bach.  Here’s my audition:

There are some really great musical instrument apps for the iPhone. The touch screen has great response and can recognize up to 5 seperate touches at once. There are a bunch of great free piano apps like FreePiano, a drum set called DigiLite, and a flute/guitar collection called Noise Trio. But my favorite musical instrument on the app store combines my two favorite things, meows and pianos.

Observe the greatness of Cat Piano: