5 Digital Apps under $10 | Low Cost Last Minute Holiday Gifts

Avoid the malls and the post office by sending clients, friends and family a digital application, the ideal last minute holiday gift . They can be downloaded, enjoyed instantly and they provide fun, information or function throughout the year.  Demonstrate your forward thinking digital style  this year by gifting these fabulous applications to both the tech savvy and the digital immigrants alike.

Get your digital Santa on with these fun apps for the whole family.

Brushes for iphone, ipad and itouch – $4.99 at itunes

Brushes is a mobil painting application and winner of an Apple Design Award for 2010. This nifty app will keep the kiddies mesmerized on long trips and let you appear to be thoughtfully researching important information in those long boring budgeting meetings. You can paint pictures using templates or freestyle and Brushes records your strokes so you can export them and replay them as a QuickTime Movie. Bring out their creative side with Brushes.  This app is ideal for children, creative adults who love to doodle, amateur artists and even sophisticated digital artists.

Robert Parker 3 W’s of Wine – $3.99 at itunes and $4.99 at eRobertParker.com for Java enabled mobile devices

If you’ve ever been asked to select the wine for a business event or wanted to impress your friends with your wine knowledge, here’s the app for you. A database of more than 2,000 affordable wine from top producers all around the globe are at your finger tips in this easy to use app that lets you search by region, color, variety or even food. Once you try a wine suggestion and like it, you’ll be able to add it to your personal “My Wines” list along with your comments. It’s like having the famous Robert Parker in your iphone, at your command. This is the ideal gift for young professionals, people new to wine drinking or casual wine lovers who want to learn more.

Elf Ur Face – Free download at itunes

Take a picture of yourself, family, friends, or pets and give them some elf effects to put them in the holiday spirit. Then you can email the photos or post them to Facebook, Twitter or save them to your desktop for that long, really interesting holiday letter you know you’re writing. This app will provide hours of fun for kids and adults alike and is just plain good fun.

Mrs. P’s Reader Challenge mobil app – Free download at itunes

Mrs. P’s Reader Challenge is a fun new game that helps kids develop reading skills and comprehension and is brought to life by the voice of TV celebrity Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P.  It features five stories from MrsP.com’s Magic Library: The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea and The Frog Prince; and two are the Grand Prize winners of Mrs. P’s 2009 writing contest for kids: Pretty Princess and Funky Frog and Spattered Mud and Crushed Petals. Readers try to win a pot of gold by answering multiple-choice questions about the stories, assisted by funny and encouraging audio prompts from Mrs. P.  Great for kids 4-10.

Zagats To Go app – $9.99 download at itunes

The famed Zagat Restaurant Guides are available in app format on itunes and you’ll get a year’s access to fresh restaurant ratings and reviews from over 45 trusted guides; all for less than the price of  one traditional paperback guide.  This one download gets you ZAGAT for your iPhone and iPad.