In preparation for my trip to New York City this weekend, I wanted to get an  iPhone app for the New York subway and bus system. Fortunately, theres NYC Mate, a full featured app with maps, real time schedules and service alerts for metro system on Manhattan and the outer boroughs. Hopefully, this will help me not look like a out-of-towner getting lost in the subway system.

Those Blackberry users always thought they were so much cooler than everyone with their BBM only being available to other Blackberries. The developers of Kik have brought their messenger program to the world, in an attempt to unite all phones and operating systems onto one messaging system. It’s fast, it’s sharp looking and it functions just like BBM.

Whether it be on the street or in front of the decks, the influx of designer headphones has made listening to music much more stylish for enthusiasts and DJ’s alike. Frends is a group of snowboarders who have designed a collection of headphones with a variety of models and color styles for your listening pleasure. [CoolHunting]

Ingenuity and craftsmanship all come together in MS & Co.’s selvedge denim iPhone sleeve. The aesthetic of selvedge is driving a whole new movement of design focusing on traditional ways of crafting and designing products and clothing. [DJKen5]

An iconic symbol in music for the last century, Marshall has powered and produced some of the biggest sounds in music and now are set to release their first pair of headphones. With the quality and performance that musicians have become accustomed to, Marshall is poised to make quite a splash in the headphone realm. [Uncrate]

Instagram is multi functional iPhone app that can transform your photos into a variety of vintage styles and also share them on multiple social networks. Once you take a picture it will become visible to your friends on the instagram photo network and also have the ability to be uploaded to other websites like Tumblr and Flickr. Now one only needs one application to take a picture and upload it, very handy for my photoblog. [KitsuneNoir]

Tango solves one of the iPhone 4′s biggest limitations by allowing users to video chat over both 3G and WiFi networks. Leave it to the progress and ingenuity of the free market to develop what Apple would otherwise not want. [SwissMiss]

One way to define efficiency is finding the most use out of one object or function. The Glif iPhone 4 mount and stand embodies this idea with their unit which functions as a tripod mount and a stand. In this day and age where most folks carry around multiple gadgets needing multiple accessories, its beneficial to have one that acts as two. [Gizmodo]

The most popular notepad amongst designers, Moleskin, has come out with a line of covers for portable Apple projects. Most people with Moleskin’s probably have an iPhone, iPad or both, so this comes as a natural hybird of two creative mediums. [Gizmodo]

Combine Collective has incorporated all of Apples’s wireless control devices all into one well crafted unit, the Combine Keyboard, constructed from black walnut with precisely carved slots for each device. With Apple’s straightforward modular designs, it was only a matter of time until someone developed a system of equal simplicity to achieve this purpose. [Uncrate]

This year’s Austin City Limits music festival has gotten more technologically advanced by offering a iPhone app for it’s attendees. The multi-functional app allows you to make a custom schedule of the bands you want to see and a map showing where each stage is located on the grounds. This is a big step forward for large music festivals that can be difficult to navigate between the stages and keep track of which bands are playing where.