Checking an AdSense account using the iPhone’s browser is a huge hassle. Not only does it ask for your user name and password every time, visual errors often appear in rendering the website. And, the AdSense site tends to be slow to load in general. SimpleSense (free, link) to the rescue.

I love SimpleSense for two reasons. First, you only need enter your username and password the first time you use it—from then on, it logs you in automatically. Second, it strips down the Adsense site so it loads faster and presents your earnings in an efficient and easy-to-read manner.

The app’s feature set is pretty sparse (remember, it’s free). It shows 5 things: Earnings, Clicks, CTR, CPM, and Pageviews. And you can view those statistics for today, yesterday, week, month, and all time. That’s it.

But there is one more sweet feature. At the bottom right corner is a button that launches the regular AdSense site within the app. From there, you can take advantage of all the rest of AdSense’s features, like Advanced Reporting, etc.

There are many paid Adsense apps on the iPhone, but SimpleSense is the only free one I found. And it’s an excellent little app to boot. Even if you don’t like the stripped down stats it presents, it offers auto logging-in to AdSense, and the full website can be viewed within the app. Highly recommended.

SimpleSense is a free download from the iTunes App Store.

The Cars.com (free, link) app brings the popular car-shopping website to the iPhone, allowing users to quickly browse through listings of new and used cars. A stripped-down version of the website, the app offers search for New, Used, or Certified Used cars and can display a specific dealer’s entire inventory. Thanks to the iPhone’s GPS, there’s no need to enter in the zip code to find the closest cars (but there’s the option to if you want to search outside the area).

The search feature lets you specify four car categories: Make, Model, Max Price, and Location. The app will bring up a list of cars that fit the criteria along with a picture. Tapping on an individual car will bring up more info like more pictures and dealer info, including a map showing the dealer’s location, more of the dealer’s inventory, or you can call the dealer right from the app.