Hickory Dickory Dock is an iPhone and iPad app meant to teach children how to read a clock. It includes many mini games, interaction with the mouse, and it of course ties in the famous nursery rhyme with the same title.

Help your children learn to read a clock while being entertained by a playful little mouse companion. There are a number of mini games designed to develop specific skills, while all the time keeping the child entertained with humorous animation and sound effects.

• Learn numbers 1 – 12 through interactive games
• Learn the hours and their position on the clock face
• Interact with the mouse and learn more of this classic nursery rhyme
• Provides early exposure to an abstract concept within an accessible narrative framework.

Hickory Dickory Dock is available on the iPhone and iPad for $2.99.

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Dominus plus is an artistic clock for the iPhone – time is displayed as colorful dots.

The simple, elegant design of this clock is very appealing to me. I could stare at it all day.

Dominus. Simple, enjoyable and timeless artwork clock.

• am/pm clock marked with different colours
• one alarm set-up
• timer up to 60 minutes
• 3 different chimes for hours, quarters and minutes
• 3 different types of alarm sounds
• easy mode navigation though 4 corners
• app select sound on/off
• backlight time display on/off
• autolock on/off
• help available after shaking

Dominus plus is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99 each.

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Here’s an interesting twist to an alarm clock: once you stop the alarm, it literally tells you today’s weather conditions and the latest news. All you have to do is listen.

• Live Weather conditions for the current day
• Live Temperature for the current day
• iPhone 4 ready. High-definitions graphics for retina display
• 40 beautiful and different sounds.
• Background alarm enable
• Alarm with iPod music
• 5 actions for gesture: Snooze, stop alarm, stop weather voice, light on/off
• 4 different colors for clock numbers and images
• 13 different backgrounds.

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think! Screenshots after the break.

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

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Unlike the iPhone 3GS, the iPad doesn’t have built-in stocks, weather, voice memo, clock, calculator, or compass apps. It does, however, have the brand new iPad App Store, and yeah… there are apps for all that!

Check out our picks after the break!

Bloomberg for iPad [Free - iTunes link] offers not just stocks but news, company info, price charts, trends, analysis and… you get the idea. It could just be information overload on a 9.7″ screen, but that’s likely just what you stockies want!

Weather Channel Max [Free - iTunes link] costs nothing (thanks to Toyota) but packs in the weathery-goodness. Full screen, customizable maps, in-motion radar, local, regional, and national video, and more make it not so much of a replacement as a escalation.

Voice memos for iPad [Free - iTunes link] is the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” of replacement apps. It looks similar to Apple’s iPhone Voice Memo app, but it’s scaled up to iPad size. Unlimited recording, tagging, pause, levels, timer, and email options make it a great fill in option.

Clock… We haven’t found a good replacement for Clock yet. If you know of one that matches the functionality and the grace of the iPhone Clock app, let us know in the comments. And developers — make a good one, with a great icon. Seriously.

PCalc Lite [Free - iTunes] or PCalc [$9.99 - iTunes link] make the iPhone calculator look anemic by comparison. It includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions and constants, a couple of themes, and much more in the paid version.

Compass HD + Vector Magnetometer / Gravitometer [Free for now - iTunes link] is an app that, frankly, we may not be smart enough to properly describe. It has absolute mode, north mode, declination mode, and relative modes, and a bunch of different display modes for acceleration visualization. Get it while it’s free!

So there you have it, App Store to the rescue! Did we miss any (other than clocks!)? Are there alternatives your like better? Let us know in the comments!

Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber suggests that bigger, iPad versions of the built-in iPhone Stocks, Calculator, Weather, Clock and Voice Memo were scrapped by Steve Jobs:

It’s not that Apple couldn’t just create bigger versions of these apps and have them run on the iPad. It wasn’t a technical problem, it was a design problem. There were, internally to Apple (of course), versions of these apps (or at least some of them) with upscaled iPad-sized graphics, but otherwise the same UI and layout as the iPhone versions. Ends up that just blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and feels weird, even if you use higher-resolution graphics so that nothing looks pixelated. So they were scrapped by you-know-who.

Gruber was responding to theories that these apps would instead be offered as App Store downloads, or could be part of some secret widget dashboard implementation. In other words, that it’s a design issue, not a technical issue.

However, new UI that would make the iPad an amazing bedside clock (how’s that for a Lock Screen), or show Stocks with a variety of graphs and related news and data, or weather for several days and cities at once, certainly seems possible for Apple’s UI wizards. Perhaps they simply lacked time to re-do the apps for the already extended April 3 release date?

Perhaps they’ll appear on the iPad in some re-imagined form this summer with OS 4.0, but when the iPad ships next month, there won’t be versions of these apps. At least that’s the story I’ve heard from a few well-informed little birdies.

Speaking of which, any little birdies hear anything about an iPhone 4.0 sneak preview event yet? Or is everyone just focused on getting the iPad out right now?

We already told you that 1.1.3 hasn’t been all it’s cracked up to be, but one of the issues with the ROM slipped by us. Namely: some people have been experiencing SMS messages getting listed out of order. Threaded text is the best thing since, well, SMS, but it doesn’t do much good if your texts are all out of order.

The problem arises when you don’t have your iPhone’s clock set to update automatically from the network time and your iPhone thinks it’s one time, the carrier another. So presumably the SMS app lists incoming texts by their carrier-based timestamp and yours by the internal timestamp — a mismatch means out of order texts.

The fix – turn on automatic updating and deal with whatever hassles that might bring you if you travel between time zones a lot.

(via Engadget Mobile)