With a new arrival in your house, time with your iPhone will become ever more precious. Therefore you really need a new app that will fully legitimise your iPhone usage over the coming months, even when there are bottles to feed and bottoms to wipe.

The most useful iPhone application you can own after your child is born is one that you can use to track your child’s 3 main activities – drinking, sleeping and filling nappies. It is important to monitor these functions carefully as your newborn develops, and the iPhone provides an elegant and useful alternative to paper and pen.

My top two picks are Baby Geek (59p) and Baby Brain (£2.99).

Baby Geek (59p) is a great value application that is simple to use and has some really great timeline graphs to analyse feeding/sleeping/changing patterns. As well as the standard activity recording and tracking of which boob was used last, you can also record other events such as trimming nails or eating a meal. There is also the very useful ability to record and graph your baby’s height and weight. Coming in the next version will be the ability to synchronise data between two devices – this should be a great feature when both parents have iPhones/iPod Touches. My only gripes about Baby Geek are that events entered out of order mess-up the ability to display graphs until you go in and re-sort them (why isn’t that done automatically?), and the interface is a little sluggish at times. But otherwise it is keenly priced, performs well, and the author provides top notch support to any queries.

Baby Brain (£2.99) is at the higher price end of the market and actually does less than Baby Geek. However, the interface is simple and uncluttered, the app is ultra intuitive to use, and it also runs as quick and as smooth as baby diarrhoea. Again you can record sleeping, feeding and nappy changing, but this time there are no extra events, no fancy graphs, and not even the ability to record meals. This limits the use as a complete feeding diary to whenever you begin weaning your baby, which I feel is something that needs to be addressed in a future update. However, the basic functions of Baby Brain work extremely well and there is even a lovely icon of a pair of breasts that will never fail to amuse. If the authors could add a few graphing options, add meals to the logger, and also add the ability to synchronise between different devices, then Baby Brain would truly be the ultimate logging tool.

The following is a list of every single baby logging app available. You should note that to be eligible for my list an app had to cover all 3 activities (drinking, sleeping, changing), not be a ‘lite’ version with limitations, and it had to be available in the UK app store.

• Baby Geek (59p) – Dadgets.info top choice
• Baby Watch (59p)
• KiddyBase (£1.19)
• Nimble Baby (£1.19)
• Baby Activity Logger (£1.79)
• Baby Super Tracker (£1.79)
• Baby Time (£2.39)
• Baby Brain (£2.99) – Dadgets.info top choice
• Baby Daily Log (£2.99)
• Baby Log (£2.99)
• Baby Timer (£2.99)
• Total Baby (£2.99)
• TurtleTOUCH Infant Log – HOME (£11.99)

The cake has been eaten and the odour from your pre-party poo has finally dissipated. So as your party is winding down, your little guests are now starting to wonder what’s going to be in their party bag. The party bag says a lot about you as a parent – are you cheap and cheesy, or generous and sophisticated? Well, how about using the party bag to prove your Dadget credentials by giving a hi-tech gift that the kids (and their parents) will be talking about for months to come?

My top party bag tip is to use the appropriately named GoDaddy.com to register a domain name for each of your guests. How cool would you be if every visitor to your party went home with theirname.com registered and paid-up for 12 months together with a free starter web page and e-mail account? You really are the coolest Dadget dad in the world!

If your wallet can’t stretch to the £6 per child for a .com, then you could plump for a .info at only 66 pence per child – what a bargain! Of course, you will always encounter a few snivelling little brats who really wanted a matchbox car and a packet of sweets, but life is full of disappointments.

Now that the games have gone down a treat it’s time for the ceremonial bringing in of the cake, complete with candles. But what if you used your last match to mask the stench of the horrendously smelly poo you had just before your guests arrived?

Step up the iPhone, which has a million and one candle applications to give you that hi-tech virtual glow. Birthday Blow Out (£1.19) provides you with a tasty-looking cake covered in candles. What’s more, you can blow into the iPhone’s microphone and see the candle flames flicker. If your kid blows hard enough then the candles will go out, and your iPhone will be drenched in spit.

For more kid-friendly iPhone fire gadgets you can also try Flametastic (59p). Here you can display flames from a candle, match, gas source or blow torch. It’s a very safe way to provide gentle light at your child’s bedside, and you can also use it while you make sweet love to your wife/mistress. Bonus.