The 81st Annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2009. Some Oscar special iPhone apps are available in app store to give updates and get user opinions. If these iPhone apps user polls are any indicator, then rags-to-riches story of a Mumbai teen the Slumdog Millionaire might be the Big Winner at Academy Awards.

Sonic Lighter is a $1 novelty app that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a mobile lighter. There’s a social network aspect to the app, too, as its developer, Smule, can track wherever someone “ignites” Sonic Lighter anywhere in the world.

To that end, Smule puts out Sonic Lighter updates that let users weigh in on issues of vital import in this case the winner of the Best Picture award. As of this writing, Smule’s Sonic Lighter map shows Slumdog Millionaire leading the way with 37 percent of the vote. The lamentable Curious Case of Benjamin Button is in second right now with 27 percent, while Milk is in third with 16 percent.

iSlumdog Millionaire : Speaking of Best Picture contenders, this $1 offering from CyberNet Consulting lets you listen to the movie soundtrack and look at production stills of the multiple Oscar nominee.

Movie Challenge Oscar Special : Redwind Software produced a $1 Oscar-specific version of its Movie Challenge trivia game.

Awards: Oscar Edition : The $1 app from CoreyDale offers Oscar history as well as a way to mark off and share your predictions for this year’s awards.

This application works on most HP ink jet printers. You can print your photos with in the range of your wireless network. Check HP iPrint Photo to know how to use it with your device.

HP iPrint Photo works with Apple’s Bonjour technology to automatically identify HP wireless printers or other supported HP printers available on your network. iPrint also supports WiFi environments including Apple Airport, Linksys, D-Link, Netgear etc.

Using iPrint is very simple, Just select photo and choose print. For the first time printing to a specific printer, select the desired printer from the list of available printers. You will not be required to complete this step again in order to print additional photos on the same printer.