Today marks a milestone for all of us here at the Ovi Daily App blog, and we figured it would be alright if we toot our own horns just a little bit. You see, today is the one-year anniversary for the blog! Wow. We made it. And, we’re still going strong! In fact, in many ways, this is just the beginning.

As we move in to our second year of reviews of mobile apps and content in Ovi Store, we have plenty of good stuff in the works for you. Starting with our new section devoted to regional apps. Now that global app coverage is humming along, we figured it was time to take a look around, and begin to see how others are using content in Ovi Store. So, we will be rolling out various regional, or country-based portions of the blog, starting with India. (If you look at the right-hand column of the blog, you will see a link over to the start of our India-specific content and reviews.)

This new section will be a work in progress, so please be patient with us. We won’t have daily reviews just yet … we need a little bit of time to get it all organized! For now, expect approximately three reviews per week in the new India section of the blog, in addition to the daily reviews that will continue in the global part of the site. And, in case you were wondering, we have found a local writer living in India who will prepare all of these reviews for us. Her first post is already available.

And, while we’re excited about what is coming up next, we’re also feeling a little nostalgic. We took a look back at the posts here in the blog from the past year, and /tried/ to identify the best stuff for a short trip down memory lane. But believe me, this was no easy task! After more than 410 posts in the blog over the past 12 months, we wanted to remind you about the following apps – some will be names you may recognize, and at the same time, I think you’ll see we have a few (almost) hidden gems in the mix, too.

Looking back at the best of Ovi Daily App reviews

September 2009:
Was there something about the letter P? We had Pixelpipe QuickPost and Playlist DJ. Another music app that had our attention at that time was Midomi SoundHound (it was called “Midomi Music Identifier”).

October 2009:
We had some great utilities to share, including: Worldmate 2009 and Vlingo. And, just for fun – we were stunned and amazed at the little app with a big promise, Vibrate by Pico Brothers.

November 2009:
Here we had a device enhancer in FlipFont as well as a tool to make sure we got out of bed on time with HappyWakeUp.

December 2009:
We got excited about the prospect of video calls with fring and began to get organized with SPB Wallet.

January 2010:
We got our hands on the ever-cool Nokia N900 mobile computer, and immediately got busy with Evernote. At the same time, we rediscovered the joy of music videos with LP33.TV.

February 2010:
We practically fell in love this month, with two social, sharing tools in Socially and Snaptu (both apps are free, by the way, and both continue to be fan favorites). We also found the call of the wild (even though sometimes it was in the urban jungle) with both Trimble Outdoors SE and Wikitude World Browser.

March 2010:
We got caught up in the joy of funny sounding names – and really cool apps from Goojet and fizwoz. We also featured our first review in two languages at the same time for Sonico (that one’s in English), and in Spanish, too.

April 2010:
We had fun with some “fake” apps we’d still love to see, as well as a series of reviews to honor Earth Day. We also had a great time with Mobbler for music, and My Magic Pencil to bring digital drawing to life.

May 2010:
This month we found a great resource for podcasts in Yasssu, and we were thrilled to finally play with the functional little MoBots, too.

June 2010:
A great guest writer helped us appreciate the night sky with her review of Norbsoft SkyMap; and all that fresh air made us hungry, so we went straight to OpenTable for a quick dinner reservation. We also had a laugh with everyone’s favorite office-based misfit, Dilbert.

July 2010:
This summer month had us going ga-ga for the sound of our own blog with BlogRadio turning RSS into portable podcasts. We also enjoyed the sound of our own voice with Speereo Voice Launcher. And of course, we were moved by the sentiments and sharing found in Touchnote Postcards, which happily now works wonderfully on Nokia Symbian OS, S60 5.0 (touch-enabled) devices, and even includes an option for in-app payments.

August 2010:
Just last month, we marvelled at the coolness factor of both SPB Mobile Shell (for UI enhancements on your device that will blow you away) and SpeedHero whose sports radar gun-like functionality is a marvel to see. One more thing we  liked to see were the results delivered by the Qt-based kooaba visual search. And of course, we’re always looking for an excuse to read comics, like Astro Boy and Stark Trek.

This list brings a smile to my face, and reminds me that there is plenty of really cool content in Ovi Store. I can hardly wait to see what we find next.

Tomorrow we’ll take a quick look back at some of the best games we’ve reviewed from the past 12 months – that list is still being debated among the team.

Now it’s your turn … Take a moment to tell us about some of your favorite apps in Ovi Store using the Comments section below.