Thank Jobs an app like this finally came along. We love that AT&T offers free hotspot access for iPhone customers, but we loathe the tedious sign in procedure, which requires you to visit a Web site, enter your phone number, receive a text message, and then click on a link in order to get the free time.

That bother is over now that we have Easy WiFi for AT&T, available here. This app makes signing in to AT&T hotspots a one-step operation. You'll need to create an account on it first, doing so when you have an open WiFi connection. After that, you can simply tap the app to get access to AT&T hotspots. In our testing, it sometimes took tens of seconds to work and sometimes worked almost instantly, but it always worked.