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Barnes & Noble is one of my favorite book stores here in town. I just recently checked their iPhone app and I was very impressed.

B&N Bookstore is the name of the app in App Store should you search for it. Let’s see how this free iPhone App measures up beyond the basic functionality of searching for books, music & dvds.

In the first screen you’d see a bookcase where you can swipe to see book covers like in a carousal. Under that is the area where you see different sections like Recommendations, Bestsellers, New Realeases, Review & Studio. This is tagged as the Discover section and is like virtually strolling through the bookstore.

I was looking at the Bestsellers and you can see the online and list prices there. Nice.

One of the newest features is that now you can read book reviews right from your iPhone! Extra nice!

Now comes the cool factor for you iPhone owners. Let’s say you have a book in front of you that you want to check a price for.

Go to the ‘Search’ page and click on the green camera button. Take a picture of your book cover and the app will find your book from the millions of books in the store!

Amazon’s iPhone App has had this feature for a while but I was still impresses with how accurately and swifty it found this Drupal Book for me.

And the Stores page lets you quickly find a Barnes & Noble around you with a simple click of the familiar ‘Locate me’ button near the search box.

B&N Bookstore App is a must have for a book lover, IMHO. Plus, the the price can’t be more right - Free.

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My favorite iPhone blogging app WordPress has updated to version 1.3. It gets complete OS 3.0 compatibility along with a bunch of bug fixes.

I couldn’t find a list of new features from the iPhone WordPress blog but you could get details by looking at the blog.

Also, you might see that the version is shown as 1.21.1 in the About section but be assured you have 1.3 if you see it.

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For all you pinball fans, there is good news!

Wild West Pinball is an excellent pinball game with crisp graphics and excellent game play. If you are used to going through a couple of screens before you start playing a game, you will appreciate the simplicity in Wild West Pinball.

As soon the game loads you just tap the screen to get started. I noticed that this game had dropped from $1.99 to FREE at lunch and loaded it up. You can see I didn’t score much but I was really impressed by the way the screen zooms in the area where the ball is and then comes back down just in time so you don’t lose it.

Wild West Pinball boasts of

• Full hi-res 3D graphics
• 40 fps frame speed
• Camera effects
• Live scoring table
• Realistic physics
• Shake your iPhone to shake your pinball table
• Pause/play game play anytime

Wild West Pinball is an excellent pinball simulator game!

Available in:  App Store

Price: $1.99 -> Free

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Amazon recently just launched their new Kindle 2 (Latest Generation wireless reading device) and priced it at $360.

Amazon just launched a free iPhone Kindle App that lets you read Amazon eBooks with your iPhone or iPod Touch.

You can read any Kindle-compatible book you’ve purchased from Amazon’s catalog in your iPhone or iPod Touch. In fact, you can read the first chapter of any book for free if you want to try out the App without buying a book from Amazon Kindle.

It has a lot of the Kindle features like resizing text, bookmark pages, viewing notations you made on Kindle, etc.

The price point for Kindle is kind of out of my league at the moment and I have my entertainment budget lined up for stuff elsewhere this year.

But, the iPhone Kindle App creates a sweet spot where I can buy and read eBooks on my iPhone from the vast eBook Catalog with one of the most competitive pricing elsewhere.

If you already own a Kindle or planning to buy Kindle 2, the iPhone App makes a compelling statement.

Reason - WhisperSync. This feature automatically keeps track of where you left off in each book and it allows you to pick up from that spot in any Kindle-friendly devices you may have. You can leave your Kindle 2 bedside in the night and pick up on the reading on your way to work in a train/bus from your iPhone.

As Amazon’s Kindle service expands to more mobile devices, this feature is going to be kick-ass.

With Amazon moving into the iPhone eBook market, it’s time the other players stood up and took notice as the competition is going to be really stuff from now on.

If you are a iPhone eBook app writer, what do you think about this development?

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If you are a wine lover or just getting into learning about wines, Wine Snob is the perfect iPhone/iPod Touch app for you.

Wine Snob not just lets you track your wine tastings but it also lets you learn about different white and red wines.  You can learn about different wine and food pairings, all the wine lingo. You can keep track of all the wines you taste, notes, prices and vintage.  You can even save a picture of the label along with your notes.

Wine Snob lets you

• Save picstures of labels with each wine
• Tag tasting keywords for easy recall
• Search for wines by name or tasting tag
• Save detailed notes on wines
• See average price, rating, etc.
• Automatically get the wines geotagged
• Sync with your online database for safe backup

Wine Snob is definitely worth at $4.99 but until Valentine’s Day, you can get it for FREE! Try it now at this incredible price.

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There are tons of shopping list apps and just list apps in the AppStore.

Mister Lister proclaims that they are taking the trouble out of creating and managing shopping lists. They might be on to something as I do find it hard to keep up with my shopping lists.

So, I figured I’d give Mister Lister a try.

Mister Lister sets itself apart from other shopping list apps by remembering what I buy. This makes creating shopping lists so much easier to create as it makes it simple by showing only the items I care about.

So anytime I need to create my shopping list, i just need to simpy see he list of items, change quantities and start shopping!

You can also create a sticky list and make a list always be at the top. Yu can even copy or email a list!

You have to try it to really appreciate the simplicity of this app and actually make iPhone help you with your shopping list.

And guess what? Mister Lister is FREE all day today (01/16/09) and is only $0.99 for one more week if you missed it.

If you are a Twitterer, you could also get updates/news with deals like these by following us at @TopiPhone.

What is your favorite shopping list app?

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SBSettings is available via Cydia only for jailbroke iPhones only. So if you are wondering why you should jailbreak iPhone 3G, here’s another compelling reason.

SBSettings lets you toggle between different modes and access certain apps quickly from the home screen with a swipe of your finger across the top of the screen.

You can toggle functions like 3G, EDGE, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and adjust brightness with a quick tap after the swipe. The buttons are color coded with green indicating active ones and red/orange indicating the disabled ones.

SBSettings launches from Springboard so you can refresh SpringBoard right from it as well as Respring or go to Dock or access the Power options.

Another cool utility with this app is that you can quickly see your Wi-Fi ip address, your data IP addess as well as check your hard drive free space on your iPhone. It even shows available memory.

SBSettings Gets iPod Widget

With the recent release (not shown in pic), SBSettings has added support for a iPod widget.

Before this, if you wanted to play music while surfing, you had to exit Safari and then play and then resume surfing. SBSettings gives a play/pause widget so you can start playing music without quitting surfing. The iPod widget starts playing random songs when play and if you had paused, it starts playing where you left off.

If you have a jailbroke iPhone 3G, try this now for FREE from Cydia. Also, let us know what else is your favorite in Cydia that you’d like us to feature here.

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I am a NPR news junkie. I listen to it in my car. I listen to it at work. Except for at times when I am away from my car or when I am not at work.

If you didn’t know, NPR is National Public Radio that offers a huge variety of programs, local news, national news, music, talk shows, business news, politics, etc.

Not anymore. I can listen to it from my iPhone with the Public Radio Tuner app that’s available for Free.

Public Radio Tuner brings your local NPR station via your iPhone no matter where you are in the world.

In fact, Public Radio Tuner goes beyond NPR and is actually a unique collaboration between American Public Media (APM), National Public Radio (NPR), Public Radio Exchange (PRX), Public Interactive (PI) and Public Radio International (PRI).

• This app has over 200 high quality public radio streams
• Easy to use interface
• Search by call letters, frequency, city, region or format
• Favorite a station to stream again
• Use GPS to find your local station

Public Radio Tuner is a godsend for news-junkies like myself. I hope you’d like it too.

Download Public Radio Tuner

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Animoto is out to put an end to boring slideshows.

Animoto is a web application that turns your pictures into beautiful music videos. You can read our full Animoto review here. And it’s now available on iPhone.

Animoto iPhone app lets you select 8-16 photos from your picture library, select a music for the background and it creates a slideshow/video from your pics on the fly. You can watch it on your iPhone or email it to friends.

Here is one I quickly did from a few screenshots I had in my iPhone.

If you can’t already feel the excitement with the possibilities this app brings for you, let me help you visualize it. Lets say you are at a birthday party and you are snapping pics with your iPhone. You don’t have to wait to get home to create slideshows. Instead, you can create one while you are at the party and show/send it to everyone.

You can download the application here!

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Ok, the $99 iPhone at Walmart rumor didn’t come true. Atleast not completely.

But, there are a lot of cool apps to be had for Free or $0.99 at the AppStore.

• Smart Bill Splitter (finance) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
• iShopSmart (utilities) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
• Whether (weather) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
  until Jan 15
• Tasting Notes (lifestyle) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $4.99)
• EasyWriter Pro (productivity) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $2.99)
• TextGuru (productivity) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $4.99)
• LocWidget (navigation) is now FREE ($1.99)
• Advanced English Dictionary and Thesaurus 1.1 (reference) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $9.99)

If you are a iPhone App developer and would like to offer apps for Free to our readers, you could contact us using our contact form.

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Sorry we have been away for a few days without updating the site. We are back with a lot of apps that are on sale in the AppStore

• Done Drinking (games) is now FREE (orig $3.99)
• The Brain! (books) is now FREE
• Rocket Taxi (navigation) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $2.99)
• Heart Monitor (health & fitness) is now on sale for $0.99 (orig $4.99)
• Fingeric (games) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
• TrackStats - NFL (sports) is now FREE (orig $2.99)
  Is free for the rest of the season
• Alert Meteor 2 (games) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
  Sale ends tonight
• iBlogger (social networking) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $9.99)
• PricePad (utilities) is now FREE (thanks Vino for the tip)

And just for Christmas, iXmas Mistletoe is FREE in AppStore as an introductory offer.

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Hope your weekend is going good. It’s been a pretty relaxing one for us and we just found these apps that are on sale in AppStore at the moment.

• Connect (utilities) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
  Lets you connect to over 1000 companies via pre-selected phone trees.
• FeedReader (news) is now FREE (orig $4.99)
• PocketNeuro (healthcare & fitness) is now on sale for $0.99 (orig $4.99)
  Common symptoms of neuro related diseases
• SurvivalPhrases - Spanish, Italian (travel) is now on sale for b(orig $19.99)
• PartyPro (lifestyle) is now on sale for $0.99 (orig $3.99)
• iSpreadsheet (business) is now on sale for $1.99 (orig $3.99)
  iSpreadsheet Review
• iTree (entertainment) is now FREE (orig $0.99)

I also found this free sudoku very entertaining.

Anything that goes on sale for the rest of the day - you can catch it via our iPhone updates in Twitter. You can follow us at twitter.com/TopiPhone.

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