The Finance Ministry’s mobile glossary application, which was launched about a month ago, has become so popular among local users of Apple’s iPhone that users of other smartphones are calling on the government to provide the same program to them.

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How many times has a friend showed you his or her favorite new iPhone app, and you lamented: Why didn’t I think of that?

With total application downloads from Apple’s iTunes app store topping three billion, and monthly sales of upwards of $200 million, the marketplace for apps is booming.

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I’m a huge fan of the National Trust. For those of you not familiar with it – the National Trust is a non-profit ogranization that runs many country homes and historical sites throughout Britain. It was very common for aristocrats to donate their houses to the Trust to avoid inheritance taxes.

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Last year everyone talked about the iPhone app that you could use to stream videos from your iPhone to the web so other could watch while you were recording. Today, the new fad that will definitely be at the top of the most popular list of iPhone apps quickly is the TwitCasting Live app. This awesome app is going to blow your mind. Basically this app is a live streaming app and a Twitter client combined into one amazing app.

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Electric Pocket’s BugMe scribble note/reminder alarm app is almost ready for submission to Apple. With BugMe! you jot quick notes and set reminder alarms, and you can share notes with others. The feature-set on the new iPhone version includes:

* The ability to jot quick ink notes (choice of paper, or jot on photos)
* Save ink notes to photo album, share by email or Twitter - or uniquely - save tiny “stickies” to desktop launcher for fast recall of tasks
* Organize notes by drag and drop, or shake to sort
* Set alarms on notes and have them pop up and remind you

Absolute Vintage is an amazing app that allows you to put your friend’s faces into old style bodies taken from Vintage photos, then you can add cigarettes, hats, eyeglasses and more. You can add custom frames to your photo. You send and post your creation on Facebook with one click. The result is amazing. The app is actually in the top 50 purchased app in the Italy app store.

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This post will have no Tiger Woods jokes.

Tiger Woods has a serious problem. And there is absolutely no reason to encourage cheap laughter just because of an astonishing new iPhone app that makes it easier for you to cheat on your spouse, offer heinously regrettable insults, or employ a hitman—all without worrying that your texts will betray your true self.

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TomTom has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it has submitted a new version of its iPhone GPS app, version 1.3, to Apple for approval.

The new App, which should be available to download in a couple of weeks time will, says the company, come with a number of new features including its HD Traffic service as an in app purchase.

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A new art gallery app, featuring material from over 1,000 major artists, has been released for the iPhone and Mac; ProCamera, a European iPhone app, has meanwhile been released in the US App Store.

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Sygic has decided to discount the prices for a while to celebrate the iPhone app update… Sygic Mobile Maps Europe now EUR 49.99, Gulf Countries now USD 79.99, Russia now EUR 49.99, and Australia & New Zealand AUD 59.99.

Grab it while you can!

Wolfsburg/Geneva,– Volkswagen delivers a new iPhone application to Apple’s online store just in time for the beginning of the International Geneva Motor Show (4 – 14 March). With this app, the innovations that Volkswagen is presenting this year can be tracked virtually, too. This useful and informative application — called “Geneva Salon 2010” — is available at no charge in the AppStore starting 1 March.

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The iTunes store is pulling off and putting on sexy apps faster than you can stuff a dollar bill in a g-string.
Case in point: the Hooter’s girls are back in bikinis to “clean” your iPhone screen. Hooters Calendar Screen Wash was quietly reinstated Feb. 24 and is now back on sale. The $0.99 app is for a +17 audience, though it doesn’t seem to be any more prurient or wholesome than some of the babes-in-bikini apps that were yanked over sexual content.

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Thumbing through the eye-catching (and relentless) advertising pages in Vogue has been the favorite sport of fashionista wannabes for generations. With the new and perhaps overdesigned VogueStylist iPhone app, Condé Nast effectively turns the “fashion bible” into the “mobile fashion catalog,” and brings readers closer to advertisers and closer to the actual purchase than ever before.

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Our goal: a simple, clean way to reveal the art events happening around you as you move through Tokyo. No need to plan your gallery visits from home anymore: the app gives you instant access to more than 400 art and design events, available at all times via the phone in your pocket.

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It could be just the thing to calm frazzled and tearful parents. A monitor that deciphers babies’ cries, distinguishing a sleepy whimper from a hungry wail, is being developed.
The cry translator could also alert parents to hunger, the need for a nappy change or desire for a cuddle.

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The interactive game, called Nasa Lunar Electric Rover Simulator, is an interactive game for the Apple iPhone where users are given an insight into what it could be like to support lunar mission.

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BARCELONA—Though it’s not new, augmented reality hasn’t really taken off yet. That’s a surprising thing in our books, considering how useful it is. With a handset’s built-in camera, GPS and Internet connection, an augmented reality app can overlay information on a physical object simply by pointing the mobile towards it.

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smart is the first car brand to develop its own drive app for the iPhone. The smart drive app for the iPhone has all the important features needed whilst driving: phone calls via hands-free system, your own extensive music collection, internet radio and a clever navigation system with a special smart touch. There are also smart extras – for example the Car Finder that will guide you back to wherever you parked your car. The new smart drive app for the iPhone boasts an outstanding design and is simple to operate thanks to extra large buttons..

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A new iPhone and Android app has launched that takes government data on ASB statistics and presents it to consumers in an easy-to-consume map-based format.

In other words, the ASBOrometer will tell you just how many Anti-Social Behaviour Orders have been handed out to your neighbours, or in other geographical areas.

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A new iPhone app is aiming to challenge climate change sceptics by providing them with the info needed to understand the effects and implications of global warming.

Run by John Cook, an Australian solar physicist, Skeptical Science allows users to access a range of arguments from climate change sceptics, and also read what scientists have to say about these theories.

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