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That’s right.. If you haven’t noticed yet, PayPal has arrived for the iPhone!

If you haven’t used PayPal before, it’s a service that lets you send and receive money securely online. It is the payment method of choice on eBay… which is perhaps why eBay bought PayPal some time ago!

The PayPal app allows you to send money using your existing account. Punch in the amount, and the account you want to send it to, and PayPal does the rest. You can choose from 16 different currencies and login using your existing account PIN or password.

At any time if you wonder what your balance is, you can login to your PayPal account with this app and check your balance. Handy stuff.

The application is stunningly easy to use, and it’s free. So if you use PayPal a lot, this is a must have.

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Get it for FREE in the App Store: PayPal for iPhone
More Info: PayPal Mobile

Golfers get ready for a new tool that will be VERY useful for your game. Released last week comes GreenFinder from Itinerant Software.

GreenFinder gives you accurate distances to the front, middle and back of each green you encounter on the course. Using the built-in GPS on your iPhone, GreenFinder provides you with distances you need to avoid the trouble and hit accurate shots. It also shows you how far it is to hazards and traps off the tee.

You can use the app for search for courses near you… and already over 3,000 courses are available with more being added all the time.

The only concern I have with the app, actually has nothing to do with the app at all. But unless you can grab a cart and play a fast 18, chances are you’ll drain your iPhone battery before you can finish out your 18. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I can see battery life as the only issue here. GPS puts a tad more demand on battery reserves!

Well worth the price at $34.99 when compared to other handheld GPS rangefinders out there.

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Buy for $34.99 at the App Store: GreenFinder
More Info: Itinerant Software

Do you travel a lot? And when you’re on the road, do you take a lot of pictures? If so, AirMe will be perfect for you!

AirMe is a FREE app that lets you instantly share new photos with friends and family. Send your shots immediately from your iPhone to Flickr or Facebook and AirMe will smart tag the location! AirMe can even include the current weather conditions if you like. How cool is that!?

There’s also a new auto Twitter client that allows you to let your Twitter network know about your new photos. I’m not into Twitter (yet), but if I was I’d be happy about this for sure!

AirMe is worth a shot. Yet another solid free app for you to explore from the App Store

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Get for FREE at the App Store: AirMe
More Info: AirMe Inc.

Are you doing your cardio this summer? Poudning the pavement? If you’re a seasoned runner, or even just an occaisional jogger, Cardio Track is an app you may want to check out.

Cardio Track is very, very simple. It allows you to track your cardio workouts by time and date. Within the app additional fields are also offered such as session activity, start time, end time and additional notes.

For the $2.99 pricetag, you can’t go wrong. Without a doubt, more serious runners should work with the Nike + system, but Cardio Track provides a simple and effective way of keeping track of your runs and workouts.

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Buy at the App Store for $2.99: Cardio Track
More Info: Bryan Gruver

OmniFocus is an award winning productivity app for your iPhone. It won the 2008 Apple Design Award for ‘Best iPhone Productivity Application’… So you know it’s good!

With OmniFocus you can keep track of all your tasks and to-do’s in a fast and fun way. Sort by project, place, person or date. You can use it for shopping lists, agendas, memos, you name it… You can even enter photos or voice recordings into your tasks… This is one handy app.

The app even uses your location to help you in other ways. Have your grocery list ready to go? Awesome… Now let OmniFocus show you where the nearest grocery stores are!

OmniFocus is available for $19.99 in the App Store. One of the more expensive apps, but if you need task management and organization, it’s well worth the money.

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Buy for $19.99 in the App Store: OmniFocus
More Info: The Omni Group

Financial professionals might be caught foaming at the mouth for this new free app from Bloomberg LP… aptly named, Bloomberg.

One of the most trusted sources of financial info now brings that same depth of info direct to your iPhone with this new app. Built into the app are a ton of great tools to help you analyze the markets you’re involved in.

The Bloomberg app offers news, stock quotes, market leaders, market laggers, price charts, company descriptions and a whole bunch more (in a format that looks great on the iPhone, note the image at the top of the post!). You can also create custom stock lists that you can follow at any time. Anyone involved in trading will need to pick this up if they want up-to-the-minute information on them while on-the-go.

Best of all, it’s free (I love free apps) so even if you’re only vaguely interested in what this one has to offer… Go ahead and check it out!

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Get it for FREE at the App Store: Bloomberg
More Info: Bloomberg LP

Are you into space, astrology, and all that kind of junk? If you are (I have to admit, I have a telescope myself) then you’ll want to check out the Starmap app from Frederic Descamps.

Starmap is ‘the ideal stargazing companion’. With it, you can find constellations you’re looking for, planets, shooting star zones and more. In a nutshell it’s a complete planetarium in the palm of your hand!

All planet and constellation info is available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Two-thumbs up for the multilingual support in this one.

Starmap contains complete info on the following:

• 120,00 visible stars
• 200 main stars with names and more details
• 150 galaxies and nebulae

Cool Features:

• Get your viewpoint automatically with the help of the accelerometer
• Adjust the sky and stars brightness on your screen to match your actual viewing conditions
• Comes complete with full coordinates for all celestial bodies
• Pinch and zoom into charts like you do with photos!

This is a great app for any stargazer. At $11.99 it might be a tad on the pricy side for the casual observer… But needless to say it’s a solid app.

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Buy for $11.99 in the App Store: Starmap
More Info: star-map.fr

New from The Software MacKiev Company comes World Book - This Day in History. The app is a simple one, and priced to go at only $0.99.

With all of the info and knowledge found within the World Book Encyclopedias, the developers had a lot of info to build from here. The app is an interactive calendar that displays important historical events that took place on the current day… Or any selected day for that matter. You can also use it to find out celebrity birthdays, and find out what notable celebrities share the same birthday as you.

This first edition is somewhat ‘bare-bones’, but the developers have noted that a free update will be coming soon for this app. The update will add pictures, sounds, music, speeches and more to the events found within. Can’t wait to see what that turns out like. Should be cool.

Buy via the App Store for $0.99: World Book - This Day in History
More Info: Software MacKiev

New from Astrology.com comes iScopes for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

With iScopes you can get your daily horoscopes delivered right to the palm of your hand… in your device of course

iScopes offers 18 different types of daily horoscopes. They are: Overview, Extended, Single’s Love, Couple’s Love, Teen, Work, Flirt, Quickie, BeautyScopes, BabyScopes, CatScopes, DogScopes, Home & Garden, AstroSlam, GayScopes, LesbianScopes, FoodScopes and GreenScopes… My word… They have a ’scope’ for everything!

iScopes also offers up 5 weekly horoscopes… I’m not going to list them here because I’m all listed out from the previous bunch…. Well, ok what they heck… There are: Overview, Romantic, Travel and Flirt… There are 4 monthly horoscopes… THOSE I’m not going to list. Have to put my foot down somewhere

If you dig horoscopes, you might as well pick iScopes up. It’s free, and delivers fresh new horoscopes to your iPhone or iPod Touch each and every day.

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Get for FREE at the App Store: iScopes

Note: Astrology.com has 2 other apps (iTarot and iChing) optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Go to http://www.astrology.com/iphone/ from your iPhone for more info!

New from SoundSpectrum comes Fotomatic, a cool new tool for photography buffs.

With Fotomatic you can browse your favorite Facebook, Flickr and Picasa photo albums on the go with cool animated slideshows. All you need to do is enter or search the names of the albums you’re looking for… Once you find them you can download them directly to your device to browse or watch an animated slideshow. Cool!

The animated slideshows come in many themes, including a zoom theme, virtual photo book, mural theme, and more.

Downloads from Facebook, Flickr and Picasa are seamless, and there’s even an ‘Add Fun Album’ feature that gives you access to thousands of public photo albums. You can also set it to update previously downloaded albums on startup. For the price, this one might be worth a shot, especially if you have a lot of albums online.

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Buy via the App Store for $4.99: Fotomatic
More Info: SoundSpectrum