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Here’s what Facebook for iPhone 3.0 looks like—pretty nice. Besides the new giant button home screen, you’ll be able to actually RSVP to events and create new photo albums. No push yet, but here’s the full list:

1. The “new” News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

The iPhone Flower Garden App looks absolutely fantastic. The concept is very simple simple : plant seeds in a pot, water them, and watch them grow into flowers, all done with a wonderful UI (user interface) and eye candy animation. You unlock new types of flowers as you go along, some of which will grow immediately, and others that take days of tending and watering. When you have flowers in bloom, you can cut various flowers from different types and combine them to make a beautiful bouquet that you can send via email to that special someone. Future improvements and functions for the iPhone Flower Garden app, may go beyond the “grow/cut/send” concept of the current version. Eventually, the developer will be adding in the ability to cross polinate between other Flower Garden users to create completely new breeds of flowers. In other words, the first online flower growing game!? The developer mentioned the future ability to actually grow flowers into messages for the recipient. So a user could create a flower seed with a message that you can send to someone. As they tend to the seeds, they will grow into a flowery message for that person. The iPhone Garden App is available for iPhone and iPod Touch

Features of the iPohne Flower Garden App :

• A virtual garden complete with the serene sights and sounds of the outdoors, birds, wind etc.
• Over 20 types of seeds to unlock, expandable game-play.
• Create mixed bouquets of your best blossoms to share with loved ones by email.
• Full 3D flowers and bouquets that react to the touch with lovely effects.
• Unique flowers with realistic growth behaviors
• A forgiving garden where flowers will wilt but not die while waiting to be tended
• Email bouquets with personalized cards and custom backgrounds for the perfect composition

App Store is about to reach the One Billion Download, that’s right One Billion, in less then one year, the App Store has been a remarkable success in the mobile industry, open June 2008 and has more then 25.000 applications including games and free applications, if you are the lucky one to download the 1.000.000.000 application will get to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. You can see the current progress of the downloads here

Keep Downloading!!!!

One more milestone on the big success that is the App Store. iPhone and iPod Touch users continue to download applications in massive quantities. The latest figures indicate that there have been more then 300 million applications and games downloaded since the Apps Store debuted in July.

If you are looking for a good count down application for your iPhone or iPod Touch, Days Until is a cool one, Days until is a free app which monitors and displays the days remaining until special events in your life, this can be done with a a nice interface and is fully customizable.

Features:

• Create and Store Multiple Events
• Apply your own backgrounds(you can even use your camera)
• 16 Fonts
• 12 Text colors
• Drag and Drop
• Zoom in and Out

I was really excited to see one of the best  FPS (first person shooter) games for consoles and PC in the app store. Of course the first thing I wanted to know is how well did the controls work on the iPhone and was it worth the £5.99. When I downloaded it there were few reviews in the App Store on the iPhone the game is ranking 3.5 Stars out of 5 and the site I found it on just announced it’s release and did actually review the game play. The download is pretty big (81.6MB) so it takes a few minutes to install even over wifi. I later found some reviews in iTunes on my computer about a problem I was having. Now, on to the review. The controls are pretty sweet. There’s like a touchpad on the left for forward back and strafe. Just swipe up, down, left or right to look around and there is a button in the bottom right to shoot. It was pretty glitchy for me but it seemed to be smooth for a few seconds, then glitchy, then smooth.