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If you’re out and about shopping for holiday gifts, you can use the Amazon Mobile iPhone app or the Price Check by Amazon iPhone app to find out whether the store you are in has the best buy for on any item that Amazon.com sells.   (You can download either free app by clicking on the [...]

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History may well name the iPhone as one of the greatest inventions ever made:  This pocket sized computer (it probably should be called the “iPocket” since it is its data processing ability, with a few hundred thousand mini-programs to choose from, not its telephonic function, that sets it apart from the original hand-held cell phones) [...]

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In the first installment of “The Guidebook In Your iPhone” I investigated reading Kindle Books from Amazon.com and “iBooks” from Apple on your computer, iPad, iPod, iPhone or other smartphone.  But this is not the only ways you can read electronic guidebooks or other publications on your iPhone (a 3GS in my case).  Here’s yet [...]

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Looking for a good book or an independent bookstore while you’re on the road?  If you have an iPhone you’re in luck:  Download the free IndieBound app from the iTunes App Store. Finding Bookstores Turn your iPhone’s “Location Services” to “On”, then click on “Store Finder” at the bottom of the screen to get a [...]

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