See the world on your iPhone or iPod Touch – World Guide lets you browse valuable information for countries around the world, either by region or in a full list. Simply select a country to learn more about it, starting with basic facts like its capital, currency, languages spoken, population, local power convention, and time zone. In addition, you can read up on a general summary of the country, its climate, transportation conditions, local food and tipping customs, and even key phrases in the local language. Finally, you can look through details about destinations and places to go, tips about life in and travel to the area, and even a multi-touch zoomable flag and map for each location.

World Guide also contains a powerful full-text search function to let you hunt through all of the country information – search for a capital city, an ecotourist destination, or even just a quiet beach.

If you’re planning a trip, World Guide lets you make your own favorites list – while browsing a country, simply touch the plus symbol to save it to your favorites list, and create your own ‘bucket list’ of dream adventures or places to visit.

Can’t decide where to start? Take advantage of a unique World Guide feature by pulling up a country list and giving it a shake – this will pull up a random country, letting you visit somewhere new and different every time, while leaving the destination up to chance.

World Guide also stores all of its content offline, allowing you to keep the entire world at your fingertips as you travel, without requiring a connection to the Internet.

World Guide is the easiest and most convenient way to see the entire world, one country at a time.

Website: http://www.worldtraveltips.net/worldguide/
App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=308772118

We have just released our new version of Next Read with some really cool new features. Next Read allows users to build and manage their lists of desired books – perfect for the avid reader who is constantly trying to manage an ever-growing list of books to buy. Check out our website for more details.

Here is what’s new in this release:

• Lists – Now Next Read is not just for books suggested to you. Add lists to keep all those books you have been checking out organized.
• Shake Search – Not sure what to search for? Just go into the search screen and shake your phone. Next Read will take a look at all the books on your lists and look for something similar.
• Notes – Now you can take Notes on each book in your list.
• Import Amazon Wishlists – Have a public wishlist on Amazon you would like to pull into Next Read? No problem – enter your email address and pull down the list. You can optionally save it so that you can browse it offline later.
• Share lists with friends over WiFi – Next time your cousin Ed asks you for some good ideas on what to read next, just tell him to fire up his copy of Next Read – you can zap a list right over to him
• Email lists – Have a friend without Next Read, or perhaps you would like to print your list? Next Read now supports the ability to email a nicely formatted version of any of your lists.
• Quick Add – What happens when you hear about a book when you don’t have an internet connection or when you don’t have time to launch a search? With Quick Add, problem solved. Enter a title and author combination or just an ISBN into Next Read. The Book Detail page now has a “Refresh” button so you can pull down all the important details later.
• Listmania integration – From any book – you can now look for Listmania lists that contain that book. This makes it even easier to find new books you might be interested in. Find a list you really like? Click Save and you will always have it.
• Better Amazon page support – No more leaving Next Read to read the product details from Amazon. Next Read now launches an inline browser window so you can get the facts without going too far.

Available today on the iTunes Store for $1.99.