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Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are ten new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are:

Vonage Mobile for Facebook.

This app gives you the chance to call any of your Facebook friends located anywhere in the world, for free.  It even works over both Wi-Fi and 3G!  Free.

Live Notes.

A great looking note application for the iPad, with variable fonts, highlights and even freehand writing and drawing.  You can record audio to go with your notes, plus they can be shared via email as a PDF.  $5.99/£3.49.

Gardener’s Buddy.

By uploading a map of your garden, this iPad app becomes your own all-in-one gardening calendar, planner and reminder system.  Add all those details from the plastic plant tags, set yourself a reminder to prune and then sync your monthly calendars with your PC.  $0.99/£0.59.

Cut Him Up!

A sideways scrolling beat-em-up that looks like a cross between Double Dragon and Sin City!  The awesome comic graphics may be black and white, but the blood is very, very red!  Being able to use a chainsaw sold us on this one!  $0.99/£0.59.

Finger Balance.

An unusual physics/balance game where you must manouver a ball sitting on a bar between obstacles, and you control the bar with your fingers.  There are 30 levels to begin with and more are promised to follow.  $0.99/£0.59.

Osmos.

The massively popular iPad game comes to the iPhone, with support for the iPhone 4’s Retina Display and equally as compelling gameplay.  Rather than simply porting it over, Osmos has had a redesign and has new play modes, design tweaks and a multi-touch control system.  $2.99/£1.79.

Fortune Magazine.

The first issue is free, but you’re going to have to pay for future issues of the business magazine.  Like other iPad magazines, Fortune promises interactive elements, video and exclusive content.  Free.

Glamour Magazine.

Another new iPad magazine application, this time it’s a digital edition of the fashion, celebrity and beauty magazine, Glamour.  All the content from the print edition is here, plus some video bonuses, however while this edition is free, you’ll have to pay for future ones.  Free.

MTV Star Factory for iPad.

Create and manage your very own band and watch them climb the MTV popularity charts.  The game has mini-games, the chance to compose songs and release albums plus management of finances and studio time.  $2.99/£1.79.

Space Balls.

A physics-based iPad and iPhone puzzle game with 90 levels, 16 characters and a lot of different enemies and obstacles to overcome before you beat the game!  Unusually for a puzzler, this has a storyline told in comic-strip cut-scenes.  $0.99/£0.59.