EXPARTE STAFFING, one of New York’s most innovative legal staffing firms, unveiled BILLBULL this week, a powerful new timekeeping program that allows professionals to maintain multiple timesheets in a convenient and easy way.

BILLBULL is available exclusively through iTunes for $3.99. Users purchase the program in the same way as music downloads, and then synch it with the iPhone.

Once downloaded, you can immediately keep track of your time using your existing contact list on the phone or add new client information. When you’re ready to use the app BILLBULL presents a list of clients to choose from, each of which have the option of selecting specific tasks. Once the start button is clicked, BILLBULL begins to time the specific work done for each client.

“Exparte Staffing was one of the first agencies to go paperless for timekeeping,” says Alon Karpman, founder and president of Exparte. “All of our employees clock in and out online. This experience has given us insight on how to develop timekeeping software that professionals can use day to day.”
Users can also add notes to each field if necessary, or even manually log hours. BILLBULL keeps timesheet management concise and organized, and once completed the timesheet can be e-mailed to company or personal accounts.

Users of iTunes can see what the top ten paid and free apps were for the five months that the App Store has been open. There are also further break downs for games, entertainment, utilities, social networking and music apps.

It’s a nice list to have because it captures a larger picture of what was popular this year. It doesn’t however give exact rankings or a sense of how much more popular one top-ten app was compared to another. And I’m not quite sure if this is all sales driven or if Apple also is putting in some of its favorite apps