Hagenberg, Austria – Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 4.1, the award-winning tool for inserting special characters into your documents across all Mac OS X applications.
The new version improves compatibility with OpenOffice and NeoOffice and can now detect the current font in MultiAd Creator Pro. It also includes a new technique for flexible adaptation to peculiarities of certain applications. Furthermore, PopChar X 4.1 delivers a number of other improvements and fixes for user-reported issues. In particular, it fixes a problem that caused the memory allocation of PopChar to grow over time.
Visit Ergonis Software’s website at to learn more about specific enhancements contained in this release and to download a trial copy.
PopChar solves a problem faced by every technologist and multi-lingual worker. Inserting special characters into application documents can be frustrating and results in a steady loss of productivity. With PopChar you no longer need to search for and remember keystrokes. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document right away.
La Jolla, California – Extendmac is proud to announce Flow 1.1, an update to their award-winning FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and .Mac client for Mac OS X. Presenting a gorgeous user interface, Flow streamlines both transferring and editing files by leveraging high-speed connections.
Armed with the belief that file-transfer should be both powerful and elegant, Flow brings the best of the Mac to managing server files and folders. By integrating with the latest OS X technologies, like Quicklook, Flow makes working remotely every bit as intuitive and natural as working locally with the Finder.
After uploading a file, the URL to the file on the web can be automatically copied to the clipboard for easy sharing. Flow also includes a powerful integrated editor, as well as support for editing in an external application of the user’s choice. Users may now specify a specific external editor to be used for a particular extension when editing externally.
When using the internal editor, code is colored for easier readability, and can be previewed using WebKit. Flow can suggest completions of HTML, CSS, and PHP elements, properties, and functions, respectively. To further enhance readability, Flow now includes “Bitstream Vera Sans Mono” as the default editor font.
Alameda, California – Karelia Software has released version 1.1.2 of the Karelia iMedia Browser, a free utility that adds the familiar “media browser” experience to just about any Mac application.
Version 1.1.2 features live updating of media libraries, improved parsing of iPhoto and Lightroom libraries, and restored access to Sounds, iLife Sound Effects, and iMovie Sound Effects. Thanks to reports from users and other developers, Karelia and other contributors to the Browser’s open source framework have also made many under-the-hood enhancements resulting in smoother, faster browsing.
A stand-alone utility, the Karelia iMedia Browser lets users quickly and easily browse and drag photos, music, movies, and bookmarks from their Pictures, Music, and Movies folders and from applications including iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, GarageBand, and several leading web browsers. In addition to being used in Sandvox, Karelia’s award-winning website development application, the iMedia framework is used by developers around the world in a number of third-party applications, including Skitch, MemoryMiner, Ubercaster, iStar Composer, Norkross Movie, Posterino, and Photo to Movie.
Los Angeles, USA – Macvide has announced Audio Recorder 2.0, their Audio capturing conversion utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, Audio Recorder allows capture voice, music and other audio that you can use in podcasts or other audio or voice presentations. All of the most popular formats are supported, including mp3, amr, wma, mmf, aac, ac3, flac, mp2, and helps bridge the gap between many audio standards.
Macvide Audio Recorder allows you easily record voice or music directly from a microphone or other external line-in input. In addition you can also record sounds that are being played by your Mac internally such as audio that is being played by other applications such as iTunes, QuickTime, Flash, and various games or via internet broadcasts and internet streaming audio or music. Audio Recorder is ideal for recording interviews, news or melodies from radio, speech in conferences, and other situations that require instant recording.
Feature highlights include:
* Record sound, voice, notes, music or any other audio
* Save recordings to your hard drive in mp3
* Save recordings to your hard drive in amr
* Save recordings to your hard drive in wma
* Save recordings to your hard drive in aac
* Save recordings to your hard drive in ac3
* Save recordings to your hard drive in flac
* Wave encoding at sample rates between 6000 and 196000Hz in PCM or many other codecs and bits
* Designed to be simple and robust for professional and corporate recording applications
Chicago, Illinois – Yazsoft has released a major new update to ShareTool. Developed for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world. No server or technical skills required. Just a simple mouse click. Also works with VPN connections. For anyone that’s been itching to get Bonjour working over VPN, ShareTool is for you.
What is ShareTool and why should I care?
Scenario: You’ve just purchased a brand new iMac and MacBook and are simply loving it. You’ve set up your home or office network exactly the way you want it. You have file sharing between the two machines and can transfer your documents easily between them; you can listen to your iMac’s iTunes Library from the MacBook and view your MacBook’s iPhoto Library from your iMac. Everything on your network works exactly as you want it to and life is beautiful.
Yes, you read it right. LogMeIn has released a beta version of its LogMeIn Ignition software that gives Apple iPhone and iPod touch users easy, secure access to their remote office and home computers.
With one-click from their iPhone or iPod touch, customers can connect to their computer and work as if they were sitting in front of it. LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone and iPod touch connects to desktops and laptops running LogMeIn Free, LogMeIn Pro or LogMeIn IT Reach and can be used to control Windows-based and Apple computers.
Some of the Key features are:
* One-touch access to remote access of PC/Mac
* Full keyboard, mouse, zoom and scroll control using touch screen
* Securely saves login information
* Option settings for optimizing the experience of connecting to and controlling the remote computer, including locking the remote computer’s keyboard, blanking the screen of the remote computer and screen resolution
Does your Mac wake-up at the same time each day regardless of the energy saving settings? Mine did, until I found this fix (below). The latest Software Update patch also fixes this issue.
Mac OS X 10.5: Computer starts up unexpectedly at the same time each day
* Last Modified: September 15, 2008
* Article: TS1831
Symptoms
In Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4, your Mac may start up unexpectedly each day (at midnight UTC/GMT) even if it is not scheduled to start up in Energy Saver preferences in System Preferences.
The local time when the computer may start up will vary depending on which time zone you are located in and whether or not daylight savings time is being observed. For example: Midnight UTC/GMT may be 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) or 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).
This could happen after upgrading from Mac OS X 10.4 to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Products Affected
Mac OS X 10.5
Resolution
Download and install Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later.
Additional Information
If you’re not ready to update to Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later, you can use this workaround:
1. Choose Go to Folder from the Finder’s Go menu
2. Type or paste the following, then press Return:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
3. In the SystemConfiguration folder, locate and delete the file named “com.apple.AutoWake.plist”
Your computer should no longer start up at midnight UTC/GMT (unless you later add a scheduled event in Energy Saver preferences).
Tip: If you need to schedule your Mac to sleep, restart, or shut down at a specific time, you should also schedule it to wake or start up at a time when the computer is likely to already be powered on. For example, if you need the computer to shut down every day at 6:00 PM, you could schedule it to wake or start up at 5:55 PM. The computer will not start up at midnight UTC/GMT on any days, as long as it is scheduled to start up or wake at some other time at least one day a week.
San Diego, California – Siavash Ghamaty introduces Recycler, the first recycling-friendly iPhone application for free download. “Recycler”, by developer Siavash Ghamaty, untangles those complicated and seemingly arbitrary PEC plastic codes on the bottom of your recyclables. Acceptable plastic recycling codes vary from location to location. Recycler allows users to add their location’s codes into an attractive interface that makes a green-conscious lifestyle easy.
“I created this application to remind myself of what items I can throw into my recycling and which just don’t go,” Ghamaty says, “After using this application for a couple of weeks, I ended up memorizing the plastic codes and hope other users do the same. It’s a win for the land fills and environmentalists either way.”
When asked how this excells over use of a standard notes application to store this information, Ghamaty replied, “It’s not just a Post-It note or reminder on your fridge that triggers memory, especially for the Mac-friendly user. Everything must look as good as the iPhone, visually appeasing and an overall nice experience. I feel I nailed this on a certain level and hope the audience agrees. Mainly, I just want people to recycle more.”
The App Store features other environmentally friendly tools such as Green Meter which focuses on fuel consumption. Ghamaty’s application is the first of its kind, blending answers to everyday recycling challenges with the convenience of the iPhone.
Siavash Ghamaty is a computer programming professional and has built other applications for the app store in the games and utilities genres. He runs Ghamaty.com, the home of an Adobe Flex/ Flash and iPhone development blog, as well as support for his iPhone applications. Copyright 2008 Siavash Ghamaty. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Middleburg Heights, Ohio – Grantwood Technology, LLC today announced the release of the tuneband(TM) for the 4th generation iPod nano, an armband product designed to comfortably secure the iPod nano 4th generation in place during exercise, including Nike+iPod compatibility.
Each tuneband consists of a comfortable and flexible armband strap that can accommodate both large and small arms, a durable silicone skin that allows access to all ports on the iPod nano, and a low-tack, cut-and-peel screen protector that helps guard against smudges, moisture, and daily wear-and-tear. The silicone skin of the tuneband was specifically designed for runners and walkers fully covering the bottom corners of the iPod, securely holding it in place, yet allowing access to the USB port and headphone jack. The silicone skin also does not cover the click wheel to allow it to be used without interference.
“By using the best design features of our previous tuneband products,” states Michael Banks, co-founder and CEO of Grantwood Technology, LLC, “we made this the best iPod armband for the 4th generation iPod available at a very competitive price,” states Michael Banks, CEO of Grantwood Technology.
Frankfort, Kentucky – Steven Riggs is proud to announce TimeTable 1.5. TimeTable allows you to easily analyze and total the number of hours recorded in iCal.
Why not use iCal for more than just scheduling? TimeTable reads and filters iCal calendar data and then calculates the hours spent in the events. Find trends by searching the details of events and viewing the average, maximum and minimum times spent on projects. This makes it particularly suited for tracking and billing without keeping a second record outside of iCal.
Thanks to feedback from customers who helped shape this new release!
New in version 1.5:
* New exports for to do details to text and CSV.
* New expandable to do drawer.
* New set custom hours for all day events.
Bugs fixed:
* Problem with non-numeric characters in the hourly rate field causing TimeTable to crash fixed.
Namibia, Africa – White Wizard Productions is proud to announce MConvert 7.4. MConvert is the prime software for converting measurements (metric/imperial) and currencies, and the most comprehensive and accurate converter available. It’s a great tool for education and reference.
MConvert includes the following 26 conversion groups and many subgroups: Acceleration, Angle, Area, Base, Consumption, Currency, Data, Density, Energy, Energy/Mass, Force, GPS, Illuminance, Length, Luminance, Mass, Permeability, Power, Pressure, Radioactivity, Temperature, Time, Torque, Velocity, Viscosity, Volume.
Feature highlights include:
* Anytime currency updates online
* Support of multi conversion
* Export results
* Ergonomic and user-friendly
* Educational display of all units in one window
* Flexible display of units
* e=mc2 calculations
American Fork, Utah – MileBug LITE, a lite version of the premier iPhone mileage log application, is now available for only $2.99 (compared with $6.99 for Standard). MileBug LITE helps those driving their own vehicles for business, charity, medical, or other reasons receive their reimbursement and/or tax deduction. In the U.S., IRS business rates are up to 58.5 cents/mile. MileBug LITE for the iPhone/iPod Touch helps people track their miles and provides emailed reports for easy submission to employers, accountants, and the IRS.
What’s New?
* Option for kilometers vs miles (General Settings)
* Custom deduction rates
* Define multiple business rates (reimbursement vs. deduction)
* “Other” business category for percentage tax filers
* Foreign and other special characters supported in reports
* Notes included in reports
* SPANISH version
MileBug LITE answers the call from the many international customers. Inside the General Settings is now an option to select kilometers instead of miles. From within the Presets, users can define custom rates for business, charity, medical, and other categories. If you get one rate from your employer for reimbursement, and another rate from the IRS for your side business, you simply create two different business rates.
As an added bonus, MileBug LITE supports Spanish. Simply select Spanish as the language of your iPhone or iPod Touch in the General Settings –> International area and restart MileBug LITE. Bienvenido a MileBug!
Izatt International is an iPhone/iPod Touch application development company in American Fork, UT. Izatt develops applications internally as well as accepts outside development projects. Fingerspell is another application developed by Izatt now available on the App Store. Copyright 2008 Izatt International. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
(cross-posted from the Official Google Mobile Blog)
The world just got a little bit smaller. Google Earth is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allowing you to fly to the far reaches of the world from the palm of your hand. Since we launched Google Earth for the desktop in 2005, we’ve had over 400 million unique downloads, and people from around the world have used it to view their house, research travel destinations, learn how to make the world a better place, find local businesses, and view geo-located photos. Now, with a free download from the iTunes App Store, you can fly through the same 3D immersive world of Google Earth you’ve come to love, without having to fire up your desktop computer.
Check out this video tour to see Google Earth for iPhone in action:
Not only is having Google Earth on your iPhone convenient, but the touch interface is a very natural way to interact with the Earth. Just swipe your finger across the screen and you fly to the other side of the globe; tilt your phone and your view tilts as well. You can pinch to zoom in or out, or just double tap with one finger to zoom in and two fingers to zoom out. We also integrated the My Location feature, so with a touch of a button, you can fly to where you are in the real world on your phone. In addition, we have over eight million Panoramio photos, which are geo-located photos of places, and you can view any and all of them from your iPhone. Besides being beautiful, high-quality pictures, they’re specifically of places, so you don’t have to see some guy’s family on vacation in Thailand–you can see the beaches, the temples, all the things that give you a real sense of the place. Here is a nice shot of the Grand Palace that I found on my virtual tour of Bangkok:
Hutto, Texas – Macgamestore today announced the release of Righteous Kill for the Macintosh. Developed by Merscom, Inc, Righteous Kill is a downloadable casual game based on the major theatrical movie released in September.
Step into the shoes of Erica Dean as she investigates crime scenes in New York City. It’s a man hunt for a vigilante on a killing spree through 16 locations containing over a thousand hidden objects. With the help of Sergeant Vasquez, Erica will use clues she collects in a number of detective-themed mini games. Inspired by the motion picture film, Righteous Kill features clips from the movie and 15 animated levels.
Features:
* Engaging side story to the Righteous Kill movie
* Animated and atmospheric environments
* In-game tutorial seamlessly integrated into the game
* Beautiful but realistic visual style that conveys the New York City setting
* Multiple mini-games bases on detective activities
* Over one thousand objects
* Integrated hint system
* Exciting plot and storyline
Cerdanyola de Valles, Spain – Aero Quartet has released Treasured, an app for the Mac that is able to diagnose and preview corrupt movie files. Treasured is the perfect complement to the Movie Repair Service unveiled last year: Video Professionals can now check whether a corrupt file still contains the precious footage and is repairable, directly on their computer and in a few minutes.
If you decide to repair the file, Treasured sends the report to Aero Quartet, whose technicians will develop a customized solution. Treasured and Movie Repair Service are designed to work perfectly together, delivering a 90% success rate in a 48 hours turn-around time.
Aero Quartet has already developed repair techniques for a wide range of formats and codecs: DVCPro HD, HDV, Intermediate, XDCAM, ProRes422, DV, H264, MPEG4, JPEG. The list grows longer every month.
Availability:
Treasured is free and runs on Mac OS X 10.4 and higher.
Aero Quartet was founded in 2005 in Barcelona, Spain by Benoit Joossen. Our charter is to create useful software for the Macinstosh platform. “The major software companies have already filled the space with their big software suites. But you don’t fill a box only with big stones, you also need lots of pebbles. As a small developer, I want to craft some of those pebbles, indeed I want them to be gem stones !” Copyright 2005-2008 Aero Quartet. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Los Angeles, USA – Macvide is proud to announce ScreenCap 1.9, their video to Flash conversion utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, ScreenCap allows video recording, single screenshot or timed screenshot series capturing from your Mac. All of the most popular video and image formats are supported: iPod mp4, 3gp, QuickTime MOV, Adobe Flash SWF and FLV, jpeg, png, tiff, bmp.
ScreenCap offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the capturing and recording process. The application can select capturing area in a preview window or on a whole screen. ScreenCap automatically provides ideal default settings and control many audio/video preferences. Audio capturing can record your voice during creating your video from microphone or just grab all sound of your Mac.
Feature highlights include:
* Record Video from your desctop or selected area
* Record Flash Video FLV or SWF from your Desktop or selected area
* Capture part or whole of screen by selecting capturing area
* Capture single frame screenshots
* Capture timed screenshots series
* Store result screenshots to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP formats
* Save captured video to quickTime MOV, iPod mp4 or Mobile 3GP formats
* Save captured to Flash SWF and FLV Video
* Selectable area for Capturing
* Preview of selecte area
* Hotkey support
* Easy to use
Munich, Germany – Boinx Software announced today FotoMagico 2.6, an update to its award-winning photo presentation software for professional photographers. The new 2.6 version of FotoMagico Pro now also supports Adobe Lightroom 2 libraries and comes with an plug-in for Aperture, enabling photographers to select their photos from within Aperture and to export them directly to FotoMagico.
“FotoMagico always was the premier photo slideshow tool on the Mac. Professional photographers treasure its fine-granular controls for creative storytelling”, says Oliver Breidenbach, co-founder of Boinx Software. “With the new version 2.6, which is a free update for all FotoMagico 2 users, we further deepend the integration with the two leading photo workflow solutions from Adobe and Apple.”
“The Aperture Plug-in provides the missing link in my workflow”, says Derrick Story, Author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers. “Now I can select the images for my slideshow in Aperture, and the plugin automatically creates a FotoMagico document with them. Very nice.”
Adobe Lightroom 2 Support:
In addition to iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom 1 libraries, FotoMagico 2.6 (Pro version only) now also supports libraries of the new Adobe Lightroom 2. With the integrated iMedia Browser users can also seamlessly access GarageBand songs, iLife sound effects and media libraries from iTunes or media files from any other folder on their hard disk.
FotoMagico Plug-in for Aperture:
The new FotoMagico Plug-in for Aperture allows photographers to select the pictures in Aperture and export them to FotoMagico to create stunning animated photo presentations with transitions, titles and more. A photographer can now access his Aperture library from the iMedia Browser from within FotoMagico, or the other way around – send a selection of pictures from Aperture to FotoMagico. The FotoMagico Plug- in for Aperture is part of FotoMagico 2.6 and also available as a free download at the Boinx Website.
Availability and Pricing:
FotoMagico 2.6 is available immediately for download from the Boinx Website. A built-in assistant will guide users through the process of aquiring the proper license. The update to FotoMagico 2.6 is free of charge to current FotoMagico 2.x license owners at their current license levels. FotoMagico 2.6 Express is available for $49 (USD) and FotoMagico 2.6 Pro is available for $129 (USD) via Kagi. For all purchase options see the Web site. Commercial multi-user license discounts are available upon request.
New York, NY – Indie-focused online music radio broadcaster, BreakThru Radio is using technology from TVersity to offer on-demand radio shows to iPhone and iTouch users. The news means the broadcaster’s diverse range of channels – covering the gamut, from reggae to rock.
Access is easy; iPhone and iTouch users simply need to navigate to iphone.breakthruradio.com in Safari on their device. Once there they will be presented with a series of drop-down menus which allow them to choose the on-demand show they want to hear.
Designed to break the dull stranglehold of commercial radio playlist culture in the US, BreakThru Radio is a channel collection that comprises interesting new sounds presented by DJs from the underground scene: death metal, dancehall, dubstep, hip-hop, indie rock, skronk, roots country, reggae, electronica, acid jazz, ambient beats, dub, two-step or folk, whatever … The site offers its daily listeners unlimited access to underground music, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Mainz, Germany – Synium Software makes the final version 5.3 of MacFamilyTree available for download. After less than a month of public beta testing, the popular and intuitive genealogy application for the Mac receives another important update.
With new WebKit-based Reports and an entirely new Kinship system, Synium rewrote two core components of MacFamilyTree from the ground up. Hobby genealogists as well as serious researchers can freely define lists of persons, families, events and places. Reports’ layout, look and feel can be cutomized to specific workflow and publishing needs. Font types and sizes can be adjusted to perfectly match your output requirements, in print or PDF – and on the Web.
For MacFamilyTree 5.3, the Kinship analysis technology has been redesigned completely, and the German software developers heavily improved the Descendant Chart too. Both analysis tools now ensure better and more reliable visualization of complex family relations. Also, using the Virtual Globe was heavily enhanced with the new interactive events list, allowing direct access to places for, e.g. the birth of a child or a marriage event.
Boston, MA – Outer Level today announced the immediate availability of Bullfrog Touch 1.1, the addictive arcade game for iPhone and iPod Touch. This new version adds 25 new challenging levels, redesigned game controls, better performance, and many other improvements.
Race against time to defend your swamp from invading bugs and return peace and quiet to your home. Hop your way through 75 challenging levels to earn your spot atop the online global rankings.
New in Bullfrog 1.1
* Game controls now use on-screen buttons
* 25 New Levels
* Pause brings up a new in-game menu
* New Save and exit option from in-game menu
* Updated Scoreboard graphics
* Improved rendering performance and controls responsiveness
* New Help screen replaces in-game tutorial
* Several bug fixes
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