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Orlando, FL – To drive your business forward, it is imperative to get your name, your skills, your business savvy in front of the right audience. Listing your business on FindFileMakerDevelopers (a.k.a FFD) provides invaluable marketing exposure, and acts as fantastic spring board to greater clientele and business revenue. FFD is the only FileMaker listing service that actively promotes its members and continually enhances its benefits.

It’s time FindFileMakerDevelopers helped to better your business’s bottom line.

* 150 is the number of unique individuals who visit FindFileMakerDevelopers everyday in search for companies to hire
* 2000 is the number of unique people from August to-date who have used FindFIleMakerDevelopers to source FileMaker-related talent
* 250,000 is the number of searches performed on FindFileMakerDevelopers by people looking for a specific skill, area or person (September 29, 2008 – November 10, 2008) (individual keyword searches total 2.5 million)
* 66% is the percentage of documented visitor growth in the last three months
* 10 is the number of countries represented

And if your business is not yet profiled on FindFileMakerDevelopers … 0 is the number of times your business has shown-up. That translates to missed opportunities for your business to be someone’s (or several someone’s) top-pick.

Now, ask yourself, when it comes to positively marketing your business, advertising your skills, strengthening your client-base, expanding your portfolio, increasing your revenue – are you willing to allow $35 USD month (Package dependent) stand in your way?

To drive your business forward, it is imperative to get your name, your skills, your business savvy in front of the right audience. Listing your business on FindFileMakerDevelopers (a.k.a FFD) provides invaluable marketing exposure, and acts as fantastic spring board to greater clientele and business revenue. FFD is the only FileMaker listing service that actively promotes its members and continually enhances its benefits. FFD has already revamped its search engine and most recently added the opportunity for companies to post employment opportunities.

With the addition of corporate job opportunities, FFD now marks the only place where end-users, other FileMaker Pro developers and talent seekers, have the ability to study FileMaker-focused companies, their respective employment opportunities and initiate contact with that person or company without ever having to leave the site. FFD is unique in the marketplace because it is the 1st site dedicated to connecting talent seekers with superior FileMaker talent.

What’s more, FFD makes it extraordinarily easy for talent seekers to find the “right” talent without having to sift through countless listings of companies who may or may not meet the qualifications. For professionals, this translates to a greater number of hits, a broader level of exposure and most importantly more opportunities to be hired. As a FileMaker professional, the site will provide a surefire amount of positive exposure, providing an endless number of opportunities to get your company, your product, your skills in front of the right audience in the most direct fashion to-date.

FFD is host to a wide range of features and benefits never before offered through a single FileMaker-driven on-line resource. Features such as:

* Seamless integration – FFD’s simple, straight forward search engine provides quick, applicable results for both development firms and employment opportunities, simultaneously/

* A rich detailed business synopsis with custom portfolio – It’s a one-stop shop that includes all business affiliations, accreditations, custom graphics and personalized ad space that enables you to put your best foot forward, quickly and easily.

* Weekly statistical reports – The only site that provides reports illustrating where you’ve been found – and where you’ve been missed.

* Search Engine Optimization – We use all the tricks of the trade to make sure your profile is found by potential clients … and you get the biggest bang for your buck! Incorporating site maps informs search engines about pages on a website. Not only do we generate the required sitemap.xml file automatically for you, we actively notify the leading search engines whenever you publish an updated profile, which in turn triggers a site map change.

* Single point of contact – Allows interest parties to connect real-time via Skype, iChat, email, phone, etc.

* Being seen and hired instantly – FFD’s “Emergency Aid” feature provides professionals the ability to offer-up their services for a quick short-term project, while offering the talent seeker the ability hire talent on the spot. This slick little feature can be updated directly from any web-enabled device and is visible on both FFD as well as FMForums.

* The opportunity to post an unlimited number of open positions at your company – Benefit includes presence on all the major global FileMaker-based lists, blogs and sites – six in total – prominent placement on the largest FileMaker forum, FMForums, as well as being featured on a handful of independent job and career sites.

And we’re just getting started … FindFileMakerDevelopers is a robust resource, one that continues to gain forward momentum month-to-month. We think it’s time for your business to benefit from being listed on the finest FileMaker profile engine available.

To learn more about this FileMaker community resource, read testimonials from companies already listed, or to understand how listing your business or employment opportunities on FFD will help to strengthen and expand your bottom line, please visit us online.

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Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, DnG Design & Development, Inc. (DnG) is the home of FMPug and FindFileMakerDevelopers (FFD). DnG is fast becoming the world’s leading resource for developers and users who utilize FileMaker Pro in their day-to-day activities. Winner of the Mad Dog PR Award and two FileMaker Excellence Awards, DnG Design & Development is continually updating its offerings to meet the ever-growing needs of the FileMaker community. DnG prides itself on offering top quality resources to anyone and everyone interested in FileMaker.

Fremont, CA – MacsDesign Studio LLC, an industry-pioneering provider of the comprehensive IT help desk software, Web Help Desk, today announced integration with LANrev Client Manager, a leading cross-platform client and patch management software suite. The new integration delivers scheduled imports of asset discovery data from LANrev to the Web Help Desk back-end database and instant access to the LANrev Admin application from within the Web Help Desk browser-based interface.

Automated imports of LANrev’s reliable asset discovery data into the Web Help Desk provide support personnel with up-to-date hardware and software details for the computer identified in the service desk ticket. If additional software license management analysis is required or software patches need to be deployed, Web Help Desk provides instant, asset-specific accessibility to the the LANrev Admin application.

Web Help Desk’s integration with LANrev Client Manager makes initiating an LANrev desktop control session a simple mouse click away. From within a Web Help Desk ticket or asset search, support professionals can instantly access all of LANrev’s features and benefits.

“Even in today’s uncertain economic climate, service desk requests, software compliance issues, and patch management are business realities that will not falter and must be addressed,” said MacsDesign VP, Terry Siddall. “However, by utilizing integrated solutions like Web Help Desk and LANrev that are intuitive, simple to deploy, and provide a heightened and measurable ROI, businesses are able to address these issues while providing demonstrable value back to the organization.”

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About MacsDesign Studio:
Founded in 1998, MacsDesign Studio LLC is a global provider of the Web Help Desk software suite, the leading cross-platform service desk management solution for help desk and customer support professionals who seek to simplify and control their increasingly complex service environments. The extensive feature set of the Web Help Desk software addresses critical IT and support areas, including: Incident and Problem Management, Asset and Desktop Management, Knowledge Management, and Approval Workflow. For more information on the Web Help Desk software suite, visit the Web Help Desk website or call +1-510-279-2251.

About LANrev LP:
LANrev LP is the leading provider of PC and Mac lifecycle management solutions for enterprise IT environments. LANrev’s ease of deployment and powerful management tools help enterprises across the globe save time and money while increasing efficiency. LANrev is a founding member of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance and an Energy Star partner. For more information please visit the LANrev website or call +1-214-459-0136.

Orlando, FL – DnG Design & Development, the driving force behind FindFileMakerDevelopers (FFD) launched its newest feature this week, one that provides companies the opportunity to post available positions on the site completely free of charge. Designed to transform the way people manage their careers and the way companies’ source and subsequently hire FileMaker professionals, FindFileMakerDevelopers continues to provide the most effective means of connecting potential clients and employers with professional FileMaker developers around globe. With the addition of employment postings, FFD has made it even easier to find the right talent with little to no hassle.

For companies that specialize in custom solutions utilizing the FileMaker suite of applications, FFD offers professionals the advantage of listing on a platform designed to showcase professional talent in the best possible light. With the addition of this newest service, members of FFD are automatically entitled to an unlimited number of job postings which includes a standard listing on FindFileMakerDevelopers in addition to being posted on all the major global FileMaker-based lists, blogs and sites – six in total – prominent placement on the largest FileMaker forum, FMForums, as well as presence on a number of independent job/career sites.

Non-development firms, companies whose primary focus falls outside the FileMaker community, may instantly expand their audience by posting their FileMaker-based position on FFD. The “Standard” listing is completely free of charge and includes presence on FFD. However companies may maximize their exposure by enrolling in FFD’s “Enhanced Listing” opportunity. The Enhanced Listing service offers the identical set of benefits available to members – publicity on all the major FileMaker-related lists and sites, prominent advertisement on FMForums and presence on a handful of independent job sites – for a nominal $35 (USD) per position.

By eliminating the need to post and repost the position in multiple places, FFD’s “Enhanced Listing” opportunity is designed to offer companies seeking FileMaker-related talent the maximum amount of targeted exposure in/around the FileMaker community with a minimum amount of effort, time and cost.

Aimed at companies seeking to hire FileMaker-centric talent, this latest addition expands on FindFileMakerDeveloper’s mission to provide a one-stop-shop for people seeking an easy, efficient, and effective means to find FileMaker-based resources. One of the marketable advantages of FindFileMakerDevelopers is how new features, like this one, are designed and integrated seamlessly into the existing infrastructure. The end result proves to be an intuitive, yet robust experience for the visitor. Search results now include matches for development companies as well as available jobs – simultaneously.

Upon scanning company profiles, visitors are able to immediately recognize development firms who are activity hiring; enabling visitors to learn about the job opportunity and the company all in one place. For non-development firms who are seeking FileMaker-centric talent, the visitor is able to search, filter and study the available jobs. With the addition of corporate job opportunities, FFD now marks the only place where end-users, other FileMaker Pro developers and talent seekers, have the ability to study FileMaker-focused companies, their respective employment opportunities and initiate contact with that person or company without ever having to leave the site.

To learn more about this FileMaker community resource, read testimonials from companies already listed, or to understand how listing your business or employment opportunities on FFD will help to strengthen and expand your audience, please visit us online.

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Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, DnG Design & Development, Inc. (DnG) is the home of FMPug and FindFileMakerDevelopers (FFD). DnG is fast becoming the world’s leading resource for developers and users who utilize FileMaker Pro in their day-to-day activities. Winner of the Mad Dog PR Award and two FileMaker Excellence Awards, DnG Design & Development is continually updating its offerings to meet the ever-growing needs of the FileMaker community. DnG prides itself on offering top quality resources to anyone and everyone interested in FileMaker.

Birmingham, United Kingdom – In association with Momentum Games and Chillingo Ltd, Intar Technologies Ltd are proud to reveal the imminent release in December 2008 of “Pocket Mini Golf 2″ for iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch. The Pocket Mini Golf series has won multiple awards on PocketPC, Smartphone and PC – now it can be enjoyed on the iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch too.

Originally developed by Momentum Games, and published/promoted by Chillingo Ltd, the game has been converted to iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch by Intar Technologies Ltd, a UK developer with a long history of videogames development.

“Pocket Mini Golf 2″ features a massive variety of holes, including fairways, rough, sand pits, beaches, loads of interesting objects to negotiate and much much more …

Feature Highlights:
* Multi-Language Support (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
* Amazing Environments (including castles, deserts, jungles, mountains, beaches)
* 6 Golfers in total each with different skills/abilities
* Portrait and Landscape View Supported
* 4 Game Types (Standard/Arcade-Time Carryover/Arcade-Time Attack/Practice)
* Play standard golf rules or against the clock
* 3 Difficulty Settings (Amateur/Semi-Professional/Pro)
* Win Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. There are 9 awards to win per course
* Hazards (including water, sand traps, rough grass)
* Huge Variety of Objects to Use or Avoid: Trees, Lampposts, Bushes, Rocks, Cactus, Traffic cones, Bollards, Postbox etc
* Special Objects (including springs, timed barriers, secret stars, conveyors)
* Secret Holes
* Weather Effects
* Instant Replays
* Zoom In/Out

Compatibility:
* iPhone and iPod touch

Pricing and Availability:
The game is in the final phase of development and testing, and is expected to be ready to purchase on the App Store in early December 2008.

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Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, Intar Technologies Ltd was founded in 1997 by Ashley Hogg. The company has been primarily involved in the development of videogames, with experience covering most commercially available games systems. The company has also taken on occasional consulting and support roles both inside and outside the videogames industry. Intar is expecting to expand over the coming year to develop more games and software for iPhone(TM), Mac OSX, and other platforms. The company is also currently investigating the possibility of establishing a division in France. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Madrid, Spain – Wuonm today is delighted to announce FaceCall 1.2, an update to their popular icon-based dialer application for Apple iPhone. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, FaceCall allows anyone to call their favorites contacts by simply tapping the photo icon on their home screen.

Perfect for one-touch calling, FaceCall makes icons of pictures right from the springboard. Users select a contact from their Address Book, pick one of his or her phone numbers, and by taking advantage of Apple Web Clips technology, put the icon on their home screen. It is also possible to use a picture from the photo library or take a new snapshot with iPhone’s camera.

Create icons from pictures of family and friends right in the home screen. Users may add as many icons as they want. After the icons are created, users may sort and arrange them just as they do with the rest of their apps. Simple tap, hold and drag them anywhere in the home screen, move to a different page or delete it.

Feature highlights include:
* Unlimited number of icons
* Create the icons from a contact’s photo or choose a picture from the photo library or even taking a snapshot
* Version 1.2 offers speed improvements to the dialing proccess
* When calls are finished, users are returned to the springboard

System Requirements:
* iPhone 2.1 or later
* Internet Connection (during the icon creation process)

Pricing and Availability:
FaceCall 1.2 for iPhone is only $2.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store. Review copies of FaceCall are available for the media, and encouraged to send Wuonm their UDID.

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Located in beautiful Madrid, Spain, Wuonm is a small, privately funded Spanish company founded in 2006 by Katy Huertas. With a focus on the Mac and iPhone platforms, Wuonm was formed by experienced people who love programming and have a passion to create original and unique applications. FaceCall for iPhone is their first product, and working in new Mac and iPhone apps. Copyright 2006-2008 Wuonm. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.