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Putney, Vermont – IGG Software announces the release of Spoilage, its first handheld game product. The game is available exclusively via download from Apple’s App Store for use on iPhones and the iPod Touch.

Spoilage is an addictive game with subtle, chess-like strategy and basic, checkers-like moves. A single game can be played in just minutes, so you never need a large time commitment. While Spoilage is deceptively simple at first, it soon proves surprisingly tricky. Multiple levels of difficulty, different boards and randomly selected layouts provide for endless hours of engagement and entertainment.

As the player, you assume the role of a bacteria colony battling for resources. You can replicate yourself, but not move far, or travel a greater distance while leaving precious spaces susceptible to invasion by other colonies. Attacking the enemy colony gains you resources and your population immediately expands. But as your colony grows, it becomes increasingly susceptible to exploitation by your competitor. Do you have what it takes to masterfully command a bacteria colony and take over the ooze world?

The game’s creator, James Gillespie, recently joined IGG after more than a dozen years in Mac development with a major West Coast software publisher. “I brought the game to IGG as something I had begun working on for fun,” says Gillespie. “Ultimately I was trying to create something you could play if you only had a few minutes to kill, but that would still be challenging if you’d already played it a million times.

“While this doesn’t represent a shift in direction or priorities for IGG, it’s already had the advantage of giving us some experience in working with the App Store,” adds Gillespie. “As software developers, we think the potential there is tremendous.”

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch
* iPhone software 2.0

Pricing and Availability:
Spoilage is only $2.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Located in Putney, Vermont, IGG Software, LLC, was founded in 2003 by developer Ian Gillespie. The company publishes the leading Mac-only personal finance software iBank 3, as well as the time-tracking and project management application iBiz 3. For further information, review licenses, or to schedule an interview with James Gillespie, please contact IGG Marketing Director Scott Marc Becker. Copyright 2003-2008 IGG Software, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Los Angeles, USA – ProteMac has announced ProteMac Meter 1.2, their network Activity monitor and network traffic logger utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, ProteMac Meter allows control network activity for each application on your Mac, showing you exactly what was transmitted and to where. The capability to audit what flows in and out of every piece of software is critical for security aware users. ProteMac Meter provides real-time network processes (applications and services) monitoring and shows the history of every network activity.

ProteMac Meter shows extensive information about each connection: application network connections, host availability, remote host name, amounts of incoming and outgoing traffic through connection or application, timestamps of the first and last activity, application that initiated or accepted this connection, full path to the application the process belongs to, and much more. The traffic summary indicator shows an upload and download speed graph and traffic totals specially for selected application.

Visualizing your Internet activity is simple, even for inexperienced users. You can view all established connections, monitor network and per application traffic over a certain period, setup various notifications and much more. Use ProteMac Meter right from your menubar floating diagrams to see the application and network bytes flow.

New in version 1.2:
* Preferences dialog added
* List of monitored and ignored application
* Data auto-cleanup interface
* Data Cleanup to remove all connection statistics
* Stability Improved
* Misc bugs fixed.

Feature highlights include:
* Display chart and table of network application’s or connection’s real time activity.
* Display real time network traffic usage for each application on your Mac!
* Display real time network traffic summary for your Mac.
* Display real time network speed for your Mac.
* Provides clear graphical and numerical network traffic details.
* Log each session, include start/stop time, application, remote address/port, total transferred bytes and average speed.
* Generate network traffic statistics report, display period network usage for each application and each remote IP.
* Monitors multiple network connection interfaces at the same time.
* Views connection details in summary, daily, weekly and monthly format, plus export to many different file formats.
* Readout in either kB/sec (kilobytes per second) or kbps (kilobits per second).
* Useful stopwatch to accurately time downloads and report the average transfer rates.
* Includes complete window configuration and view options.
* Alarms once a particular amount of traffic volume is reached in the period.
* Alarms for specified Application, bandwith or time
* List of monitored and ignored application
* The utility has a transparent user-friendly interface and is very simple in use.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 14.0 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
ProteMac Meter 1.2 is available for only $29.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the Macvide website.

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Located in historic St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Intelus, Ltd. is a privately funded company founded in 2002. Leveraging their longtime experience in the video industry, Intelus’ goal is to develop best-of-breed tools for the Mac platform, and lead to the creation of Macvide. Copyright 2002-2008 Intelus, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Fleet, UK – Intrinsic Development Corp. Limited launches new iPhone Developer Training Course in the UK, offering developers endless opportunities in this exciting, dynamic market. With the ever increasing market share of the iPhone globally and in the UK, this is an inspiring time for mobile platform developers and programmers. There are new opportunities for discussion, interaction, and learning about the platform, frameworks, tools and languages that are used to create applications for this amazing new platform.

The iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) was released at the Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference in June 2008. Many resources and sessions were made available from Apple on the subject of iPhone development, but it was all covered under non-disclosure. With the lifting of the non-disclosure agreement in October 2008, numerous websites, forums and conferences have blossomed and the dialogue is now flowing.

The Intrinsic Development course focuses on providing delegates with the most essential information needed to start programming for the iPhone, in a three day course, to be held in Reading, Berkshire. The course objective is to enable delegates to become proficient users of the Software Development Kit and become part of this new community of developers. The first course runs from December 10th 2008. This is the first course on this subject in the UK.

Basic course content:
* Introduction to Objective C language
* Introduction to iPhone tools – XCode IDE (integrated development environment) and Interface Builder
* Planning and organisation skills – Architecture, hierarchies, model classes, views and controlling classes
* Introduction to Cocoa Touch and other relevant frameworks
* Introduction to iPhone unique features and integration with other applications – location services, animation, 3-d graphics, the accelerometer
* Application restrictions – such as platform stability and security

The course has been developed by About Objects Inc., a premier IT training and consultancy company headquartered in Reston, VA.

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Founded in 1991, Intrinsic Development offers software solutions for businesses backed by a comprehensive service. This includes consultancy, design and development, system implementation and configuration, training and technical support. The company employs technologies such as C, C++, Objective-C and Java on diverse target platforms including iPhone, Unix, Macintosh, Windows and the Web. Copyright 1991-2008 Intrinsic Development. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Vilnius, Lithuania – Jumsoft, the leading developer of Apple Keynote theme and illustration add-ons, has finally released Keynote Photos 3.0, a collection of more than 300 textured photographs. Keynote Photos 3.0 fills the presentation creation gaps in Jumsoft’s Keynote theme and illustration add-ons. More than 300 textured and solid-colored photographs, all compatible with Apple’s highest Keynote slide resolution of 1024×768 ppi, allow users to utilize pro-photographers blinks to illustrate that special idea.

Keynote Photos last was upgraded two years ago; version 2.0 had more than 200 amazing photographs. To expand users’ options for creating nontraditional presentations, Keynote Photos 3.0 includes 100 new high-quality images and the 200 from the previous version. All photographs have been carefully selected to show users how everyday scenes can be converted into an amazing background.

Finding the perfect texture for pictures is Jumsoft’s photographers’ mission. With both natural scenes and cityscapes, from grass to pavement, users will find something amazing for their presentations and will be surprised at how solid they look. Assuredly, the many scenes provided in Keynote Photos 3.0 will suit multiple presentation subjects and situations.

Just in case, it is worth mentioning or simply refreshing users’ minds that our high-quality photos can be used anywhere, as users do with traditional photos. Each Keynote Photos 3.0 image looks as perfect in iWork Pages documents as in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later
* Apple(TM) iWork ‘06 or iWork ‘08

The great news is that any version of Keynote can be upgraded to Keynote Photos 3.0. Keynote Photos 3.0 is available for $39 (USD) if purchased singly, but the upgrade for Keynote Photos 2.x costs only $19 (USD).

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Based in scenic Vilnius, Lithuania, Jumsoft is a privately funded company founded in 2002. Committed to providing the highest quality software, Jumsoft is a dedicated group of Apple Macintosh experts whose goal is creating and marketing exciting, easy-to-use and powerful applications for the Mac Platform. Jumsoft most recently focused its attention on maximizing the potential of Apple’s iWork, quickly becoming the leading provider of Keynote themes and objects. Copyright 2002-2008 Jumsoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Portland, Oregon – Njection LLC is delighted to introduce Njection Mobile (NMobile), their worldwide speed trap notification system for iPhone 3G. Designed specifically to take advantage of the 3G’s unique abilities and interface, NMobile was built for drivers so they can be notified to the location of speed traps, red light cameras, and speed detection devices.

Njection Mobile is the first to use a native Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Services (VEWS) implementation, leveraging the mobile tile set to speed up map displays, and provides one of the best mapping experiences on the iPhone.

Drivers may be alerted audibly to approaching speed traps based on several different criteria. The application uses Active Intelligence Selection System to alert users to the most relevant speed trap, based on speed, direction of travel, and current time. Users can submit and verify speed traps directly from the iPhone as well.

For business, personal travel, delivery service or anyone who spends time on the road, NMobile is the most advanced Speed Trap notification system available for the iPhone 3G.

Other Feature highlights include:
* Speech notification of Speed Traps based on current moving direction, speed of the driver, and distance to closest point using Active Intelligence Selection System (AISS)
* First software outside of Microsoft to use Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Services (VEWS) that uses SOAP and mobile tiles for faster downloads and lower bandwidth utilization.
* Live Updates of speed traps updated from the website or other iPhone users
* Support for Landscape and Portrait mode
* Speed Trap Ranking based on level of enforcement and time of day area is monitored
* 3G and 2.5G Compatible
* Submit Speed traps from the iPhone or on the website
* Rate Speed traps from the iPhone or on the website

Njection LLC has also simultaneously released VirtualEarthKit, a Software Development Kit used in the development of Njection Mobile. Available under the BSD license, VirtualEarthKit is a Cocoa framework that will allow developers to access Virtual Earth’s services, such as geocoding, reverse geocoding, imagery and more. VirtualEarthKit runs on both Mac OS X and the iPhone platform. It will be managed by Consonance Software.

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* iPhone 3G or Edge (but may not work as well without GPS)

Pricing and Availability:
Njection Mobile 1.0 for iPhone is only $9.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store. Media review copies are available on request.

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Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Njection LLC is a small privately funded company founded in 2007 by Shannon Atkinson. In addition to developing awareness of speed traps worldwide, Njection is a hub for the exchange of automotive information, a lively discussion forum and news for serious car enthusiasts everywhere. Copyright 2007-2008 Njection LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Virtual Earth is a registered trademark of Microsoft Inc.

Saint-Petersburg, Russia – Milk Farm Software today announced the launch of the new product, Chronograph. Chronograph is a Mac OS X time tracking application. List your projects, divide them into tasks and start the timer; it is as easy as that! With its intuitive interface, Chronograph makes time-tracking and reports-generation as unobtrusive as possible.

There are many complex time-tracking applications available, but our goal is to keep process simple and streamlined, by starting with absolutely necessary set of features and gradually expanding it, without adding complexity.

Feature Highlights:
* Unlimited number of Projects
* Unlimited number of Tasks per Project
* Interface optimised for both mouse- and keyboard-control
* Export in PDF and HTML
* Instantly create email-drafts with reports

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 2.1 MB Hard Drive space

Trial version limitations:
* Only 2 Tasks can be created
* Export-functionality is disabled

Pricing and Availability:
Chronograph is a shareware program. Lifetime license costs Euro 15.95. All future updates are free for registered users.

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Milk Farm Software, ltd. was founded in 2004 by Andrey Belov and Alexey Zakhlestin. The company develops best of class innovative software for Macintosh. Our team consists of skillful artists and programmers with strong experience in different kinds of technology. Milk Farm Software’s mission is to create deeply functional and easy to use software, which conforms to international standards. We believe that core technologies should be open-source and contribute parts of our work to the community under BSD-style licence. Cocoa and Bonjour are registered trademarks of Apple inc.

Vancouver, Washington – unmarked software today announces the release and immediate availability of TextSoap(R) 6.0.1, an update to its text processing utility for Mac OS X. The TextSoap 6.0.1 update is a maintenance release that fixes a number of reported issues and adds several minor enhancements, including a new plugin to support Coda 1.6.

The update also addresses an issue that prevented some older serial numbers from being recognized when upgrading. A complete list of changes is documented in the TextSoap 6 History page.

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* Requires Mac OS X v10.5 or later
* Universal Binary: Works great on both Intel and PowerPC
* 14 MB hard Drive space

Take total control of text and its style. Whether it is Mail, AppleWorks, BBEdit, or TextEdit, TextSoap provides integration options such as Services Menu support, Shortcut Menu and Application plug-ins. With a single menu selection TextSoap 6 brings unique processing power to users from within their favorite application.

Pricing and Availability:
TextSoap 6 is available now directly from unmarked software. Pricing for new customers starts at $39.95 (USD). Upgrades for users of TextSoap 4 and 5 start at $24.95 (USD).

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Based in Vancouver, Washington, unmarked software is a privately-held company founded in 1998 by President and CEO, Mark Munz. As a commercial software developer since 1988, Mark’s experience lead him to evangelize the Mac platform with the release of the company’s flagship product, TextSoap. TextSoap has received numerous accolades from press and users around the world. Copyright 1998 – 2008 unmarked Software. All Rights Reserved. TextSoap is a registered trademark of unmarked software. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Wellington, New Zealand – Information Management Solutions Ltd is delighted to announce Kana 1.1, an update to their Japanese quiz game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Kana assists in learning and speeding up recollection of Japanese Hiragana and Katakana.

Perfect for manga readers, Japanese students, or children and family members of mixed Japanese families, Kana offers quick gameplay to keep the user moving and progressing. It sports an easy to use display that gives tacit feedback on which kana is needed to improve on most.

Kana 1.1 auto-saves progress if the user receives a phone call while playing, and automatically loads horizontally to offer a larger keyboard for kana entry. Among Kana’s most unique features is that it learns about the users language knowledge as they play. The game auto tunes itself to focus on kana the user is having difficulty with, and stops asking kana they’ve demonstrated they know.

Kana features beautiful Japanese styled artwork to help users shift their mind to the right environment, and is great for beginners just starting out, or advanced students of Japanese. The application includes 12 levels to take the user through the basic vowels, to the more advanced Katakana and Hiragana. A scoring system keeps track of progress, and gives a goal to beat the next time the game is played. Stats are recorded to show progress through all 12 levels.

Feature highlights might include
* Two game types: Katakana and Hiragana
* Cute and friendly artwork to make learning more fun
* Quick gameplay to keep the user moving and progressing
* Instant feedback so learning is immediate
* Auto tunes itself to focus on kana that the user is having problems with
* Stats are recorded to show progress through 12 levels
* Easy to use display gives feedback on which kana is needed to improve on most
* A scoring system keeps track of progress, and gives a goal to beat the next time the game is played
* Auto-saves progress if the user receives a phone call while playing
* Automatically loads horizontally to offer a larger keyboard for kana entry

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Kana 1.1 for iPhone is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, Information Management Solutions Ltd is a privately held company founded in 2000 by Tim Haines. As a software developer since 1992, Tim leverages his longtime experience with the goal to develop applications that improve communication between people. Copyright 2000-2008 IMS Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Vienna, Austria – Dare to be Creative today announced that Renamer4Mac, the batch file renaming utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, will be on sale for $12.95 at Mupromo on November 13th 2008. Renamer4Mac is a utility application that batch renames large numbers of files using a graphical drag and drop interface. Renamer4Mac supports search & replace renaming, numbering files, and converting between lower, upper and mixed case. Renamer4Mac handles regular expression and case sensitive matching.

Renamer4Mac will be on sale for $12.95 as Mupromo’s Deal of the Day on November 13th 2008, offering a reduction of over 50% off the retail price. Renamer4Mac will remain on sale at Mupromo at a lower discount for a few weeks after the promotion.

Features in a nutshell:
* Batch rename large sets of files with search & replace
* Number files with decimal digits, letters, or mixed decimal digits and letter combinations.
* Convert file names to uppercase, lowercase or mixed case.
* Insert text into and remove text from filenames.
* Support for regular expression and case sensitive matching
* Saving favorite rename patterns as templates.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

Pricing and Availability:
Renamer4Mac is $26 USD, and available as a free download from the Renamer4Mac website. It runs initially in a 10-day trial mode with all features active.

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Located in Vienna, Austria, Dare to be Creative Ltd. is a software company founded in 2006 by a group of Mac enthusiasts. The Dare to be Creative team focuses exclusively on developing utility applications for Mac OS X designed to save valuable time while being enjoyable and easy to use. The current portfolio includes a) iArchiver, an archiving and file compression utility, b) iCombiner, a tool to combine images and PDF files into single PDF documents, c) Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer, d) ResizeMe, a batch image editor that resizes, scales, rotates and flips images, and e) Dragoman, a batch file converter for images, photos, music, text documents and archive files. All Material and Software (C) 2006-2008 Dare to be Creative Ltd. / All Rights Reserved.