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Ma On Shan, Hong Kong – bambooapps proudly announces the release of Keep Your Word 1.3 for Mac OS X Leopard. This new version brings many new features:

* Say hello to www.wordsparade.com, the new website where you can share your dictionaries with users all over the world.

* “Words” do not only support two text values. Now, you can also add a different image to each of the two meanings. Oh, and you can use your images to drill you vocabulary in the improved Flash Cards mode.

* Keep Your Word 1.3 new Flash Cards mode supports the display of the images that you attached to each word. No images? No problem, it defaults to only text.

* Smart Groups. A Word exposes many new properties, that can be used to declare the criteria that defines a Smart Group. So, now, you can declare a Smart Group that contains all the words not marked as memorized, that belong to a given Category, that have appeared at least twice in the Flash Cards mode, and that have not been in any of the Exercise Modes in the last two weeks.

Are you studying a new language? Your class notebook is an endless list of words that you have to learn? You remember that your teacher told you how to say a lot of useful things but, can you find them in your notebok?

Keep Your Word lets you build your own dictionary, classifying and grouping the terms exactly how you want to, while helping you to learn the longest list of words thanks to its different exercise modes. Keep Your Word supports all the character sets that your Mac supports, so you can write any word in the world.

Keep Your Word is designed to:
* Let you build your own dictionary
* Organize and classify your words
* Find words quickly
* Do exercises

Pricing and availability:
Keep Your Word 1.3 costs $24.95 (USD) and is available now. The unregistered version of Keep Your Word is fully functional, although limited to 30 days. Keep Your Word requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and runs on any Mac supported by Leopard.

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Started in 2007, bambooapps focuses in offering tools to simplify the workflow of the passionate Mac users. Copyright 2007-2008 bambooapps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Waterloo, Ontario – SuperMegaUltraGroovy today announced the immediate availability of FuzzMeasure Pro 3.1, an update to the award-winning audio and acoustical signal-analysis software package for Mac OS X Leopard. FuzzMeasure Pro 3.1 contains many fixes, and some new features, requested by FuzzMeasure’s extensive user base. Among the new features are A- and C-weighted acoustical measurements, clipping indicators on the input level meters, and various improvements in the three bundled Plug-Ins.

The highly popular Waterfall Plug-In, which displays a 3D plot of the changing frequency response over time, has undergone some internal changes in this new release. Calculations now perform more quickly across multiple cores, and results are displayed even clearer than before.

The Reverberation Time Plug-In also gets a performance overhaul, which now allows for live graph updates as users choose new measurement records to analyze. In addition, the newly-added third octave band filters provide a more detailed view of the acoustic behavior of rooms.

Pricing and Availability:
FuzzMeasure Pro 3.1 costs $150 (USD) for new users; those that purchased 3.0 will receive the update for free. FuzzMeasure Pro 2.0 license holders can upgrade for $75 (USD). Please visit the product website for further details. Mac OS X version 10.5 (Leopard) is required to use FuzzMeasure Pro 3.1.

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Chris Liscio founded SuperMegaUltraGroovy in 1999, writing BeOS audio software during his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo. Along with FuzzMeasure, SuperMegaUltraGroovy also produces TapeDeck. Apple, Leopard, and Mac OS X are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Portland, Oregon – Bitnotic is pleased to announce the release of Bitnotic chill 1.0 for Mac OS X. Chill is easy-to-use software that creates 100% computer-generated, user-adjustable ambient music. Though purely machine made, Chill’s music is both relaxing and listenable.

Chill plays endless songs or, in chill Radio mode, an uninterrupted stream of unique tracks. Once played, songs can be saved in a variety of audio formats. Albums can be exported straight into iTunes to download to iPod or burn to CD. Each song is unique and royalty free, and can be used in any public space or project without licensing fees.

Anytime soothing music is required, Bitnotic chill can be put to work:
* Around the house for a relaxed atmosphere
* On-the-go for commute-time iPod nirvana
* As background music for presentations, slideshows, and digital videos
* In-store music for shops, cafes, yoga studios, etc.
* For music studio projects and live performances

Nick Vardalos, owner of Cafe Bido in Sydney, Australia uses chill as a royalty-free music alternative for his cafe and in music projects. He says, “It’s simple enough that you can turn it on and let it go do its thing, but for the electro-geek in me it goes deeper. I can export the songs it creates as MIDI files into pro production software and build on them, replace instruments, edit tracks, collaborate with friends.”

Created with musicians, as well as listeners, in mind, Bitnotic chill has a variety of features that allow songs to be used in the studio or live. Individual tracks can be saved in MIDI, WAV, and AIFF formats. Count-in, song key and tempo info, and MIDI output allow performers to collaborate with chill in real-time.

Scott Burgess, Bitnotic’s principal, says, “Chill’s music is influenced by Eno, Debussy, and musique concrète, with some New Age thrown in. The songs can be mellow or they can be evocative, but they are always music.”

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Bitnotic slowly works towards creating a world where music is composed by computers and sung by robots. Other Bitnotic products include VX-323 MIDI Voice Synthesizer for Macintosh and Decypher puzzle game for iPhone. An album of electronic pop songs featuring The VX-323 will be available on Bitnotic Music in Spring 2009. Copyright 2008 Bitnotic. All Rights Reserved.

Wichita, Kansas – QuickerTek, the leader in wireless networking for Apple products, has debuted another external battery from their Apple Juicz line that works for the 30 pin connector iPods, 3G iPhone and the iTouch. The High capacity 1800 mAh Polymeried Lithium-ion external battery comes with a USB charging cable which not only charges the external QuickerTek battery, but also charges the internal battery as well.

The USB cable connects to the external battery directly to your computer’s USB port for convenient charging. The external battery is compact in size only 1.75 x 2.5 x .375 inches. With LED’s that indicate charging status. Heavy users of their 3G iPhone knows what it is like to run out of juice at the end of the day! But not now. This new external battery is a great accessory to keep handy and will be available through QuickerTek and resellers like Tekserve.

Pricing and Availability:
Like most QuickerTek products, the iPod/iTouch/3G iPhone Battery & Charger is backed with a one-year warranty on parts and labor. This new external battery is a great accessory to keep handy and the external battery will be available through QuickerTek and resellers next week for $44.95 (USD).

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QuickerTek has been a recognized leading innovator of antennas and RF products for Apple Power Macintosh, Mac Pro, Power PC, and Intel models, PowerBook, MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers as well as their newest power product Apple Juicz line for MacBook Air, MacBook & MacBook Pro. QuickerTek is a trademark of QuickerTek, Inc. Apple, iPhone, iPod and iTouch are trademarks of Apple, Inc.

San Francisco, CA – iRingPro, makers of sophisticated iPhone ringtones for professionals and advanced mobile users, has issued today an open call for submissions for “The Best Free Ringtone On Earth”. The company intends to curate a living list of the very best, legal, free ringtones in the world. Once the list has reached critical mass, iRingPro will open public voting and the best of the best will be officially crowned “The Best Free Ringtone On Earth”.

“At iRingPro, we have built a business on providing sophisticated ringtones to professional mobile users who demand serious, technically advanced alternatives, and to regular users just looking for more elegant, peaceful ringtones,” says iRingPro founder Joel Hladecek. “But we also recognize that there are a lot of people out there with the talent and tools to create terrific sounds that may yet appeal to our clientele. We wanted to create a way for our customers and visitors to benefit from that, so long as the creator of the sounds indeed offers them for free.”

Often when people think of free ringtones, they imagine repurposed popular songs, illegally posted on any number of convert-it-yourself sites of little ethical consideration. But iRingPro firmly discourages such submissions recognizing that more often than not, such postings infringe on copyright owners.

The company further contends that music ringtones, having not been created for the purpose, result in ultimately inferior ringtones, appealing more to children, than professionals and high-tech users. As such the site specifically asks that users submit original and unique sounds that “a self-respecting professional might use.”

iRingPro staff review each submission to verify that the sound may be legally used for free before passing the link on to users. They further ask copyright owners to alert them to any misconduct.

iRingPro ringtones are available for purchase and download. All 21 ringtones come bundled as a set for the single price of $9.95 (USD). Formatted for Apple iPhone and other phones that allow custom MP3 files to be loaded from a PC and assigned as a ringer by the user.

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Joel Hladecek, veteran of interactive media and technology companies, founded Hladecek LLC. Previously co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Red Sky Interactive, Modstream Inc, and Harmony Digital Media Consortium, LLC. Recently Managing Partner of Innovation at PHD, a media firm. He maintains a blog, The Interactivist. Hladecek, llc was founded with the intent of building the world’s first luxury software company. Its initial line of Luxury Mobile Ringers, launched under the brand iRingPro, has established a new level of sophistication and etiquette in cellular phone call reporting.

Chicago, Illinois – Helium Foot Software is proud to announce Highbrow 1.0 Public Beta, their Mac web browser management utility. Highbrow enables anyone to utilize each installed web browser more effectively on the Mac by eliminating the annoyances that arise from using multiple web browsers. With Highbrow, the user can select any of three separate behaviors.

1. Users can easily switch the system-wide web browser via the Highbrow menu in the Mac’s menubar.
2. Highbrow can change the browser on the fly as the user shifts between web browsers.
3. Highbrow can ask users which browser to use each time they click a link via an unintrusive heads-up display.

Highbrow can automatically check for updates.

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC & Intel
* 2.5 MB Hard Drive Space

Pricing and Availability:
Highbrow v1.0 public beta is free, and is available until December 15th, 2008. On December 15th, Highbrow v1.0 will be available for purchase from the Helium Foot Software store for the introductory price of $12 (USD). A free 21-day demo will also be available for download.

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Based in in Chicago, Illinois, Helium Foot Software was founded by Keith Alperin in 2007. As an independent software developer specializing in power tools for power users, Helium Foot Software is guided by the principle that easy-to-use applications can make any Mac more agile, more powerful and more fun. Helium Foot Software’s products include MercuryMover and Highbrow. Copyright 2001 – 2007 Helium Foot Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.