The MacTrack – iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch and Mac News

Los Angeles, USA – MacVide is proud to announce iPod Converter 2.1, their video to mp4 conversion utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, iPod Converter allows conversion of the most popular video files to mp4 iPod video. It fully integrates the process into the Mac experience by allowing human interaction on the content during conversion.

All of the most popular formats are supported, including MOV, 3GP, MPEG, AVI and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. iPod Converter is a great tool for using with Apple’s iTunes.

MacVide iPod Converter provides powerful functions to set different settings for your video files. It allows you to select crop video area, the bit rate, frame rate, video resolution. Video preview with “rangebar” allows you to choose the exact video footage you want, anywhere between the first and last frames. With MacVide iPod Converter you will able to convert your entire movie to .MP4 and watch it anywhere and anytime. It’s very easy to use and it supports most portable MP4 devices.

New in version 2.1:
* Enhanced support for AppleScript and Automator actions.

Feature highlights include:
* Input format supported: all popular Video formats including AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, ASF, DivX, etc.
* Playback on multiple players including iPod, iPhone, PSP and Apple TV, Creative Zen, Archos, etc.
* Crop your video area to remove the black video sides.
* Powerful video/audio output settings
* Allows to set video resolution and frame rate
* Allows to set video and audio bitrate.
* Customizable dimensions for exported video
* Auto Determination of Movie length
* Enhanced support for AppleScript and Automator actions.
* User can control Movie over Capturing

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

Pricing and Availability:
iPod Converter 2.1 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, iPod and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Los Angeles, USA – ProteMac has announced ProteMac KeyBag 1.1, their keystroke recorder utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, ProteMac KeyBag allows control of all keyboard activity for each application on your Mac, showing you exactly what was typed and to where. ProteMac KeyBag is intended for interception and recording of everything that is entered from the keyboard on your Mac. ProteMac KeyBag works in the hidden mode. It is designed for hidden monitoring of computer activities. Key logger invisibly logs and is capable of recording keystrokes of every user activity performed on your Mac.

ProteMac KeyBag allows you to find out what other users do on your computer in your absence. You will find out, what was going on your computer in your absence: what was typed and the windows visited websites etc. This invisible employee spy surveillance tool records every keystroke to a database file with a user-friendly easy to use keystroke log viewer.

By constantly using ProteMac KeyBag you will save your time by preventing accidental data damage and loss. ProteMac KeyBag automatically records all typed email conversations, chat records, websites visited, password and document lists. You can immediately restore the text which was typed yesterday, the day before yesterday, or weeks ago. Using the program constantly, you can restore the previously typed text in case you have lost it.

New in version 1.1:
* Database Cleanup interface
* Warnings for a undesirable words
* Stability Improved
* Misc bugs fixed.

Feature highlights include:
* Stealth and undetectable Monitoring and Recording
* Record all keystrokes typed on any application
* Records chat conversations for the latest versions of iChat, Adium, Proteus, Skype, Yahoo IM, MSN (Microsoft IM)
* Keystroke log viewer for all applications in one window
* Powerful keystroke log viewer for every application
* Useful statistic of every application utilized
* Complete chart of used applications
* Fully supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard)
* Universal build (for Intel/Power PC)
* Friendly and easy-to-use user interface

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

Pricing and Availability:
ProteMac KeyBag 1.1 is available for only $49.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the ProteMac 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.

Toronto (Ontario, Canada) – Agile Web Solutions today announced that 1Password will be available for a special price during the holidays. The holiday price provides a 40% discount and is only available using the special link.

What is 1Password?

* The most popular password manager for Mac OS X and iPhone (according to MacUpdate, VersionTracker and iUseThis ratings)
* Provides the ability to sync your Mac passwords with your iPhone/iPod touch
* A Macworld magazine “Mac Gem”, rated 4.5/5 mice and nominated for a Macworld Readers’ Choice Award
* The only password manager with integrated anti-phishing technology
* An automatic form filler with support for credit cards and multiple identities
* A highly secure database to keep track of logins, secure notes, identities, credit cards, bank accounts, and software registration information

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard)

Pricing and Availability:
A Single User license is regularly priced at $39.95 (USD) and a five user Family License at $69.95. The holiday discount brings prices down to $23.97 and $41.97, respectively. A fully functional 30-day trial version is available, along with a free version limited to 20 items. Special media licenses are available for members of the press and the blogging community upon request.

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Agile Web Solutions develops 1Password, the premier Password Manager for Mac and iPhone, and AllBookmarks, a bookmark manager. 1Password is ‘Highly Recommended’ by Macworld and is a Mac|Life Editors’ Pick.

Albuquerque NM – Stone Design today shipped another major update to Twittelator Pro, the high-end feature-packed native iPhone Twitter client. With many power features including multiple accounts, emojis, Trending Topics, Reply Chains, and Nearby Search for Tweeters, Twittelator Pro is the culmination of the expanding Twittelator customer base’s wishes and desires.

Twittelator Pro v 1.6 features Sub Groups so you can track small subsets of your friends closely, an option to tightly pack tweets, the ability to use an alternate Photo upload service Pikchur for photos, localized to Spanish and German, Emoji’s better organized and swipe to move between them, tweets with MobyPictures show inline, save and restore draft tweets, option to tweet without confirm, tapping a tweet with a #hashtag performs a search on that tag, and relaunching after quitting on a search will perform a new search.

“We just cannot sit still!,” exclaimed Stone Design’s CEO and lead computer scientist Andrew Stone. “The twitterverse is a buzz with kudos for Twittelator Pro. Mac guru Guy Kawasaki commented ‘Have to say that Twittelator Pro is the way to go on iPhone’.”

Recently added was the ability to insert 560 different emoticons/dingbats and colorful emoji’s, the ability to follow conversations with the Reply Chain feature, Copy Link, Open any Link and Paste Link, a new easy to read “black on white” Dove theme, auto-shortening of URLs before you tweet to save characters, one-tap ReTweet, and an updated Twittelator web site with Tips and Hints to teach you the inside tricks.

At just $4.99, Twittelator Pro is a great value with these features:

Interface:
* Five tweet themes to suit your mood: Robin, Canary, Martin, Dove & Raven
* Easy navigation from Groups to anywhere
* English, Español and Deutsche

Accounts:
* You can have as many accounts as you like
* Switch between accounts instantly
* Optionally set your current location
* Besides twitter.com, add identi.ca accounts!
* Create subgroups of special friends – don’t miss any important tweets

Writing Tweets:
* Start a Tweet from any screen
* Paste in links & text!
* Reply to any Tweet or Tweeter
* Private message any Tweeter
* Toggle private/reply with a tap
* DM’s check if user can receive it
* Add a map of your current location
* Add a snapshot or library photo to your tweet
* Post photo to Pikchur.com or TwitPic.com
* Optionally use high resolution images
* Optionally shorten URLS before tweeting
* URL shortening via bit.ly
* Character count always updated
* 14 Dingbats panels to insert pictorial glyphs icons, zodiac, chess pieces, crosses, trigrams, arrows, greek, hebrew, diacriticals, 200 emoji: 560 in all.
* Paste tweet
* Instant access to your friends for easy insertion
* Confirmation on tweet so you don’t pre-tweet
* Option to turn off confirmation for experts
* Turn on or off capitalizing and auto-correction (two annoying features for tech people!)
* add “twit://” before any link in Safari to start a new Tweet with that link added to it!
* Safari bookmarklet to load current page as tweet

Reading A Tweet:
* Five color themes to choose from
* Large readable font size
* Copy tweet with tap and hold
* Re-tweet with tap and hold
* Tweet sizes to fit length of text
* See user’s real name and screen name
* Linked TwitPic,MobyPic & Pikchur photos appear in tweet
* Follow embedded web link right in Twittelator
* Investigate any referenced tweeter in a tweet
* Make any Tweet one of your favorites
* Tap any Tweet to add to Recents
* Reply to any tweet
* Delete tweet if it’s yours

Reading Tweets:
* Select how many: 20, 50, 100, 150 or 200
* Option to dense-pack tweets for more per screen
* Tap ‘in reply to’ to see reply chain conversation
* Optionally scroll to last tweet read
* See just your replies
* See just your tweets
* Follow your friends
* See everyone’s tweets
* See any Tweeter’s tweets
* See any Tweeter’s favorites
* See Featured Tweeters
* See the current Trending Topics
* Preference to thread replies in with Friends
* Tap top toolbar twice to scroll to top
* Tap top toolbar to Page Up
* Tap lower toolbar left of Tweet button to page down
* Page Down button (if Emergency hidden)
* Refresh on demand

User Details:
* Tap any picture to bring up User Details
* Double tap tweet w/ @name to see details of @name
* Start or Stop following any tweeter
* Option to enable notifications when you follow
* Add person to your bookmarks
* Visit their website right in Twittelator
* See their favorites
* Send message or private message
* See how many friends and followers they have
* See how many tweets they have made
* See last tweet and their description
* See their friends
* See their followers
* Drill down into their friends

Searching Tweets:
* Search instantly from any screen
* Search “Nearby” to find tweeters near you
* Simple search mode (just enter words)
* Advanced Search including:
* All, Every, Not, Any
* Reference, To, From, Hashtags
* Since and Until Dates
* Nearby your current location
* Links and Questions
* Positive/Negative Attitudes
* Searches remembered automatically & persistently
* Delete and reorder persistent searches
* Quitting on search redoes search on launch
* Double tap tweet with #tag searches on tag

Bookmarks:
* Add any user to Bookmarks
* Instant retrieval of their latest tweets

Recents:
* Tap a tweet to add to Recents this session
* Instant retrieval of their latest tweets

Trending Topics:
* See what’s hot in twitterverse!
* Updates each time you choose it

Emergencies:
* Instantly send emergency tweet with map of location
* Hide emergency button if that’s not your style
* You get a Page Down button if you hide it

Log File:
* see how many server accesses left this hour
* read connection and failure log

Support:
* Big Stone Phone provides free support for Pro users
* We listen to your feature requests and bug report

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Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT in the last 20 years. Major applications include Create, a page layout and web authoring app, iMaginator for image processing and Videator for video effects and VJ’ing. This year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 5 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, Gesture which lets you turn photos into digital paintings and share them, and Twittelator Lite. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone, Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff and artist and UI designer Ollie Wagner.

Mainz, Germany – Synium Software announces a special gift for Christmas 2008. On December 24th and 25th, Synium offers up to 50% christmas discount on popular products like CleanApp, MacFamilyTree, iFinance, Screenium for Mac or StuffRadar for iPhone and iPod touch.

These discounts are only valid on December 24th and 25th:

Coupon Code MFTXMAS08:
* MacFamilyTree 5.3: $34.30 USD (Regular Price: 49 USD)

Coupon Code XMAS08:
* CleanApp 3: $6.50 USD (Regular Price: 13 USD)
* Screenium: $14.50 USD (Regular Price: 29 USD)
* iFinance 3: $10 USD (Regular Price: 20 USD)
* NoteMind: $10 USD (Regular Price: 20 USD)

On Sale in the Apple AppStore for iPhone/iPod touch:
* MobileFamilyTree: $2.99 USD (Regular Price: 4,99 USD)
* StuffRadar: $4.99 USD (Regular Price: 8,99 USD)

Synium Software would like to say thanks for continued support of quality Mac sofware development and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and an exciting New Year of 2009!

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Synium Software GmbH is a software development and consulting company, based in Mainz (Mayence), Germany. Apart from being a successful publisher within the Mac software market, we offer a popular web-based news service at mactechnews.de for the German-speaking audience. All Material and Software (C) 2005-2008 Synium Software GmbH / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Los Angeles, CA – The agenda has now been set for the 8th Annual FCPUG “SuperMeet” to be held Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. Doors open at 4:30pm and presentations begin at 7pm and continue until 10PM. This SuperMeet promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut Pro users and Gurus during Macworld Conference and Expo SF.

The economy might be struggling, but this year’s SuperMeet will be the largest in its history with twenty four companies showing off their wares. That says something about this community.

Scheduled to appear on stage, (subject to change) will be:
* Apple: The latest on Final Cut Studio
* JVC: Craig Yanagi of JVC will announce the world’s first acquisition product developed especially for Final Cut post production. Come and be a part of this historic event.
* BlackMagic Design presents M. Dot Strange: Filmmaker M.Dot Strange will bring his magic to the SuperMeet.
* Bruce Nazarian: Blu-Ray on the Cheap. How to build a compatible Blu-Ray Disk and burn it on DVD-R media without a Blu-Ray burner.
* Christine Steele: FCP Tips and Tricks
* Eric Escobar: “Plug-Ins Won’t Save You” A plug-in package alone won’t create the “look” of your movie. A “look” is a combination of preproduction, design, performance, camera work and post wizardry. Eric will show us how to deconstruct a “look” from a TV show or movie, and reconstruct it on-the-cheap.
* Yun Suh: Clips from the documentary film “City of Borders” (Show and Tell)

Rounding out the evening will be the always raucous “World Famous Raffle” with over $40,000.00 worth of prizes to be handed out to several lucky winners.

300 “SuperBag” Goodie Bags filled with over $200.00 worth of learning resources will be handed to the first 300 people through the door. Food (snacks) and drinks will be available throughout the evening.

Tickets are now on sale for only $10.00 each and it is expected this SuperMeet will sell out. At this writing over 50% of the tickets are gone. Historically every SuperMeet sells out.

For complete details on the SuperMeet including driving and transit directions and instructions, a current list of raffle prizes and a link to where to buy tickets, visit the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro (lafcpug) web site.

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Founded in 2000, the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) is the largest UG in the world dedicated to the education and use of Apple Inc’s Pro Applications. In addition, lafcpug co-produces the Annual FCPUG SuperMeets at both NAB and Macworld and IBC. Copyright 2000-2008 Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Final Cut are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Hi all,

Merry Christmas to all my readers. I appreciate all your comments and stopping by my blog.

Have a great 2009!

Richard

Scottsdale, Arizona – Cynical Peak Software announces the release of Scorecard for the iPhone and iPod touch. Scorecard iPhone is a companion application to Scorecard for Mac and Windows. It allows for quick and easy round information entry while playing a round of golf. The user no longer has to manually record their round on paper and then enter all of the information at home. Now they can enter the round information once while playing and then sync it to their Mac or Windows computer at home.

In conjunction, Cynical Peak Software releases the update of Scorecard 1.5, their golf scorecard and statistics application for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista. Scorecard allows golf enthusiasts to track statistics on Mac and Windows systems. The application offers comprehensive statistics, helping users discover trends and explore aspects of their gameplay that might otherwise go unnoticed. Statistics are viewable over a period of time, offering users an idea about whether they are improving or need to work on areas of play. Version 1.5 adds syncing support with Scorecard iPhone as well as bug and performance improvements.

Feature Highlights in Version 1.5:
* Track your handicap and anti-handicap to monitor your overall game play
* Follow over 30 essential stats to monitor all aspects of your game
* Syncing with Scorecard for the iPhone
* Easy course and round entry to quickly update your stats after each round
* HTML export of rounds for displaying on the web
* Deactivation of rounds for the statistics window to allow the user to focus on a time period or set of rounds
* Printing of the statistics screen
* Smart selection of the course when adding a new round based on play history
* Statistics can now be based on all tees for a course

System Requirements Mac:
* Requires Mac OS X v10.4.3 or later.
* 2.4 MB Hard Drive space.

System Requirements Windows:
* Requires Windows 2000, XP, or Vista.
* .Net Framework 2.0 or newer.
* 3.6 MB Hard Drive space.

Pricing and Availability:
Scorecard 1.5 may be purchased for $29.95 USD and comes with a fully featured demo that is limited to 5 rounds. Scorecard for the iPhone is a free application and is available though the iTunes AppStore.

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Headquartered in in Scottsdale, Arizona, Cynical Peak Software, LLC was founded in 2003 by President and CEO, Brad Miller, with a focus on bringing high quality software to the Macintosh platform. Copyright 2003 – 2008 Cynical Peak 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.

Neptune Beach, FL – Tropical Software today announced a TopXNotes Christmas promotion. TopXNotes is an award-winning full-featured personal note manager. Tropical Software, Inc. offers a discount of 25 percent on TopXNotes starting immediately through Christmas Day, December 25, 2008.

Unless you are full time manger you don’t need a note or task manager that takes more time to learn than its intended purpose. You need a simple, easy to learn, easy to use personal note and task manager, like TopXNotes.

With versatile, easy to learn and easy to use TopXNotes you can:
* Create notes easily
* Access your key notes instantly
* View notes in multiple ways
* Organize your important information
* Secure critical information

TopXNotes has been awarded 4 out of 5 mice by Macworld magazine in their “Summer of Mac Gems” series of reviews and 9 of 10 by Macsimum News. TopXNotes was favored by the Macworld reviewer for its “clean, single window interface that puts controls for highlighting and marking up your text right at your fingertips,” as well as for its exclusive QuickNotes feature.

TopXNotes is a full-featured personal note manager. Create, view and multiview, organize, and instantly access your Mac notes with TopXNotes. You can also encrypt sensitive information to protect it and create iPod notes with TopXNotes. Get Organized With TopXNotes and Save Today.

Minimum TopXNotes Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard).
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* G4 Processor, 1GHz or faster
* 38.8 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
TopXNotes is available for a discount of 25 percent on TopXNotes starting immediately through Christmas, December 25, 2008.

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Tropical’s flagship product TopXNotes is a Personal Note Manager. It emphasizes our dedication to providing easy to use and easy to learn to use Mac productivity tools.

Offenburg/Germany – Pleasant Software today releases a major update for its groundbreaking podcasting solution Ubercaster. With Ubercaster v1.6, Pleasant Software takes the next step and releases a major update for its podcast production suite. Besides German localization, the new version sports native Skype support, Amazon S3 (TM) uploads and tons of more new features, improvements and bug fixes, answering the most important requests from its current user base.

Ubercaster is a complete production suite for podcasting on the Macintosh. It lets podcasters prepare, record, cut and release their shows the way they’d expect it. The days of overloaded and bulky recording environments are over.

Version 1.6 delivers some major improvements and new functions:

* German localization:
Ubercaster is finally localized in German; including the build-in Help system.

* Native Skype support:
It’s now incredibly easy to record Skype conversations. Due to the fact that Ubercaster uses the official Skype API you can call your buddies directly within Ubercaster. No additional drivers or special configurations are needed.

* “Level Meter” panels:
Always have an eye on each input panel’s level or the overall level of your podcasts.

* Export audio clips directly from the Cut layer:
It’s now possible to save any audio clip from the Cut layer to disk with just one click; including all assigned filters and volume envelopes.

* Amazon S3 (TM) upload:
Ubercaster v1.6 supports uploads to Amazon S3 (TM) servers.

* ID3 Lyrics tag:
In addition to the ID3 comment tag you may now add text to a file’s ID3 lyrics tag.

* Keep ID3 tags in sync:
Ubercaster v1.6 provides an additional variable token called “Derive Content”. This token copies another release slot’s content of the same text field. This way, you can release your podcast in multiple versions in an even simpler way.

* Ubercaster’s handling of external file references has been greatly improved:
If audio files, used in a project, are renamed and removed in the Finder, Ubercaster is now aware of this changes and corrects the references automatically.

Moreover, Ubercaster v1.6 includes tons of additional features, improvements and bug fixes. All in all, Ubercaster v1.6 brings more than 45 new features and improvements.

System requirements:
* Macintosh with a G4, G5 or Intel CPU
* Mac OS X v10.4.4 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Ubercaster 1.6 costs $79.95 (USD), registered users can download as a free update. A free trial version is available on Ubercaster’s homepage. Message to the editors: If you’re interested in reviewing Ubercaster or one of our other products, please feel free to contact us. We will be pleased to send you a free review license.

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Pleasant Software has been developing and selling high quality software products for the Macintosh since 1989. “Ubercaster” is the most advanced podcast production suite for the Macintosh. “Birdie” is a powerful and easy to use golf scoring application for the iPhone and iPod touch. “ShowMacster” revolutionizes the way of video conferencing by seamlessly extending Apples iChat application. “PiP” is a free tool to present video from any webcam on the desktop.