Werck Announces Checkout Release 2.3.2

January 30th, 2009

Rockaway, NJ – Werck BV today announced release 2.3.2 of Checkout, their powerful, easy to use and affordable point of sale solution for Mac OS X. This release is a free update for users of Checkout version 2, which introduced credit card processing, store sharing, the Stock Room and more.

Checkout Release 2.3.2
Release 2.3.2 improves upon the reporting module by adding a new Supplier Report, enhancing Pending Invoices and Sales reports, and addressing minor issues to other reports in Checkout.

Also included in release 2.3.2 are enhancements to the Ledger and Accounting Integration. The Ledger now allows for a more filtered search, includes more detailed purchase order entries, and now includes language localization of Journal Entries for those using localized versions of Checkout in French, Dutch or German languages. Minor issues with AccountEdge and QuickBooks integration have also been addressed.

Using customer feedback to improve the product, release 2.3.2 enables users to automatically print receipts and invoices after a payment has been processed using the integrated credit card processing feature available in the United States.

Availability
Checkout release 2.3.2 is a free update to all Checkout 2 users and is available for download via the Check for Updates feature in the software.

About Checkout
Checkout is a leading retail point of sale application for the Mac. Checkout offers a powerful, easy and affordable solution to your back-end and front office retail needs.

Checkout 2.3.2

About Werck BV
Werck BV is a joint venture that combines Sofa’s dedication to developing easy-to-use software with Acclivity’s experience servicing small businesses. Werck develops, markets, and supports Checkout for Mac small businesses around the world.

About Sofa
Beautiful, user-friendly software begets happy users. Sofa strives to delight people with great interaction models and stunning interface design.

About Acclivity
Acclivity develops, sells, and supports award-winning small business accounting and management software for Macintosh and Windows platforms. Acclivity also offers a portfolio of business services that help small business owners to better serve the needs of their customers, their employees, and themselves.


Obvious Matter releases DiskLibrary 1.9

January 30th, 2009

Almere, Netherlands – Obvious Matter today has announced DiskLibrary 1.9, their fun and easy to use disk cataloging application for Mac OS X. DiskLibrary is indispensable if you have a lot of media to keep track of. DiskLibrary catalogs not just your complete file structure, it also creates thumbnails, and stores metadata, for most popular media formats.

Where most cataloging applications stop DiskLibrary continues. Create beautiful thumbnails for your media files. Most popular image and movie formats are supported including leading RAW, EPS, HTML, Flash, and Photoshop formats. DiskLibrary also catalogs the album art stored inside your MP3 or AAC files. View the title page of your PDF files as a thumbnail. Indexing within archives (ZIP, RAR) is also supported.

DiskLibrary is capable of importing export formats from CDFinder, FileFinder, Disk Catalog Maker X, WhereIsIt and DiskTracker.

What’s new:
* Improved startup and search performance
* Quick Look support for files on mounted volumes (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* Catalogs can now also be deleted with the forward-delete key.
* Made Smart catalog/find panel more keyboard friendly
* Improved WhereIsIt import
* Migrated thumbnail files to new locations (subfolders)
* Added catalog column to file list view
* Fixed bug with smart catalogs in 10.5.6
* Rewritten FileFinder import
* Fixed Issues with DiskCatalogMaker X import
* Fixed other minor issues.

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

Pricing and Availability:
DiskLibrary 1.9 is available to order for $39 (USD). The DiskLibrary demo version is available as a free download from the Obvious Matter website.

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Obvious Matter is a Dutch software company, founded by Diederik Hoogenboom in 2005, and is located in Almere on the largest man-made island of The Netherlands; the country that is famous for its windmills, tulips, cheese and great Mac software. The company is solely dedicated to writing great Mac software that’s fun to use.


Dejal announces SmileDial 1.1 for iPhone

January 30th, 2009

Portland, Oregon – Dejal Systems, LLC today announced SmileDial Lite and SmileDial Pro version 1.1 for the iPhone. Call someone by touching their smile, or send them a text message by touching their eyes! Not as creepy as that sounds, really! SmileDial displays a photo of someone’s face: tap the top half of the photo to send them a text message, or the bottom half to call them.

SmileDial Lite helps you call and text your favorite person. SmileDial Pro extends this to multiple people: swipe through multiple faces to choose the one you want. SmileDial Pro also enables you to call them via other phone numbers, send an email, visit their website, map their address, and more, in a fun way: shake the iPhone to show more contact information.

A tap of the info button flips the photo over to reveal fields to edit the name and numbers for text messaging and phone calls, plus buttons to show the contact info and change the photo. You can simply enter a name and numbers and choose a photo. Or you can pick an existing contact.

A contact’s photo is used for SmileDial, if available. It is previewed in the background of the edit mode. You can also choose another photo: an existing one from the Camera Roll or Photo Library, or take a new photo with the iPhone camera. The photo can be moved and scaled as desired, e.g. to show just the person’s face. The new photo is stored in the Camera Roll, so you can import it into iPhoto or use it elsewhere if desired.

SmileDial Pro includes a People button while editing. Tap it to display a list of people in the order they appear on SmileDial’s main side. You can change the order, delete them, or add any number of new ones.

Version 1.1 includes a new option to display the person’s name below their photo, an option to convert textual numbers to the corresponding digits, performance improvements, and other changes.

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone version 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability:
* SmileDial Lite is available completely free of charge.
* SmileDial Pro is available for $1.99 (USD) – discounted from $3.99.

Both are immediately available on the iPhone App Store. For-review coupons for SmileDial Pro are available to the media; contact Dejal to receive one. Dejal is a long-established independent Mac software company, now expanding into iPhone software.

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Founded by David Sinclair in 1991, Dejal Systems, LLC was originally established in New Zealand, and later moved to Portland, Oregon in 2001. With a focus on the Mac and iPhone platforms, Dejal specializes in user-friendly and flexible Cocoa-based utility software. Copyright 2009 Dejal Systems, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Dejal, the Dejal logo, and SmileDial are trademarks of Dejal Systems, LLC. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


Mac Switcher Bundle Offer is Extended to March 31, 2009

January 30th, 2009

San Francisco, CA – The Mac Switcher Bundle, a joint promotion of SmileOnMyMac, Agile Web Solutions, ManyTricks and ScreenCastsOnline, will be extended through March 31, 2009.

Targeted at new Mac users, especially those switching from Windows, the bundle includes TextExpander, 1Password and Witch. Bundle owners also receive access to a special series of instructional video screencasts of particular interest to Mac switchers from ScreenCastsOnline.

The Mac Switcher Bundle is priced at $49.95. A gifting option is available, making it possible to buy the bundle as a gift for a new Mac user.

“We met many Mac switchers at Macworld and the response to the bundle has been great,” said Jean MacDonald, who handles marketing promotions at SmileOnMyMac. “We decided it made sense to extend it a couple more months.”

“Based on Apple’s latest earning report, it’s obvious that there are a lot of new Mac users out there who could benefit from this simple bundle of powerful Mac utilities as well as the video training that’s included,” said Dave Teare, founder of Agile Web Solutions.

The included software, all rated 4.5 mice by Macworld magazine, and the video series are valued at over $100:
* TextExpander (reg. $29.95, SmileOnMyMac): the typing shortcut utility that lets users create a custom library of snippets that can be invoked with short abbreviations;

* 1Password (reg. $39.95, Agile Web Solutions): the unique password manager that makes it easy to securely login and shop online;

* Witch (reg. $12.95, ManyTricks): an Expose alternative for switching windows via keyboard shortcuts;

* ScreenCastsOnline Special Switcher Series (value: $20): a collection of 10 video tutorials covering such topics as Setting Up Your Mac, iWork, Preview, TextExpander and 1Password.

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About SmileOnMyMac
SmileOnMyMac makes productivity software for Mac OS X, such as PDFpen, the PDF editing tool and a Mac Observer Editors’ Choice; TextExpander, the typing shortcut tool and a Mac|Life Editors’ Pick; and DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program.

About Agile Web Solutions
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.

About Manytricks
Many Tricks takes pride in creating critically acclaimed software for Mac OS X, such as Butler, the all-purposes productivity tool that won 5 mice from Macworld’s Mac Gems and Witch, the easy way to switch windows via keyboard.

About Screencastsonline
ScreenCastsOnline makes weekly video tutorials, produced by Don McAllister, to help all levels of Mac users make the most of their Mac.


Readdle updates its Take A Note iPhone application

January 30th, 2009

Odessa, Ukraine – Readdle today announces the release of Take A Note 1.1.1, new version of its note taking application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The update represents the possibility to change notes font style and size, add password protection and make the full text search thought the notes and comments.

Take A Note is an iPhone note taking application that supports voice, drawing and photo memos in addition to the text notes. What makes Take A Note unique is the ability to connect to the iPhone as shared network drive and browse the notes as text, sound and image files, copy these files to the computer and even add existing text documents as new notes. Moreover, users can copy the whole folder with text, sound or image files to their devices and they will be instantly transformed into new notes.

The search option in Take A Note v.1.1.1 was significantly modified and now supports search through both notes title and full text. Impoved search scans notes title, body and comments. Adjustable font style and size is another considerable addition to the new Take A Note version.

Password protection prevents the application from unauthorized access and makes Take A Note suitable for business use where security is important. When password protection is set, users need to enter the password every time they launch the application.

“Take A Note was made to overcome limitations of the built in iPhone Notes and provide people with a best note taking application they could get for the iPhone,” explains Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO. “Adjustable font style and size, full text search and password protection are at the top of the iPhone Notes wish list, so Take A Note 1.1.1 release is a logical step at this direction”

Among other improvements featured in Take A Note 1.1.1 are possibility to sort notes in alphanumeric order, setting to turn off volume boost function for voice notes recording and several bug fixes.

Pricing and Availability:
Take A Note is available for only $4.99 at the App Store. More information about the Take A Note could be found at Readdle.

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Founded in 2007, Readdle aims to provide iPhone and iPod Touch users with high quality applications that are missing in a standard application set. Flagship offerings are ReaddleDocs – a complete document and file management solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch; Take A Note – a versatile note taking application with direct access to notes from a PC or Mac computer using Wi-Fi. Copyright 2007-2009 Readdle. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


DEVONthink and DEVONnote Second Public Beta Brings New Features and More

January 30th, 2009

Coeur d’Alene (Idaho, USA) – DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases the second public beta of version 2.0 of all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as of the smart note-keeper DEVONnote. The second public beta of DEVONthink 2.0 and DEVONnote 2.0 adds a number of new functions as well as fixes for bugs and glitches.

PDF (DEVONthink only) and text files can be split and merged and PDF pages can be copied and pasted from one document to another. RSS feeds are updated much faster using multi-threading and a new RSS preferences panel allows you to customize how DEVONthink Pro handles RSS feeds. Any document can be easily sent by email directly from within the application and the smart group editor as well as the sidebar have been further completed. The support for file types containing PDF or HTML previews has been improved and a number of scripts and bookmarklets have been updated.

DEVONthink Pro Office now supports QuickLook-based previews in its web interface, shows PDFs also in browsers other than Safari, and divides long item lists into pages for better performance. The Sorter creates web archives also from OmniWeb and Firefox and names documents more reliably. Email archiving is faster, too. Finally, converting databases and exporting files is more reliable now and the overall reliability has been improved.

The version 2.0 upgrade addresses a large number of feature requests from the active user community and modernizes almost every aspect of the applications. These public betas are still incomplete but the already existing functionality is stable enough for sharing with the public. Smart tags, a fully functional sidebar, PDF annotations, enhanced image editing as well as the ability to upload files through the web interface are not implemented yet but will be delivered one after the other with each subsequent update. The user interface of all editions will be further polished, too.

DEVONthink 2.0 imports and displays Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice and iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) files as well as Skim PDF packages and all other files that support or are supported by Mac OS X 10.5’s QuickLook. Using Spotlight importers and plugins for indexing DEVONthink can also search files that it cannot display due to the lack of QuickLook support (Spotlight does not need to be active). Metadata, e.g. from PDF files, email messages, or Office documents is imported, indexed, displayed, and can be selectively searched, e.g. using smart groups.

DEVONthink 2.0 allows to create documents from templates and DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0 shares databases with other users on the local network or over the Internet via an interactive web interface based on the latest web technologies. RSS, RDF and Atom news feeds can be added as self-updating groups to any DEVONthink Pro database and so integrate live content with local documents. The independent ‘Sorter’ panel lets the user add data to your databases even when DEVONthink Pro is not open. Tabbed browsing and editing as well as Cover Flow simplifies working with large numbers of documents. A PDF sidebar allows rearraging and deleting pages.

The new database engine incorporated into DEVONthink 2.0 not only speeds up working with large databases but also stores all files in their original file format, e.g. Microsoft Word files and email messages. Files are no longer converted when imported and can be edited using external applications. In addition, all documents can be accessed from outside DEVONthink using a standard URL. This highly improves workflow integration with third-party solutions such as iCal, OmniFocus Daylite, Bookends, or Endnote.

DEVONthink Personal 2.0 and DEVONnote 2.0 inherit the three pane view formerly exclusive to the Pro editions as well as separate document windows and the full screen mode. In addition DEVONthink Personal is no longer limited to 10,000 images.

Pricing and Availability:
The public beta releases of DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office 2.0, DEVONthink Personal 2.0, and DEVONnote 2.0 require Mac OS X 10.5 or later and can be downloaded from from their website. DEVONthink and DEVONnote can be test-driven for free for 150 hours of non-continuous runtime until they need to be properly licensed. The public beta releases run without registration until March 31, 2009, before they need to be replaced by new betas or the final 2.0 releases.

DEVONthink Professional Office sells for $149.95 (USD), DEVONthink Professional for $79.95 (USD), DEVONthink Personal for $49.95 (USD), and DEVONnote for $24.95 (USD) in DEVONtechnologies’ online shop. DEVONthink Pro Office and DEVONthink Pro are also available with the Internet research agent DEVONagent as bundles.

Users who purchased DEVONthink Personal, Pro, Pro Office or DEVONnote 1.x on or after July 1, 2008, are eligible for free upgrades. Users who have purchased before the grace period will be able to upgrade for attractive upgrade prices available on the DEVONtechnologies website.

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DEVONtechnologies LLC, founded in 2002, incorporated in 2004 and headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA, researches in the field of semantic and associative data analysis and synthesis, and develops key applications based on the DEVONtechnology. Named after the Devonian Period, the DEVONtechnology marks the departure into a new age of data processing. The main focus of all activities is clearly on using the robust, flexible and versatile architecture intelligently to create rock-solid applications for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to databases, intelligent agents, data-mining, information retrieval and human-computer-interfaces.


BreakThru Radio introduces the Jazz Hole to the iPhone and iTouch

January 30th, 2009

New York, NY – BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the World’s source for the best Independent music on the Internet, where expert DJs expose the rich underground of sound not found on commercial radio. Whether it’s Death Metal, Dancehall, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Indie-Rock, Skronk, Roots, Country, Reggae, Electronica, Acid Jazz, Ambient Beats, Dub, Two-Step or Folk; whatever genre you can imagine, BTR’s on-demand programming has it well-stocked, and with no expiration date.

Starting February 1st, the world’s best source for Independent music on the Internet (BTR) will add an all-new jazz radio show to their program. Though “The Jazz Hole” has been on the air before, it is now back on a bi-weekly basis with its new host DJ Linus.

Linus Wyrsch is a trained classical and jazz musician on clarinet, who recently started to become familiar and involved in the New York jazz scene after graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston. On “The Jazz Hole”, Linus will present to you the best independent jazz out there from all over the world, not only for jazz fans, but also to everybody else with open ears and souls.

Tune in Every Other Sunday for the newest release of this show (starting February 1st, 2009). iPhone and iTouch users simply need to navigate to BreakThru Radio 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.

About BreakThru Radio:
In a world where independent music is becoming infinitely more accessible on the Internet, the need for informed sources to filter out the best of it has become a necessity. “Music for music lovers,” is BTR’s motto, and one that its DJ’s take very seriously.

Unlike other radio stations, BTR offers complete, on-demand programming; a first in Internet radio. Listeners can cater to their specific musical preferences, whatever the genre, and at the same time discover the best independent and unsigned artists from across the world.

BreakThru Radio
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BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the World’s Source for the Best Independent Music on the Internet, where expert DJs expose the rich underground of sound not found on commercial radio. Whether it’s death metal, dancehall, dubstep, hip-hop, indie rock, skronk, roots country, reggae, electronica, acid jazz, ambient beats, dub, two-step or folk, whatever genre you can imagine, BTR has it well-stocked, and with no expiration date. 954 Lexington Ave., Suite 199, New York, NY 10021 Copyright 2008 BreakThru Radio. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


Envato Announces AppStorm – Mac Applications Blog

January 30th, 2009

London, UK – Envato have today launched AppStorm – a new website dedicated to Mac application news, reviews, competitions and tips. Aimed at both the casual and professional user, AppStorm provides a central resource for discovering independent Mac applications.

“We’re really excited to launch AppStorm today” said Envato founder, Collis Ta’eed. “It marks the beginning of a new Envato incubator project, and will profile and review awesome Mac apps as well as looking at how you can get more out of your favorites”.

Regular articles take the form of:
* Application reviews of a wide range of ‘indie’ Mac software
* Software giveaways to include Things, WriteRoom and TaskPaper in the next few days
* A weekly Mac comic strip designed by the talented NC Winters
* How-Tos explaining how to make the most of software you already have in innovative new ways
* Roundup posts, summarizing the most popular software in a vareity of different areas

Other features on AppStorm include the ‘App Feed’, a regular stream of new and updated Mac applications, and ‘Mac Walls’, a collection of high quality user submitted Mac wallpapers.

“If you’re already a Mac user, AppStorm will open your eyes to a whole range of innovative new applications.” said David Appleyard, AppStorm editor. “If you’re not a Mac user, be careful; reading about the fantastic software on offer for the platform may cause you to switch!”

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Envato is a startup based out of Australia with people around the world and sites serving pages every second. We started in a living room back in 2006 and have been steadily working to build our company into a world-class contender. Today we operate a set of popular marketplaces for digital goods, a family of leading TUTS tutorial sites and a series of niche sites and projects. Copyright 2006-2009 Envato. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


Limit Point Software launches "The Boolean Search-Blue Crab Promo"

January 30th, 2009

Port Jefferson, NY – Limit Point Software is offering a promotion of its products Boolean Search and Blue Crab at a 65% discount. With the purchase of “The Boolean Search-Blue Crab Bundle” you receive activation codes for both products and free upgrades forever.

Boolean Search is a Mac OS X server application for searching the contents of plain text, rich text, HTML formatted text, MS Word, PDF and any other textual file format supported by Spotlight. It can be employed as a search engine for a public web site on the Internet, or a personal or group owned collection of files on your own computer or LAN. A wide variety of search criteria and customizable response pages makes Boolean Search a very flexible alternative to Internet search engines or operating system services like Spotlight.

* Search forms and results are highly customizable with the use of “templates,” standard HTML and AppleScript.

* Generation of a “site index” which lists all the words contained in a file collection, and links to the files which contain them.

* Various query-based search methods are available: exact, partial, approximate, case sensitive, proximity, phrase, regular expression pattern matching, etc.

* A wide variety of “context summaries” of found documents are available, and files are viewable with search terms linked and highlighted.

* Spell-checking of queries and generation of new queries for the corrected terms (as in “Did you mean?)

* Much more!

Blue Crab is a versatile program that you use to copy the contents of a web site to your computer, in whole or in part.

* Conduct fast offline browsing and searching without an internet connection.

* Create a snapshot of a web site for historical archiving.

* Collect specific types of resources such as images or email addresses.

* Search current content more thoroughly than a search engine right on your own computer.

* Check a site for broken links, or generate an HTML site map

* Perform batch downloads of URL’s

* Create full page images of URL’s (JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PSD, etc.)

* Much more!

But these products work together! You can use Blue Crab to download web sites and then index and search them with Boolean Search. For example you can use the Site Index of Boolean Search to view an index of the downloaded files which links words directly to the files that contain them.

Pricing and Availability:
The “Boolean Search-Blue Crab Bundle” is only $28 (USD) until February 13, 2009. All software runs in demo mode for ten days. So you can try before you buy. Each product has a “hands on” tour to get you started quickly and easily.

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Limit Point Software has been avidly developing software for the Mac community since 1997. In order to improve the usefulness, simplicity and dependability of our products user feedback has always been highly welcome and encouraged. Our products cover a diverse range of applications. The internet applications include bulk emailing, HTML form processing, web crawling and document indexing and searching. The “Utilities” suite is a large collection of small programs for combining movies, processing images in batch, file property editing, bulk emailing, and much, more.


Freeway Express and RAGE Sitemap Automator on macZOT – Jan 31 and Feb 1

January 30th, 2009

Port Townsend, Washington – This weekend on macZOT! Jan 31st and Feb 1st, Buy Freeway Express and Rage Sitemap Automator together at 50% off.

What is Freeway Express?

Freeway is simply the fastest and easiest way to assemble content and create stunning, standards-compliant websites. It is THE total solution for professionals and home users. Powerful and intuitive, Freeway is full of features like advanced graphic handling, graphic text on-the-fly, the ability to employ dynamic content and database integration and so much more. And you never need to write code.

How will RAGE Sitemap Automator help get my website seen?

RAGE Sitemap Automator helps search engines with their job so they can attract more visitors to your website! Don’t wait for search engines to find your website among the billions of others trying to attract their attention. Lead them through your websites with specially formatted XML Sitemap files.

Just enter your website address and RAGE Sitemap Automator will take care of the rest, generating Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live and Ask compliant Sitemaps allowing you to take control of how search engines treat your webpages.

Build your website with Freeway Express and get it listed in all the major search engines easily using Rage Sitemap Automator.

macZOT is your place for Great Deals on Mac Software. We bring you a new deal every weekday, and a 48hr sale every weekend. Stop by our home page this weekend and listen to an audio interview with one of Freeway’s team members.

Try Freeway Express and Rage Sitemap Automator this weekend, and Buy them both at 50% off. Only Jan 31st and Feb 1st on macZOT!

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MacZOT is the leader in bringing great deals on Mac software to the Mac community. Each day MacZOT offers a different Mac application at a discounted price, usually between 40-75% off the regular retail price. MacZOT features a huge variety of the best independently developed Mac software – hundreds of apps per year. macZOT – Connecting Mac Users and Mac Developers Worldwide.


Twittelator Pro 1.6.2 and Twittelator Free 1.3 ship from Big Stone Phone

January 30th, 2009

Albuquerque, NM – Stone Design today shipped two major updates to its top-selling Twittelator Pro and top-downloading free Twittelator Lite. Twittelator Pro is 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 Lite is a great free Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod.

Twittelator Pro v 1.6.2 features important stability fixes especially @friends work for quick picking in new tweets and for adding to Subgroups, which let you can track small subsets of your friends closely. A new app icon and calming splash screen, and the option to not play a sound when new tweets come in via autorefresh. International users will delight in Thomas Heinrichsdobler’s German localization and Lucas Miñano’s Spanish localization, both built in to Version 1.6.2.

Twittelator Lite v 1.3 sports a new look familiar to Pro users, has page down and tap bar to page up, and works with apps like Sideways and Cocktails and other apps that can message Twittelator and Twittelator Pro via the twit:///post?message= API. You can send ‘ad hoc’ direct messages just by typing ‘d ‘. Important web stability fixes are also incorporated.

“We keep giving Twittelator our utmost attention” remarked Stone Design’s CEO and lead computer scientist Andrew Stone. “Twittelator Pro was the #7 best-selling social networking iPhone app of 2008. Mac guru Guy Kawasaki commented ‘Have to say that Twittelator Pro is the way to go on iPhone’ .”

Recently added to Twittelator Pro 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.

Features with ** indicate Twittelator Pro – others are in both Pro and Lite:

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. In the past year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 6 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, Twittelator Pro, the most feature laced twitter client for the iPhone/Touch, Pulsar the free pyschedelic strobe light and now SoundBite. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone, Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff, artist and UI designer Ollie Wagner and Geoff Pado on SoundBite.


GoldPawnShop releases Gold Price Grabber for iPhone: Check Price of Gold

January 30th, 2009

Royal Palm Beach, Florida – GoldPawnShop, an online pawn shop, announced today the release of the “Gold Price Grabber”, an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Gold Price Grabber is the first iPhone App giving users the ability to sell jewelry online and check the price of gold – all at the same time on a handheld device.

“Last week the price of gold reached $900 an ounce” said Ian Shiell, Founder of GoldPawnShop. “With the release of Gold Price Grabber, consumers can now track the price of gold daily. If gold happens to hit $1,000 an ounce, they can sell gold jewelry right away, allowing them to capitalize on the high gold prices as they occur.”

“With over 500 million applications downloaded in less than a year, and more than 15,000 applications in the iTunes store already, the App Store has proven to be an effective way to reach consumers on the go” said Gregg Weiss, CTO of Blue Whale Web Solutions, Inc.

Pawn Shops around the country have seen a significant increase in business due to the economic conditions consumers are facing these days. The Gold Price Grabber application for the iPhone and iPod Touch was designed by Tommy Spero for Soul and developed by Blue Whale Web Solutions, Inc. an iphone application developer based in South Florida.

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GoldPawnShop was created to help consumers generate cash from unwanted gold jewelry or broken jewelry. Our easy website takes the stress and aggravation out of finding a traditional pawn shop to sell jewelry and offers a 10 day money back guarantee. Blue Whale is a boutique web firm based in South Florida offering services such as iPhone application development, lead generation website design and search engine optimization. Copyright 2009 GoldPawnShop. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


Amuse announces Serene Saver Pro 3.13 for Mac OS X

January 30th, 2009

Marina del Rey, California – Premier provider of video desktop solutions, Amuse, Inc., is pleased to announce Serene Saver Pro 3.13, an update to their highly popular video desktop and screen saver utility for Mac OS X. Serene Saver Pro replaces the standard still desktop to which Mac users are accustomed, with a gorgeous video desktop that plays high-definition movies of the users choice.

With a focus on ease-of-use, Serene Saver Pro is a unique cross between a video desktop (moving wallpaper) and screen saver, offering an entirely new facet of personalized computing experience. Its built-in video importer easily lets users import their own movie scenes for use as video desktops. Users can now have beloved family movies, movies of friends and special events, vacation movies, and much more as their desktop, or as a superb screen saver.

Serene Saver Pro boasts a wide variety of stunning, high-definition movie videos shot from all around the globe, accompanied with relaxing nature sound effects. Upon purchase, download access to over three dozen additional hi-def movie videos are available from within the software itself.

The application also sports Automatic Serenity Breaks. This feature allows the user to have Serene Saver Pro automatically remind them to take a break. Simply specify the interval or time(s) of day and a pleasant sound chimes, all work is faded into the background and the entire screen converts into a playing scene.

The relaxation period may be determined as well. When the break period is over, Serene Saver Pro dutifully fades the users work back in to continue from where they last were. If at any point there is a need to interrupt the process, such as a phone call or meeting, simply hitting any key stops the process.

Among Serene Saver Pro’s most prolific features is its ability to automatically mute its sound at appropriate times. For example, when the user launches a music player, Serene Saver can disable and/or mute itself. When the user finishes listening, Serene Saver Pro will automatically turn back on. Users may designate any set of applications for which Serene Saver Pro disables itself or mutes. Serene Saver Pro can also be set to recognize when the users laptop is operating on battery power, and disable itself to conserve power. Serene Saver turns back on when the user plugs into a power source.

New in Version 3.13:
* A number of internal improvements in preparation for the next major release
* Speed improvements
* New Registration System
* Cosmetic changes
* Minor Bug fixes

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 1 GB Hard Drive space
* 1 Gigabyte RAM
* Internet Connection

Pricing and Availability:
Serene Saver Pro is priced at $49.95 (USD) for a single-user license, $69.95 (USD) for five-user license, and $199.95 for a site license. Customers can purchase Serene Saver Pro directly from the Serene Saver website. Single-user Serene Saver Pro customers may upgrade to multiple-user for only $30.00.

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Based in beautiful Marina del Rey, California, Amuse, Inc. was founded in 2005 by Kevin Kachikian with a focus on bringing unique desktop innovations and solutions to the Mac. Kevin is a longtime Mac developer, having brought award-winning educational titles, including Kid Works Plus, to the Mac. Kevin also developed a product called SmoothTalker, which became the core of Apple’s speech synthesis technology. He is the brains behind Disney’s use of Macintosh computers to control the Indiana Jones prototype amusement ride. Amuse, Inc. is recognized for and holds various patents on innovative technology advancements, and has a technology patent pending for Serene Saver Pro. Copyright 2005-2008 Amuse, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


Break Thru Radio Announces Mumiy Troll’s First Live US Radio Show

January 29th, 2009

New York, NY – BreakThru Radio (BTR) is proud to announce that seminal Russian outfit, Mumiy Troll will be gracing its ‘Live Studio’ program for their first ever LIVE North American radio performance.

Having released 8 studio albums, written and produced soundtracks for a full length cartoon movie, and donated tracks to feature films including Russian blockbuster, “Night Watch’ – where Mumiy Troll founder, Ilya Lagutenko also plays the Vampire – makes Mumiy Troll one of the most successful, long-standing independent bands in Russia.

After an extensive US tour which will see the band performing to audiences from Washington DC to Seattle, Mumiy Troll will release their first US album, ‘Comrade Ambassador’.

The exclusive ‘Live Studio’ session which includes a selection of live performances and interview by BTR’s Maia Macdonald, will be available from Friday, January 30th.

About BreakThru Radio’s Live Studio:

BTR, the World’s source for the best Independent music on the Internet, where expert DJs expose the rich underground of sound not found on commercial radio. Whether it’s Indie-Rock, Dancehall, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Skronk, Roots, Country, Reggae, Electronica, Acid Jazz, Ambient Beats, Dub, Two-Step, Death Metal or Folk; whatever genre you can imagine, BTR’s on-demand programming has it well-stocked, and with no expiration date.

Live Studio, one of BTR’s most popular shows, aggregates about 1,800,000 total listens per broadcast. Live Studio’s Director, Maia Macdonald presents the twice weekly shows which capture intimate live performances and compelling interviews which are pre-recorded at Dubway Studios and Shelter Island Sound in New York.

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BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the World’s Source for the Best Independent Music on the Internet, where expert DJs expose the rich underground of sound not found on commercial radio. Whether it’s indie rock, dancehall, dubstep, hip-hop, metal, skronk, roots country, reggae, electronica, acid jazz, ambient beats, dub, two-step or folk, whatever genre you can imagine, BTR has it well-stocked, and with no expiration date. 954 Lexington Ave., Suite 199, New York, NY 10021 Copyright 2008 BreakThru Radio. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


KavaSoft releases HyperImage 2 – Download and Create Web Photo Galleries

January 29th, 2009

Washington, DC – KavaSoft has released HyperImage 2, an application for downloading web photo galleries. There are millions of images on the web, but how do you download them without clicking on them one at a time? HyperImage is the solution: an industrial-strength tool for downloading entire websites worth of pictures all at once. Just point HyperImage to any website, and watch as thousands of pictures stream down to your computer.

Enter the address of a website, and HyperImage will crawl every page and download every image. HyperImage 2 now includes a built-in image browser with infinitely resizable thumbnails, so you can easily browse through all the pictures from a particular page or website. You can even show a full-screen slideshow of images as they are being downloaded.

HyperImage 2 takes advantage of metadata features in Mac OS X Leopard to store the original addresses of downloaded images, as well as the pages they came from. New menu commands open the selected images in your web browser, or show them in their original context.

HyperImage is highly customizable. You can download all the images you want, but ignore the ones you don’t want. You can filter images by name, kind, file size or resolution to skip over buttons, banners and thumbnails. You can also control whether HyperImage follows links in the same folder, the same site, or the same domain. HyperImage lets you download the images you want no matter how the target website is organized.

HyperImage is hyper-threaded, so it downloads images fast using multiple connections. The activity viewer shows you which images are currently being downloaded, what’s in the queue, and what’s been downloaded. It also shows you which images were skipped – and why they were skipped, so you can fine-tune your download preferences.

HyperImage even works with gallery websites that require a login, such as pay-per-content and adult-themed sites. It automatically uses account settings from your keychain, and sends cookies from your browser. Any site that works in your browser works with HyperImage.

HyperImage can easily download a series of consecutively numbered images. For example, enter IMG_0001.jpg through IMG_9999.jpg, and HyperImage will automatically download every file in between. You can also download images from several different galleries or websites by entering a list of addresses. HyperImage takes advantage of the Services menu to let you start downloads from other programs, such as your web browser.

Pricing and Availability:
HyperImage is available for $25 (USD). You can try it for free, but images downloaded with an unlicensed copy will contain a watermark. HyperImage is a universal binary and runs on Mac OS X Leopard.

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Founded in 2002, KavaSoft is the creator of numerous digital lifestyle applications for Mac OS X, including Shoebox, KavaTunes, KavaMovies, iConquer, HyperImage, Curator and KavaServices. Copyright 2002-2008 KavaSoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


1Password 2.9.8 Improves Browser Integration With Over 30 Updates

January 29th, 2009

Toronto (Ontario, Canada) – Agile Web Solutions today announced the release of 1Password 2.9.8 that enhances browser integration and greatly improves support for users who have a large number of Logins. This update is recommended for all users and is a free upgrade for all paid 1Password customers.

What is 1Password?

* The most popular password manager for Mac OS X and iPhone (according to MacUpdate, VersionTracker and iUseThis ratings).
* Winner of Best of Show Award at Macworld Expo 2009.
* A Macworld magazine “Mac Gem”, rated 4.5 out of 5 and nominated for a Macworld Readers’ Choice Award.
* Provides the ability to sync your Mac passwords with your iPhone/iPod touch.
* 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.

What is new in this release?

* Enhanced Browser Integration – This release improves browser extensions and adds support for the latest version of Flock as well as the nightly Camino and Firefox builds.

* Better Login Matching – In the 1Password browser extension, the login that best matches the current page will be shown first, as well as automatically filled when using keyboard shortcut. By analyzing the address of the current page, 1Password is able to intelligently choose which of the saved logins should be used. All other Logins are still available from the Other Logins submenu.

* Improved Login Handling on Dynamic Websites – In the last release of 1Password, some web sites that were dynamically generated would not allow saving of Logins. 1Password would incorrectly report ‘No Logins Found’ when saving. A similar issue would happen when restoring a Login. This release fixes this issue.

* Full Change Log – The full detailed changelog for this release can be found on the 1Password web site.

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

Pricing and Availability:
A Single User license is available for $39.95 (USD) and a five user Family License for $59.95 (USD). 1Password may be downloaded for free from the Downloads page. 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 is dedicated to making Mac OS X even better by creating innovative applications like 1Password, the premier Password Manager for Mac and iPhone, and AllBookmarks, a bookmark manager that collects all browser bookmarks in one place. 1Password is ‘Highly Recommended’ by Macworld, an Apple Staff Pick, and is a Mac|Life Editors’ Pick. All Agile products are available for download for free from the Downloads page.


Elixir offering Extreme Bundle, releases new RapidWeaver theme Aqua

January 29th, 2009

Orlando, FL – Elixir is happy to announce a new RapidWeaver theme and an Extreme Bundle promotion. The Extreme Bundle includes all of Elixir’s themes (a value topping $225) for $54.95 for a limited time. The Extreme Bundle includes their latest theme that is being release along side this bundle.

Save a bundle!

Elixir users often ask for a bundle package which includes all of our RapidWeaver themes packaged together. In the past we’ve seen this as a problem for two reasons. The first reason being that as we add themes to the site the bundle’s contents would vary, making it hard to keep up with when sending out updates. The second reason being that the price would be, even at a discount, quite high. The first problem has been solved for the most part through the use of e-junkie’s logging and our updater applications. The second though was a tough one. So, we decided to offer all our themes at a huge discount but to do it for a very short period of time.

The Extreme Bundle will be offered for 3 days only. It includes every theme we have for sale, including our new release that also comes out today (for more information read below). This package at retail value would certainly top $225. For the next three days you’ll be able to purchase them all for only $54.95.

We won’t be offering this deal again for a long time. So if you’re interested in getting it, don’t hesitate. Included in the bundle you’ll also get a text file with a coupon code to our sister site Icon Lab for 50% off of your entire purchase.

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Now that you know about our ‘little sale,’ We’d like to introduce you to our latest RapidWeaver theme – Aqua. Aqua is a fresh looking, stylish theme, perfect for a small business site, personal portfolio, blog, and so much more.

Aqua is our first theme offering a split navigation system with the main level of navigation along the top, is stylish folded tabs and the secondary (2nd and 3rd levels) in the sidebar. Aqua also features a ton of professionally crafted backgrounds and background overlays, as well as a variety of header images. Aqua truly makes creating a stylish, professional site, an easy task.

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Elixir is a graphics company located in sunny Orlando, Fl. Elixir consists of a staff of, well, just one. Adam Shiver. Adam is a self-taught designer with over 10 years of professional experience. He has created a variety of award-winning media during his career including website design, newspaper graphics and layout, icons, online graphics and other print projects. Adam loves coffee and episodes of The Office. If you really want to bribe him, you can get him Amazing Spider-Man comics or something Apple. We offer affordable RapidWeaver themes for a site that’s easy to maintain and graphics extras like icon sets and header images to snazzy them up. If you’re in need of custom design, including Websites, Identity, Branding and special graphics, well, we do that too. We welcome you to click around and see what catches your eye. Also, check out our blog for product updates and much more.


Candywriter releases Doodle Bug – Accelerometer Based Drawing for iPhone

January 29th, 2009

Seattle, WA – Candywriter, the developer of the naughty Zit Picker, today showed its nice side with the release of Doodle Bug, the first accelerometer-based drawing app for iPhone and iPod touch. Gentle tilting of the device enables Doodle Bug artists to coax a paintbrush-carrying ladybug around the screen.

At a Doodle Bug artist’s disposal is a wide spectrum of ink colors and the ability to adjust the bug’s size and speed. Clever screen placement and use of transparency allows tools to be tucked away in “drawers,” thereby allowing an artist the reign of the entire iPhone screen as his or her canvas.

Doodle Bug is designed to provide a challenging yet entertaining mobile doodling experience for all ages. Doodle Bug artists are encouraged to submit their finished works for placement in the app’s online gallery.

Key Features:
* Accelerometer-based drawing
* Change the color, size, and speed of Doodle Bug as you wish
* Drag and drop Doodle Bug to change locations instantly
* Touch your screen with two fingers for invisible ink
* Auto-save feature allows you to resume your doodle at anytime
* Save your doodles to your photo library
* Relaxing music and interface

Pricing and Availability:
Doodle Bug 1.0 for iPhone is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Located in Seattle, Washington, Candywriter produces creative software for Mac OS X, iPhone, and, grudgingly, sometimes Windows. Copyright 2009 Candywriter. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


New iPhone Application to Help Children Learn to Read using Phonics

January 28th, 2009

London, UK – Apps in My Pocket Ltd launches PocketPhonics for iPhone. Children can now enjoy learning to read using phonics on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Phonics is the reading system recommended by education specialists in both the US and UK.

Teacher, Sue Keen, said: “As a teacher of young children, I am always anxious that new resources for the classroom have a strong educational basis and actually work. I’ve used PocketPhonics with children aged 4 to 6 and the results have been very encouraging. You know you’re winning when the child doesn’t want to stop.”

John Friend, company director at Apps in My Pocket, said: “PocketPhonics starts by saying the sounds and showing children how to write them. It’s been developed from scratch with children in mind, for parents to use with their children or for use in the classroom. Children love to copy the writing on the handheld screen using their finger, and shake the iPhone to make their writing disappear. Sounds are taught in small groups so they can be quickly used together in a game to make short words.”

Pricing and Availability:
PocketPhonics costs $2.99 (USD) in the US and £1.79 in the UK, and is available to download now from Apple iTunes. It uses touch, graphics, animation and sound to make learning to read both fun and engaging for younger children. There’s also a free “lite” version so that people can see how it works before they buy.

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Apps in My Pocket Ltd started in October 2008 to create useful and usable applications for Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. PocketPhonics is the first app to be launched. More information can be found at their website. Copyright 2008 Apps in My Pocket 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.


Zevrix Solutions automates export to Flash CS4 Pro from Adobe InDesign

January 28th, 2009

Toronto (ON), Canada – January 28, 2009 – Zevrix Solutions announces the release of version 3.4 of BatchOutput, its popular professional solution to automate printing and exporting from Adobe InDesign. BatchOutput saves valuable production time and simplifies workflows of service providers, printers, ad agencies and publishing houses by automating the output from InDesign.

With BatchOutput, users only need to select the files to output and adjust the settings, instead of opening and printing each document manually. For example, BatchOutput can be left printing or exporting hundreds of InDesign files overnight, and the completed job can be picked up next morning. BatchOutput also allows users to output InDesign documents as single pages, update links automatically, and output files invisibly for the user. BatchOutput automatically composes complex variable file names, which makes it equally indispensable for export of single documents.

The new version adds the ability to export to the Adobe Flash CS4 Pro file format (XFL), dramatically simplifying repurposing of InDesign CS4 documents for interactive media.

BatchOutput 3.4 is available for Mac OS X 10.4.2 and higher, a Universal Binary, and works with Adobe InDesign CS-CS4.

Pricing and Availability:
BatchOutput 3.4 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site, for $119.95 (USD), as well as from authorized resellers. Demo is also available for download. Upgrade to BatchOutput 3.4 is free for licensed users of version 3.x, and $40 (USD) for the users of earlier versions.

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Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, graphic file diagnostics and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix Solutions is dedicated to helping professionals achieve more while doing less through automating their everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit their website.