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Washington, DC – KavaSoft today released KavaServices 3.0, a utility that adds a collection of useful menu items to the Services menu. KavaServices can translate, encode for HTML, calculate, convert units, sort, change case, execute commands, and more. These commands replace the selected text in any Mac OS X application, without the need to switch to a different program, or copy and paste.

KavaServices translates text from one language to another, and can even translate web pages and email messages. KavaServices understands English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Portuguese, and Russian.

KavaServices helps webmasters prepare content for the web by encoding special characters into HTML entities. With one keystroke, KavaServices can convert accented characters, characters in other alphabets and special punctuation marks for display on the web. KavaServices 3.0 adds the ability to encode URL links, and to convert accented text to plain ASCII.

KavaServices can calculate mathematical expressions, including basic arithmetic, trigonometry, arithmetic with scientific units, base conversions, and more. It can also convert currencies, area, energy, power, pressure, speed, temperature, time, volume and weight.

New text processing commands in KavaServices 3.0 let you convert text to lowercase, uppercase or title case. You can sort lines alphabetically, with the option to remove duplicates as well.

KavaServices also offers a gateway to the Terminal in any application. Select a command, hit a keystroke, and the command will be replaced by its result as if you had typed it in the Terminal.

Pricing and Availability:
KavaServices costs $25 (USD), and can be purchased using PayPal or Kagi. You can try all of the features for free for seven days.

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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.

Scottsdale, Arizona – Cynical Peak Software is pleased to announce the release of Rivet 2.0, their application for streaming video, music, and photos from Mac OS X to the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Rivet is an easy to use and fun way to play all of your favorite media content from your Mac on your TV using your Xbox 360 or PS3, including movies, TV shows, music, photos, and podcasts. You can now easily enjoy all of your media on your big screen TV from the comfort of your living room. Rivet 2.0 adds the ability to stream to the PS3 and fixes connectivity and display issues.

Rivet enables everyone to quickly browse and view their entire collection of digital media from from anywhere in the house on their Xbox 360 or PS3. Your Mac’s folder structure and organization is completely reproduced to allow you to quickly find exactly what you want to view. Navigation is now a breeze. You no longer have to search through a long list to find what you want. Dig in and start watching right away.

Feature Highlights:
* Music streaming of your iTunes library
* Photo streaming of your iPhoto library, Aperture library, and user defined folders
* Video streaming from user defines folders
* Full organization support, your mac is recreated on the Xbox 360 and PS3
* Quick automatic updating on the Xbox 360 and PS3. when files are added, deleted, or moved

New in version 2.0:
* Added PS3 support
* Fixed file size info for files larger than 4 GB
* Fixed Aperture parsing for nested folders
* Fixed folder parsing for folders nested more than 6 levels deep
* Increased the look-up speed of media, photo thumbnail loading to time out less often
* Fixed an issue that caused no all of the media to be shown when a folder contains folders and media
* Fixed an issue that caused the iTunes library parser to abort
* Removed the filtering of iTunes+ files since the PS3 correctly plays them

System Requirements:
* Requires Mac OS X v10.5 or later.
* iTunes for music sharing
* A networked Xbox 360 or PS3
* 2.7 MB Hard Drive space.

Pricing and Availability:
Rivet 2.0 may be purchased for $18.95 (USD) and comes with a limited streaming demonstration period. 2.0 is a free upgraded for existing Rivet users.

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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 – 2009 Cynical Peak Software, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Perth, Australia – Pixelglow Software today announced Instavue, a new Mac OS X application. Instavue is a companion application to Instaviz, the graph sketching app for the iPhone. Instavue enables Instaviz users to print and export graphs from their Mac OS X desktop.

What is Instavue?
Instavue extracts the Instaviz graphs from the user’s iPhone or iPod Touch backups. The user can then choose to print the graphs or export them to any of these vector and bitmap formats: BMP, GIF, Graphviz, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, Photoshop, PDF, PNG, PostScript, Quickdraw, Silicon Graphics, SVG, TGA or TIFF.

What is Instaviz?
Instaviz is an iPhone/iPod Touch app that turns roughly sketched shapes and lines into beautifully laid-out graphs. The app is great for drawing mind maps, concept maps, flowcharts and graph theory, or just simple note-taking and brainstorming.

Despite being in the App Store for little over a month, Instaviz has already garnered 8 five-star reviews there. 148apps, the popular App Store review site, recently rated Instaviz 4 out of 5 stars.

System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and iTunes 8.0 or better.

Pricing and Availability
Instavue may be downloaded and installed for free. For further details about this release, please visit the Instavue website.

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Pixelglow Software synthesizes disparate ideas into simple and intuitive working software solutions. On the Macintosh, Windows and web platforms for over 12 years, they work with clients ranging from small firms to multinationals like WorleyParsons, AT&T and Autodesk. Their Altivec-optimized SIMD toolkit macstl is well-regarded in numerics and high performance computing circles since 2003. Their port of Graphviz to Mac OS X took two prizes in the Apple Design Awards 2004: Winner for Best Open Source Product and Runner-Up for Best New Product. Copyright 2008 Pixelglow Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sydney, Australia – Acqualia today announced the release of Picturesque 2.1, a major update to their Apple Design Award winning image beautifying application. Picturesque makes images look gorgeous for the web, adding “Web 2.0″ style effects. With an animated “drag and drop” style interface, Picturesque beautifies your image with tasteful effects like 3D perspective, reflection, glow, shadow, curve, and stroke in less time than it takes to open Photoshop. And with just a couple of sliders, Picturesque can help you achieve professional image effects.

Picturesque can also beautify images in batch mode, and with the ability to resize, crop, and apply effects on a whole folder of images, Picturesque is an easy way to make sophisticated thumbnails and beautifully refined full sized images.

You can also create presets of your favourite effects and save them to use again later, allowing you to create a consistent look for the images on your website with minimal effort.

Version 2.1 brings a number of enhancements to Picturesque including an improved image browser view, improved cropping & image resizing, and the ability to save straight to your Desktop with one keystroke. It also fixes a number of bugs relating to stroke, the shadow effect and saving.

Pricing and Availability:
Picturesque is available now for a free download and requires 10.5 Leopard or later. Registration is $34.95 (USD) to remove the watermark.

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Acqualia is an Australian software company that produces award winning and easy to use software for the Mac. Copyright 2008 Acqualia. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Adobe, the Adobe Logo and PhotoShop are registered trademarks of Adobe Inc.