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Blacksburg, VA – St. Clair Software is happy to announce the immediate availability of Default Folder X 4.1.1. This release improves the compatibility and stability of our award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs.

About Default Folder X:
Awarded Macworld Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best System Enhancement Utility, Default Folder X makes Open and Save dialogs “work the way they should.” It enhances the file dialogs in all Mac OS X applications, making them work as quickly as you do. Custom keyboard shortcuts put your favorite and recent folders at your fingertips.

Pop-up menus let you navigate your folders and open Finder windows. Previews and Spotlight comments are there when you need them. Open, save, and get back to work: Default Folder X is workflow for the rest of us.

What’s New:
Default Folder X 4.1.1 is a free update that improves compatibility with Firefox and Hazel. It also resolves problems that users have reported recently, including Default Folder X quitting unexpectedly when you restart or shut down your Mac, repeated error messages in the Console, and delays when logging in. Because these fixes may also resolve issues with other applications, we encourage all users to update to version 4.1.1.

Please see the St. Clair Software web site for screenshots, a full change log, and additional feature information.

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

Pricing and Availability:
Default Folder X 4.1.1 is a free update for users who purchased a license or upgrade on or after June 1, 2007. The upgrade is $14.95 (USD) for users who bought their licenses before that date, and $34.95 (USD) for new users.

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St. Clair Software, based in Blacksburg, VA, is a privately held company that has been specializing in utilities and custom software solutions for the Macintosh since 1988. St. Clair Software can be contacted at: St. Clair Software, P.O. Box 10184, Blacksburg, VA 24062-0184, USA, fax: 540-552-5898.

Berlin, Germany – nova media today announced that launch2net, the mobile Internet connection manager for Mac OS X, will be on sale for $29.95 (USD) at Mupromo on January 24th and 25th 2009. This discount marks a reduction of more than 60% of the retail price of $75.

launch2net is a mobile Internet connection wizard which allows to establish mobile Internet connections worldwide. The software supports many mobile phones, most USB modems and datacards and already includes drivers and network access information for a hassle free online experience.

“After 25 years of Macintosh computers it is time to push the use of mobile Internet connections with our beloved Macs and launch2net makes this as easy as it can get.”, states Jan Fuellemann, PR spokesperson at nova media. “With this special offer, there is no more excuse to remain disconnected.”

launch2net offers advanced static information to keep track of the time and data volume spent online. To avoid additional connection fees, the internet connection can be disconnected automatically after a certain limit has been reached.

launch2net works with most mobile network providers around the globe and already includes all necessary connection settings. This makes it easy to use a prepaid SIM card abroad to avoid data roaming fees without the need to look for cryptic connection commands or to call expensive hotlines.

More information on launch2net and a fully functional demoversion is found on the company’s website.

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The founders of “nova media Mobile Data Solutions GmbH” started their business in 1996 in Berlin. The company specializes on mobile data solutions for Mac OS X. More information on the company’s website or phone +49 30 3909040.

Incline Village, Nevada – Xeric Design, Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of EarthDesk 4.6, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, for Macintosh OS X. EarthDesk 4.6 increases the natural map detail by 25% thus providing crisper images at high zoom-levels.

EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh or Windows desktop.

The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. Unlike a screen saver, which only appears when your system is idle, EarthDesk’s dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background (and optionally as a screen saver).

EarthDesk is the only application of its kind to support accurate moonlight, multiple monitors and eleven different map projections, as well as political, enhanced satellite and natural views.

Pricing and Availability:
EarthDesk requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer. Single user copies may be purchased online for $24.95 (USD). Upgrades from version 2.x or 3.x are available for $11.95 (USD). For more information and to download an evaluation version, please visit our website. Editorial Review copies and high resolution screenshots are available to qualified persons upon request.

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Xeric Design, based in Incline Village, Nevada, is a leader in global time and mapping software. Its flagship product, EarthDesk, for both Macintosh and Windows, is enjoyed by users in more than 140 countries.

Enschede, Netherlands – Bohemian Coding and Laurent Baumann are proud to announce Fontcase 1.0, their brand new Font Manager. From the start, Fontcase has been designed with applications like iTunes and iPhoto in mind; the interface is very intuitive and the interface is uncluttered. But don’t be deceived by the simple interface. While it may look simplistic, there’s is a lot features built in.

Fontcase focusses on metadata, and for every font and weight, you can add a wide variety of metadata. You can set tags, genres, assign designers and foundries and much more. They are no just pieces of text, but actually show up in the source list, right under your smart collections. Everything in the interface can be dragged; fonts to a tag in the sidebar or a designer from the source list to a foundry.

Of course you want to preview your fonts before you start using them in other applications, and Fontcase has a lot of options built in for this. You can preview fonts with any sample text you want and you can view individual glyphs, as a waterfall text and as body text. If you want to go in more detail, there’s a special Compare-mode which was designed to compare a small set of fonts and allow you to choose the right font from them.

When we work with clients or in teams, we occasionally want to exchange fonts with other people. Instead of maintaining a dedicated font server or manually sending the fonts to other macs, you can now let Fontcase do the work. Just like in iTunes, you can share your Library with other people, but in Fontcase other people can also download fonts from your vault. You not only share fonts but also the associated metadata.

Feature highlights include:
* Collects all fonts in its own vault and carry it between macs
* Beautiful streamlined interface
* Activating and Deactivating fonts or entire collections
* Metadata support
* Preview options
* Sharing between macs
* Print previews of your fonts
* Dragging sample texts and glyphs as pdf
* FontExplorer X (r) import

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 or higher
* Full Leopard compatibility
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

Language Support:
English

Pricing and Availability:
Fontcase 1.0 is available as a full-featured demo. A single user license is 42.00 Euros ($55.00 USD). Discount is available for the first two weeks at 35 Euros.

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More than a year ago now, Laurent Baumann contacted Bohemian Coding with the idea of creating a new font management application. Both of them went to work and are very excited now to finally be able to release it. Bohemian Coding, based in the Netherlands, was officially founded on the 1st of January 2008 and currently has one other application called DrawIt. Laurent Baumann is a user-interface and icon designer specializing in the Mac OS X platform. Copyright 2008 Bohemian Coding. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iTunes and iPhoto are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Bloomington, Minnesota – IdeaSwarm today announces AppViz 1.5.2, an update to their popular iPhone sales and analysis utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, AppViz helps iPhone developers download and visualize their application sales. The utility features a dashboard that displays an overview of product sales and trends at-a-glance, as well as a graph view for more in-depth analysis with per country and custom date range filtering.

iPhone application designers can download and view the top reviews from 64 App stores around the world. With the click of a button, import daily, weekly, monthly, or monthly reports, as well as view and sort them by product with report summaries. Developers can easily find out where their sales are coming from in the geographical report, as well as export original reports or an Excel compatible calculated daily report for integration with other reporting solutions. AppViz currently supports 44 currencies, making currency conversion a breeze.

Feature highlights include:
* Download from the web or import from existing files
* Imports daily, weekly, monthly, and monthly free reports
* Currency conversion supports 44 currencies
* Product dashboard shows an overview of sales and trends
* Graphs view allows more in-depth analysis with per country and custom date range filtering
* View and sort reports by product with report summaries
* Download and view the top reviews from 64 App stores around the world
* Find out where sales are coming from in the geographical report
* Export original reports or an Excel compatible calculated daily report

With AppViz, iPhone developers can now avoid the hassle of manual daily downloads, and spend more time building their applications, not spreadsheets.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5.5 Leopard or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 6.1 MB Hard Drive space
* Internet Connection
* iTunes Connect Account
* Application on the Apple AppStore

Pricing and Availability:
AppViz 1.5.2 is available for $29.95 (USD). A trial version is available from their website.

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Located in Bloomington, Minnesota, IdeaSwarm is a privately funded company founded in 2008 by Dylan Bruzenak. Leveraging his longtime experience from the consulting field, Dylan’s main focus is developing powerful, versatile tools for the Mac and iPhone platforms. Copyright 2008 IdeaSwarm. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.