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Durham, N.C. – Modality, Inc. today announced that a Saunders Q & A application for the NCLEX-RN Exam is now available from the Apple App Store. The new iPhone and iPod touch application, developed through a partnership with medical publisher Elsevier and based on the bestselling Saunders flash card set authored by Linda A. Silvestri, aids students in preparing for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses.

“The NCLEX-RN exam requires detailed knowledge in a variety of areas,” said Modality CEO and founder S. Mark Williams, Ph.D. “The revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch have given us the ability to create data sorting and assessment tools in this app that enrich the user experience greatly and deliver a more personalized study experience that will make a big difference on test day.”

With nearly 1,000 practice questions, organized in the same style as the current exam, the app allows users to create custom quiz and review sets based on four knowledge categories: Safe and Effective Care Environment, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Psychosocial Integrity, and Physiological Integrity. Each question includes a detailed rationale to help students learn why each answer is correct, as well as statistical tracking to measure their progress and proficiency as they move through the application.

Modality provides more than two-dozen education applications for medical, nursing students and practicing health care professionals.

Pricing and Availability:
Saunders Q & A for NCLEX-RN is available for $39.99 (USD) from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or on iTunes.

About Elsevier
Elsevier Health Sciences is part of Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works. Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier’s ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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Modality, Inc. is the premier mobile learning architect for the iPhone and iPod touch, with dozens of learning and reference applications in the Apple App Store. Modality’s patent-pending process takes trusted content from traditional publishers and transforms it into an enhanced mobile learning experience for the user. Modality’s partners include McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Wolters-Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and Workman Publishing Co. Visit our website for more information, or look for us on Facebook. We make small screens smarter. NCLEX-RN is a registered trademark of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.

Ann Arbor, Mich – Ilium Software has just released Apples2Oranges for the iPhone and iPod touch. With Apples2Oranges users can convert, calculate and compare in one step – it’s the only tool they’ll need for comparison shopping.

Apples2Oranges saves money by comparing the prices of two items, even when their sizes are not the same. For example, Apples2Oranges can calculate the better buy: 78 vitamins for $5.99 or 56 for $4.99. It also compares prices for items displayed in different units – like when one roll of wrapping paper is measured in feet, and another in meters. Apples2Oranges handles the conversion and comparison in one step. Users just enter the info and find out the real price per foot for each one.

In addition to price info, Apples2Oranges compares nutritional info, making it easier for people to watch what they eat. It comes in handy when labels list things like calories, sodium, and sugar in different serving sizes. So it’s simple to figure out which is better: a 1 cup serving of something with 300 calories, or a 180 milliliter serving with 200 calories.

Apples2Oranges is available now on the iTunes App Store for only $4.99 (USD). It pays for itself with the money saved after using it just a few times. More information about Apples2Oranges can be found on Ilium Software’s website.

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Founded in 1997, Ilium Software is a privately held, independent software vendor. The company produces and sells a family of award-winning consumer and business mobile applications for Windows PC, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Palm OS mobile devices. Complete information about Ilium Software and its products is available on their website. Copyright 1997-2009 Ilium 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.

Cottage Grove, MN – Steve Wilmes Consulting, Inc. releases Developer’s Cards for FileMaker Pro 10. The set of cards offer a detailed reference that has every FileMaker function, error code, script step and more on two double-sided-8 1/2 x 11 inch (A4)-laminated cards.

The Developer’s Cards for FileMaker Pro 10 makes it easier for FileMaker developers by providing the “whole picture of all the functions and script steps at a glance” with as much detail as possible. Often developers work with multiple versions of FileMaker – each function and script step on the cards are color-coded to match the FileMaker version with which it was released. The cards detail every function, error code and script step from FileMaker 6 through 10.

Card One goes in-depth describing functions and offers tips. The card highlights functions that are case-sensitive, require the return character to separate values, use []s to separate multiple values and operate differently when hosted. The card also lists port numbers used by FileMaker, FileMaker Server command line codes, script trigger precedence, FileMaker limits, common developer keyboard shortcuts and diagrams the Get(Window) functions.

Card Two goes in-depth on script steps. It highlights which script steps are available over the web, available when hosted on FileMaker Server and which are Mac/Windows only. The card also has all of the FileMaker error codes (returned by Get(LastError) function) and goes in-depth on the GetLayoutObjectAttribute function, custom functions and recursion.

Pricing and Availability:
The Developer’s Cards For FileMaker Pro 10 are available immediately for $14.95 (USD) with free shipping everywhere.

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Steve Wilmes Consulting, Inc. is a FileMaker consultancy located in Cottage Grove, MN. It has been a FileMaker Business Alliance (FBA) member since its founding (when it was CSA) and has been developing and consulting on FileMaker projects for over 15 years. FileMaker and the FileMaker Logo are registered trademarks of FileMaker Inc.

Melbourne, Australia – Bjango is proud to announce iStat for the iPhone, a beautifully crafted remote monitoring, iPhone stats and network tools application.

Remote Mac monitoring
One of iStat’s main attractions is it’s ability to remotely monitor one or more Apple Mac computers, allowing server admins and other Mac users to keep an eye on what their computer is doing from afar. iStat monitors CPU, memory, disks, temperatures, fans, uptime and load averages, right from your iPhone. iStat Server is required for remote monitoring. iStat Server requires Mac OS X 10.4 or greater and is available as a free download from bjango.

iStat can use either Bonjour or TCP/IP to connect to iStat Server. Bonjour is great for zero-config situations where you’re on the same network. TCP/IP (either via hostname or IP address) is ideal for all other cases. iStat can connect to any number of Macs running iStat Server.

iPhone stats
iStat lets you see your iPhone’s stats for memory, disk space, WiFi and Cell IP addresses, uptime & load averages, plus view and email your iPhone’s Unique ID and MAC address. A “Free Memory” function is also included, which attempts to free up memory for use by third party applications.

Network tools
iStat can also be used to ping server, to see if it’s up and running, or trace the path taken to a server (traceroute). iStat’s ping and traceroute store a history of the 10 most recently used hostnames or IP addresses. iStat’s traceroute resolves hostnames, making it one of the few iPhone apps available with that ability. But best of all, they’re well designed and easy to read. They look like they belong on your iPhone.

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Located in sunny Melbourne, Australia, Bjango is a privately funded company founded in 2008 by Marc Edwards. Bjango (pronounced be-jan-go) is a new venture from part of the team that created iStat pro, iStat menus, Organized and quite a few other successful donationware apps and widgets under the moniker of iSlayer. Bjango currently has 4 iPhone apps on the App Store, with many more to come. iSlayer was formed in early June 2005. Bjango has been working on iPhone apps since the release of the iPhone SDK. Copyright 2008 Bjango. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Luxembourg – Houdah Software has announced the immediate availability of HoudahSpot 2.4, their popular file search utility for Mac OS X. HoudahSpot 2.4 is a free update, and is recommended for all Leopard users.

HoudahSpot 2.4 adds another top user requested feature: Text preview. In addition to the existing QuickLook preview, HoudahSpot now provides a dedicated preview feature for text files. Within this preview search strings are automatically highlighted for efficient search result browsing. Additionally it is possible to search the text preview.

With HoudahSpot 2, users may create detailed queries to pinpoint the exact file they want to get to. The results may be shown with any number of columns. The list may be sorted by any attribute imaginable. Users may set up templates for frequently performed searches and save queries for direct access to favorite files.

One of HoudahSpot’s key features is its extensive customization. Once fully customized, a preferred template may be set as starting point for future queries.

With HoudahSpot’s all-in-one interface, results are shown next to the search query. By taking advantage of Leopard’s unique features, users can issue powerful search queries to the Spotlight engine to zero in on files quickly and easily. And with live editing, user may change search criteria on-the-fly without stopping the running query.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5.1 (Leopard) or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC & Intel
* Spotlight enabled
* 8 MB Hard Drive space

Purchasing HoudahSpot licenses:
HoudahSpot 2.4 is priced at $25 (USD) for a single-user license. It is a free upgrade for all registered 1.0 – 1.4 and 2.0 customers.
HoudahSpot 1.5.1 is available for FREE to Mac OS X Tiger users.

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Houdah Software s.a r.l is a small company based in Luxembourg Europe. The company was founded in late 2005 by Pierre Bernard. Apple, Macintosh, Mac, iPhone, iPod, Spotlight, WebObjects and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Computer. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Madrid, Spain – LateNiteSoft has just announced the release of Sketches 1.5 through Apple’s App Store. The latest update of the popular drawing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch includes some new features suggested by existing customers, as well as increased reliability. Existing customers can download the update for free, whereas new users can purchase a full license of Sketches for just $4.99 / 3.99 Euro.

“As we have stated since our initial launch of Sketches in July, we are committed to improving the application and listen to our customers’ feedback. Due to our Mac shareware heritage, we don’t believe in ephemeral success; instead, we strongly believe in quality apps and regular updates” says Jorge Llubiá, co-founder and COO. The new update brings some new features which have been requested by LateNiteSoft’s existing customers. These include the ability to select color opacity, an improved stroke width selection control or a new hosting service to facilitate sharing your work via twitter or email.

“Adding varying degrees of opacity was not a technical issue. The real challenge was to incorporate that feature in a consistent and coherent way with the rest of the interface, without negatively impacting usability. In the few days that Sketches 1.5 has been available, we are amazed to see people already taking advantage of the new feature to create awesome works – we will definitely expand into this area in our upcoming Sketches 2.0 release.”, explains Jorge.

The new version of Sketches also brings its own image hosting service, which is used to store pictures that Sketches users are willing to share via twitter or email. “The sharing features have been available since the initial release of Sketches, but they relied on third party image hosting services to operate” explains Pedro Cuenca, CTO. “Starting with Sketches 1.5, shared images are uploaded to our own service, fully developed and operated by us. This way we are in full control of all the aspects of the application, and can avoid unwanted side effects, such as excessive or inappropriate advertisements, downtime or privacy concerns. In addition, operating our own image hosting service will allow us to grow Sketches sharing features easily – we have some ideas we’d like to expand on in Sketches 2.0 and other future releases.”.

Other improvements in Sketches 1.5 include bug fixes, and a more responsive stroke width control. “This might seem a silly change, but we did not realize you need to precisely touch on top of the slider knob until some of our customers pointed us to this problem – so used as we were to the default behaviour. After we created our own version of the same control, our customers are no longer finding it difficult to operate it the way they naturally expect the control to behave”, explains Jorge. “Likewise, the bug fixes in this version solve scenarios we had not tested ourselves. We are very grateful for all the feedback and encouragement we receive”.

Among other distinctions, Sketches has received a 4.5 mouse rating from Macworld, has been favorably reviewed by TUAW, Ars Technica and Gizmodo, and has earned 5-star ratings from iPhoneAlley and 148apps. An Apple “Staff Favorite” in most countries, it is the #9 Entertainment application in the “Best of iTunes 2008″ selection posted by Apple in their various sites.

Pricing and Availability:
Sketches 1.5 is available through Apple’s App Store for only $4.99 / 3.99 Euro. It can be downloaded for free by existing customers.

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LateNiteSoft is based in Torrelodones, a small beautiful town in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. Bringing dozens of years of accumulated experience in both the software and telecommunication sectors, LateNiteSoft was founded in late 2006 as a Mac software company. Its product portfolio includes Xslimmer and Snapshot for the Mac, and Sketches for the iPhone. Copyright 2006-2009 LateNiteSoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Fiumicino, Italy – Briksoftware has released Snapplr, a revolutionary tool to efficiently take and share screenshots. It completely replaces Mac OS X’s native capabilities and works in the same way as the system tool, but offers a wide range of options. Its main feature is to upload screenshots automatically to Snapplr, giving you an URL in your clipboard that you can share.

A revolutionary feature, called “Live”, is the ability to select an area, a screen or a window and get an URL which takes a fresh screenshot on-demand. This means that you can, for example, select the window you are working on, send the URL to a customer or a friend and get immediate and constant feedback. Every time he hits “reload” in his browser, a new screenshot is sent.

Snapplr also offers the ability to send screenshots via mail, copy them in the clipboard and of course, save them to a file.
You can select the destination of the screenshot through a small control panel which is shown at the bottom of the screen while taking the screenshot. Through this panel you can also set a delay between the time you finish selecting and the time the screenshot is actually taken.

Features:
* Completely replaces Mac OS X native screenshot capabilities
* Share screenshot instantly through the free Snapplr.com service
* Live screenshots for screenshots on demand
* Delayed screenshots
* Save to disk, send by mail or copy to clipboard

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

Snapplr is distributed as a 30-days fully functional trial and a license can be purchased through Briksoftware’s online store.

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Since 2005, Briksoftware’s goal is to make the Mac experience even better by focusing our development efforts on applications which will make using your Mac easier and more efficient. Briksoftware is currently formed by Michele Balistreri (Italy) and Karsten Kusche (Germany). Briksoftware’s current products are PDFKey Pro, CuteClips, Camouflage and UnPlugged.

Marina del Rey, California – Amuse, Inc. is pleased to announce Nyuk Nyuk 1.1, their comic laughter application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Nyuk Nyuk offers comic relief and provides a humorous anecdote for joke-telling, one-liners and gags.

Nyuk Nyuk (pronounced nee-yuk nee-yuk) features a myriad of 30 unique kinds of laughter, all professionally recorded in high quality audio. Almost nine minutes of laughter built in, each from several seconds to almost a minute long. Users can shake Nyuk Nyuk to have it randomly pick a laugh to play for them. Bring Sans the Simian to life with subtle animations and listen with friends. And when he laughs, his mouth animates with laughter.

Known to make people crack up uncontrollably, there is a laugh for every setting: Bellyache, Diabolical, Annoyed Nerd, Kid Laughter, The Solo, Baby Giggles, The Throng of Laughter, Snort, Infectious Hilarity, plus 20 others. It’s the perfect compliment to parties or even the office pool.

Supported Languages:
* US English and Japanese

System Requirements:
* Any iPhone or iPod Touch

Pricing and Availability:
Nyuk Nyuk 1.1 for iPhone is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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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 2005-2009 Amuse, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Frankfurt, Germany – Berbie Software announces an update for TrailRunner, the outdoor oriented route-planning and journaling software for Mac OS X. Among other improvements, TrailRunner 1.9 can download GPS recordings from Trails, one of the hottest GPS recording applications available for the iPhone 3G.

“TrailRunner is an outstanding free route planning and journaling application for Mac OS X. Send your GPS recordings directly from Trails to TrailRunner to analyze and compare your jogs, walks and hikes. Use TrailRunner to collect, edit and publish your trips and adventures.” said Felix Lamouroux, developer of Trails for iPhone.

TrailRunner integrates a wide range of GPS, mapping and workout related scopes into a simple to use application. These include a seamless integration with online services to display topographic maps, satellite photos and elevation data. Easy workout import and geo visualization for Garmin ForeRunner and Edge devices.

Workout import and geo matching for running devices like the iPhone 3G, Apple + Nike iPod Sport Kit, Nike+ SportBand or selected Polar heart-rate monitors. Export of route directions as NanoMaps for color iPods or cellphones. Import and export of various file formats. Integration with free digital mapping communities like GPSies.com and OpenStreetMap.org

Focused on users doing any kind of outdoor activities like running, biking, hiking or inline skating, TrailRunner offers automatic route calculation for a given distance and attractiveness, a workout diary, workout histograms and analysis tools for measured data like speed, ascent, heart-rate, personal aerobic zone and more. An integrated exercise plan can help users to improve their base endurance in small and adaptive steps.

TrailRunner 1.9 is free but thankfully accepts donations. Trails is available in the Apple App Store.

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Started in 2005, Berbie Software pioneered the development of a Mac OS X application focused on outdoor and long distance sports. By building a mash-up of complex technologies and algorithms, TrailRunner delivers a simple to use application that covers most features outdoor enthusiasts need to plan and journalize their activities.

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Trails is one of the hottest GPS recording applications in the Apple App Store. Trails is the only GPS iPhone app that allows users to record, import and export tracks onto the iPhone. Trails is an iTunes Staff Favorite!

Madrid, Spain – wuonm is proud to introduce Layers 1.0, their unique screen capturing utility for Mac OS X. Particularly suited for graphic and web designers alike, technical writers and developers, screenshots captured in Layers are Adobe PhotoShop compatible, allowing anyone to save them as fully layered PSD files, composite images or as separate PNG image files. Easily obtain full fledged PSD files with one layer per window, including menu and desktop icons, dock and menubar.

With an easy-to-use Inspector, Layers features several options to further customize screen captures. Users may filter screen elements to show or hide items, such as wallpaper or Finder icons on their Desktop; or select and save specific items. The Inspector allows users to configure advanced options as well, including Framing, Shadow inclusion, Opacity, or layer bounds. Layers can handle several displays too, so users can disable/enable the capture in each display. Layers features default preferences for UI settings, the location where captures are saved, and user-defined Hot Keys.

Layers supports all Mac applications that can read PSD files, including Photoshop (5.0 or later), Pixelmator, MacGimp, Corel Painter Essential, and others. Grouped layers require Photoshop 6.0 or higher, or any application that supports grouped layers.

Feature highlights include:
* Fully compliant, native PSD file generation
* Convenient Menubar access
* Completely Customizable capture using the Inspector
* User-Defined Hot Keys
* Generated PSD has the screen capture grouped
* Handles various Displays
* Supports any application that can read PSD files

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 5.4 MB Hard Drive space
* Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 or later
* Any Application that supports PSD files

Pricing and Availability:
Layers 1.0 is priced at $19.95 (USD) for a single-user license. A full-featured, demo that generates water-marked images is available. wuonm is offering a launch promotion for $14.95 (USD).

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Located in beautiful Madrid, Spain, wuonm is a small, privately funded Spanish company founded in 2006 by Katy Huertas. With a focus on the Mac and iPhone platforms, wuonm was formed by experienced people who love programming and have a passion to create original and unique applications. FaceCall for iPhone was their first product, with Canvas, and CallSeries in their iPhone lineup. Copyright 2006-2009 wuonm. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod 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.