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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.

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.

Salt Lake City, UT – infiniteNIL has released version 1.0 of PhoneWord for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Phone Word finds vanity phone numbers, or phone words. Each digit in a phone number has letters associated with it. PhoneWord looks at every combination of the letters from a phone number and tries to find words to replace the digits. The final result is a combination of numbers and letters that hopefully spell something memorable and is called a phone word.

A user can either enter a phone number manually or select a phone number from the built-in Contacts application. PhoneWord supports phone numbers of up to 12 digits, so international phone numbers may be entered. Once the phone number is entered, PhoneWord displays a list of all the possible phone words. The user can select the ones they like and save them to a list of favorites. Favorites may be given an name and may be edited so they are displayed just the way the user likes.

PhoneWord makes phone numbers easier to remember and helps you find vanity phone numbers for your current phone number or any of your friends and associates. PhoneWord makes phone numbers just plain fun.

Features:
* Makes phone numbers easier to remember and fun.
* Quickly enter a phone number by choosing one from your contacts
* Uses a dictionary of over 26,000 words to find phone words
* Save and name your favorite phone words

Minimum Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch with 2.2 Software Update

Pricing and Availability:
PhoneWord 1.0 is available now at the iTunes App Store for $1.99 (USD).

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infiniteNIL Software develops personal productivity software for Mac OS X and the iPhone and offers Cocoa and Rails custom development services. InfiniteNIL, LLC is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and was founded in 2003. Copyright 2003-2008 infiniteNIL 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.

Los Angeles, USA – ProteMac is proud to announce ProteMac Meter 2.2, their network Activity monitor and network traffic logger utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, ProteMac Meter allows control network activity for every application on your Mac, showing you exactly what was transmitted and to where. The capability to audit what flows in and out of every piece of software is critical for security aware users. ProteMac Meter provides real-time processes (applications and services) monitoring and shows the history of every network activity.

ProteMac Meter shows extensive information about each connection: application network connections, host availability, remote host name, amounts of incoming and outgoing traffic through connection or application, timestamps of the first and last activity, application that initiated or accepted this connection, full path to the application the process belongs to, and much more. The traffic summary indicator shows an upload and download speed graph and traffic totals specially for selected application.

Visualizing your Internet activity is simple, even for inexperienced users. You can view all established connections, monitor network and per application traffic over a certain period, setup various notifications and much more. Use ProteMac Meter right from your menubar floating diagrams to see the application and network bytes flow.

New in version 2.2
* Improved reporing speed
* Reporting chart fixed
* Misc Bugs fixed

Feature highlights include:
* Display chart and table of network application’s or connection’s real time activity
* Display real time network traffic usage for each application on your Mac
* Display real time network traffic summary for your Mac
* Display real time network speed for your Mac
* Provides clear graphical and numerical network traffic details
* Log each session, include start/stop time, application, remote address/port, total transferred bytes and average speed
* Generate network traffic statistics report, display period network usage for each application and each remote IP
* Monitors multiple network connection interfaces at the same time
* Views connection details in summary, daily, weekly and monthly format, plus export to many different file formats
* Readout in either kB/sec (kilobytes per second) or kbps (kilobits per second)
* Useful stopwatch to accurately time downloads and report the average transfer rates
* Includes complete window configuration and view options
* Alarms once a particular amount of traffic volume is reached in the period
* Alarms for specified Application, bandwith or time
* The utility has a transparent user-friendly interface and is very simple in use

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

Pricing and Availability:
ProteMac Meter 2.2 is available for only $29.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the Macvide website.

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Located in historic St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Intelus, Ltd. is a privately funded company founded in 2002. Leveraging their longtime experience in the video industry, Intelus’ goal is to develop best-of-breed tools for the Mac platform, and lead to the creation of Macvide. Copyright 2002-2008 Intelus, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

South Bend, Indiana – Excelisys is proud to announce their new Drag and Drop demonstration and whitepaper for FileMaker Pro 10. With this exclusive technique demonstration file and accompanying white paper, learn how to provide familiar and elegant drag-and-drop functionality to FileMaker Pro solutions.

“Everyone at Excelisys loves to hear that rhetorical question asked: ‘Woah! You can do THAT in FileMaker?’ Oh yeah, you can. Well this is one of those moments,” cites Christopher Lowe, CEO/Dir. Sales “and we just posted a demo file and white paper about it up on our Excelisys web site.”

With the new script triggers introduced in the recently released FileMaker Pro 10, we all can now deliver a richer user experience to our customers – one that incorporates a familiar and elegant interface mechanism: drag-and-drop. The new demo file we’ve posted is fully unlocked, requires FileMaker Pro 10, and includes three interface examples of the drag-and-drop technique. There is also an embedded PDF white paper that further explains how the whole thing is built, with sample code.

The most obvious use is sorting. Let’s say you’re in a band and you’re trying to organize a set list. Just drag the song titles into the order you want, or change it up again just by dragging. How long have we wanted this feature?

Another great use is building a list. Let’s say you’re managing the receiving dock in a warehouse and you have two lists: the one on the left shows four items ordered on a PO, while the list on the right is blank but will include the items you are receiving. Today you only received one item, so you drag that item from the list on the left into the list on the right. Easy, right?

But here’s yet another great example: nesting in a hierarchical interface. We’ve previously posted a tip on how to build a hierarchical interface, so here’s how to – BAM! – kick it up a notch. Let’s say you have an outline for a presentation, and you decide to move some of your subtopics to another parent topic. By just dragging the subtopic to another topic in the list, you have rearranged your outline – any nested subtopics in the item you moved are automatically moved with it, just as you’d expect.

These great techniques, examples and white papers are brought to you (once again) by eX-Team Senior Developer Andrew Persons. Can you think of any other great drag-and-drop example ideas? Leave us a comment and tell us about it, and if applicable let us know how this technique helped you in your projects.

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Los Angeles, USA – Macvide is proud to announce FlashVideo Converter 2.3, their Flash to video conversion utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, FlashVideo Converter allows conversion of Adobe (Macromedia) Flash SWF and FLV files to video. It fully integrates the process into the Mac experience by allowing human interaction on the content during conversion.

All of the most popular formats are supported, including MP4 (iPod Video), MOV, 3GP, MPEG, and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. And FlashVideo Converter is a great compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite.

FlashVideo Converter can be used for a myriad of different purposes. Create a video or dvd collection by converting flash movies. Record the passing of favorite flash games to video files, and more. This makes the application particularly suited for converting Flash SWF and FLV files to MP4 and 3GP media content for mobile devices.

New in version 2.3:
* Improved Encoding process
* Jerkless Encoding
* Misc bugs fixed

Feature highlights include:
* Encode Flash to Video to MOV format
* Encode Flash to Video to MP4 iPod format
* Encode Flash to Video to 3GP (3GPP, 3G2) format
* mp4 iPod support for converter SWF and FLV files
* Support Flash 6, Flash 7, Flash MX, Flash 8, Flash 9 compressed movie
* Convert Movie Clips and ActionScript and ActionScript2
* Movie Width and Height determination
* Customizable dimensions for exported video
* Auto Determination of Movie length
* User can control Movie over Capturing

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

Pricing and Availability:
FlashVideo Converter 2.3 is available for only $99.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the Macvide website.

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Located in historic St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Intelus, Ltd. is a privately funded company founded in 2001. Leveraging their longtime experience in the video industry, Intelus’ goal is to develop best-of-breed tools for the Mac platform, and lead to the creation of Macvide. Copyright 2001-2008 Intelus, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Flash, the Flash Logo and Macromedia are registered trademarks of Adobe Inc.

Reston, VA – FlipSide5 Inc. proudly announces the release of “Mancala: FS5″, the best-of-breed, social-networked Mancala board game for the iPhone. It leads the social gaming iPhone market with full AOL AIM integration. Mancala: FS5 is currently the #1 board game for the iPhone with 250,000 installs during its first week. Users are raving about the game calling it “addictive” and a “must-have”. The online gameplay and AIM integration keeps players coming back.

Mancala: FS5 brings leading social-networking capabilities along with best-in-class graphics, sounds and game play to the classic game of Mancala on the iPhone. In addition to three difficulty levels in one-player mode, the game supports three styles of two player game play: local area network, anonymous internet play, and internet play between AIM buddies with full instant messaging capabilities.

“Mancala: FS5 is the first iPhone game to have integrated the OpenAIM protocols – allowing AIM users to play games with their buddies while on the go. FlipSide5 has opened up new possibilities in social gaming on the iPhone.” said Todd Brannam, Chief Architect of AOL’s iPhone Application Team. “I look forward to seeing the evolution of social gaming from FlipSide5.”

“We have learned a lot with our previous social-networked games and wanted to push the envelope.” said Michael Sanford, President of FlipSide5, Inc. “We have also licensed our social gaming engine to Zerion Software in their new game ‘Rochambeau’.”

Mancala: FS5 joins the FlipSide5 product suite of Touch Hockey, Tic-Tac-Touch and Touch4. FlipSide5 games are currently installed on over 5 million iPhones and iPods with over 1.5 million internet iPhone games played a month. Over the last 3 months, FlipSide5 has seen over 6.5 million downloads of their games.

Pricing and Availability:
Mancala: FS5 is available today for $1.99 (USD) and a fully-featured ad-supported version is available for free. Mancala: FS5 is being featured in the App Store in the “Best Family Games” section by Apple.

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FlipSide5, Inc. is a world-leader in iPhone social-networked gaming. FlipSide5 offers Mancala: FS5, Touch Hockey, Touch4 and Tic-Tac-Touch. FlipSide5, Inc. began in 2007 to bring the world’s best software on the world’s best mobile platform by delivering the world’s most compelling applications to every single user in the world. Copyright 2007-2008 FlipSide5, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Winnipeg, Canada – Stunt Software is pleased to announce the release of On The Job 3.0, a major new version of their time tracking and invoicing application for OS X. On The Job has two main complimentary functions – tracking time and expenses, and creating invoices. This version of On The Job is nearly a complete rewrite from version 2, and contains a vast array of new features and enhancements.

Highlights of the new features include:
* New flexible invoice layout engine
* Template editor for producing fully customizable invoices, quotes, or time sheets
* New streamlined user interface
* Invoices can now be created for a specified date range
* New outstanding invoices to easily see unpaid invoices
* Custom hourly rates can now be set for specific items
* Status bar menu to control the timer
* Individual timing sessions are now tracked, and can be edited
* Additional expense types have been added: quantity and mileage
* Per client currency settings
* Automatic and fully customizable invoice number generation

Pricing and Availability:
On The Job 3.0 can be purchased at Stunt Software’s online store for $39.95 (USD) for new customers, or $14.95 (USD) for customers upgrading from version 2.0. The software comes with a 20 day free trial period and a 30 day no questions asked money back guarantee. On The Job requires OS X 10.5 or newer.

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Stunt Software has been dedicated to creating high quality software for the Macintosh platform since 2004. Copyright 2004-2008 Stunt Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Odessa, Ukraine – Readdle announces the release of ReaddleDocs 1.3, the new version of their popular document and file management solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now ReaddleDocs owners can read RTF and RTFD files, and browse their Photos folder directly from the application.

ReaddleDocs combines a network file server, web storage client, web browser, file manager and powerful document viewer in a one iPhone business application. It allows users to transfer files and documents to their devices over Wi-Fi and 3G networks; view them on the go, email and share files and documents with other iPhone users easily.

ReaddleDocs 1.3 provides access to iPhone Photos folder. Users can sort photos directly on their devices and zip them before sending the photos by email. The access to the Photos folder is “read only” so it’s impossible to accidentally delete an image or break the iPhone photos database.

The lack of RTF support on the iPhone was a very common problem for Mac OS X users, because RTF is a default format for TextEdit. ReaddleDocs 1.3 can view RTF documents created with both TextEdit and MS Word; RTFD files, RTF documents with embedded images, are also supported.

“We received a lot of feedback and reviews from our users during the last 6 months and one of the biggest complaints was inability to view RTF and RTFD files on their devices. Now this function is finally available among other iPhone missing features implemented by ReaddleDocs” notes Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO.

Also, ReaddleDocs 1.3 includes a new and improved Web Browser, that is now compatible with secure HTTPS web sites and can accept untrusted network certificates used by home WebDAV servers.

Pricing and Availability:
ReaddleDocs is available at the special price of $9.99 (USD) at the App Store. More information about ReaddleDocs could be found at their website.

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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.

Vilnius, Lithuania – iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, releases free iWeb Theme and enhanced package of iWeb themes to be used with Apple’s Web site building application, iWeb. iWeb Themes 3.0 includes five new awesome themes: Black and White, Flora, Mahogany, Ray and Tracery. Furthermore all iWeb users are able to download and try free Treasure Theme. Each iWeb theme has ten templates instead of ordinary eight. iWeb Themes 3.0 includes following templates: Welcome, About Me, Photos, My Albums, Movie, Blog, Podcast, Blank, My Hobbies and News. New iWeb themes are compatible with iWeb 2.0 and iWeb 3.0 versions.

iWeb Themes 3.0 can be easily customized so iWeb users don’t have to worry about the design. Each iWeb theme incorporates a number of different graphic elements which can be easily removed, moved and changed in size, opacity or color. All themes incorporates endless background, therefore website can be filled with different amount of information. iWeb themes contains several different page layouts to accommodate various information.

In addition iPresentee extended number of templates so iWeb users will be able to add new templates, such as Hobbies and News to their websites. iWeb Themes 3.0 includes an installer to make sure the themes end up in the right place. To get started just download, install the themes, choose the perfect theme, and create a website that is uniquely yours.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later
* iWeb 2.0 (iLife 08) or iWeb 3.0 (iLife 09)
* 50 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Each iWeb theme is available for $10 (USD). The set of five new iWeb Themes 3.0 may be purchased for $25 (USD). Treasure Theme is being offered free of charge. Samples and more information about iWeb Themes 3.0 are available immediately at the iPresentee website.

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Located in Vilnius, Lithuania, iPresentee company was founded in 2007 by a group of professional and enthusiastic IT designers. With a focus on the Mac platform, iPresentee’ perspective goal is to create high quality, easy to use and fun add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications. Copyright 2007-2008 iPresentee. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple Keynote are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

New York, New York – Jeffrey Zeldman, founding partner of An Event Apart web design conferences and founder of Happy Cog studios, shares his experience surviving bad times based on starting an agency at the dawn of the dot-com bust in a helpful article on the 24ways website. Zeldman’s four keys to surviving a bad economy for web designers include simple axioms: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client.

“Although the recession we’re in now may end up making the dot-com bust look like the years of bling and gravy, the bust was rough enough at the time,” said Zeldman. “Bad times are hard on overweight companies and over-leveraged start-ups, but can be kind to freelancers and small agencies. Clients who once had money to burn and big agencies to help them burn it suddenly consider the quality of work more important than the marquee value of the business card. Fancy offices and ten people at every meeting are out. A close relationship with an individual or small team that listens is in.”

Zeldman reminds those starting out or refiguring their business plans that thin is in. If you were good in client meetings when you were an employee, print business cards and pick a name for your new agency. How do you get gigs? Web design is a people business. If things are slow, email former clients. If you just lost your job, email former agency clients with whom you worked closely to inform them of your freelance business and find out how they’re doing. Don’t forget to give it time. Securing clients takes longer and requires more effort in a recession. If two emails used to land you a gig, it will now take four, plus an in-person meeting, plus a couple of follow-up calls.

Networking and adding new skills can fill gaps in your plan. Zeldman leads, with partner Eric Meyer, a series of two-day events around the country called An Event Apart. The speakers cover creating the right content and features for your audience, designing pages that are a pleasure to read and use, and beating browsers and web gadgets into submission. An Event Apart and its presenters are gung-ho about web design and development.

Each speaker has made genuine contributions to this industry and each is a star. Meyer and Zeldman will share their experience designing and developing at all four 2009 conferences. An Event Apart kicks off in Seattle on May 4–5, 2009 followed by Boston, June 22–23, Chicago, October 12–13, and finishing the year in San Francisco December 7–8, 2009. These two-day events all take place in one room, one track. To register for the conference, visit the website.

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From the makers of A List Apart, An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for. Founded by web visionaries Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, and dedicated to the proposition that the creators of great web experiences deserve a great learning experience, An Event Apart brings together twelve of the leading minds in web design for two days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment. An Event Apart receives support from A List Apart and Happy Cog.

Kilmarnock, UK – Malkinware is delighted to announce Reference Tracker 1.1, an update to their popular academic reference manager and research tool for Mac OS X. Reference Tracker is an indispensable tool for writers, researchers or students. It creates documents that store all the citations and references in an essay, research project, or book and automatically creates formatted reference lists in a variety of popular reference styles to insert when needed.

Among Reference Tracker’s unique features is there is no need to type out all the details of a referenced book. Just give Reference Tracker the book’s ISBN and it will fetch all the details from the internet automatically. If the user doesn’t have the book in hand, typing keywords into its built-in publication search will get a list of matching results. With a single click, search results will be added to their reference list.

When referencing an online web resource, the application can pull all of the details from Safari or Firefox with just one click. And Reference Tracker can pull all the details from Apple’s Mail as well. Reference Tracker offers built-in sticky notes too. Users may easily add as many comments or notes to as many references as they wish.

Reference Tracker can send a formatted reference list directly to the end of word processing documents. The dynamic ‘Send To’ menu will show a list of open documents in Microsoft Word, Apple Pages and Nisus Writer Pro. Users can easily append their formatted list to the end of an open document, or create a new document with the contents of the list.

Feature highlights include:
* Create Full References in a single step
* Reference Web Pages and Emails with a single click
* Easily import existing Reference Lists from word processors or reference managers
* Integration with Microsoft Word, Nisus Writer Pro and Apple’s Pages
* Easily Organize References
* Export formatted lists to anywhere
* Add Sticky Notes to References

Version 1.1 sports many new improvements and bug fixes, with improved reliability and accuracy of formatted list importing, improved formatting and punctuation in reference list formatting and improved BibTex exporting. Reference Tracker now includes MLA and Chicago/Turabian reference styles, as well as an Online Article reference type. Reference Tracker has also added support for Nisus Writer Pro in the ‘Send to Word Processor’ feature.

Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a bug that could cause the BibTex importer to fail
* Fixed a bug that could cause the formatted reference list importer to fail
* Fixed a bug that caused the layout of document windows to distort

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 7.0 MB Hard Drive space
* Internet Connection required for ISBN and Publication search

Malkinware is constantly enhancing Reference Tracker, and encourages customers to contact support if they have a reference style or word processor they would like to be included. For a full feature list, please visit see their Website.

Pricing and Availability:
Tracker 1.1 is available for only $44.95 (USD). Version 1.1 is a free and recommended update for all existing 1.0 customers. A fully-functional, 21-day trial version is available. Student and Educational discounts are offered for $29.95 (USD).

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Headquartered in Kilmarnock, United Kingdom, Malkinware is a privately funded company founded in 2007 by Jim McGowan. Leveraging his longtime experience from the education field, Jim’s goal is developing best-of-breed reference tools for the Mac platform, complemented by first-class support. Reference Tracker is their flagship application, with more applications in development for release in the near future. Copyright 2007-2008 Malkinware. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Pages and Mail are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft Word is a registered trademark of Microsoft Inc.

Hagenberg, Austria – Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.4, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

The new version adds a number of user-requested features, like the option to temporarily suspend Typinator and to preserve the height of the set list when the window size changes. It also implements a new technique that allows Typinator to expand abbreviations in floating windows such as in Spotlight or in the quick entry windows of OmniFocus and TaskPaper. Finally, the new version includes a number of other improvements and fixes, including a problem that caused the memory requirements to grow over time.

Typinator is a powerful, yet elegantly simple solution that works across all applications to detect specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replace them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters.

For business users, Typinator leads to a layer of operational consistency and productivity across heterogeneous applications. A standard customer service response, a signature image on an email, a clause in a contract – each of these can be inserted in any application with just a couple of keystrokes. For technical users, Typinator automates typing of code and the implementation of documentation standards.

Typinator 3.4 requires Mac OS X version 10.4 or newer, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is recommended. Visit Ergonis Software’s website to learn more about the changes in this release and to download and try the new version.

Availability and Pricing:
Typinator can be purchased securely on the Ergonis Software website. The upgrade to Typinator 3.4 is free for all customers who purchased Typinator in the last 2 years. For information about purchases, including enterprise licenses, volume discounts, and upgrade pricing offers, see the company’s web site.

Instead of purchasing Typinator by itself, customers can get the Macility Productivity Bundle that also contains two of the company’s other productivity tools, PopChar X and KeyCue. The pricing of the Productivity Bundle represents a saving of more than 35% over the separate purchase of its components.

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Ergonis Software develops ergonomic and intuitive software that boosts the productivity of Mac and PC users. Ergonis Software, a privately held company founded in 2002, is headquartered in Hagenberg, Austria. Ergonis and Typinator are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Ergonis Software GmbH. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.