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Neptune Beach, FL – Tropical Software today announced it’s TopXNotes MacZot promotion has been extended due to popular demand. TopXNotes is an award-winning, full-featured personal information manager. TopXNotes is available for 50% off its regular retail price through midnight CDT, April 1, 2009 for this exclusive MacZot promotion.

TopXNotes is a full-featured personal note manager. Create, view, organize, and instantly access your Mac notes with TopXNotes. You can also encrypt sensitive information and send your notes to your iPod for quick reference when you are away from your computer. If you need a simple, easy to learn, easy to use personal information and task manager, you will like TopXNotes.

With versatile, easy to learn and easy to use TopXNotes you can:
* Create notes easily with drag and drop, by typing, or importing existing text
* Access frequently used notes instantly no matter what you are doing with exclusive QuickNotes(TM)
* View notes in multiple ways with our exclusive MultiView(TM) feature
* Organize your important information with Categories and Groups
* Secure critical information from prying eyes with our unique encryption process

TopXNotes was awarded 4 out of 5 mice by Macworld magazine in their “Summer of Mac Gems” series of reviews, and 9 of 10 by Macsimum News. Macworld praised TopXNote’s “clean, single window interface that puts controls for highlighting and marking up your text right at your fingertips,” as well as for its exclusive QuickNotes feature.

Minimum TopXNotes Requirements
* Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard)
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* G4 Processor, 1GHz or faster
* 38.8 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability
TopXNotes is available for a discount of 50% off on MacZOT starting immediately today only (ends April 1, 2009). Get Organized With TopXNotes and Save 50% Today.

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Tropical Software’s flagship products, TopXNotes is a modern personal note organizing tool. TopXNotes emphasizes our dedication to providing easy to use and learn to use Mac productivity tools. Copyright 2009 Tropical Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Toronto (ON), Canada – Zevrix Solutions announces the release of the Pro and Studio versions of InPreflight, its quality control, packaging automation and preflight reporting solution for Adobe InDesign. InPreflight provides a robust, fast, reliable and user-friendly preflight solution for service providers, printers, ad agencies, designers and publishing houses.

InPreflight quickly gathers extensive information about document fonts, colors and links and lets users instantly locate potential problems according to preflight presets. The program saves hours of checking InDesign documents manually and dealing with consequences of costly mistakes. InPreflight on average is 2-10 times faster than FlightCheck.

InPreflight is also a powerful packaging automation solution which allows users to preflight and package multiple documents. Among other abilities, it can collect all files into one folder, eliminating the need to collect the same links multiple times for each design. The savings can result in gigabytes of space and hours of production time. In addition, InPreflight lets users print graphic preflight reports and save them as fully searchable interactive PDF files, providing an easy way to analyze, archive and send reports to service providers.

The new InPreflight Studio is a low cost version which targets artists and designers who don’t require the advanced packaging capabilities. It provides the same powerful preflight and reporting solutions as the Pro version. InPreflight Pro is identical to the current version of InPreflight which includes automated packaging of multiple documents and other advanced options.

Pricing and Availability:
InPreflight Pro/Studio can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for $139.95/99.95 (USD) respectively, as well as from authorized resellers. Demo is also available for download. Upgrade to InPreflight Pro is free for licensed users of version 2.2 and up, and $40 (USD) for the users of earlier versions. InPreflight is available for Mac OS X 10.4.2 and higher, a Universal Binary, and works with Adobe InDesign CS-CS4.

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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. Copyright (C) 2009 Zevrix Solutions. All Rights Reserved.

Vero Beach, FL – SpectorSoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in Internet Monitoring and Surveillance Software, has released Spector Pro mac 2009, the most powerful and easy to use monitoring program for Macs available in the marketplace today.

Just as SpectorSoft’s award-winning Windows platform monitoring products – Spector Pro, Spector CNE Investigator, and Spector 360 – lead the field when it comes to PC and Internet activity monitoring, Spector Pro mac 2009 is the software of choice for parents concerned about protecting their children from the dangers of the Internet. Spector Pro mac 2009 is also appropriate for employers concerned about maximizing productivity and minimizing liability in the workplace by keeping track of everything employees do on a Mac.

“The release of Spector Pro mac 2009 is a landmark event in the world of Mac monitoring software,” said SpectorSoft President C. Douglas Fowler. “The appearance of the word ‘Pro’ in the product name indicates the power of this program, as well as its ease of use.

“We at SpectorSoft take great pride in the industry awards and accolades our Spector Pro for Windows program has received over the years, so after the considerable time and effort spent developing this new Mac monitoring program, I am pleased to say its features and benefits deserve the ‘Pro’ distinction.”

Spector Pro mac 2009 goes beyond the original Spector for Mac’s unrivaled ability to take screen snapshots of everything a user does at the Mac and on the Internet because the new program includes many of the powerful features of the award-winning Spector Pro for Windows, including:

* Web Sites Visited – See full details of every web site visited, plus actual web site addresses.

* Chat and Instant Message Activity – Record and review conversations on all the major chat clients: iChat, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and Adium.

* Email Activity – Get a copy of every email sent or received with common email programs like Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Mozilla Thunderbird, and other POP/SMTP email clients.

* User Activity – See if and when they are actively using the computer with the User Activity chart.

* Remote Viewer – Review recordings from another computer, PC or Mac, in your home or office without having to return to the computer you are monitoring.

More than 50,000 companies and more than 400,000 consumers have purchased SpectorSoft solutions to crack down on Internet abuse in their business or home, and SpectorSoft has made the prestigious Inc. Magazine List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. four times in the past five years. SpectorSoft monitoring technology is a Three-Time winner of the prestigious PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Award.

Pricing and Availability:
Spector Pro mac 2009 is priced at $99.95 (USD) for a one-user license. It is available for immediate download at the SpectorSoft website or at Apple stores across the United States.

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SpectorSoft develops, markets and supports PC/Internet monitoring and surveillance products for business, education, government and general home users. Recognizing that corporations, schools and families need to know how people are using their PCs and what they are doing on the Internet, SpectorSoft was founded to provide the first useful and intuitive recording and playback products for Windows and Mac OS based computers.

New York, New York – Chromatic Bytes, LLC announces the immediate availability of ZeusDraw 1.3.3, an update to its Mac OS X vector drawing program. ZeusDraw is a vector drawing program with a fluid, graceful interface, great brushes and a host of other features. ZeusDraw 1.3.3 adds French and Spanish language localizations. It also fixes a several minor bugs in offsetting and PDF conversion.

ZeusDraw Features:
* Color managed (RGB and CMYK)
* Converts PDF to editable objects
* Full layer system
* Both vector brushes and textured, pixel-based brushes that remain objects that can be selected, edited (path and attributes), moved, scaled and rotated
* Easy to use path tools. Points are entered in order and can be edited at any time while the path is being created. When editing, all points are immediately editable – there is no confusing secondary selection tool
* Gradients can be edited live, in-place on the objects they fill
* Multi-Copy tool to place multiple copies along a line, an arc, a circle or a path
* No text boxes. ZeusDraw has in-place editing of text, even if it has been scaled sheared or rotated
* Construction and layout aids: Snap to Grid, Snap to Path, Snap to Point, * Snap to Angle and automatic alignment guides
* By gesture or by the numbers. ZeusDraw allows precise setting of the size and position of objects
* Actual size viewing. With ZeusDraw 100% means 100%
* No size limits. If you’re making a banner or a billboard, ZeusDraw will work for you
* E-mail artwork from within the program
* Color Picker. ZeusDraw adds a pane to the Color Picker to allow you to choose from a grid of closely related colors

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

Pricing and Availability:
ZeusDraw 1.3.3 is $90 (USD) for new users. This is a free update for currently registered users. A fully functional 30-day free trial is available from the Chromatic Bytes website. ZeusDraw is localized for English, German, French and Spanish. German, French and Spanish language sales and support are provided by danholt4mac (DanHolt Consulting).

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Located in New York City, Chromatic Bytes, LCC makes Macintosh software for OS X, specializing in graphic arts software and iPhone applications. Located in New York City, Chromatic Bytes, LLC makes Macintosh software for OS X, specializing in graphic arts software and iPhone applications. Copyright 2008 Chromatic Bytes, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Los Angeles, USA – ProteMac today announced ProteMac KeyBag 1.5. ProteMac KeyBag is a stealth keystroke monitor and recorder for your Mac computer. KeyBag runs in the background, completely undetectable by the user so it won’t interfere with way you work on your computer. For home and business use, ProteMac KeyBag is a useful tool for productivity and security.

ProteMac KeyBag is intended for interception and recording of everything that is entered from the keyboard on your Mac. ProteMac KeyBag works in the hidden mode. It is designed for hidden monitoring of computer activities. Key logger invisibly logs and is capable of recording keystrokes of every user activity performed on your Mac.

ProteMac KeyBag allows you to find out what other users do on your computer in your absence. You will find out, what was going on your computer in your absence: what was typed and the windows visited websites etc. This invisible employee spy surveillance tool records every keystroke to a database file with a user-friendly easy to use keystroke log viewer.

By constantly using ProteMac KeyBag you will save your time by preventing accidental data damage and loss. ProteMac KeyBag automatically records all typed email conversations, chat records, websites visited, password and document lists. You can immediately restore the text which was typed yesterday, the day before yesterday, or weeks ago. Using the program constantly, you can restore the previously typed text in case you have lost it.

New in version 1.5:
* Warning reports via email with screenshot of desktop
* Sendmail settings
* Misc bugs fixed.

Feature highlights include:
* Stealth and undetectable Monitoring and Recording
* Record all keystrokes typed on any application
* Records chat conversations for the latest versions of iChat, Adium, Proteus, Skype, Yahoo IM, MSN (Microsoft IM)
* Keystroke log viewer for all applications in one window
* Powerful keystroke log viewer for every application
* Useful statistic of every application utilized
* Complete chart of used applications
* Fully supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard)
* Universal build (for Intel/Power PC)
* Friendly and easy-to-use user interface
* Warning record with screenshot of current user desktop

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

Pricing and Availability:
ProteMac KeyBag is available for only $49.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the ProteMac 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.

Ekero, Sweden – Maintain has announced the release of Cocktail 4.3.3 (Leopard Edition). This version contains major improvements on the clear potentially harmful files procedure, adds clearing of the latest (F and G) variants of the RSPlug trojan horse and clearing of the Inqtana.C worm. The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).

Cocktail 4.3.3 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.3.3 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.5.7.

Cocktail 4.3 (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4.x and Cocktail 3.7 (Panther Edition) for Mac OS X 10.3.x are available for download from our website.

Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers.

The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail’s major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

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Maintain develops tailored applications for Mac users. We work towards creating technical solutions which maintain your computer and make it as efficient and easy to use as possible. In addition, we offer comprehensive consultancy and support services which cover everything from operation of existing systems to purchase and implementation of new technical solutions. Among our clients are: Puma, The New York Times, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ericsson, Fortum, The City Of Calgary, Peak Performance, Loreal, Harvard University, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Company, Swedish Film Institute, Weber, ESPN, Midway, Business Week, Swedish National Police Board, Pinnacle Systems, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Stockbyte, University of Texas, South Park Studios.

Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom – Vicomsoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new release of its critically acclaimed FTP Client for Mac OS X, which celebrates its 10th anniversary by sporting new features and enhancements as well as now being available for purchase via the eSellerate e-commerce platform provided by Digital River [Nasdaq:DRIV].

Robust, powerful, yet easy to use, FTP Client 4.6 provides extreme performance and unrivaled reliability, married with a sleek and highly intuitive user interface.

Here’s what some of our users had to say:

“Cracking little program – that’s Transmit gone from my dock…” – Francis Leigh

“It is simply the best FTP program available for Macs” – Peter Weber

“Intuitive and easy to understand and use” – Victor Lewis

“I’d say the program is flexible & intuitive enough to meet the needs of beginners and experts alike” – Navin K. Jain

New in 4.6:
* QuickLook support
* Growl notification support
* Finder-like in-line file rename
* Enhanced SFTP server compatibility
* Bug fixes and optimizations

Key Features:
* FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL
* Automatic reconnect and resume
* Directory synchronization
* Remote editing with any app
* FTP droplets to upload from your Desktop

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

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Famous for its innovative network security and monitoring tools for both Mac OS X and Windows, Vicomsoft Ltd, founded in 1984, has offices in the US and the UK. Its expanding customer base currently has tens of thousands of satisfied users worldwide.

Omaha, NE – Macware Inc. announced today the launch of DiskTools Pro, a diverse collection of performance minded utilities featuring bad sector detection and repair, lightning-fast file defragmentation, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and analysis, bootable disk backup with automated scheduling, and much more.

DiskTools Pro was developed for Macware by Intech, the leading developer of disk utility software used for testing and repair by major hard drive manufacturers. Whether you are looking for a disk defrag utility or need to protect your critical data with a powerful backup tool, DiskTools Pro provides the power and flexibility you have been looking for.

DiskTools Pro is the only utility that allows you to:
* Schedule when to defragment, backup or repair bad sectors
* Does not require you to run the tools from a boot DVD, CD or separate volume in order to work with the startup volume
* Can test and repair multiple volumes all at once
* Includes full multi-user support without requiring a user to first login
* And will not damage your system if a power failure occurs while you are running the tools

Pricing and Availability:
DiskTools Pro will be available in Apple retail stores, Office Depot, Fry’s Electronics, Micro Center and other Mac software retailers, or online for an MSRP of $79.99 (USD). More information is available on the Macware website.

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Macware, Inc. is a leading publisher of Mac software that delivers award-winning intuitive software designed for creative professionals and home users. Macware products are easy to use and include software for logo design, invoice and billing, Internet security, email marketing, personal and commercial use font collections, Keynote and PowerPoint backgrounds, and other utilities. Macware products are available through major retailers in North America, as well as Australia, Japan, Europe and the United Kingdom as well as online.

Maple Valley, WA – Austin-Soft is delighted to announce the immediate availability of Day-n-Night for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Day-n-Night displays the beauty of the Earth, showing a smooth combination of day and night images, including a mix of the daylight and nighttime images during twilight along the sun’s shadow.

“There is no better way to appreciate our Earth than to see it as if we were in space.” stated Austin-Soft CEO Glenn L. Austin. “What is amazing is watching the night lights of the earth peek through the twilight as night creeps forward across the map. It makes a wonderful addition to your iPhone.”

Designed to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Day-n-Night offers a clean and uncluttered user interface, allowing you to zoom into the map and view the approach of sunlight or shadow across the face of your iPhone. In addition, a dynamic clock display displays your local date and time.

Features:
* High-resolution images of both day and night Earth, from the NASA Visible Earth collection of images
* Realistic nighttime shadow, including a mix of daytime and nighttime images at twilight
* Dynamic date and time display

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.0

Pricing and Availability:
Day-n-Night for iPhone is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s iTunes App Store.

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Located in Maple Valley, Washington, Austin-Soft.com was founded in 1996 by Glenn L. Austin and develops software for Windows, Macintosh, Linux/UNIX and iPhone. Austin-Soft is based upon the user-centric approach to software design: designing software that we believe users want, not what a marketing company tells us users want. All Material and Software (C) 1996-2009 Austin-Soft.com All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iTunes, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Washington, USA – Eltima Software, a reliable fighter for your stability and privacy, just released a new tool that retrieves lost PDF Passwords – Recover PDF Password. Recover PDF Password for Mac from Eltima Software guarantees users the recovery of most complicated and long passwords. This handy solution easily unlocks restricted PDF documents by eliminating printing, copying and editing restrictions. Recover PDF Password’s exhaustive search mechanism will help you retrieve any password, even if you don’t remember a thing about it.

With Recover PDF Password for Mac you can use various methods to recover lost passwords: by password length, by template or use exhaustive search method. All methods are proved to be successful, however, exhaustive search requires maximum time. Recover PDF Password for Mac OS supports all character encodings and is able to recover passwords, typed in any input languages and in any keyboard layout. Moreover, Recover PDF Password can retrieve Unicode Passwords for protected Acrobat 9.x files.

Recover PDF Password features at a glance:
* Supports Unicode passwords recovery for Acrobat 9.x files
* Adobe Acrobat software is not required
* Supports PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 9.x) files, including 256-bit encryption
* Recovers user password required to open the file
* A vivid progress bar will show you how much time is left for password recovery
* Unlocks restricted PDF documents by getting rid of printing, editing and copying restrictions
* Brute-Force attack is used to recover the “owner” and “user” passwords
* Offers several recovery methods: by password length, by template or exhaustive search
* Specify your own dictionary or template to minimize search time if any part of the password is known
* Automatically saves password search state and resumes the search after a pause
* Non-English characters in passwords are supported
* Decrypted file passwords can be viewed any time
* Drag and drop PDF files support
* Flexible and user-friendly program interface

Pricing and Availability:
Recover PDF Password is compatible with Mac OS 10.4 and higher. Fully functional version is available for 39.95 (USD).
Additional information about Recover PDF Password for Mac, along with detailed technical documentation, online help, changelog, upgrade policy can be found at our site.

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Eltima Software GmbH is a global information technology company. Its team has a proven reputation for delivering high quality software solutions across a broad spectrum of technologies also focusing on professional shareware development. For more information about the company and its products, please visit our site.

Oakland, CA – Developer Mark Morris today announced PhotoUpLink 1.2 for iPhoto. All users of PhotoUpLink who have upgraded to iLife ’09 also should download the new version for continued functionality, and access to new features.

PhotoUpLink 1.2 for iPhoto now includes the ability to export over WiFi to any iPhone or iPod Touch running PhotoUpLink. Select the photos you want from any album. Click Export -> PhotoUpLink -> iPhone and your device should show up in the list. Click on that, then click Export. PhotoUpLink for iPhone must be running at this time. Exported photos will show up in the Camera Roll album on an iPhone, or in the Saved Photos album on an iPod Touch.

PhotoUpLink for iPhone and iPod Touch enables free, easy photo sharing directly between devices on the same WiFi network using peer to peer file transfer. The FTP feature lets you send photos to any FTP site and generates an email for you containing links to the image files uploaded.

PhotoUpLink 1.2 for iPhoto maintains the existing feature set of FTP and secure FTP, database export, and Office integration. Selected photos and Quicktime movies can be sent to any FTP server, MySQL and other ODBC supported databases, or FileMaker 7 database. PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets of photo metadata can be created if Office X is also installed.

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Coeur d’Alene (Idaho, USA) – DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases the fourth public beta of version 2.0 of all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as of the smart note-keeper DEVONnote. The fourth public beta of DEVONthink 2.0 and DEVONnote 2.0 brings lots of new and promised features as well as many detail enhancements and bug fixes.

In DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office, the global inbox is finally fully functional and a new preference option lets the user choose where new documents are saved to: the global inbox, a database’s inbox, or a location of choice. The latter pops up a floating location selector whenever data is added through Services, bookmarklets, or scripts. Notes exported from EverNote can be imported using a new script, another new script moves all duplicates of a selected item to the trash. The Sorter panel has been vastly overhauled.

All editions of DEVONthink now come with a brand-new ‘Clip to DEVONthink’ bookmarklet that lets the user clip selected text or whole web pages as plain text, webarchive, PDF, or HTML using a convenient user interface embedded right into the web browser.

“With the new ‘Clip to DEVONthink’ bookmarklet DEVONthink users can now save interesting text passages or important pages to their database directly from their web browser. The convenient overlay shows directly on top of the web page and makes clipping a page or jotting down a note a no-brainer”, so Eric Bohnisch-Volkmann, DEVONtechnologies’ President.

A Dock icon badge displays the number of new items added to DEVONthink or DEVONnote. In addition, smart groups have been enhanced, a new ‘Duplicates’ smart group is automatically added to new databases and the ranking of search results has been improved. The RSS support has been extended and scripts and bookmarklets can create PDFs from web pages. Many more minor workflow, feature, and interface enhancements have been added, too.

Enhancements exclusive to DEVONthink Pro Office are an overhauled scan panel that allows to reverse the page order or shuffle batch-scanned pages (for duplex scanning using a flat-bed scanner) and much faster and more reliable email archiving creating groups from email threads.

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.

New features of version 2.0 include but are not limited to: the ability to open multiple databases simultaneously (DEVONthink Pro), all advanced Boolean and proximity operators (as known from DEVONagent), wildcards and unlimited complex search terms, smart groups, unlimited undo/redo, an inbox, a trash can, and the support for almost all common file formats. The new Finder-like sidebar facilitates working with multiple databases.

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 rearranging 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 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 May 31, 2009, before they need to be replaced by new betas or the final 2.0 releases.

DEVONthink Professional Office sells for US$ 149.95, 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.

Los Angeles, USA – Macvide today announced VideoFlash Converter 2.4 for Mac OS X. VideoFlash Converter is a full featured, easy to use video encoder designed specifically for Mac users. Harness the power of video in your web sites, presentations and applications. Convert several different types of movie formats including AVI, WMV, and DivX. In the preview window, using simple sliders, you can preview your video frame by frame and adjust the portion of the video to convert.

VideoFlash Converter offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the conversion process. The application automatically provides ideal default settings, as well as offers the flexibility to crop video, set duration, adjust quality, and control many other audio/video preferences.

With the VideoFlash Converter for Mac you have the tools to fully use the power of video. Whether you are a developer, designer, teacher, filmmaker, blogger, or hobbyist now you can easily convert your movies to flash video and create interactive, multimedia websites and presentations.

New in version 2.4:
* Added Preview pane while flash movie loaded from web
* New Range bar style.
* Selected range time show

Feature highlights include:
* Convert all popular video formats, including AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, ASF, and DivX
* Choose between FLV or SWF output formats
* Modify resolution, frame rate, video and audio bit rates, width, and height for particular needs
* Crop videos to remove black sides
* Preview your video from the first to final frame using Rangebar
* Compatible with PowerPC G4 or G5 and Intel Core 2 processors
* Easy to use

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

Pricing and Availability:
VideoFlash Converter is available for only $39.95 (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. Flash, the Flash Logo and Macromedia are registered trademarks of Adobe Inc.

Suffolk, United Kingdom – iWebTemplate, the internets leading provider of Apple iWeb themes has announced that 70 iWeb templates are now available from its online store. Each iWeb theme contains unique content for you to develop your own personal or business website. The themes available are compatible with both iWeb 2.0 and 3.0 (iWeb 08/09). Included in the 70 templates are five new awesome themes: Black and White, Flora, Mahogany, Ray and Tracery. Each of the new iWeb themes has ten templates instead of ordinary eight.

The seventy available iWeb templates are broken up into ten categories – business, education, family, gallery, garden, magazine, photography, portfolio, professional blog and sport themes.

There are a lot of small business representatives that are delaying getting a website for their business and thinking that they don’t have the budget, time or skills. Therefore iWebTemplate offers themes for Business to create extra opportunities for entrepreneurs to get their business on the web with minimal expenses, time and skills.

All themes can be adapted for developing personal websites. iWeb themes can be built in minutes and published on the web. Selected themes incorporate endless backgrounds, therefore websites can be filled with different amounts of information. In addition selected templates have extended pages, thus iWeb users will be able to add new templates, such as Gallery and Events to their websites.

The Gallery templates on selected themes contain a photo grid that makes it easy to add, organize, and format photos and captions. Events template is a blog or journal that’s posted on the web for others to read. New iWeb themes contain different page layouts to accommodate various information. iWeb Themes for Business includes an installer to make sure the themes end up in the right place.

What else is new at iWebTemplate?

* We have a new forum! The new iWebTemplate forum is a forum for iWeb users to discuss iWeb, website design, SEO and Marketing to help promote their sites. Also included is a member’s directory and review section, so why not post your site and show it off to the world.

* iWebTemplate has moved its regular template section which sells website templates that are not compatible with iWeb to give you more website design flexibility.

* Need a custom design? iWebTemplate now offer bespoke website design as well as regular template customization.

Pricing and Availability:
iWeb Themes require any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X with iWeb 2.0 (iLife 08) or iWeb 3.0 (iLife 09) installed. Each iWeb Theme is available from $10 (USD).

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Headquartered in Suffolk, United Kingdom, iWebTemplate is a privately funded company founded in 2007 by Giuseppe Elia. iWebTemplate offers standard website, Flash and iWeb templates, RapidWeaver themes and other products that can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality website construction and development. All are completely customizable and ready for immediate download. Copyright 2007-2008 iWebTemplate. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iWeb are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Google, the Google logo, and AdWords are registered trademarks of Google Inc.

Odessa, Ukraine – Readdle has just released its brand new Basetent application, that brings Basecamp, the most popular online project management tool, to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application lets Basecamp users manage thier projects right from the iPhone wherever they are and utilizes Basecamp look and feel just making it suitable for the iPhone screen.

Basetent supports almost all functions available at the desktop Basecamp service. At the account level Basetent users can overview to-dos and milestones across all projects while at the project level they can add, edit or delete individual messages, milestones, to-do lists and to-do items. Also Basetent lets people add several Basecamp accounts and simply switch between them.

Extensive filtering capabilities is another advantage that makes Basetent unique. People can easily take a look at the to-dos and milestones that are assigned to them. Moreover using Basetent application, project managers can filter the information by any project participant to view his to-dos and milestones as well as get overview of individual’s latest activities across all projects.

“The best thing about Basetent is that it looks and works pretty like Basecamp on your PC, Mac or Linux computer. The native iPhone interface is good for Mail or iPod applications but effective Basecamp usage requires different approach that we have implemented in the Basetent.” explains Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO.

Pricing and Availability:
Basetent 1.0 is available at the App Store at $9.99 (USD) and free lite version as well. More information about Basetent could be found at Readdle’s web site.

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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.

Copenhagen/Denmark – Opcoders today introduced GraphicDesignerToolbox version 1.0, an unique and powerful Mac OS X graphics editor for generating textures, composing logos, photo manipulation, text effects and web graphics, targeted at professional web designers and artists. Instead of virtual drawing tools and layers, GraphicDesignerToolbox provides adjustable building blocks which allows for extensive tweaking and re-use, much like a modular sound synthesizer.

“Because you can work with bitmaps and vectors,” said Simon Strandgaard, “it’s possible to make a wide range of graphics spanning from seamless tiling textures to vector logos. GraphicDesignerToolbox is exceptional at making web graphics.”

After more than four years of development, the Opcoders team has now released version 1.0. Radical improvements have been made since the first public alpha in early 2008. GraphicDesignerToolbox is now complete.

Features:
* Unified bitmap/vector compositing
* More than 80 building blocks
* Build assets and recycle your work

Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4 or later
* 1 GB system RAM
* Graphics card with 64 MB video RAM
* 20 MB hard drive space

Pricing and Availability:
GraphicDesignerToolbox 1.0 can be downloaded from the homepage. A single user license can be purchased for 29.95 Euros ($39.95 USD). Media and interested parties may request license codes for reviewing.

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Opcoders is a privately funded company founded in 2006 by Simon Strandgaard in Copenhagen, Denmark. Opcoders main focus is the development of GraphicDesignerToolbox for the Mac platform. Copyright 2009 Opcoders. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Dare to be Creative Ltd. today announced the release of SlidePad 1.2, an update to its note-taking application for Mac OS X Leopard. SlidePad, recently awarded an Apple Staff Pick, allows users to quickly and unobtrusively write down notes, thoughts, and ideas on a notepad that slides in from the side of the screen. The new features include importing and exporting notes, more formatting options such as bulleted and numbered lists, as well as customizations to adapt to the user’s workflow.

Importing and exporting notes:
With the new version users can import notes from RTF, HTML, Microsoft Word and text documents. Moreover, users can export notes to RTF for backup or for editing in word processors such as TextEdit, Microsoft Word or Apple Pages.

More formatting options:
In the new version users can create bulleted and numbered lists, change the line spacing, set the text alignment and many more formatting options that would normally be found in a word processor.

Adapting to the user’s workflow:
The update allows users to resize the width and height of the notepad area, as well as turn off sliding the notepad in and out with the mouse and instead work only with the keyboard shortcut.

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

Pricing and Availability:
SlidePad is $20 (USD), and available as a free download from the SlidePad website. It runs initially in a 15-day trial mode with all features active. This is a free upgrade for registered users.

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Located in Vienna, Austria, Dare to be Creative Ltd. is a software company founded in 2006 by a group of Mac enthusiasts. The Dare to be Creative team focuses exclusively on developing utility applications for Mac OS X designed to save valuable time while being enjoyable and easy to use. The current portfolio includes a) iArchiver, an archiving and file compression utility, b) Yum, a recipe manager, c) iCombiner, an image merge tool, d) Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer, e) ResizeMe, a batch image editor that resizes, scales, rotates and flips images, f) Dragoman, a batch file converter, g) Sponge, a system clean and optimize tool, and h) SlidePad, a quick and unobtrusive note-taking application. All Material and Software (C) 2006-2009 Dare to be Creative Ltd. / All Rights Reserved.

Carrboro, NC. – Toughturtle announced today the availability of its free AppFiend application for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the Apple App Store. This simple and efficient application rating system eliminates the need to constantly tell your friends what Apps you are holding.

“Since the iPhone and iPod Touch offers over 25,000 Apps to its users, it is difficult to know which are the best and worst. Also you never know who has written the reviews on the App Store”, said Todd Barnes, Lead Developer of Toughturtle. “We hope people find AppFiend useful. Loaded with the trustworthy reviews from your friends, this free tool should make the good applications easier to find and the bad ones easier to avoid.”

Here’s how AppFiend works. Create a free account for yourself, add Apps you have tried to your App List and write an honest review. Invite your friends to join your network so you can see what Apps they like and figure out what Apps you would like to get, and vice-versa. Features include:

* App List. Your personal list of the Apps you have tried. Rate them, and write a review for everyone in your network to see.

* Gimme List. A list of the Apps that you have yet to try or that you want to learn more about later. One tap and the App can be added to your App List.

* Friends List. A list of the Friends within your network. From here you can drill-down to a detailed list of each Friend’s App List.

* Find Friends. Look up Friends by Name or by Email Address and then tap to send them a Friend request. Once they approve your request, you are linked and can share App information.

* Search Apps. Look up Apps by Name and add them to your App List or your Gimme List. One tap and you can read the App’s complete description and one more tap and you are connected to iTunes to purchase and download.

* Activity. See activity from within your Friend network as it happens.

AppFiend for iPhone and iPod Touch works on all versions of the mobile device, including first generation iPhone and iPod Touch, with a valid Internet Connection. AppFiend is also available on the Web at the AppFiend website from any computer with a valid Internet connection.

AppFiend is the best way to get iPhone App information, from the people you know and trust, your friends. And it only gets better as more users join your network. “I am still working on ways to improve the service”, said Todd Barnes. “For the next release of AppFiend, I am looking into integrating it with Facebook. That should give users another way to mass-broadcast their App experiences to their entire group of friends, even if they don’t have an iPhone … yet.”

AppFiend for iPhone and iPod Touch is available free on the Apple App Store.

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Toughturtle develops innovative interactive applications for the Internet and for Mobile Devices. For more information about Toughturtle, please visit our website. Copyright 2009 Toughturtle. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Bristol, UK – 3Side Studios today released the latest update for All Shook Up, a word game where the player solves anagrams. Unlike other games in the genre the player is presented with recognizable words and phrases to solve instead of the usual random selection of scrabble type words.

All Shook Up contains two game modes, Arcade and Classic, in Arcade mode the player solves anagrams as quickly as possible, points are scored for correct moves and lives are deducted for any wrong moves, bonuses can be earned by completing levels quickly and making as few mistakes as possible. In Classic mode the player can relax and take their time solving anagrams at a leisurely pace with no penalties for wrong moves.

Key Features Include:
* Drag and drop game play
* Shake and tilt enabled
* Fast paced Arcade mode
* Relaxing Classic mode
* High score table
* 3 Levels of difficulty
* Over 1400 words and phrases to be solved
* Save and load games at any point

What People Are Saying -

5 Stars – “This is definitely one of the better word games out there and really makes great use of the controls possible with iPhone and iPod touch. Recommended!”

5 Stars – “I bought this on a spur of the moment and wasn’t disappointed. I don’t think there is anything else on iTunes quite like this one, it has you rearranging jumbled up words by dragging letters from the bottom of the screen to create correct answers at the top of the screen. I seem to be given different words every time I play, the music is fantastic and the game is very addictive!”

System Requirements:
* All Shook Up requires an iPhone or iPod Touch with OS 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
All Shook Up is available now on the App Store.

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Based in the United Kingdom 3Side Studios is a small independent software developer dedicated to writing great games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. 3Side Studios is staffed by veterans of the games industry who in the past have worked on numerous AAA titles for the PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and various other platforms. Copyright 2009 3Side Studios. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Bristol, UK – 3Side Studios today released the latest update for POP Slide, a game that takes inspiration from the popular match 3 games genre and adds new and fresh game play mechanics. POP Slide includes 60 fast paced levels, each one offering the player new challenges. Three different level types add further game play variation, some levels offer complete freedom while others require the player to complete the level within a time limit or pop specific ball colours to gain score.

The game includes 12 different special ball types which further add to the game play possibilities acting either as bonuses or hazards, these include score multipliers, color bombs, extra lives and explosive balls to name but a few.

Key Features Include:
* 60 Unique levels
* Full use of the iPhone’s touch screen and accelerometers
* 3 Levels of Difficulty
* Pickup and play for a few minutes, or a few hours
* Accurate ball physics
* Save and load games at any point
* Automatic save and resume

What People Are Saying -

5 Stars – “A Cool New Take on Bubble Shooting! Now that my one nit-pick of the game was addressed in this v1.1 update I can whole-heartedly say this is an awesome, polished, and unique take on the Bubble Shooting genre fully utilizing the tilt controls. I really appreciate that it is the user that decides when the groups are popped which allows for a lot more strategic scoring.”

5 Stars – “Great fun & original! This game is one of the best bubble games I’ve played, not just on the iPhone either. Very polished and worth way more than the current price. The latest update has also improved many things. I’d recommend it highly.”

Requirements:
* POP Slide requires an iPhone or iPod Touch with OS 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
POP Slide 1.3 is available now on the App Store.

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Based in the United Kingdom 3Side Studios is a small independent software developer dedicated to writing great games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. 3Side Studios is staffed by veterans of the games industry who in the past have worked on numerous AAA titles for the PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and various other platforms. Copyright 2009 3Side Studios. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.