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Fairfield, New Jersey – After releasing a few other sound applications, Portable Arts has released the largest collection of sounds in one app, 5000+ Sounds. Users can pick from over 5000 sounds in various categories and play those in a loop, with a delay, or at random. With so many sounds, 5000+ Sounds provides a way to search for sounds with its own built in search engine, making it much easier to locate the sound a user is interested in. In addition, users can add sounds to a favorites list making it much easier to locate the same sounds for later play.

All of the sounds are recorded in high quality with many providing easy looping abilities to be used as ambient background noise. With such an abundant list of sounds to choose from, users will have no trouble locating the right sound for the right occasion. Imagine delaying one of the screaming sounds and putting the iPhone/iTouch in a drawer, or how about setting up a fake phone ringing, or just looping a beach sound in the background. 5000+ Sounds provides thousands of possibilities.

Features:
* Over 5000 high quality sounds
* Sneak Attack Delay Feature for Sounds
* Looping Feature for Sounds
* Random Sound Picker
* Search Feature for locating the right sound
* Favorites Tab for keeping track of users favorite sounds
* High Quality Recordings
* Easy to Use, Organized Interface

Pricing and Availability:
5000+ Sounds is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Located in New Jersey, Portable Arts was founded to develop portable applications for the mobile market. In addition to forming Portable Arts, the partners run a successful software development business. Copyright 2009 Portable Arts. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Anaheim, California – The Apple iPhone development platform makes it possible to extend the use of the iPhone by downloading applications to the device. Most applications developed to date have been focused on entertainment, games or personal use, but the iPhone also has tremendous potential for becoming a part of traditional business processes and applications.

Doc2email is one of the first iPhone applications that is designed to integrate the iPhone into paper intensive business systems such as submitting copies of receipts for expense reporting or adding hand written notes to insurance claims or medical records. Doc2email allows the iPhone to operate much like a fax machine with no wires attached! Workers who travel frequently or work remotely will be able to submit images of documents at any time rather than only when a fax machine or network attachment is available.

Doc2email is a document capture application that increases the efficiency and speed of operations by using the iPhone to take a photograph of a paper document, convert it into the appropriate format and email it to:
* Store in an archive
* Share with a colleague
* Send to a company who wants a document with a wet signature
* Start a workflow or business process
* Use in any other, typically fax or scanner, document imaging application

The electronic document is sent as an email attachment that is easy to extract and can be in any of the following formats:
* Black and white, which is like a fax
* Grayscale, which is like a black and white photograph
* Color

Doc2email can also be used as part of a distributed document imaging solution to add the extra dimension of mobile capture to conventional scanning software. It can thereby truncate paper by moving document capture to the place where paper first enters an organization.

Pricing and Availability
Doc2email is now available on Apple iTunes for immediate purchase worldwide.

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Roy Couchman is a Los Angeles based inventor with twenty plus years of achievements across engineering, product management, and product strategy. He specializes in mobile business applications for the iPhone. Copyright 2009 Roy Couchman. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod 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 (Tiger Edition). This version adds ability to clear potentially harmful files such as most common trojans and worms (iServices.A, iServices.B, RSPlug.A, Jahlav.A, Lamzev.A, Leap.A, Inqtana.A, Astht.A, Astht.B, PokerStealer, etc.) or other files that may harm your system in any way, adds ability to clear CrashReporter and HangReporter logs, addresses an issue in which Cocktail may stop responding during a scheduled clearing of caches and fixes compatibility issues with QuickTime 7.6. The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Tiger Edition).

Cocktail 4.3 (Tiger Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.3 (Tiger Edition) requires Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.4 – 10.4.11 and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.4.11.

Cocktail 4.3.1 (Leopard Edition) for Mac OS X 10.5.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, 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.

Anaheim, California – Independent software developer Reggie Ashworth is pleased to announce AppDelete 2.2, an update to his very popular application deletion utility for Mac OS X. With a simple Drag & Drop, AppDelete will delete any chosen app with all of its associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application. Mac users will no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually.

Just drag the unwanted application (or folder containing it) onto the AppDelete icon. Users can also select from the main menu, or right-click an item in the Finder using the AppDelete Automator workflow. AppDelete also works well in the Dock. AppDelete will then search the system to find the associated items. These items will be moved inside of a folder in the Trash named “AppDelete” with the name of the app dragged onto the icon. The folder can be inspected at any time before emptying the trash.

Version 2.2 retains all features and feel of previous releases while adding many new features, under-the-hood improvements, and faster performance during searches as well as additional language support for German, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Russian.

Feature Highlights:
* Redesigned interface and operation optimized for Leopard (also runs on Tiger and Panther)
* File selection prior to deletion of items
* Ability to search for invisible associated items via the “Hidden” button
* Now activates if an app has been placed in the Trash (AppDelete must be running in background)
* Refined and more accurate searching for associated items
* Can select between “Main” and “User” locations in the main menu
* Force Empty Trash for difficult to remove items
* Able to be added to Login Items

AppDelete also has a Undo feature, as well as the ability to “Log only” for reference. It can search for invisible or hidden items and keeps a log of all processing that it does. AppDelete is a must-have utility for software tinkerers or beta testers and the perfect companion to any Mac fanatic’s toolbox.

Language Support:
U.S. English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 Panther or later (Leopard Compatible)
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 1.8 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
AppDelete 2.2 is only $5.00 (USD) for a single user license. A full-featured demo is available and a recommended update for all customers.

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Based in sunny Anaheim, California, Reggie Ashworth is an independent software developer whose passion for the Mac platform is only exceeded by his aim to craft simple, yet useful utilities, and fanatical about total customer satisfaction. Copyright 2006-2009 Reggie Ashworth. All Rights Reserved. Apple, and the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Brainjuice announced that the official release of Blogo 1.2.5, its Mac desktop blog editor and Twitter client, is available for download. The latest release adds custom post slugs (permalinks) as well as support for tags in Movable Type and an improved interface for Ping.fm, allowing the user to choose between blogs, microblogs or status updates when posting.

Awarded “Pick of the week” by Leo Laporte on Macbreak weekly, the application makes blogging on the Mac easy even for those with no knowledge of HTML. This version also includes a number of fixes and improvements to stability in general. Highlights include:

* Thumbnail images are now saved with a “-thumb” suffix, and full-size images are saved with a “-full” suffix if cropped differently than the original file, rather than adding a number to the image name.

* Amazon affiliate snippets no longer have their styles removed when posting.

* Blogo now supports categories for Drupal blogs.

* Autodetection was not working for older versions of Movable Type which did not list the Movable Type API as an accepted API type.

* Windows left on a second monitor would be “lost” when reopening the application on a single monitor.

Pricing and Availability:
Blogo is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and up as a 21-day unlimited trial, and can be purchased at the Brainjuice store for $25 (USD).

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Brainjuice is an independent software house founded in 2007 by Benjamin Jackson and Ivan Neto. Its products focus on the Mac and iPhone and put usability first.

Munich, Germany – Boinx Software is one of the first Mac software companies to offer free interactive web seminars and FAQ sessions to help users get the most out of BoinxTV, FotoMagico and other Boinx Software products. Beginners and Pros alike can talk directly with product managers and developers to ask them questions and learn about advanced techniques to make their own workflow more efficient and productive.

It’s easy for everyone with Internet access to tune into a Boinx “Live-Webinar” from their computer at home, or at the office, to follow the activities on the presenter’s desktop. The next two Live-Webinars from Boinx take place on March 10, 2009 at 5pm UTC (5pm GMT, 1pm ET, 10am PT) and 11pm UTC (11pm GMT, 7pm ET, 4pm PT, 8am Tokyo) respectively.

“Talking with people who use our products is the most exciting thing for me. The success of our very first webinar, in February, made us realize that they are a very good way to bring people closer, allowing attendees to speak directly with the designers and developers of the products,” says Oliver Breidenbach, CEO of Boinx Software. “Doing it in a larger group means everyone benefits from all the questions and ideas raised by other attendees.”

Watch and Learn:
It’s easy to participate in a Boinx Live-Webinar. Click on the big “Join Webinar” button on the Boinx Webinars web page and follow the instructions to set up an account. Give feedback, raise your virtual hand to ask your questions via audio, and chat with other users during the live presentation. All Live-Webinars will be recorded for later distribution and are free of charge for all attendees (data rate fees from your local Internet provider may apply).

Scheduled Live Webinars:
March 10, 2009, 5pm UTC (5pm GMT, 1pm ET; 10am PT)
“The Magic of FotoMagico”
Meet the developers of FotoMagico and get some valuable hints and tips to make your slideshows even more compelling.

March 10, 2009, 11pm UTC (11pm GMT, 7pm ET; 4pm PT; March 11th, 8am Tokyo)
“The Secrets of BoinxTV”
The first half hour of the free BoinxTV webinar is dedicated to beginners, the second half hour is for experienced users.

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Boinx Software Ltd. is located in Puchheim, near Munich, Germany. Boinx Software develops award winning software for the creative Mac user in animation, movie production and photography. Boinx iStopMotion is the leading solution for stop motion animation and time lapse capture and won the O’Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Award in 2003. Boinx FotoMagico, winner of two Apple Design Awards – “Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application Runner-up 2008″ and “Best Mac OS X User Experience Runner-up 2006″, is a presentation tool for professional photographers. Boinx PhotoPresenter, winner of the Apple Design Award 2005 “Best Mac OS X Student Product”, is a quick slideshow tool with pre-built templates. BoinxTV is a revolutionary live production software that turns any Mac into a TV studio. Boinx Mousepose is the indispensable mouse pointer highlighting tool for everyone doing presentations, training or demos.

Austin, Texas – Blue Lightning Labs has announced their new iPhone application Mathemagics, an application for learning to mentally calculate math problems at phenomenal speeds. Mathemagics contains 15 different math tricks for multiplying, dividing and squaring numbers faster than many people can use a calculator. Aspiring Mathemagicians learn and then practice any of the 15 math tricks while progressively moving to higher levels of proficiency.

Mathemagics is perfect for students, teachers, or anyone else looking to kick their brain function into high gear. The applications hand-drawn look engages the user and is well-suited for quick practice sessions. Users are challenged to achieve new levels of competence, from apprentice to mathemagician, for each trick.

“Learning to calculate math mentally helps train your brain to think efficiently,” said Shane Crawford of Blue Lightning Labs. “I think it helps give me an edge in situations where others might fumble with a calculator. Mathemagics is perfect for quick training sessions and it gives me a mental pick-me-up when I need it.”

Mathemagics 1.0 challenges users to master 15 math tricks:
* Multiply as high as 20 x 20
* Square numbers ending in 5
* Square any two digit number
* Square numbers from 41 to 59
* Square numbers in the 50′s
* Doubling and Halving
* Quickly multiply by 4
* Quickly multiply by 5
* Quickly multiply by 9
* Quickly multiply by 11
* Quickly multiply by 25
* Quickly multiply by 99
* Multiply numbers in the 90′s
* Round number multiplication
* Quickly divide by 5

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Mathemagics is available now on the iTunes App Store for just $2.99 (USD).

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Headquartered in scenic Austin, Texas, Blue Lightning Labs is a privately funded company founded in 2008 by Alta Vida LLC. Blue Lightning Labs has a sole focus on the iPhone platform. Copyright 2008 Blue Lightning Labs. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod Touch are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

San Francisco – Flurry, the leading cross-platform mobile application analytics provider, today announced the release of two ground-breaking extensions to its analytics service: User Path Tracking to monitor the sequence of actions completed in mobile applications by consumers; and, Dynamic Parameters to analyze user-generated content and other user action data within mobile applications. These never-before-seen mobile analytics features are available for free on all Flurry-supported platforms: iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Java ME. A demo with live data is available for developers to preview the upgraded service.

“Flurry is committed to dramatically raising the standard of iPhone and Android Analytics for its customers,” said Flurry CEO, Simon Khalaf. “Building the ability to track user flows and event parameters was technically challenging but exactly what our customers needed to better understand their consumers, increase retention and grow their active user base.”

Since emerging from Beta earlier this year, Flurry Analytics has collected billions of analytics data points across tens of millions user sessions. Each day, Flurry Analytics gathers additional data from millions of mobile users, including data from among several of iPhone and Android’s top selling games and applications.

“Millions of consumers have come to expect the highest quality game experiences from Digital Chocolate, such as Tower Bloxx and Crazy Penguin Catapult,” said Digital Chocolate Chief Operating Officer, Jason Loia. “Partnering with Flurry provides us with critically important data to consistently improve our games for our consumers.”

Flurry Analytics new features include:

User Path Tracking: Equivalent to “click streams” on the web, developers now can track the sequence of actions that consumers complete in their applications from the time of launch. This data can be used to increase user satisfaction and retention by improving the design of an application and discovery of key features.

Dynamic Parameters: In addition to the ability to track when end-users perform key actions, developers can now “describe” how that action was completed in richer detail. For example, if a developer includes a search box within her application, she can now understand details such as what the most popular keyword searches are, the number of words used in searches and what kinds of searches are performed at different times of the day.

To learn more about the Flurry Analytics service, please visit their website.

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Flurry Analytics helps developers make better iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Java ME games and applications. The service is free, requires minimal integration and occupies a negligible amount of space in an application. Through analytics, developers can track consumer behavior and application performance to identify user needs, increase retention and grow revenue. Founded in 2005, Flurry’s Analytics platform is built by developers for developers, based on its pioneering experience as one the first developers to build, deploy and market direct-to-consumer applications. Flurry is venture-backed and based in San Francisco. Copyright 2005-2009 Flurry Analytics. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Alameda, California – Karelia Software today announced the availability of Sandvox Designs, an on-line showcase for website designs created by Karelia and third-party developers for use with Sandvox, Karelia’s easy website builder for the Mac. Featuring over 70 designs, the new site offers Sandvox users the opportunity to learn about new designs as they are released or updated, and to view descriptions, thumbnails, and full-size previews of real-life websites created with each design.

“This new website repository for third party Sandvox designs information the guys at Karelia have put together will be a huge benefit for Sandvox users,” said Charlie Lockhart of Blueball Design. “The past 4 months have seen sales surge for our Sandvox designs as more and more people discover Sandvox and all it has to offer. With this new site by Karelia, I expect our sales to keep climbing. For us, this is what’s been missing in Sandvox design development, and now that it’s here we’re very excited about the potential it holds for future Blueball Sandvox design releases.”

Site Structure

Visitors to Sandvox Designs are presented with a quick list of the latest updates and new releases. Also available as an RSS feed for easy notifications, each entry features a short description of the design, an icon, small preview thumbnails, and links to purchase or download designs. For updated entires, a list of “what’s new” is included.

Designs can also be viewed by vendor, with company information and additional details about each design. Each design is also presented on its own details page, with larger thumbnails of sample sites and live links to sites created by Sandvox users around the world.

Contributors

Sandvox Designs launches with creations by Sandvox Web Designs, Blueball Design, and Jumsoft. Companies wishing to create and offer their own designs for Sandvox are welcome to contribute their listings; individuals who have built their own designs to share are also encouraged to list their offerings. Free design downloads can be hosted directly by Karelia if desired. Sandvox Designs also lists all designs available from Karelia, including the fifty built-in designs plus several others that are available for free.

About Sandvox

Sandvox is the easy website builder for the Mac created by Karelia Software. Version 1.5.4 is now available in Regular and Pro Editions starting at $59 (USD). For more information about how Sandvox can help you get your website up and running in hours, not days, visit the Karelia Website.

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Karelia Software is the California-based company that originally brought you Watson, the ground-breaking Macintosh Web utility, winner of the MacWorld “Eddy” and the Apple Design Award for “Most Innovative Application.” Karelia is headed by Dan Wood and Terrence Talbot. We joined forces to create Sandvox when we realized that even for the technically inclined, it was just too painful to get words and pictures on the Web.