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Shreveport, Louisiana – Sandvox Web Designs has announced the “My Life” design, a brand new design for the popular website creation application Sandvox. The “My Life” design offers the user a number of features built into the design to make creating your website as easy as possible.

Features at a glance:
* Custom 2, 3, or 4 column snippets that allow you to easily create columns on your website.
* Custom “Boxes” Snippet that allow you to create some standout boxes in your sidebar. All of the css is pre-installed in the design
* 11 Pre-designed headers that fit perfectly with the rest of the design. These headers can be used via the banner selector in the Inspector
* Logo
* The original Photoshop file is included making it easy for those who want to create their own custom header
* Video tutorials available for those wanting to learn how to use the snippets

Browser Tested – The “My Life” design has been tested to work with the following web browsers:
* Safari (Mac and PC)
* Firefox 2.x (Mac and PC)
* Firefox 3.x (Mac and PC)
* Camino
* Opera
* Internet Explorer 6
* Internet Explorer 7
* Internet Explorer 8

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 Tiger or 10.5.2 Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* Sandvox 1.6

Pricing and Availability:
“My Life” is available for only $10.00 (USD). “My Life” is available by itself or as part of the Design Bundle for a modest $28.00 (USD).

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Headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, Sandvox Web Designs is a small, independent design company founded in 2007 by Gary Byrd. With a focus on innovation, Gary leverages his longtime experience in design industry and his love for CSS and website creation, and ultimately led to the formation of Sandvox Web Designs. Copyright 2007-2009 Sandvox Web Designs. All Rights Reserved. Sandvox, the Sandvox logo, are registered trademarks of Karelia Software in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Putney, VT – IGG Software announces the release of iBiz Professional, a full-version upgrade to its network-ready application for time-tracking, billing and project management. The iBiz Professional package ($100, including iBiz Server 4 and two licenses for iBiz Client 4; $40 for additional Clients) requires OS X 10.5 Leopard, and is available for immediate download.

“We think we’ve delivered the best solution for law firms, ad agencies, or any Mac-based professional offices,” says Ian Gillespie, President of IGG. “Tracking multiple projects, for multiple clients, with multiple employees generating billable hours at different rates, needs to be handled efficiently to protect your bottom line. iBiz Pro provides that, as well as a seamless path to add more users to your network.”

iBiz Professional offers all of the new improvements in iBiz 4, including an improved interface, a new Statements feature, the new pop-up inspector and a superior iCal sync engine, as well as the following:

* Effortless setup. Bonjour technology lets iBiz Client users on the same local area network connect to iBiz Server automatically, with no configuration whatsoever.

* Real-time updates. All connected users share the same set of data, so changes made by one employee are seen by all other employees as soon as they select that project.

* Checkout and sync. When connecting remotely just isn’t an option, iBiz Professional allows you to checkout projects, work offline and sync your changes the next time you connect.

* Group rates. Need to administer fees centrally? iBiz Server can set default rates for specific employees, clients or projects.

* Remote access. Connect to your iBiz Pro network from home or any location with Internet access and share data with employees in the office.

* Shared job events. Standardize your workflow by using iBiz Server to establish a set of predefined tasks, and then share those with all your co-workers or employees.

* Shared to-dos. Distribute your office workload by creating to-do items centrally, sharing them across the network, and assigning them to individual employees for completion.

* Access control. Use iBiz Server to set which employees have access to which parts of the software. Restrict access to billing functions, project earnings, job event rates and more.

New to the IGG online store is the iBiz Client 10-pack ($270), the most affordable multi-user price IGG has ever offered. iBiz 4 is also compatible with IGG’s iBank 3, the market-leading Mac-only finance management app; iBank Mobile, a fully syncable version for the iPhone and iPod Touch, will be available from the App Store in June.

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IGG Software, LLC, was founded in 2003 by developer Ian Gillespie. Based in Putney, Vermont, the company engages in sustainable practices such as purchasing all of its energy from renewable sources. For further information, review licenses, or to schedule an interview with Ian Gillespie, please contact IGG Marketing Director Scott Marc Becker.

Calgary, Canada – Macgamestore.com today announced the release of Youda Marina for the Mac through its web site and digital download service, Mac Games Arcade. The game was created and published by Youda Games. Tropical vibes and the sound of breaking waves! Create the Marina of your dreams. What, you don’t dream about marinas? After playing Youda Marina, you will!

Youda Marina is a simulation and time management game all rolled into one. It offers you sun and fun each time you play! Be creative with your exotic harbor and have fun managing it is everyday problems – just the way you want to! You will be the harbor master, responsible for keeping all your marina visitors happy. And happy visitors mean lots of income as they pay their harbor fees and visit your bars and restaurants.

The more income you earn, the more facilities you can build. Make it possible for your visitors to stay longer by letting them stay in your hotels or holiday resorts. You can even and let them enjoy a day in one of your amusement parks, or join amazing tours. You can even start your own diving school or game fishing excursions! Youda Marina brings together all the creativity of landscape design with some great management action!

Features:
* 4 different maps
* Lots of buildings and facilities to construct
* All kinds of ships and boats
* Challenging milestones
* Creativity with your marina design
* Amazing graphics
* Reggae music for the real tropical vibe
* Breaking waves and sea-gull sound effects
* Many hours of great fun
* A fantastic tropical adventure!

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Youda Marina is available immediately as a digital download purchase through Macgamestore.com and Mac Games Arcade. A free demo is available for download. The full version costs $19.95 (USD).

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Launched in 2005, Macgamestore.com, is the most popular Mac gaming store on the Internet with over 600 Mac games available for purchase. Macgamestore.com is also the leader in digital download games and the number one web site for casual Macintosh games. Copyright 2005-2009 Macgamestore.com. All Rights Reserved.

Putney, VT – IGG Software announces the release of iBiz 4, a full-version upgrade to its market-leading application for time-tracking, billing and project management. iBiz 4 ($40, or $20 to registered iBiz users) requires OS X 10.5 Leopard, and is available for immediate download.

“We see more people offering free-lance or consulting services in this economy, and they need great tools,” says Ian Gillespie, President of IGG. “Tracking billable time, generating invoices promptly and managing receivables are simple, seamless features in iBiz 4. While it’s a premium app in its category, we’re releasing the new version at a price point where its value is self-evident.”

* New features in iBiz 4 include Statements, making it easy to send an overview of all past billing activity. Users can elect to send invoices and payments from a particular date range, or select specific items to include in statements. iBiz 4 also adds new, customizable templates for statements, invoices and reports.

* iBiz 4 leverages the performance of Mac OS X with new graphs powered by Core Animation and a completely new iCal sync engine for projects, events, to-do lists, invoice due dates with alarms, and other timeline-driven aspects of project or billing management.

* A multitude of interface refinements to iBiz 4 also enhance the user experience. Among the improvements are a new pop-up inspector to quickly edit project information; a modified main window for better access to and organization of to-dos, files or events; the ability to organize clients into groups, or to view client subtext with balances or past-due info; simplified (add) or – (delete) buttons for projects, clients and elsewhere; and many other changes that create a smoother, more intuitive UI.

* Also newly available is the iBiz Professional package ($100, including iBiz Server 4 and two licenses for iBiz Client 4), making iBiz the only networkable app in its class. For law offices, ad agencies, design firms or any enterprise with multiple users generating billable hours, the iBiz Pro client/server combo grows as the business does, adding users with a seamless upgrade process – even from the stand-alone version of iBiz.

iBiz 4, available as a free trial download, is also compatible with IGG’s iBank 3, the leading Mac-only personal finance management app; iBank Mobile, a fully syncable version for the iPhone and iPod Touch, will be available from the App Store in June.

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IGG Software, LLC, was founded in 2003 by developer Ian Gillespie. Based in Putney, Vermont, the company engages in sustainable practices such as purchasing all of its energy from renewable sources. For further information, review licenses, or to schedule an interview with Ian Gillespie, please contact IGG Marketing Director Scott Marc Becker.

American Fork, UT – Izatt International has announced a new evening format iPhone Developers Course to be held June 23-27, 2009 at the Larry H. Miller (SLCC) Campus in Sandy, UT. Class will be 6-9:30pm Tue-Fri, June 23-26, plus 8:30-5:30pm Saturday, June 27th. This new evening format is designed to serve the working professional without requiring time off work.

Expert iPhone developers representing prominent iPhone development companies such as Izatt International and Pixio will be covering topics ranging from XCode and Interface Builder to the Accelerometer and Core Animation. Price is $1495 (USD); student price is $995.

The iPhone course is being offered in response to an increasing demand for smart phone development skills in Utah’s ‘Silicon Slopes’ technology sector. Plus, many are unable to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June, so Izatt is providing an opportunity closer to home.

“As an iPhone application developer, Izatt recognized the need to grow the iPhone app developer skill set in Utah. Rather than reaching outside the state for talent, we elected to offer training in collaboration with other iPhone development shops,” remarked Jason Izatt, CEO of Izatt International. “Our hope is that education opportunities like this will generate increased entrepreneurial activity and keep Utah on the forefront of technology innovation.”

Izatt has been offering such courses since January 2009. These courses have included a 3-day iPhone SDK course, a 2-day 3D iPhone Gaming course, and a 1-day Beginning Objective-C course. Many former students now have apps of their own in the iTunes App Store, have started companies of their own, or have found new employment doing iPhone development.

Information on the iPhone Development Course, including cost, curriculum and pre-requisites can be found on the Izatt International website.

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Izatt International develops and delivers best-in-class education, business utility and entertainment applications for smartphone computing platforms. Our current line of applications is designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In addition to developing our own line of original applications, we partner with organizations interested in extending their solutions to a smartphone platform. For more information on Izatt smartphone applications and services, please contact us at 801.372.6031, email us or visit us online. Copyright 2009 Izatt International. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Apex NC/USA – Coylebilt Industries, LLC, announces the immediate availability of Deckster, it’s first application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Deckster breaks out of the constraints of card game simulations by dispensing with the game altogether and providing the user with a faithful preproduction of an actual deck of cards.

No rules imposed, you unwrap, unbox, shuffle and deal the cards just like the real thing, and box them up again when you’re done. Why play with somebody else’s rules? Include the Jokers; play deuces wild. Deal an extra card (and hope nobody notices!). Deckster just provides and handles the cards for you. Deckster uses the most natural and intuitive gestures in an experience only possible on the iPhone and iPod touch.

Feature Highlights:
* High resolution original artwork
* Custom Jokers, Ace of Spades and face cards
* 2 unique decks: the standard “Deckster 101 Casino” in blue and red
* New decks have cards in authentic factory order
* Decks retain their card order between uses, just like the real thing
* Intuitive gestures to deal, discard/burn, turn over cards and square the deck
* Shake to shuffle, simulating the standard overhand shuffle with random effects: not an inauthentic randomization function
* Place unwanted cards back in the box
* Collect all cards when finished, and rebox them for safekeeping
* Rotate the device to view your hand
* Discard and rearrange cards in your hand

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch running software version 2.2.1

Pricing and Availability:
Deckster 1.0 for iPhone is only $0.99 (US and Canada) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store. Deckster is the first complete software product available from Coylebilt Industries, which has dealt with Enterprise Software services until now.

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Located in Apex, NC/USA, Coylebilt Industries LLC was founded in 2007 by David Coyle, PhD. Coylebilt offers expertise and services in all fields of Apple technology, from WebObjects, to Applescript, and everything in between. All Material and Software (C) 2009 Coylebilt Industries, LLC / All Rights Reserved. Deckster is a service mark of Coylebilt Industries, LLC. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Stockholm, Sweden – Snarb.tk today announced the immediate availability of Cover Stream 2.6, an update to their popular iTunes controller that extends iTunes Cover Flow to the desktop. The update (Euro 14.95, or free to existing customers) is now available for download.

Feature-rich, beautiful and unobtrusive, Cover Stream lets you control, browse and search your music, without leaving your work. Key features include desktop cover flow, a powerful search filter, player notifications, Last FM support, hotkeys, visuals and a fullscreen jukebox mode.

Cover Stream 2.6 adds a new, sexy popup control panel to the desktop status bar. The panel gives you full control over iTunes playback. It also lets you see the artwork of the current track and set track rating. You can click on the artwork or jewel case to toggle the visibility of the browser window. The control panel appears when hovering with the mouse over Cover Stream’s status bar icon and replaces the old player controls available from the actual status bar menu.

The update also brings improved podcasts support. Full episode descriptions are now displayed when hovering with the mouse over a podcast in the songs browser. The new version also adds Feedback Reporter, a quick and easy way to send troubleshooting reports from within the application. Feedback Reporter will automatically retrieve crash logs and other relevant system information.

Cover Stream 2.6 also adds an improved launcher utility. The new background helper makes sure the latest version of Cover Stream is launched when opening iTunes, for users who keep multiple copies of Cover Stream on their hard drive. The update also fixes a few minor glitches in earlier versions and allows shuffle in Jukebox mode – Cover Stream’s popular song queuing feature.

Language Support:
Cover Stream is available in English, French and German

System requirements:
Cover Stream requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later and iTunes 7.5 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Cover Stream is available through its dedicated web site www.coverstream.net at a price of Euro 14.95. Upgrades from previous versions are, and will always be, free of charge. A fully functional demo is available for download. Please see their website for a screencast and full changelog.

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Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Snarb.tk was founded in 2003 to develop software and remote control utilities for the Mac platform, with an emphasis on complete customer satisfaction. Cover Stream is a trademark of Snarb.tk. Other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Corby, United Kingdom – Branchr, a relatively new advertising network has today launched their developer API allowing developers multiple ways to interact with Branchr ads and implement them into their applications and services. Branchr Advertising is offering this in addition to their already fast, reliable JavaScript based advertisement code that allows publishers to display ads on their websites and blogs.

The new API offers developers three different ways to implement ads from the Branchr network into their applications using nothing more than their existing Branchr Publishers account. With the API, developers can implement the same beautiful ads that they can on their websites, and earn the same rich pay-per-click royalties.

Placing Branchr ads in the trial versions of applications can be a great way to make money during tough economic times, and putting Branchr ads in free applications can be just as rewarding.

The Branchr API is available for developers to use now, and can be found over at the Branchr website. A free Branchr Publishers account is required to use the API. Unlike some other advertising services that offer APIs Branchr has no API request limit, meaning that if the ads are deployed in a high-impression environment, the API will not stop working.

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Branchr is a company founded in early 2009 that aims to bring, low-cost, effective advertising to everyone, without the need for high-risk investments or contracts.

Paris, France – Flying Pig announces today Edouard’s first public version Beta 3. After years of work side by side with small and medium businesses, Flying Pig engineers have released this beta version allowing anyone to check out Edouard user interface and features. Edouard is a ERP-Like solution dedicated to companies worried about maximizing their resources productivity. Rethought from the beginning, Edouard is a back to the basic in how a software should help you in managing your business, focusing on optimization in processes and minimizing the human intervention.

Edouard supports standard business needs such as :
* Stocks
* Contacts
* Purchases
* Sales
* Productions
* Statistics
* Accountancy
* Along with some other modules like templates and memos and todos

Based on a Client-Server architectures, Edouard uses PostgreSQL database and Objective-C 2.0 Cocoa, making it a complete Mac OS X Leopard native universal binary application.

Minimum requirements are:
Clients software:
* Any Mac G5
* 1GB of RAM
* 50MB of hard drive space.
* Mac OS X 10.5.4

Server software:
* Any Mac G5
* 2GB of RAM
* 1GB of hard drive space
* Mac OS X 10.5.4 (server version is a strong bonus)

This release is available through our extended beta program which any small and medium businesses can submit to and if eligible, get a preview of Edouard, and more. If you would like to know more about the beta program, feel free to contact us.

Flying Pig engineers will be at Apple’s WWDC, in San Francisco, California, from june 8th until june 12th 2009. It will be a good opportunity to meet, see Edouard running and talk about it. To schedule a meeting at WWDC, feel free to contact us.

As for the Edouard 1.0 version, we are unable to provide a pricing range and a final release date. We had in the past trouble with timing and had to postpone release to fit our quality expectations. We want it to be the best youngest main release Edouard could be. To find out more about Edouard, feel free to check the online product page available at Flying Pig website.

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Flying Pig is a French company started in 2007, dedicated to create exceptionally efficient and inovative computer-based business solutions. Founded by highly talented engineer Christophe Dupont and Arnaud Thiercelin, Flying Pig is one of the arms of the Thiercelin Group established in 1809. Copyright 2009 Flying Pig. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sunnyvale, CA – Total Phase is pleased to announce native Mac OS X support for the new Data Center(TM) 3.0 software, the only hardware-based USB, I2C, and SPI protocol analysis software in the industry with true real-time performance and cross platform support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

This release is a part of Total Phase’s continuing commitment to serve the needs of the Mac developer community. By providing Mac support for its lines of embedded systems development tools, Mac developers have access to powerful and cost-effective USB, I2C, and SPI debugging solutions while working natively in Mac OS X.

True Real-Time Performance:
With LiveDisplay(TM) technology, developers gain instant access to USB, I2C, and SPI bus data. While many solutions claim to have real-time analysis, the LiveDisplay technology shows the actual bus data as it is happening in true real-time, breaking from the traditional capture-download-process model of protocol analysis.

“LiveDisplay is an especially powerful and useful feature in the Data Center 3.0 software,” states Derek Fung, Senior Engineer. “Immediately seeing the USB, I2C, or SPI packets as they happen gives developers unparalleled visibility into the communications on their embedded systems.”

To help manage large streams of incoming data, the LiveFilter(TM) feature allows developers to instantly filter live USB, I2C, and SPI traffic against any number of parameters. Additionally, the LiveSearch(TM) functionality offers a powerful way to quickly locate data of interest in a live capture.

“In this economic climate, it is especially important to improve productivity. Users can filter out extraneous data and pinpoint relevant data quickly with the LiveFilter and LiveSearch features,” Mr. Fung adds. “Problems can be identified faster, saving engineering time and costs. If we can save an engineer a day of debugging, these tools will have paid for themselves.”

About the Beagle Protocol Analyzers:
The Beagle(TM) Protocol Analyzers are the hardware complement to the Data Center Software. These analyzers can non-intrusively capture and display USB, I2C, and SPI serial bus data. Total Phase offers three different bus monitors: the Beagle(TM) USB 480 Protocol Analyzer, a high-speed USB 2.0 monitor, the Beagle(TM) USB 12 Protocol Analyzer, a full-speed USB monitor, and the Beagle(TM) I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer, which can capture and display I2C and SPI data.

Pricing and Availability:
The Data Center 3.0 software is available immediately as a free download for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X on the Total Phase website. Beagle protocol analyzers are available for purchase online and orders placed before 2 PM PST are usually shipped the same day.

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Total Phase manufactures powerful and affordable USB, I2C, and SPI development tools for the embedded systems engineer. The entire line of developer tools combines best-of-breed features, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X support, royalty-free API, free software updates, and free lifetime support, making them perfect additions to any engineer’s toolbox. For more technical information and online videos, please visit Total Phase online.

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – publicspace.net announces version 8.19 of its file, music and photo renaming utility, A Better Finder Rename. The new release delivers significant performance gains in the product’s automatic file name conflict resolution feature, resulting in faster previews and renames.

A Better Finder Rename has long been the most comprehensive file renaming solution for the Macintosh and has transformed the tedious and time-consuming task of renaming multiple files into a simple matter of seconds for thousands of creative professionals across the world. It is based on over 10 years of listening to our users and addressing their requirements to the best of our abilities.

A Better Finder Rename is a sophisticated tool that caters for the full range of file renaming tasks encountered by the modern creative professional. Its streamlined interface includes a instant preview feature that eliminates guess work and reduces error. The tool features capture time and date extraction (EXIF JPEG and most RAW formats) for digital photographers, ID3 tag extraction for music lovers, regular expression support, plain-text file import for renaming from databases and many other advanced features.

The new renaming engine introduced in version 8 is capable of handling very large renaming jobs with ease and it meets file renaming challenges, such as file name conflicts, swaps and dependency cycles that other such tools leave unaddressed, head on. The renaming engine leverages all the latest Mac OS X Leopard technologies by using a 64-bit multi-threaded garbage collected architecture based around Leopard’s Core Data database system.

“A Better Finder Rename” is ideally suited for creative professionals, digital photographers, webmasters, users who need to transfer files from Windows or UNIX as well as for all other Macintosh users who deal with large numbers of files.

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Universal Binary for Intel and PowerPC
* 5 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
A Better Finder Rename may be purchased for $19.95 (USD). Family, Business and Enterprise licensing is also available. Customers may chose to include a “forever upgrade” with their purchase.

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publicspace.net was founded by Frank Reiff in 1996 with the aim of producing affordable best-of-breed software for the Macintosh. In the past decade, our A Better Finder series of file utilities and our MacBreakZ personal ergonomic assistant have become familiar fixtures of the Macintosh community. publicspace.net is also active in the Windows software market.

Melbourne, Australia – Bjango is proud to introduce Beats 1.0, DJ helper app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Beats combines a BPM counter, an advanced DJ metronome and a key-mixing aid designed to assist DJs create smooth, harmonically matched mixes. Working out the BPM (beats per minute) of a song couldn’t be simpler – just tap along with the song. Beats uses intelligent averaging that hones in on the correct BPM the more you tap.

The metronome in Beats supports beat, duple and triplet timing, and can be “pushed” and “pulled” to get it in sync with songs in the same way DJs beatmix with CDJs or Technics 1200s. Four metronome sound sets are included: click, 808, 909 and live drums. Beats also includes a piano keyboard, specifically designed for keying records. It displays the chromatic mixing options for the last key pressed, letting you know which other records will mix harmonically.

“A great little app for helping you find the BPM and key of your records. I also use it in the studio when writing and sampling. Definitely one for DJs and producers.” Luc Wiesman, Duosseudo

“I love the key mixing feature, having a portable reference when I’m at a gig is indispensable! Nice work Bjango folks!” Timothy Allan, remixer and producer

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Beats 1.0 for iPhone is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Located in sunny Melbourne, Australia, Bjango is a privately funded company founded in 2008 by Marc Edwards. Bjango (pronounced be-jan-go) is a new venture from part of the team that created iStat pro, iStat menus, Organized and quite a few other successful donationware apps and widgets under the moniker of iSlayer. Bjango currently has 4 iPhone apps on the App Store, with many more to come. iSlayer was formed in early June 2005. Bjango has been working on iPhone apps since the release of the iPhone SDK. Copyright 2009 Bjango. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

San Francisco, CA – SmileOnMyMac released DiscLabel 6, the latest version of its award-winning CD/DVD label design software for Mac OS X. This major upgrade features 80 additional free template sets and new powerful design tools for creating montages and generating custom designs.

DiscLabel 6 has more than twice the number of free template sets than the previous version, including 20 new template sets designed specifically for business and professional use. The design process has been considerably simplified to make it easier, faster, and more flexible. For example, images, album art, and text layouts can be applied to multiple design elements in one step during any point in the design process.

More powerful and flexible montage options have been added. A wide variety of montage layouts can be imported into a design; the montage remains editable after import, so that photos can be moved and resized within the montage.

The release comes in time for summer occasions such as graduations and weddings. “Personalized CDs and DVDs make great keepsakes and gifts,” said Philip Goward, co-founder of SmileOnMyMac. “A collection of favorite music or a family video is even more special when it’s attractively packaged.”

What’s new in DiscLabel 6:
* 80 additional professionally-designed template sets now included; new themes include business, professional, music and special occasion designs
* Simplified interface for creating new designs and selecting templates
* Enhanced image import palette offers multiple options for inserting images and can add images into all label and packaging design elements simultaneously
* New inspector palette for easy editing of object, image, and text properties
* Powerful and flexible new montage tool for creating a wide variety of photo montages and adding them to design elements
* Improved random design generator can modify all design elements in one step
* Sparkle automatic software updating

DiscLabel features:
* Start with a pre-designed template, or make your own; Over 150 professionally-designed template sets included
* Import track lists from iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, Finder, and Toast
* Import images from iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture, iDVD, and Finder
* Multiple layers, drawing tools, and gradients for creating custom designs
* Use more than 1300 clip art files via the DiscLabel Clip Art Browser
* Print to most label and paper types
* Use with direct-to-disc printers and printable CDs / DVDs
* Use with LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling
* Include (and edit!) multi-line text laid out in a circle
* Automate label creation with AppleScript
* Purchase high-quality NEATO labels & media via direct link to store
* Available in English, Japanese, German, Italian, and French

Requirements:
* DiscLabel 6 requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later, and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Pricing and Availability:
DiscLabel 6 costs $35.95 (USD). The DiscLabel Family Pack, for up to 5 computers in one household, is $54.95. Upgrades from earlier versions of DiscLabel are $15.00, and free to users who purchased after February 1, 2009.

Site licenses: $599 (USD)
Site license terms: Single contact for support; single physical address or company with fewer than 1,000 employees.

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SmileOnMyMac makes creative productivity software for Mac OS X, such as PDFpen, the PDF editing software that won an Editors’ Choice Award from The Mac Observer; DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program; TextExpander, the typing shortcut tool that was named a Mac|Life Editor’s Choice; PageSender, feature-rich fax software that also received an Eddy, and BrowseBack, the visual web history tool that won Best of Show at Macworld 2006. All SmileOnMyMac products are available to download free.

Albuquerque, NM – Stone Design today released a free upgrade to its top-selling Twitter client Twittelator Pro. With an emphasis on usability, speed, elegance and user customization, Version 2 was redesigned from ground up for ease of use, aesthetics and stability. V2.2.1 adds more power features, prepares for the Twitpocalypse (the 2,147,483,648th tweet) and polishes the features added in V2.0, 2.1 and 2.2. Twittelator Pro was chosen as Editor’s pick for best iPhone Twitter client by Mac|Life in May 2009 issue.

“The incredible development cycle of V2 began on February 5th after a San Francisco TweetUp,” said Stone Design CEO Andrew Stone, @twittelator. “We released 3 major versions, one per month since then, and this version, while adding a powerful quick friend searcher, more photo options and optimized conversations, mainly focuses on preparing for changes at twitter.com. Changes include dealing with deprecated following API’s and the need to be able to handle tweets with id’s greater than 2^31. We fixed the problems people found and added more killer features that truly sets Twittelator Pro apart from the pack.”

Here’s what’s new and fixed in V2.2.1:

Composing:
* @friends can now be searched like ‘Contacts’ via typing
* DM’s over 140 chars are automatically sent as 2 DM’s
* 6th photo posting service: TwitLens.com
* Moby, Pikchur and YFrog support private DM photos

Reading:
* Optimized conversations for speed and resources
* Shows TwitLens photos inline and fullscreen on tap
* Shows MobyPicture images fullscreen
* Option to open full screen photos in the built-in web browser (to add comments or email link for example)
* iTunes AppStore links open in AppStore app
* See up to 13 mentioned users in a tweet

Application:
* ReadItLater from a webpage adds the title to the RIL

Fixes:

Application:
* Phone Call/Quitting while tweeting restores tweet on launch
* If you are paging back in time with more, autorefresh won’t knock out those tweets
* Changing between identically named Twitter & identi.ca accounts works

User Details / My Profile:
* User Detail works for all users now
* avatars with diacriticals in their name now work
* Avatar image works in friend of My Profile

Composing
* DM’s to people that do NOT follow you won’t get stuck in queue (you can delete, save as draft, or change into a reply)
* ad hoc “d someone” correctly gives “Send Message” confirm
* Better error handling of URL Shortening service errors
* Main tab bar and active view tweets are cached on quit

Search:
* Advanced Search correctly does exact, any and none
* last used Nearby Radius and Miles/Kilometers displayed in a new seach
* Trends update correctly when placed in tab bar

Features recently added to Version 2.0 – 2.2 include:

* Automatic queuing and sending of tweets
* send as multiple messages as fast as you can
* great for offline composing
* automatically sent when network comes up
* unsent messages badged on app icon when you quit
* automatically sent when you relaunch Pro

* Autosave and restore any number of Drafts
* tap Top Bar in Compose to retrieve
* auto-deleted on send, auto-updated on retrieve, edit

* Beautiful new User Interface:
* complete tweet design makeover
* themes for night, daylight and indoor
* configure your top categories on TabBar
* badges show number of new tweets in each category
* Completely redesigned User Detail much cleaner, faster:
* allows breadcrumbed drilldowns into friends of friends
* Search for any user to follow anyone
* shows twitter app used by tweeter
* Much faster:
* scroll speed greatly increased
* refreshes must faster
* Wide tweet composing window (turn for landscape)
* Load More Tweets button at bottom of tweets list go back in time as far as you like!
* See anyone’s avatar full screen
* Shows yfrog, TwitPic, mobypic, TwitGoo, Twitlens & Pikchur images right in tweet
* Shows and plays song.ly mp3′s
* Stock Portfolio list for instant stock searches
* Send links to Instapaper for later reading
* Email tweets
* Complete Help available in program
* One-tap shrink tweet and links during compose
* One-tap reply
* Large Font option
* Save any set or all tweets and read them later
* Option to see a user’s replies from Details
* Support for for MobyPicture as 4th photo service
* Option to upload photos to alternate service should one fail
* Automatically learns #tags you use for instant insertion later
* Option to copy link to tweet (for shorter re-tweeting)
* Choose from 3 re-tweet styles, including “via”
* Choose from 5 link shortening services
* Choose your Auto-refresh interval
* Option to just show screen names
* Option to turn off connection warnings
* Raven and Dove themes much richer
* Web Browser rotates to landscape when desired (or not)
* Shows photos full screen: tap for Save Option
* Tweets by or about you have special tinting for easy finding
* Added “Read It Later” as alternate Link Save Service with Instapaper
* See which twitter app posted tweet, turn on “Just Screen Names”
* Detail shows which twitter app posted last status too!
* “My Profile” * new catorgory that’s easy to find in More
* 3 Trends options: Current Daily Weekly
* Nearby search takes distance from last Advanced Location Search
* Added twitgoo to inline tweet thumbsnails along with moby, twitpic, pikchur, yfrog.
* You can now delete DM’s to you (as well as your own tweets and DM’s)
* Save Photos and Avatars to your Photos library
* Fast Launch option in Autorefresh by updating only current category
* When launched by bookmarklet, no auto refresh for instant posting
* Swap accounts mid-compose
* multiple accounts shows active account on launch
* we post Tweets with images for better results
* automatic notification when uploaded
* DM’s can have private images too
* photos in a reply show conversation thread
* 6 choices: YFrog, Pikchur, TwitPic, Moby, TwitGoo, TwitLens
* Tap -> <- shrink button 2nd time to undo shortening
* Option to Disable Landscape Mode for tweeting upside down in bed or bath!
* Added Apple Symbol in dingbats

With many oher power features including multiple accounts, sub groups of friends, autorefresh, trending topics, conversations, nearby search for tweeters, see anyone’s favorites and last tweets, advanced and persistent searches, insty-tweet links from Safari, copy/paste/retweet, high-resolution photo uploads, auto double-tweeting of long tweets, and server access log, Twittelator Pro V2 has carefully packed the most features of any twitter client into a very usable and user-configurable layout.

“The positive feedback for Version 2, 2.1 and 2.2 has culminated in final release for iPhone 2.2.1 prior to the forthcoming iPhone 3.0 release later this summer” remarked Stone Design’s CEO and lead computer scientist Andrew Stone. “Twittelator Pro was the #7 best-selling social networking iPhone app of 2008 and #2 for all Twitter clients. Version 2.2 pushes Twittelator Pro over the top! If you enjoy the free Twittelator Lite, you’ll love Twittelator Pro V2″.

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Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT, in the last 20 yeaStone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT, in the last 20 years. Major applications include Create, a page layout and web authoring app, iMaginator for image processing and Videator for video effects and VJ’ing. In the past year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 6 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, Gesture which lets you turn photos into digital paintings and share them, Twittelator Pro, the most feature laced twitter client for the iPhone/Touch, Pulsar the free pyschedelic strobe light and now SoundBite. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone and Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff, and Geoff Pado of Cocoatype on SoundBite and MobileMix.