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Los Angeles – The makers of Welcome to Macintosh are happy to announce that the documentary will be available to all US Comcast Cable TV subscribers on Pay Per View beginning July 1st 2009. Comcast Subscribers can find it in the Pay Per View channels as well as the “Movie” section of their On Demand service.

“Getting to offer “Welcome to Macintosh” to the over over twenty four million Comcast’s subscribers is an important achievement for an independent film” says Rob Baca, Co-director of the film.

“Welcome to Macintosh” is a feature length documentary that explores the many ways Apple, Inc. has changed the world. Notable Apple personalities Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the original Macintosh, Guy Kawasaki, long time Mac evangelist and Leander Kahney, author of the book “Cult of Mac” offer insight into the company’s past, present and future.

“The goal was to make a film that you can show to anyone, even someone that has never used a computer, and have them understand why so many people love Macintosh,” says Josh Rizzo, Co-Director. “Availability to all US Comcast customers goes a long way toward completing that goal.”

“This is the first of many exciting announcements regarding distribution of the film” adds Baca.

Welcome to Macintosh has been presented in over fifty user groups around the world as well as an official selection in seven international film festivals including the 10th Annual Wisconsin Film Festival, the 4th Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival, the 2nd Annual FuzzB Family Film Fest, the 1st Ann. Naperville Independent Film Fest as well as the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival. The Welcome to Macintosh website includes exclusive behind the scenes content including photos, videos, discussions.

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Welcome to Macintosh is an independent motion picture and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. Macintosh, iPod and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

Shreveport, Louisiana – RWT has announced Bravado, a brand new theme for the popular website creation application RapidWeaver. The Bravado theme offers the user a number of features built into the theme to make creating your website as easy as possible.

Features at a glance:
* Pre-installed php script allowing the user to have a searchbox on their site that is automatically connected to their RapidSearch page
* Semi-Transparent navigation buttons
* 4 Extra Content containers along with some free snippets for your Snippets Library
* Logo and Site title link back the site’s homepage
* Several width options
* Color picker options
* Split navigation system
* Site Title & Logo location settings
* Numerous color schemes and theme styles come pre-installed to help you get up and running in the shortest amount of time possible

Browser Tested – The Bravado theme 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
* RapidWeaver 3.6 or RapidWeaver 4.0

Pricing and Availability:
Bravado is available for only $15.00 (USD). Bravado is available by itself or as part of either the “Everything Bundle” or the “EC Bundle”.

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Headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, RapidWeaverThemes is a small, independent software company founded in 2004. With a focus on providing clean usable themes along with excellent customer service RWT has developed a reputation as being one of the top theme developers for RapidWeaver. All Rights Reserved. RapidWeaver, and the RapidWeaver logo are trademarks of Realmac Software Limited.

Encino, CA – Findley Designs, Inc. announces the immediate availability of iPod Access 4.3 for Mac OSX and Windows Vista/XP. iPod Access is the leading iPod/iPhone music and video transfer application for the Mac and Windows. With iPod Access you have instant access to all the songs, videos and movies on your iPod or iPhone. Version 4.3 adds support for iPhone/iPod touch OS 3.0, iTunes 8.2 and the new iPhone 3Gs. iPod Access works with all past and present iPod, iPhone and iPod Touch models.

New in v4.3:
* Support for iPhone/iPod touch OS 3.0
* Support for the iPhone 3Gs
* Support for iTunes 8.2
* Improved iTunes integration

iPod Access is the leading iPod/iPhone music and video transfer application for the Mac and Windows. With iPod Access you have instant access to all the songs, videos and movies on your iPod or iPhone. Your media can be be displayed and sorted in almost any fashion so you can find the songs or vidos you need right when you need them.

With the new instant search feature in v4 you can find songs just as quickly as you would in iTunes. And once you have found the songs, movies and playlists that you want, iPod Access will copy them right back into iTunes or to an external drive for backup. If you need music from your iPod or iPhone back on your computer then you need iPod Access.

Features Include:
* Universal Application (Support for Intel and PPC Macs)
* Leopard (OSX 10.5) and Tiger (OSX 10.4) Support
* Windows Vista and XP Support
* Force iPod Manual Update Mode (iPod only)
* Add songs, videos and podcasts directly to the iTunes Library
* Export song listing
* Automatic file renaming
* Support for non-Roman characters (including Japanese)
* Easy to use interface
* Instant listing of all iPod songs
* Playlist Cloning into iTunes
* Support for iTunes Ratings, Play Count, Last Played date
* Play music and video files directly from the iPod (iPod only)
* Transfer ID3 tags for WAV, Video and iFM files.
* AAC file support (including iTunes Music store songs)
* Audible.com support
* Song Navigation by Artist/Album or Composer/Album
* Copy songs organized by Artist/Album or Composer/Album
* Single button sequential backups
* Recover songs from iPods with a damaged database. (iPod only)
* Support for PC formatted Hard drives
* Support for Multiple iPods

Pricing and Availability:
iPod Access 4.3 can be downloaded as a free trial or purchased for $19.99 (USD). Version 4.3 is a free upgrade to all registered version 4 users.

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Findley Designs, Inc. strives to create solutions to help the everyday computer user. Applications such as iPod Access, Movie Montage, Delete It and iCal FTP strive to put a simple interface on complex problems. Copyright 2009 Findley Designs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Mac, the Mac logo, Macintosh, iPod, iTunes, and iTunes Music Store are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft, Windows and Windows Vista are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. This product is not endorsed, sponsored by, or associated with, Apple Computer, Inc., or its products or services. Any and all references to Apple products contained herein are only to describe that this product is compatible with the referenced Apple product or technology.

Portland, Oregon – Dejal Systems, LLC today announced the immediate availability of Dejal Caboodle 1.3.1, a useful application to collect text, images, and other content. For a limited time, Caboodle is available as part of TheMacBundles – a bundle of 11 great Mac products for just $49.95.

Everyone comes across information that they want to refer to later. Maybe gifts you’ve received or sent, product serial numbers, recipes, directions to someone’s house, a photo of your pet, or anything else. Caboodle is a tool to help store and organize such varied bits of information.

You can arrange the items in an outline-like hierarchy, and include both structured fields and free-form text and pictures in each entry, along with web links, lists, tables, PDFs, and any other kind of file as attachments.

Caboodle is elegantly simple, but includes some innovative and useful features. Every entry can include child entries. When you create a new entry within an existing one, the custom fields are inherited, allowing quickly creating content in an organized fashion. But you can also add or remove custom fields independently for each entry.

Entries can be encrypted to hide your most sensitive information. They can also be searched, and the Services menu is supported to quickly add or output an entry.

This release includes some important fixes, including to the import feature and handling very large amounts of data.

Language Support:
English, German, French, Dutch

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 or later (Leopard-ready)
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

Pricing and Availability:
Dejal Caboodle 1.3.1 is available as a single-user license for only $19.95 (USD), and available as a full-featured demo. There are also Household and Site licenses available. Caboodle is available as part of TheMacBundles – get Caboodle and 10 other handy apps for only $49.95.

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Founded by David Sinclair in 1991, Dejal Systems, LLC was originally established in New Zealand, and later moved to Portland, Oregon in 2001. With a focus on the Mac and iPhone platforms, Dejal specializes in user-friendly and flexible Cocoa-based utility software. Copyright 1991-2009 Dejal Systems, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Dejal, the Dejal logo, and Caboodle are trademarks of Dejal Systems, LLC. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Vilnius, Lithuania – iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, brings the finest iWeb Intros 1.0 to be used with Apple’s website building application, iWeb. Visitors will like your web site more if they will get a nice welcome for them. iWeb Intros 1.0 includes five terrific welcome intros: Desert, Groove, Paint Splatter, Dreamy Intro and Multilingual Greetings. iWeb Intros is a part of iWeb Suite package.

iWeb Intros makes a website more beautiful, more interesting, more vivid and professional-looking. iWeb Intros are pre-made flash intros for iWeb. These intros can stand alone as intro page for your website or can be incorporated into any iWeb template. iWeb Intros are designed for websites therefore they will start immediately after launching it. Each intro incorporates loopable music and loader bar.

To get started just select the right intro, follow the instructions provided with the iWeb Intros package, publish and enjoy the way your website comes to life. In addition, iPresentee offers an updated iWeb Suite. iWeb Suite package is most likely the best offer of add-ons for Apple’s iWeb. The iWeb Suite package includes: 20 iWeb Themes, 20 iWeb Themes for Business, 5 iWeb Intros, 75 iWeb Animations and 115 Keynote 3D Stuff objects.

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

Pricing and Availability:
Each iWeb Intro is available for $10 (USD). The set of five iWeb Intros 1.0 may be purchased for $30. Samples and more information about iWeb Intros 1.0 are available immediately at the iPresentee website.

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Located in Vilnius, Lithuania, iPresentee company was founded in 2007 by a group of professional and enthusiastic IT designers. With a focus on the Mac platform, iPresentee’ perspective goal is to create high quality, easy to use and fun add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications. Copyright 2007-2009 iPresentee. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iWeb and Apple Keynote are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Ekero, Sweden – Maintain today announced Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition). This version adds ability to reset home directory permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs), adds ability to set Time Machine’s backup interval and to modify other Time Machine settings, adds support for more network interfaces, adds support for Safari 4 and ability to disable Safari 4 webpage previews.

Changes in Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition):
* Added ability to reset home directory permissions and ACLs (Disks – Permissions)
* Added “Enable unsupported network volumes” setting (System – Time Machine)
* Added “Disable backup of system files” setting (System – Time Machine)
* Added “Do not backup when disks are mounted” setting (System – Time Machine)
* Added “Do not ask to use newly connected disks” setting (System – Time Machine)
* Added “Animate background” setting (System – Time Machine)
* Added ability to set Time Machine’s backup interval (System – Time Machine)
* Added support for more network interfaces (Network – Optimization)
* Added support for Safari 4
* Added “Disable webpage previews” setting (Interface – Safari)
* Other minor bug fixes and improvements
* Updated Automator actions
* Updated help files

The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).

Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.4 (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 4.3.1 (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.

Montreal, Canada – Indev Software is proud to participate in the second iteration of TheMacBundles.com software bundle, with its email management software, MailTags. Until July 20, 2009 purchase MailTags and 9 other great software titles for only $49.95 (USD), saving over 80% on total price.

MailTags transforms Apple’s Mail application into a powerful email management system and puts and end to email chaos. Going beyond just keywords, MailTags provides a way for you to record notes, projects, dates and priorities and gives you the ability to track essential messages, record future actions for email, manage your correspondence, and implement metadata based workflows for your email.

With a robust feature set that works with POP and standard IMAP mail, MailTags extends Mail’s search, smart mailboxes, rules, and interface to provide a coherent and flexible system for email organization. And with its unique ability to save its metadata with messages on standard IMAP servers, MailTags makes your email organization available on multiple computers and to multiple users accessing shared IMAP accounts.

MailTags has been selected as a MacWorld Gem, a LifeHacker download of the day, an editor’s choice in MacLife Magazine and Mac OS X Hints pick of the week. It has received highly rated reviews from MacObserver, MacWorld, MacLife, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and About.

MailTags is joined by other quality Mac software to form the bundle:
Caboodle – A lean, clean, snippet machine, Dejal Caboodle is perfect for storing and organizing those bits of information that you might have previously stored elsewhere. Includes customizable fields, encryption, and support for embedded images, PDFs and more.

IPNetMonitorX – Featuring 23 integrated tools, IPNetMonitorX is designed to help you quickly troubleshoot Internet service issues, gather data to solve the problem either directly or through your Internet Service Provider, and optimize your Internet connection.

PrintMagic – A tool that expands the printing capabilities of OS X. Instantly and easily selectively print just the info you want in any program via your own shortcuts or a versatile interface. Add notes or time-date stamps to anything you print, create print projects, more…

ShutterBug – Whether it’s a personal site to share your photos, movies, and stories or a professional presence to communicate your message or create an online store, ShutterBug can help you do it, easily, quickly, and custom built to your specific needs.

Trampoline – Do you have a core set of apps, documents, or web apps that you use all the time? Do you almost never close them? Do you move back and forth between them all day long? If you want to get to your apps FAST, you NEED Trampoline!

Typinator – Typinator is an automatic text software that boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors.

Voila – Voila is your complete capturing solution, allowing you to capture, annotate, organize, and share screen captures from virtually ANY source! Capture full screen games, multiple windows, webpages, webcam inputs, and much more.

World Clock Deluxe – Regularly work with people across the world? Have family or friends living in other countries or time zones? Often travel abroad? World Clock Deluxe, from MaBaSoft, will make your life much easier.

About TheMacBundles:
The Farmers Market for software; no hype, no games, no middlemen. Just GREAT software at GREAT prices(TM)”. TheMacBundles creates a win-win situation: Consumers get the best software at the best prices and developers receive an equitable distribution of the proceeds from the sale of their software. And this arrangement encourages and supports the development of more great software.

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Indev Software is the leading developer of enhancements for Apple’s Mail Application. It’s two flagship products have revolutionized how people organize their email on their Macs. Copyright 2009 Indev Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple “Mail” are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Solana Beach, CA – Nisus(R) Software Inc. today announces the release of Nisus Writer Pro 1.3, the latest version of our critically acclaimed word processor. Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 adds a completely new document manager. The document manager now can manage any file on your drive, regardless of its location. You can create file groups, or use the predefined smart groups. There is also a style library, and an advanced search that leverages Apple’s Spotlight technology.

Also added was selection history (allowing users to jump to prior editing locations), an option to automatically capitalize the first word of each sentence during typing, the ability to attach the active document to a new email message (in Mail.app and Entourage only), and you can now turn any menu into a toolbar item.

Other new features include character/word/paragraph count as an automatic number, menus to invert the selection, select all document areas, expand the selection to full word/sentence/paragraph. A preference allows language switches to affect font size. Triple click selects a sentence and quadruple click selects a paragraph.

There have also been additions to the Nisus Macro Language, and a host of bug fixes and other enhancements. These new features add to an already rich feature set that includes an intuitive interface, multilingual text support, powerful find and replace, easy to use style system, non-contiguous selection, full screen mode, and a native file format (RTF) that almost any word processor can read.

To celebrate this new release, and the Fourth of July holiday in the USA, we are having a release sale. From now until 6 July, Nisus Writer Pro can be purchased for 20 percent off the regular price of $79 (USD) for the full version. This offer is also good with the Nisus Writer Pro upgrade (regular price $45), the Family Pack (regular price $99), and CD versions. Just enter the coupon code “fourthofjuly” and the discount will appear in the shopping cart.

System Requirements:
Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 is a universal binary and requires Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or later.

Price and Availability:
Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 is available now at our web store for only $79.00 (USD), and $45.00 for the upgrade version. A three license Family Pack is also available for $99.00. Versions on CD are available for an additional $10.00 plus shipping. A printed manual is also available for $25.00 plus shipping. This release is a free update to current license holders of Nisus Writer Pro.

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Nisus Software, Inc. develops award winning text and productivity tools for the Macintosh, such as Nisus Writer Pro, Nisus Writer Express, and Nisus Thesaurus. Copyright 2009 Nisus Software, Inc.

Portland, Oregon – Njection LLC, the maker of Njection Mobile (NMobile), their worldwide speed trap notification system for iPhone 3G, is releasing version 1.1.3 for free before the 4th of July weekend. In addition, Njection is releasing a Ad Placement engine that uses GPS to display discounts and coupons from local “Brick and Mortar” stores. This will allow them to compete for business with a lower entry cost than traditional advertising means.

Designed specifically to take advantage of the 3G’s unique abilities and interface users can be alerted to coupons and discounts in their vicinity. This will give the option to consumers to rate and choose between buying online or from a local “Brick and Mortar” store that may have a lower price. The benefit is having something that they wanted to have in hand within minutes rather than days.

Store are now able to create a coupon and upload the locations of their stores. Bar codes can be used to scan their iPhone coupons to take advantage of offers from companies. Stores that would like to sign up and participate can do so for free. Signing up will allow companies to upload store locations and have them geocoded for use with Njection Mobile. Companies and business with coupon offering can be attached to any participating store and store locations for a fee. The Njection Mobile iPhone update that will include the ad engine will be available July 20th, 2009.

Coupons added to Njection Mobile’s Ad Engine have two hard requirements:
1) The store most have a “Brick and Mortar” location for geocoding and so that users can get what that want immediately.

2) There must be a discount included in the offering. This will make it more enticing for users to take advantage of the stores offering and drive customers to the store.

Designed specifically to take advantage of the 3G’s unique abilities and interface, NMobile was built from the ground up for drivers so they can be notified to the location of speed traps, red light cameras, and speed detection devices. With the addition of the ad engine, Njection Mobile will build itself as a one stop app for saving money in more ways than one.

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Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Njection LLC is a small privately funded company founded in 2007 by Shannon Atkinson. In addition to developing awareness of speed traps worldwide, Njection is a hub for the exchange of automotive information, a lively discussion forum and news for serious car enthusiasts everywhere. Copyright 2007-2009 Njection LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Virtual Earth is a registered trademark of Microsoft Inc.