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Ashdod, Israel – Apparent Software today is proud to announce Cashculator 1.0, a new kind of personal finance application for Mac OS X. Cashculator is a different kind of personal finance application – instead of focusing on the past and logging previous transactions, it focuses on future by forecasting your financial situation.It allows making better decisions regarding your personal finance or small business. Version 1.0 is first release of the application.

Cashculator is different from most other personal finance applications, which are usually complex, costly and focus on past performance by logging and tracking transactions that occurred on user accounts. Unlike them, Cashculator is very easy to use: No need to define your accounts and configure the application, no complex dialog boxes, no credits, debits or portfolio management. Just simple numbers: income and expenses.

Cashculator is the simplest way to manage your finances. Like a spreadsheet, Cashculator is very visual and straightforward. Built specifically for personal finance, Cashculator improves upon a spreadsheet by supporting budgeting, easy “what-if” scenarios comparisons and more.

Cashculator Benefits:
* It allows you to live in the future, not the past, by forecasting your future financial situation
* It allows you to make better decisions regarding your personal finance or your small business
* It allows you to manage your finance using a clear, simple and intuitive interface, following Mac tradition

Main Features:
* Have a high-level overview of your historic spending and income
* Cash flow prediction: do you have a surplus cashflow or are you accumulating debt?
* What-if analysis to compare alternatives: check if you can afford to purchase that gadget in several payments or you should push it until you get that salary raise
* View income, expenses and balance with easy-to-use and intuitive graphs

Language Support:
* English and French

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

Pricing and Availability:
Cashculator 1.0 costs $29.95 (family license) but can be purchased for $19.95 (USD) for a limited time using a coupon available on the site. A full-featured, trial version can be downloaded.

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Located in Ashdod, Israel, Apparent Software is a privately funded company founded in 2006 by Jacob Gorban. With a focus on the Mac platform, our mission is creating useful, friendly and unique software, complemented by first-class support for our customers. Copyright 2009 Apparent Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Seattle, WA – Coinciding with the release of the 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide, iLounge’s sixth annual guide to Apple’s top media players, accessories, and software, the editors of iLounge proudly announce the winners of the prestigious iPod + iPhone Best of the Year Awards. From cases to speakers, games and applications, the Awards spotlight top picks across major Apple hardware and software categories, and were selected by iLounge’s editors without any influence from advertisers, Apple, or other interests. Recipients were selected purely on the basis of merit from thousands of candidates, and represent the outstanding efforts of small and large developers from a variety of different countries.

“The past year has seen a tidal wave of new releases, particularly new games and iPhone applications,” explained Jeremy Horwitz, Editor-in-Chief of iLounge and the Buyers’ Guide. “Our selections this year focused on truly excellent, standout products that exemplified thoughtful design, great features, and fair pricing.”

Best of the Year Award winners include:

* Speck Products’ CandyShell, selected as 2009 Accessory of the Year and iPhone 3G/3GS Case of the Year.

* iHome, selected as 2009 Accessory Maker of the Year, and for iPod/iPhone Speaker of the Year – iP1 Studio Series.

* Gameloft, selected as 2009 iPod/iPhone Game Developer of the Year, and for iPhone/iPod touch Game of the Year – Modern Combat: Sandstorm.

* Facebook, selected as 2009 Application Developer of the Year, and for iPhone/iPod touch Application of the Year – Facebook.

* SwitchEasy, selected for 2009 iPod nano Case of the Year – CapsuleThins, and for 2009 iPod classic Case of the Year – CapsuleClassic.

Single editorially-selected Award recipients include Apple, Core Cases, DLO, Elgato Systems, Griffin Technology, iVoice, Memorex, Scosche, Square Enix, and Ultimate Ears. Separately, iLounge’s Readers’ Choice Awards saw thousands of readers pick winners in four categories: including Apple Digital Media Product of the Year (iPhone 3GS), Accessory Maker of the Year (iHome), iPod/iPhone Game Developer of the Year (Tapulous), and iPod/iPhone Application Developer of the Year (Facebook). For full details on the winners, runners-up, and ratings of thousands of other accessories and applications, download the 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide, available immediately for free.

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With offices in Seattle, Washington and East Amherst, New York, iLounge Inc. is the world’s leading provider of iPod, iPhone, and iTunes information, fully independent of Apple Inc. and vendors of related hardware, software, and services. iLounge is the exclusive partner of the Consumer Electronics Association for the iLounge Pavilion, a unified exhibition area for iPod, iPhone, and Mac-related products at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Founded only days after Apple announced the first iPod in 2001, iLounge has exploded in popularity, today boasting millions of visitors and tens of millions of page views each month. Its editorial content is in no way influenced by advertising, paid placements, or other unsavory practices. iLounge has been hailed by publications such as Forbes, Time Magazine, cNet, and The Wall Street Journal as the leader in iPod-related information online, the former deeming iLounge “the ultimate in product reviews and tutorials on all things iPod.” The site, its publisher and editors have been spotlighted by the Associated Press, CNBC, The Guardian (UK), Italian Vogue, The Los Angeles Times, and more.

Seattle, WA – Authoritative. Comprehensive. Incredible. These are the words that readers use to describe iLounge’s annual iPod iPhone Buyers’ Guides – respected annual overviews of Apple’s portable media devices and third-party add-ons. Today, iLounge proudly debuts the brand-new 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide, the latest in its multi-million-downloaded series of publications. The 200-page Guide is available immediately as a free, hassle-free download from iLounge, and will be featured at the iLounge Pavilion of the January 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

With thousands of accessories and “apps” now competing for attention, this is the most exciting time in history to buy iPods, iPhones, and add-ons, but also the most confusing. As the world’s leading reviewer of these products since 2001, iLounge has distilled years of honest, smart analysis into the 2010 Guide, creating four easy-to-read sections that spotlight the year’s most essential products: Apple hardware, games, applications, and accessories. New headphones, speakers, cases, batteries, and car accessories receive special attention inside.

Serious iPod and iPhone fans will enjoy exclusive sneak peeks at upcoming accessories, as well as gift recommendations that range from free games to a $41,000 platinum and diamond-encrusted iPhone 3GS – plus plenty of affordable choices in the middle. First-time users will especially appreciate the iGlossary, which clearly explains all the Apple technical jargon that has become common over the last several years, and a Where To Buy section, which clearly shows the lowest-priced and smartest places to purchase iPods, iPhones, and accessories.

“Apple has sold over 260 million iPods and iPhones,” said Jeremy Horwitz, Editor-in-Chief of iLounge and the Guide, “so there’s never been a greater appetite for honest information about these devices and their add-ons. The 2010 Buyers’ Guide is a quick, downloadable summary you can read on your computer or carry in your pocket when shopping, helping you make educated choices about what best fits your needs.”

Additional key sections of the 2010 iPod iPhone Buyers’ Guide include:

* Buying and Selling Tips: Looking to buy a new iPod or iPhone right now? Skip the screwy 2009 iPod shuffle, and try the tricked-out new iPod touch, iPod nano, or iPhone 3GS. Want to sell your old model? Check the Guide for current used pricing for every iPod and iPhone released since 2001.

* Best of the Year and Readers’ Choice Awards: Sixteen products and three top developers are named as winners of iLounge’s prestigious Best of the Year awards for 2009, with highest honors going to Speck Products, iHome, Gameloft, Facebook, and SwitchEasy. Thousands of reader votes selected the winners of four Readers’ Choice Awards, as well.

* The Complete History of iPod, iPhone iTunes: Over 54 million iPods and 20 million iPhones were sold in the past year, along with roughly one billion App Store downloads. Our milestone-based timeline covers everything from the January 2001 release of iTunes through October 2009’s release of Apple TV 3.0.

* Contests: With over $2,300 in prizes at stake, winners of iLounge’s Design The Apple Tablet art contest are named, and a new iD the iPods + iPhones photo contest debuts.

“With two million downloads of our Guides in the last year alone, iLounge has built an unmatched reputation for honest and objective coverage of Apple’s digital media products,” said Dennis Lloyd, Publisher of iLounge. “Our latest 2010 Buyers’ Guide is a must-read for anyone who has an iPod or iPhone, and anyone who’s thinking of buying Apple-related products this year.”

The 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide is available now in Adobe PDF format. Widely heralded as “the iPod Bible,” iLounge’s popular tutorial edition, The Free iPod + iPhone Book, and previous years’ versions of the Buyers’ Guide can also be downloaded from the iLounge online.

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With offices in Seattle, Washington and East Amherst, New York, iLounge Inc. is the world’s leading provider of iPod, iPhone, and iTunes information, fully independent of Apple Inc. and vendors of related hardware, software, and services. iLounge is the exclusive partner of the Consumer Electronics Association for the iLounge Pavilion, a unified exhibition area for iPod, iPhone, and Mac-related products at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Founded only days after Apple announced the first iPod in 2001, iLounge has exploded in popularity, today boasting millions of visitors and tens of millions of page views each month. Its editorial content is in no way influenced by advertising, paid placements, or other unsavory practices. iLounge has been hailed by publications such as Forbes, Time Magazine, cNet, and The Wall Street Journal as the leader in iPod-related information online, the former deeming iLounge “the ultimate in product reviews and tutorials on all things iPod.” The site, its publisher and editors have been spotlighted by the Associated Press, CNBC, The Guardian (UK), Italian Vogue, The Los Angeles Times, and more.

Brooklyn, New York – Veenix Technologies today announced version 1.9 of TypeBook Creator, its highly acclaimed Macintosh font specimen book and font sample sheet creation software for graphics professionals. The new version has been updated to support Mac OS 10.6. Additionally, specimen layouts were recoded using Apple’s latest font and text imaging technologies, Core Text, several new customization features and options were added, and a change was made in the startup procedure and active fonts are no longer automatically added to the database. Collectively, version 1.9 offers the most stable and seamless end-to-end solution for cataloging and printing large font collections.

Veenix TypeBook Creator was developed for Mac graphic professionals and allows them to easily create and print type specimen books and font sample sheets of their fonts. TypeBook Creator features precision automatic font categorization via Veenix GlyphLogic technology, 16 classic page layouts, numerous layout customization options and prints both active and inactive fonts.

TypeBook Creator’s built-in GlyphLogic engine analyzes fonts as they are added to the database and categorizes them into one or more of the following optically-derivative categories: Text Fonts, Serif and Flare Fonts, Sans Serif Font, Picture, Script & Thematic Fonts, Condensed and Narrow Fonts, Expanded and Wide Fonts, Monospaced Fonts, Inline & Outline Fonts, Shadow & 3D Fonts, Initial, Drop & Small Caps Fonts, Expert and Fraction Fonts, and Math & Pi Fonts. The GlyphLogic technology has a high degree of accuracy and saves hundreds of hours of manually classifying and indexing fonts.

TypeBook Creator’s specimen sheet layouts include: full ASCII character sets, cascading point size sheets, body copy sheets, specimen briefs, typographical sizing slugs and numerous multi-font layouts.

Pricing and Availability:
Veenix TypeBook Creator retails for $49.95 USD (studio license) and $99.95 USD (corporate license.) More information and a free demo can be found at Veenix Technologies.

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San Diego, CA – To promote RingtoneStudio for iPhone, PocketMac will be giving away one factory-unlocked iPhone 3G in a contest starting today. Second and third place winners will each win a $50 or $15 iTunes gift card, respectively. The contest ends November 30, 2009 and is based around the software, PocketMac RingtoneStudio for iPhone.

“We want to get people talking about and trying our great ringtone creation software, RingtoneStudio for iPhone,” said Tim Goggin, VP Of Sales & Marketing. “The more people help us promote this software, the cooler the prizes get.”

Different levels of prizes will be available to contestants based on how many copies of RingtoneStudio are sold before the end of contest. In the beginning, three $15 iTunes gift card are available to win. If sales of RingtoneStudio exceed 100 copies sold during the contest period, two $50 iTunes gift card will able to win. If sales of RingtoneStudio top 250 sales, one lucky winner will take away a legally, factory-unlocked iPhone.

Goggin continued, “These iPhones are the rarest of rare. In most countries, iPhones are only offered by one or two carriers. But in some areas, Apple ships these phones to the consumer unlocked. That is, they can be used with a SIM card from any carrier. This is one of these phones.”

Legally-unlocked iPhones require no “jailbreaking”, the process of modifying an iPhone to work with a different carrier. Instead, these iPhones are programmed to accept any SIM card. Also, they can be updated to the latest versions of the iPhone operating system without the hassles involved in updating jailbroken phones.

The software at the heart of the contest, RingtoneStudio for iPhone, was designed to produce an unlimited quantity of ringtones – avoiding Apple’s 99 cent-per-ringtone fee. It creates ringtones from any unprotected music format or from a variety of QuickTime-friendly video formats.

The heavy-duty user-requested features of this new version include:
* Visual Sound Editing – now users can visually edit ringtones by looking at the actual waveform of the sounds being played in realtime, with a zoom of up to 16x
* Volume Control – users can now boost the volume of any song or clip, with full undo
* Add fade-in/fade-out to any ringtone
* Full compatibility/integration with QuickTime Pro. Copy and paste sounds between RTS and QuickTime or QuickTime Pro
* Better integration of video and waveform editing

This contest runes through November 30, 2009. RingtoneStudio 2.0 for iPhone is available now for $19.95 (USD).

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Information Appliance Associates (IAA) is a world leader in creating unique software solutions, primarily for the Macintosh platform. Their first product, PocketMac Pro, the original Mac-to-Pocket PC sync solution accomplished what at the time was thought impossible–connecting a Mac to a Pocket PC. IAA then expanded into other areas of connectivity with their Microsoft Smartphone product, their iPod product and their BlackBerry sync and multimedia solution. All IAA brands and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of Information Appliance Associates. BlackBerry is a registered trademark of Research In Motion. Macintosh and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Pocket PC is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Prague, Czech Republic – Vinotekasoft today unveils a new major version of Vinoteka, Vinoteka 1.5, the ultimate wine cellar management software for Mac. In a unique and gorgeous interface showing bottles, cellars and tasting notes, Vinoteka brings the best wine cellar management experience to Mac users.

Extremely easy and fun to use, Vinoteka offers a fantastic and realistic environment to manage your references, your bottles (wine, liquors or spirits), recreate your cellar, save your tasting notes and add your own food and wine pairings. The very new feature of Vinoteka, which provides autofilling of some reference fields, provides users with the most advanced technology in terms of wine management.

Customizable and user-friendly, straight-to-the point and nevertheless very professional, Vinoteka is the ultimate companion every wine lover needs. Vinoteka, other than being as intuitive as possible, is based on the lastest Mac OS X Leopard technologies and brings a wealth of high-performing and innovative features. Vinoteka reaches the Apple state-of-art in terms of power and usability. Vinoteka is also from now on fully compatible with the new coming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

The other big news of Vinoteka is the new Vinteka Gift Card. You can now offer Vinoteka as a gift: buy a license and choose to offer it in a Gift Card; just select the card you prefer, add your personalized message, select the sending date and we will take of sending the gift card to the recipient.

What’s new in the version 1.5?

Features and Enhancements:
* Introducing the reference bottle history
* Introducing the reference evaluation
* Implementation of the print feature for References, Tasting Notes, Bottles and Racks
* Groups and racks can be moved in the source view
* Reference “Tagged” quick filter has been replaced by “Drinkable/Apogee” quick filter
* Drinkable and Apogee reference shape gets a colored shadow (related to the preference colors)
* Table columns can be properly saved

Bugs and Crashes:
* Ugly crash fixed when launching the application
* Issue fixed when changing value fields using key arrows
* Issue fixed when starting the application without preferences

Minimum Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher

Pricing and Availability:
Single user licence: $34.90 (USD) or 29.90 Euro (incl. VAT). Family pack: $79.90 or 69.90 Euro (incl. VAT). Business pack: $129.90 or 109.90 Euro (incl. VAT). Go visit our website to discover screencasts and features, as well as Vinoteka’s blog or on Twitter.

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Vinotekasoft is based in Prague, Czech Republic and its international team has created Vinoteka, the ultimate wine cellar management software for Mac users. Because we are wine lovers and convinced Mac users, we do our best to provide the best wine cellar manager and the best support to our users.

Malibu, CA – appsNminded, an LA-based iPhone app development company successfully founded by 3 fashion savvy moms, have launched their pet project – a coupon app that highlights and promotes exclusive and hip on-line shoppes that were only known to trendy insiders and fashionistas. Hip online shoppes such as Terra Plana, Viv & Ingrid, GoGo Gear, Fuz, Stanton James, Tucker Paisley, Moby Wrap, blabla kids and Josh Jakus are just a few of the featured retailers.

“We have offers from the hippest stores. You’ve seen these products in all of your favorite celebrity magazines and now everyone can have a chance to be on the inside and get their daily fix with Jonesing Daily, no matter where they live” said Jennifer Noonan of apsNminded.

Jonesing Daily offers not just a coupon but exclusive deals that can only be accessed by downloading the app from iTunes. The app is free and users receive a new amazing offer everyday! With over 1 billion apps downloaded via iTunes apps store already, appsNminded plans to bring these fabulous online shoppes to the global marketplace and increase sales and traffic to these retailers’ websites.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Jonesing Daily 1.0 is free (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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appsNminded is an LA based iPhone app development company that creates apps for kids and the moms who love them. Founded by 3 tech-savvy, fashion-forward moms, appsNminded delivers apps that are fun for kids and adults alike. Copyright (C) 2009 appsNminded. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Berlin, Germany – A new synchronisation tool from Berlin based nova media offers a relief for those Samsung phone owners, who could not synchronise their contacts and calendars with Mac OS X before. FoneSync support the most recent Samsung phones and sports a clean and easy to use interface.

FoneSync can sync contacts, calendars or both with one click. Further synchronisation options are available in the sync settings. It is possible to restrict the synchronisation to single address book goups and/or calendars as well as to define the time frame of the calendar sync.

“We wanted to create a simple to use, powerful and still good looking software for the Samsung phone users who are used to the elegant interface of Leopard and Snow Leopard.”, states Jan Fuellemann, spokesperson of nova media. “In addition to FoneSync for Samsung phones, we still have our iSync plugins which work with more than 70 other Samsung phone models.”

FoneSync for Samsung phones supports the following models: M8800 Pixon, M8910, S5230, S5600, S7220, S7350, S8000 und S8300. Additional Samsung phones will be added as they become available.

Pricing and Availability:
FoneSync for Samsung phones is available today for Euro 19.90 including VAT ($ 19.95 US for residents in the US and Canada) at nova media’s website . FoneSync requires Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.1 or higher and a bluetooth enabled Macintosh computer as well as a compatible mobile phone.

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The founders of “nova media Mobile Data Solutions GmbH” started their business in 1996 in Berlin. The company specializes on mobile data solutions for Mac OS X. More information at their website or phone 49 30 3909040. Copyright 1996-2009 nova media Mobile Data Solutions GmbH. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and MacBook are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Hollywood, Fl – Marware Inc, designer and manufacturer of innovative products for the Apple market, has announced the SportShell for iPod touch 2G is now shipping. The SportShell provides exceptional protection and a sleek look. This low-profile case offers three distinct carrying solutions, using a unique, patent-pending design. The SportShell easily changes from a belt clip case to an ultra-slim, flat-back or open-back case. The ratchet belt clip rotates a full 360-degrees, and doubles as a table top stand. The flat-back option is ideal when carrying the iPod touch 2G in a pocket or purse. The open-back option displays the iPod touch Apple logo. The SportShell comes with Marware’s Lifetime Warranty.

Features:
* Interchangeable pieces allow slim case, clip case, or open-back design
* Hard shell case with smooth rubberized finish
* Unique design provides solid protection and versatility
* 360° ratchet clip also works as a stand
* Includes: Hard shell, ratchet clip, flat back piece, clear screen protector, cleaning cloth and Marware’s Lifetime Warranty

Pricing and Availability:
The SportShell is available in black, retails for $34.99 (USD), and is now shipping. Please visit Marware online for additional information. Marware is a leading provider of software and eco-conscious accessory solutions for Apple iPhones, iPods, and Notebooks.

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Recognized worldwide for innovative, high-quality product design, Marware develops a diverse range of solutions exclusively for the Apple market. Marware products can be found at retail and campus locations worldwide, including Apple stores and Borders. For more information call (954)-927-6031 (voice), (954) 927-2477 (fax), or write to Marware Inc., 2402 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, FL 33020 USA. Copyright 2009 Marware Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Corby, UK – Mac Bundle Box, the popular Macintosh software promotion company that specialising its unique quarterly software promotions in the form of discount bundles of various applications, has today launched its sister site, Mac Daily Box. Mac Daily Box is a Deal A Day on Mac Software. Every day at midnight (PDT) a new application will be posted to the Mac Daily Box site at a heavily discounted price, it will remain discounted for twenty four hours until the next promotion is published on the website. Mac Bundle Box will continue to do its discount bundle promotions, but on a less frequent basis.

Users can visit the site now to take a look at todays discount application. On the site users will also find a subscription box, where they can subscribe and be emailed on a daily basis about the days promotion. These are the first to get notified about new promotions and deals that we are offering.

Pricing and Availability:
Applications in Mac Daily Box promotions are often discounted fifty percent and higher off of their recommended retail price, making the promotional prices over at Mac Daily Box some of the lowest around for the included applications. Mac Daily Box promotions are available every day and last 24 hours. Discounted prices will vary between promotions.

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Mac Bundle Box was founded by Christian Owens in early 2008. Mac Bundle Box aims to provide the best Mac applications on the market at the lowest possible prices. Christian Owens has much experience in the web and application industries, working with popular social networks and other web professionals such as Chris Pirillo.

Bellevue, WA – Eltima Software, a global software development company gives the license of Flash Optimizer ($99.95 value) for free for each purchase of Flash’In’App (any license type). Flash’In’App is a Cocoa framework for managing Adobe(R) Flash movies in any application on Mac OS X.

A set of classes, contained in Flash’In’App framework, will let any application play SWF files, manage their playback, communicate with them via External API, FSCommands or Variables, control external resources loading, etc. Flash’In’App classes enable your applications to interact with Flash Player plug in and SWF files themselves. Moreover, Flash’In’App offers RealVideo support and experimental Silverlight support.

Flash Optimizer allows compressing SWF files up to 60-70% as it offers total control over each and every optimization algorithm. This allows you to reach the most effective compression specifically for your Flash files. With a few mouse clicks you can reduce Flash file size significantly.

Starting from today you can save $99.95 (USD) with Eltima and get Flash Optimizer, a handy SWF compressor, absolutely for free! Just purchase Flash’In’App, the unique Cocoa Framework for Mac OS X application developers, and save $99.95 by getting Flash Optimizer license for free! Right after you purchase Flash’In’App you will receive two e-mails – one with Flash’In’App registration details and the second with Flash Optimizer free license.

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Eltima Software delivers top-notch solutions having a friendly team of 40 professionals. Devoting effort to develop the software of highest quality that can fit the needs of both experts and computer beginners, Eltima Software has developed the complete line of system utilities, security and flash software. Eltima Software develops solutions for serial communication and implement virtual serial technologies into its software. Among the other products are monitoring solutions, network utilities, developer tools for Java and software for smartphones. With the design concept of 3 “E”: Experience, Efficiency, Expertise – Eltima Software has successfully established a world-class brand of the best price-performance software products.

London, UK – Ben Software today announced the release of RemoteSight 1.0, a new product for video and audio streaming over a network. RemoteSight can stream video from a variety of devices, such as the built-in iSight cameras included in many Macintosh computers. Designed to be part of a video surveillance system, RemoteSight integrates seamlessly with SecuritySpy, the premier multi-camera video surveillance software on the Macintosh platform, to provide video and audio feeds from any computer attached to a network.

“RemoteSight is an exciting new product that can help build highly effective video surveillance systems.” said Ben Bird, the developer of RemoteSight and SecuritySpy. “Many organisations as well as home users already have a network of computers with built-in cameras; RemoteSight allows them to inexpensively utilise these cameras for the purposes of video security.”

RemoteSight can also be used as a standalone application for remotely monitoring anything happening on or around a particular computer, or for adding live images to web sites. RemoteSight effectively turns the computer’s camera into a network camera that can be viewed using a web browser such as Safari or FireFox.

Pricing and Availability:
RemoteSight can be downloaded and tested free of charge for 30 days before purchasing. Pricing is in British Pounds, Euros or US Dollars, and both single-user and site licenses are available, for £15.90 (approx. $27) and £159.00 (approx. $270) respectively.

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Ben Software is an independent software development house focused on providing high-quality video-related software for the Macintosh platform. Copyright (C) 2009 Ben Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iSight and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Odessa, Ukraine – Today Readdle announces the release of ReaddleDocs 1.6, a new version of their popular document and file management solution for the iPhone, that adds professional PDF document viewer to the application. New PDF viewer supports full text document search, password protected documents, navigation through embedded PDF bookmarks and handling large PDF files. ReaddleDocs 1.6 is available on Apple App Store at $6.99 to new customers and as a free upgrade for existing users.

ReaddleDocs combines number of powerful document viewers, network file server, web storage client, web browser and file manager within a single iPhone business application. It allows people to transfer documents to their devices over Wi-Fi and 3G in a number of ways, view them on the go, send by email and share with other iPhone users with ease.

Existing support for saving email attachments combined with its new ability to read password protected PDF documents, makes ReaddleDocs 1.6 the best way to read password protected PDF email attachments on the iPhone. It is supported via Readdle Storage, Readdle’s iPhone friendly cloud file storage solution.

Another two problems solved by ReaddleDocs 1.6 are quick navigation through the document and support for large PDF files. ReaddleDocs 1.6 excels in document navigation by implementing full-text search, go to page navigation, fast document scroll and supporting embedded PDF bookmarks. Also, application opens many PDF files that are too large for the built-in iPhone PDF viewer.

“New professional PDF viewer is very important addition to the extensive ReaddleDocs feature set, that significantly extends application utility for both the customers. However, we are already working on adding even more power to the PDF viewer with hyperliks and PDF editing capabilities. And this is just a few of the great features coming to ReaddleDocs later this fall,” notes Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO.

Device Requirements:
iPhone or iPod touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Readdle Storage is available as a free service for all ReaddleDocs users. ReaddleDocs 1.6 is available for the special price of $6.99 (USD) exclusively on the App Store in the Business category.

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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.

Hanover Park, Illinois – RemObjects Software, LLC today is proud to announce RemObjects SDK 1.1 for OS X, a significant update to their popular networking framework for Mac and iPhone developers. RemObjects SDK makes it easy for developers to create networked applications that communicate with each other. As a fully native OS X framework, RemObjects SDK was designed from the ground up to fit in nicely with the tools that Mac and iPhone developers use, such as Xcode, Cocoa and Objective-C.

The RemObjects SDK is an award-winning cross-platform remoting framework for building client and server applications that communicate seamlessly, whether in the local LAN or across the globe. It allows developers to concentrate on their core competency when writing applications for the Mac Desktop, the iPhone and iPod touch, leaving the complicated network communication to the framework itself.

Expanding on the success of the initial release, version 1.1 streamlines and expands the product in useful ways. The available APIs and tools have been improved on many fronts, making the library even easier and more comfortable to use. Improvements have been made especially to the handling of communicating with servers in background threads (asynchronous requests), without impeding the user interface in any way.

An exciting and major new feature that distinguishes this release is the direct support for creating SOAP clients (Simple Object Access Protocol) for both for the Mac and the iPhone platforms. Version 1.1 enables developers to make their application talk to virtually any web service that uses the SOAP protocol. This makes RemObjects SDK particularly useful and interesting to Mac-only developers.

RemObjects SDK for OS X is built upon the expertise and knowledge gathered in over 5 years of providing sister products for .NET and Delphi. It is the first in a suite of developer frameworks for OS X that include Data Abstract for OS X, which now allows developers to create powerful and flexible database-driven applications. The SDK is wire compatible with its sister products as well, making it easy for developers to write applications for other platforms (such as Windows clients or Linux based servers), and have all platforms communicate seamlessly.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later (Snow Leopard compatible)
* Xcode 3.1 or later
* Supports iPhone SDK 3.0 and later
* 30 MB Hard Drive space

The availability of third party tools and components has gone a long way towards propagating software development on other platforms. RemObjects software is the first major component vendor to step into the Mac OS X and iPhone development tools market. And with Mac and iPhone gaining market and mind share, RemObjects software believes a vibrant third-party ecosystem will help drive application development for these platforms.

Pricing and Availability:
RemObjects SDK for OS X is available now at $399 (USD) for new users with upgrade options for users of the existing platforms for Delphi and .NET. Version 1.1 is a free upgrade for existing customers and a recommended download.

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Located in Hanover Park, Illinois, RemObjects Software, LLC is a privately held company co-founded in 2002 by marc hoffman. RemObjects Software focuses on providing market-leading solutions that form the foundation of their customer’s software projects, and help developers define the very architecture of their application. Their libraries are the infrastructure that successful software projects are built upon. RemObjects Software has been one of the major component vendors for Delphi and a leading vendor in the Microsoft .NET development arena for over five years, and are now expanding the reach of their award winning development solutions to Mac OS X and iPhone developers using Cocoa and Objective-C. Copyright 2002-2009 RemObjects Software, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple and the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Scottsdale, Arizona – Ding is Apple’s staff pick for the week of October, 27th through November 2nd. Out of 13,100 apps in the entertainment section of iTunes Store, Ding was chosen as an Apple staff pick. It is extraordinary the Software Ops product team has been recognized with a staff pick shortly after the flagship app My Eyes Only(tm) was selected for the What’s Hot category on the app store.

“I am so excited and honored that Apple loved our entertainment app, Ding” says Lynn Michels of Software Ops. “Out of 13,100 apps in the entertainment section, Apple picked our app as a staff favorite, that is truly an accomplishment and says a lot for our app” says Michels.

Apple chooses certain applications to feature on the front page of the iTunes store each week. It helps promote the developer’s products and shows that Apple’s employees really do look over the applications and vote on their favorites to post on the front page. It gives the app store a personal touch. Not everyone may agree with all the staff picks, but it gives an application a chance to be in the forefront and gives it an opportunity to be seen by many people.

Features that set Ding apart from other apps is it has several different dialogs to choose from. Once a user has gone through one of the dialogs, the screen slides in a new background color and a new dialog. The different background colors show the user that they have a new dialog and have a reference color for their favorite one.

Ding can be found on the Apple iTunes App Store in the entertainment section, where it can be downloaded onto the iPhone or iPod Touch. The introductory sale price for this application is 99 cents. So have fun, laugh and see what Ding has to say. He may be happy to see you, completely annoyed with you, or even talk a little naughty. It’s a lot of fun for less than the price of a pack of gum.

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Located in Scottsdale, Arizona/USA, Software Ops LLC was founded in 2008 by Joseph Michels to produce software for the iPhone and iPod Touch market. All Material and Software (C) 2008-2009 Software Ops LLC / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Volcano, Hawaii – Mo Media has launched “Custom Headers by M,” a service to help those who are building template style websites but lack the skills to create an extraordinary header. Experienced Photoshop designer Karen Kaufman of Mo Media considers the design being used, then works with the customer’s image, logo and text to create a look unique to any website. Clients can check out the gallery of customizable designs, or commission their own. Prices range from $10 to $30.

“Like your head, the top of every website should be as unique as you are” thinks Karen Kaufman, aka “M.” With the number of template style websites being used today, Karen noticed too many websites looking dull and unprofessional. With the realization that she had developed skills to create stunning looks for an affordable price she developed “Custom Headers by M.”

With 15 years of professional scanning, color manipulation and editing, Karen has an ability to create any image or design, and to enhance that image. Karen’s expansion to creating web and graphic art provides an exclusive flavor to her creativity. “M” can also be hired to design backgrounds for Twitter, Ning, Sandvox and more, tweak profiles or any type of web graphic.

When asked “Why are your headers so affordable?” Karen replies: “My design rate is $120 per hour. Something which may have taken me an hour to create 10 years ago now takes closer to 15 minutes. Because I’m incorporating elements (client’s file[s], font, template design), the most expensive header we’re selling here should take no more than 15 minutes for me to put together nicely.” Karen knew her service should be available to users at a great price.

Features:
* “Almost Ready” designs
* Customize with photo, art or logo
* Completely Custom includes initial review and consultation

Pricing and Availability:
“Custom Headers by M” range from $10 USD (“Almost Ready) to $30 (“Completely Custom”).

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Located in Volcano Hawaii/USA, Mo Media was founded in 2002 by Karen Kaufman who’s talents thrive in the field of Fine Art Reproduction. “It is quite thrilling and an honor to work with some of the most renowned artists in the State of Hawai.” Although the focus is fine art reproduction (giclee), Mo Media now includes web design experience to their portfolio. All Material (C) 2002-2009 Kinaole Group Ltd. dba Mo Media / All Rights Reserved.

Chennai, India – Ringce today is proud to announce Slammer 0.9.6, an update to their unique designer’s layout and geometry utility for Mac OS X. Suitable for graphic designers, web and application developers alike, Slammer is a universal layout tool which embraces the grid system. Effortlessly make blueprints by sectioning a canvas using flexible grid systems, fibonacci series, golden sections or harmonious sections.

Version 0.9.6 is a minor update which includes the ability to Command-Click and drag to measure length, height and angle. The Crosshair now snaps to ruler divisions correctly when the origin is shifted, and Dragging and Dropping overlays to reorder them is now correctly reflected in the Slammer window.

Featuring a gorgeous and natural user interface, Slammer is used as an overlay on top of any application while tweaking any layout and aims to serve as a single solution for any design environment. Web and print designs, app interfaces, or anything imaginable can all be quickly viewed under a very flexible grid system. Users can easily adjust the spacing and positioning of the grid itself, as well as change the color so it doesn’t blend in with what is underneath.

Templates created using Slammer serve as layout blueprints which record the thought process behind a layout. These templates can be exported and imported within the application. Among only one of Slammers neat features is its ability to save a template and share them with the community or coworkers, making it a great addition to any developer’s tool chest. In order for designers to interactively layout a design, Slammer offers a click through mode where it can stay on top of any application while allowing them to manipulate objects underneath.

Slammer supports 4 types of grid distributions, and can be oriented in any direction on the canvas. A unique feature of Slammer is that overlays can be grouped into layers. Layers can be restricted with margins allowing designers to create sections of a page with different grids. For example, web designers can create layers for header, footer, sidebar and content for a website design.

Uniform grids allow for columns (or rows) and gutters with specified widths. The Fibonacci series creates sections based on the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. starting with any value. Golden Sections divide the canvas in the divine proportion 1.618. Opposing Golden sections offer three columns, and Harmonious sections divide the canvas into equal sections.

Feature Highlights:
* 8 way resizable sculpted frame and ruler
* Pixel perfect Rulers that support 5 different units (Pixel, Pica, Inch, CM and MM)
* Flexible Ruler origins
* Layers can be used to section the canvas
* Overlays add grids within the layers
* Uniform (Typographical grid), Fibonacci Section, Golden Section and Harmonious (equal) distributions
* Screenshots with or without the grid
* Composite image of the grid
* Click-through mode for interacting with the objects below
* Resizable Magnifier that can display both in frame and as a separate HUD window.
* Magnifier, Crosshair and Color Picker

Slammer sports pixel-perfect rulers that support 5 different units (Pixel, Pica, Inch, CM and MM), a resizable magnifier that can display both in frame and as a separate HUD window, as well as a color picker that allow true color sampling of objects underneath the grid. This color can be copied by simply pressing CMD + C. The application also allows users to grab a screen capture of the area below slammer (with or without the grids) as well as export the grid as a composite image.

“Having no design background whatsoever, I started reading about web design and stumbled upon Grid Systems,” said Lakshmi Vyasarajan, founder of Ringce. “I was fascinated by it and developed Slammer to aid me in designing a website. I released Slammer initially as a free tool. After getting a lot of feedback from the community and addressing a lot of my needs for such a tool, I released Slammer as a commercial application, at the same time trying out a few ambitious experiments on the ringce.com website with the help of Slammer.”

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.6 Snow Leopard or later
* 4.2 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
A staff pick on Apple Downloads under the Development Tools category, Slammer 0.9.6 is available now for only $20.00 (USD). Slammer 0.9.6 is a free update and a recommended upgrade for all customers.

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Based in beautiful Chennai, India, Ringce is a small one person company founded in 2008 by Lakshmi Vyasarajan. With a focus on creating simple tools for complex problems, Ringce embraces the philosophy that most high quality products are the ones that also solved the creator’s problems. Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Ringce. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Queen Creek, Arizona – Technical Made Easy today is pleased to announce the release of Easy Stitch 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now anyone can learn Embroidery, Knitting and Crochet using their iPhone and iPod Touch. Easy Stitch provides step-by-step instructions with full color illustration for learning Crochet, Embroidery and Knitting. This new application ensures that the art of sewing doesn’t get neglected in our modern day world.

This innovative application breaks down the barrier of understanding how each craft is achieved. Every topic is carefully defined with easy to read how-to’s and delivered in a step-by-step approach with detailed illustrations. Included with each category are descriptions of various materials, supplies, tools, conversion charts from U.S to Metric and Tips & Tricks.

Easy Stitch goes as far as giving you pattern abbreviations in detail so you can pick up any pattern from your local craft store or online and get started right away. Don’t have access to patterns? Not to worry, Easy Stitch includes a handful of sample patterns to get you started right away.

Like the old saying goes, “A picture is worth a 1000 words”, Easy Stitch doesn’t let you down. Most people learn much quicker when visual reference is readily available and this is where Easy Stitch really comes through. See for yourself today!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Easy Stitch 1.0 is only $2.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category. For more information visit Easy Stitch online.

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Dusseldorf, Germany – Hot Chili Apps GmbH today is delighted to announce C@rds Master 1.1.2, an update to their free mobile eCard utility for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, C@rds Master is an easy-to-use yet sophisticated postcard creation and delivery tool. C@rds Master offers countless choices for every occasion to surprise loved ones, friends, colleagues, partners and family with fancy mobile digital postcards.

C@rds Master features sets offering 10 topics for nearly every occasion, including, Love, Birthday, Photos, Dating, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Kids, Frames, as well as for Moving/Relocation. Two stylish cards per set, including 20 c@rds templates in all, and can be used immediately.

By taking advantage of C@rds’ convenient in-app purchase, users can choose from a list of 400 additional template sets for purchase and downloading directly into the application. All downloaded sets remain in the application so they can be used at any time.

“With the new possibilities that Apple offered by using InAppPurchase also in free Apps now everyone can easily get to know our cards,” said Farid Zendagui, CEO of Hot Chili Apps. “The positive feedback we have received after a short time confirmes the success of the concept.”

C@rds Sets (each with two full working templates):
* Love – For the love of your life
* Birthday – For very personal, last minute bithday greetings
* Photo – For Photo C@rds saying more than thousands of words
* Date – For dating very special people
* Christmas – For touching Christmas greetings
* Easter – For inviting all rabbits to the Easter egg hunt
* Halloween – For ghosts, vampires and little werewolves
* Kids – For your small loved ones
* Frame – Special frames for special people
* Moving/Relocation – For people on the move to stay in contact

With a focus on ease-of-use, the application offers Landscape view for creating and previewing postcards. Users can use any font available from the iPhone/iPod device for text, choose background, as well as preferred effects for photos: black and white and sepia shadow. C@rds can be sent directly from the application to the device’s photo album, emailed to family and friends, and even shared on Facebook, Twitter, or tumblr.

Supported Languages:
* US English, German, French and Italian

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
C@rds Master 1.1.2 is completely free (Regular $1.99 USD) and available now worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category. Card sets are half priced. As a very special occasion to get to know Hot Chili Apps digital C@rds, Users can try two topics of every item for free and get every template for half price.

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Located in Dusseldorf, Germany, Hot Chili Apps GmbH is a privately held company founded in 2008 by longtime visual communication specialist Farid Zendagui. Leveraging his experience from video production and multimedia design, Farid has been an Apple enthusiast for many years. Hot Chili Apps was founded for the purpose of developing unique software solutions for the iPhone platform, with a major emphasis on total customer satisfaction. Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Hot Chili Apps GmbH. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Melbourne, Australia – Hydrix today is proud to present Roto, a new and original solitaire game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Roto is a challenging and addictive game developed by international best seller Dr. Reiner Knizia. Dr Knizia is best known for his critically acclaimed and hugely popular board games, however Roto was designed from the ground up for the iPhone.

The rules are simple so anyone can play, but mastering all the challenges and planning ahead to use the best possible combinations is harder than it may seem. A new game, a new challenge, it’s never the same. Roto can be used whenever you feel like playing or passing time. You can pause and resume whenever it suits you. Disclaimer: once hooked, people have reported games lasting well over 40 minutes.

Feature Highlights:
* 3 game plays: Puzzle, Arcade and Action
* Statistical analysis of your last game
* Pause and Resume
* Global scoring system – compare your results with all other iPhone players
* Colour-blind mode

Language Support:
* English, French and German

Device Requirements:
* Roto requires an iPhone or iPod Touch with OS 2.0 or later

What some early players have to say:
Karen E. “I can’t wait to play it (it is so addictive!!!!).” Francois A. “I’ve lost, I can’t do anymore” Reiner K. “I have played the game for about 5 hours. I like all three play modes!” Gerald S.: “A revolution in match-3 games!”

Pricing and Availability:
The application will be available worldwide exclusively through the Apple’s App store for $2.99 (USD) from Monday September 2nd, 2009.

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Hydrix is a leading electronics engineering company that develops innovative and successful products & services for its clients. Hydrix provides a comprehensive range of engineering services, from initial concept through to turn-key production, or any part thereof. The Hydrix team are experienced in software, test, electronics and mechanical disciplines and extend to specialist skills in embedded mathematics and wireless product design. Copyright (C) 2009 Hydrix. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.