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Philadelphia, PA – A new twitter account, @3WordAppReviews sums up iPhone and iPod Touch apps in just three words. The service aims to make it quick and fun to learn all you probably need to know about many iPhone apps.

“We’ve created hundreds of video reviews of apps, but for a lot of people, it’s more information, and frankly more time than they want to spend on a 99 cent app,” said Ryan Ritchey, 3WordAppReviews creator.

Each tweet contains a link to the app, and a link to a full review, when available. The feed will have one new review each day, and might increase the daily number of reviews in the future.

“It’s a quick, easy, and fun way to get information on an app you might not know about otherwise,” Ritchey said.

The first tweet is a review of the new Pet Sematary app, summed up as “Vick’ll Love it,” a reference to NFL player Michael Vick. The second review focuses on the highly anticipated Eliminate Pro, which is summed up as “This Ain’t Halo.”

The 3-word reviews are created by staff members of TheDigitalLifestyle a video channel of Apple news, rumors, and lifestyle. In addition to the 3-word reviews, the site has also launched a new App Store news show; DoubleTap. Follow @3WordAppReviews for the daily review.

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TheDigitalLifestyle was founded in November 2007 as the only 24-hour online video network dedicated to Apple news, rumors, and lifestyle. The network was created by former Apple employees who bring a unique perspective to current Apple news and rumors. Copyright (C) 2007-2009 TheDigitalLifestyle. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Munich, Germany – Boinx Software today releases iStopMotion 2.1, an update to its wildly popular stop motion animation and time lapse software. iStopMotion 2.1 features markers-a convenient new way to structure the timeline-and improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It is the first Boinx Software product to provide a full Japanese localization. The update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.

“I continue to be impressed by the astonishing work that our users of all ages all over the world create with iStopMotion. iStopMotion is the tool of choice for stop motion animation (aka Claymation) and time lapse recording at home, at school or in the professional film studio,” says Oliver Breidenbach, CEO of Boinx Software. “I am happy that finally we are able to provide a Japanese version and I am looking forward to seeing great works come from new users.”

Markers:
Markers are a convenient way to structure the timeline and to aid the animation work in timing motion or labeling scenes-especially in longer animation projects. A marker is defined by a starting and an ending frame. Each marker has it’s own name, color and description and can be dragged to a different location in the timeline easily.

Japanese Version Availability:
With iStopMotion 2.1, language support has been extended to Japanese, complementing the English, German and French localization. Distribution and support in Japan will be provided by act2, Tokyo.

Users in all languages can now work with long filenames including non-latin characters on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (and higher).

About iStopMotion:
Boinx iStopMotion is the leading solution for stop motion animation and time lapse capture, and won the O’Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Award in 2003. iStopMotion 2.1 is available in three flavors: Home, Express and Pro. The Home edition is for the casual user, the typical family where the parents want to have fun with the kids while providing them with a productive, creative and educational experience. The Express version appeals to the animation aficionado, who wants the features of the Pro version except those only needed in a professional production environment and spends a lot of time doing her animations. The Pro version is for the professional animator who uses iStopMotion in a production workflow, creating animations for commercials, music videos or in HD resolution.

System Requirements:
iStopMotion 2.1 requires a PowerPC or Intel Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (or newer) and a compatible capture source such as a FireWire DV Cam, IIDC Firewire camera, Firewire Webcams (like a built-in iSight), a supported USB cam, a capture card such as Blackmagic Intensity or a supported digital still camera.

Worldwide Availability and Pricing:
iStopMotion 2.1 is available immediately for download. A built-in assistant will guide users through the process of acquiring the proper license. The update to iStopMotion 2.1 is free of charge to current iStopMotion 2 license owners at their current license levels. iStopMotion 2.1 Home is available for $49 (USD), iStopMotion 2.1 Express is available for $99 and iStopMotion Pro is available for $499 via Kagi. Pricing for Japan will be announced by act2 in the near future. For all purchase options visit their website.

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Boinx Software Ltd. is located in Puchheim, near Munich, Germany. Boinx Software develops award-winning software for the creative Mac user in animation, movie production and photography. Boinx iStopMotion is the leading solution for stop motion animation and time lapse capture, and won the O’Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Award in 2003. Boinx FotoMagico, winner of two Apple Design Awards-”Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application Runner-up 2008″ and “Best Mac OS X User Experience Runner-up 2006″-is a presentation tool for professional photographers. Boinx PhotoPresenter, winner of the Apple Design Award 2005-”Best Mac OS X Student Product”-is a quick presentation tool with a variety of pre-built templates. Boinx Mouseposè is the indispensable mouse pointer highlighting tool for everyone doing presentations, training or demos. Boinx FxTiles is collection of 3D filters and transitions designed for Adobe After Effects CS3 / CS4, Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Final Cut Express.

Omaha, NE – Macware, a leading Mac software publisher, announced today version 3.6 of MacTuneUp is now available as a free update to users of the leading Mac disk utility software (based on The NPD Group). The new version is only available if you are running Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and current users can update MacTuneUp by selecting “Update…” in the MacTuneUp menu. Snow Leopard users can update by downloading the updater from the Macware support center.

Easily prevent system instability and speed up your Mac with a few simple steps. MacTuneUp quickly discovers and fixes problems, restores hard disk space, creates bootable disk backups, and maximizes Internet and network connections to squeeze the best performance from your Mac.

The new update includes:
* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support
* Improved stability on PPC Macs
* Increased application performance on Intel Macs
* Improved disk cloning process
* Resolves an issue when displaying certain Unix manuals
* Resolves an issue when canceling a deletion or a backup process
* Many minor improvements and resolved issues from previous versions

MacTuneUp is now available in Apple retail stores, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Best Buy, Staples, Fry’s Electronics, Microcenter and other Mac software retailers, or online. More information is available on the Macware website.

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Macware develops and publishes award winning intuitive software designed for Mac users. Headquartered in Omaha, the company is committed to the interests of creative Mac users with products available through major retailers in North America, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Japan, as well as on the Internet. For additional information please visit our website.

Los Altos, CA – Crowd Technologies, Inc., provider of the stock prediction site Piqqem, today announced the October sentiment results for Apple, Google, Intel, Cisco, Amazon, HP and Microsoft As expected, Apple continues to lead the pack with a stellar 3.11 sentiment rating while Microsoft bring ups the rear at 2.27. Apple’s dominant sentiment indicates that it is considered the highest quality stock of the group, while Microsoft is considered the lowest quality stock of the group.

Google, Amazon, and Apple were also big winners in sentiment change for October. Google and Amazon showed a 4% increase in sentiment, while Apple’s sentiment increased by 3%.

“Sentiment is a measure of how people feel a stock will perform and is captured by a voting mechanism that indicates a strong buy, buy, hold, sell, and strong sell. The value of sentiment is based on the ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ where the many will in most cases make better decisions than the individual. Higher sentiment stocks are considered higher quality stocks, while lower sentiment stocks are considered lower quality stocks. “said Jett Winter, CEO. “On the other hand, change in sentiment provides a timing mechanism for understanding the underlying changes in a security potentially ahead of a price move.”

(In the Piqqem model, 0 is the lowest sentiment while 4 is the highest sentiment).

Sentiment Results as of 10/31/09

* Apple – 3.11
* Google – 2.88
* Intel – 2.70
* Cisco – 2.69
* Amazon – 2.53
* HP – 2.53
* Microsoft – 2.27

Change in Sentiment Results as of 10/31/09

* Google – 3.94%
* Amazon – 3.71%
* Apple – 3.20%
* Cisco – 0.00%
* Intel – 0.00%
* HP – (0.50%)
* Microsoft – (2.89%)

The change in October sentiment for these seven securities shows a strong upward bias for Google, Amazon, and Apple, a neutral bias for Cisco and Intel, and a downward bias for HP and Microsoft. The sentiment moves for Google, Amazon, and Apple were tied to exceeding earnings expectations with Google and Apple’s sentiment moving before their earnings release, while Amazon’s sentiment moved after their earnings release. Changes in sentiment can be an early warning system for the underlying security.

Overall this group slightly under performed for the quarter. Sentiment for the S&P 500 was up 3%, while this technology group gained on average 1% in sentiment.

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Jett Winter is CEO of Crowd Technologies, Inc. a company that develops applications that leverage the wisdom of crowds. Their first major application is Piqqem which captures, processes, and presents sentiment data on the future price and price direction of publicly traded securities. Piqqem provides five types of sentiment on securities: i) Price Directional ii) Price Specific iii) Demographic iv) Relative (Stock vs. Stock) and v) Time-Based.

Kiev, Ukraine – Ivan Karpan and Evgeniy Lebed today are proud to announce GlobeMaster 1.1.1, an update to their popular travel guide for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, GlobeMaster is an offline world-wide travel guide for 1400+ cities in more than 260 countries. All of this is spiced up with 4100+ photos, tips calculator and adviser, units converter and more.

Perfect for vacationing, itinerary planning, business travel or simply for those who are interested in the world we live in, GlobeMaster offers reliable and important information for travelers, making any trip interesting, safe and enjoyable. The travel guide database is updated with each new version of the application. For fast and more efficient access, all country and city data are divided into convenient categories.

The application contains practical advice based on Wikitravel content, and offers a wealth of information, including such information as national holidays, festivals, carnivals, state structure, traditions and culture of nation, local rules of behavior, national food and drinks, sights, ways of getting in, out and around the country/city, recommendations on how to stay healthy and safe and more. Additionally, travelers can easily and quickly calculate tips using country-specific tipping information for reference and convert often used units of measurement, as well as currencies at up-to-date exchange rates.

Feature Highlights:
* Comfortable and simple User Interface
* 260+ countries and areas
* 1400+ major cities
* Country overview on Google maps and 4100+ photos
* All information is divided into categories for faster and easy access
* Handy Tip Calculator with detailed information on tipping for current country
* Useful Units Converter with currency rates online on-demand update
* Favorites functionality for tip calculator and units converter presets you use most often and more.
* Information about climate and recommendations about the best time to visit
* Ways of getting in, out and around the country/city by all means of transport
* Information about national holidays and major events, such as festivals and local rules of behavior
* Reference information about local communications and emergency contacts
* Advice on how to stay healthy and safe
* Electricity standards, national cuisine, shopping advice
* Recommendations about accommodation and work
* Physical and geometrical units converter to live in preferred co-ordinates

Version 1.1.1 adds Travel Alerts functionality, more cities, optimized database and images, and fixes minor bugs found in the 1.1 release. GlobeMaster now provides updated news about events that potentially raise traveling risks, including natural disasters, terrorist attacks, coups, anniversaries of terrorist events, election-related demonstrations or violence, etc. If something unforeseen and potentially risky happens, users will know about it – even if the local media has not covered it.

Users can add to favorites tips and converter presets they use most, and GlobeMaster can restore presets they need – easily and anytime. And with regard to tipping, it’s always best to tip appropriately in each and every situation. With GlobeMaster, smart travelers can always make a quick calculation of tips adequate for their situation in 200+ countries. GlobeMaster offers simple and quick physical and geometrical units converter commonly used by travelers and students, including 11 types of converters, 80+ units and 190+ currencies with exchange rates updated online and on-the-fly.

“It’s funny but there was almost no traveling at all in my life” said Ivan Karpan, co-developer of GlobeMaster. “My father received radioactive sickness when he worked at Chernobyl APP, so at seventeen I started working to help my family out. Now that I’m married and have a little daughter, traveling is the last thing I am planning – at least for the near future. So perhaps it was just my subconscious dream to travel compelled me personally to say yes to Evgeniy’s idea of travel guide app. We had everything we needed to create an application: good idea, huge desire, strong aspiration and loads of work ahead of us. It is our hope this shows in GlobeMaster.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
GlobeMaster 1.1.1 is only $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Travel category. Review copies are available upon request. Complete information about countries, cities, categories and subcategories, units and currencies the application contains can be found on GlobeMaster’s homepage.

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Based in Kiev, Ukraine, the GlobeMaster team are independent software developer Ivan Karpan, and user interface designer Evgeniy Lebed. Leveraging their longtime experience in both development and UI design concepts, Ivan and Evgeniy’s main focus is developing powerful, versatile traveling tools for the iPhone platform. Copyright (C) 2009 Ivan Karpan and Evgeniy Lebed. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. General section information is based on Wikitravel content and is licensed under CC-by-SA 1.0, images are licensed under various licenses. Alerts section information is based on Wikinews content and is licensed under CC-by-A 2.5.

Atlanta, Georgia – JL Software today announced Edition 1.65 of their popular Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics for iPhone or iPod touch. The new edition features several new chapters on the recently-released American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ guidelines on electronic fetal monitoring. In addition, many annotated ultrasound images of fetal anomalies have been added to the chapter on The Screening Ultrasound Exam.

This new edition also contains dozens of new ultrasound images of normal fetal anatomy, for reference when the student or resident is learning OB ultrasound. This Library of Fetal Ultrasound features high-resolution, extensively annotated images of normal fetal structures, with accompanying explanatory text. Many other chapters have been expanded and updated.

The Handbook now checks for new content made available between app releases and offers to download the new pages directly to the user’s device. Any new and important information from ACOG or CDC, latest journal articles, or additions to the ultrasound image library can be downloaded as soon as they are made available. Apple Push Notifications alerts the user to the availability of new content.

The Handbook is written for the busy medical student, resident in Obstetrics, or practicing clinician who needs a comprehensive and up-to-date yet concise guide to caring for the woman with a high-risk pregnancy. Written by R. Harold Holbrook Jr, a board-certified physician with 22 years of experience in academic perinatology, the Handbook covers all major areas of high-risk obstetrics, and is cross-referenced and indexed with over 3,600 keywords.

The Handbook provides a quick review of any perinatal topic at the bedside or in the office. Physicians can rapidly check diagnostic criteria, patient counseling information, and treatment options for the woman with a complicated pregnancy. The Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics is available on the Apple App Store at an introductory price of $49.99 (USD). All future updates are free of charge to existing customers.

The Handbook covers the following general areas:
* H1N1 Influenza and pregnancy
* Pregnancy in patients with coexisting medical problems
* The Screening Ultrasound Exam, with examples of abnormal structures
* Library of Normal Fetal Ultrasound images, with annotations
* Complications of pregnancy
* Preterm labor and delivery
* Preterm rupture of the membranes
* Management of complicated labor and delivery
* Fetal complications and diseases
* Genetic counseling for risks of fetal anomalies
* Pregnancy counseling for coexisting disease or past complicated pregnancy

The Handbook contains special sections for breast cancer in pregnancy, care of the pregnant patient with spinal cord injury, hypertension and its manifestations, H1N1 influenza guidelines from the CDC, and both gestational and pre-gestational diabetes mellitus. The complications of pregnancy covered include mild and severe preeclampsia, eclampsia, antepartum bleeding, preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of the membranes, and others.

Diagnostic steps and treatment are based on the latest information from the American College of Obstericians and Gynecologists, the CDC, and recent published studies in the major obstetrical journals. Topic pages in the Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics are extensively cross-referenced with links to all associated topics, allowing the physician or student to start with an overview and quickly consult related information. The entire text is indexed using more than 3,600 keywords, enabling the busy medical student, resident, or practicing clinician to quickly find all relevant pages via the intuitive search feature.

Users can also easily bookmark any page for future quick reference. There is no limit on the number of bookmarks, double-bookmarking is automatically prevented, and bookmarks can be added or removed at any time. To retrieve a bookmarked page, the user simply chooses the Bookmarks icon and taps the desired page from the presented list.

Copy and paste of any text in the Handbook is supported, so clinicians can copy and email or copy and SMS-message any of the numerous protocol lists, medication options, ultrasound images, or differential diagnosis summaries to colleagues on-call or at referring institutions.

The Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics includes concise but complete coverage of all aspects of perinatal practice. Finding the information needed is much quicker than using a textbook, and all of the important points are summarized for a rapid but thorough overview of the topic.

The sections of the Handbook include:

Pregnancy and Coexisting Medical Conditions: diabetes mellitus, chronic hypertension, congenital and acquired cardiac conditions, thyroid disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, hepatic disorders, dermatologic disorders specific to pregnancy, collagen-vascular disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, hematologic disorders, breast cancer and pregnancy, renal disease in pregnancy, seizure disorders, carpal tunnel syndroms, bacterial and viral infections, spinal cord injuries, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, and psychosis.

Common Omissions in Prenatal Care: screening for genetic defects, maternal obstetrical history, administration of magnesium sulfate, invasive diagnostic procedures, cause of low-birthweight infants, risk factors for congenital anomalies, signs of fetal compromise, distinguishing common pregnancy complaints from serious disease, and detecting early signs of preterm labor.

Fetal Medicine: symmetric and asymmetric intrauterine fetal growth restriction, detection of fetal anomalies by ultrasound, common chromosome anomalies, fetal hematologic disorders, red cell isoimmunization, neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, alpha and beta thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, sickle S-C disease, sickle-thal carrier state, oligohydramnios, polyhydramnios, twin-twin transfusion syndrome, and congenital infections including rubella, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasmosis, group B beta-hemolytic streptococcus, parvovirus B19, Listeria monocytogenes, varicella (chicken pox), hepatitis A, B, C, and E, HIV and AIDS, and syphilis.

The Screening Ultrasound Exam: in addition to fetal biometric measurements of biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference and femur length, normal and abnormal structures are listed for each body area. Examinations include head, brain, encephalocele, lateral cerebral ventricles, choroid plexus, cerebellum, cisterna magna, third ventricle, face, orbits, binocular diameter, intraocular diameter and ocular diameters, lips, cleft lip, nose, chin, neck, spine, chest, fetal heart views, fetal cardiac physiology, fetal circulation, fetal cardiac arrhythmias, lungs, pulmonary sequestration, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation, diaphragmatic hernia, pleural effusion, abdomen and pelvis, stomach, esophageal atresia, tracheoesophageal fistula, jejunal atresia, duodenal atresia, 3-vessel umbilical cord, single umbilical artery, abdominal wall defects of omphalocele and gastroschisis, renal pelvis, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, hydronephrosis, bladder overdistention, posterior urethral valves, renal agenesis, dilated bowel, echogenic bowel, angulation of the feet, club foot, absent radius, abnormal curvature of the spine, meningomyelocele and spina bifida.

* H1N1 Influenza Guidelines
* Library of Normal Fetal Ultrasound Anatomy
* Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring – now with the latest ACOG guidelines
* Guide To Fetal Anomalies and Genetic Counseling
* Multiple Gestation

Complications Of Pregnancy:
* Antepartum Bleeding
* Preeclampsia
* Eclampsia
* Gestional Diabetes

Induction of Labor:
* Cervical Ripening
* Management of Labor Induction

Preterm Labor and Delivery:
* Diagnosing Preterm Labor
* Treatment of Preterm Labor

Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes:
* Tocolysis
* Glucocorticoids
* Antibiotic Prophylaxis
* Management of Labor and Delivery

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics 1.65 is only $49.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Medical category.

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JL Software LLC is an independent Macintosh and iPhone/iPod touch development company owned by R. Harold Holbrook Jr, M.D. and has been creating compelling applications for Macintosh computers since 2001 and the iPhone/iPod touch platforms since 2008. JL Software develops exclusively for Mac OS X and iPhone OS, and has extensive experience in programming in Objective-C and Cocoa for the Apple platforms. Dr. Holbrook is board-certified in both general Obstetrics and Gynecology and the high-risk pregnancy subspecialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and has 20 years of experience as medical school faculty in the care of patients with complicated pregnancies. He is a peer reviewer for the major Obstetrics and Gynecology scientific journals and has written several book chapters on high-risk obstetrics as well as more than 25 research articles. Copyright 2009 JL Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Thousand Oaks, California – Energize Software releases an update to the multi-game app “Christmas Experience” with new features. While listening to holiday music you can decorate a snowman, play Christmas hangman, solve a puzzle, and tilt your device in one of eight directions to hear different holiday sounds on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

Feature Highlights:
* Holiday background music to put you in the Christmas mood
* Create your own snowman with 30 pieces that utilize pinch and rotate gestures
* Save, load and replace up to 9 different snowman creations
* Select which snowman pieces appear
* Save a picture of your snowman to your photo album or send it via email
* Play Christmas hangman and guess the correct words before all the Christmas light bulbs break
* Have fun moving presents with a holiday game of the Tower of Hanoi
* Listen to different holiday sounds as you tilt your device in one of eight directions
* See the number of days count down until Christmas
* Many settings to customize your Christmas Experience including tilt sensitivity, auto hide buttons, enabling and disabling sounds, and shake to erase

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.1 or later (Some features require 3.0 or later)

Pricing and Availability:
Christmas Experience 1.2 is only $.99 (USD) and is available exclusively through the iTunes App Store in the Entertainment category. Complete details can be viewed at the Energize Software site.

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Located in Thousand Oaks, California, Energize Software specializes in the development of iPhone and iPod Touch software. Its goal is to produce high quality and easy-to-use software that not only increases productivity but also entertains. Copyright 2009 Energize Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Parede, Portugal – SintraWorks is proud to announce its participation in TheMacBundles. TheMacBundles is a bundle of 12 great software programs, including PDFClerk Pro 3.9.3 for only for only $49.95, so save a bundle and get PDFClerk Pro and 11 other great programs for this special price at TheMacBundles. (PDFClerk ordinarily costs more than $50 on its own.)

PDFClerk Pro is a popular, multi-faceted PDF editor with powerful and unique capabilities. It is designed to make standard operations easy and accessible, while allowing ample flexibility and adjustment to more complicated workflows for those with more advanced needs. Print out manuals, reports, essays, articles, web pages and more, in a convenient and economic way. Users may even create books for languages that read from right to left, such as Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew.

PDFClerk Pro allows a large number of manipulations to existing PDF documents, as well as allowing the creation of PDF documents from non PDF material, such as graphics and text, or a mix of the two. The application offers sensible default behaviour to quickly create new PDF documents with both basic and more advanced layouts, and easily print booklets for personal use, distribution to clients, staff or students.

“I certainly wish you well for one of the most ingenious programmes which I have encountered and which I and many others have found useful… You deserve one of the software prizes.” P.W.N. Australia

Feature Highlights include:
* Joining/Splitting and Exploding PDF documents
* Rearranging, Rotating, Adding and Deleting PDF pages
* Imposing multiple pages onto single sheets
* Adding and editing Hyperlinks and other Annotations
* Adding Proofing/Trimming Marks
* Adding Text, Graphics, Watermarks, Headers and Footers
* Designing PDF Forms (with custom fonts and styles)
* Automated Creation of Bookmarks from Table Of Contents
* Automated linking of Index Table entries and cross document page references
* German and French localizations

Printing, graphic design and prepress professionals alike will immediately appreciate PDFClerk’s flexible and advanced control over the layout of the final document. PDFClerk Pro was designed from the ground up to be efficient with large source documents, and recalculates impositions blindingly fast. Even documents with thousands of pages are laid out in less than a second. And PDFClerk’s instant previews, make it cheap to experiment in time sensitive environments: play with margin settings, or any other layout options. Create layouts that fit professional needs, whether for in-house printing, publication, distribution, and more.

Some of the main features include imposition layouts (including step and repeat), merging and splitting documents, merging and splitting pages, marking up pages with annotations, watermarks, searching and extracting text, creating outlines/bookmarks, pdf forms, document encryption, scripting with AppleScript, Python or Ruby, automated outline creation from table of contents, search and replace in outlines with regular expressions. PDFClerk fully supports text to speech, both live and to audio file, page to bitmap export (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc), as well as a presentation mode for remote control.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 16 MB Hard Drive space

Demo:
The standard PDFClerk Pro 3.9.3 download functions as a full-featured demo until registered. The only limitation of the demo mode is that each page is stamped with a watermark. This allows all features to be tested before purchase.

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Located in beautiful Parede, Portugal, SintraWorks is a privately funded company founded in 2006 by Antonio Nunes. Committed to providing the highest quality software, SintraWorks’ focus is developing productivity solutions for the Mac platform, with a major emphasis on total customer satisfaction. Copyright 2006-2009 SintraWorks. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Foster City, California – The undead are back with a vengeance in the newly updated iPhone zombie game, “Dead Panic: Survival,” which is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch on the iTunes app store. The updated game offers more playing modes, a new arsenal of kick-ass weapons, and a new set of twists and challenges to overcome. It also offers players a “survival” mode with unlimited waves of those persistent, shambling flesh-eaters.

“It’s almost like a whole new game,” says Dead Panic’s creator, Sean Maher. “After the original version was launched, I received a lot of feedback from players with great ideas for enhancing the game and making it more challenging. Basically, I’ve nicked their ideas and given Dead Panic a major facelift.”

“Dead Panic: Survival” also enables players to challenge their friends to compete online and features crisper graphics, improved sound and multi-touch controls.

Dead Panic is the brainchild of independent game developer Sean Maher, who quit a high-paying job in advertising to make independent iPhone games – a career strategy he admits might not be for everyone. “Obviously, there’s a significant risk involved when you leave the security of a corporate job but I really believe there’s tons of room for innovation on the iPhone, even with small budgets and small teams,” he said.

Maher created “Dead Panic” in his home office, drawing the artwork and recording the sound effects himself. “I’ve always wanted to create games but I’m not looking for a job at a big studio. Working at a big studio can be as stifling as working on banking software. Independent games give me a much broader outlet for my creativity.”

In addition to working on more updates for his popular zombie game, Maher is planning new games that will leverage more features of Apple’s iPhone. “Like the appetites of the undead, the market’s hunger for new and original content is insatiable. People want games that aren’t just clones of other games. So, as long as there are players are out there looking for new challenges, I’ll be looking for ways to give them what they want.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Dead Panic: Survival 1.1.3 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Los Angeles, California – The Right Bite, Inc. today is proud to introduce The Right Bite 1.0, their revolutionary behavior modification and weight loss tool for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, The Right Bite achieves weight loss results differently than alternative diet/programs.

Based on scientific research conducted at major universities (including Cornell), the pace that people eat directly affects the amount they consume. The studies conclude that slower eating generally produces less consumption with no loss of feeling satiated. By focusing on chewing thoroughly, the user gets more caloric energy out of each bite than if the same amount of food was less pulverized due to fast eating and improper chewing.

With The Right Bite, users apply this research to determine the optimal pace to eat less and be more satisfied and lose weight in the process. The Right Bite effortlessly cues users on an optimal eating pace for maximum weight loss impact. Certain users could actually lose up to 30+ pounds in less than 6 months, eating whatever they normally eat and desire. The application sports an easy-to-read visual display, with sound and/or vibration cues which serve to help the user stay on track. Among the application’s notable features is it serves to turbo-charge the results of most, if not all other diets, such as Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Atkins, South Beach, and The Zone diets.

Feature Highlights:
* Cues users on an optimal eating pace for maximum weight loss impact
* Easy to read visual display, sound and/or vibration cues help the user stay on track
* Turbo-charge results from other weight loss programs

“Most diets are just focused on calorie counting and portion control,” said Peter Farkas, CEO of The Right Bite, Inc. “No weight loss program specifically focuses on the pace that people eat. In fact, it should be a critical component of any weight management system. That’s where the Right Bite comes in. Users do not have to give up their favorite foods – just “Right Bite” them for maximum results!”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2 or later

Pricing and Availability:
The Right Bite 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare and Fitness category. Review copies are available upon request.

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Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, The Right Bite, Inc. is a privately held Corporation founded in 2009 by Peter Farkas. Established specifically for the marketing of their new patent pending weight loss behavior modification products and method, The Right Bite, Inc. is dedicated to providing weight conscious individuals with a scientific research based, simple, easy to apply behavior modification tool to help them lose weight effortlessly and feel more healthy and satiated in the process. Copyright (C) 2009 The Right Bite, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Rastatt, Germany – Codewave Software today announced that MyTunesRSS is part of TheMacBundles along with 11 other great Mac applications. MyTunesRSS is your private music and video server with tons of features. Browse and listen to your music in any web browser from all over the world.

For only $49,95 USD you can grab your copy of MyTunesRSS together with:

* iPhoto Library Manager
* MYStuff
* PDFClerk Pro
* Simon
* Spyder
* WebPrint Plus
* Yum
* Yummy FTP
* A-Dock X
* BlogAssist
* FolderGlance

All software titles included in the bundle are the same full-featured products that are provided to users that have paid the full retail price for the software. Additionally, all the titles come with the same level of customer support and upgrade policies that are provided to users that have paid the full retail price for the software.

All of the programs included in a bundle on TheMacBundles are the latest versions of the software. The bundle is backed by a 30-day money back guarantee. TheMacBundles also offers weekly specials along with this bundle. Combined purchases are eligible for an additional discount.

MyTunesRSS lets you take your complete music and video collection with you wherever you go as long as you have internet access and a web browser. Browse your password protected library, get RSS feeds and playlists from any album, artist, genre or search result. Download individual tracks or complete albums or play your music right inside the browser.

MyTunesRSS offers lots of features like smart playlists, user management, configurable and skinnable web interface, LastFM music community integration and on-the-fly audio transcoding to MP3. Advanced users can configure external Postgres or Mysql databases for better performance with huge music libraries. The MyTunesRSS remote API can be used to develop a new client interface in any programming language.

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Located in Rastatt, Germany, Codewave Software Michael Descher was founded in 2007 by Michael Descher. With more than 10 years experience in multi-tiered server application development he delivers first class software and provides excellent customer support. All Material and Software (C) 2007-2009 Codewave Software Michael Descher / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Berkeley, CA – MacEase Software today announced the release of TheMacBundles’ November bundle. TheMacBundles’ new marketing model brings unprecedented value to consumers while also returning to developers an exceptionally high percentage of the revenue produced by the sale of their software.

TheMacBundles has received widespread praise from journalists, Mac users, and software developers for its unique marketing model. Unlike traditional bundles, TheMacBundles:

* Uses a cooperative marketing model
* Eliminates the middlemen, which results in a better value for consumers and more revenue being provided to the developers that created the software
* Includes only the latest version of the titles that are included in a bundle
* Includes no “filler” programs – all titles in a bundle are premium quality software
* Provides only titles which include the same level of support and the same reduced price for upgrades that apply to users who paid the full retail price for the software
* Will be offering new bundles on a regular basis, thus providing an unprecedented selection of high quality software at unprecedented low prices

The November bundle includes 12 great titles – including award-winning titles – and is priced at only $49.95 (USD). This represents a savings of over 85%! Additionally, users that purchase a Weekly Special title and the bundle receive a $5 discount off of the bundle, resulting in a cost of only $44.95 (USD).

The November bundle will be available for 28 days and includes 3 bonus titles. Purchasers of the bundle always get a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee.

The 12 programs included in this bundle are:
* iPhoto Library Manager – adds an additional level of control over iPhoto collections, can create multiple iPhoto libraries, and more.

* MyStuff – is designed to be used every day to keep track of not only what users own, but also all the information they collect about what they own.

* MyTunesRSS – is a private music and video server which lets users access their multimedia collection through a web interface in any browser. Users can create RSS feeds, download playlists, complete albums, and single tracks, or even play music directly in the browser in a convenient player.

* PDFClerk Pro – is a powerful PDF manipulation program. Join PDF documents together, split even and odd pages, add/delete pages, rotate pages, add text, add graphics, and more.

* Simon – is the essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks servers for changes or failures, and notifies users via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, or other means. Many additional features are included.

* Spyder – the only MySpace social network browser exclusively developed for Mac OS X. An intuitive user interface allows users to control powerful features effortlessly.

* WebPrint Plus – allows users to easily and quickly save or print snippets of any size from any program, the Internet, and the Clipboard. Works via a uniquely flexible interface and system-wide shortcuts. Many more features are included.

* Yum – is the ultimate recipe and cookbook manager. Add favorite recipes, organize them into categories, assign them ratings, print them with custom layouts, create shopping lists from the ingredients, and many more features.

* Yummy FTP – is the fastest and most powerful Mac FTP / SFTP client available, with features such as directory synchronization, scheduling, remote editing with per-file editor support, auto-uploads via FTP Watcher, and more.

* A-Dock X – brings a secondary Dock to users’ screens. It’s highly customizable and offers some unique features like skinning, 10-level deep folder browsing, and much more.

* BlogAssist – is a handy tool to help weblog and website editing by making HTML markup easier. It comes with several useful operations, including web and e-mail links, bold/italics/strikethrough/etc, LiveJournal tags, and more.

* FolderGlance – is a small plugin for the Finder. It allows users to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels, and much more.

Existing Mac users can purchase this bundle to enhance their and/or a family member’s current setup and to get a great gift for someone. First-time computer users and people switching from a PC can use this bundle to get their Macs equipped for a wide range of tasks at a bargain-basement price!

Additionally, the highly rated utility MainMenu is being offered by TheMacBundles for one week for only $10.95 (USD) – this represents a savings of 45%!

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Steve Becker, the owner of MacEase and founder of TheMacBundles.com, has been developing freeware and shareware for the Macintosh since 1997. The software from MacEase specializes in collecting, saving, organizing and printing information. The focus at MacEase is to develop software that extends the capabilities of the user’s computer, improves workflow and productivity, and enhances the user experience.