The MacTrack – iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch and Mac News

Moscow, Russia – Vitaliy Pronkin today is pleased to announce availability of FingerDancer 1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch. FingerDancer is very simple yet addictive fast paced game. It’s is aimed to make your fingers flexible and reaction fast. FingerDancer is a really multitouch action, player will have to use all his fingers at once to achieve highest results.

The goal of the game is to touch colored circles continuously appearing and disappearing on the screen. Some of them will stay for a long time while some will disappear soon. Different types of circles require touching them differently to score points. And the faster player reacts and more objects touches at the same time, the more points he gets. But be careful! Touching incorrectly or missing three times will end the game.

FingerDancer integrates ScoreLoop social services. This allows players to challenge their friends and compete with the best players all over the world. You wish you had more than five fingers in one hand! FingerDancer will prove this right now.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
FingerDancer is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Vitaliy Pronkin is an independent developer from Moscow, Russia. He was always focused on developing better software for mobile devices, currently for iPhone and iPod Touch. Copyright 2009 Vitaliy Pronkin. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Toronto (ON), Canada – Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of PDF Checkpoint 1.1.3, an update to its new PDF workflow automation solution which combines both power and simplicity. Remarkably fast, PDF Checkpoint preflights, exports as images, splits and reduces size of multiple PDF files, and allows to route files according to preflight results.

PDF Checkpoint is not a replacement for hi-end PDF manipulation tools such as Adobe Acrobat Pro and similar products. PDF Checkpoint is for users who need a fast, affordable and efficient solution for automated PDF checkup and conversion in situations where hi-end tools would be an overkill. Ad agencies, printers and publishers adopt PDF Checkpoint as a lightweight alternative to costly and complex hi-end solutions to take advantage of its speed and simplicity.

PDF Checkpoint lets users preflight batches of PDF files with a simple drag-and-drop, while showing all PDF fonts, colors, images and metadata in its cleverly designed multi-pane window. The program’s powerful preflight profiles let users check PDF for specific attributes, such as image resolution, color model, PDF/X compliance and more. PDF Checkpoint can also automatically route PDF into success/error folders according to preflight results and generate preflight report for each file.

PDF Checkpoint features powerful conversion actions which allow users to perform complex operations on multiple PDF files with just a click of a button. For example, the program can convert a folder of PDF files to CMYK TIFF images with LZW compression at resolution 300 dpi while scaling each page by 50%. Or to reduce PDF file size by downsampling images to 72 dpi while performing this operation on files that passed preflight checks successfully only.

The new version addresses a file routing related issue and introduces compatibility with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. PDF Checkpoint is a new addition to the Zevrix family of quality control products, which already includes InPreflight for Adobe InDesign, and Graphic Inspector for raster and vector graphic files.

Pricing and Availability:
PDF Checkpoint 1.1.3 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for $119.95 (USD), as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. PDF Checkpoint is available for Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.6 as a Universal Binary.

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Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF and graphic file diagnostics and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix Solutions is dedicated to helping professionals achieve more while doing less through automating their everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit their website. Copyright (C) 2009 Zevrix Solutions. All Rights Reserved.

Asheville, NC – KeynotePro today is pleased to announce the introduction of Copenhagen for Keynote ’09. Copenhagen was designed from the ground up to balance high-impact, aggressively modern styling with a restrained sense of order. We began with a fractal-inspired foundation – extrusions of color and shape that explore a balance of symmetry and chaos through the use of implied space – and explored the interplay of narrative elements within that foundation to create a distinctively playful design with an unmistakably professional edge.

The Copenhagen theme includes 27 master slides – a mix of narrative and image-driven styles, including breath-taking gallery slides set in the unique Copenhagen signature style. The core layouts frame a range of general-purpose styles. Photo placements throughout are all single-image driven, a mix of the fractal-inspired signature style and the more traditional, picture-frame alternates. Copenhagen HD, available exclusively in the Copenhagen Pro and Pro Mobile Editions, expands the style into HD format with aspect-optimized 16:9 and 16:10 versions of the Copenhagen design.

The Copenhagen EP Edition themes – included in the Copenhagen Pro Mobile Edition built to take the Copenhagen style to the iPhone/iPod Touch or classic-format video-capable iPod in a format optimized for small-screen viewing. Fuse* EP Edition for classic-format video iPods includes 27 complete Master Slides: a wide range of text and photo-oriented designs cross-optimized for iPod and television display. Copenhagen EP Edition for iPhone/iPod Touch includes the complete 27 Master Slide base of the HD themes, optimized for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch’s larger, HD-leaning display.

Pricing and Availability:
Copenhagen Standard Edition is available for immediate download for $24.95 (USD) or in a Bundle with 2 other Standard Edition themes for $64.95. Copenhagen Pro Edition contains both standard and HD themes 800×600 & 1024×768(4:3) standard versions, 1920×1080 and 1280×720(16:9) & 1680×1050(16:10) HD Versions), and is available for $34.95, or in a bundle with 2 other Pro Edition themes for $89.85. The Copenhagen Pro Mobile Edition contains both Copenhagen Pro Edition and the new Copenhagen EP Edition (iPod and iPhone/Touch Editions), and is available for $49.90.

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The KeynotePro site and themes are brought to you by The Walrus Group, an award-winning multi-disciplinary design firm headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina. You can find out more about the Walrus Group at our corporate website. Copyright 2009 KeynotePro. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Keynote are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Chapel Hill, NC – Toughturtle LLC recently released FirePlace 3.0, an update to their hit utility app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and was selected by Apple as an iTunes Staff Favorite. FirePlace is the go-to App for an instant romantic setting on that special date, to relax on a cold fall/winter night, or whenever.

“It was a very exciting day when Apple chose FirePlace as a Staff Favorite on the AppStore”, said Todd Barnes, Lead Developer, Toughturtle LLC. “I knew that the new version of the App would be well received by the public, but I was not expecting to get chosen for one of the most coveted spots in iTunes.”

“This version of FirePlace is a complete re-write of the previous versions of the App.”, said Todd Barnes. “I wanted to give the 24,000 users a more customizable and friendly experience to what the previous versions offered. I understand that FirePlace is known as a ‘Gimmick App’. But from what users have told me over the past year, the FirePlace App experience, or App life span, lasts much longer than the traditional ‘Gimmick App’. Some users are using FirePlace to fall asleep at night and in their cubicles during work hours for the relaxing ambiance.”

The new version of FirePlace comes with the following features:
* Beautiful fire animation
* A perfect accompanying crackle
* In-App iPod access. Create a custom music queue from your own iPod library to play as background music. Play music, audiobooks, podcasts, and more.
* Ten provided background tracks. Six for the holiday season, one funky music sound track, and more.
* Auto-extinguish timer. Set the timer to turn off the App for when you fall asleep to the roaring blaze
* Sound controls and music access from a hide-able toolbar
* In-App emailing for support, iTunes reviews, and more

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
FirePlace 3.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through App Store in the Utilities category.

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Established in November 1997, Toughturtle LLC develops innovative and easy to use interactive applications for the Internet and for Mobile Devices. For more information about Toughturtle, please visit their website. Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Toughturtle LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Mons, Belgium – Creaceed today announces that Prizmo 1.2, the latest version of its scanning and OCR application for Mac OS X, is now available to the public for download. After adding a state-of-the-art OCR technology in version 1.1, Prizmo 1.2 addresses a major feature request from the user community: scanner support under Snow Leopard.

One of Snow Leopard’s new features is the integration with most current scanners. That means that Mac users don’t need to install custom software anymore to use their scanner. What’s the benefit for Mac users? From now on, they can combine their scanner with Prizmo’s image processing features and its OCR engine supporting 10 languages.

This release is the second significant upgrade since Prizmo’s official launch in April, making Prizmo an even better choice for Mac users searching for a reliable OCR application. Prizmo has garnered excellent reviews from the Mac press all over the world.

Prizmo’s main features:
* Accurate and state-of-the-art OCR technology available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian)
* Adjustable grid for easily selecting the text to be recognized
* Several file types for saving the OCR results (PDF, RTF, TXT)
* Direct browsing of camera content, and of iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom libraries
* Lens distortion correction
* Perspective correction
* Real time preview of extracted image or OCR results
* Guessing of optimal DPI for current image/grid configuration
* Brightness, contrast, sharpness and saturation tuning
* Collaborative sharing of camera calibration data
* Clean and user-friendly interface.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard or later
* Any Intel Mac or a PowerMac G5 with at least 64MB of VRAM (GPU) required. Mac with Intel processor and at least 128 MB VRAM highly recommended.
* A digital camera (Prizmo supports all digital cameras: compact cameras, DSLRS, iPhone cameras,…) or a scanner supported by Snow Leopard.

Pricing and Availability:
Prizmo 1.2 is a free update for all registered users, and is recommended for all Snow Leopard users. Prizmo 1.x costs $39.95 (USD), and is available in English, French and German on Creaceed’s website. A time-unlimited trial version is available. The demo version generates watermarked JPG, PNG and TIFF files. OCR results can be previewed within the application.

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Creaceed, a Belgian company with a passionate team experienced in signal and image processing, provides intuitive and easy to use creative applications to Mac professionals and consumers: Hydra, for HDR image creation from regular photos; Morph Age, for morphing and warping images and movies; Magnet, for adding special effects to QuickTime movies with motion-tracking features; and Prizmo, for scanning documents with a digital camera. Creaceed also provides Vocalia, an English, French and German speech recognition application, to iPhone users, and a speech recognition SDK to iPhone developers. Copyright 2008-2009 Creaceed. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhoto and Aperture are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Indianapolis, Indiana – Sunstorm Interactive announced today the release of Rescue Razzle 1.0, a perfect brainteaser to twist player’s mind for hours on end. In Rescue Razzle players are challenged to rescue the helpless Rat named Razzle that has found himself locked in a cage at the top of a stack of wooden crates. The mission is simple, break the wooden crates one after another, lowering Razzle safely to the ground!

What a simple concept! But, gravity can quickly take over and topple Razzle to the ground in a smashing impact leaving him surrounded by hazardous rat traps or other dangers! Each level features a unique stack of wooded crates, which are progressively more complex and harder to solve.

Rescue Razzle is an ideal game to stretch the mind and test your logic and knowledge of the basic laws of physics. In a matter of seconds, the player is absorbed by the puzzle and will spend hours twisting the brain to insure that the next touch will topple the crates into the right direction.

“The game turned out to be really addictive. I have solved all 40 levels over and over but I still play it.” – said Anthony Campiti, president and founder of Sunstorm Interactive Inc. “With Ruzzle’s fate in your hands, how could you put the game down?”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Rescue Razzle 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Sunstorm Interactive, founded in May of 1995 by Anthony Campiti as a software development studio focused on game development, is best known as the developer of the run away hit Deer Hunter. Deer Hunter was the number one game in the country for three months in 1997, shocking industry experts, and spawning a new gaming genre – the hunting simulation. Sunstorm continued with its success, developing over 50 different games which have sold in excess of 6 million units worldwide. In 2009 Sunstorm returned to game development business with a series of amazing iPhone and iPod Touch games. For more information, please visit Sunstorm Interactive online. Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Sunstorm Interactive. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Cedar Park, Texas – WebIS is very happy to announce the release of DeepFish 1.5, a unique email search application for the iPhone. DeepFish has one simple purpose; search your IMAP-based email accounts easily and quickly. DeepFish is fast, memory efficient, and is designed to behave properly in high latency EDGE and 3G networks. DeepFish provides a very simple interface, yet offers options that let you customize its behavior to your needs. Reply, Forward, Flag emails. See all your flagged emails in one search.

Using DeepFish an IMAP user can search the contents of their email across folders using a simple iPhone search interface. Setup multiple IMAP accounts and search for email individually, across folders, or through sub-folders. Search for flagged emails with its unique Flagged Search Interface. Forward, Reply, Delete found emails.

Leveraging the deep and wide iPhone OS with a Cocoa Touch interface on top of our time-tested and robust email engine designed for use on mobile devices, DeepFish is fast, memory efficient, and is designed to behave properly in high latency EDGE and 3G networks. Now using iPhone OS 3.0 CoreData technology DeepFish is far more reliable and faster than ever before.

Features of DeepFish include:
* Automatically supports GMail and MobileMe accounts
* Search Flagged Messages
* Search From, To, Subject, and entire message contents
* Search in sub-folders or a single folder
* Search in Deleted Folders as an option
* Search in Sent Folders as an option
* Configure the number of lines to preview
* Configure Sort By and Direction
* View Attachments
* Reply, Forward, Delete Emails

DeepFish joins our other iPhone productivity applications on the iPhone such as the award winning Note2Self and multi-platform power packed Personal Information Manager – Pocket Informant which was on Apple’s “Hot List” and has been in the top 20 selling paid productivity applications for the last few months.

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch
* iPhone OS 3.1 or higher

Pricing and Availability:
DeepFish 1.5 for iPhone is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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Headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, Web Information Solutions, Inc. is a privately funded Corporation founded in 1997 by Aleksei Kac. WebIS has focused on the Mobile PDA and Smartphone market since August of 2001 and has risen to become one of top ten developers by sales for mobile devices shortly thereafter. With more than 500,000 users on Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and now the iPhone, WebIS has shown expertise, leadership, and vision in the mobile space. For more information on WebIS or Pocket Informant, please visit their website. Copyright 1997-2008 Web Information Solutions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Waretown, NJ – TapMode president, Jeff McMorris, recently launched a new iPhone/iPod Touch app that learns a user’s patterns and intuitively keeps track of projected battery usage required to carry out tasks. Released to iTunes, Battery Gauge is the first of its kind.

McMorris came up with the idea for Battery Gauge in order to solve a problem in his own life. “I needed an app that would give me an idea of the actual time I had remaining on my battery, that would look at how I used my phone and then base its estimate on that usage pattern.”

Battery Gauge differs from other apps that are similar in nature. While the others can only give you an estimate of how much time is remaining in your battery for a single activity, McMorris’ app is all encompassing, taking into account all of a user’s normal iPhone or iPod Touch activities. Each task uses a different amount of charge and Battery Gauge intuitively figures it out. As most people use their handheld devices for a number of different things, this program is likely to become indispensible to the masses.

The Battery Gauge app has a nicely designed user interface and works with any version of iPhone or iPod Touch.

About Battery Gauge
Battery Gauge is the first intuitive iPhone and iPod Touch app to work with your battery charge. As it learns your patterns and notes which tasks you perform and how long they take, you’ll always know whether or not you have enough battery life to complete activities. Don’t get left hanging in the middle of an email or download with a dead handheld device.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Battery Gauge 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover by Edward Turner helps mobile app developers maximize sales by optimizing their marketing copy and crafting news-worthy press releases that get picked up by some of the most-read mobile app websites and blogs on the Net. Copyright (C) 2009 Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Waretown, NJ – Penpower Inc. today announced technological advances in the English version of their WorldCard Mobile 1.0 business card reader. The enhancements provide an improved performance and user experience. WorldCard Mobile is a business card recognition system and contact management tool for the iPhone 3GS. It instantly recognizes the captured data from business cards and sorts it into organized fields.

In the newly developed edition of WorldCard Mobile 1.0, users no longer have to enter information manually. The app has a scan and auto recognition feature that takes care of capturing the data, as well as automatically sorting it into fields. Entries can be edited, if necessary, before exporting to the user’s iPhone address book. The new technology also allows for higher quality images than previously possible, thanks to the auto-focus and high resolution camera that is currently available only in the iPhone 3GS.

WorldCard Mobile has the following advantages over it’s competitors:
* Superior recognition quality
* Much faster recognition speeds
* Allows for data export to any desired contact group
* Automatically sorts the contact data into appropriate categories
* Image rotation in the event image scans sideways

Although this latest app is only available for the English version and Chinese version at the moment, Penpower has plans to expand these features to other languages in the very near future. With more than a million users and a history dating back to 1991, there are bound to be many more cutting edge advances in coming releases of WorldCard Mobile.

About WorldCard Mobile
WorldCard Mobile is an automatic business card recognition system and contact management app for the iPhone 3GS. Its instant, auto recognition and sorting, high res images and fast, efficient interface make WorldCard the number one choice by over one million users worldwide.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone OS 3.0 or later and 3GS

Pricing and Availability:
WorldCard Mobile 1.0 is only $9.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Business category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover by Edward Turner helps mobile app developers maximize sales by optimizing their marketing copy and crafting news-worthy press releases that get picked up by some of the most-read mobile app websites and blogs on the Net. Copyright (C) 2009 Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Maidenhead, UK – Byte Squared today announced the release of its file manager application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The product, named “Files2″ (pronounced Files Squared), enables its users to transfer files between their iPhone and a desktop computer and view them directly from within the Files2 app. Files2 supports viewing of many different formats including most Office-based files, such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Keynote, Numbers and Pages. It also supports other popular formats, such as PDF and MP4 video files.

Users may create local folders and organize their files by copying them or moving them between folders. Files and folders may be transferred between the iPhone and a desktop computer over the local wifi network. Files2 supports viewing of the following file types:

Word Documents (.doc, .docs)
Excel Documents (.xls, .xlsx)
PowerPoint Documents (.ppt, .pptx)
Pages Documents (.pages)
Keynote Documents (.keynote)
Numbers Documents (.numbers)
PDF Documents (.pdf)
Image Files (.bmp, .png, .jpg, .gif)
Text Files (.txt, .m, .c, .cpp, .h, .xml)
Web Files (.htm, .html, .webarchive)

Files2 also integrates tightly with Google Docs, letting users copy spreadsheets and documents between the iPhone and a Google Docs folder. Users may also view spreadsheets and documents directly in a Google Docs account. Additionally Files2 can view and organize files stored in a MobileMe iDisk account or any other webDAV enabled server.

Byte Squared CEO Simon Bates said: “We are pleased to offer the first file sharing app to tightly integrate with both Google Docs and iDisk, giving our users ubiquitous access to their data over the cloud from either desktop or iPhone.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Files2 is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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Byte Squared provides a range of software for mobile devices. It was established in 2009 and is a privately held company headquartered in Maidenhead in the UK. Copyright (C) 2009 Byte Squared. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Columbus, Ohio – Minder Softworks today updated MYStuff to version 1.2, adding a location filter bar, CSV export, and improved drag and drop to the application. Designed to be the first “stuff manager” for OS X, MYStuff combines the best features of PDF managers and home inventory programs. MYStuff gives users an intuitive way of filing and finding their information.

MYStuff makes it easy to file and find information about the things you own. You simply make a new record, and key in what you bought, where you bought it, how much you paid and how you paid for it, warranty information, and other key data. Then you can add an unlimited number of files to the record: a scan of the receipt, photos of the item, a PDF of the manual, and anything else you would like to add. To make this process easier, MYStuff’s MYInbox feature allows users to quickly add files to MYStuff from other applications.

MYStuff 1.2 adds a FileFinder palette which allows users to easily browse photos in their iPhoto library without leaving MYStuff. Photos can then be dragged from the palette directly to MYStuff, making it easy to create a new record or add to an existing one.

Also in the update are some under-the-hood improvements to increase the performance with large databases, improved CSV export, and some minor bug fixes. In addition to these new features, MYStuff allows you to easily back up your data, print lists for insurance claims, and view your records as lists or as images.

MYStuff will immediately draw comparisons to popular PDF- and note-managing applications, home-inventory applications, receipt-tracking applications, and warranty-tracking applications. MYStuff is none of these things, and yet it is all of these things. PDF managers concentrate on allowing users to file and find documents, but provide no way of entering information about individual items. Home inventory programs allow tracking information about individual items, but provide little or no way to track the documents about the item. MYStuff has all the best features of each of these applications, and puts them in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

Every year, people throw away countless products that are still covered by a warranty. Most often, they are unaware that the product is still under warranty because they cannot find the receipt and warranty information from the time of purchase, which may have been a year ago or maybe ten years ago. As a result, they replace an item that could have been repaired for free, thus costing them money. Keeping important paperwork organized is a tremendous amount of work, which explains why so few people do it. MYStuff helps users file and find their information quickly and easily, saving them both time and money.

Minimum Requirements:
* MYStuff will run on any Intel or PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.5.8 or later, including Snow Leopard

Pricing and Availability:
A free demo is available from the website. A full license can be purchased for $29 (USD). MYStuff can also be found as part of TheMacBundles and OneFingerDiscount promotions for a limited time.

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Minder Softworks is dedicated to developing software that helps users make sense of their information, while harnessing the full power of their computer. Our aim is to develop software that is intuitive, easy to use, and a good value for our customers. Copyright (C) 2009 Minder Softworks. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada – Embraceware Software today announced Awaken 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch. Awaken is a digital alarm clock, sleep timer, fullscreen clock, and flashlight. Wake up to music on your iPhone or iPod touch or any of the dozen built in sounds. Set the volume and screen brightness to slowly fade in to ease you out of sleep.

Feature Highlights:
* Simple, elegant user interface
* Wake up to your music or sounds
* Fullscreen snooze control
* Alarm volume and brightness fade in
* Create and manage multiple alarms
* Fall asleep with the sleep timer
* Sleep Timer volume and brightness fade out
* Slide finger to adjust brightness
* Fullscreen clock with 6 styles

Fall asleep listening to your music with the sleep timer. Choose your music, set a duration, and optionally, set the volume and screen brightness to fade out as you drift off to sleep. Choose from a selection of 6 fullscreen clock styles. Works great as a night table or desk clock. Supports both portrait and landscape modes. Awaken is designed for night and we added a handy flashlight function to prevent stumbling around in the dark. Shake your iPhone anytime while running Awaken to toggle the flashlight on and off.

New features introduced in version 1.2:
* 2 new clock styles “8-bit” and “Classic LCD”
* 3 new flashlight display options
* Updated launch imagery
* Double tap clock to toggle menubar on/off
* New stop music on quit preference
* New snooze settings
* More intuitive alarm creation
* Support added for chained alarms
* Landscape support for alarms and sleep timer
* Sleep timer now does not prevent alarm
* Dim control more intuitive
* Screen brightness improved

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Awaken 1.2 is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store in the Utilities category.

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Embraceware Software Inc has been developing software for the Mac since 2005 and has most recently extended to iPhone development. Our lead product for Mac OS X is Awaken which is a digital alarm clock and sleep timer. Embraceware is located in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Copyright 2005-2009 Embraceware Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Toronto, Ontario – RAGE Software announced today the immediate availability of WebCrusher 1.6, a major update to the website optimizer for Mac OS X. WebCrusher is a utility for website owner’s to reduce their website’s load time, providing a better experience for their visitors and customers. WebCrusher scans entire websites, including webpage files and image files, to intelligently remove all unneeded code, making websites load as fast as possible in a web browser.

WebCrusher 1.6 improves the speed of optimizing a website by only optimizing modified webpage files. It also significantly improves the speed of publishing files to a MobileMe server. WebCrusher 1.6 is a free update for registered users. On average, visitors will wait up to 8 seconds for a website to fully load before closing their browser window or pressing the back button. Website owners need to ensure that their website loads as quickly as possible for all of their potential customers. Now users can simply drop their website onto WebCrusher and let the software quickly remove all unneeded code from their webpages.

WebCrusher was built with iWeb based websites in mind, which have generally been known for their large file sizes and slow loading image files. iWeb users can optimize their entire websites for speed at the click of a button and publish directly to their MobileMe accounts. WebCrusher runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Founded in 1999 and is based in Toronto, Ontario, RAGE Software is a leader in web development and web promotional software for Mac OS X. RAGE Software provides all the essential tools to design professional websites, attract more website visitors, and increase search engine rankings.

Gilbert, Arizona – MobilEaZe, LLC today announced PayItForward 1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch. PayItForward is a one of kind application helping to spread some kindness in our world. The application utilizes the Apple Push Notification System (APNS) to provide users with weekly random acts of kindness designed to be simple, fun, and sure to brighten a strangers day.

PayItForward was designed with one simple goal in mind; provide its users with the ideas to make a strangers day. Once a week, users will be notified via the push notification system with a weekly random act of kindness. In return for good deeds spread, MobilEaZe LLC is committed to donating 10% of profits to a charity for children with autism in Phoenix, AZ.

Users can track their progress directly from within the application by marking tasks as completed. Acts of kindness are categorized by levels and each level is unlocked by completing 10 tasks of the previous level. Shake the device at any time to be presented with a summary of your overall progress which tracks the number of completed tasks, incomplete tasks, suggested tasks, and current level number.

This is a very fun, straightforward, and rewarding application. PayItForward uses technology as a means of reminding users to spread kindness in their very own community.

Tony Farag, the company’s founder and lead Software Architect said “We are very excited about PayItForward. Not only about the potential that can be reached with strong committed user base to making a difference, but as well as our contribution to helping children in need.”

Device Requirements:
* PayItForward is fully compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, and the new iPhone 3GS

Pricing and Availability:
PayItForward 1.3 is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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Williamsburg Virginia, USA – Hunter Research and Technology today announces the worldwide availability of Cover Match 1.0 in the iTunes App Store. Cover Match is a mesmerizing new match game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that uses album art from a user’s music library.

“Since the era of CDs and the advent of online music downloads, album cover art has lost a lot of its prominence” says Todd Hunter, Cover Match co-developer. “Gone are the days where people spent hours flipping through album collections, looking at the gorgeous art. We wanted to recapture some of that magic in Cover Match. Using album cover art as the basis for a match game results in a rich, nostalgic visual experience and makes for very compelling game play”.

Graphically mastered and engineered, Cover Match is no ordinary match game. Crisp OpenGL graphics and special effects accompany each level, enhanced by the beauty and exquisite detail of album art. Using a classic arcade format, Cover Match starts off slow with just a few album covers to match, then heats up with unlimited levels of randomly sorted cover art. Cover Match offers billions of memory-testing game possibilities.

Players can choose from fun and scored modes. Fun mode has no limits, no timers, and no pressure. Scored mode tests memory and matching skills using a timer and tap counter. Points are awarded for matches, and a bonus is given for any time or taps leftover at the end of each level.

Other features include portrait and landscape play options and an extensive help section. The game offers a built-in soundtrack, but will also let iPod music play through for a custom soundtrack. If a game is interrupted for a phone call, Cover Match will automatically save current progress and score. Players can compete for high scores to win a place on the online Cover Match Top 25 list. Finally, Cover Match includes built-in album art to augment small music collections, and contains an iTunes shop where free and paid music and podcast cover art are available for download.

Pricing and Availability:
Cover Match works on any iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.1.1 or later and is available for $0.99 (USD) on the iTunes App Store. More information, including screenshots, is available on the Hunter Research and Technology website. Media professionals interested in reviewing Cover Match can request a promotional code to download the app from iTunes at no cost.

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Hunter Research and Technology is run by Dr. Craig Hunter, a practicing engineer with over 18 years experience in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and software development. Craig received the 2004 NASA Software of the Year Award and a 2004 Apple Design Award (Best Scientific Computing Solution on Mac OS X) for his work in software development. Craig founded Hunter Research and Technology in 2008 to create innovative, relevant, and compelling apps that take advantage of the advanced hardware and software capabilities of iPhone OS devices. The company currently has ten apps available on the iTunes App Store, with more in development. Copyright 2009 Hunter Research and Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved. iTunes, iPhone, iPod, and iPod Touch are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.