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Saratoga, CA – Chaotic Software announced today will be participating in TheMacBundles’ December bundle with the inclusion of its popular media editor, Media Rage. media Rage is a collection of essential tools for media enthusiasts. It can read and edit information stored in MP3, MP4, AAC, FLAC, BWF, AIFF, WAVE, and Ogg Vorbis audio files in an easy and powerful manner. Media Rage can assist in cataloging, organizing, sorting, and updating thousands of files with ease.

TheMacBundles’ December bundle will also feature many other great Mac applications. This is your chance to get Media Rage and other apps for a very low price!

Media Rage Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 or higher
* Snow Leopard compatible
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

A few of Media Rage features:
* Supports reading and writing information in AAC, MP3, FLAC, BWF, AIFF, WAVE, and Ogg Vorbis audio files
* Reads EXIF tags from digital camera image files
* Supports reading and writing Unicode data
* Fully multi-threaded, providing a responsive user experience
* Artwork Search – find artwork on the internet and add it to your media files
* Convert Filenames To Data – add media file information from a media file’s name, or your disk folder hierarchy
* Catalog Creator – easily create catalogs of your files in a flexible manner
* Data Mover – move/swap/replace data from one field to another
* FreeDB Tagger – easily update your audio files with the assistance of the FreeDB database
* Media Scrubber – allow quick viewing, comparing, copying, and in-line editing of your media files
* Player – a simple player is included for sampling of songs without adding them to your iTunes library
* QuickEdit – read and edit the contents of MP3, AAC, FLAC, BWF, WAVE, and Ogg audio files
* Organizer – move, copy, link or alias a collection of files on your disk with ease
* Data Changer – batch modify thousands of files in a single click
* Tool Chain – run multiple tools back to back with ease for repeat operations
* Dashboard and Toolbar windows allow quick access to 20 tools
* and much more

Pricing and Availability
TheMacBundles’ December bundle is $49.95 (USD) and available from TheMacBundles online today.

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Chaotic Software has been a leader in innovative software solutions since 1996, providing a wide range of products tailored to the needs of Macintosh users, including the ubiquitous and acclaimed MP3 tag editor, Media Rage.

Charlottesville, Virginia – The Infinite Kind, LLC is proud to announce the release of Moneydance 2010, a major update to their full-featured personal financial management application for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. With its familiar checkbook-register interface, Moneydance includes such features as online banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking, scheduled transactions, check printing, detailed graphs, reports, and much more.

With Moneydance’ intuitive reporting and graphing tools, users can analyze and explore their financial status at any time. It’s easy to set and track budgets, as well as setting reminders for upcoming bills. Moneydance offers extensive multi-currency support, and can also track and calculate VAT and GST for easy tax reporting. Users may automatically download up-to-date exchange rates and choose a different base currency for each account.

Users may track their portfolio and investments, and save time and money with online banking and bill payment. Moneydance can download transactions and send online payments directly through hundreds of financial institutions, offering encryption and password-protection to ensure privacy, while keeping finances organized, safe and up-to-date.

Moneydance 2010 includes a large number of new features:
* Sidebar for always-visible account status and navigation between accounts, budgets, reports and graphs
* Downloads transactions from all online connected accounts in the background
* Downloaded transactions are automatically merged, no manual confirmation required
* Improved automatic cleanup and categorization of downloaded transactions
* More reports and graphs including capital gains reporting
* More options for filtering reports and graphs by tags
* Account register filtering by date or cleared status
* Quick-search to find transactions right from the home page
* Budget bars on home page show budget status details at a glance
* Create, edit and record scheduled reminders and transactions right from the home page calendar

Supported Languages:
* US English, UK English, German, French, Spanish and Norwegian

System Requirements:
* 4.8 MB Hard Drive space
* 256 MB RAM or higher
* Moneydance 2010 supports Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, and Unix
* Moneydance data is completely portable between platforms, allowing maximum flexibility

Moneydance uses industry standard technologies such as OFX, QIF, SSL/TLS, Java, and XML to ensure compatibility with other software and services. In addition, Infinite Kind’s open API and Extension Developer Kit allow advanced users to extend the software.

Pricing and Availability:
Moneydance 2010 can be purchased for $39.99 USD. Their secure store accepts payment in US Dollars, Euros, or British Pounds. The demo version is fully-functional and allows users to manually enter 100 transactions. Imported transactions are not limited. Customers who have installed the Moneydance Updater extension should automatically be notified of the new version.

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Headquartered in in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Infinite Kind, LLC was founded by President and CEO, Sean Reilly. As a software developer and consultant since 1997, Sean’s experience has been as research scientist for companies in the telecommunications industry, and ultimately led to his creating The Infinite Kind. Copyright 1999 – 2009 The Infinite Kind, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Vitebsk, Belarus – iAlcohol Lite – iPhone App which determines the level of alcohol in a person’s blood and calculates the required break in driving. iAlcohol is a unique development, whose developers excelled at using the previous experience of work with similar programs. For the first time they managed to accumulate and evaluate the majority of all the conclusive parameters, which had not been taken into account when calculating the speed of alcohol elimination from a blood.

The calculation formula for the application takes into account the maximum number of factors that affect the result, thus providing 90% accuracy. The formula calculates the influence of factors on the duration of the phases of alcohol intoxication: phase Absorption and phase Elimination of alcohol.

The app is intuitively easy to use. You may plan to drink alcohol and know the exact time when you plan to start driving. The application will help you choose a suitable drink and the amount you are allowed to consume within this interval of time. It is also possible to calculate alcohol concentration in situations when different types of drinks are consumed simultaneously. A timer will inform you about the time when you can start driving. It will still count time if you exit the app. The application allows registering several user profiles, remembering each user’s name, weight, gender and history of measurements for each user separately.

Feature Highlights:
* Display of current BAC in real-time
* Counting down timer
* History of measurements
* Influence of food on alcohol concentration
* Influence of height, weight, gender, kind of activity on alcohol concentration
* Over 230 drinks and cocktails
* Mixing drinks
* Forecasting of the break in the driving
* Add drinks after the timer is on
* Change a kind of activity after the timer is on
* Multiple user profiles
* Parallel calculation for multiple users

New in Version 1.2:
* Bag fixes
* Quick Add drink on a running timer
* Remove loud beep
* Improved user interface

Coming Soon:
* Alcohol Diary
* Effect of alcohol on the life
* Drinking games
* Hand-Eye Coordination Test

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
iAlcohol Lite 1.2 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.

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Macsoftex Company (Belarus) operates in the IT field. The main strategic direction of our company is developing applications for Apple iPhone. Copyright (C) 2009 Macsoftex Company. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Lisle, Illinois – Architectural enthusiasts won’t have to worry about awkward guidebooks, unruly maps or rented listening devices any longer, thanks to the entrepreneurial design family behind Prairie Design Group and their technology collaborators at NaNil. Husband/wife partners Bryan and Lisa Kelly, along with Lisa’s brother Eric O’Malley, set out to create a multi-faceted, interactive tour guide unlike any other.

After many frustrating self-guided architecture tours using cumbersome books, maps and museum MP3 players, the team at Prairie Design Group set out to develop a more streamlined experience. Their goal was to produce well-researched and engaging content, using simple design and clear navigation, plus easily accessible bonus media. The result was the creation of the FanGuide(TM) series for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

“This tour guide series gives users the freedom to experience architecture in an integrated, well-designed and thoughtful manner. It isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach like other self-guided architectural tours, guidebooks and maps,” says Eric O’Malley of Prairie Design Group. Eric’s partner, Bryan Kelly says, “The FanGuide(TM) series was meant to utilize burgeoning technologies to fit a modern, on-the-go lifestyle. End-users can enjoy the architecture they want in a very compelling way, making it a great companion on the road or from the comfort of home.”

iPhone App Description:
Prairie Design Group teamed with software developer NaNil to produce a series of interactive, multimedia FanGuide(TM) iPhone apps. Once downloaded, each app features text, maps, photos, audio and bonus video for a self-contained “offline” experience on any iPhone or iPod Touch. For users with an Internet connection on their device, there is an “online” option with integrated Google Maps to help them find any tour stop they choose.

Additionally, the app offers web access directly to specific building or house museum websites that are open to the public – so the user can learn more information. Current titles include Chicago Loop Architecture, Los Angeles Modern Architecture, Oak Park Prairie Architecture and River Forest Prairie Architecture. Upcoming titles will also focus on significant architectural cities like Palm Springs and San Francisco, plus many more.

Feature list:
* The architectural works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, John Lautner, Richard Neutra, the Case Study House Program, plus others
* 38-44 stops arranged in 6 tours
* Text descriptions, details, trivia facts, plus costs/times for public buildings
* Bonus audio that differs from text descriptions
* Bonus video footage for various stops
* Online maps with a cellular or wifi connection
* Offline maps, for a completely self-contained experience

About NaNil:
NaNil, a software practice for iPhone and Mac platforms, was founded by independent developers Sean Willson and Brawnski Armstrong. This team has been working together for over 10 years and started a business for iPhone development shortly after the opening of Apple’s App Store. After releasing the Fairway Golf application to the App Store in 2008, NaNil collaborated with Prairie Design Group to design an develop the FanGuide(TM) Tour & Audio Companion series.

About the FanGuide(TM) Tour & Audio Companion Series:
The FanGuide(TM) Tour & Audio Companion is a multi-faceted, interactive tour guide designed to profile significant architecture in a dynamic and easy-to-use manner. The clean design of the guide allows anyone to access information quickly and directly, while enhanced descriptions and bonus multimedia give enthusiasts the opportunity for even more hours of exploration. FanGuide(TM) is offered in two unique and engaging formats: an iPhone application and a printed fan deck guidebook.

Pricing and Availability:
* Limited Intro Pricing from $2.99-$4.99, depending on title. Regularly priced at $9.99 each. Available now in the iTunes App Store.

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About Prairie Design Group: Bryan and Lisa Kelly, along with Eric O’Malley, are a team of 30-somethings who are passionate about design and have combined backgrounds in publishing, product development and business. Inspired by progressive art and architecture, they have parlayed their combined interests and skills to create unique brands such as FanGuide(TM), the Teco Art Pottery Collection(TM) and PrairieMod(TM). Copyright (C) 2009 Prairie Design Group. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Paris, France – Fully dedicated to birth control efficiency iPilule is here to help every women with an iPhone keep track of their birth control pills schedule. Using the iPhone powerful PUSH notification feature, iPilule sends a daily reminder to the app user at the time she chose – the application automatically calculates when to stop and when to reactivate notifications based on the day the person started her pill tablet.

Notifications show up unobtrusively as a regular text-message avoiding the embarassment of a noisy, hard-to-explain alarm that would ring in the middle of the pm at the office for instance… It also comes in 7 fully translated versions including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Once iPilule is installed on the user’s iPhone you need to be connected to the Internet through EDGE, 3G or WiFi to receive the notifications. Plus, you need to enable the PUSH system into the phone’s settings : go to Settings > Notifications and turn them to the ON position.

Eventually here’s a little warning we like to tell our users ! “So, who’s in charge here ? Right. You are ! Bear in mind that by no means could the iPilule developpers be held reponsable in case you’d skip a pill and ended up unwantedly pregnant. We’re just a piece of software, remember.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
iPilule 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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We’re a mobile applications media group with a minimalistic corporate website, currently working on iPhone apps. Copyright (C) 2009 iMediapp. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Greifswald, Germany – rapidrabbit today is proud to announce a new way to discover the Apple AppStore by using the AppButler. This unique tool automatically observes the AppStore and keeps track of every app. A special algorithm calculates a score for every app which represents the number of ranks the app has gained in the biggest AppStore markets within 24 hours.

A lot has been written about the AppStores flaws – users are bound to the top lists and it’s difficult to find or get notified about something new. The AppButler changes this. With this new app that has hit the AppStore recently and is climbing the ranks very fast, no one will miss “the next big thing”. Due to the unique algorithm and push services the AppButler “serves” fresh apps every day.

The special algorithm calculates a score for every app with the data from the biggest AppStore countries (US, Canada, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Japan, Australia) . The score represents how many ranks an app has gained the last 24 hours in the TOP 100 lists of these countries. Thus an international ranking for the hottest apps is created by the AppButler. Users can determine a score threshold and the categories they are interested in. Based on these settings the user will be informed via push if the AppButler has found something for them.

“We can often see an interesting app one or two days before it hits the TOP 10 and is mentioned by blog around the world.” says Paul Müller, who has developed the algorithm. This makes the AppButler a valuable tool for bloggers, reviewers and other media journalists. If an app gets a price cut it will also climb the ranks very fast – you won’t miss that opportunity with the AppButler.

The highlights at a glance:
* Unique algorithm to determine hot apps
* Fresh apps every day
* Push services – to be the first to know
* Great AppStore research tool

Besides getting notified about the hottest apps worldwide, the user can also browse through a category list to see the hottest apps in one particular category. This is a very convenient way to discover new apps and also a great research tool for journalists and developers.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
AppButler 1.0 is free (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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rapidrabbit is an independent software and technology development company, founded 2007 in Greifswald / Germany. “Keep it simple and smart” is the motivation to develop modern web applications which are complex but still fun to use. Specializing in open source technology, like Ruby on Rails, rapidrabbit soon became a well known developer in north-eastern germany. By advancing to the iPhone platform rapidrabbit takes the next step in distributing it’s software on an international level. Copyright (C) 2007-2009 rapidrabbit. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

San Francisco, CA – TextExpander touch, the iPhone version of SmileOnMyMac’s customizable typing shortcut tool, is now integrated in the apps SimpleNote and Notebooks. Simplenote and Notebooks users can seamlessly use their TextExpander snippets while composing notes in those apps, rather than first composing notes in TextExpander touch.

To celebrate the integration, SmileOnMyMac has a special sale on TextExpander touch. Until December 13, 2009, TextExpander touch is only $1.99, a 60% discount off the regular price of $1.99.

TextExpander touch requires an iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.0 or later. The TextExpander touch Software Development Kit (SDK), which allows iPhone developers to integrate TextExpander functionality into their applications, consists of a free TextExpander engine library and sample code.

TextExpander touch features:
* Compose notes quickly and easily that contain frequently-used text, addresses, phone numbers, email signatures, URLs, etc.
* Automatically insert your notes into Mail and Twitter clients, or copy-and-paste into other apps on your iPhone
* Integrated in Tweetie 2, SimplyTweet, WriteRoom, Simplenote and other apps
* Add TextExpander snippets from your Mac via your local network
* Save composed notes in an archive for reuse
* Use multiple snippet groups
* Add Predefined Groups such as accented words, symbols, HTML, and CSS

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SmileOnMyMac makes creative productivity software for Mac OS X, such as PDFpen, the PDF editing software that won an Editors’ Choice Award from The Mac Observer; DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program; TextExpander, the typing shortcut tool that was named a Mac|Life Editor’s Choice; TextExpander touch for the iPhone, and PageSender, feature-rich fax software that also received a Macworld Eddy award. Demos of all SmileOnMyMac products are available to download free at the company website. Copyright (C) 2009 SmileOnMyMac. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Manville, New Jersey – Undecided on career goals? Unsure how to make an impression? Looking for some advice on snacking? Anyone could use some advice now and then, and a new iPhone Application delivers over 700 pieces of advice on the go. Sinecure Industries promises help for everyone in their new app “Halp!” released on the iPhone App Store November 25th. The app picks a random piece of advice and presents it to the user. It then gives them the opportunity to reload new advice each time they shake the phone.

“We know a lot of people who are incredibly indecisive – not even about big decisions, but even what to have for lunch. This app is for them. We put in so many pieces of advice there are at least 10 that apply to anyone at any given time,” Sean Flanagan, the application co-creator said in a statement.

Upon loading the app we were met with, “Joining a book club is an excellent place to meet people who disagree with you” and after shaking we then got the advice, “Tree bark is an excellent source of dietary fiber.” So if we followed this advice we’d meet some new and interesting people and change our diet drastically. With 798 other pieces of advice available, there exists the distinct possibility for some major life changes.

The makers claim that the advice can work for anyone and everyone if they give it a chance. They also claim no responsibility for the outcome of following their app’s advice.

Pricing and Availability:
The App is priced at $1.99 USD, available on the Apple iTunes App Store and is Sinecure Industries’ second app. More information is available at their website.

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Sinecure Industries produces iPhone and iPod Touch games and applications. The company also develops games for multiple platforms and social networks. Copyright (C) 2009 Sinecure Industries. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Manville, New Jersey – Undecided on career goals? Unsure how to make an impression? Looking for some advice on snacking? Anyone could use some advice now and then, and a new iPhone Application delivers over 700 pieces of advice on the go. Sinecure Industries promises help for everyone in their new app “Halp! The Advice Generator” released recently on the iPhone App Store. The app picks a random piece of advice and presents it to the user. It then gives them the opportunity to reload new advice each time they shake the phone.

“We know a lot of people who are incredibly indecisive – not even about big decisions, but even what to have for lunch. This app is for them. We put in so many pieces of advice there are at least 10 that apply to anyone at any given time,” Sean Flanagan, the application co-creator said in a statement.

Upon loading the app we were met with, “Joining a book club is an excellent place to meet people who disagree with you” and after shaking we then got the advice, “Tree bark is an excellent source of dietary fiber.” So if we followed this advice we’d meet some new and interesting people and change our diet drastically. With 798 other pieces of advice available, there exists the distinct possibility for some major life changes.

The makers claim that the advice can work for anyone and everyone if they give it a chance. They also claim no responsibility for the outcome of following their app’s advice.

Pricing and Availability:
The App is priced at $0.99 USD, available on the Apple iTunes App Store and is Sinecure Industries’ second app. More information is available at their website.

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Sinecure Industries produces iPhone and iPod Touch games and applications. The company also develops games for multiple platforms and social networks. Copyright (C) 2009 Sinecure Industries. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

West Orange, New Jersey – Game developer Gallen Technologies, LLC announced the pending release on December 11, 2009 of its long awaited iPhone game SPHERE RAIDER (TM). It will be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch through Apple’s App store. SPHERE RAIDER (TM) brings exhilarating game play for all ages.

SPHERE RAIDER (TM) (Patent Pending) has extraordinary graphic designs and brilliant gaming applications. Gallen Technologies spent seven months in the development of the game. It is designed to be played by all ages, anytime, anyplace and anywhere.

SPHERE RAIDER (TM) (Patent Pending) has ten skill levels with new and exciting graphics at each level. The graphics are colorful and crisp, and reflect the time and effort that went into production of the game software. SPHERE RAIDER (TM) (Patent Pending) is designed to challenge the skill of the novice to the most sophisticated gamers. It presents a welcome relief from the everyday stress of urban life. The beauty of the game is that it is at your finger tips on your iPhone. It travels where you go and is available on demand.

So much of urban life is spent waiting between meetings, on trains, in taxis, on planes and just waiting for the next event to happen. SPHERE RAIDER (TM) (Patent Pending) is designed to fill those moments when there is nothing to do, no one to talk to and you find yourself alone. It’s like having a little pal on your phone. It does not take up space and once you own it, its there for you.

SPHERE RAIDER (TM) (Patent Pending) is part of the continuing quest of Gallen Technologies to develop a new generation of advanced gaming software to satisfy the sophisticated tastes of 21st century consumers.

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Gallen Technologies, LLC is committed to bringing highest quality software design to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Gallen Technologies, LLC is a privately held company located in West Orange, New Jersey. Copyright (C) 2009 Gallen Technologies, 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.

Konstanz, Germany – “Have you ever been at a loss of words when it mattered most?”. This is the exact situation entrepreneurs fear most: accidentally running into a potential investor in the elevator but not knowing what to say. To prepare for these situations, entrepreneurs, salespeople and evangelists frequently prepare a so-called ‘Elevator Pitch.’: a short 30-second pitch designed to start a conversation about their product or service they offer.

The ElevatorPitch iPhone application helps users to make the best of their elevator pitches. Practice: the user can use the built-in countdown clock to perfect their pitch timing. Show: the user can store an image in the iPhone App because having a product image ready at the touch of a button is worth a thousand words. Tell: the user can memorize and fine-tune an elevator pitch with the handy note-keeping function. And all of that in less than 30 seconds or the time an elevator ride takes.

Use Cases:
Entrepreneurs are always looking for opportunities to pitch their startup in order to raise venture capital. With the ElevatorPitch iPhone App the budding entrepreneur is always ready to whip out his iPhone and support his elevator pitch with visuals such as screenshots or product images. Salespeople can use the ElevatorPitch iPhone App to practice their customer pitches. They can use the countdown function to practice their pitch timing and keep a few reminder notes to make sure they consistently deliver their USPs.

Project management is often more about gathering support for ideas than it is about managing people. A consistently delivered elevator pitch can be a great weapon in convincing key stakeholders. With the ElevatorPitch iPhone App in their pocket, project managers are ready to deliver a convincing pitch anytime.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Customer Feedback:
The version currently available in the iTunes store is fairly minimalist and represents a MVP or minimal viable product. The application was built with agile development in mind and frequent user feedback is encouraged. The introductory price was kept especially low to encourage early user feedback. A first upgrade based on user feedback is scheduled to be submitted for appstore approval 2 weeks after initial release. Future upgrades will be free.

Pricing and Availability:
ElevatorPit is only $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. Until December 10, 2009 it is available at an introductory price of $0.99 (USD) to coincide with the LeWeb conference in Paris. The author of the app will be attending the LeWeb Internet conference in Paris on Dec. 9 & 10. Since the LeWeb audience of entrepreneurs, technologists & social media experts is a perfect audience for the ElevatorPitch iPhone app, it will be available during the conference at a special introductory price of $0.99.

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Francis Dierick is an independent iPhone developer living in Germany. He is currently working on entertainment, productivity and business iPhone apps. Copyright (C) 2009 Francis Dierick. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Perth, Australia – Pixelglow Software today launched Instaviz 1.5, the latest version of the first and best diagram sketching software for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch – featuring animated diagram changes, better scrolling and zooming, and batch file operations.

First released in December 2008, Instaviz has become one of the most popular diagramming software on the iPhone platform, with its simple sketch-to-create interface and deep feature set. Enthusiastic users have awarded 3 1/2 stars out of 5 stars over 88 ratings on the iPhone App Store.

Instaviz is NorthCoast Anne’s new favorite thing. “I love being able to use the touch screen to draw shapes and connectors, and then delete what doesn’t work, with just a quick shake of the iPod,” the App Store customer says. “This app is still lots of fun to use, and gives you the ability to create beautiful diagrams. I know I’ll find myself wanting to diagram everything!”

Instaviz 1.5 has an entirely new display architecture, based on the iPhone 3.0 Core Animation layer infrastructure. This results in better diagram display while scrolling and zooming. Diagram changes are now animated to show how the user’s editing actually affects the diagram.

The new version also features batch file operations. Users can now email, export or preview multiple diagrams, while choosing any of four different file formats: Graphviz GV, Acrobat PDF, PNG Image and Visio VDX.

All in all, this version contains 25 different bug fixes and enhancements. “Scrolling and zooming should now be so smooth you don’t notice you’re working on a small screen,” says Glen Low, author of Instaviz. “On the other hand, animating diagram changes is more than eye candy, it draws your attention to how your editing reworks the diagram layout.”

The new YouTube video on the website showcases the app’s amazing ability to recognize shapes and automatically layout diagrams.

About Instaviz:
Instaviz is an iPhone and iPod Touch application that turns roughly sketched shapes and lines into beautifully laid-out diagrams. Instaviz uses Recog, a new shape recognition engine based on advanced fuzzy logic and trained on over 2,500 sketches drawn by real users. Instaviz also uses Graphviz, the industry standard for automated graph layout, representing over 20 years of AT&T research work.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Instaviz 1.5 is $9.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Business category.

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Pixelglow Software synthesizes disparate ideas into simple and intuitive working software solutions. On the Macintosh, Windows and web platforms for over 12 years, Pixelglow Software works with clients ranging from small firms to multinationals like WorleyParsons, AT&T and Autodesk. Their Altivec-optimized SIMD toolkit macstl is well-regarded in numerics and high performance computing circles since 2003. Their port of Graphviz to Mac OS X took two prizes in the Apple Design Awards 2004: Winner for Best Open Source Product and Runner-Up for Best New Product. In 2005, Apple invited Pixelglow Software to tour Australia and New Zealand to demo new features of Mac OS X Tiger during their WWDC roadshow. Copyright (C) 2009 Pixelglow Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Seattle, Washington – Blue Bear Studio today released a new iPhone/iPod Touch game, B.I.T.S Pinball Candiballs. It’s a fast paced, action packed holiday themed pinball game with enough eye candy to concern your optometrist. This is based on our original and successful B.I.T.S Pinball that was featured by Apple in October in both “Hot New Games” and “New and Noteworthy” in the App Store. It’s available now on the iTunes App Store.

Here are some of the games features:

B.I.T.S mode – The main feature of the table is B.I.T.S mode. There are 5 B.I.T.S levels. Each level is subsequently worth more points and you receive bonuses for destroying all the B.I.T.S on a level.

Ball Cloner – Once the ball cloner is enabled you have 60 seconds to clone your ball as many times as you can.

Power Ups – There are 3 hologram phases. After activating the hologram you can get the power-up by passing the ball through the hologram.

Multi-ball Mayhem – If you complete all 5 B.I.T.S levels you’ll enter this mode. For 20 seconds a new ball will spawn each second.

OpenFeint Support:
Leaderboards, 8 achievements, compare your achievements and scores with your friends, automatically tweet your scores on Facebook and Twitter.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
B.I.T.S Pinball Candiballs 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Blue Bear Studio is a small and agile web and mobile game development studio located in the beautiful Seattle, Washington area. We pride ourselves on creating high quality, fun pick up and play products for the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. Copyright (C) 2009 Blue Bear Studio. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Winnipeg, Canada – ZappTek and InterLingua Publishing today are pleased to announce that the EngLits collection of detailed audio and text summaries of classic books and plays, for the iPhone and iPod touch, is on sale for the holidays. Regularly $5.99, each EngLit is available for only $0.99 through the month of December.

With over 50 titles in the full collection, EngLits are detail audio/text summaries of books and plays by Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hawthorne, Bronte, and other authors that can be played on an iPhone or iPod touch. Written by university professors and recorded by professional actors, EngLits tell the full story of the book or drama, including all characters and events that are important. The shortest EngLit is 21 minutes of audio and 10 pages of text (Romeo & Juliet), and the longest is over four hours of audio and 73 pages of text (Middlemarch). By formatting the summaries for iPhones and iPod touches, listeners can learn while riding on the bus, jogging, biking, lounging, and even walking the dog.

Each EngLit displays as an icon on the Home screen and the full featured reader includes:
* Embedded audio summaries
* Read along as you listen
* Continue listening where you last left off
* Double-tap scalable text
* Triple-tap inversion for low-light reading
* Portrait and landscape reading, with orientation locking
* Opens to your last read page
* Includes bookmarks
* Add notes to any page
* Notes are automatically bookmarked for easy look-up while studying

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
EngLits are now available in the Education category of the iTunes App Store. Pricing is $0.99 USD per EngLit.

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Based in Winnipeg, Canada, ZappTek was founded by Michael Zapp in 2002. Beginning with tools to bring calendar and note information into the Contact entries of the original iPod, ZappTek now provides a suite of applications to meet every need. These include iPresent It for giving presentations on the iPod, iPDA for personal information management, iSpeak It to convert documents into MP3/AAC audio tracks, and iPod Launcher to automate all of iPod activities. All Software (C) 2002-2009 ZappTek / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, “Apple App Store”, iPod, the iPod and iPod Touch logo, and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Jacksonville, Florida – Divine Fiat today announced Contemporary, their new theme for Apple’s Keynote Presentation Software. The Contemporary Theme has a colorful but understated way of presenting ideas and images. The American Typewriter font against the subdued and textured backgrounds of tan, orange and two tones of green brings a crisp contemporary style to your presentations. The photo frames slightly hovering with a gentle shadow completes the look.

Feature Highlights
* Supports Keynote Version: 5.0
* Leverages American Typewriter for a crisp look
* Supports 800, 1024, 1280, 1680 & 1920 Theme Sizes
* Text Layouts: 36
* Photo Layouts: 44
* Total Layouts: 80

“This theme was inspired by a birthday card my parents sent me” said Phillip Gore, founder of Divine Fiat. “It’s a great theme with a sentimental attachment for me.”

Contemporary provides a number of different customizable scrollwork objects along with our standard selection of customizable icon objects to change up the look and feel of your presentations. Custom texture and color swatches for each of the four different color backboards along with six suggested alternate picture frames completes the package. Contemporary is a wonderful compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later (Leopard and Snow Leopard Compatible)
* Keynote Version: 5.0 or later
* 59.9 MB Hard Drive space
* American Typwriter Font Required

Pricing and Availability:
Contempoarary is available immediately for $26.00 (USD). Theme sets may be purchased for $46.80, a 10% savings over buying individually.

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Located in sunny Jacksonville, Florida, Divine Fiat is a privately held company founded in 2005 by Phillip Gore. With a focus on innovation, Divine Fiat’s mission is to produce creative themes for Apple’s Keynote presentation software that are elegant and understated, simple but not simplistic, with superior customer service and support. Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Divine Fiat. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Keynote are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Suffolk, United Kingdom – iWebTemplate today is proud to announce iWeb iPhone Templates for Apple’s web construction application. Perfect for click and mortar, website or any online business, these new iWeb Templates were produced for constructing resolution specific websites to be viewed with iPhone and iPod touch devices.

An iWebTemplate exclusive, these templates feature 5 unique customizable themes and will work equally with other mobile devices. iPhone website templates and themes are ready-made website designs, feature many additional options not found in traditionally built themes, and can be used as a basis for a fast and high-quality portable website.

Build and publish a complete iPhone-browsable website in minutes. iPhone developers and business owners who sell their apps on the App Store know how important it is to have a website that conforms to mobile media. And with Apple’s iLife suite, building a good-looking website makes this process a snap. The addition of iWebTemplate’s new iPhone and iPod touch based templates, serves to create extra opportunities for entrepreneurs to get their business on the web with minimal expense, time or skills.

Feature Highlights:
* Resolution Specific
* Websites are easily viewable on any mobile device
* 5 unique customizable themes
* 6 standard pages per template

“In an ever increasing mobile world, we thought it was necessary to enable business’s to reach their target audience not only through the mainstream internet, but also with mobile devices,” said Giuseppe Elia, founder of UK based iWebTemplate. “Coupled with the increase in demand and popularity of iWeb, we commissioned the development of a number of iWeb Themes purposely developed for use with Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices.”

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* iWeb 2 and 3 (iLife 08/09)
* Templates may not be compatible with previous versions of iWeb

Pricing and Availability:
iWeb iPhone Templates are available for only $10.00 (USD) each. Users are encouraged to try out all, or discover those which are most useful to their needs.

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Headquartered in Suffolk, United Kingdom, iWebTemplate is a privately funded company founded in 2007 by Giuseppe Elia. iWebTemplate offers standard website, Flash and iWeb templates, Rapidweaver Themes and other products that can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality website construction and development. All are completely customizable and ready for immediate download. Copyright 2007-2009 iWebTemplate. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iWeb are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. RapidWeaver, and the RapidWeaver logo are trademarks of Realmac Software Limited.

Berkeley, CA – MacEase Software today announced the release of TheMacBundles’ second December 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 continues its innovative approach to marketing high quality software bundles by featuring a new bundle of 12 highly rated titles during each of the first three weeks in December. Each bundle will feature a combination of new tiles and titles from the previous week’s bundle. This provides users with a unique opportunity to find the combination of high quality software that best meets their needs while also saving a bundle of money. All titles in the December bundles work with OS X 10.6.

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 second December bundle includes 12 great titles – including award-winning titles – and is priced at only $49.95 (USD). This represents a savings of over 80%! Additionally, users that purchase a Weekly Special title and the bundle receive a $5 discount off of the bundle, resulting in a price of only $44.95 (USD).

This new December bundle will be available for 7 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.

* Media Rage – is a collection of powerful tools for media enthusiasts. It can read and write information stored in MP3, AAC/MP4, FLAC, AIFF, WAVE, BWF, and Ogg Vorbis audio files as well as EXIF (read only) tags in digital images. Media Rage can assist users in cataloging, organizing, sorting, and updating thousands of audio files with ease.

* 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.

* ViewIt – is a an image viewer that supports most popular image formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD and more. Images can be viewed in a window or in full screen mode. ViewIt also has tools for quick image sorting, printing, digital cameras, and EXIF tags.

* 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.

* Renamer – allows users to rename and number many files at once. Renamer features a powerful chain feature to link multiple naming tasks, presets, and the ability to rename files from the Finder.

* 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.

* Sonic Mood – creates a soothing background of melodic tones and natural sounds when users don’t want the distraction of ordinary music. SonicMood comes with 31 pre-configured “Moods,” an editor that lets users customize or invent new Moods, a recording function, and much 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 Print It! utility is being offered by TheMacBundles for one week for only $14.95 (USD) – this represents a savings of 50%! Also, Funtastic Photos is being offered for one week at over 50% off!

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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.

Adelaide, Australia – TriX Software today is pleased to announce TrailBlazer Lite, the free version of the highly acclaimed TrailBlazer Challenge, the ultimate GPS iPhone app for walkers, joggers, cyclists, and hikers. TrailBlazer displays current speed, recent speed trends, and the path travelled on a map. The map style is selectable from a range of styles to suit your journey or your tastes. For cyclists, the OpenCycleMap is now available as a map style to highlight cycling related features.

It’s a simple one button press to record a bush walk, a jog, or a bike-riding expedition. The recording controls are lockable to prevent inadvertent pausing of the recording. Snap photos, shoot video, and control your music all without interrupting your recording. TrailBlazer doesn’t miss a beat when that important phone call arrives mid-run. Just resume the previous recording when restarting TrailBlazer after the call.

When finished, simply download the trail to a Mac or PC using just a web browser. TrailBlazer automatically creates Google Earth files after each recording, that can be downloaded or emailed to family or friends. The path travelled can even be viewed in Google Earth. A beautifully clean and intuitive interface allows easy access to all the displays and features.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3G, 3GS, 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
TrailBlazer Lite 1.0 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Navigation category.

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TriX Software is a specialist Mac developer with over 6 years experience of software development for the Mac OS X and iPhone platforms. From iMovie and Final Cut Pro plugins, to medical imaging, to iPhone apps, TriX Software has expertise in a broad range of Apple software technologies. Copyright (C) 2009 TriX Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Saint Petersburg, Russia – MacVide today announced MacVide 3gp Converter 3.1, an update to their mobile video conversion utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, MacVide 3gp Converter allows conversion of the most popular video files to 3gp mobile video. It fully integrates the process into the Mac experience by allowing human interaction on the content during conversion. All of the most popular formats are supported, including MOV, 3GP, MPEG, AVI and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. MacVide 3gp Converter is a great tool for using with cellulars and phones.

MacVide 3gp Converter provides powerful functions to set different settings for your video files. It allows you to select crop video area, the bit rate, frame rate, video resolution. Video preview with “rangebar” allows you to choose the exact video footage you want, anywhere between the first and last frames. With MacVide 3gp Converter you will able to convert your entire movie to .3gp or .3g2 and watch it anywhere and anytime. It’s very easy to use and it supports most mobile and cellular devices.

New in version 3.1:
* Improved Video Engine for a quality
* Video processing speed increased up to 3 times
* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support
* Misc bugs fixed

Feature highlights include:
* Convert MOV, AVI, WMV, MPEG video to 3gp
* Time line with ZOOM feature
* Crop video area to remove the black video sides
* Easy to use interface

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 11.4 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
MacVide 3gp Converter is available for only $19.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the Macvide website.

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Located in historic St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Intelus, Ltd. is a privately funded company founded in 2002. Leveraging their longtime experience in the video industry, Intelus’ goal is to develop best-of-breed tools for the Mac platform, and lead to the creation of Macvide. Copyright 2002-2009 Intelus, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Flash, the Flash Logo and Macromedia are registered trademarks of Adobe Inc.