The MacTrack – iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple Mac News

Introducing Riva – a revolutionary new experience on the Apple iPad that beautifully showcases Videos, Photos, Web Articles and TV Shows selected specifically for you. Riva learns what you like, and selects streams of it for you; Drag and drop people into groups to filter your stream; Read Web Articles offline, with zero loading time; Streamlined group chat, across Facebook and Twitter; Supports multiple users, each encrypted with an optional password.

Maintain has released Cocktail 5.3.8 (Lion Edition), the latest maintenance update for users running OS X Lion 10.7. Cocktail is a general purpose utility for OS X that lets users clean, repair and optimize their Mac. The application serves up a perfect mix of maintenance tools and tweaks, all accessible through a clean and easy to use interface. This version adds ability to disable startup sound and addresses compatibility issues with USB flash drives.

Indie developer James Hollender’s Life Inventory apps guide users in creating their own Life Inventory, providing greater self-understanding of personality, strengths and weaknesses leading to a better quality of life. Life Inventory for iPad version 2.8 provides additional speed enhancements including Save & Jump to Review button to Answer Fear Questions and Answer Sex Relations Questions activities; Edit button to Review Fear Answers and Review Sex Relations Answers activities; and more.

Tethys Interactive announces the release of Robot Kitten Balloon Assault 1.2 for iOS. Robot Kitten Balloon Assault is a fun for all ages, physics-based balloon popper arcade game, previously released for Android, Facebook and Chrome. The game is now optimized for iTunes and follows a group of robot kittens as they travel from the circus to exotic locations around the globe, hot on the trail of their arch nemesis, Krackles the Clown.

AssistiveWare today released major updates for their popular Proloquo2Go and Pictello apps for iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. The updates will be introduced at this week’s American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Atlanta. Pictello is a simple way to create visual stories, talking photo albums and talking books in 25 languages. Proloquo2Go is an award-winning Augmentative and Alternative Communication solution for those who have difficulty speaking.

RWH Technology is pleased to announce that Speech Cards Lite is now available for the iPad on the App Store. Speech Cards 1.0.2 is a flashcards app for improving the speech and language skills of people of all ages. Use this customizable app to teach categories, articulation, vocabulary, sight words and more. The developer provides a Lite version so that users may try some of the features before upgrading to the full, Professional version.

New app My Health Care Wishes (MyHCWishes) 1.1 for iOS from The Murdocks LLC empowers people to carry their advance care plans with them 24/7, so that they can immediately and accurately convey their wishes – or those of a loved one – with respect to medical complications, life support or end of life, in the event of a medical crisis. Adults 18 year of age or older can deliver their advance care documents accurately and immediately to a physician or hospital in the event of a medical crisis.

Sproutedapps today introduces Nokumo, $39.95 USD, for Mac OS X, a new productivity app that combines a myriad of organizational capabilities to help keep an eye on projects, have a full overview of contacts, prioritize and organize tasks, keep bits of information or write any ideas, plan appointments, meetings, calls and keep the needed documents next to where the action is. The organization module allows users to all the organizations details as well as the projects that users need to complete.

Created by the mad bunch of creative app junkies at vukee, PhotoCal – Your Printed Photo Calendar 1.0 lets users quickly and easily choose from five different template designs, and customize the one that fits their unique vision. Portrait-sized wall calendars can be printed and shipped to themselves, or sent to anyone in their address book, or manually enter any postal address worldwide. Shipping times vary based on location, and start at just six days.

DGKApps today introduces Pic Scout 1.0 for iOS, its new app to aid photographers in finding beautiful new locations to shoot, or help anyone scout out sites to visit while on vacation. Using Panoramio or Flickr you can find popular images around your current location or anywhere in the world. Effortlessly view a map of photo locations in relation to where you are, view photographs taken around your current location, or explore any location in the world using an adjustable search radius and more.