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

San Diego, California – Siavash Ghamaty introduces Recycler, the first recycling-friendly iPhone application for free download. “Recycler”, by developer Siavash Ghamaty, untangles those complicated and seemingly arbitrary PEC plastic codes on the bottom of your recyclables. Acceptable plastic recycling codes vary from location to location. Recycler allows users to add their location’s codes into an attractive interface that makes a green-conscious lifestyle easy.

“I created this application to remind myself of what items I can throw into my recycling and which just don’t go,” Ghamaty says, “After using this application for a couple of weeks, I ended up memorizing the plastic codes and hope other users do the same. It’s a win for the land fills and environmentalists either way.”

When asked how this excells over use of a standard notes application to store this information, Ghamaty replied, “It’s not just a Post-It note or reminder on your fridge that triggers memory, especially for the Mac-friendly user. Everything must look as good as the iPhone, visually appeasing and an overall nice experience. I feel I nailed this on a certain level and hope the audience agrees. Mainly, I just want people to recycle more.”

The App Store features other environmentally friendly tools such as Green Meter which focuses on fuel consumption. Ghamaty’s application is the first of its kind, blending answers to everyday recycling challenges with the convenience of the iPhone.

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Siavash Ghamaty is a computer programming professional and has built other applications for the app store in the games and utilities genres. He runs Ghamaty.com, the home of an Adobe Flex/ Flash and iPhone development blog, as well as support for his iPhone applications. Copyright 2008 Siavash Ghamaty. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

American Fork, Utah – MileBug LITE, a lite version of the premier iPhone mileage log application, is now available for only $2.99 (compared with $6.99 for Standard). MileBug LITE helps those driving their own vehicles for business, charity, medical, or other reasons receive their reimbursement and/or tax deduction. In the U.S., IRS business rates are up to 58.5 cents/mile. MileBug LITE for the iPhone/iPod Touch helps people track their miles and provides emailed reports for easy submission to employers, accountants, and the IRS.

What’s New?
* Option for kilometers vs miles (General Settings)
* Custom deduction rates
* Define multiple business rates (reimbursement vs. deduction)
* “Other” business category for percentage tax filers
* Foreign and other special characters supported in reports
* Notes included in reports
* SPANISH version

MileBug LITE answers the call from the many international customers. Inside the General Settings is now an option to select kilometers instead of miles. From within the Presets, users can define custom rates for business, charity, medical, and other categories. If you get one rate from your employer for reimbursement, and another rate from the IRS for your side business, you simply create two different business rates.

As an added bonus, MileBug LITE supports Spanish. Simply select Spanish as the language of your iPhone or iPod Touch in the General Settings –> International area and restart MileBug LITE. Bienvenido a MileBug!

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Izatt International is an iPhone/iPod Touch application development company in American Fork, UT. Izatt develops applications internally as well as accepts outside development projects. Fingerspell is another application developed by Izatt now available on the App Store. Copyright 2008 Izatt International. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Smithfield, Rhode Island – nFinity Inc. is excited to announce that its award-winning QuickVoice Recorder is now available for the 2nd generation iPod Touch adding to its already existing line of voice recording software for the iPhone, Mac and Windows PCs. And as a special promotion, anyone can purchase QuickVoice for just $.99 simply by making their purchase through Apple’s iTunes (This is a limited time $15 bonus value).

QuickVoice is a professionally designed “touch & speak” recorder, offering many high-end features typically found only in dedicated hardware voice recorders. It is a powerful tool and ideal for business people, educators, students, musicians, and casual users alike. Conveniently record voice notes, reminders, dictation, meetings, interviews, shopping lists, to-do lists, and even entire lectures and multi-session seminars.

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Gimel, Switzerland – Azure Talon Software is proud to introduce iLaugh 1.0, their joke database for iPhone and iPod Touch. For the price of a song, iLaugh is a fun little application that contains an endless database of hilarious jokes. It’s a handy sidekick when entertaining guests, speaking to an audience, killing time or simply to cheer up a friend when they’re feeling down.

iLaugh is quite easy to use, and a perfect companion for comedians who’re searching for that perfect punch line. With sources containing a total of over twenty thousand jokes (some of which are 100% clean), users are guaranteed to always find a new joke. Azure Talon will be releasing two, completely new and great sources very soon.

Supported Languages:
* US English

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.0

Pricing and Availability:
iLaugh 1.0 for iPhone is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.

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Madison, WI – MyWeather(R), an industry-leading developer of digital weather and traffic content, recently released MyWeather Mobile(TM), a groundbreaking weather application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This week, MyWeather proudly announced that after over three months in the Apple’s app store and several significant updates, MyWeather Mobile remains in the top 2% of all paid apps and has been a fixture in Apple’s top 100.

MyWeather Mobile features the iPhone’s first full-screen, interactive radar. By combining these high quality radar loops with Microsoft(R) Virtual Earth technology, the application lets you view weather conditions at your specific location – or any other location around the country. Turning the phone horizontally truly puts you in control by displaying full-screen radar, allowing you to pinch, flick, zoom, and double tap the map down to the street level, exactly as a broadcast meteorologist would. This precision also allows you to view golf courses, schools, stadiums, or any other key points of interest and view the radar at that exact location.

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