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Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 4.1, the award-winning tool for inserting special characters into your documents across all Mac OS X applications. The new version improves compatibility with OpenOffice and NeoOffice and can detect the current font in MultiAd Creator Pro. It includes a new technique for flexible adaptation to peculiarities of certain applications. Furthermore, PopChar X 4.1 delivers a number of other improvements and fixes for user-reported issues.

Steven Riggs is proud to announce TimeTable 1.5. TimeTable allows you to easily analyze and total the number of hours recorded in iCal. Find trends by searching the details of events and viewing the average, maximum and minimum times spent on projects. This makes it particularly suited for tracking and billing without keeping a second record outside of iCal. Thanks to feedback from customers who helped shape this release.

Macgamestore today announced the release of Righteous Kill for the Macintosh. Developed by Merscom, Inc, Righteous Kill is a downloadable casual game based on the major theatrical movie released in September. It’s a man hunt for a vigilante on a killing spree through 16 locations containing over a thousand hidden objects. Inspired by the motion picture film, Righteous Kill features clips from the movie and 15 animated levels.

Aero Quartet has released Treasured, an app for the Mac that is able to diagnose and preview corrupt movie files. Treasured is the perfect complement to the Movie Repair Service unveiled last year: Video Professionals can now check whether a corrupt file still contains the precious footage and is repairable, directly on their computer and in a few minutes.

Macvide is proud to announce ScreenCap 1.9, their screen recording and capturing utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, ScreenCap allows video recording, single screenshot or timed screenshot series capturing from your Mac. All of the most popular video and image formats are supported. ScreenCap offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the capturing and recording process.

Boinx Software announced today FotoMagico 2.6, an update to its award-winning photo presentation software for professional photographers. The new 2.6 version of FotoMagico Pro now also supports Adobe Lightroom 2 libraries and comes with an plug-in for Aperture, enabling photographers to select their photos from within Aperture and to export them directly to FotoMagico.

Maintain has announced Cocktail 4.2 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. This version adds ability to search and delete corrupted preference files, adds a searchable database of Mac OS system error codes, adds a list of commonly used network ports and improves the clear log files procedure.

Yazsoft is proud to announce the immediate availability of Speed Download 5.0.7 and SD Lite 1.0.4. Overhauled from top to bottom, Speed Download 5 redefines the Mac OS X download manager by combining four amazing products – a turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity – into one small and easy to use application. And now with RSS newsreader integration.