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

Edison NJ – Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery 3.0 supports the recovery of lost data, music, videos, and pictures from Mac hard drives, LaCie drives, iPods and cameras. Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery delivers high-speed data recovery with an intuitive user interface. Developed to easily recover critical data, documents and pictures, audio and video files; including iPod data, Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery achieves successful results from almost any circumstances, no matter how severe or extensive the damage.

This remarkable Mac data recovery software includes:

* 24X5 technical Support and Free Live Updates
* Support for data recovery from iPod and Mac and LaCie hard drives
* Recovers data, images, audio and video
* Recovers over 60 different file formats
* Unicode support
* Four powerful options to recover data in different data loss situations
* Does not change or alter the original data
* Universal Binary – works on both Intel and Power PC

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Chicago, Illinois – Yazsoft is proud to announce the immediate availability of Speed Download 5.0.7 and Speed Download Lite 1.0.4. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X, Speed Download is an easy to use, powerful and reliable download manager. Speed Download sets a higher standard for download manager innovation, and is expressly designed to be a central, unified hub for almost all downloading and file transfer activities.

This new update continues to enhance and tweak the performance of Speed Download to ensure utmost reliability. Version 5.0.6 includes tons of key improvements, and is a recommended update for all Speed Download 5 users.

Some Key New Features in these Versions:
* New: Optimized for Mac OS X 10.5.5
* New: AFP integration and support
* Fixed: Various FTP issues
* Updated: Tweaked WEBDAV connectivity for better performance and vaster compatibility
* Updated: Many under the hood improvements to accommodate for all the changes

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Walnut Creek, California – net4mac is a social network built exclusively for Mac users. This is a powerful internet service that allows you to make new friends sharing the same passion for the Mac platform, build new professional relationships, create groups of interests and much more. We are very proud to announce today the new version of net4mac for the iPhone.

Version 1.0 for iPhone allows you to connect to the service, read your messages, send a new message, browse profiles and search members matching your preferences. The user interface is fully optimized for the iPhone. More features will be added in future versions. It’s just the beginning. The iPhone version costs only $4.99 (USD). All updates will be free and we have a strong pipeline for new features.

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Walnut Creek, California – net4mac is a social network built exclusively for Mac users. In order to become a part of the community and use all its features, users need to download an innovative application designed for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Today, we are launching version 1.5 with many improvements.

The net4mac application allows you to:

* Create an account and login to the service (internet connexion required)
* Create your profile including your location, job, activities, skills and the type of Macs, iPhone, iPod, etc. that you own.
* Add friends to your profile and manage them (remember, the service is only for Mac users)
* Contact members, send invitations to join the community, and manage your messages
* Create your own groups of interest and invite friends to join them (people using the same application, in your same location, sharing the same passions, etc)
* Browse and join groups you find interesting – share discussions, events and more
* Create events and invite Mac users (this is useful if you want to announce the presentation of a product / service, etc)
* Search members using different of criteria (for example, you can find people that use the same Mac or software)
* Discover people around you (other Mac users in your neighborhood)
* And many more functions

There are many good reasons to use an application instead of a website:

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San Jose, CA – app4mac today released CheckUp 1.2, a new update to the innovative tool that allows you to check the health and monitor the behavior of a Mac computer (even from a remote computer). Built from the ground up with Mac OS X technologies, CheckUp features an amazing user interface. CheckUp works with any Mac with a PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Processor.

CheckUp is first designed to monitor the usage of CPU, Memory, Disk Drives and Network Adapters. You can display detailed information about all running processes and pause or terminate these at any time. By adding rules that will be triggered when certain conditions are met for a specified resource on the computer, you can receive visual notifications.

For example, CheckUp can alert you when a certain resource exceeds a certain value or when a hard drive seems to have hardware failures, even when the application is not opened (thanks to an innovative background process and the use of S.M.A.R.T technology). CheckUp can also help you to determine if your computer is able to run Mac OS X Leopard or determine if your computer have enough memory to run all your Applications at the same time.

The graphical user interface is designed with a top priority on high usability in mind. Unlike other competing

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Wichita, Kansas – QuickerTek, the leader in wireless Apple products, announces the Apple Juicz – a new way to power the Apple MacBook Air using solar power. Three models are priced from $500 to $1,000 USD and fold to a convenient 10.5 size and come with a cool Element messenger bag. These solar panels charge the MacBook Air while in use.

The Apple Juicz Solar Charger requires the sun to charge your MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. The flexible thin-film solar cells will charge the MacBook Air in five hours. Since the MacBook Air has a non-removeable battery, alternative power options are welcomed by the Mac community. Especially “green” options.

There are three different solar panels:
* 55 watt model $1000.00 – recharges the MBA in 5 hours, unfolds to 60 x 42 inches
* 27 watt model $600.00 – recharges the MBA in 8 hours, unfolds to 41.5 x 30.5 inches
* 18 watt model $500.00 – recharges the MBA in 14 hours, unfolds to 30.5 x 30 inches

All models require an upgraded MagSafe power adapter. QuickerTek can modify the customer’s adapter for

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Stockholm, Sweden – Snarb.tk today announced the immediate availability of Cover Stream 2.2, a major update to their unrivaled iTunes controller that extends iTunes Cover Flow to the desktop. The new version adds Jukebox mode, mouseover desktop controls, integrated lyrics support, a daemon launcher and plenty of options to customize application behavior and appearance. The new version also resolves a number of bugs in earlier releases and is a recommended update for all users.

Cover Stream is one of the most popular iTunes controllers for the Macintosh, and a true piece of eye candy! Developed exclusively for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Cover Stream extends iTunes Cover Flow to the desktop,

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Does your iTunes library need some TLC, attention, cleaning, sorting out and general first aid?  I know mine certainly does, so I was really excited to learn of a potentially great new utility called ‘TuneUp‘, from TuneUpMedia, the features of which are:

Your music collection is a mess. TuneUp fixes it:

• Automatically clean your mislabelled music
• Find your missing cover art
• Be alerted to upcoming concerts based on your collection
• Get the best music content from the web.

Find your missing cover art.

• Automatically search for missing cover art
• Choose from multiple album covers
• No more grey music notes
• Bring sexy back to your iPhone and iPod

Currently only available for Windows users (boo!) but soon to released for Mac users as well (hurrah!).  You can sign-up for a notification when TuneUp is available for the Mac at the TuneUp website or by clicking here.

TuneUp comment about the availablity for the Mac on their blog:

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Hutto, Texas – Macgamestore today announced the release of Jewel Quest III, the next installment in the extremely popular Jewel Quest series. The game is published by iWin.

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