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Nov 21, 2008 Comments

Flash as we know it may never be ported to the iPhone

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When Apple introduced the iPhone we all were shocked when Steve Jobs gave Adobe's Flash a Zero in performance, letting out all the possibilities of a release any day of Adobe most used technology all over the net. Adobe responded with a poor PR stunt letting people knows that they are working to fix Flash performance to meet Steve Jobs's iPhone guidelines, but the real issue here is not about performance, it is more a business decision than a technology problem, here the 2 possible problems facing Apple and Adobe: 1. Adobe Flash + AIR SDK + FLEX SDK With the introduction of Adobe Flash technology to the iPhone Apple will gain million of new web applications, something that will drive more and more people to the platform and if Adobe ports its AIR SDK technology to iphone developers, this could accelerate the business application development even more. Adobe will win while Apple will extend its dominance on the mobile platform, but the real winner is Adobe here, because Apple will depend on Adobe's Flash for development of shiny new applications, something that brings us to the second issue. 2. Adobe Flash = Apple AppStore irrelevant By the time Flash hits the iPhone platform ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

Macgamestore.com Releases Book of Legends

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Hutto, Texas - Macgamestore.com today announced the exclusive Mac release of Book of Legends, a new puzzle/adventure game from Gogii Games. The game was develop by Banzai and published by Canadian-based Gogii Games. In Book of Legends, gamers travel 5 countries. It features a captivating story line, puzzle and hidden objects combined. Here's a brief description of the game: What started out as a casual obsession over the world's most sought after legends becomes reality when a young researcher discoveries a book that could change the balance of power in a centuries old struggle. A book so important that in the wrong hands could be devastating. Follow Zoe and Charleston Black as they unravel a mystery contained within a long forgotten book about one of the world's most mysterious legend of all, Excalibur. Features: * Travel 5 Countries * Puzzle and Hidden objects combined * Captivating story Book of Legends requires a Macintosh computer with Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. A free universal binary demo that runs as a 60 minute trial is available for download from Macgamestore.com. The full version, which can be purchased through Macgamestore.com costs $19.95 (USD) to register. MacgamestoreBook of LegendsDirect Download LinkScreenshotLaunched in 2005, Macgamestore is the most popular Mac gaming store ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

Give Good Food to your Mac is back and kicking

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Montpellier, France - Aquafadas is pleased to announce the launch of the Third Edition of 'Give Good Food to Your Mac'. This promotion is organised by Indie developers from all over the world. Diversity and quality are main features of this community action. Every Mac user can download and taste more than 60 apps and enjoy discounts ranging from 20% to 50%. This year's edition will allow every Mac user to find the software they need amongst: Comic Boom, Cheetah 3D, PulpMotion, RapidWeaver, Tangerine! GhostReader, DEVONthink, HoudahSpot, Renamer4mac and many more great apps. Claudia Zimmer, Aquafadas CEO explains, "We are pleased to introduce the Third Edition of 'Give Good Food to your Mac'. It's a chance for us to build a community among developers and together, create opportunities that would not be possible alone. Mac users benefit from it as they can discover our software at great prices." From the 17th to the 30th of November 2008, Mac users can create their own cocktail of apps and enjoy increasing discounts starting at 20% for 3 apps and up to an amazing 50% for 5 apps or more. Discounts are as follows: * 20% off for 3 apps * 30% off for 4 apps * 50% ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

Jumsoft offers 10 Keynote Themes for free

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Vilnius, Lithuania - Jumsoft today announces the addition of goodies, a free and premium-quality product line, to its 10 Keynote Themes. Professional themes, such as Artistic, Black Table, Black, Education Pro, Iron, Jeans, Old Paper, Portable Pro, Simple, and Wood are available in 1280x1024, 1600x1024, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 sizes. Every theme includes custom bullets. Keynote Themes fit for all business, scientific, educational, informative, persuasive and creative purposes. It is the most affordable and flexible package for free for Apple Keynote presentations. Whether the presentation is technical, legal, scientific, or educational, Jumsoft delivers the appropriate theme. The delivery will be clear; the message will be well-received, and the audience will be absolutely impressed. And regardless the format, PDF, Quicktime, or simply images, exporting presentations will prove to be as easy as presenting them. Installation of Keynote Themes is easy to do. Keynote Themes auto-installs, so all 10 themes will be conveniently displayed in Keynote's Themes menu. System Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later * Apple(TM) iWork '08 The package and all the products free of charge are available immediately. Everyone is welcome to visit goodies, the free and premium-quality product line, and to download 10 Keynote Themes. Moreover, they will also ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

Humble Daisy releases ProfCast 2.3.0 Beta for Mac OS X

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Ann Arbor, Michigan - Humble Daisy is pleased to announce ProfCast 2.3.0 Beta, a major update to their flagship lecture recording and podcast creation solution for Mac OS X. ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast is perfect for professionals and educators alike who need to provide a more flexible, richer media to supplement traditional pedagogical tools such as books, course packs, or notes. ProfCast is a perfect compliment to Apple's iLife Suite. With its integrated workflow, ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts. Feature highlights include: * Records Live Presentations * Supports Multiple File Formats * ID3 Tags for iTunes U * Integrated Podcast Manager * Export to GarageBand * Share to iWeb * URL Linking * Audio Playthrough Support ProfCast sports live presentation recording, synchronization of slides with audio, Keynote and PowerPoint support, RSS generation and publishing support. All elements of a presentation, including slide timings, bullet point builds and voice narration are seamlessly recorded. ProfCast allows users to record their presentation as they give it, and also helps publish recorded presentations as enhanced podcasts, complete with RSS. Based on customer feedback, version ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

A.I.Disk rebrands as OneDisk: the missing link between iDisk and iPhone

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Odessa, Ukraine - Readdle today rebrands its A.I.Disk application as OneDisk to reflect its wide usage as iPhone and iPod Touch connection link to multiple online file storage services at once. Also, OneDisk improves iWork documents support and provides new file management capabilities. The OneDisk is an iPhone application that lets people access documents on the MobileMe iDisk and other online storage services, transfer them to iPhones and iPod Touches, view on the go and even share with friends and colleagues. OneDisk has a built-in file viewer that supports a number of formats including MS Office and iWork documents, PDF, TXT, HTML and others making OneDisk extremely versatile. Also, any document that is stored in OneDisk can be sent by email to anyone in the world. "Firstly, when we aimed to help MobileMe iDisk subscribers connect to the iDisk from their iPhones and iPods, our application was widely adopted by users of Box.Net and MyDisk.se. More surprisingly, it appears that many MobileMe subscribers are extensively using other online storages at the same time. As a result, we decided to rename A.I.Disk to OneDisk, because this name better describes its actual usage", explains Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO. OneDisk in comparison with A.I.Disk has improved ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

Apple Specialist Dealers Announce Huge Pre-Holiday Sale

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The Apple Specialist Marketing Co-op (ASMC) is proud to announce the first annual Apple Specialist Pre-Holiday Sale. More than 130 independent Apple Specialist Reseller locations in the US and Canada are participating in this event. Buyers will receive up to $200 of useful gifts with each new Mac in addition to special holiday pricing on both new and recently discontinued models. A full list of participating locations is available at www.applespecialist.com/sale. "This is the biggest sales event in Apple Specialist history and we've pulled out all the stops," said Kevin Langdon, ASMC Executive Director and owner of Crywolf Computers in San Diego, CA. "We have very strong support from Apple, Brenthaven, Canon, Epson, HP, Mac Video Training and STM Bags -- overall we have the best, most aggressive deals on a new Mac you can get anywhere." Buyers can receive a free color inkjet printer (up to a $99 value, after mail-in rebate), a free "Quickstart Your Mac" training disc (a $40 value) and, with new Mac portables, a free high quality laptop case (up to an $85 value). And that's on top of the special pricing deals that will only be made available to buyers at the event. "Depending on which items ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

PopChar X 4.1.1 improves stability and compatibility with FreeHand 10

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Hagenberg, Austria - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 4.1.1, the award-winning tool for inserting special characters into your documents across all Mac OS X applications. The maintenance release works around a problem with inserting characters in FreeHand 10 and contains a number of fixes for user-reported issues, particularly unexpected termination of PopChar when collapsing or expanding Unicode groups. PopChar X 4.1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, Mac OS X 10.5 is recommended. Visit Ergonis Software's website to learn more about specific enhancements contained in this release and to download a trial copy. PopChar solves a problem faced by every technologist and multi-lingual worker. Inserting special characters into application documents can be frustrating and results in a steady loss of productivity. With PopChar you no longer need to search for and remember keystrokes. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document right away. Pricing and Availability: PopChar can be purchased securely on the Ergonis Software website. The upgrade to PopChar X 4.1.1 is free for all customers who purchased PopChar in the last 2 years. For information about purchases, including enterprise licenses, volume discounts, and upgrade pricing offers, visit ...

Nov 21, 2008 Comments

BdEmailer is the first wide email iPhone app that supports client SMTP

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Vancouver, BC Canada - Bad Dog Apps is a Mac OS X Software house with over 10 years of Mac OS X experience. Today, we are proud to announce the availability of BdEmailer for the iPhone and iTouch on Apple's App Store. This extends our already shipping iPhone apps lineup of BdCraigzList, BdSave$ and BdTranslator. The upgrade to BdEmailer brings even more functionality to the power user's iPhone or iTouch. Want to send a Quick Response directly from BdEmailer, now you can. Tired of struggling to type on the iPhone's tiny keyboard? Why isn't there a landscape option for working with emails? Why can't you save emails in progress or see your sent history? With BdEmailer you can: * NEW and EXCITING - quick responses DIRECTLY from BdEmailer * NEW - more intuitive layout * NEW - can select subject or message ONLY * NEW - you can now add signatures * Type an email in either Portrait or Landscape mode * You can work off-line on emails and store them as drafts * See your Draft History * You can search saved Drafts and Favorites * You can store multiple address for group emails * You can make any saved message a Favorite * You can change the type size ...

Nov 20, 2008 Comments

VelaClock 1.3: a world clock with sun/moon info for iPhone/iPod touch

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Berkeley, California - Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 1.3 for iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch. VelaClock is a world clock with an easily configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, and three kinds of twilight (civil, nautical, astronomical) for both dawn and dusk, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, moon phase and tilt and more. VelaClock is especially popular among photographers looking for the magic hour. VelaClock displays a list of cities and corresponding local times. The rows in the city list can show a daylight bar that gives the user a picture of 24 hours of natural light (bright daylight, three kinds of twilight and night). The daylight bar (24 hours of light) may be centered at noon or the current time. A thin white bar indicates when the moon is visible. The detail area, below the list of cities, has three panels. A quick swipe of the finger will move between the three panels. Detail Panel descriptions: 1. First panel shows: * Time of and countdown to the next sunrise or sunset. * Time of and countdown to the moonrise or moonset. * Name of the current moon phase. * An image of the moon as seen in the ...

Nov 20, 2008 Comments

BYU versus Utah Rivalry comes to the iPhone with iRivalz

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American Fork, UT - Izatt International today announced the launch of the iRivalz website and free iPhone applications for the BYU vs. Utah Rivalry Week. BYU and Utah football fans can now go to the iRivalz website or use their iPhone to vote for their team during rivalry week leading up to the traditional end-of-season contest that has Mountain West Conference Championship and BCS Bowl-berth implications. Fans simply download the free iRivalz-BYU or iRivalz-Utah application from the App Store. Tapping the school logo plays the selected school's fight song and registers a vote with the iRivalz website. All other fans can vote by going directly to the iRivalz website. iRivalz will tally all votes leading up to game time. If totals exceed 100,000 votes by kickoff, iRivalz will make a $1000 donation to the winning school's athletic scholarship fund. In addition to voting, iRivalz also allows fans to sound off by featuring a link to the SmackBoard where fans can comment on the rivalry contest. iPhone application features: 1) Play the school fight song 2) Vote for school 3) Post comments to the SmackBoard 4) Open iRivalz.com in Safari to see vote totals 5) Open SmackBoard in Safari to see others' posts Izatt InternationaliRivalzDownload iRivalz-BYUDownload iRivalz-UtahIzatt International ...

Nov 20, 2008 Comments

Softpress Releases iPhone update and launches Black Friday Promotion

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Oxford, UK - Softpress Systems today released Freeway 5.3, a free update to its award-winning web design software. The release offers a new solution to the problem of displaying Flash Video (FLV) content on the iPhone by placing both FLV and iPhone-friendly QuickTime formats of the movie on the page, and serving the appropriate one for the viewer's device. Additionally, Softpress has announced a special Black Friday promotion. From today until December 7th, anyone purchasing full-priced copies of Freeway Pro or Freeway Express directly from the Softpress Store will receive an iTunes gift certificate via email. Certificates are fully transferrable, and make great holiday gifts. Freeway Pro buyers will receive a $50 certificate and Freeway Express buyers will receive a $20 certificate. More information can be found on the Softpress website. "The absence of Flash video support on the iPhone has been a headache for many designers," Softpress US Marketing Manager Ian Schray said. "With Freeway 5.3, web developers can use Flash movies in their sites, and be confident that iPhone owners won't be left out." New Features: In addition to the ground-breaking features in its initial release (CSS menus, Google Actions, Blogger templates, script.aculo.us Actions and dozens more), Freeway 5 now includes iPhone ...

Nov 20, 2008 Comments

Macware Releases New Expansion Packs

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Omaha, Nebraska - Macware, a leading Mac software publisher, announced today the release of two new expansion packs for Logo Design Studio Pro, the best selling logo design software (based on retail sales reported by The NPD Group). The Big Concept 1 and Alphabet Art 1 both install directly into Logo Design Studio Pro for instant use and feature new vector based logo templates and graphic objects, something no other vector design application offers. "The royalty-free vector designs packed into each new expansion pack give Macware customers incredible value," states Jason Hogrefe, Macware's Product Development Manager, "especially when you consider that outsourcing your logo design can easily run you hundreds of dollars for only a handful of concepts. The new templates and objects work perfectly with Logo Design Studio Pro and provide all the necessary tools to create and package a look that expresses your own unique identity." The Big Concept 1 adds a completely new set of unique logo design artwork and templates based on general conceptual design, and can be used for any industry or interest. The Big Concept 1 includes over 150 new logo templates and 1100+ new logo objects created by graphic art professionals in vector format. ...

Nov 20, 2008 Comments

GhostReader and other applications up to 50% off until 30 November

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Amsterdam - ConvenienceWare(TM) / AssistiveWare(R) today announced that GhostReader with American English or Parisian French voices is available as part of the Give Good Food to Your Mac promotion that runs until 30 November 2008. Mac users can put together a meal of their own taste by choosing from a menu with over 60 great Mac applications. Discounts are as follows: 20% off for 3 applications, 30% off for 4 applications, and 50% off for 5 or more applications. Brought to you by Aquafadas and 50 Indie developers, Give Good Food to Your Mac probably also has a number of items that fit your taste. Try our GhostReader document and selection reader with natural sounding voices as your starter! GhostReader can be used to: Save time * Convert documents to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone * Convert text from news sites and emails to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone Overcome reading difficulties * Listen to selected text in any application with word or sentence highlighting * Point the cursor at text in Safari to hear the paragraph below the cursor * Open Text, Word, HTML, PDF and RTF files in an interactive reader window Proofread * Listen to your own text to proof ...

Nov 20, 2008 Comments

The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6 adds droplet automation

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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - publicspace.net is pleased to announce the immediate availability of The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6, their easy to use file/folder management utility. This latest release of "The Big Mean Folder Machine" adds the ability of storing frequently used settings in "droplet" mini-application and re-applying them to source folders via simple drag & drop. With a familiar assistant-styled interface, The Big Mean Folder Machine is an essential tool for anyone who works with large file collections, including digital photographers, content creation, post-production, system administrators, and other creative professionals. Featuring an industrial-strength copying engine, The Big Mean Folder Machine brings structure and organization by walking the user through each decision. All operations may be performed without worrying about file name collisions; BMFM resolves name conflicts automatically. Unify entire file collections from various locations into a single folder. Or alternatively, split files into several folders based on a range of criteria. Usage Scenarios: * Splitting large file collections into 4Gb "chunks" for backup onto DVD. * Splitting a photo collection into multi-level folder hierarchies by file type. * Splitting music collections by artist and album. * Splitting the User Documents folder into one subfolder per file type. * Merging several file collections into one. Features: * Easy-to-use Assistant Style ...

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