Sophia Antipolis, France – One month after the release of version 1.0 for the iPad, Montessori Crosswords 1.1 now also runs on iPhone (HD on iPhone 4). L’Escapadou has taken great care to adapt the app to the smaller screen in order to ensure the same level of user experience. In addition, it is now possible to interact with the visual effects displayed every time a crossword is completed for even greater fun.

Montessori Crosswords 1.0 has been on the iPad Education Top 40 Best Sellers list for one month and was featured by Apple as a “What’s Hot” product and a “New & Noteworthy” release under the iPad education category. At the time of writing, its average rating on the App Store is above 4 stars (22 ratings).

CommonSenseMedia awarded Montessori Crosswords 1.0 4 stars on a scale of 5, and wrote the following review: “The best edutainment apps are able to teach kids without condescending to them, and MONTESSORI CROSSWORDS (available only on the iPad) is a beautiful example of this. Its presentation is fun and aesthetically pleasing, but not too sugary as to turn off older kids (the app targets kids as old as 10 and as young as 3). With a database of nearly 300 words and their corresponding pictures, along with tens of thousands of possible crosswords, Montessori Crosswords is a great way for kids to develop literacy in an engaging way that feels like play”.

Montessori Crosswords was created after the founders of L’Escapadou observed their home-schooled daughter having fun with a Montessori picture-spelling activity. They wanted to recreate this experience in a lightweight format, adding all the fun that the iPad/iPhone technology can bring, such as direct interactions, animations and sounds, as well as automatic crosswords construction.

Features:
* Three word series of increasing difficulty as defined in the Montessori method according to the phonetic difficulty of each word
* Level 1 (corresponding to the simplest word series) displays only one word to make the game easier for beginner writers/readers
* In levels 2 and 3, crosswords are created randomly to offer tens of thousands of different combinations (exactly 93,696 for level 3)
* 21 fun, colorful and interactive visual effects displayed every time a crossword is completed to add some fun
* Solutions are always accessible to kids so that they can check spelling on their own, when they feel they need to
* Also featured is a Standalone Movable Alphabet to provide open-ended activities with letters for young children who don’t know letters and their phonetic sounds yet. Letters can be moved, rotated and resized
* Packed with animations and sounds to create a fun and enjoyable experience
* An article on how to use the game as an educational tool following the Montessori principles is provided with the game
* Letter case choice
* Alphabet Layout choice – alphabetical or vowels first and consonants at the end as in Montessori
* Montessori standard colors for vowels and consonants
* Total number of completed words displayed

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 10.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Montessori Crosswords 1.1 is $2.99 USD for one week only. Regular price is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies). It is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. Members of the media, please contact Pierre Abel to obtain a promo code for a free copy of Montessori Crosswords 1.1.

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L’Escapadou is a family design studio dedicated to creating fun, creative and educational apps for iPad and iPhone. We are a homeschooling family, and watching our children – 4 and 7 years old – learn has always been a great inspiration for the educational tools we make. The studio was created after the launch of the iPad with the belief that the iPad can be a great tool for learning and creativity. “Dad” has developed and designed applications on Apple computers since Apple IIe and holds a PhD in computer Science, and “Mom” is a translator currently busy home-educating her daughters. L’Escapadou has already released “Draw with Stars!”, a toy for iPad and iPhone which was featured by Apple in “New and Noteworthy” & “What’s Hot” in iPad/Entertainment category in several countries.

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Seattle, Washington – Intune Media announces the release of two iPhone apps featuring Twisted Tunes song parodies along with content from The Bob Rivers Show. Bob Rivers is heard mornings on KZOK-FM in Seattle, WA, and throughout the world online. The new Bob Rivers Show free iPhone app features:

* Streaming Audio from the latest show
* Video Highlights of the latest shows
* Audio Podcasts of the latest shows
* Pedro’s Jokes of the Day
* Bob Rivers Show Twitter Feed
* Picture of the Day
* Links to Text, Email and Call the Show

The “Plus” version of the app adds deeper access to the above features, streaming audio clips from Bob’s Garage recording studio sessions with classic rock bands, and a library of streaming video clips from Spike & the Impalers, the show’s classic rock cover band.

The centerpiece of The Bob Rivers Show Plus iPhone app is access to the entire Twisted Tunes Library of over 500 songs. Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes are song parody comedy classics, and have been played on thousands of radio stations around the world. New Twisted Tunes will be debuted on the app as they are released, so app owners will be able to hear them first. The Twisted Tunes Library can be browsed by Title, Date, and by Most Popular Tunes. The Bob Rivers Show Plus iPhone app also includes streaming Twisted Tunes Radio, playing a selection of songs from the archives and offering hours of entertainment.

In addition to streaming Twisted Tunes Radio, the “plus” version also includes streaming Spike & the Impalers radio and Bob’s Garage radio. Both stations are available exclusively on this iPhone app, and contain exclusive content from past and present shows.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* .7 – .9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
The Bob Rivers Show Plus is only $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

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Intune Media Group, founded in 1995 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, is a strategic interactive communications and marketing company specializing in development and marketing of websites and interactive applications. Intune Media Group has worked with a variety of businesses, including CBS Radio, Microsoft and Aflac Insurance. Copyright (C) 2010 Intune Media Group. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Newark, California – Redbot Software Inc, today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Military Sniper Academy 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Military Sniper Academy lets the user take the role of a sniper-in-training. User competes to earn their sniper license by successfully completing fourteen drills. The game will test the users skill of accuracy, speed and the ability to quickly find a specific target in a very short amount of time.

There are additional bonuses to unlock and earn throughout the game. Use Nigh Vision bonus to quickly locate a target. Slow Motion bonus allows the user to slow the speed of the crowd. Eagle Eye bonus earns extra points for sniping multiple correct targets in a row.

There are fourteen drills, with numerous targets within each drill and with a set time limit to complete. User receives a pass or fail for each drill completed. All drills must be passed to earn the snipers license. Shooting too many incorrect targets will disqualify the user.

There are drills for:
* Shooting a target with particular color of clothing
* Shooting a faster moving target
* Finding and shooting an exact match
* Shooting a masked target
* Shooting a particular area of an exact target
* Shooting as many targets as possible in a limited time

Game Features:
* On-screen zoom and fire buttons
* One finger scroll scope or two finger scroll background
* Pinch to zoom in and out
* Moving animated targets
* Fourteen drills, with a minimum hit requirement of five targets per drill
* Task Menu that tracks your progress
* On-screen “Innocents Hit” warning and “Eagle Eye” bonus indicators
* Earn bonuses: Slow Motion & Night Vision
* Adjustable sound setting
* Open Feint high scores tracker
* Game instructions
* Auto-save and Resume (iOS 4.0 feature)
* Higher resolution images and interface (for iPhone 4)

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, or iPod touch Compatible
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 11 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Military Sniper Academy 1.0 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Action & Adventure Game categories.

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Redbot Software Inc, is a mobile applications developer specializing in development and distribution of software and applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Redbot Software Inc has created many successful apps and games, both paid and free, which have ranking in the top 100 respective category lists, in the iTunes AppStore. Such titles include Distant Assassin Classic, Distant Assassin 2, Vortex Revolutions, Finger Traffic Navigator, AppMockup, Adventures of the Zombie Sniper, ABC Letters Tracing. Redbot Software Inc is dedicated to consistently producing original and innovative apps. Copyright (C) 2010 Redbot Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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San Francisco, California – Announcing that Innoblock Japan Inc., the developer of kiRay Camera, has just released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch users. kiRay Camera 1.2 is a one of a kind app that lets users enhance and adjust photos, as they take them, with a single tap of the screen. This app is also great for repairing those less than perfect quality older photos that users just can’t bring themselves to delete. The app uses the device’s existing camera, and its three levels of one-touch adjustment assure that users get exactly the result they want, every time.

kiRay Camera 1.2 features include:
* Automatically adjusts common photo defects
* Preview and repair photos as you shoot them
* Swipe to compare “Before” and “After”
* Correct older photos that are already on your roll
* Three levels of adjustment: Neutral, Weak, and Strong
* Share photos with Facebook Connect
* Upload images to Picasa photo album
* Supports 2 languages (English and Japanese)

KiRay Camera operates seamlessly as part of the device’s existing camera. That means it enhances an already great camera with new features like flash and anti-shake compensation that other photography apps do not have. The simple one tap controls make it as easy to correct images as it was to capture them in the first place.

This app uses the same features and capabilities to enhance older photos that are already on the user’s camera roll. KiRay Camera 1.2 offers 3 levels of automatic adjustment, Weak, Neutral, and Strong. Users simply select a level and tap the screen. The app’s unique algorithm automatically detects and adjusts common defects without you having to learn complicated photo editing skills. By swiping the screen to “Flip”, they can compare the enhanced image to the original. They can further improve the picture quality by selecting a stronger level or tapping the button several times to add new effects.

Once the user is satisfied with their image, the app makes it easy to save to their camera roll, share on Facebook, or upload to a Picasa album.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iOS 1.3 or later
* Premium Version – 0.9 MB
* Free version – 0.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
KiRay Camera 1.2 is only $1.99 (USD), but there is also a free trial version. Both are available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Innoblock Japan Inc. is a software development company focused on creating useful and engaging applications for mobile device platforms. Copyright (C) 2010 Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover & Edward Turner. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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San Francisco, California – Smile has released PDFpen 5.0, the latest version of its popular and affordable PDF editing tool for Mac OS X. With this major upgrade, PDFpen includes the ability to redact or replace text, including OCR text. Users can also initiate search-and-replace and search-and-redact functions to remove multiple instances of sensitive information.

“As more people use PDFs to share information, the ability to properly redact private details within documents is critical,” said Philip Goward, Smile founder. “Many high profile cases have come to light recently where sensitive text was exposed in PDFs unintentionally. Redaction in PDFpen removes the underlying text before putting a black rectangle in its place.”

Image editing is significantly more sophisticated in PDFpen 5.0. Users can change the resolution and color depth of a single image or scanned document to reduce PDF file size. Scanned documents can be deskewed in PDFpen, which improves the performance of OCR results. PDFpen 5.0 also adds contrast adjustment and other image effects.

With performance enhancements, PDFpen 5.0 is faster. The new version improves handling of larger PDF documents. OCR is now multi-core, enabling parallel processing of multi-page documents.

A new version of PDFpenPro has also been released. In addition to all of the features of PDFpen 5.0, PDFpenPro 5.0 can now convert websites and other HTML documents into PDFs, complete with hyperlinks. With PDFpenPro, users can create fillable PDF forms and document table of contents as well.

What’s new in PDFpen 5.0:
* Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) only, 64-bit
* Faster operation, better capacity to handle larger documents
* Multi-core OCR processes multiple pages in parallel
* Redact or erase text, including OCR text
* Search and replace text
* Search and redact text
* Forms support list widgets and http submit button
* OCR enhanced to handle colored text on a colored or shaded background
* Deskew scanned document pages for improved OCR
* Change resolution and color depth of a single image or scanned document to reduce PDF file size
* Adjust contrast and apply other effects to a single image or scanned document
* Enhanced selection of objects or text by auto-select of needed tool
* Auto-detection of URLs in text so that they can be clicked
* Select text within any rectangular region for copying (via option select)
* Pinch to zoom via trackpad; zoom by chosen percentage
* Measurements shown for rectangular selection and crop
* Facing pages viewable with page one shown on the left or right
* Print to pre-printed forms with option to print only the information added to a document
* Scale setting observed when printing
* Convert a website into multi-page PDF document (PDFpenPro only)
* Create list widgets and pop-ups (PDFpenPro only)
* Create submit button to submit form data via web or email (PDFpenPro only)
* Backend integration enables gathering data from http-submitted forms (PDFpenPro only)

PDFpen features:
* Add text, images and signatures to PDF
* Correct text in original PDF with editable text blocks
* Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF
* Redact or erase text, including OCR text; use search-and-redact or search-and-replace
* Adjust resolution, color depth and contrast in an image or scanned document
* Scan directly from Image Capture or TWAIN scanners
* Perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on scanned documents
* Insert and remove pages; drag and drop to re-order pages in a PDF; combine PDFs
* Fill out interactive PDF forms
* Copy and paste rich text; retain fonts and formatting when copying from PDFs
* Select and copy text across multiple columns
* Add (and print) notes and comments
* Mark up documents with highlighting, underscoring and strikethrough
* Save frequently-used images, signatures, objects and text in the Library
* Save PDFs directly to Evernote
* Convert a website into a multi-page PDF document (PDFpenPro only)
* Create cross-platform fillable PDF forms (requires PDFpenPro)
* Create and edit Table of Contents (requires PDFpenPro)
* Automate PDF manipulations with AppleScript
* Available in English, Japanese, German, Italian, and French

PDFpen 5.0 and PDFpenPro 5.0 require Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Fully-functional demo versions are available at the Smile website

PDFpen will retail for $59.95 (USD), PDFpenPro for $99.95. Family Pack licenses, which may be used on up to as many as 5 computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen and $119.95 for PDFpenPro. Upgrades from earlier versions of either application are $25.00, and free to users who purchased on or after February 14, 2010. Upgrades from any version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 5.0 are $40.

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Smile makes productivity software for Mac OS X and iOS devices, including PDFpen, the PDF editing software that won an Editors’ Choice Award from Macworld and The Mac Observer; TextExpander, the typing shortcut tool that was named a Mac|Life Editor’s Choice; TextExpander touch for the iPhone and iPad; DiscLabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program; and PageSender, feature-rich fax software that also received a Macworld Eddy award. Copyright (C) 2010 Smile. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Los Angeles, California – Elite Fitness Expert and Celebrity Trainer Michael George announced the release of the Intelitrainer(R), his new app for the Apple iPhone, iPod, and iPad. The Intelitrainer(R) creates a customized workout routine which adjusts specifically to the skill level and fitness goals of the user. “It’s like having a personal trainer or me in your pocket,” Michael George explains.

“The Intelitrainer(R) is unique from other apps in several ways,” Michael George points out. “Not only does it create a fresh, custom routine tailored to the individual user each time he or she works out with it, but it also gives you a number of exercises not seen in any other application.” The application’s extensive database includes Michael George’s “2-in-1″ and other specialty, multi-purpose exercises which he created through years of personal training experience and extensive education – the same exact exercises Michael has been using for years to sculpt his A-list Celebrities’ bodies fast!

Along with varying the exercises each time the user works out with the application, the software learns about the user’s strengths and weaknesses based upon feedback provided during workouts. From that information the application will customize future workouts to keep them challenging but not overly difficult unless the user chooses to make the routines harder.

“You want the exercise to challenge the user just to the point of failure. That will give you the most benefit in the shortest amount of time,” Michael notes. The technology behind the application is designed to reach this point based upon the user’s feedback.

The Intelitrainer(R) is designed for men and women of all fitness levels. As such, it provides a wide variety of exercises, all of which have professional video demonstrations and detailed text explanations.

“I love the descriptions, and the videos help tremendously,” explains Calvin Pura, one of the first users of the Intelitrainer(R).

The range of exercises the Intelitrainer(R) uses is enormous and includes free weights, cables, machines, weighted balls, Swiss ball, Bosu ball, bands, and ankle weights as just a few examples. The Intelitrainer(R) allows users to select which equipment is available to them and the application will limit its selections accordingly. “The equipment feature is great. The application feels very personal and customizable,” said Pura.

Not only can the user ask the Intelitrainer(R) to build a workout for him or her, but users can create their own specific workout or save a workout built by the application for future use. For example, one can create a short weekday lunchtime or end of the day routine, and save longer workouts for the weekend. Exercises are organized by muscle group, and include traditional exercises, stretches, Yoga poses along with Michael George’s proprietary CORE, balance and plyometric exercises.

Michael George has transformed some of Hollywood’s most dynamic A-list celebrities such as Reese Witherspoon, Toby Maguire, Julianne Moore, James Spader, Meg Ryan, Christian Slater, Sela Ward, Matt Dillon, Slash, Dennis Quaid and even professional athletes, like boxer Fernando Vargas. He has had numerous national television appearances, including as a featured guest on ABC’s “The View” and Good Morning America.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 2.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Intelitrainer 1.0.2 is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare & Fitness category.

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Michael George is transforming the health and fitness industry with his innovative training philosophies and inspirational voice. As one of Hollywood’s most sought after celebrity trainers and fitness experts, his intention is to strengthen the spirit along with the body. He is the creator of the revolutionary 2-in-1 Training System as well as author of the book “Body Express Makeover” in which he highlights how to use his unique 2-in-1 total body exercise programs that can be done in as little as ten, twenty or thirty minutes a day. Intelitrainer(R) is a registered trademark Copyright (C) 2010 Michael George Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Intelitrainer(R) is a registered trademark of Michael George Enterprises, Inc.

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Los Angeles, California – Announcing that Uvento LLC, the developers of iPicasso – Picasa Web Albums Manager, has released their latest update for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application is a powerfully robust tool that allows users to access, view and manage their Picasa accounts. This latest update is a major one, offering even more versatility and function to the already feature-rich application, such as bulk operations, video uploading, passcode locking, cache control and an improved user interface.

iPicasso is designed specifically to easily access, view and manage Picasa accounts. Users are able to download and cache multiple account photos and videos then give their device screens a single tap to access them. Because of the caching, photos can be viewed anytime, anywhere. Presently, videos are not cached and users are able to clear their photo cache should they need to.

Before this latest update, iPicasso already contained a cornucopia of impressive features that any Picasa account holder would love. Now, major additions have optimized the application for the iPhone 4′s retina display and made the app even more functional, versatile and fun.

Users can take advantage of bulk operations, which helps them to manage multiple photos at once, upload videos from their devices, protect their privacy with passcode locks and control their caches. Developers have included an improved interface to make using iPicasso more enjoyable, as well.

This is a list of what iPicasso offers:
* Handles multiple Picasa accounts
* Users can add friends’ Picasa accounts, view and comment on their photos
* Pinch-zoom
* Video-playback (videos are not cached)
* Batch photo and video uploading
* Manage existing and create new web albums
* Edit album metadata (title, date, summary, location, access)
* Photos are cached and can be viewed offline, videos are not cached
* Clear cache when needed
* Themes
* Select desired photo size for downloads
* Select desired album sort order (by name or date)
* View and add comments
* Email photos and links to photo albums
* Japanese localization
* Preserves most EXIF tags and geotags (requires iOS4 and Location Services enabled)
* Photo Slideshow
* Tweetie-like “pull-to-refresh”
* Bulk Operations – save, email, delete or move multiple photos at a time
* Passcode Lock to protect privacy of albums
* Cache Control to cache entire albums at once
* Graphics optimized for iPhone4′s Retina display

The iPicasso app also lets users view their friends’ Picasa photos and videos, or share their own with others.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 3.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
iPicasso – Picasa Web Albums Manager 1.3.1 is only $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Uvento is a software development company with a commitment to building quality applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Copyright (C) 2010 Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover & Edward Turner. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Burnley, United Kingdom – Ascii Studios today is pleased to introduce Talking Presidents 1.0 for iOS, their entertainment app which allows users to create, email, and post comic video parodies containing their own morphed voice and the Presidents from Mt Rushmore. Talking Presidents expands the popular Talking Character concept by allowing movies to be made with multiple personalities. The included morphing control panel allows the user to tweak their voice to create humorous voice effects. The app requires a microphone for recording voices. Both the iPad and iPhone have built-in mics, but the iPod touch requires an external, plug-in headset/mic.

All characters simulate speech using complex, voice-dependent animation of their mouths. The mouth does not simply move up and down. Rather, it moves realistically, syllable by syllable. The character’s eyes blink convincingly at the beginning or end of some sentences, further adding to the illusion.

Once recorded, the voice may be altered using the built-in DIRAC Time Stretch/Pitch Shift technology, which allows simultaneous, independent control of tempo, pitch, and resonance. It is quick and simple to create a high-pitched cartoon voice which speaks at normal speed. Following the creation of an animated clip, it is easy to create another using a different character and different voice effect. Clips are saved in the order created, and may be exported or saved as a single, multi-clip movie. In this way characters may engage in an entertaining dialogue if desired.

Feature Highlights:
* Create, save, and share animated characters featuring your own voice
* Extremely simple to use: just pick a character and touch the red record button
* Recorded voices may be morphed in limitless ways using built-in DIRAC technology
* Share your finished move on Facebook, YouTube or email from within the app
* Create multi-character, dialog driven movies by stacking clips to create a movie

“Entertain your friends on FaceBook and YouTube with irresistible animated characters speaking in crazy voices,” said company Director Stephen Eddy. “Talking Presidents 1.0 employs sophisticated animation and sound technologies and the end result will be sure to make you laugh.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad or iPod touch (requires external headset/mic)
* iOS 3.0 or later
* 6.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Talking Presidents 1.0 is available now worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. Review copies are available upon request.

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Located in Burnley, UK Ascii Studios is the entertainment division of Gigabyte Solutions Ltd. The company was established in 1995 by Stephen and Jacqui Eddy as a husband and wife Team. Gigabyte Solutions is a leading developer of innovative mobile applications. The company has a wide variety of successful products in the App Store in the Entertainment, Lifestyle, Utilities and Productivity categories as well as many Award Winning Pocket PC applications. Copyright (C) 2010 Gigabyte Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPad, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Toronto (ON), Canada – Zevrix Solutions today announces BatchOutput 3.9.2, a maintenance update to its popular professional solution to automate printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Developed originally at one of the largest ad agencies in Canada to boost productivity of its prepress department, BatchOutput automates and simplifies workflow of printers, service providers and publishing houses.

BatchOutput is a workflow automation solution which interacts with Acrobat Pro preflight engine, provides file delivery capabilities, and integrates fully with the Finder. Users only need to select the files to output and adjust the settings, and the rest will be done automatically. The users can work with other programs while BatchOutput is running in the background. Or they can let it work while they’re on a lunch break or even leave it working overnight to output hundreds of documents, and the job will be done when they return in the morning.

BatchOutput can also automatically preflight final PDF using Acrobat Pro droplets and even send the output files to FTP and local destinations complete with email notifications.

“BatchOutput has been the single biggest time-saver I’ve encountered in ten years of print production.” – says Mike Agate, Head of Contents Production of Which?, Europe’s largest consumer rights organization, – “Easily saves hours a week, producing bullet-proof, single-page PDFs, over and over. I run over 5,000 pages a year, plus their low-res online equivalents and, with the reduction in head count and efficiency savings, it must have paid for itself 500 times over.”

BatchOutput automates printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, INX, IDML and various image formats. It offers the following powerful capabilities:

* Print and export hundreds of InDesign files with a single click
* Output files as single pages
* Update links automatically
* Assign complex variable file names
* Preflight final PDF automatically with Acrobat Pro droplets
* Send final files automatically to FTP and locally

The new update suppresses InDesign color setting mismatch warnings during output. It also fixes an issue in which resolution of images exported from InDesign CS3 defaulted to 72 dpi regardless of BatchOutput settings. BatchOutput is also available as a server version which offloads printing and exporting to a central system by automatically processing InDesign files from hot folders.

Pricing and Availability:
BatchOutput 3.9.2 can be purchased from the Zevrix web site for $129.95 (USD), as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. Upgrade to BatchOutput 3.9 is free for users of version 3.x, and $51.98 from earlier versions. Includes free license of File Courier (a $19.95 value). BatchOutput is available for Mac OS X 10.4.2 and higher, a Universal Binary, and works with Adobe InDesign CS-CS5.

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Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF and graphic file diagnostics and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit their website. Copyright (C) 2010 Zevrix Solutions. All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, Germany – ExactCODE continues to improve OCRKit, and bring streamlined and easy to use text recognition to the Mac. OCRKit recognizes text from images and PDF documents and transform them into searchable PDFs by using advanced Optical Character Recognition technology. The latest OCRKit update 1.5 allows to save HTML and RTF formats and TXT UTF-8 encoded plain text. In addition it improves the recognition and stability of OCRKit plus the user-interface translations got updated.

OCRKit comes as a native, Intel Macintosh application focusing on usability and simple to use. By dragging a document onto the application icon a searchable and multi page PDF is quickly created. OCRKit helps to organize the office workflow: By making received information, in image or PDF form, from a copier, scanner, receipt or via e-mail editable and indexable to find them with Spotlight or manage them in a database application.

OCRKKit comes with support for many OCR languages, including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and even more user-interface translations: English, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified-Chinese, Traditional-Chinese, and works with Apple Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 as well as with the ‘Snow Leopard’ version 10.6. on Intel Macs. The support of AppleScript allows professionals to create dedicated solutions for specific and even difficult workflows.

What’s new in OCRKit 1.5?
* added support to save Html (Hyper Text Markup Language) format
* added support to save RTF (Rich Text Format) format
* added support to save TXT UTF-8 encoded plain text
* improved recognition and stability
* updated user-interface translations
* many other improvements

Other features of OCRKit:
* Streamlined and easy OCR for Mac OS X
* As simple as drag and drop files to the application icon* Can read existing PDFs and many popular raster image formats, including TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, BMP, PNM and more
* Creates Portable Document Files (PDF), virtually readable everywhere
* Powerful automatic image filters, as well as optional de-screen
* Rotate documents on-the-fly
* No limits, neither on the daily processing volume, nor pages per document

Pricing and Availability:
OCRKit is available for the special introductory price of EUR 39 or $49 (USD) till end of September. Thereafter it will be available for EUR 49 or $59 (USD) online, and several distributors and resellers world-wide. OCRKit – powerful, streamlined, yet affordable OCR for Mac.

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ExactCODE GmbH is a research and development company located in Berlin, Germany. The founders have more than 10 years experience in porting the GNU Compiler Compilation, Linux and micro-kernel and a strong background in various other Open Source projects, low-level system software and scientific background. With skills in system and application software development and hardware design, as well as system administration and deployment, ExactCODE creates individual and award winning products combining existing software modules with new solutions developed dedicated for the contracted purpose. The key focus lies on real-time, digital signal processing, multimedia applications and communication solutions. Avision and all other registered names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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Caracas, Venezuela – Phenom Studios has released Bilboquet 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Bilboquet (also called Ring and pin game or Kendama in Japan, is an old game of dexterity, invented in France in the 16th century) allows you to control the well-known toy in a virtual representation, the goal is to manage the balance and make as many hits as you can, unlock five bilboquets and share your records through the social network OpenFeint.

Players tilt their iPhone or iPod touch to move the bilboquet base, and try to align it to the random moving head, First levels are easy because the cycle speed is low but this speed is incremental over each level making the higher levels hardest to master, there is unlimited levels to play the only limit is your ability.

The game is created using iTorque 3D Game Engine and there is 4 Bilboquets to unlock including: Ice, Lava, Ball Cup and Kendama with diferent hit special effects and level background picture. OpenFeint social gaming network is supported with leader boards and achievements.

Features:
* Five original Bilboquets
* Accelerometer-Based Control
* Unlimited level gameplay
* High quality graphics
* OpenFeint enabled

Gaming tips:
* Hold your device with both hands, it gives you more balance
* Remember to use your Power-ups, that help you to get higher levels
* Check your level bar to know how close are to pass to the next level

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch
* iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* Application size 15.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Bilboquet 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games/Arcade category.

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Phenom Studios is an emerging company in the world of video games and 3D animation dedicated to innovate in all areas. Our goal is to create the most diverse and interactive content allowing our users a unique experience. We are beginning to focus our efforts on the world of portable devices such as iDevices and work very hard to jump to the PC-Mac, and last generation consoles in the games field. Copyright (C) 2010 Phenom Studios. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Helsingborg, Sweden – Today Frictional Games, the makers of the Penumbra series, is happy to announce that Amnesia: The Dark Descent is now available for instant download. This represent the culmination of the three years of hard work and we are very proud of the final result. We believe it to be a huge improvement over our previous work, the Penumbra series.

One of our goals with Amnesia: The Dark Descent has been “availability”, meaning that the game should be as available as possible for those that are interested in playing it. Because of this, the game is having a simultaneous launch on Windows, Mac and Linux. It also comes with four translations in addition to the original English version, is DRM free and available from most major online retailers in addition to our own online store. Finally, the game itself has also received our utmost attention in areas that affect the ease of use and interaction with the game world.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a first person horror game with a focus on immersion. It is a game where atmosphere and story comes first. We hope that the game will be a breeze of fresh air, in a genre otherwise populated by “one-man-army action hero” sagas. In Amnesia you are almost completely defenseless, something we believe not only makes the game a lot scarier, but also gives a vastly different experience. Enter an interactive nightmare where reality is a fragile concept. Do you have what it takes to survive?

Selected press quotes

“Few games are able to conjure up an atmosphere this genuinely frightening.” – IGN

“Despite its title, Amnesia remembers what the blockbusters of survival horror seem to have forgotten: how to horrify.” – PC Gamer UK

“I think it is safe to say that Amnesia is the most successfully frightening game to have been made.” – Rock Paper Shotgun

“I must say Amnesia is a masterpiece of horror, something surely all other horror games could take from and in some senses, strive to be.” – NeoSeeker

Recommended Computer Specifications:
* Windows XP/Vista/7, OS X 10.5.8/10.6.4 or Linux distribution released in 2010.
* NVIDIA GeForce 6 / ATI Radeon HD.
* 2.0 Ghz CPU.
* 2 GB RAM.
* 2.5 GB Free hard disk space.

Languages:
* English – with localized text for French, German, Italian and Spanish

Recommended Computer Specifications:
* Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
* Windows XP/Vista/7, OS X 10.5.8/10.6.4 or Linux distribution released in 2010
* NVIDIA GeForce 6 / ATI Radeon HD
* 2.0 Ghz CPU
* 1 to 2 GB RAM (depends on OS)
* 500 mb of free disk space

Pricing and Availability:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is priced at only $20.00 (USD).

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Frictional Games is a small independent game developer located in the south of Sweden or, to be more precise, located on the Internet – the company is office-free. We develop unique technologies in form of a game engine and tools that are tailored specifically after the games that we create. Currently with a crew of five in-house and a network of contractors to utilize during production we can be dynamic and efficient, increasing production at key moments. Copyright (C) 2010 Frictional Games. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Traverse City, Michigan – MacUpdate has launched its latest software bundle featuring Roxio Toast 10 Titanium and nine other top Mac applications worth $400 for just $49.99.

Included in the limited-time bundle are:

Toast 10 Titanium ($99.99) – The de facto disc burning standard for more than a decade, Toast 10 Titanium is a multi-trick multimedia powerhouse. Beyond burning and copying every sort of disc imaginable, Toast 10 Titanium packs plenty of additional features, from converting your media to iOS-friendly formats to recording audio from any Mac application or your old vinyl and tapes.

Live Interior 3D Standard ($49.95) – With perfect 5-out-of-5 ratings from MacFormat magazine and Architosh.com, Live Interior 3D is one the most powerful and intuitive interior design apps for Mac users.

My Living Desktop ($34.95) – Turn your desktop into a serene setting with the only video desktop and screen saver available for the Mac. An Apple Staff Pick, My Living Desktop lets you watch a setting sun, rolling waves, or more than 20 other scenes in your background instead of a static picture.

Espionage 2 ($34.95) – Easily encrypt and password protect individual folders, and interact with them straight from the Finder. Espionage also makes it easy to protect sensitive application data like email databases or chat logs with just a couple clicks!

ShareTool 2 ($25) – ShareTool enables Macs on different networks connect with each other as if they were on the same network, even if they’re on different continents. Now you can share files, printers, stream iTunes, and more between Macs no matter where you are. And its easy setup and robust encryption means you can even protect all your Internet traffic while on the go.

Get Backup Pro ($39.95) – Get Backup Pro is a powerful backup and disk cloning utility with a file/folder synchronization capability that’s especially handy for keeping files current between multiple Macs.

Cashculator ($29.95) – Cashculator is a different kind of personal finance application – instead of focusing on the past and logging previous transactions, it focuses on future by forecasting your financial situation.

MindNode Pro ($24.95) – An elegant and simple-to-use mind-mapping application that helps to visually collect, classify and structure ideas, as well as organize, study and solve problems.

Concentrate ($29.00) – Work and study more productively by eliminating distractions. Concentrate will launch the apps you need to accomplish a task, quit the ones you don’t, block you from visiting distracting sites like YouTube or social networking, and more – so you can focus on the task at hand.

Voila 3 ($29.95) – Voila is a professional/creativity tool that lets you record or capture your screen, then annotate, organize and share those videos and images. Descriptions become a thing of the past; with Voila you can show people exactly what you mean.

“We’re excited to provide our customers with this fantastic opportunity to get a great collection of software at an equally incredible price,” said Misha Sakellaropoulo, Chief Operating Officer of MacUpdate. “Toast has been one of the most popular Mac apps for years, and alongside nine other terrific titles in this bundle Mac users can look forward to enjoying and doing more with their Mac.”

Pricing and Availability:
The MacUpdate September 2010 bundle is available for $49.99 (USD) exclusively from MacUpdate Promo through September 22, 2010.

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MacUpdate was founded in 1997 and is the leading Mac software site on the Web. MacUpdate remains independently owned and operated and represents one of the largest Apple communities online. MacUpdate Promo was launched in 2006 and delivers 24-hour daily software deals and periodic bundles.

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San Francisco, California – Obscure Apps HD 1.0 by independent developer Paul Masson is currently listed under New & Noteworthy iPad Utilities in the App Store. Obscure Apps HD helps to improve the discoverability of the App Store by presenting lists of highly rated yet virtually unknown apps: apps that are loved by small groups of people, but that rarely get the attention they deserve.

For each category of the the App Store, and each subcategory of Games, the user can browse a list of selected apps. Touching an app drills down for essential details pulled directly from the App Store. Each listed app can then be viewed in the App Store itself for purchase.

The apps listed in Obscure Apps HD are selected by a custom algorithm incorporating planned regular updates. Each new update will offer a different snapshot of the App Store’s most highly rated yet virtually unknown apps. Obscure Apps HD features apps either specifically for the iPad, or compatible with both the iPad and iPhone. Its companion Obscure Apps features apps for the iPhone or iPod touch. Try both to unearth the rare gems of the App Store!

Device Requirements:
* iPad Compatible
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 0.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Obscure Apps HD 1.0 is available worldwide in the Apple App Store for $0.99 in the Utilities category. Promotional codes are available to established reviewers: please specify your website or blog in any request.

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Located in San Francisco, California, Paul Masson continues development for the exciting iOS platform. All Material and Software (C) 2010 Paul Masson / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, the iPod logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Kansas City, Missouri – Automotive Data Systems (ADS) today is pleased to announce the release of Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0.2 for the Apple iPhone. Car Tell Auction Prices is designed to empower and protect consumers during their vehicle purchase negotiations with used car dealerships. Car Tell Auction Prices provides users with highly-valuable confidential pricing information showing what used car dealers actually paid for used cars in their inventory. This critically important information has, until now, been nearly impossible for the average consumer to access or attain.

The simple to use app allows you to brows through 60k+ records from the last 30 days covering all makes from everyday passenger cars, hybrids, trucks, SUVs’ and minivans to high end exotics separated into East Coast, Midwest and West Coast regions. Sort by year, make, model and price or create custom detailed searches allowing you to filter the results down to mileage, year or price ranges for a specific make and model.

“This is an industry first. Car Tell Auction Prices, along with Web and WiFi technology is protecting buyers around the country from being taken advantage of and paying outrageous prices for used cars,” said Laurence Gorman, Automotive Data Systems founder and CEO.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 1.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Car Tell Auction Prices 1.0.2 is $9.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the Apple App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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Located in Kansas City, MO, Automotive Data Systems (ADS) was founded in 2010, it currently employs 30 people covering 48 states and is rapidly growing. For more information on ADS, visit them online. Copyright (C) 2010 Automotive Data Systems. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Manhattan, New York – Award-winning Edutainment children’s app publisher and developer iMagine machine today is pleased to announce the release of Faces iMake-Creative Craziness!, a new version to its hit iPhone app.

Faces iMake-Creative Craziness!!!, winner of the 2010 Creative Child Awards Program is evolving into Faces iMake-Premium!

Developed in conjunction with internationally renowned author and illustrator Hanoch Piven and based on his highly acclaimed artistic style and workshops. Faces iMake-Premium! is not only an introductory tool for the amateur artist, but a great one for the seasoned artist as well.

Piven, winner of Time Magazine’s, “One of Ten in Best Children’s Books” and straight off the pages of Time, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, says about Faces iMake: “I wanted Faces iMake to be a virtual workshop with me and reflect what happens in the real world when you work with objects. All great art is born from playing. Therefore Faces iMake is a game as much as it is an art workshop.”

In Faces iMake Premium! some great new features were added:
* Users can now manipulate and distort their own pictures taken with their iPhone camera or upload them from their library, adding a whole new social gaming aspect to the app
* Head shapes are now not only on white but different colors and new shapes were added
* Creations can now be framed as a new category of frames was added
* Two new categories of objects, Candy and Music were added as well

Plus the regular good old features:
* Saving faces to the photo gallery or assigning them to contacts
* Uploading creations to Facebook or sharing them by email
* Inspiration from Hanoch Piven himself through art lessons filmed in his studio

Faces iMake Premium! is still getting better and better:
Resizing objects, a feature widely requested by users is on the works now, and will be released within a month with the first update!

“For us, the ability to develop apps for young minds, thirsty for creative outlets, makes us think like children -that everything is possible and creativity through art is exactly that.” says founder Eyal Dessou-Tzafrir from his offices in Manhattan.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 13.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
2010 Faces iMake-Premium! 1.0 is $2.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. To learn more about iMagine machine and sign-up for a chance to win an iTunes gift card visit them online.

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iMagine machine is an Award-winning Edutainment children’s app Publisher and developer of of innovative and cutting edge iPhone applications. Originally focused on children’s applications, iMagine machine incorporates unique and intelligent programming to create and publish creative and entertaining applications for the iPhone platform. iMagine’s “Faces iMake-Creative Craziness” has won the 2010 Creative Child Awards Program Media Of The Year Award. Copyright (C) 2010 iMagine machine. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom – Kevin Ng Games has reduced the price of popular iPhone game WordCrasher from $1.99 to $0.99 USD. The latest version also brings multitasking to iOS 4 devices, and online leaderboards have been upgraded to include options for viewing daily and weekly stats.

WordCrasher is a tactile physics-based word game. Described by The Unofficial Apple Weblog as “Boggle meets Tetris”, the game reached #3 in the UK “Games | Word” category and #5 in the same category in the US. WordCrasher has also received coverage on the websites of Wired and The Huffington Post.

One of the key innovations which WordCrasher brings to the word game genre is the tracking of every new word the player enters. “The current top player has a vocabulary score of over 18 thousand words.” says Kevin Ng. “This is remarkable because it is estimated that the average well-educated English speaker has a vocabulary of between 10- and 20 thousand words”.

The vocabulary tracking feature has also unearthed a peculiar brain phenomenon. “No matter how many thousands of words you enter into WordCrasher, you always seem to know if you have entered a new word or not,” says Kevin Ng. “Players from around the world have all told me they have experienced exactly the same thing.”

Feature Highlights:
* Worldwide online score boards and achievements
* Facebook and Twitter integration
* Two gameplay modes – the classic “Marathon” and the more difficult “Flood Panic” which introduces water and buoyancy into the mix
* Realistic tactile physics. Letters bounce and roll around as they fall
* Tilt the screen to fill the gaps and keep the Game Over screen at bay
* The game tracks the size of your vocabulary. Enter new words and expand your repertoire to climb the worldwide vocabulary leaderboard
* Over 65000 words recognized, in US, UK and International English
* OpenFeint support. Earn achievements to increase your OpenFeint score
* Smooth graphics and gameplay on all iPhone and iPod touch devices
* Multitasking on iOS 4 (multitasking compatible devices only)

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 12.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
WordCrasher 1.4 is now only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Located in Edinburgh, UK, Kevin Ng Games is a privately held company founded in 2010. An experienced video game industry veteran, Kevin Ng formed the company to develop bite-sized video games for the iPhone and other devices. Copyright (C) 2010 Kevin Ng Games. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Fara Novarese, Italy – Independent developer Libero Spagnolini today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of FaceMan 1.0, his new video effects app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Let the fun begin! Leveraging on the latest iOS graphics technologies, FaceMan is an amazing app that does Photoshop like video effects.

The real fun starts when you use the cool effects that FaceMan is able to render. Based on a streamlined and super easy to use interface, FaceMan sports 16 incredible effects, and pushes the limits of what is possible on a mobile device. FaceMan is sure to provide many hours of fun that you can share with your friends.

FaceMan also comes with a great built in album that lets you collect all your coolest effects. You can even save a picture to the Photo Album app or share it by email. Specifically designed to make great use of front facing camera, FaceMan can become very addictive so watch out. It works great to kill some time, and will provide hours of fun.

Terrific effects list:
* Swirl: start a “revolution” today
* X-Ray: need to look in depth
* Stretch: square face anyone?
* Heat: simulate a thermal camera
* Sketch: everyone favorite
* Sepia: old style pictures
* Dent: cannot resist laughing
* Led: not too many pixels
* Emboss: displacement face
* LightTunnel: radiant smile
* Bulge: big potato nose
* Squeeze: dragon ball style effect
* BrokenTv: need to fix it
* Mirror: the other you
* Toon: less color for everybody
* BlackAndWhite: old times

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 0.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
FaceMan 1.0 is priced $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

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Located in Fara Novarese, Italy, Libero Spagnolini is an independent developer. Whether you want to report a problem, suggest a new feature or just say hello, we want to hear from you! Copyright (C) 2010 Libero Spagnolini. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Foligno, Italy – Today we announce the 2nd Edition of Bundleecious, the cheapest (and smartest!) bundle of apps for Mac OS X. The first edition, in May, has obtained a huge success all around the world, and now, with this second edition, Bundleecious will confirm its popularity and its “trademark”: great apps for Mac at only $9.99.

The apps involved in this 2nd offer are all great and very popular. Thanks to Bundleecious, people can buy Punakea, iDatabase, Cinch, Awaken and Elmedia Player PRO. Here’s the full list with some details about the apps involved and special promotions connected to the bundle:

* Punakea: designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure. (Full price: $25)

* iDatabase: iDatabase for Mac is a database manager from Apimac. This application offers the most natural and easy way to organize all the information and data of your work and your life.
(Full price $29)

* Cinch: gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as ‘hot zones’. Drag a window until the mouse cursor enters one of these zones then drop the window to have it cinch into place.
(Full price: $7)

* Awaken: A digital alarm clock for Mac OS X that wakes you by playing music or podcasts from your iTunes library or any of the built-in alarm sounds. It can also put both you and your Mac to sleep with the sleep timer feature. (Full price: $10)

* Elmedia Player Pro: is a multimedia player for Mac OS X, which can play various Flash and video files such as FLV, SWF, XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (RealMedia and RealVideo), AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV. Elmedia Player PRO has its media library that is inspired by iTunes and provides users with a convenient way of storing and sorting the videos: the main and most exciting feature Elmedia Player PRO holds is the possibility to download various videos from the Internet.
(Full price: $19.95)

To celebrate the launch of Bundleecious, Apimac will make its iDatabase for iPhone free for 24 hours (iDatabase syncs via wi-fi between Mac and iPhone versions!). For the first 1.000 bundles sold we’ll also give for free to our customers another great application from Apimac: Protect Files (the easiest way to protect files on your Mac! – Full price: $29.99).

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Bundleecious is proudly created by two italian guys: Gabriele Contilli and Riccardo Caprai. Bundleecious is an indie bundle, which aims to present innovative offers for all Mac-users. Copyright (C) 2010 Bundleecious. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their holders.

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New Rochelle, New York – MultiEducator, Inc. today is pleased to announce Builder Pro 2.0 for iOS, the latest version of their reference, formula, and calculation app for builders. Builder Pro includes over 400 formulas used by builders, and includes the complete International Building Code 2006 (to be updated at the end of 2010), the complete International Plumbing Code, the complete International Mechanical Code, and half the Americans with Disabilities Act Codes and Drawings, and half of the National Electric Codes and Drawings. The International codes have been adopted by most states in the US and many places worldwide. Over the coming months Builder Pro will be expanded to include the whole codes as well as Plumbing, Fire, and Elevator Codes. When the codes are all completed the price of Builder Pro will go up; however, all version 2.0 users will receive free upgrades.

Optimized for full screen display on the iPad, Builder Pro provides an easy way for the user to quickly find what they may need. Fully searchable by key word(s), pages can be marked or saved as favorites, and recent pages are listed. The app includes over 400 formulas, plus hundreds of charts, drawings, tables, and calculation templates which perform all the math necessary based on values entered. MultiEducator has specifically designed the app to be easily expanded and updated, with new content released monthly. Included are more than 25 sections:

Main Sections:
* International Building Code – 35 Chapters with over 100 pages
* Americans with Disabilities Act Codes & Drawings, including ADA 2008 Amendments
* International Mechanical Code – with complete definitions, rules, and specs
* National Electrical Code (first half; second half available soon)
* Building Charts and Tables- Occupancy, Egress, Doors, Aisles, Building Heights, etc.
* HVAC Charts – Ductwork, Pumps, Energy Values, Humidity, Air Change, etc.
* Electrical Charts and Tables – Wire Size, Wire Gauge, Load, Voltage Drop, etc.
* International Plumbing Code – 16 Chapters plus Appendices, over 200 pages
* Plumbing Charts and Tables- derived from the International Plumbing Code
* Plumbing Drawings – derived from the International Plumbing Code
* Financial Calculations – derived from the International Plumbing Code
* Concrete & Excavating – Coverage, Bricks, Slabs, Aggregates, Sidewalks, etc.
* Costs Formulas – derived from the International Building Code
* Materials Needed Formulas – derived from the International Building Code
* Building Code Formulas – Code Calculation, Fire Resistance, Allowed Loads, etc.
* Acoustical Formulas – Absorption, Reverberation, Volume, Surface Area, etc.
* Boiler Formulas and Drawings – 15 chapters on boiler operation and steam flow
* Condensation Formulas – Vapor Diffusion, Vapor Resistance, and Water Drainage
* Carpentry Formulas – Loads, Lumber, Joists, Sheet Rock, Roofing, Stairs, etc.
* Electrical Formulas – Batteries, AC/DC, Generators, Impedance, Motors, Wiring, etc.
* Piping Formulas – 20 chapters including Weight, Pressure, Expansion, Sizing, etc.
* HVAC Formulas – Refrigeration, Steam, Temperature, Heating Design, etc.
* Plumbing Formulas – Pumps, Water Heaters, Water Flow, Water Temperature, etc.
* Material Weights – tables pound/cubic ft., pounds/cubic yd., tons/cubic yd., etc.
* Area Formulas – Area, Surface Area, Volume, Perimeters, Circumference, etc.
* Conversion Formulas – over 200 formulas including Flows, HVAC, Power, BTUs, etc.

Version 2.0 of MultiEducator’s Builder Pro adds native iPad support, allowing much more convenient operation on a larger touchscreen. Also new is: the completion of the International Building Code with 23 new chapters and 140 additional charts; completion of the International Plumbing Code with an additional 10 chapters and 60 charts; four more sections of the Electrical Code with 40 more charts; and a new Conversions section with an additional 60 conversion formulas.

“Our iOS Formulator Series for building professionals now contains 25 different apps,” commented company President Marc Schulman. “Builder Pro 2.0 is a compendium of our four most popular: Carpentry Pro, Electrical Pro, Plumbing Pro, and HVAC Pro, making it a real value.”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
* iOS 3.1 or later
* 44.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Builder Pro 2.0 is $17.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Business category. Review copies are available upon request.

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Located in New Rochelle, New York, MultiEducator is a privately funded company founded in 1994 by Amy Erani and Marc Schulman. MultiEducator’s goal is to enable students to learn history in a completely new way. Throughout MultiEducator’s years in business, the company has continuously expanded its services and product line. In the summer of 2008 the company sold its HistoryShopping site to concentrate on the content part of the business. It then started its newest division developing software for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. In October 2008 it released its first iPhone application, Formulator. As one of the earliest producers of multimedia software, MultiEducator has been providing schools and the general public with rich, compelling history software for almost two decades. Copyright (C) 2009-2010 MultiEducator. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, iPhone, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Drachten, the Netherlands – Bohemian Coding today is pleased to introduce Sketch 1.0, their new vector drawing application for Mac OS X. Its intentionally minimalist design is based upon a drawing space of unlimited size and layers, free of palettes, panels, menus, windows, and controls. Tools and modifiers are accessed as needed from drop-down graphical menus, and help/control dialogues open and close automatically. Though simple to use, it offers powerful vector drawing and text tools similar to those in more costly apps. Sketch can be used in conjunction with the company’s bit-mapped graphics editor, DrawIt for OS X, as well as the portable SketchPad app for iPad.

Vector graphics do not lose any resolution when scaled up, while ordinary, bit-mapped graphics (i.e., photos) do. And because vector graphics describe shapes rather than pixels, they produce smooth curves and edits. Sketch is a true vector editing application and has many powerful tools to manipulate those vectors. The app features three different drawing tools: pen, pencil and brush. These tools are accessed through a drop-down menu in the user-configurable toolbar. Selecting the pen tool brings up the following message in small letters at the top of the drawing space: “Click and drag to add points and curves or click on a line to insert between existing points.” The message scrolls back up after five seconds, leaving only a small pop-up menu at the bottom of the screen confirming the icon and name of the tool.

This elegant combination of message and pop-up window appears when using any tools or performing any operations, effectively and unobtrusively providing helpful feedback to the user. An inspector window can be opened to display or edit the complete parameters of any object. Sketch includes 10 pre-defined, editable shapes, and the ability to create user-defined shapes. These customized shapes are composed of objects (vector, picture, or text), which are designated as symbols. Once defined, multiple instances of symbols can be easily inserted into a drawing, and editing one affects them all in multiple layers, groups and pages within a single document.

Feature Highlights:
* Professional looking vector graphics, in a simple, versatile package
* Clean user interface with pop-up windows that appear and disappear automatically
* Infinite workflow, infinite size drawing space, layers, pages, and navigation
* Rulers, grids, and alignment tools
* Group and un-group layers
* Overlapping slices of a document can be defined and exported individually
* Fully customizable radial and linear gradients
* Import .jpg, .tif, .png, .gif, etc.
* Export .pdf, .svg, .eps, .jpg, .png, .gif, etc.
* Bohemian Coding’s DrawIt for OS X can be used for filters and pixel-precise editing of Sketch documents
* Bohemian Coding’s SketchPad can be used for modifying Sketch documents on the iPad

In addition to a wide variety of object creation tools, the application features a host of object modification tools. These include: precise Boolean operations, join & split, decorate, transform, scissors, rotate, smart rotate, stroke width, patch, blob, eraser, distort, and mirror. Of special interest are dynamic Boolean operations on groups of vectors rather than complete shapes, and smart rotate which allows multiple copies of a layer to be rotated around a point. The application also has complete text handling, allowing: text on path, user-definable text styles, kerning, leading, stroke, fill, and inner and outer shadow.

“I am quite proud of its minimalistic interface,” stated President Pieter Omvlee. “For those who don’t require a highly complex program like Adobe Illustrator, Sketch is a perfect solution.”

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.6 or later
* 11.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Sketch 1.0 is $55, USD, (or its equivalent in other currencies) and available for direct download from Bohemian Coding. A free 15-day trial version is available. Review copies are available upon request.

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Based in Drachten, the Netherlands, Bohemian Coding published its first application DrawIt around two years ago. Last year they added Fontcase to their portfolio, which won an Apple Design Award at last years WWDC. Pieter Omvlee is the sole developer and currently residing in London, UK. Copyright 2007-2010 Bohemian Coding. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Los Angeles, California – Serenity Integration is proudly working with Wahoo Fitness and integrating its new Fisica Fitness Sensor Key into the Jog Log application. Jog Log users will now have the option of monitoring their heart rate with the use of the Fisica Fitness Sensor and a compatible heart rate monitor. The benefits of heart rate monitoring during a fitness routine has been touted by multiple health organizations and universities and include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Ability to assess one’s cardiovascular condition
* Prevention of over-training and sometimes under-training
* Heart rate zone training to train for aerobic, anaerobic, healthy heart, or fitness purposes
* Pacing during training and /or races

Besides heart rate monitoring, Jog Log’s features already include:
* GPS tracking of all runs
* Custom workouts with interval timers
* A multitude of tracked data displays
* Voice cues
* iPod integration
* Innovative slider-base pause and stop functions

Device requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad WiFI + 3G
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* Multi-tasking requires iOS 4
* 12.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Jog Log 1.4 is currently on sale for $0.99 USD ($4.99 regular price), or equivalent amount in other currencies and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare & Fitness category.

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Chicago, Illinois – Today, more and more employers and business owners realize the benefits that working from home or from a remote location can have for their company and employees. The key challenge is often determining how to set things up in order to do this reliably, securely, and in a way that ensures the most seamless transition from office to home/remote location. Traditional habits include the most popular habit of setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

As defined by Wikipedia, a virtual private network (VPN) is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization’s network. It aims to avoid an expensive system of owned or leased lines that can be used by only one organization. The goal of a VPN is to provide the organization with the same secure capabilities but at a much lower cost. It encapsulates data transfers between two or more networked devices not on the same private network so as to keep the transferred data private from other devices on one or more intervening local or wide area networks. There are many different classifications, implementations, and uses for VPNs.

VPNs offer benefits but have some big drawbacks:

* Properly setting up a VPN often requires solid technical know-how.
* Setting up a VPN requires hardware/software combination setup. Further, certain VPNs don’t necessarily work out of the box. Many require special software to be installed and supported which could be a problem for someone that is not specialized in this type of thing.
* Setting up a VPN can be expensive.
* VPNs requires setting up and remembering various additional passwords.
* When you’re connected via VPN you don’t have automatic access to any of the Bonjour Services running on your network. You need to know the exact IP address of the machine you wish to connect to and even then, not all applications run reliably over VPN connections.

ShareTool is a magical utility that changes all of that. ShareTool is the new VPN that can often be setup by anyone in 5 minutes. No technical skills required.

ShareTool is a smart, easy, and highly secure utility that lets you connect to most Bonjour services running on your home/office networks from anywhere in the world at a click of a button. This includes Screen Sharing, File Sharing, Remote Printing, Secure Browsing, and more. While connected with ShareTool, many shared (Bonjour-enabled) services on your remote home or office networks automatically appear in your Finder, iTunes, iPhoto, and tons of other applications (just as they would if you were physically located at that network). Further, and in response to massive demand, the latest version, ShareTool 2.1.1, also delivers iTunes Home Sharing across the internet, the ability to run ShareTool as a background service. All traffic is encrypted end to end.

For example, let’s assume you’re away for business or on vacation somewhere. With ShareTool, you would be able to:
* Browse the web securely using your home/office connection
* Listen to your entire home iTunes music library
* iTunes Home Sharing fully supported across the internet
* Control the screen of any of your home computers
* Grab that important file you forgot to bring with you
* Connect to your FileMaker Pro database
* Connect to your complete home iPhoto library
* Print on your home network
* And a whole lot more

In the event that you already use a VPN, ShareTool also provides you with a valuable benefit by automatically providing Bonjour over your VPN connection – something that is not available with VPN alone.

In addition, ShareTool lets you connect to an unlimited number of networks simultaneously. For example, let’s say you work for (or own) a company that has offices in 4 different cities. With ShareTool, you can be connected to all 4 networks simultaneously and have access to Bonjour Services from all 4 networks instantly. It’s like being in 4 different places at the same time. The possibilities are endless. All this is done over a highly encrypted connected that works faster than a VPN connection.

Who uses ShareTool?

ShareTool is being adopted by many Mac users around the globe for it’s simplicity, reliability, and security, and speed. There is almost no technical know-how required and 99% of all ShareTool setups are completed with just one mouse click.

* Many businesses and I.T. administrators depend on ShareTool to provide reliable and secure remote support at all times.
* Business owners and employees depend on ShareTool for seamless and constant access to their office networks at all times.
* Tons of individuals rely on ShareTool for assisting friends / family members and for having complete access to their own network(s) quickly and easily.

Any Mac user looking for a secure and dependable way to have complete access to their network anytime and anywhere can be a ShareTool user. The ShareTool experience is so transparent and magical, it’s almost as if you never left your own network. Being in more than one place at the same time is certainly possible when using ShareTool 2. Wherever you go, there are your Macs.

What’s New in version 2.1.1:
* New: ShareTool can be run as a service via a background daemon
* New: iTunes Home Sharing across the internet is fully supported (full support for iTunes 10)
* New: Right-clicking a network also lists remote computers & their associated Bonjour services
* New: Enable/disable “Common Bonjour Services only” directly from the services sheet
* New: Windows can now resize automatically to accommodate content
* New: Networks are now sortable by online/offline status
* New: Display of Bonjour services
* The “Show Common Services Only” option has been removed from the Preferences window
* The setting is now saved independently for each remote network

* New: Getting the WAN IP for a network
* There’s a new “Network Address” menu under the Edit menu
* Both the WAN & LAN IP addresses can be viewed & copied
* “Copy” command will save the WAN IP to the clipboard

* Updated: AFP & VNC URLs are now persistent across ShareTool connections
* Updated: Improved compatibility with PPC systems
* Updated: Many performance tweaks
* Other: Network status display is now more accurate
* Other: All executables are now code-signed
* Other: Demo period has been reset

Supported Languages:
* US English, with more to come

System Requirements:
* Requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later; Snow Leopard ready
* 22 MB Hard Drive Space
* Internet connection

Pricing and Availability:
* $25: 2 User license (Starter package – save $5)
* $45: 5 User license (Save $30)
* $15: Additional license.
* New Bundle promo pricing also available

Upgrade Pricing Available:
Registered ShareTool 1.x users can upgrade to ShareTool 2.x for the reduced price of $15 (for two licenses).

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San Jose, California – Viaden Mobile, a prominent developer of applications for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad in the Healthcare & Fitness and Games categories, today is pleased to introduce Sleep Tracker alarm clock: sleep cycles & noise recording, an intelligent app that literally watches over users’ sleep. Everybody knows that sound deep sleep is essential for effective, full-time functioning throughout the day. As little as 30 minutes of sleep deprivation may result in drowsiness and lower productivity during the day.

Focusing on the problem of sleep deprivation, the Viaden Mobile team came up with a unique smart solution. The main outstanding feature of Sleep Tracker is its ability to record noise and light disturbances that happen at night. Sleep Tracker makes it possible to play back the noises and flashes of light and overlay the recording with the graph of the user’s sleep cycle. Having this information at hand, users are able to make appropriate improvements to their sleeping environment for a healthier and more energetic lifestyle.

A bunch of other handy options also contribute to the overall efficiency of the app. Using the built-in accelerometer of the iPhone/iPod touch, Sleep Tracker registers the users’ movements in their sleep and identifies in which of the three sleep phases they are. Thanks to this, the alarm will sound during light sleep – the best time to wake up energized and refreshed.

4 wake-up modes are available for the iPhone and 3 for the iPod. Depending on the lifestyle and habits, users may choose to be woken up at the set time or at the best time for awakening within the fixed time frame, with or without monitoring of sleep cycles.

The sound settings have been designed to be absolutely user-oriented. There is a selection of special tunes both for awakening and falling asleep. Users can also choose their own tracks from the iPod playlist to serve as wake-up or chillout melodies. A separate volume regulator is available for both kinds of tunes, allowing users to set different levels of volume for wake-up and chillout tracks.

“Creating this app we strived to give people the most valuable but such a fragile thing as healthy sleep,” says Yuri Gurski, Viaden Mobile CEO. “Our app allows users control their sleep as much as possible and really have their say in the matter, be fully in charge. Understanding one’s sleep pattern is the closest a man can get to the mechanism of sleep so far – and this is what users can achieve regularly using our app.”

Supported Languages:
* US English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
* 17.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Sleep Tracker 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare & Fitness category.

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Viaden Mobile is an acknowledged producer of applications for iPhone/iPod touch, iPad and other platforms. Its apps are among the most popular in the Healthcare&Fitness and Games categories. The company follows the principles of quality, innovation and thorough control of production. Copyright (C) 2010 Viaden Mobile. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Fremont, California – Fall is here, and Punflay is celebrating it by launching a sale on its popular educational iPad apps and games. The sale will run from Friday, September 10, to Thursday, September 16, and many of our apps can be downloaded for a lower price. This is a one of its kind sale when multiple apps can be availed at a lower price.

My numbers – $.99 ( instead of $1.99)
Aimed at preschoolers, this app has the look and feel of a simple toy that helps kids learn to count from 1 to 10. Children can choose to count using a bird, flower or fish.

ABC Numbers – $1.99 (instead of $2.99)
ABC Numbers introduces basic letter and number concepts to preschoolers using a kid-friendly interface.

Mathomatix Number Sense/HD – $.99C (instead of $1.99)
Featured by Apple in the “New and Noteworthy” category, this app was originally released for the iPhone. The HD version meant for the iPad has been redesigned using feedback from parents, educators, and kids. The app has five activities that teach simple counting, addition and subtraction concepts to kindergartners.

Who will rule/HD – FREE (instead of $4.99)
An animated story book for kids 4 and up, this vividly illustrated app is based on an Aboriginal tale. The app has four language options (English, French, Spanish and German).

If you have not downloaded them, this is the best time to go for a giant shopping spree as you get some of our prized apps for next to nothing. Our educational apps have been appreciated and liked by kids and their parents alike and we want to provide a moment of joy to those who have not tried our apps yet. Happy Shopping!

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Punflay, a brand of Emantras develops educational iPad and iPhone apps for kids. The division’s talented team designs its apps through meticulous research and testing. Aimed to educate and please children, Punflay’s apps are very kid-friendly and intuitive to use. Copyright (C) 2010 Punflay. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Auckland, New Zealand – Slinkware today is pleased to announce that our innovative remote access product, Slink, is available as part of TheMacBundles – a bundle of 15 great Mac products for just $49.95.

The bundle includes a full Slink license, which normally sells for $25. Slink also is included in TheMacBundles’ innovative new BYOB (Build Your Own Bundle) stores. TheMacBundles: No Games, No Hype, No Middlemen… Just GREAT Software at a GREAT Price(TM).

Slink is the easy way to remotely access your home network. Listen to your iTunes music and watch your movies from anywhere, get the files from your home Mac or Time Capsule that you forgot to bring with you on the road, or help your parents or kids out using remote screen sharing.

Slink’s network magic makes your home network appear to be connected and all shared services automatically appear in the Finder, iTunes, iPhoto, and other applications, just as they do at home. With Slink you are only a click away from your home network, no matter where you are.

Slink supports almost all applications that use Apple’s Bonjour technology, including:
* iTunes 10 Home Sharing
* Screen Sharing
* File Sharing
* iPhoto Sharing
* Print Sharing

Slink’s advanced technology takes care of all the tricky network stuff. No need to know about NAT or IP addresses. Just install the Slink System Preferences Pane on a Mac in your home network. Then install Slink on the Mac that you use remotely, and you are ready to connect.

Some of the key features that sets Slink apart from the competition are:
* Requires almost no configuration
* Connects to your home network without the need for dynamic DNS or manual IP address configuration
* Gives you access to all Macs and Bonjour services on your home network
* Automatically configures your home broadband router
* Allows you to be connected to many remote networks simultaneously
* Based on rock solid UNIX SSH technology and all traffic is secured using strong encryption
* Secure Firefox browsing to protect your web browsing when using WiFi hotspots
* Support for HTTP and SOCKS proxies to allow remote connections from locked down corporate networks
* Always-keep-connected feature to allow you to always stay connected to your home network
* Growl notifications for network events
* Can run as a menu bar item only
* Compression to maximize network performance

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 or later (Snow Leopard-ready)
* Intel Mac

Pricing and Availability:
Slink is available immediately as part of TheMacBundles – plus 14 other handy apps for only $49.95 (USD). All software titles included in the bundle are the same full-featured products that are provided to users that have paid the full retail price for the software. Additionally, all the titles come with the same level of customer support and upgrade policies that are provided to users that have paid the full retail price for the software. Further, all of the programs included in a bundle on TheMacBundles’ website are the latest versions of the software, and bundles are backed up by a 30-day money back guarantee.

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Founded by Olof Olsson in 2009, Slinkware is based in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand, and specializes in user-friendly, yet powerful, Mac OS X and iOS network applications. Copyright 2010 Slinkware. Apple, the Apple logo and OSX are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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College Station, Texas – JBMJBM today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of 22 Additional Characters and a highly requested, highly anticipated Record Your Own Character feature for their very popular, Entertainment Category Top 50, PRANK ME! app for the iPhone.

This app allows the user to choose a fictitious character, create a prank telephone script, and then generate a professionally voiced prank phone call, which can be made anonymously. With the additional 22 characters added, it brings the total to 48 characters with over 1100 audio sayings to choose from for pranking. These additions already add to their large and diverse arsenal of pranking characters. The Record Your Own Character feature allows the user to use their own voice to create their own personalized pranking character. The user can add their own face picture, their own script, and best of all, their own audio to the app.

The 48 Characters now include:
* Al Pacino
* Ms. Cleo
* Joe Pesci
* Judge Judy
* Sgt. Hartman
* Random Guy
* Lottery Commission
* Banker
* eHarmony
* Pharmacy
* Census Bureau
* George Clooney
* Regis Philbin
* German Actor
* Preacher
* Parcel Delivery
* Mad Driver
* Ball Maker
* Russian Bride
* Adult Website
* Adult Store
* Simpsons
* Phone Company
* Car Salesman
* Bookie
* Attorney
* Bill Collector
* HR
* IRS
* Missed Appointment
* Male Coach
* Female Coach
* Animal Control
* Middle Eastern
* Old Boyfriend
* Call Girl
* Contest Winner
* FBI
* Feminine Man
* HOA
* Massage Parlor
* Mile High Club
* One Night Stand
* Photographer
* Police
* Politician
* Tree Hugger Society
* Jamaican

One of the most clever and flexible methods ever devised for making prank phone calls, PRANK ME! offers jokesters a new, hi-tech advantage. The app opens with cartoon renderings of classic characters and after choosing a character the user can choose and order a group of phrases to create a complete, scripted message.

For example, six different phrases can be put together to create the following message, pre-recorded by a professional voice-over artist: “This is Timothy A. Warrenton from the Internal Revenue Service, better known as the IRS. We have a matter we need to urgently talk with you about. It has come to our attention that you owe $10,545.00 in back taxes.”

Given the variety of characters and dialogue, the fun-loving digerati will have no trouble putting one over on a close friend, family member, or lucky stranger. The app sports fun graphics, an easy to use interface, and free updates of additional characters and phrases. Eliminated are awkward attempts at disguising one’s voice. A library of professional male and female voices is included.

App Features:
* 48 Characters
* Over 1100 Audio Sayings
* Record Your Own Character Feature
* Sequence Feature
* Pre-Packaged Feature
* Re-Order Feature
* You’ve Been Pranked Voicemail Feature
* PRANK ME! App Blog Feature
* New Voices Guarantee Feature

“We basically took the suggestions and complaints of other mediocre pranking apps and we ran with it…adding more characters, more features, better instructions, easier user interface, and topped it off with stellar graphics,” commented Brice Milliorn, CEO of JBMJBM, LLC. “This app has become way more popular than we every thought, it now has worked itself into the Top 50 apps in the Entertainment Category,”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later
* 1.9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
PRANK ME! 1.08 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. Special Thanks to Mike Elmore. This Guy is Awesome.

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San Jose, California – app4mac today is pleased to announce the release of Delegate 1.1, a new major version of this to-do list manager designed for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Delegate is very flexible and powerful allowing Mac users to share a to-do list on the internet for remote access from any location. Delegate is compliant to GTD method Getting Things Done, and distills those principles into a clean and simple user interface. Special introductory price of the iPad/iPhone version until end of September.

New with version 1.1:
* New option to authorize the editing of a to-do list from a remote access
* New option in preferences to disable confirmation messages
* Improved support of foreign languages
* Improved support of the iPhone/iPad version
* Improved user feedback
* Improved user interface
* Bugs fixed

Delegate is a to-do list manager with a simple interface. It allows tagging, prioritizing, and filtering to ensure that you do not miss anything. Delegate records your to-dos with the flexibility to make your to-do list as simple or as detailed as you desire. Organize your tasks with Delegate and you will be left with more time that can be spent on completing your action items. Delegate has a built in tagging feature, which allows you to tag additional information to your tasks. This information can be anything you find necessary or helpful, such as due dates, priority levels, and contexts.

Delegate is compliant to GTD method Getting Things Done. With GTD, your overwhelming workload becomes a structured set of tasks – you focus only on the actions you can do next. Delegate distills GTD principles into a clean and simple user interface.

About the Mac version:
The Mac version allows users to share a to-do list on the internet with a free online service powered by app4mac servers. Using this feature requires a user license. As an option, Mac users can use their own server. You can access a to-do list shared online from any Mac, iPhone or iPad running the Delegate application. The Mac version requires Mac OS X 10.5. Leopard or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It’s available in English and French.

The Mac version is available for $63 (USD). Updates are always free for lifetime.

About the iPhone / iPad version:
The mobile version is a universal binary. This version allows you to create and manage to-do lists like the Mac version but also to access to lists shared online by the Mac version. The user interface has been designed for each platform. The mobile version requires iOS 3.1.1 or any later version. It’s available in English and French.

The mobile version is available for $2.99 (USD) until end of September. It’s a special introductory price. Updates are always free for lifetime.

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Seattle, Washington – Urban Anomaly today is pleased to announce the release of Invoice Robot 1.0, an iPad and iPhone application for creating and transmitting invoices in PDF format. Invoice Robot provides a simple calculation template that can also be used for proposals, quotations and receipts.

Invoice Robot was developed for small businesses, non-profits and innovative people that want to create simple invoices and other documents from their iPads and iPhones without the assistance of administrative or accounting staff. Anyone waiting to get paid can close the loop on their financial transaction by sending stylish, professional invoices directly from their iOS device.

Urban Anomaly designers created Invoice Robot with the philosophy that standard business documents do not need to be time consuming or done with desktop software. And, the fastest way to get paid is to invoice the client as soon as services are delivered, thus devices like the iPad are perfect for creating and sending documents while on the go. Invoice Robot can also be used for other phases of a business transaction such as proposals and quotations before the work, and receipts to document payment. The application allows a moderate amount of customization, including the ability to modify titles, headers, footers and attach a company logo.

Unique Features:
* Add logos or graphics from the Saved Photos folder for a professional, custom format
* Pull recipient information from the device Contact list
* Calculate sales tax or make other adjustments and discounts
* Automatically calculate itemized amounts and totals
* Transmit to the payee with PDF email attachments
* Adjust labels and titles to meet specific needs
* Save up to seven reports

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 1.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Invoice Robot 1.0 is only $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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A Seattle-based company, Urban Anomaly develops uniquely unexpected mobile applications and information solutions so that small businesses, non-profits and innovate people can use the iPad and iPhone to create extraordinary things better and faster than large teams of high-paid consultants and administrative staff. Copyright (C) 2010 Urban Anomaly. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Frederikssund, Denmark – Echo One today is pleased to announced that it will participate in this month’s TheMacBundles bundle with the inclusion of its data extraction application File Juicer. File Juicer extracts images, text, sound and video from any file which contains them unencrypted and in selected standard formats.

Key Features:
* Extract images from a PowerPoint slide show or presentation
* Extract images and text from PDF files
* Recover images and video from erased flash cards
* Recover text from damaged files
* Extract the images and HTML files in Safari’s cache
* Extract attachments from email archives
* Rebuild simple PDF files into Word documents
* Convert iPhoto’s iPod cache files and ithmb files to TIFF
* Recover photos from your iPod if you have lost your Mac
* Extract Flash animations saved in .EXE files
* Convert ZIP files which have been saved as .EXE files to zip
* Extract the JPEG pictures from Canon & Nikon RAW files
* Extract System 7 Sounds
* Use it for forensics examining cache files of various kinds
* Invisibly attach files to images – simple steganography

File Juicer Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (Snow Leopard Compatible)
* Intel or PPC Mac

All software titles included in the bundle are the same full-featured products that are provided to users that have paid the full retail price for the software. Additionally, all the titles come with the same level of customer support and upgrade policies that are provided to users that have paid the full retail price for the software. Further, all of the programs included in a bundle on TheMacBundles’ website are the latest versions of the software, and bundles are backed up by a 30-day money back guarantee.

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Based in Frederikssund, Denmark, Echo One has been developing software exclusively for Mac OS X since 2005 with special focus on pixels. Copyright (C) 2010 Echo One. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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