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Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 2, 2010:

• Macintosh
• iPod

Macintosh

• The Mac Sale is now live with a new bundle. This bundle includes amazing apps such as PathFinder and VideoConverter Pro. As usual, the bundle costs $49.99—a steal for over $500 worth of applications.
• Yazsoft has announced Playback 1.5, a major update to their popular zero configuration media server for Mac OS X. Playback allows anyone to share their media with any Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or other supported UPnP compatible device. Playback can also share media stored in folders or even make entire disks available to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. By default, Playback will share almost any content on the users system.
• UNIEA has kicked off their UNIEA Omniverse Photo Contest. They’re looking for Omniverse case users to submit photos of their Omniverse in action for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to unieastore.com. Plus, all photo submissions will be used to create a new Omniverse video that they’ll be publishing in the Spring. In order to give folks who want to be in the contest a chance to pick up an Omniverse case (in case they already don’t have one), they’re giving all registrants a 20% off coupon code to use at unieastore.com.
• Mac users can now benefit from secure connections to remote business networks over the Internet. equinux has released VPN Tracker 6.2, a further update to the market-leading IPsec based VPN client for Mac OS X. VPN Tracker 6.2 now supports the Cisco ASA 5500 series and has improved compatibility with many other Cisco devices for quicker connectivity. Available starting today, businesses can save over 50% on the price of single licenses with new business packs.
• Maintain has announced Cocktail 4.7.1 (Snow Leopard Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail for users running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. This version adds compatibility with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6.3 and ability to stop Cocktail from logging out, restarting or shutting down the computer at the end of a scheduled programme. The update also features improvements on the clear Adobe Flash Player caches and cookies procedure as well as overall performance improvements.
• Volitans software has announced SMART Utility 2.2, a significant update to the hard drive diagnostic application. SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives SMART is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements of a hard drive’s operation. The new features include saving and opening SMART drive reports, printing reports, and better support for SSDs.

iPhone/iPod/iPad

• Apps for Me is an iPhone application recommendation app for casual and new iPhone owners. The app asks just two simple questions: “Who” (to what group do you belong?) and “What” (what’s your lifestyle?), and suggests a personalized list of great applications for each users. This version focuses on female iPhone owners, and has 86 different lifestyle categories.
• Pregnancy Countdown is an impressive set of Pregnancy Tools integrated with Facebook and so much more: Countdown to the due date, Facebook connect, Social Updates, Baby Alert, Diaper Calculator, Weekly Baby Stats and Fetus Images, Pregnancy Journal, 55 free babysamples, and a special section for pregnancy contacts!
• JISHOP Software has released three JISHOP apps for iPhone and iPod touch users looking for reliable, accurate resources for Japanese-English translation. The applications are comprehensive, user-friendly tools for learning, quick reference, translation or research. JISHOP amalgamates the best of Japanese-English lexicography and introduces extensive, unique features found in no other dictionary of its kind.
• UpscaleRiver has released Buy or Trash 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application is a shopping decision engine powered by a community of fellow shoppers. Users help each other decide on purchases by voting whether or not the products are a good buy. Features such as Facebook and Twitter integration, push notifications and website syncing make the app easy to use and immensely helpful to shoppers, especially when facing impulse purchases.
• Cris Moffitt Apps has released MediMinder 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application provides a valuable tool for keeping track of medication details, along with doctor and pharmacy contact information. MediMinder can easily be used for patients wanting to check their next dose time or to quickly supply important, sometimes lifesaving facts to doctors, pharmacists and emergency personnel.
• Turtle Apps, LLC has released The Number Vault 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application provides a secure environment for the storing of iPhone contact lists. A user’s information is password protected on a remote server, which can be easily accessed from any phone or computer for downloading to a new iPhone. The Number Vault’s one button syncing means a fast, easy experience for users, much less time and labor intensive than having to relocate people and information manually.
• Mobile software developer TalkingRockies and David Day, Utah’s premier hiking guide writer, have partnered to make it easier to ever to learn about Utah’s Incredible Backcountry in Zion, Bryce and Capitol Reef National Parks. This innovative new hiking guide combines detailed and useful information with the iPhone and social networking. Incredible Backcountry provides a simple and powerful checklist feature for every hiking challenge and season.
• SimpleComplexity Games has announced Lil’ Noah 1.0, their new children’s education Bible game for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Lil’ Noah is a great way to introduce children to the story of Noah’s Ark. This adventure leads the player through the Old Testament story of Noah and the building of the Ark. Help Lil’ Noah collect materials to build the Ark, collect the animals, survive the flood, and more. Accomplish each of these tasks by playing one of the four games.
• Just in time for the Academy Awards, E! Entertainment has relaunched their E! Online mobile application for the iPhone, iPod touch and Android phones with a full set of new interactive features deigned to give fans up close and personal access during the 2010 awards season. The E! Online mobile app will bring viewers unparalleled coverage from the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7, as well as leading up to the big event and in the days that follow.
• World Cup Countdown is the official host nation iPhone application and counts down the days, minutes, hours and seconds until the kick off of the 2010 World Cup. As well as the timer feature, World Cup Countdown also acts as a digital photoframe displaying beautiful images of South Africa. Tapping on these reveals more information about the scenes you’ve been looking at or even shows you a video clip or plays an audio track. So visit the App Store today and download a copy now—it’s free!
• EMS Options, LLC today announces upgrades to all of the ICE4me family of applications that allows the patient to talk to the EMS providers, even when they are unconscious. These iPhone and iPod applications are built with both the needs of EMS responders and their patients in mind. smart-ICE apps provide fire and EMS with intuitively designed applications that allow quick access to critical medical information, as well as meeting all the needs of the patient.
• MultiEducator has introduced Auto Buyer 1.0, their new iPhone and iPod touch reference for anyone in the market to purchase a new car. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, Auto Buyer brings together key information every car purchaser should have. Program: the official US government mileage calculations each car’s carbon footprint, and the percentage chance of each car’s ove. It also includes six key financial calculations.
• Weiner Family Studios has announced they are donating all proceeds from its well-received iPhone application, A Family Matters to a Chile relief fund this week. A Family Matters is an iPhone and iPod touch application that allows parents to enjoy deeper, more meaningful conversations with their children at the dinner table or on the go. The app covers common places you may engage in conversation or need to pass the time such as restaurants, waiting rooms or on long road trips.
• Code Line has announced Color Expert 1.1, their Color Wheel, an Image Palette and a Swatch Book for the iPhone and iPod touch. Color Expert puts the power of color into your hands. And its new, updated features and user-interface are sure to streamline your workflow and keep you productive, no matter where you are. It has your favorite color libraries including PANTONE solid coated, PANTONE solid uncoated, PANTONE Goe coated, PANTONE Goe uncoated, PANTONE(R) f + h cotton and PANTONE f + h paper.
• The New York Daily News, the most widely read newspaper in New York and the sixth most-widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States, has announced a new application that delivers the most sought-after content from the newspaper directly to mobile phones. The application is immediately available for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphone users to download for free.
• Runloop Ltd has announced Dunnit! 1.0.1, their simple, yet feature rich task management app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Developed to break the To Do list mold, Dunnit! is the first non-game/entertainment app that integrates OpenFeint, and addresses common pitfalls found in other tasks management apps on the iPhone. All tasks are listed in one section so users are constantly aware of what needs doing.
• Art.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer of quality wall art, has announced the introduction of two new social media applications designed to offer consumers unique ways to shop for and create wall art, including a free iPhone app that allows users to preview their art selections on the walls of their own homes, and a free Facebook app that can turn personal photos into professionally-framed masterpieces.
• Neatcall, a developer of mobile and web collaboration solutions, today launched a free iPhone scheduling and communication application. The unique mobile app for iPhone handsets, which can be downloaded from iTunes, allows users to find the optimal time slot for any interaction and to connect all users to the preferred communication tool.
• TickleSpace has released Deep Stuff – Facts and Quotes Pro for the iPhone and iPod touch. Deep Stuff – Facts and Quotes Pro provides a daily dose of interesting facts, quotes, famous birthdays and historical events with an elegant, simple and intuitive interface. Thousands of quotes and facts to surprise, amuse, inspire and share that little bit of wisdom. TickleSpace has chosen to abandon using ads in its apps until a solution that provides control over what ads are shown becomes available.
• MyWeather has announced MyWeather Lite 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. MyWeather Lite features push notifications for severe weather, animated radar and satellite maps, 12-hour temperature, precipitation and wind trend graphs, 7-day forecasts and current conditions for over 10,000 U.S. and International cities. The app combines stunning, high-quality animated radar with Microsoft Bing technology, letting users view weather conditions at any location around the country.

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Written by Manix