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ScreenCastsOnline Discount Extended until 1st January 2009

By the surfapple team at 29 December, 2008, 8:59 am

By popular demand, ScreenCastsOnline is delighted to extend the special holiday 20% discount for new ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members until the end of the year. Membership includes a brand new HD Mac based tutorial delivered to you automatically every week for six months via iTunes plus immediate access to a huge library of over 180+ tutorials. Just use the coupon code SANTA08 when joining.

Sketches Holiday Sale extended until the end of the year

By the surfapple team at 29 December, 2008, 7:08 am

LateNiteSoft has just announced an extension of their holiday sale of Sketches, the popular drawing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application will be available for $1.99 through Apple’s App Store until the end of the year. This represents a 60% discount over the regular price.

AssistiveWare and LaesieWorks partner to introduce Head Designed

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:51 pm

AssistiveWare and LaesieWorks have announced Head Designed. LaesieWorks artist Giesbert Nijhuis, who is paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury, has partnered with AssistiveWare to bring his unique head designed artwork to a collection of exclusive apparel. Using his Mac, the KeyStrokes on-screen keyboard, a HeadMouse…

TunesTEXT 0.7.13 - Displays lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes. (Free)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:38 pm

Displays lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes.

AssistiveWare and LaesieWorks partner to introduce Head Designed

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

AssistiveWare and LaesieWorks have announced Head Designed. LaesieWorks artist Giesbert Nijhuis, who is paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury, has partnered with AssistiveWare to bring his unique head designed artwork to a collection of exclusive apparel. Using his Mac, the KeyStrokes on-screen keyboard, a HeadMouse Extreme and Photoshop, Nijhuis draws with his head: Movie posters, birth announcements, cd covers, and now apparel.

First iPhone Spy Software Hits the Market

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

Retina-X Studios, LLC, has announced the immediate availability of Mobile Spy for the Apple iPhone. Using this groundbreaking iPhone spy technology, users can silently monitor incoming and outgoing text messages (SMS) and call information of children or employees - even if activity logs are erased. Immediately after activities are logged, they are silently uploaded to the user’s private online account. Accounts can be checked online from any browser without needing further access to the phone.

FourTrack iPhone App Updated to Version 1.2 with Import into RiffWorks

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

Sonoma Wire Works’ FourTrack multitrack audio recorder for the iPhone has been updated to v1.2. Syncing FourTrack songs from iPhone to computer is now easier with direct import into RiffWorks. FourTrack users can now import tracks, complete with pan and gain settings, directly into RiffWorks recording software for Mac and Windows. Songs can be instantly posted from RiffWorks to the RiffWorld community for comments, online collaboration, and contests.

Tapping It announces Memento Xmas 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

Tapping It has announced Memento Xmas 1.1, a free, lite version of their popular e-card creation and sending app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Memento offers a natural feel and ease-of-use. Compose a card by picking one of the beautiful built-in styles, add a favorite photo, enter personalized text, and email just the perfect postcard. Just in time for the holidays, version 1.1 includes new Christmas styles.

Typinator 3.3 adds more predefined snippets and set-specific options

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

Ergonis Software has announced the release of Typinator 3.3, the latest version of its for auto-typing and auto-correction tool. Typinator 3.3 comes with a total of over 8000 predefined snippets making it a guaranteed productivity booster right out of the box, even without defining any own snippets. The new set-specific options are great for customizing snippet sets - assign a custom expansion sound or add a common prefix to hundreds of snippets - all with just a few clicks.

‘Blues in the Night’ podcast #219 (Smoothville)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 3:05 pm

By James McGee
Greetings music lovers. I have to apologize for being a bit late with this one, but i think It was worth the wait. My spotlight artist this time is Chris Bayne, an Oklahoma boy and one of great talent. Here are some URLs to find out more…

Massive Mail 1.0.9 - Generate customized email messages. (Shareware)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 2:55 pm

Generate customized email messages.

Bonjour Mounter 1.9.2 - Mount your AFP or SMB share points silently in the background. (Free)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 1:37 pm

Mount your AFP or SMB share points silently in the background.

Blow Your Mind with Brain Waves

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 12:00 pm

Your mind is a terrible thing to waste. Your money is a terrible thing to waste. When you waste both at the same time, you’re really a loser. I know this from experience. (…)

Photonasis 2.0 May be a Bit to Basic for Most

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 10:00 am

Photonasis 2.0 by Mohamed Moshrif is a very basic iPhone or iPod touch photo “editing” app. I wouldn’t exactly call what its functions do truly editing a photo.
The structure of the app is quite basic. From the main screen you can choose to take a new photo or grab one from your library to adjust. (…)

Clipboard Evolved 2.15h - Clipboard manager (was Dipboard). (Shareware)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 8:40 am

Clipboard manager (was Dipboard).

The Dream Apps announces iWallet 4.1 for Mac OS X

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 8:01 am

The Dream Apps is proud to announce iWallet 4.1, an update to their expense management utility for Mac OS X. Leveraging the latest leopard technologies, iWallet features an easy-to-use interface that makes managing expenses easy and fun. iWallet focuses around grouping expenses into manageable chunks, and then setting budgets. Version 4.1 is a major update including many enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended download for all customers.

Dream Capture 2.4 - Record video from any camera connected to your Mac. (Shareware)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 7:34 am

Record video from any camera connected to your Mac.

iWallet 4.1 - Easy to use expense/money management app. (Shareware)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 7:34 am

Easy to use expense/money management app.

Boxer 0.85 - Mac-friendly version of the DOSBox 0.72 MS-DOS emulator. (Free)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 6:34 am

Mac-friendly version of the DOSBox 0.72 MS-DOS emulator.

Pinger Phone Wraps It all Up in One Integrated Package

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 6:30 am

Pinger Phone is designed to integrate instant messaging and social networking into the iPhone experience, says Joe Sipher, a co-founder of Pinger. IM offers presence (the ability to know who is actively online), is faster and can be cheaper than text messaging, Sipher argues. (…)

iMathGeo 2.1rc5 - Create 2D and 3D graphs. (Shareware)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 4:52 am

Create 2D and 3D graphs.

Shallot Patch Releases Fluffy’s Log 2.0.1

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 3:36 am

Shallot Patch has released Fluffy’s Log 2.0.1, a user friendly pet information management software. This software stores and tracks essential pet information with ease. Version 2.0.1 has been updated with a number of minor user interface improvements. This new version, modifies the undo behaviour to just removing the new row and leaving the previous commit intact.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets 90% approval rating from own employees

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 12:37 am

Overall, 6 of the top 10 bosses on the ‘nice’ list were from Silicon Valley, including Steve Jobs of Apple…

CheckMark Payroll Updater 7.9.2 - Enhances many features. (Updater)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 12:09 am

Enhances many features.

Jmol 11.6.11 - Molecule viewer for students/educators/researchers. (Free)

By the surfapple team at 28 December, 2008, 12:03 am

Molecule viewer for students/educators/researchers.

iKaleid 2.0 - Screensaver simulates a kaleidoscope. (Free)

By the surfapple team at 27 December, 2008, 11:49 pm

Screensaver simulates a kaleidoscope.

iLife 08: iWeb & Garageband (Winter Park, Florida USA - January 03, 2009)

By the surfapple team at 27 December, 2008, 11:15 pm

Part two of a three-part overview of the iLife suite, looking at all six programs. This class focuses particularly on iWeb and Garageband.

Tension Software releases Password Repository 2.6 for Mac OS X

By the surfapple team at 27 December, 2008, 7:35 pm

Tension Software announces Password Repository 2.6, a software native for Mac OS X to manage all the password and accounts used on internet and everywhere by any user. Passwords are managed inside a protected and encrypted document to allow maximum security of data. In the case of unauthorized access on the Macintosh or if it is stolen, data saved by the user inside Password Repository are not readable by unauthorized users.

1Password for iPhone Adds Landscape Mode Support and Password Generator

By the surfapple team at 27 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

Agile Web Solutions has announced the release of 1Password 1.4 for iPhone, which greatly improves stability, adds full support for landscape mode and new Password Generator. 1Password for iPhone is a free for a limited time and can sync with 1Password for Mac. 1Password offers secure database with 2-tier encryption to keep track of logins, secure notes, identities, credit cards, bank accounts, and software registration information.

ACTCurrency 2.0: Universal Currency Converter for iPhone and iPod Touch

By the surfapple team at 27 December, 2008, 4:10 pm

Houdah Software has announced the immediate availability of ACTCurrency 2.0. ACTCurrency is Houdah Software’s universal currency converter for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Version 2.0 features an all new UI design and expands the automatic download of exchange rates to support 190 world currencies. Houdah Software is known for its Mac products: HoudahSpot and HoudahGeo.