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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 21, 2008:

• The documentary “10 Yards: Fantasy Football” is free on iTunes for two weeks. After that, you’ll need to trade Stephen Jackson to get it.
• You can never have too many options for multi-thousand dollar diamond encrusted iPhones.
• MacJournal 5.1 is MobileMe ready. Too bad MobileMe isn’t MobileMe ready, huh.
• View Windows, Mac and Linux files on your iPhone or iPod touch with ReaddleDocs. Then hate yourself for becoming that guy who doesn’t work at the office.
• With Imprint Studio 1.0 you can make that web photo print of Jason Castro even bigger and dreamier.

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 20, 2008:

• Service management solution Web Help Desk is up to v9. I’m guessing it’s more helpful than v8.
• MediaSilo has eliminated browser-based upload limitations. Pray that you’re not next.
• Control unattended computers remotely with TeamViewer, you control freak.
• They’re fun, they’re tastic, they’re Funtastic Photos! Wait. I think I screwed something up there.
• Keep Your Word helps you learn a new language. What, you mean watching Dora the Explorer isn’t enough?
• Got some content to manage? SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight is here to help.

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 19, 2008:

• Tangrams has 10 grams of iPhone gaming goodness.
• Send out bulk e-mails from your very own Mac!
• Let’s hope moving Age of Empires to Asia is more successful than it was with that mummy movie.
• ClipWrap converts m2t files to QuickTime HDV files...and I think it’ll keep your sammich fresh in the fridge.
• It’s because of names such as Fantasktik that I’m glad I report about this stuff on the web, not the radio.
• Well, seriously...when was the last time you “touched” your database?

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 18, 2008:

• Speck gets naughty with their new iPhone 3G cases, goes all SeeThru.
• DiskLibrary proves that describing anything as being “fun and easy” really does, in fact, make it fun and easy.
• Your keyboard is an orchestra, your fingers the conductor, with Keyboard Maestro.
• Kensington has announced a wireless USB docking station, but you have to sell your soul to get it.
• Okay, seriously, we’re designing laptop bags now to accommodate airport security x-rays? What country is this, again?
• Where does the time go? Well, if you’d document it with OfficeTime, you’d know.

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Pageonce is an interesting service, that provides centralized access to different types of Internet accounts. The main idea behind this service is to allow customers to get into their e-mail account(s), social networks, shopping pages, and financial services, among others, from one single virtual door where everything is organized and easily accessible.

One of the many features of Pageonce is the possibility of getting alerts from all your associated services, such as flight changes, earned miles, financial status, pre-programmed payments, etc.

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 15, 2008:

• Ambrosia: “We’ve released WireTap Anywhere!” Bush administration: “WireTap Anywhere sounds great! But what’s this other word? This...re...released?”
• Overwhelmed by all those Mac software options? The prices? Mac Bundle Box has 15 recommendations for $49.95.
• BurnOnce? Shame on you. BurnAgain FS v1.0.3? Shame on me for not using it to conserve CD/DVDs.
• Limit Point Software releases Mailings 1.9.40 because not all e-mail delivered to 60,000 people at once is selling watches and Viagra.
• When SuperMegaUltraGroovy and toastycode team up, does it even matter what they release?

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 14, 2008:

• Robosoft ports Battlestations Midway to the Mac. Midway? Port? There’s a ship joke to be told here, but my maritime humor’s a little rusty.
• Sync songs, playlists, and metadata automatically to multiple iPods with NetSync for iTunes, then T.P RIAA headquartes, while you’re at it.
• Canvastic publishing tool for students in grades K-8? Why, when I was in grade school, we used paper and glue. In the snow. Both ways.
• Rivet 1.2 allows you to stream media content from your Mac to your Xbox 360. No word on whether you’ll ever get your soul back.
• Softpress Systems will be on hand at the annual MacForce Summer Blast in Portland, Oregon, and they’re ready to limbo! Whoo!
• Capture your screen, dead or alive, with ScreenCap 1.8.

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 13, 2008:

• Opacity Express is now available for those times when Opacity is just a little too much.
• iTaskX 2.5, a project management solution for your MS Project...management...solution...? What?
• New iWeb themes from are available from iPresentee, because not every business has an employee with a kid in high school who’s willing to develop a website for free.
• EasyCatalog allows you work with complex data in InDesign. Ironic, eh?
• Truphone allows users to call the U.S. and Canada for less than two cents a minute, but seriously, why would you want to? We’re all pretty boring and arrogant over here.
• Revnjenz is a car racing thing, but you would’ve figured that out if you’d pronounced it out loud.
• KeynoteUser believes that out there, somewhere, is someone who uses Keynote, and they’ve released Gradient Pack ‘08 to prove it.
• Can an iPhone case be simultaneously naked and colorful? I guess you’ll just have click through to find out.
• macProVideo.com releases 3-hour Sibelius tutorial. Part one? What the heck is Sibelius.

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 11, 2008:

• MotionX-Dice free in App Store for 90s days. What it’ll cost after that is a crap shoot.
• It’ll only cost you 99 cents to get Azada through August 18th, but a couple thousand dollars to have it surgically removed.
• Yazsoft releases ShareTool as shareware, gets gold star from kindergarten teacher.
• Learn the art of presentation creation from the company that helped turn environmentalism into a partisan issue.
• Aperture, schmapeture. I mean Maperture.
• Michael Cote has a lot to say about booming iPhone 3G sales. Great. Now, who is he, again?
• For the last time...XChange XTensions are not spam.
• I’ll give you three guesses to figure out what SoundMeter turns your iPhone into.

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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 11, 2008:

• NetNanny protects your children, takes your Mac on a jolly holiday.
• Record your Profs with ProfCast, and do it for 50% off.
• Get a lifetime of web templates from iWebTemplate.
• ResizeMe stuns Internet by not being spam.
• Dragon Forged Software releases trivia game for iPhone...cause what else would dragons forge but a trivia game?
• Do you take your MailStewards amateur or pro?
• Who needs a caddy when you’ve got your iPhone and Plumb Caddy?
• Finally, beat-making is available to the masses with iDrum and an iPhone.
• Default Folder X now tracks folders containing the files you drag onto applications in the Dock. Okay?

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