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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for December 23, 2008.

• Tropical Software has announced a TopXNotes Christmas promotion. TopXNotes is an award-winning full-featured personal note manager. Tropical Software, Inc. offers a discount of 25 percent on TopXNotes starting immediately through Christmas Day, December 25, 2008.
• Cynical Peak Software has announced the update of Scorecard 1.5, their golf scorecard and statistics application for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista, and Scorecard for the iPhone and iPod touch, a companion application for quickly entering game information. Scorecard allows golf enthusiasts to track statistics on Mac and Windows systems. The application offers comprehensive statistics, helping users discover trends and explore aspects of their gameplay that might otherwise go unnoticed.
• iPhone and iPod touch users now can e-mail individual Christmas greetings personalized with a photo of themselves or a friend dressed up as Santa Claus from any place in the world with Fabulous Christmas Greetings by Enabling Labs.
• Up There has hit the App Store. Up There is the crown jewel of Veiled Game’s apps, something they’re infinitely proud of. Re-imagining and reversing the classic TI-83 graphing calculator game, Fall Down, Up There is a triumph of beautiful art and addictive Gameplay.
• Synium Software has announced a special 50% gift discount for Christmas 2008. On December 24th and 25th, Synium offers up to 50% christmas discount on popular products like CleanApp, MacFamilyTree, iFinance, Screenium for Mac or StuffRadar for iPhone and iPod touch.
• Wonder Warp Software has released version 1.6 of its Mac OS X productivity software ShoveBox. The new version includes numerous new features and enhancements. One addition is “insert anywhere,” which lets users assign a hotkey to a clipping to insert its contents into the frontmost app. This is useful for information that needs to be frequently typed.
• Stone Design has shipped another major update to Twittelator Pro, the high-end, feature-packed native iPhone Twitter client. With many power features, including multiple accounts, emojis, Trending Topics, Reply Chains, and Nearby Search for Tweeters, Twittelator Pro is the culmination of the expanding Twittelator customer base’s wishes and desires.
• ProteMac has announced ProteMac KeyBag 1.1, their keystroke recorder utility for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, ProteMac KeyBag allows control of all keyboard activity for each application on your Mac, showing you exactly what was typed and to where. ProteMac KeyBag provides real-time keylogger monitoring and shows the history of every keyboard and mouse activity.
• Macvide has announced iPod Converter 2.1, their video to iPod mp4 conversion utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, iPod Converter allows conversion of video files to mp4 iPod video. All of the most popular formats are supported, and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. iPod Converter offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the conversion process.
• Animoto’s iPhone app has hit the iTunes app store. The Animoto videos iPhone app allows you to create, share and collect Animoto videos directly from your iPhone. It’s like having a highly-paid professional video editor in your pocket.
• Ten One Design, LLC, creators of the Pogo Stylus, has announced its latest invention—the Pogo Sketch. Made specifically for use with the newest MacBook multi-touch trackpad, this unique stylus transforms the notebook into a pen tablet for premium drawing programs and artistic applications. The advanced material used on the tip of the Pogo Sketch is what makes it so extraordinary and revolutionary for capacitive touch screen displays. It acts as a bridge by transferring the signal from the display to the user’s hand.