Appletell | Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPod | News, Rumors, Reviews, How-Tos

Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for January 14, 2009:

• Turning Technologies LLC, a leader in the student response industry, has announced the availability of ResponseWare on the Apple App Store. ResponseWare is a polling application that allows students to submit responses to interactive questions using their iPhone or iPod touch. The application immediately transfers their responses to a TurningPoint interactive polling slide which presents the class with a dynamic chart of the aggregate response data and stores student response data for later evaluation.
• Vela Design Group has announced VelaClock 1.4 for iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch. VelaClock is a world clock with unique features and an easily configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk for three kinds of twilight, moon phase and tilt, and much more. VelaClock is invaluable to iPhone and iPod touch users who travel or communicate with friends and colleagues around the world.
• bambooapps has announced the update of Keep Your Word for Mac OS X Leopard. Keep Your Word lets you build your own dictionary, classifying and grouping the terms exactly how you want to, while helping you to learn the longest list of words thanks to its different exercise modes. Version 1.4 brings many new features, like support for more cards sides, more drill options, many new grouping and classification options or new quick input panel.
• EdgeRift, Inc. has released AllSecure 1.0, a password and information manager for Mac OS X. AllSecure makes collecting and securing personal information easy and fun with a graphically rich interface and robust security features. AllSecure encrypts any type of data, and offers nearly a dozen built-in templates to store passwords, bank accounts, credit cards, serial numbers, calling cards, frequent flyer information, insurance information, secure notes, and other information.
• App Cubby has introduced Health Cubby 1.0, their new social fitness app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Health Cubby is designed to help users stay motivated by setting simple, realistic goals and tracking their progress in achieving those goals. Users can team up with friends via Health Cubby’s online sync to see each other’s progress and a group weight loss chart. Health Cubby is perfect for people looking to lose weight, or just stay on track with a diet or fitness routine.
• The Dream Apps presents an exclusive one day promotion of the award winning expense and money management application iWallet at half price. This amazing saving is only available at the MacZOT website for one day only. The promotion will start on Wednesday 14th January 2009 at 00:00AM and will end 24 hours later.
• iWebTemplate has announced their website template sale! iWebTemplate has reduced the price on all premium website templates by 5%. Included in this are all premium Website Design Templates, Dreamweaver Templates, PSD Templates, Photoshop Templates, Frontpage Templates, HTML Templates, Zen cart Templates, Expression Templates and Flash Templates.
• iPresentee, a developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, has released new Keynote Motion Themes 4.0 to be used with Apple’s Keynote presentation software. iPresentee presents twelve new Keynote themes. Each theme incorporates background with animated flag of these countries: United States, European Union, Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Spain, France, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Sweden and Italy.
• Nuclear Nova Software has announced GL Golf Deluxe, a 22 course version of their award winning 3D golfing game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In addition to releasing the deluxe version, Nuclear Nova has dropped the price of the standard six course version 25%. By leveraging the iPhone’s unique abilities, this golf game offers a realistic physics system and smooth, fluid graphics for compelling game-play.
• Macvide has announced VideoFlash Converter 2.1, their video to Flash conversion utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, VideoFlash Converter allows conversion of QuickTime compatible video to Adobe (Macromedia) Flash SWF and FLV files. The most popular formats are supported, including AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, ASF, DivX and more.
• ProteMac has announced ProteMac KeyBag 1.2, 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.
• What’s On iPhone has launched the first online iPhone Application Developer’s Corner for iPhone developers today. The Developer’s Corner puts iPhone developers directly in touch with iPhone application consumers for the first time. Developers are able to provide promotional codes, Beta testing sign up, Q&A, and general application discussions directly with potential and existing users of the developers applications.
• Altomac today announced Filemailer 2.1, an update to their freeware file sending solution for Mac OS X. Saving both time and disk space, Filemailer is a handy utility that changes the way people share files via internet, and helps expedite the process of sharing files between computers. It is particularly suited to those who need to send files to clients where it is unnecessary to write out an accompanying email.