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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for July 29, 2008:

• Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced that tickets for its third BlizzCon gaming convention will go on sale August 11, and that live coverage of the event will be available as an exclusive DIRECTV pay per view event. BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment’s Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft game universes. The event will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11.
• From now until August 29th, 2008 Sorenson Media will be having a contest to launch the Sorenson Media Community. If you submit a feature request, you will be entered into a drawing to win great prizes such as: iPod Touch 8GB, TomTom Gps, iPod Nano 4GB, Amazon.com gift cards, Sorenson swag and more.
• Atelier Software announced the release of Fanurio 1.11, a time tracking and billing application designed for freelancers. With Fanurio, freelancers can easily organize their work, track time and create invoices. Just add a new client to the application and create a project. During the project, users can add project items and expenses, and decide at any time if an item is billable and should be billed using an hourly rate or a flat rate. Billable items can later be added to an invoice.
• Night Productions has announced version 2.0 of Pref Setter. Pref Setter is a property list editor, geared toward editing Mac OS X’s preference files. Version 2.0 adds support for authentication, the ability to launch or quit applications directly, and a new hex editor for editing data values, and also significantly updates the appearance, fixes bugs, and more. It is a recommended update for all users.
• JNSoftware announced a significant update to JABMenu, a convenient and intuitive way to utilize your Mac OS X Address Book data through a system-wide menu. JABMenu provides quick access to your contacts’ phone numbers, e-mail, and instant messaging, as well as postal addresses, URLs and notes. Selecting a menu item can trigger an action such as displaying the content in large type, copying it to the clipboard, creating a new e-mail message, dialing the phone, or showing an address on a map.
• Jumsoft today released Home Business Trio ‘08, a pack of user-friendly applications for small or home-based business for Mac OS X. Home Business Trio ‘08 consists of three applications: Money 3.0 for accounting, Relationship 1.1 for customer relationship management and Process 3.0, for project management.
• Second Gear announced the release of Today 1.3, an update to their popular Mac OS X application for managing iCal events and tasks. Version 1.3 focuses on greatly enhancing Today’s management of tasks. Users can now see tasks for more than just a specific day to look ahead at what’s on their schedule. Today 1.3 also adds a variety of sorting options to make tracking tasks a breeze.
• iPhone owners can now download Palringo’s rich messaging service (RMS) application from Apple’s new App Store. Palringo enables picture messaging, text-based messaging and, soon, vocal instant messaging over the iPhone’s data connection.
• Mark/Space, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of a Symbian version of its data transfer software, The Missing Sync for Symbian. Now Mac users can take full advantage of Symbian OS devices from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.
• Boinx Software introduced FotoMagico 2.5, its award-winning photo presentation tool for professional photographers. Recently honored with the Apple Design Award (ADA) 2008 - “Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application Runner-up,” the new 2.5 version of FotoMagico now features support for Adobe Lightroom libraries, a teleprompter that shows notes for every slide on a presenter´s display and a new export option for uploading slideshow videos directly to YouTube.