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Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for November 25, 2008:

• Bjango has announced Darkness 1.2, an advanced world clock with some unique and interesting features. Darkness lets you see the current moon phase, the next 3 major moon phases, time for sunrise, noon, sunset, moonrise and moonset for any city in the world. A special “Current Location” city can also be used, which will track your position dynamically using GPS, giving you sunrise, sunset and other information for exactly wherever you may be.
• Dare to be Creative Ltd. has announced the release of Sponge 1.0, a system clean and optimize tool for Mac OS X Leopard. Sponge combines three effective techniques to reclaim disk space into a single tool: removing applications, sweeping disk hogs and finding duplicates.
• Credit Card Terminal turns your iPhone into a mobile virtual terminal for charging customers’ credit cards—a business solution targeted at mobile merchants. Currently priced at $49.99.
• DRO Concepts has announced exclusive Carbon Fiber iPhone 3G Cases. The cases are made of authentic aerospace grade carbon fiber and offer a dual-layer design. Using an innovative new manufacturing process, the tough outer shell is made completely of carbon fiber. The interior is lined with snug, high quality, neoprene to provide a supple cushion, and the cases are finished off with a high gloss scratch resistant coating. The carbon fiber cases are available now and sell for $84.99.
• Late Night Software Ltd. has announced the immediate availability of Script Debugger 4.5, the latest version of its award-winning AppleScript authoring environment. With more than 28 major new features and significant improvements to existing ones, Script Debugger 4.5 continues to make AppleScript easier still.
• Binary Salad Games has announced the immediate release of Boomer’s Sky Fishing, their first game release for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Boomer’s Sky Fishing is an addictive game of skill that has you controlling “Big Boomer” the cat as he throws sticks of TNT at unsuspecting fish swimming by. See if you can beat your highest score by blasting unsuspecting fish ever higher with Boomer’s TNT!
• The purpose of TopSecret is to help you find a lost or stolen iPhone. The program will send you an e-mail with the device location and other details that you can give to local authorities to have your iPhone returned to you (never try to recover it by yourself!) Takes seconds to install and is very simple to setup.
• Ben Software has announced the release of SecuritySpy 1.6, the premier multi-camera video surveillance software on the Macintosh platform. With features such as motion detection, real-time compression of multiple video and audio feeds, and network video streaming, SecuritySpy is designed for demanding video surveillance applications.
• The Jumsoft team has released Money 3.2 Grid, code name Grid, the noticeably better business accounting application. Localizations in German and French are improved; the user interface is renewed; and the company dealt with small bugs, too. The Jumsoft team stated that the aim of each feature is to make users’ work flow faster and that happy user feedback is proof that they have accomplished this.
• FoggyNoggin Software has announce Lightastic! 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Lightastic! is a new, ultra-modern twist on the old favorite, Lite-Brite. Lightastic! lets you create little works of art called “lightworks” made up of brightly colored lights. Tap your iPhone or iPod Touch to position your lights, and create a single piece of art, or string together multiple frames to create complex and beautiful animations.
• Speakal has announced the release of the iPanda, the latest in Speakal’s line of trendy and powerful audio systems with a built in iPod docking station. The iPanda combines quality, performance, compatibility and style into one compact iPod audio solution. Audio engineers designed the iPanda with 5 speakers which combine to deliver 25 watts of premium sound you would expect from much larger and more costly systems. The unique design elements enable the iPanda to produce 360° sound, insuring the entire room feels the same high intensity sound.
• Zevrix Solutions has announced the compatibility of its products with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 software. Zevrix products include popular plug-ins for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, such as BatchOutput, LinkOptimizer and InPreflight. The Zevrix products allow users to automate the output from InDesign, save disk space and production time through image optimization and automated packaging, and eliminate errors with thorough preflighting.