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Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for October 7, 2009:

Macintosh

• Can all the classic games in Mac history be compiled into a 3:30 minute video? Of course they can! Now with appropriately funky music.
• Zeroonetwenty has announced Jar 1.1 an update to its automated cookie management software for Mac OS X. Implemented as a Preference Panel for OS X, Jar ensures that the only cookies kept on your Mac are from sites in your browsers bookmarks or history. Version 1.1 extends its browser support to now include Mozilla Firefox in addition to Safari. By using browser history and bookmarks as the heart of cookie management Jar is able to make cookie management trivial.
• Norbert M. Doerner has released MP3-Info 2.0. MP3-Info is a companion designed to integrate with Apples Finder and iTunes, helping to view and organize music libraries. Version 2.0 now runs as an application in Snow Leopard, and displays all relevant audio tags, such as cover art, lyrics, album, artist, or comments. It now offers a fast connection to search for similar songs in the popular media cataloger CDFinder, and can rename song files based on their tags.
• Jumsoft has released Keynote Animations FX 7.0, an update to its selection of products for Apple’s Keynote. This set presents 100 exciting animated images suitable for any occasion, including 30 brand-new additions that feature superb animation quality and spectacular creativity. The animations can easily be applied to any slide, as well as effortlessly positioned, blended, mixed, overlaid, underlaid, and much more.
• Zevrix Solutions has announced InPreflight 2.6.12, a compatibility update to its quality control, packaging automation and file info reporting solution for Adobe InDesign. InPreflight goes well beyond the InDesign basics helping graphics and print professionals uncover hidden problems, save disk space through smart auto-packaging, save and print graphic reports, and reduce production time and costs. The new version introduces compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
• Indev Software has released three updates for its Mail plugins: MailTags and Mail Act-On. Mail Act-On 2.1.4 is a maintenance release for all Mail Act-On 2 users. It remedies minor issues and add Dutch localization. MailTags 2.3.1 is a maintenance release for all MailTags 2 users who work on Leopard Mail. It remedies several issues, particularly with keyword management. MailTags Snow Leopard Compatibility Release 3 is a critical release, fixing numerous stability and functionality problems.
• Zelda Rubinstein, the eccentric medium from Poltergeist, wants to help you rid your house of the fright-inducing ancient technology that may be haunting your home—just in time for Halloween. Frightening gadgets, like tape-eating VCRs, TVs that send a shock through fingers when touched and 10lb laptops that take a toll on the shoulder are prime suspects of Scary Technology and should not be brushed aside. Beginning October 5 through October 26, 2009, consumers can submit photos of their most fear-inducing technology to www.ScaryTechnology.com, accompanied by a 140-character caption to help bring their photo to life.
• In Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography (Rocky Nook, $34.95 USD) you will find everything you need to know to create amazing panoramic images. Author Harald Woeste takes the reader on a tour from the basics of capturing panoramas, all the way through stitching, editing, and printing panoramic images. He provides a detailed description of the necessary equipment and materials, as well as the various software tools that can be used in the workflow. The latter half of the book illustrates the making of panoramas through a number of example projects.
• REALbasic Developer Magazine is reprinting the last year’s issues into a convenient perfect-bound book which will be shipping in November 2009. Through October 19th, pre-order RBD Archive Volume 7, a perfect-bound 334-page book containing the full contents of Year 7 of REALbasic Developer Magazine, for 25% off the normal price for a limited time. Current subscribers can save even more with an additional subscriber discount.

iPhone/iPod

• To celebrate the International week of Cosmos, Vito Technology is making Star Walk available at a discounted rate $2.99 for the next few days. Have a look at the new way of selecting locations on Star Walk with the 3D image of the globe. This way you can observe stars, planets, constellations, meteor showers and all sky objects from your favorite place on earth. No matter where you are or where you would like to be, with the new earth view feature in Star Walk you can spin the globe with your finger and choose and change at your leisure your stars spotting points.
• ASD Soft Company has published Bikini Lines, a version of a popular logical game Lines. The aim of the game is to set out balls of the same color in lines. After this, they disappear, opening fabulous photos of sexy models to the eyes of a gamer! They also offer a free version Bikini Lines Lite, which gives you the opportunity to play the game’s first three levels before buying the full version.
• Popular trivia game QuizQuizQuiz is now available in a limited period sale with the price reduced by 80%. The game—which takes quizzes on the iPhone to a whole new level features over 28,000 questions in total across English (UK/US/NZ/OZ), French, German, Italian and Spanish—is available for gamers world-wide to play and enjoy.
• Trilibis Mobile, an innovative developer of mobile search and social networking applications, today announced Orbit, the first cross-platform, cross-network, cross-device mobile social phonebook that cleverly organizes all of your communication channels: voice, text, e-mail and social networking.
• eNcipient, creator of the world’s first iPhone case featuring a Drop-Catch Tether, is pleased to introduce the new VOi! Lorem for iPhone 3G and 3GS. VOi! Lorem is a durable snap-fit case that features full access to all ports. VOi! offers a one of a kind Drop-Catch Tether providing a safety feature you won’t find on any other iPhone accessory.
• Mophie has unveiled a new lineup of innovative charging solutions for the iPhone, iPod, and other USB compatible devices. Highlighting the new series is a hybrid Wall & Car International USB Charger ($24.95) that combines a car charger along with a 270º rotating AC adaptor arm that ensures a secure connection at almost any angle. The International Adaptor Travel Kit ($14.95) enables the Wall & Car USB Charger to be used virtually anywhere while traveling abroad and comes with a convenient carrying bag. The Dual USB Wall Charger($19.95) allows users to charge two USB devices at once and its fold up design makes it an ideal solution for traveling with multiple gadgets. Mophie also now has a Low-Profile USB Car Charger ($14.95) with a sleek, minimalist design that seamlessly blends in with your car’s interior.
• San Francisco based indie developer 2n Productions announced today that QuitIt! Episode 2 - Shock and Oww is now available from the iTunes App Store. EP2 brings a variety of new fun features to the episodic sandbox entertainment app starring Lumpy Hrudkovity, an alien entertainer from planet Zgrunturos.