A new app called Silent Bodyguard features a panic button that sends an SOS distress signal with GPS coordinates to potential rescuers without alerting onlookers. While the $3.99 app, available on iTunes, isn’t the first ICE (in case of emergency) app, this one is backed by Dr. Clint Van Zandt, former FBI chief hostage negotiator and criminal

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 15, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh PagePlanet Software, Inc. has announced the Golden Master release of Modular Gateway Interface (MGI) 3.2 for the Macintosh OS X and Linux operating systems. MGI is an Apache 2 module that adds full functionality to every website on your server using a simple tag structure. MGI includes 67 tags to enhance a website with everything from simple counters and form processing to custom databases and shopping carts. You can also combine MGI’s powerful programming tags to make your website do anything you can imagine.  Need to build a custom login and tracking system? No problem. TheMacBundles today released its March bundle and a new and innovative Build Your Own Bundle store. TheMacBundles has set a new standard of quality and value with its high quality, low priced bundles. These no-gimmick bundles provide users with the same software, support, licenses, and upgrade benefits that apply to users who paid the full price for the titles. The new BYOB store maintains these high standards and lets users create their own customized bundles with some simple mouse clicks. iWebTemplate has announced the addition of a free iWeb themes and templates section to be used with Apple’s iWeb Website building application. iWeb Free Themes includes seven great themes: Sky, Picture, Church, Joy, Love, Billiard and Cat. Each iWeb Free theme can be used as the basis for a great new website.

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 2, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh The Mac Sale is now live with a new bundle. This bundle includes amazing apps such as PathFinder and VideoConverter Pro. As usual, the bundle costs $49.99—a steal for over $500 worth of applications. Yazsoft has announced Playback 1.5 , a major update to their popular zero configuration media server for Mac OS X. Playback allows anyone to share their media with any Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or other supported UPnP compatible device. Playback can also share media stored in folders or even make entire disks available to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. By default, Playback will share almost any content on the users system. UNIEA has kicked off their UNIEA Omniverse Photo Contest . They’re looking for Omniverse case users to submit photos of their Omniverse in action for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to unieastore.com. Plus, all photo submissions will be used to create a new Omniverse video that they’ll be publishing in the Spring. In order to give folks who want to be in the contest a chance to pick up an Omniverse case (in case they already don’t have one), they’re giving all registrants a 20% off coupon code to use at unieastore.com. Mac users can now benefit from secure connections to remote business networks over the Internet

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software , Originals Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for February 19, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh Ambrosia Software, Inc. has released the Multiwinia v1.3.1 update to the real-time online strategy war game for Macintosh. Multiwinia features furiously-paced action and a beautifully rendered landscape populated with digital stick men ready to follow your orders to destroy their opponents. This updated version, which is free to all registered users of Multiwinia, is available at Ambrosia’s website . Qoppa Software has announced PDF Studio 6.2 , a complete PDF editor that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. PDF Studio is packed with features, including the ability to edit PDF files, fill forms, review and comment, create digital signatures, assemble documents and more. Version 6.2 fills a gap by adding PDF review and edit functionality to Google Docs.

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Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – February 19, 2010

Yesterday, we alerted you to blossoming galleries of attractive young women posing in various states of undress with their iPhones. But, hey, iPhone fetish pics aren’t limited to the fair sex: there are a few galleries dedicated to iPhone Guys, too. Plus the NSFW user-generated Guys with iPhones website. Pouts and lipgloss have been replaced with rough-hewn

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Yesterday, we alerted you to blossoming galleries of attractive young women posing in various states of undress with their iPhones. But, hey, iPhone fetish pics aren’t limited to the fair sex: there are a few galleries dedicated to iPhone Guys, too. Plus the NSFW user-generated Guys with iPhones website. Pouts and lipgloss have been replaced with rough-hewn

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software , Originals Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for February 1, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh TheMacBundles has announced that new weekly specials have been posted to its website. Until 2/7, TheMacBundles is offering the backup utility Parachute for a saving of over 60%. Additionally, Radiologik DJ is being offered for a saving of over 40%. People who order the weekly special also can receive an immediate discount off of the already low price of the January bundle. TheMacBundles has received widespread praise from journalists, Mac users, and software developers. Ben Software has announced SecuritySpy 2.0.3 , 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 and audio streaming, SecuritySpy is designed for demanding video surveillance applications. It supports a wide variety of network cameras and video servers, as well as FireWire, USB, and PCI video input devices. The Escapers has announced Flux 2 , their web design application for Mac OS X. After a long beta development period, Flux 2 from The Escapers has left it’s beta status behind. To celebrate leaving beta status, The Escapers have relaunched their whole website and created new blogs where future directions of Flux will be discussed. Flux 2 is a WYSIWYG design environment, but you can hand crank code too.

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Macintosh/iDevice product update roundup – February 1, 2010

Filed under: Hardware , Humor , Cult of Mac , Odds and ends , Apple Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is of course no stranger to the constant expectations and travails of being an Apple fan — he famously skewered the Newton years and years ago in his comic strip Doonesbury. And with the Appleverse on high alert for what could finally be the “second coming” of a revolutionary handheld Apple computer, he’s at it again . Today’s strip lampoons Apple fans who are hoping for a religious experience tomorrow, and Trudeau will likely be posting Apple-related work all week long. The satire is biting as always — while I’m as big an Apple fan as the next guy, it’s very true that many people are expecting a life-changing revelation, and in reality, all we’ll get at most is a brand new piece of technology. A piece of technology that might change the way we do a lot of different things, sure, but if you’re hoping for “miracles” over and above, you know, a new way to read newspapers or watch TV, I wouldn’t hold your breath. Doonesbury covers the tablet release originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Doonesbury covers the tablet release originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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Section: Software + Apps , Miscellaneous , Third-Party , iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Mac + Computers , Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for January 21, 2010: Macintosh Ortelius 1.0.5 , the vector-based map illustration tool for Mac OS X, was released today for download. Ortelius is loaded with hundreds of map styles and symbols, dozens of royalty-free vector map templates, and special cartography tools that help you streamline the creation of custom map graphics, plans, and scaled drawings. Ortelius 1.0.5 is a free update for existing users and is available as a free download for evaluation. Conceited Software has announced Linkinus 2.1.2 , an advanced chat app for Mac OS X. Linkinus 2 provides a rich, social IRC experience, featuring embedded media, short URL expansion, message starring, combined chats, emoticons, and much more. Assign colors to chat participants, grouping consecutive messages into a unique block, customizing emoticons, smart scrolling, putting the spotlight on specific channel users, jumping to highlights and being alerted of relevant content automatically. Xeric Design has announced EarthDesk 5.2 , an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map.

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Macintosh/iPhone software update roundup – January 21, 2010

Section: Software + Apps , Miscellaneous , Third-Party , iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Mac + Computers , Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for January 20, 2010: Macintosh hField Technologies has just launched a new generation of software for its world-renowned Wi-Fire for Macintosh. Now, Mac users who love the Wi-Fire’s long range and high performance get the comfortable look and feel they’re used to with Apple’s AirPort. Green & Slimy Software has released Thoughts , a new note taking application for Mac OS X. With Thoughts users can organize their notes using the familiar page, notebook and shelve metaphors. In addition, Thoughts provides advanced text formatting, including adding images, creating tables and exporting to common Word processor formats. Additionally, Thoughts allows exporting to common file formats, such as Microsoft Word, PDF and OpenOffice. Mac Bundle Box has announced its seventh promotion. Mac Bundle Box will be donating 10% of its revenue to the Haiti Earthquake relief effort to help the more than 3 million people that have been injured or killed in the recent earthquake. The bundle consists of 6 premier Mac applications from a wide variety of categories. The aim of this Mac Bundle Box promotion is to raise money for the Haiti relief for two weeks whilst still being able to support independent Mac software development. Pubblog has announced the release of FileMyFiles , a new file organizing utility for Mac OS X. With one click, FileMyFiles will clean up your Desktop.

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