Apple® is sad to announce the death of Apple Board member Jerome B. (Jerry) York. York, the chairman, president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, joined Apple’s Board of Directors in 1997. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler, and former vice chairman of Tracinda. He is widely acknowledged for his contributions at Chrysler and IBM during their turnarounds.
“Jerry joined Apple’s Board in 1997 when most doubted the company’s future. He has been a pillar of financial and business expertise and insight on our Board for over a dozen …

app4mac today is pleased to announce the release of CheckUp 2.6, a major update to the innovative tool that allows you to check the health and monitor the behavior of a Mac computer. CheckUp is now able to detect the most common issues of a Mac and display details about how to fix them.
What’s new with version 2.6?
* Detect the most common issues of Mac OS X. Display details about how to fix them.
* Improved alerts on disks or memory issues
* Improved support of Macs with Intel Core i5 or …

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced “Kindle for Mac,” a free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Mac computers. The U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) currently offers over 450,000 books, including New Releases and 102 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers, and is the only place to find some of today’s most popular books in digital format. Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, and soon the iPad. Customers in over 100 countries can …

Yazsoft has announced Instaplaylist 1.0.4 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Instaplaylist is a hot, new universal remote for music. It allows you to create and manage a playlist of YouTube music videos from your iPhone or iPod touch. The videos play on your computer while you control playback from your iPhone. Videos continue to play even if you exit Instaplaylist or turn your iPhone off.
Feature Highlights:
* Create a playlist of YouTube music videos. The music videos play, one after another, on your computer
* Massive music library. Choose from any …

Very Nice Industries, a New York based digital production boutique, announces the release of “Vis-à-Vis: RED”, an iPhone application designed for use with the RED One Digital Cinema Camera. Vis-à-Vis: RED is an intuitive guide to the extensive menu system on the RED One. The application provides users with a fully searchable interface allowing users to quickly access and learn about specific features of the RED One.
Howard Buksbaum, lead developer on the app says, “Knowing the ins and outs of the RED One® camera can make or break a shoot. …

Voices.com is joining the mobile revolution with its own app to showcase its roster of over 25,000 voice over talent by making MP3 audio samples available with the touch of a finger.
Voices.com’s mobile application, or “app” as they are commonly called, is fundamentally changing how audio and video producers search for, audition and hire professional voice over talent.
Users can find a complete listing of audio samples organized by category such as audio books, movie trailers, podcasts, radio, television, video games and voicemail recordings.
Voices.com’s services are growing and converging, providing …

Selznick Scientific Software, LLC today is pleased to announce the release of PasswordWallet 4.5, a major update to their best-selling Macintosh and iPhone password management solution. The app now allows the user to automatically sync all passwords between their Mac, iPhone and MobileMe accounts, as well as their Windows (now in public beta), Android, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre devices.
Version 4.5 for the iPhone brings encrypted exports and the industry’s first Backup and Restore functionality that requires no special software, not even iTunes. Simple and secure, PasswordWallet encrypts and data …

VolunteerMatch, the popular volunteer service, has announced the availability of its first full-featured application for smart phone users, VolunteerMatch for iPhone. The free application, now available in the App Store, provides handheld users with an easy-to-use tool for finding great volunteer opportunities from a network of over 70,000 participating nonprofit organizations.
Among its features, VolunteerMatch for iPhone lets prospective volunteers begin their search with their current location or ZIP code. Volunteers may also elect to find skills-based roles like graphic design, carpentry or accounting projects that can be found with …

Houdah Software has released ACTRocket 1.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. ACTRocket allows for quick searching of web sites and search engines. It not only speeds up the process. It saves on your data plan: you no longer need to load web pages just to get to the search form. Running a web search couldn’t be any faster. Just type “g houdah” to search Google for the word houdah. Type “y houdah” for the same search using Yahoo!
ACTRocket comes pre-configured with many popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) …

BreakThru Radio (BTR) has announced the premier episode of Afrobeat today. DJ Meredith brings the hottest Afrobeat tracks from around the world. BreakThru Radio brings this new show to the iPhone and iTouch on-demand. Join DJ Meredith every other Thursday to hear these infectious beats and rhythms, her aim is to please on her new Afrobeat Show. So many Afrobeat artists are so underground, kind of like how hip-hop used to be and Afrobeat will bring these artists to you. Afrobeat is a combination of Yourba music, jazz, highlife, and …

Apps & More Software Design, Inc. has released Job Timer, a task time tracking and reporting solution designed to be run by Script Timer, its popular script, Automator workflow, and application scheduling utility for Mac OS X.
With minimal setup Job Timer can automatically keep track of the time spent on files belonging to any number of specific jobs, with no need to have to remember to start or change timers. The user can then schedule Job Timer to produce a report which will show the amount of time each …

app4mac has released Projector 2.0.8, an update to this powerful project management application for Mac OS X. Projector provides all the tools you need for professional project management. It is designed to keep track of tasks and calculate a project’s cost. Projector is also coming soon on iPad and iPhone.
What’s New?
* Export option added to iCal format (full project)
* Better user experience (a lot of small and smart improvements)
* Printing issue fixed on some Macs
* All know bugs and crash fixed (the application is now more reliable, more stable)
* Improved …

SkypeCap has released SkypeCap for Mac 3.7, an update to an update to SkypeCap for Mac, video and audio session recorder for Mac OS X. SkypeCap for Mac captures and records audio and video calls made from Skype and outputs various video and audio formats, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, MOV, MPEG4, MPEG, VOB, PSP MPEG4, SWF and FLV.
Do you wish you could be in two places at the same time? With SkypeCap call recorder software you can make that 3 PM sales call in person and not miss a …

Independent developer Benedict Lowndes today is pleased to announce the release of WindowFlow Beta for Mac OS X. WindowFlow provides powerful keyboard commands for organizing your application windows. You can seamlessly move and resize windows which will snap into alignment with each other. Window tiling allows you to select a messy group of windows to be re-organized to make the most of your screen space. WindowFlow’s clean and simple interface also acts as a window switcher, allowing you to easily browse all of your open application windows. The beta is …

Yazsoft has released Playback 1.5, a major update to their popular zero configuration media server for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, 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. No configuration required. Version 1.5 brings a highly anticipated feature to PS3/Xbox users – built-in HD MKV support to all PS3/Xbox users without the use of …