Over 1000 Mac and computer enthusiasts are expected to converge at Mac Computer Expo 2010 (MCE), hosted by Santa Rosa’s North Coast Mac Users Group (NCMUG), on Saturday, October 2, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Petaluma Community Center in Petaluma, California. Now in its 17th year, MCE has grown from 300 attendees in 1991 to become one of the largest events of its kind in the Bay Area, second only to Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Attendees come from all over California to meet vendors who offer the ... Read More

Paragon Software Group (http://www.penreader.com), a leading software developer for mobile devices and desktop computers, today announced the immediate release of 54 SlovoEd dictionaries for Mac OS X users. The SlovoEd 7.0 series offers original premium content in more than 30 of the most popular languages directly from the world’s top publishers. SlovoEd multilingual dictionaries for Mac OS X contain the most up-to-date dictionary databases in complete accordance with the published originals and provide ... Read More

Soupface LLC, developer of the Soupface photo morphing application, today announced their latest entertaining and challenging application called “D Morph Game – Celebrity Visual Face Trivia”. The idea for D Morph Game stemmed from the photo morphing application called Soupface. Soupface is an iPhone application that allows users to instantly morph two faces together using saved images or images taken directly from the in-app camera. How well do you think you know your favorite celebrity faces? ... Read More

Yazsoft today released Speed Download 5.2.19. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X, Speed Download is an easy to use, powerful and reliable download manager. Speed Download sets a higher standard for download manager innovation, and is expressly designed to be a central, unified hub for almost all downloading and file transfer activities. This major new update continues to enhance and tweak the performance of Speed Download to ensure utmost reliability. Some Key New Features in Version 5.2.19: * New: Updated ... Read More

Apple have released Safari 5.01 for Mac and PC that lets users add extensions to the browser such as e-mail alert widgets and news alerts. Safari users can add extra functionality to their browser via the Safari Extensions Gallery at extensions.apple.com Apple is currently offering over 100 extensions on its site categorized into 16 different sections such as social networking, search tools, shopping, and RSS tools. Safari 5.01 for Windows works with Windows XP SP2, Vista, Windows 7, and Mac users need at least ... Read More

Apple have criticized the Motorola Droid X claiming that a tight bottom grip kills the phone’s signal entirely. The feat may be difficult to replicate in casual use both due to the internal antenna and the phone’slarger dimensions than the iPhone. Apple have already claimed that Blackberry, HTC, Nokia and Samsung phones have death grip problems. Apple have posted a webpage comparing ‘death grip’ effects on various phones at: http://www.apple.com/antenna/ Share ... Read More

Zidware, Inc. announced today the release of their coolest interactive iPad app so far, Space Crayons(TM), to join ZooRound(TM), Photo Van Go(TM), My School(TM), My Alphabet(TM), Matheroids(TM) and ABC Invaders(TM) into the up and coming App Store family of Nanoschool Kids learning products. Kids draw their way with Space Crayons(TM) into a kinetic robot world of art! Space Crayons(TM) designed just for the iPad, are amazingly fun to use energy infused crayons that allow kids to create stunning interactive ... Read More

FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad, the highly anticipated new Apps now available from the iTunes App Store which let users work remotely with FileMaker Pro databases on iPhone or iPad. With FileMaker Go – available as two separate apps for iPhone or iPad – users can easily view, edit and search for information in FileMaker databases on their iPhone or iPad. Ideal for mobile teams, FileMaker Go provides access to databases created with FileMaker Pro and hosted ... Read More

SplashData today released the iPad version for SplashShopper 3.0.3, the company’s very successful list maker and organizer app. SplashShopper helps iPad users manage their lists of groceries, gifts, to do’s, wines, music, movies, and anything else they need want to list. For shoppers, SplashShopper helps them to track prices and locations for comparison shopping. SplashShopper enables iPad users to: * Create an unlimited number of shopping lists each with different categories, custom fields and ... Read More

FaronStudio has launched an OS X version of PixPlant, the popular texturing tool that creates high quality seamless 3D textures from plain photos. PixPlant for OS X includes all the functionality previously only available in the Windows version for turning photos into tiling textures and generating 3d depth information in seconds: normal, displacement and specular maps. Starting from a photo, PixPlant creates a seamless texture and then generates high quality normal, displacement and specular maps which can be ... Read More

Instantly turn your FileMaker database into an iPhone iTunes Application in minutes. FMTouch Enterprise enables you to create an actual application that you can sell on the iTunes App store. There is absolutely no programming knowledge needed. All you need to know how to do is build a FileMaker database. FMTouch Enterprise is the next revolutionary step in iPhone development for businesses. It combines the power of relational FileMaker Pro databases with the award winning FMTouch engine to deliver a business ... Read More

Dear iPhone 4 Users, The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned. To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as ... Read More

Yazsoft has announced a chance to win a hot new 2010 Mac mini (2.4GHz) and 3 licenses of Playback. Together, this should make for one powerful full featured media server. This giveaway is open to everyone and the winner will be chosen by random draw the week of July 19, 2010. Void where forbidden by law. No purchase necessary. Visit the Playback website to enter. 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. ... Read More

InfoLogic, Inc. has released MathMagic Pro Edition 7.0 for Mac OS X, their award-winning professional level Math equation editor for editors, publishers, and technical writers. With a focus on the equation quality and easy user interface for a higher productivity, MathMagic is a multi-purpose equation editor for mathematical expressions and symbols. MathMagic Pro for InDesign comes with Plug-ins for Adobe InDesign CS ~ CS5 to enable the ability to create and edit equations right inside InDesign documents. ... Read More

mTrip Travel Guides for iPhone and iPod touch have hit the App store with nine US and European city guides. Just like a personal tour guide, mTrip is there for you from planning your itinerary to guiding you around the entire city and describing tourist attractions, restaurants, hotels and more to you. “Travel preparation, sightseeing and trip sharing are completely re-defined with the arrival of travel applications. Apps should support the traveler in a quick and easy way with rich, updated information ... Read More

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), the world’s largest dedicated security company, today announced McAfee® Family Protection iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Edition. McAfee now provides strong parental controls to keep children safe when they are browsing the Internet on an Apple mobile device. McAfee released McAfee® Family Protection for the PC in June 2009. According to data released by Admob in 2010, 65 percent of iPod touch users and 13 percent of iPhone users are below the age of 17. Furthermore, twice as many kids ... Read More

LittleFin Software today is pleased to announce the release of Chronicle 3.3, an update to their best-selling home finance and bill paying application for Mac OS X. The app provides an easy, graphical means to enter and track finances. Features include: automatic bill paying reminder; long-term debt tracking; database of payments and receipts; graphs and reports which analyze trends and averages; and a sortable list of upcoming bills which can be paid on-line from within the app. Not surprisingly, much of the ... Read More

kode80 LLC has released Image Crushr, a free OS X application for developers and designers of mobile software. Image Crushr improves image quality, optimizes memory usage and enables previewing of images outside of the device. The majority of mobile devices that exist today can only display a limited range of colors compared to their desktop counterparts. Beautiful artwork with millions of colors can be reduced to a mess of harsh banding when viewed on the device. Bit depth reduction with dithering is the common ... Read More

Apple® today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world’s most energy efficient desktop and starting at $699, is the most affordable way to enjoy Mac OS® X, iLife® or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® Server.20941) “The sleek, aluminum Mac mini packs great features, versatility and value into an elegant, amazingly compact design,” said Philip ... Read More

Agile Web Solutions today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of 1Password 3.2 with Safari 5 compatibility along with usability improvements and other fixes. 1Password 3.2 is an important update to Agile Web Solutions’ top-rated password and identity management application for the Mac. With the release of version 5 of Apple’s Safari web browser, Agile Web Solutions has updated the 1Password Safari extension to be fully compatible with the new browser. What’s New in ... Read More