Hot Chili Apps today announced Heart Buttons 1.0, the latest app lending the iPhone a very personal touch. Good friends and dear relatives will be represented by a customized icon in the address book and one can get in touch directly by hitting the heart icon. Phone calls, emails and texts are becoming a lot easier, faster and much more sincere. Heart templates are available in different designs, from romantic to funny or crazy.

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Running counter to a steady drumbeat of negative economic headlines, IGG Software has seen 12 months of year-over-year growth and record annual revenues in 2009. IGG, the developer of iBank personal finance management software for Mac OS X, has fostered that growth by adding new employees and releasing a spate of updates and new products. Underlying the independent publisher’s dramatic growth in 2009 has been a steady series of updates.

Stone Design today released Twittelator Pro and Twittelator Free, new versions of its top-selling iPhone Twitter client. Featuring full landscape mode, tweet your playing song and album art, DM conversation mode to see conversation between you and another, pull down compose to see tweet you’re replying to, update bio & photo, geotagged tweets show pin to get map, drag down to refresh, find people by name, hashtags defined, email whole list of tweets, plus many fixes and stability enhancements.

Pagehand announced today the release of LaunchCodes 1.0, an application that restores the creator code functionality that Apple dropped with OS X 10.6. With LaunchCodes, Snow Leopard users can once again double-click on files and have them open in the application that created them, rather than a default application determined by the file extension. LaunchCodes adds an icon to the menu bar that allows users to enable or disable creator-code-launching at any time.

Synium Software today announces a special 50% gift discount for Christmas 2009. On December 24th, 25th and 26th, Synium offers 50% christmas discount on popular products like MacFamilyTree, CleanApp, iFinance and Screenium, as well as for the new products Foodurama, MyFourWalls and Chronories. Rebates for MobileFamilyTree, iFinance Mobile and Motocross are available, as well. Synium Software would like to say thanks and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010!

Readdle today announced a Christmas Sale on their most popular iPhone applications. Offering high discounts, up to 40% off the regular price that will last until Monday, December 28th. The products on sale are Scanner Pro, ReaddeDocs, Take A Note, BookReader, OneDisk and Flash Drive. Scanner Pro transforms any iPhone into portable scanner. ReaddeDocs is a powerful document viewer, document viewer, file manager and attachment saver. Take A Note is a powerful note taking application.

Turing Studios today released FuturesLive 1.0 for the iPhone, a state-of-the-art finance app with powerful features for future and commodity traders. It comes packed with an extensive set of tools, such as quotes, charts and news that will surely satisfy the demands of any trader. It provides an intuitive interface to keep track of hundreds of pre-loaded future contracts available on the major futures exchanges.

Indie developer Jendrik Bertram today announces iFlicks 1.2, an update to his popular video management utility for Mac OS X. Featuring a natural, easy-to-use interface, iFlicks will import video files into iTunes to play in iTunes, Front Row, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. Easily import video collections into iTunes and categorize them with a variety of information, such as title, episode, director, cast, genre, and much more. Version 1.2 offers improved conversion speed and adds a rule system.

Sigster LLC today announces Urban War 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Urban War is the first true cross-platform social game that offers users a full-fledged in-game social network with a single account across multiple platforms including Facebook, Myspace, and UrbanWar Online. The consistency across multiple platforms and devices combined with a simpler user interface makes it extremely convenient and easy to navigate, but almost impossible to quit.