It has never been so easy to significantly improve digital images in Aperture. Just load them in Jade, click a button and save the result. Jade will use its proprietary algorithms to enhance color, contrast and dynamics, while preserving the overall quality of the images. In addition, Jade also provides manual controls to fine-tune intensity values, the contrast of the image and the colour correction for unbalanced images.

Feature highlights include:
* One-Button Automatic Image Enhancement
* Fine-tune Intensity Values, Contrast and Colour Correction for unbalanced images
* Batch process large volumes of images

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 (Leopard) or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* Apple Aperture 2.1 or later
* 5.0 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
Jade Plugin 1.0.2 is offered in both Standard and Pro versions, and are available as a full-featured 30 day demo. Jade Standard is $19.99 Euro, and Jade Plugin Pro is $49.99 Euro. A discount is offered to customers who have purchased a Jade 1.x application license.

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Based in Udine, Italy, DataMind Srl is an ICT start-up founded in 2006 by 4 research scientists, whose core business is the outsourcing of scientific software to research centers/institutes. With a focus on developing software for researchers in Neuroscience, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Computer Vision, Image Processing, etc., DataMind’s R and D department provides state-of-the-art, industrial based solutions to visualize and analyse scientific and experimental data. A staff pick and featured download on Apple’s download website, Jade is the first application that makes direct use of the algorithms developed by DataMind. Copyright 2006-2008 DataMind Srl All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

BeFit is an amazing new Mac app, that combines the USDA health and food database on Nutrition Facts, and the ability to track calories and more in one amazing Mac interface. The app surfaced due to its predecessors the Calorie Counter, and Calorie Tracker widgets, which were great in the dashboard environment but lacked luster when it came to doing stuff like saving data, and printing. Thus BeFit was created, developed in conjunction with Chad Jones and designed by Jon Brown.

This app boasts one of the largest food databases in any mac health app; the ability to make as many lists or food groups as you like, and of course tracking nutritional data. So why is this so great, say you have a recipe and you want to know what the caloric intake is before you cook it. Drag all the ingredients into a list and BeFit will tell you, you can at that moment change or alter your recipe to get it into the proper health range. This is just one example you can use it as a food diary, journalling app, nutrition tracker and more.

BeFit Features:
* Spotlight Search built in.
* Create limitless lists, multiple food groups and more!
* Over 7000 food items from the USDA Database.
* Printing functionality for all food lists.
* As intuitive as other Core OSX Apps.
* Streamlined nutrition tracking.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* G4 Processor, 1GHz or faster

We took careful consideration creating this universal app so anyone on any Mac OSX platform can enjoy. We support all versions of Mac OSX not just Leopard (10.5).

Try BeFit for free with a limited database, create unlimited lists and enjoy full nutritional data. The full version boasts the full database containing over 7000 food items and starting at only $15.95 USD its quite a good deal. Current customers of the Calorie Tracker and Calorie Counter will receive 50% off and get free updates until version 3.0. Check out this great app, and you will see why people are staying fit!

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Located in New England, USA Jon Brown Designs was founded in 1999. We are a team of designers living in New England, providing design and web development services for clients all around the world. Our sites are created using web standards, for compatibility with all web browsers from Internet Explorer to Safari, even mobile phones and video game consoles. We also design software for the web and Mac OS X. We have over 8 years of experience for clients including Franklin Pierce University, York County Community College, Wonderland Schools Inc, Discount Tire & Alignment, Seacoast Chapel and many others. All Material and Software (C) 1999-2008 Jon Brown Designs / All Rights Reserved.

There are so many interesting and important sounds in our lives. Wouldn’t it be nice to record them conveniently on your ever present cell phone? Now with Plum Record and the Apple iPhone you can.

Easily record interviews, lectures, songs, shopping lists, medical notes, to do lists, bird calls, legal notes, environmental sounds, meetings, lyrics, car sounds (to play for Clik and Clak on Car Talk), reminders, ideas, audio books, diary entries, your childs first words, singing, instrumentals, street musicians, comedy, sermons, book clubs, choirs, news, podcasts, science notes, observations, the list goes on and on.

Sounds in Plum Record can be tagged with photos, and text. Multiple tags can be added at different locations in a sound file. These tags can then act like bookmarks allowing you to jump to different sections of the sound file instantly.

Once you have your sounds you can transfer them using our (free) Plum Record Server for the Mac (Win and Linux coming soon) which is on our website.

Features:
* Record, pause, continue, rewind easily using familiar controls and a beautiful interface.
* Record secs, minutes or hours at a time. See elapsed time and time remaining.
* The very familiar scroll wheel for interface and controls.
* Files named automatically, rename sound files easily.
* Library to keep sounds in and arrange by dragging into folders.
* Create hot tagged (colored) folders for sounds.
* Folders and sounds can be selected and deleted or rearranged by dragging.
* Tag sounds quickly with multiple photos or instances of text.
* Easy to use and view even outdoors.
* Plum Record Server to transfer even big files to your Mac and soon Win and Linux.
* Works with larger interface in rotated mode.
* Choose the sampling rate for high or lower res (and size) files.
* Change the skin/interface for recording.
* Change files recorded on the iPhone to other formats like WAV, MP3, MP4, AAC, 3GP, AC3, AIFC, AIFF, AMR, Next/Sun, Sound Designer II, 3GPP2, etc.
* Doesn’t use a microphone for an icon.
* Big surprises on the way…

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Based in Denver, Colorado, Plum Amazing Software is a new privately held company dedicated to iPhone and mobile applications. Plum Amazing is also available for programming for iPhone and mobile devices for other companies. Copyright 2008 Plum Amazing Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

The bundle includes:
* Bookends ($100) - Full-featured reference and bibliography management.
* Periscope ($40) - Security software that leverages the Mac’s iSight Camera.
* Mellel ($50) - Highly-acclaimed multilingual word processor.
* DEVONagent ($50) - Extremely efficient Internet search tool.
* Norrkross Movie ($60) - Multi-layered video editing and compositing software.
* Alarm Clock Pro ($20) - Alarm and timing software with extensive features.
* HookUp ($10) - Share and access iTunes libraries beyond your local network.

In addition, three “locked” applications will be made available to all bundle purchasers as certain sales targets are met:
* MacJournal ($35) - The most popular journaling software for the Mac.
* Contactizer Pro ($120) - Comprehensive contact and project management.
* LightZone ($130) - Professional photo-editing software.

“We’re thrilled to be delivering our fourth value-packed bundle of applications,” said Nate Houle, coordinator of MacUpdate Promo. “Not only are Mac users getting a tremendous value, they’re also getting a great number of tools for improving their workflow and managing their life.”

Pricing and Availability:
The MacUpdate Promo Back-to-School bundle is available through September 10 for $49.00 USD exclusively from their website.

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MacUpdate was founded in 1997 by Joel Mueller and has since become the leading Mac software site on the Web. The site remains independently owned and operated and represents one of the largest Apple communities online. MacUpdate Promo was launched in 2006 and delivers 24-hour daily software deals and periodic bundles. Copyright 1997-2008 MacUpdate. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

To celebrate 10 years of MathMagic, the hard-working folks at InfoLogic wish to take this opportunity to thank both new and old customers alike for their interest and support with a very special offer:

* MathMagic’s Debut Announcement:
For customers who purchased MathMagic during its debut year, InfoLogic is offering $1000 worth of products for free. Customers must have purchased MathMagic between September 1, and December 31, 1998. Please contact sales 778-880-0605 or visit them online by 9/30/08 to take advantage of this offer.

* Back to School Special - 40% discount:
Between August 27 and September 3, 2008 InfoLogic will be offering a 40% Discount for any items sold from their online store. Shop any items, and simply enter the coupon code; MM10YEAR.

This offer is for end user, and online purchasing only.

The superior quality and productivity of MathMagic is accepted by many professors, teachers, students, university presses, school text book publishers, and government research institutes in more than 75 countries around the world.

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Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, InfoLogic, Inc. was founded in 1996 by Charlie Lee, with its North America office in Vancouver, Canada. InfoLogic specializes in technical and desktop publishing (DTP), high quality digital contents, and Macintosh software development. Released in 1998, MathMagic is its flagship product. InfoLogic also ported ThinkFree Office to the Mac OS platform and released several utilities and XTensions products. Its copy protection solution for fonts has been adopted by several major 2-byte font vendors in Asia. Copyright 1996-2008 InfoLogic, Inc. All Rights Reserved. MathMagic, MathMagic Pro Edition, MathMagic Personal Edition, MathMagic Prime Edition, MathMagic XTensions, MathMagic logo, and InfoLogic are trademarks or registered trademarks of InfoLogic, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

All of the most popular formats are supported, including MOV, 3GP, MPEG, AVI and helps bridge the gap between many video standards. iPod Converter is a great tool for using with Apple’s iTunes.

MacVide iPod Converter provides powerful functions to set different settings for your video files. It allows you to select crop video area, the bit rate, frame rate, video resolution. Video preview with “rangebar” allows you to choose the exact video footage you want, anywhere between the first and last frames. With MacVide iPod Converter you will able to convert your entire movie to .MP4 and watch it anywhere and anytime. It’s very easy to use and it supports most portable MP4 devices.

Feature highlights include:

* Input format supported: all popular Video formats including AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, ASF, DivX, etc.
* Playback on multiple players including iPod, iPhone, PSP and Apple TV, Creative Zen, Archos, etc.
* Crop your video area to remove the black video sides.
* Powerful video/audio output settings
* Allows to set video resolution and frame rate
* Allows to set video and audio bitrate.
* Customizable dimensions for exported video
* Auto Determination of Movie length
* User can control Movie over Capturing

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 19.4 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
iPod Converter 1.7 is available for only $29.95 USD for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the MacVide website.

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Located in historic St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Intelus, Ltd. is a privately funded company founded in 2002. Leveraging their longtime experience in the video industry, Intelus’ goal is to develop best-of-breed tools for the Mac platform, and lead to the creation of Macvide. Copyright 2002-2008 Intelus, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

This new version can help you quickly and easily load your MP3 player, multimedia player, mobile phone, USB stick, SD card (for playback on a PSP) or portable hard disk with media from the Kenbushi media library. ‘Media Space Limits’ can be set for each playlist list to ensure only a portion of the available storage space is used for media files.

Multiple playlist lists can be set for any media storage device. Media types supported by a particular media storage device can be specified, ensuring only those types are loaded on during synchronization. Media storage devices are automatically detected when they are connected.

The ‘Kenbushi Setup Wizard’ has also been significantly improved, making setup very simple and intuitive - all Internet TV programs, music and movies are scanned and added to the Kenbushi media library, including full cover artwork and metadata downloaded from the Internet.

Media player manufacturers and distributors are now being offered the unique opportunity to bundle the free Kenbushi software with their products. However, additional methods of value-adding are also now available, including the option of a ‘Quick Player Setup’ profile for each media player model, a firmware upgrade service customized to each media player model, and even custom rebranding. Kenbushi v7.4 can be downloaded now.

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Lava Software Pty. Ltd., a company incorporated in the State of South Australia in 1997, offers software products across a range of key application areas for all popular computer platforms. More information is available online.

Both applications feature the candidates as statesmen and share inspirational quotes and images from their campaigns. Each application also features a precise countdown timer, accurate to 1/10 of a second, that communicates precisely how long it will be until George W. Bush is out of office and the new President assumes office.

“Many of us are distraught about the startling withdrawal of Stephen Colbert from his bid for the Presidency,” said Aaron Morse a Spiffyware software user. “But now, with Obama Inauguration Coundown and McCain Inauguration Countdown, iVoters can look to the future and celebrate the winners in America’s political selection process.”

Spiffyware was unavailable for comment.

The “Obama Inauguration Countdown” and “McCain Inaguration Countdown” applications are available for sale now on the iTunes App Store for $0.99. Spiffyware’s software hits include Tilt Fighter and SuperPong.

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Founded in 2008, Spiffyware specializes in software development for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Spiffyware’s software hits include Tilt Fighter and SuperPong. Copyright 2008 Spiffyware. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

New Feature - New User Interface:
The transition is now completed! Where Toolbox in the past has been a multi window program, its now a single window program. The benefits of this are enormous. Better use of screen estate. No wasted time on resizing/moving windows. Usable in resolutions as low as 1024×768. Fewer UI elements on the screen. The multiple windows didn’t cover the entire screen, so other applications was be visible behind Toolbox, causing visual noise. This visual noise is now eliminated, because the single window entirely covers the background. Its no longer possible to click-through and activate a background application by accident.

New Feature - Busy Animation:
The resize pad of a building block shows an animation when its processing data. This gives a clear picture of whats going on, where is the time spend, time remaining before output can be seen and which way the data is flowing. In the past the progress was only shown in the window title.

New Feature - Comment Fields:
Getting started with Toolbox is now easier than ever. There are two tutorials that makes use of the new comment fields, so its possible to read rather than guessing. Reading comments are okay, but editing comment fields are very experimental.

New Feature - New Look:
In the past the multi window interface leaved little room for making things pretty. This has been addressed with the new interface. Building blocks cast shadows. Appearance have been carefully chosen for comment fields and busy animation. The control bar resembles the one found in Apple Instruments. The new look is attractive.

Other Changes:
* Worley noise brick has been added.
* Resize brick has been added.
* Shadow2 brick has been added.
* Export panel has been added.
* Appearance preferences has been added.
* New shortcut. F2 for switching primary/secondary areas.
* New shortcut. Spacebar for scrolling.
* New shortcut. Double click for inserting bricks.
* Added ‘Aspect’ parameter to the ‘Text’ brick.
* Added ‘Prewitt-Sobel’ parameter to the ‘Normal’ brick.
* Added ‘Color2′ parameter to the ‘Rect’ brick.
* Added ‘Multiply’ to ‘Alpha Operations’ for the ‘Mix’ brick.
* More example projects has been added.
* Renamed ‘Pad’ brick to ‘Trim’.
* Renamed ‘Overlay’ brick to ‘Rect’.

It has taken half a year to rewrite the UI from scratch and it has been worth the wait. This is the biggest change in Toolbox’ history. We are very interested in user feedback regarding this new interface.

Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 or later
* 1.5GHz processor (2.4GHz recommended)
* 1GB of system RAM
* 64MB of video RAM
* Three-button mouse

Availability and Pricing:
Toolbox is free to try and can be downloaded without any registration from the Toolbox homepage (4.5 MB). A single user license can be purchased for 20 Euro while this program is alpha. Final price will be 50 Euro. Software updates are free.

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Opcoders is a one-man company, founded in 2006 by Simon Strandgaard. Copyright 2008 Opcoders. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

“It’s just time to let this theme go. It’s from another era in our history and it’s time it had some new life and new meaning.”, says 2hadows designer, Adam Merrifield.

2hadows release to the open source vault comes in the form of an update. Now at version 7 (r7), 2hadow is said to work better with recent YourHead plugins such as Carrousel, Kwix and the shiny new Collage 2.

“Isaiah and I were back and forth with a few variants of r7 to make sure that 2hadow and YourHead plugins would play nice together under normal use,” states Adam, “this version should do the trick making 2hadow stable enough to be let loose in the open source pool.”

The newly open sourced 2hadow is covered under creative commons license, Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. seyDoggy encourages users to download and experiment with 2hadow r7 but also urges users to share their mods back with the seyDoggy and the community.

seyDesign is a division of seyDoggy Web and Graphic design and has been in operation developing and distributing cutting edge RapidWeaver themes since 2005. Known for developing the first commercially available theme with split navigation, seyDesign is responsible for continually pushing the limits of RapidWeaver.

Pricing and Availability:
2hadow Free to download and share at our online RapidWeaver theme store.

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We are a small, yet internationally renowned web and graphic design outfit based in Kitchener, Ontario. Having worked with clients across the UK, Los Angeles, New York, Japan … it’s safe to say that seyDoggy’s work has touched every corner of the globe with an internet connection. We excel in web design, graphic arts, web themes, template design, photography and digital imagery. Through our daughter site, seyDesign, we design and sell thousands of RapidWeaver theme designs for the global market. We also offer consulting services for other companies looking to enter the web design industry or who don’t want to hire full time staff to manage their own internet or intranet web systems.