PDF2Office v2.1 Professional Edition Osaka, Japan, March 24, 2005 - Recosoft Corporation the developer of cross platform Macintosh and Windows file format conversion solutions and PDF document conversion tools has released PDF2Office v2.1 Professional Edition. PDF2Office v2.1 Professional Edition offers enhanced integration with Mac OS X through the usage of the Services mechanism and Desktop contextual menu interface. Additionally, PDF2Office v2.1 contains many conversion improvements. PDF2Office v2.1 recreates the original construction and layout of the document - forming paragraphs; applying styles; regrouping independent graphic elements; extracting images; creating tables; and processing headers/footers, endnotes/footnotes and columns/sections, all automatically - without any manual intervention PDF2Office v2.1 enables you to recover the data stored in PDF documents - making them available for use by anyone. Since PDF2Office is a standalone product, it is not necessary to acquire...

OmniGraffle 3.2 and OmniGraffle 3.2 Professional Seattle, WA -- March 23, 2005 -- The Omni Group today released OmniGraffle 3.2 and OmniGraffle 3.2 Professional, free updates to the diagramming and drawing applications for Mac OS X. The new versions include Japanese, German, French, and Italian localizations. 3.2 also provides support for the OmniOutliner 3 file format: you can now import OmniOutliner 3 files into OmniGraffle in order to display outline information graphically. Other updates include improvements to the Action inspector, and a number of overall fixes. OmniGraffle 3.2 and OmniGraffle 3.2 Professional can be downloaded at (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/). PRICING INFO: OmniGraffle 3 is $69.95, and OmniGraffle 3 Professional is $119.90. Upgrade, educational and family pack pricing are available from The Omni Group's online store at (https://store.omnigroup.com). ABOUT THE OMNI GROUP: The Omni Group develops productivity applications exclusively for...

RELEASE CDFINDER 4.3.2 RELEASED March 23, 2005, Langenhahn, Germany West-Forest-Systems today announced the immediate availability of CDFinder 4.3.2. CDFinder is the perfect software solution to organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of digital media assets. In essence, it is a powerful disk cataloging utility for the Apple Macintosh that catalogs any data disk, CD-ROM, DVD, iPod, network volume, floppy, ZIP, Audio-CD, and more. CDFinder can also share the catalog data in a network, and supports a wife variety of audio data, including MP3 and AAC files, and even Audio-CDs. Contents of archive files can be cataloged as well, including StuffIt (up to version 6.5.1), Compact Pro, ZIP (used by Panther), TAR, and Apple Installer (Tome) files. The CDFinder application contains the user interface translated into several languages: German, French, English, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Spanish, and Dutch. Together with CDWinder 1.9.1 for Windows, (http://www.cdwinder.de/) this is...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OpenBase acquires Code Builder, database code generator for REALbasic OpenBase announces new plugin designed to work with REALbasic standard edition CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA -- March 22, 2005 -- OpenBase International, Ltd., has acquired Code Builder, developed by Open Minded Solutions. Code Builder is a database application code generator for REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for MacOS X, Windows and Linux platforms. "Code Builder is the missing link", explains Scott Keith, CEO of OpenBase International. "It builds the database access layer for you so you can manage data directly as encapsulated objects rather than having to write SQL. It saves time and money." "Code Builder cuts the time it takes to build database applications considerably," says Norman Palardy, developer of the new REALbasic plugin for OpenBase. "Code Builder offers significant advantages for developers who want to stay compatible with the standard REALbasic database API...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (March 22, 2005) - LAJ Design is pleased to announced the immediate availability of version 1.0.1 of MaxPod. MaxPod is a cross-platform application that helps you to maximize what your iPod can do. "The iPod gives a great platform for music listening, but it can do so many other functions", says Luke Jackson, head programmer at LAJ Design. "With MaxPod, we are trying to automate as much of that functionality as possible. Right now it can sync files between your hard drive and iPod. It can download the news and weather into audio files that you can listen to on your iPod. It can organize your notes, your music, and get directions. I use it every day. I just set the auto mode to 5:50 AM and by the time I am ready to go, it has backed up and synced my files, downloaded the news and weather, which I listen to on the way to work." New in Version 1.0.1 ------- * Added in version checking so you can stay up to date * Changed to delete from iTunes before copying the new...

ELECTRIC BUTTERFLY RELEASES UNIHELP 1.7 Support for Virtual Volumes Added to Cross-Platform Help System for REALbasic Developers LOS ANGELES, California (March 22, 2005) - Electric Butterfly announces the immediate availability of UniHelp 1.7, the award-winning help system for REALbasic. UniHelp provides an easy-to-use, feature-rich solution for REALbasic developers who want to add online help to their cross-platform applications. Version 1.7, which is a free update for all registered UniHelp customers, includes improved help navigation and adds support for Virtual Volumes. Apple Help Viewer, Microsoft HTML Help, WinHelp.... Why waste precious development time designing and compiling a different Help system for each platform when you can easily use UniHelp for all of them? Just drag the UniHelp components folder into your REALbasic project, add a few lines of code, create your external help pages, and that's it -- instant online help for your compiled REALbasic applications that...

Tinderbox for Macintosh version 2.4 Eastgate is DELIGHTED to announce a new version of Tinderbox! Tinderbox 2.4 represents a new landmark; with more than 80 improvements, Tinderbox is faster, smoother, and more powerful than ever. RULES add even more intelligence and flexibility, allowing you to create new relationships between notes. STICKY and LOCKED ADORNMENTS make maps easier and smarter NEW TINDERBOX ASSISTANTS for building Web sites and elegant presentations -- using the latest Web standards. Tinderbox 2.4 is available for immediate download at http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ Tinderbox is of special interest to developers in three ways: a) Tinderbox makes a superb programmer's notebook. Its light footprint makes Tinderbox easy to open and easy to keep around, while its flexible methods of linking and its fast, incremental regular expression search make Tinderbox ideal for keeping related ideas linked together -- and for discovering hidden connections. Tinderbox is also...

"Stop shuffling for a second and recharge, in Art-Techo style." Announcing DecoDock by Pressure Drop Bend, Oregon - March 21, 2005- Pressure Drop today announces DecoDock, the first stylish dock designed to complement and enhance the iPod shuffle. DecoDock provides an elegant solution for users who want a simple, artistic way to connect their iPod shuffle to their computer. Designed in the classic Art Deco style, the DecoDock's lighted columns tower over a brilliantly colored and graceful arc, enhancing the pleasing simplicity of the iPod shuffle. The iPod's plastic cap can be stored in the back of the DecoDock, a unique feature designed specifically to help prevent it from getting lost. "With DecoDock, Pressure Drop is making the statement that anything can be elegant and stylish, even a simple dock," said David Gawlowski, President of Pressure Drop. "We took the clean, simple lines of the iPod shuffle and enhanced them, making the DecoDock and shuffle blend seamlessly together in...

LeadingProject 1.1, enhances project reporting on Windows and Mac OS X. Odessa, Ukraine, March 21, 2005 =96 CS Odessa releases LeadingProject 1.1, a= n update of the new professional project manager tool for Windows and Mac OS X. Due to it=92s key feature - a Multi-Project Workspace - the product lets business leaders plan a certain resource in voluntary number of concurrent projects embed one into another and see if this resource is overworked or used in different projects at the same time. The new version features advanced reporting capabilities that allow generating detailed status reports on project progress and resources. The update also adds important export opportunity - support for ConceptDraw XML, which enables users to further saving project file as HTML page or PDF file, graphics file, MS PowerPoint presentation, web-ready Macromedia Flash file, EPS and Text Data formats. The other important features include toolset for quick and easy editing of Gantt charts; Set Up Project...

DVForge Releases JamPlug FM Plug-in FM Transmitter For Guitar Hendersonville, TN - February 28, 2005 -Today, DVForge, Inc. announces the April 8th shipping date of its new JamPlug FM plug-in FM music transmitter for electric guitar or bass guitar. "With so many musicians in our customer list, it is inevitable that we will sometimes come up with fun little product ideas." said CJ Sorg, DVForge's music products manager, "And, the JamPlug FM is about as fun as you can get, if you play electric guitar or electric bass. We have been enjoying casual jam sessions in the parking lot outside of our offices, playing our guitars through our car stereo systems, for instance, using JamPlug FM." JamPlug FM is a 1.2" x 1.8" x 3.5" gloss white module that plugs into the output jack of any electric guitar or electric bass, and then transmit the output form the instrument to any nearby FM radio, boombox, car stereo, or home stereo receiver. It literally turns any FM stereo into an impromptu guitar...

For immediate release Augsburg, Germany (March 15, 2005) -- Ren=E9 Puls & Oliver Feiler GbR (kcoresoft) releases Pipe 1.2 for Mac OS X. About Pipe Pipe is a Mac OS X Cocoa application made for developers and people who are interested in learning and experimenting with scripting languages. With Pipe's intuitive three-pane layout, script development hasn't been easier before. You can simultaneously see your program, input data, if needed, and output data. Effects of changes to the script code can be seen immediately when you run the script in Pipe. This makes it the ideal tool for learning new scripting languages and deepen your inderstanding of already learnt languages. Quick data visualization can be done fast and easily as Pipe directly supports scripts that generate images or HTML code which will be displayed accordingly. Sample scripts to demonstrate nearly all capabilities are included with the application package as a script library. Once in your script library, all of your...

Four New Plugins for Runtime Revolution and Dreamcard More Free Plugins Available from So Smart Software Paris, March 16th 2005 So Smart Software today announces the availability of four new plugins for the award winning Revolution family of software development tools (www.runrev.com). These new plugins provide additional features that support backups, stack management, thumbnail images and ASCII text. The plugins come with help stacks in French and English and are available for Mac OS and Windows XP. "These new plugins are the perfect complement for the user friendly Revolution product family and because they are free everyone can benefit," said Eric Chatonet of So Smart Software. "The availability of these free plugins is just another reason for those writing software to choose Revolution and Dreamcard." Backups Picker 1.0 - Project security plugin Backups Picker oversees the progression of an unlimited number of projects and automatically runs incremental backups when they are...

myPhoto 1.5 is the easiest way to share you photos--it automatically shares your digital photo albums stored in iPhoto on the Internet with no effort on your part. This release is a major update, adding a substantially improved, fast caching system that builds your site before anybody looks at it. It also adds the ability to coallese multiple iPhoto Libraries into one site, full compatibility with iPhoto 2-5 (including keywords, all image formats, etc), as well as additional translations (Spanish and Dutch) and countless bug fixes. myPhoto is free and requires Mac OS X and iPhoto 2 (or greater). If you need a direct download link (3.3 MB): http://agent0068.dyndns.org/~mike/projects/myPhoto/downloader.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WebDesign 2.6 Adds Improved Support for PHP, JavaScript, CSS, more... Toronto, Ontario -- (March 16, 2005) -- Rage Software today announced the immediate availability of WebDesign 2.6, A major update to the first HTML source code editor with an integrated Site Manager for the Mac. This free update adds support for additional web languages including JavaScript, XML, ASP and VBScript along with more powerful syntax coloring and dozens of other enhancements. WebDesign is a professional web authoring package offering a powerful and easy to use text editor combined with a fully featured Site Manager to help keep your web sites up to date and organized. WebDesign includes built in support for HTML, XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, XML and VBScript. WebDesign was designed with flexibility in mind with its extensible plug-in architecture. There are already dozens of free add-ons available for WebDesign users on the WebDesign Resources Web Site at http...

'AB Transfer' 1.2 Kiel, Germany (March 14, 2005) - turingart is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 'AB Transfer' 1.2. 'AB Transfer' reads, converts and imports contact data from files into OS X' address book. An enhanced version 'AB Transfer Pro' will allow to import data from database sources like FileMaker, MySQL or generic ODBC sources. Pro is to be released soon. Release 1.2 adds support for DBF files created by 'Act!'. Thus, 'AB Transfer' is well suited for users running 'Act!' on OS 9/classic, since the application migrates address/contact data in 5 minutes to OS X. 'Act!' import is as easy as CSV or TAB-separated file import. Besides CSV and tab-separated input data, 'AB Transfer' converts Windows/DOS to Mac data, strips leading or trailing white space. A preview window show read data before the actual import. Currently, 'AB Transfer handles these fields: First name, name, maiden-name, nickname, title, email, phone fax, homepage, country, state, city, ZIP, street...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chronos Releases StickyBrain 3.4 Featuring iPhoto integration Park City, Utah - March 14, 2005 -- Chronos LC today announced the release of StickyBrain 3.4, an important update to its all-new third generation note manager for Mac OS X. StickyBrain 3.4 introduces iPhoto and SOHO Series clip art integration. StickyBrain 3.4 is a free update for registered users of StickyBrain 3. iPHOTO INTEGRATION StickyBrain 3.4 sports a new iPhoto image browser that lets user browse the contents of their iPhoto albums. Users can quickly scroll through thousands of photos (thumbnail size is user adjustable) until they find the photo they're looking for. Then they can simply drag the photo to any note in StickyBrain. According to Jerry Halls, V.P. of Sales at Chronos, "Users have requested a quick and easy way to use the photos they already have in iPhoto in their notes. StickyBrain's new iPhoto browser delivers: it's super-fast and couldn't be easier to use." SOHO SERIES CLIP ART...

J2SEditor: Professional IPTC captioning software. J2S, a company specialized in software development for the publishing and graphic arts industries, announces the availability of version 2.0 of its J2SEditor, an IPTC caption editor with file management capabilities for MacOS X. Designed for professional photographers and photo agencies, J2SEditor is used to view images according to their colour profile, sort files and add or modify textual meta-data of graphics files, individually or in batch, without affecting the documents (e.g. the caption of a JPEG file can be updated without recompression of the document). The list of IPTC fields to edit as well as default values or other input controls are defined and stored in description profiles which can be adapted to each user with our J2SProfiler. Custom description profiles can also be made on demand. Amongst other features, J2SEditor provides a toolbar e.g. for quick access to applications, folders or other tools so that J2SEditor can...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW SDK FROM SEIKO INSTRUMENTS ALLOWS MAC DEVELOPERS TO WRITE SMART LABEL PRINTER APPLICATIONS 1st Smart Label Printer SDK Available to Mac Community TORRANCE, Calif. - March 14, 2005 - Business and home/office products supplier Seiko Instruments USA Inc., the pioneer of the one-label-at-a-time "smart" printer, has released a Software Development Kit (SDK) for Mac developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to create applications for the company's line of Smart Label Printers. Seiko Instruments' new SDK, the first designed for Mac label printing applications, simplifies the development process to just a few lines of code. "We've realized there is a huge untapped market of Mac users who could use a handy small footprint printer on their desktop," Dennis Cox, director of sales and marketing, Business and Home/Office Products Division, Seiko Instruments USA, said. "Releasing this SDK is the first of many steps we plan to take in the coming months...

Cocktail 3.5 (Jaguar Edition) Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset. It is a smooth and powerful utility that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions. Cocktail 3.5 (Jaguar Edition) is a new major update to Cocktail. Version 3.5 includes lots of new features, changes, improvements and bug fixes: Cocktail * Built-in and updated Uninstaller * Cocktail is now fully localizable * Added support for special characters in disk, folder and file names * Added "Play Pilot completion sound" option to the Preferences * Added possibility to save the information from the Specifications window * Addresses an issue in which Uptime was not updated * Addresses an issue in which position of the main window was not saved * Updated "Provide Cocktail Feedback" feature * New icon * Updated Cocktail Help * Other minor bug fixes, changes...

Jumsoft Releases Keynote Stills 2.0 (March 10, 2005) - Jumsoft, the leading developer of Apple Keynote theme and illustration add-ons, has released Keynote Stills 2.0, featuring more than 100 brand-new, high-quality, high-resolution still-life images. Keynote Stills 2.0 comes as more than just a major makeover of Jumsoft's first edition of versatile transparent photo objects, Keynote Jam 1.1. The new version is just that-100% new. With a far bigger selection of objects to boot. These professional-grade photo images were designed for use in either Keynote or Keynote's new iWork sidekick, Pages. They're fully compatible with Microsoft's PowerPoint 2004, too. They can be used with either Keynote 1 or 2 and look great exported as PDFs or any other format. Jumsoft's transparent photo objects have no backgrounds. The 100-plus images lend themselves to illustrating a multitude of topics in business, education, science and just plain everyday life. Keynote Stills 2.0 requires Keynote or...

TRI-EDRE is pleased to announce the avaibility of Clone X 2.0.0 Clone X 2.0.0 Clone X is a disk copy utility for Mac OS X. Clone X features the copy of an entire disk to another disk, or to a set of CDs or DVDs. Copies are fully functional. Clone X provides restoration features as well, and bootable CD creation. Clone X offers a set of tools to efficiently do your copies, including: - the copy of entire disk with all their caracteristics, applications, users and their documents and settings - the copy of disks, without the Users data (for example to create a master that can be used to install the same System and applications on different machines). - the restoration of your disk, to put it back into a previous state and contents (as it was during the copy). - the creation of OS X bootable CD including your applications - the creation of disk with a minimal System (for a small or emergency disk, for test, etc.). - disks comparison. Clone X was specially designed for Mac OS X and...

High performance with new standard ExpressCard module for CodeMeter Wibu-Systems announcing ExpressCard(tm) compliant card module at CeBIT 2005 Hanover, Germany (CeBIT). Wibu-Systems (hall 7, A21) announced today that CodeMeter ExpressCard module used for Digital Rights Management (DRM) will be made available in the following quarter. CodeMeter was introduced last year and represents Wibu-Systems' latest technology for protection of intellectual property assets. "This year's CeBIT is a great opportunity to join the arena for ExpressCard compliant products with CodeMeter", said Oliver Winzenried, CEO and co-founder of Wibu-Systems AG. "CodeMeter security products will perfectly fit with the new defined small form factor and will provide to the user even better performance and ease of use through the ExpressCard Standard and products certified by the ExpressCard Compliance Program. We believe in this new market requiring removable and high quality security for our DRM application...

FETCH 5.0 NEARS RELEASE, INVITES BETA TESTERS ETNA, N.H.--Fetch Softworks announces that Fetch 5.0, the latest version of the award-winning file transfer client for the Macintosh, has entered beta testing. Fetch 4.0 was among the first FTP clients to support Mac OS X, and is the most downloaded FTP client for the Mac. Building on this history of easy, reliable file transfers, Fetch 5.0 adds SFTP support, improved server and firewall compatibility, and a completely rewritten user interface emphasizing simplicity and ease of use. Users interested in beta-testing Fetch 5.0 can apply at the Fetch Softworks website, http://fetchsoftworks.com. Fetch 5.0 requires Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later. Customers purchasing Fetch 4.0.3 on or after March 10, 2005 will receive a free upgrade to Fetch 5.0. Upgrade pricing for other Fetch 4 customers will be announced when Fetch 5.0 is officially released.

Email Merge X Release 2.3 [March 9th, 2005] Sig Software is proud to announce a new release of Email Merge, its popular OS X application for sending individualized email mailings. Email Merge combines a database and a message template to create personalized email messages in the user's outbox. Email Merge is compatible with Apple Mail, Entourage, Eudora, Mailsmith, PowerMail, Outlook Express, Emailer or QuickMail Pro. It imports data directly from FileMaker Pro, as well as from text files or the clipboard. Version 2.3 is the first version of Email Merge with support for Apple Mail. The update also adds a reference guide for sending HTML emails with Entourage or Outlook Express and has many additional minor improvements. More information and the free trial download are available here: http://www.sigsoftware.com/emailmerge/ Email Merge for OS X costs just $39 per license. It is also available in a bundle with Email Effects and TableText for just $55. Best regards, Gideon Greenspan Sig...