Year: 2008

Noise Industries (http://www.noiseindustries.com), developer of
visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets
announced that new development partner, Yanobox
(http://www.yanobox.com), has released the Motype FxPack.

Motype is a 2D and 3D text animation plug-in for Adobe After Effects
CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Final Cut Express users.
Developed using the FxFactoryPro Plug-in Manager, Motype offers a
palette for creating and animating text.

O’Reilly Media has introduced and opened registration for iPhoneLive
(http://conferences.oreilly.com/iphonelive), a new conference
scheduled for Nov. 18, 2008, at the Holiday Inn San Jose in Silicon
Valley, California.

Optima System (http://www.optima-system.com/camspinner/) has released
CamSpinner 2.0, an update of the web cam utility for Mac OS X. New in
the upgrade are 20 presets for different cameras, video and audio
settings, iPhone compatible display of webcam images in the iPhone
web browser, faster FTP uploads, improved AppleScript support with
support for scheduling webcam actions using iCal and AppleScript.

Version 2.0 also adds more web page themes and an option to hide the
control palette.

Pragmatic Studio is excited to announce their latest training course–
Cocoa Studio–to be held in Denver, CO on October 28-30. This course is
intended for developers planning to build GUI applications on the Mac (or
the iPhone). In this hands-on workshop developers will learn how to use
Objective-C and Cocoa to write native Mac OS X applications, and get
first-hand experience creating a GUI application with Xcode and Interface
Builder.

TweakerSoft (http://tweakersoft.com/) has introduced AroundMe 1.0, a
new application for the iPhone. It costs US$1.99 and is available at
the Apple App Store.

Via GPS, AroundMe acquires the users location and allows them to
choose the nearest bank, gas station, hospital, hotel, movie theatre,
restaurant, supermarket, theatre, etc. The selected listing is then
displayed on a map, and the software plots the route to the nearest
address. The chosen information can be added to the contact list or
emailed to a friend.

AroundMe also includes a Nearby listing too.