Year: 2008

Zumobi (http://www.Zumobi.com) has released Ziibii, a free iPhone App
now available on iTunes. Ziibii offers a new way to stay in-touch and
in-the-loop with friends, photos and the world around them.

Blending Facebook, Twitter, Flickr , YouTube, and web content into
one experience, Ziibii also offers features for wireless consumers as
well as brands. It enables real-time social interaction between users
across a variety of popular social media applications, as well as
on-going discovery of news, stories and blogs throughout the day,
says John SanGiovanni of Zumobi.

Chronos has released iScrapbook 2.0, an update of
its digital scrapbooking application for Mac OS
X. According to Jerry Halls, vice president of
sales at Chronos, it adds over 15 new features.

“We’ve developed a new patent-pending way of
bundling digital artwork into ‘iScrapKits’ which
makes the artwork fully searchable,” he says.

MacPadd (http://www.macpadd.com) is a new, US$24.99 mouse pad for Mac
users that’s made from a solid piece of aluminum. According to David
Free, president and CEO of MacPadd, it provides reduced friction and
wrist action and has a non-slip base.

“With MacPadd, there’s no more scratching or wearing the desk
surface,” he says. “It offers a truly superior responsiveness,
accuracy, feel and appearance.”

Griffin Technology has announced the availability of RoadTrip with
SmartScan for iPhone (www.griffintechnology.com/products/roadtrip).
This latest iteration of RoadTrip marks Griffin’s third FM
transmitter certified for use with Apple’s iPhone and iPhone 3G.

RoadTrip (US$99.99) with SmartScan provides a way for music lovers to
send music wirelessly from iPhone or iPod to their car’s stereo FM
system. It uses interchangeable, model-specific cradles for an iPhone
or iPod on a flexible steel neck.

ASK Video Interactive Media, a creator of software tutorials on DVD,
is now shipping Level 3 of a four-part tutorial DVD series for Logic
Pro 8 music production software. In this third level progression in
the series, ASK Video veteran Mike Baggley brings his engineering and
music chops to Logic Pro 8 and further uncovers its advanced features
set.

Contained in 30 videos of more than 3.5 hours, Baggley guides the
user using through topics from the Hyper Editor to Time Stretching.