Year: 2008

Take Control has released a new, 112-page ebook
about Apple’s MobileMe online service. It’s
written to provide documentation and help readers
make the most of their $99-per-year subscription!

Apple’s MobileMe online service has been much in
the news lately, since it integrates with the
iPhone to seamlessly move contact and calendar
information among the iPhone, the MobileMe Web
site, and a computer. Along with this whizzy
syncing feature, MobileMe offers a virtual Swiss
Army knife of options, but one notable lack is
detailed documentation.

PDO has shipped versions of its TopSkin case for the fourth
generation iPod nano and second gen iPod touch.The US$19.99 TopSkin
for the touch
(http://www.pdostore.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_ID=486)
features protection, literally covering the entire device except for
the screen and sensor.

The dock connector and earphone jack are covered by protective flaps
while the home, power, and volume buttons are covered by a
play-through design. The TopSkin edges feature a micro-texture
pattern for additional grip.

Heileen, developed by Tycoon Games, is a Mac compatible
historical-fiction visual novel game with multiple endings. It sports
over 4,500 screens of dialog, eight chapters and three different
endings.

Here’s how the game is described: “The game tells the tale of a young
girl from the 17th Century, Heileen. Her merchant uncle leaving her
no choice, she undertakes a voyage to the New World.

NZWidgets iPhone application, Traverter
(http://www.nzwidgets.com/Traverter.html),has been updated to version
1.2. This new release adds international dialing code lookup and
addresses some keyboard animation bugs.

Traverter provides travelers with currency, unit and clothing size
conversions. It offers 36 currency converters, clothing size
converters, temperature conversion, speed conversion, distance
conversion, weight conversion, gas/petro conversions and
international dialing code lookup. It’s available at the Apple App
Store for US$1.99

Morrison Software
(http://www.morrisonsoftdesign.com/with_fl/index.html) has released
version 7.6 of FontDoctor for the Mac. It offers updated support for:
Quark, Microsoft, and Adobe font caches; older font suitcases; and
bad PostScript file names.