Year: 2008

Zevrix Solutions has released BatchOutput Server
(http://zevrix.com/BatchOutputServer.php), an output workflow
automation solution for Adobe InDesign. The software automates
printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript by processing InDesign
files from network-based hotfolders.

BatchOutput Server is designed to automate, simplify and streamline
output workflows of publishing houses, printers, prepress service
providers, ad agencies, magazines and newspapers.

Freeverse has released Plank, a steampunk styled, tilt-based puzzle
game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s available for US$1.99 at the
Apple App Store
(http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292554782&mt=8)

Plank was developed by Strange Flavour, creators of the Apple Design
Award winning ToySight and Airburst and Airburst Extreme games.
Here’s how the game is described: “Plank is the first iPhone puzzle
game where the gameplay is based almost exclusively on the
accelerometer.

Hey Mac Software (http://www.heymacsoftware.com) says its Briefcase
file transfer software for the iPhone is now available at both the US
and Canadian iPhone App Store. It’s expected to be available in
Apple’s European app stores later this week and in their Asian app
stores by the end of November.

The product offers iPhone to iPhone file transfer and requires no
cables, no client software, no switching back and forth between the
iPhone and Mac, no network set up, and no typing of an IP address.
Briefcase is priced at US$4.99 and is available in 10 languages.

Azure Talon Software (http://www.azuretalon.com/) has introduced
iLaugh 1.0, a joke database for the iPhone and iPod touch. It
contains an “endless database of hilarious jokes.”

With sources containing a total of over 20,000 jokes, iLaugh supports
US English and requires iPhone or iPod touch 2.0. Azure Talon says it
will be releasing two, completely new sources soon.

iLaugh 1.0 costs US $0.99 and is available exclusively through
Apple’s App Store
(http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291699747&mt=).

Apatar, a provider of open source software tools for the data
integration market, has announced connectivity to the SugarCRM open
source suite.