Year: 2008

Name That Baby! (http://www.doubletapapps.com) is a new app for the
iPhone and iPod touch that lets you, well, name your baby. Created by
Shona Killoughery-McKenney, a stay-at-home mom of two kids under five
years old, the app lists thousands of baby names.

Parents-to-be simply choose a gender and a starting letter, then give
the iPhone a shake. Name That Baby! — which makes a baby rattle
sound when the iPhone is shaken — delivers a scrollable list of baby
names, complete with origins and descriptions, in whatever quantity
the user chooses.

Fractured Software (http://www.fracturedsoftware.com) has updated
Rondo, its MIDI player for Mac OS X, to version 2.8. The upgrade has
a number of interface improvements, an integrated help file and the
ability to specify the absolute rate at which a MIDI file plays.

Rondo features a vertical piano roll with live scrolling and a
horizontal playing piano so that you can follow the music even if you
can’t read music scores. Looping controls enable you to continuously
repeat the same section of music.

St. Clair Software (http://www.stclairsoft.com) has updated
HistoryHound, the utility for indexing and searching web pages that
you’ve bookmarked or visited recently, to version 1.9.5. The upgrade
is faster, adds contextual menus to manage your search results,
delivers support for all of the latest Mac web browsers, and hones
the user interface.

Type in a few words that appear anywhere on the page and HistoryHound
will give you a list of matches, ranked by relevance.

HourDoc (http://www.hourdoc.com), a time management technology
company, has re-launched its HourDoc.com Time and Labor Management
platform. HourDoc.com is a web-based time and labor tracking system
that provides companies online tools to monitor and manage their
employees.

A software-as-a-service solution, HourDoc.com is designed to replace
manual time entry and reporting processes by allowing employers to
tap into real-time labor data on-demand so they can readily assess
and manage work schedules, time and payroll reports, and staffing
needs anytime or anywhere.

Addison-Wesley, a division of Pearson Education, is releasing the
iPhone Developer’s Cookbook, providing Apple developers with
information on how to build iPhone applications using the
recently-released SDK (software developers kit).

The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook provides readers with the skills they
need to build applications for the iPhone by presenting them with
recipes they can apply to their applications. This title will soon be
available to all Safari Books Online customers. Or for a free Safari
trial account online readers can sign up at
http://safari.informit.com.