Year: 2009

Aspyr Media has released VooDude for the iPhone and iPod touch. It
costs US$0.99 and is available at the Apple App Store
(http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304109077&mt=8).

VooDude lets you create and manipulate your own personal, portable
Voodoo doll on the Apple devices. According to the folks at Aspyr,
Voodude acts as your “stress relief buddy.” You can use the
accelerometer and touch screen to shake, pin, burn and toss him.

Plus, you can personalize your Voodude by mapping any photo you want
on his head.

Aquafadas (http://www.aquafadas.com) has updated PulpMotion and
PulpMotion Advanced, slideshow and animation software for Mac OS X
10.4.11 (“Leopard”), to version 2.1. The upgrade integrates with
iLife’ 09 and takes advantage of the new Faces feature in iPhoto,
both in the Standard and Advanced edition.

Via drag and drop, you can use your “Faces” and create slideshow
animations.

Apple has announced the public beta of Safari 4,
the latest version of the web browser for Mac and
Windows computers.

MacSpeech, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of
MacSpeech Dictate 1.3, a significant update to the premier speech
recognition solution for the Macintosh.

Now, people can use MacSpeech Dictate to work with any document,
including those that were not created with MacSpeech Dictate.
MacSpeech Dictate 1.3 features a new “Cache Document” command that
allows MacSpeech Dictate to read a document’s contents, in order to
navigate the document, and to enter and edit text.

Other World Computing(http://www.macsales.com) has announced today
its newest OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray/SuperDrive “Quad
Interface” External Drive solutions featuring 8X Blu-ray write speeds
of up to 2GB per minute.

The drives sport FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, & eSATA
interfaces. They’re compatible with both Mac and Windows systems.

The US$399.99 OWC Mercury Pro “Quad Interface” External Drive (model
BDR-203X writes and reads Blu-ray up to 8X, 16X DVD, and 32X CD burn
speeds. It includes all connection cables and two 25GB BD-R discs.