Year: 2009

Accessory label Lapàporter
(http://www.lapaporter.com) from Berlin has
introduced a new line of iPhone sleeves and other
products. According to company rep, Natalie
Werner, Lapàporter stands for “an elegant and
feminine line of handbags and accessories for
electronic devices.”

“Lapàporter is finally bringing protective
designs for mobile phones, iPhones and iPods on
the market that are not only practical but also
attractive, stylish and elegant,” she says.
“Lapàporter goods are produced with great care in
Germany.

iPresentee (http://www.ipresentee.com), a developer of add-ons for
Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, has released free Valentine’s
Day Mail Stationery templates to be used with Apple’s Mail
software. The new Mail Stationery package includes 16 templates.

Creating an e-mail with Valentine’s Day Mail Stationery templates is
exactly the same as creating an e-mail using the ordinary Mail
Stationery templates.

Information Appliance has released PocketMac Backup for SalesForce, a
SalesForce backup solution for Mac users. It gets contacts from
customers’ SalesForce accounts and saves them to the Mac OS X Address
Book.

It does this automatically, every 15 minutes, with no user
involvement. The software also saves backups of calendar and task
data to iCal as well, so that users can keep track of appointments
even without Internet access.

PocketMac Backup for SalesForce runs on Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) and
retails for US $34.95.

GenAudio (http://www.genaudio.com) is launching a consumer version of
its AstoundStereo technology, the AstoundStereo Expander computer
software, and announced the giveaway of 10 million free music
downloads of various songs processed and re-mixed using GenAudio’s
professional audio software.

AstoundStereo can purportedly be experienced through as little as two
audio channels, such as any headphones, home theater speakers or
laptop speakers. The software processes audio files on the user’s
desktop or laptop computer in real-time.

Blastwave FX (http://www.blastwavefx.com), a HD sound effects label,
has released Free Sound Effects Download Pack #1. The Free Sound
Effects Download Pack #1 contains 68 sound effects selections from 40
Blastwave FX libraries.

Sonic novelties include angry goat bleating, bursting fireballs,
robot footsteps, a pixie dust fly-by, digital glitch, low frequency
tremors and more.