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Chronos has released Spotlife 2, a productivity utility for Mac OS X that puts your calendar directly on your desktop. According to Robert McCullough, vice president of Sales at Chronos, the update introduces “a class-leading first for a desktop calendar: the weather forecast is incorporated right into the desktop calendar so you can see the forecast at a glance.”

Solbits Software has introduced Allocator 1.0 (http://allocatorapp.com/), a financial investment application designed for Mac OS X Yosemite.

It provides investors with a dashboard to organize and track important assets by portfolio performance, allocation, and total value based on current market value. You can also view current stock details, add transactions and compare target versus actual allocation.

Allocator supports foreign investments and will convert values to current portfolio currency. The application supports 165 different currencies.

Records for Mac 1.0 from PushPopCorn (www.pushpopcorn.com) will ship Tuesday, Feb. 17. It’s a Mac OS X app that lets you collect and organize just about any kind of information, from your movie collection to the list of your customers and invoices, in a tab organized database.

Features include:

° A WYSIWYG editor, requiring no previous database knowledge;

° 14 fully-configurable form fields, including images, contacts and URLs;

° Pre-filled lists to reduce form creation time;

° Six “eye-candy” themes to tint forms and fields:

The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech (www.kantarworldpanel.com), for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2014, shows that Apple’s share of sales grew across the US, Europe, and China during the important Christmas period, driven by a strong portfolio of devices.