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Apple’s K-12 Education page recently added two new stories: the first discusses how students at The Key Learning Community K-12 school in Indianapolis, IN, use iMovie to enhance learning; the second highlights how Apple technology has brought a new sense of potential to students at an inner city school in Grand Rapids, MI.

TechTracker, the parent company of VersionTracker and MacFixIt, today announced it has closed US$1.7 million in Series C Financing. The money will be used to further develop TechTracker ITX, a software management tool for PCs on a network, and to continue work on the company’s Systemetric Data project.

Adobe today announced After Effects 5.5, a new version of its motion graphics and visual effects that adds, among several new features, native support for Mac OS X.

Dean Kamen’s highly anticipated invention, which has gone by the code words “Ginger” and “IT”, is a two-wheeled, battery-powered transportation device that can carry a rider up to 12 miles per hour, requirers just five cents of electricity for a full day’s charge, and is steered almost entirely by head movement. The New York Times has a full run-down of the device, which will officially be introduced later this morning on Good Morning America.

The Iconfactory has released Kidco Alpine OS, a new collection of 88 freeware Mac OS replacement icons. This new collection contains custom folder and document replacements for the Macintosh system folder, trash can and more. In addition, Alpine OS is available as an iControl iPack, which allows users to instantly customize these items with a simple double-click.