Type of Article: MacNews News Article

iPhone/iPod apps for Feb. 8

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Wonder Bread has served up its first iPhone/iPod touch app. The Sandwich Wonder-izer app is free and lets you create sandwich combinations from a list of more than 120 ingredients –from cheddar cheese to cucumbers and sprouts to salami — while calculating the sandwich’s nutrition values in real time with each added ingredient.

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Mac software updates for Feb. 8

ZiggySoft has released a new version (2.3.7) of iWeb Valet (http://www.ziggy-soft.com/News.html(, a tool to enhance and upload iWeb pages. The upgrade: adds basic support for international fonts; removes FTP real-time logging to increase listing speed; corrects an iDisk transfer bug; and enhances the Text menu.

Tension Software has updated Password Repository (http://www.pomola.com/products_passwordrepository/passwordrepository.html), a Mac OS X password storage utility, to version 2.11.9. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs.

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Adobe on Flash bug: sorry ’bout that

Adobe Systems has apologized for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player “languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported,” reports “Computerworld” (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9153520/Adobe_apologizes_for_16_month_old_Flash_bug).

Adobe says the bug was fixed in the beta of Flash Player 10.1, which was released last November. The final version of Flash Player 10.1, however, won’t ship until later this year.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at new versions of FotoMagico and PhotoPresenter

On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Boinx Software CEO Oliver Breidenbach talks about the new versions of FotoMagico and PhotoPresenter.

“MacVoices” is an Internet show and podcast that delivers in-depth discussions with the most influential people in the Mac industry, as well as “the individuals who are out there making it happen on the front lines of the global Apple community,” according to host Chuck Joiner.

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