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One of my favorite shareware companies, Ambrosia Software last week, announced the release of iToner 2.0.5, a free update to its best-selling custom iPhone ringtone utility. iToner is the original utility designed to easily turn any audio from your Mac into a customized iPhone ringtone without paying per-ringtone fees or jail-breaking the iPhone. Version 2.0.5 streamlines several low level iPhone syncing, communication, and support processes to enhance the iToner user experience and reliability.
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288 Vroom LLC announced last Friday the release of The Sherlock Holmes Collection for iPhone and iPod touch. The Sherlock Holmes Collection for iPhone and iPod touch. It is packed with with 48 original Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The easy to use interface is designed with a dark caste on a stormy night, making the interface almost as mysterious as the stories themselves.
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This article by Benj Edwards in MacWorld tells why twenty five years ago, Apple’s first laser printer had such an impact. He tells why the LaserWriter mattered so much to Apple, Aldus and Adobe.
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This software actually makes me wish I had an AppleTV.
This software, available for both Mac and PC is fully compatible with the latest 3.0.2 AppleTV software
It’s a quick software upgrade that will take your AppleTV to a whole new level.
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For over ten years UGN has brought news, views, reviews, warnings and alerts about your digital safety, and the world of online safety. And, you’ve come to recognize our “Don’t Click” and “No Spam” buttons around the web. But there is still a real need to educate your members, friends, family and business community. One good way of doing this is with the “Don’t Click” button. Please show this button on your web site, and link to your favorite anti-spam site.
      Help support our efforts by getting a button and showing it off. Groups can buy the “micro” button in bulk for around a dollar, and include it in promotions and new member kits. This way you’re spreading the word to be careful online — while supporting your UGN at the same time.
You might be responsible for saving someone from becoming a cyber crime victim!
Help support the fight against cyber crime at UGN SafeNet

As many of us have been preaching all along, there are some folks in very high places who have also come to the realization that some form of accountability is required for orderly and unhindered growth of the internet. Hallelujah!

Hot on the news channels is the continuing saga of the iPad roll-out — and we’re following along with a passion … * Apple draws nearly 5,000 iPad apps in a month * Five Things the iPad Needs to be Complete * iPad Killer? None to be found * Will Apple’s iPad Wi-Fi + 3G crash AT&T? * Microsoft cancels iPad competitor that never existed * Who’s right about Flash? (reader poll) * Case of the missing iPad finger man … and more

Ever fresh, continually entertaining, the news surround Apple never disappoints! Here’ya go: * Steve Jobs pens public thoughts on Flash, then * Microsoft Echoes Apple: ‘future of the Web Is HTML5′ * Apple becomes top U.S. phone maker during 2010 first quarter * Apple rumored to launch iPhone at WWDC * AT&T Releases More Details on 3G IPad Plans * Apple Drops Mac Category From Annual Design Awards * Why WWDC 2010 doesn’t add up for me * Verizon iPhone 4G to help strengthen Apple’s U.S. position * Iron Man 2 Is Allegorical To Gates Vs. Jobs … and more

Remo Software has published an interesting article on how to recover lost photos using the company’s REMO Recover (Mac) – Media Edition software. The software serves to recover accidentally deleted, lost digital photos, audio and video files from camera memory cards, USB drives and other flash memory storage devices.
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Darren Murtha Design, developer of several award winning iPhone Apps for Preschoolers, has announced Drawing Pad 1.3, a beautiful mobile art studio designed exclusively for the iPad! Create your own art using actual-sized, photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens, construction paper and MORE!
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PhatWare Corporation announced last Friday, WritePad for iPad 3.3, an advanced handwriting recognition software for iPad devices. WritePad lets users take notes in their own handwriting with an iPad stylus pen or their finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn while it is being used, improving the recognition quality overtime. Version 3.3 offers customizable styles, improved recognition and spell checker, inline gestures, and support for external iPad keyboard.
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Last fall, Apple introduced their Easy Pay system based on an iPod touch that scans bar codes and reads credit card magnetic strips. Many customers are amazed by the ease of use and wonder if it is iPhone based.
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Bambi Brannan wrote two articles on alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite. The firs dealt with alternatives for Fireworks and Illustrator. But the article that got my attention was strictly on alternatives to Photoshop.
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