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Dockland Software has announced Fantasktik 1.4, an update to their taskbar for Mac OS X Leopard. Fantasktik is an innovative toolbar that shows all open documents and applications on the Mac and allows users to switch between windows with a single-click. Version 1.4 adds the ability to close windows from the taskbar, launch Expose on any open application directly from Fantasktik, and more.

Arizona based G-Monkey Productions today released iBacon 1.0, their novelty game app for iPhone and iPod Touch. iBacon uses 30 fps video loops to cook real bacon. Users can pinch virtual cooking tongs to flip individual slices and even tilt to pour off the bacon grease, tilt to eat bacon, as well as shake to turn off the smoke alarm, and more. Vegetarian approved, eat bacon guilt free.

In its May 2009 Mobile Metrics report released today, mobile advertising firm AdMob revealed that the iPhone and iPod touch now account for 69% of the U.S. smartphone traffic on its ad network. The figure is up from 59% in April and 50% in March. W…

XChange UK and ThePowerXChange website announce AutoCorrectXT for QuarkXPress 8 including long-awaited correction features similar to those found in Microsoft Word. Misspelled words are automatically flagged and underlined in red as users type in QuarkXPress 8 stories, similar to Microsoft Word. AutoCorrectXT also includes a feature to automatically correct user-defined typing errors and simplify the insertion of regularly used terms or phrases.

KavaSoft today announced KavaMovies 1.3, an update to their Mac movie database. KavaMovies lets you organize the movies you’ve seen, the movies you want to see, and the movies in your collection. It connects to the internet and downloads tons of information about each of your movies in realtime. Click a movie to see who’s in it. Click an actor to see what they’ve been in. Directors, genres, keywords, charts, awards, languages, years – everything is connected.

KavaSoft today released HyperImage 2.1, an application for downloading web photo galleries. HyperImage is an industrial-strength tool for downloading entire websites worth of pictures all at once. Just point HyperImage to any website, and watch as thousands of pictures stream down to your computer. HyperImage includes a built-in image browser with infinitely resizable thumbnails, so you can easily browse through all the pictures from a particular page or website.

Josh Lockhart today announced RapidSearch 3, an upgrade to his popular RapidWeaver search plugin. RapidSearch 3 is the easiest way to add powerful Google search to any RapidWeaver website. RapidSearch 3 retrieves Google search results immediately and displays the search results inline on your website. Your visitors never leave your website, and your branding remains intact. Version 3 includes many new improvements and a recommended download.

Andesigned today is proud to announce Total Baby 1.0, the newest addition to their Baby Tracker Family for iPhone and iPod touch. Total Baby combines 11 essential logging and tracking functions for your child’s care through a smart and sleek interface that makes tracking easy and fun. With innovative new features unmatched on any platform like dual timers for multiple children and twins. Welcome to the future of Baby Logging.

Do you find yourself constantly using the ‘Other…’ item in Safari’s Develop » User Agent menu to simulate User Agents that aren’t shown in the list? If so, it’s easy to permanently add your own favorites by editing the UserAgents.plist file in the Resources directory of the bundle.

I recommend making a copy of Safari.app, then Control-click your copy and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Resources and edit the file UserAgents.plist in any decent text editor to include your faves.

Simple, yet effective.

Imagine you’ve purchased a new and shiny iPhone 3GS. Imagine as well that you had an equally-shiny iPhone 3G since day one of its introduction (more or less one year). You set up your 3GS as a new phone in iTunes, in order not to mess with settings and whatnot, only to discover that one year’s worth of SMS are lost in your new unit!

Well…fear no more, as you can easily restore the SMS database into your new unit, starting from the backup of the old unit. Read on for the how-to…
First, disable the option Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected in iTunes before starting this procedure (assuming it’s enabled in the Summary tab of your iPhone). Then follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the folder ~/Libary » Applications Support » MobileSync » Backup.
2. In the folder found above, there will be n subfolders containing your n iPhone backup sets (those iTunes makes when you connect your iPhone to your computer). In my c…