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Open Door Networks, Inc. and Project A, Inc. announced that they are now shipping “Mustang and More”. A continuation of their popular line of “Envi” car apps, Mustang and More is their first app to support the in-app purchasing feature of Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0. Beyond Web-based photos and details of five generations of Ford Mustangs, Mustang and More includes a built-in store that lets users purchase 8 other add-ins and explore in-depth much more than just Mustangs.

ProteMac today announced ProteMac KeyBag 1.7. ProteMac KeyBag is a stealth keystroke monitor and recorder for your Mac computer. KeyBag runs in the background, completely undetectable by the user so it won’t interfere with way you work on your computer. For home and business use, ProteMac KeyBag is a useful tool for productivity and security.

Palm today announced that it has released the Mojo Software Development Kit to all interested developers, opening the door for a broader offering of applications for the Palm App Catalog.

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actorwebdesign today announced The Digital Actor Media Workshop. The Digital Actor Media Workshop will demonstrate how to market yourself inexpensively and effectively with digital media. The workshop will be this weekend Saturday and Sunday July 18th-19th, 2009, 11am – 7pm, 4949 Hollywood Blvd, Suite 203, Los Angeles, CA 90027. The seminar covers how to create your own website, reel, business cards, postcards, and more. This workshop is for actors, performers, musicians, etc.

There have been different possibilites to mount Linux Ext2/Ext3 volumes in the Mac OS X Finder:

• Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem — which sadly doesn’t seem to work any more with recent distros.
• ext2 filesystem in user space, with an available experimental Mac OS X package (from the author of NTFS-3G/Mac). Both these projects, however, don’t seem to be developed any more.

Enter fuse-ext2, a new similar project which indeed does work with recent distros, both in Mac OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x, on Intel and PowerPC machines. It also works with VMware Fusion virtual disks. So far, it’s been reliable in read-only mode, but in the future, there should be better read-write support and also a preference pane to control it …

I have been using a Time Capsule for a substantial amount of time now, without major issue. But recently, I started to annoyed by huge, repeated hourly backups. For example, Time Machine would backup 1.6GB, although it seemed I hadn’t done major file modifications since previous backup. And, more noticeably, a second, huge 1.6GB to 1.7GB backup would follow immediately, without even the hour delay between the two.

I started to scrutinize the Console log, with no hints to the cause of the repeated huge backups. Actually, I couldn’t find any hint, because I filtered console logs using the search field with “backup” string. I accidently ran into the solution when I forgot filtering.

Although I am no console expert, I could read repeated references to the TechTool Protection tool, whch reminded me I had installed it recently. In the TechTool Protection System Preferences panel…

Want to read a bunch of related e-mails without switching to Mail.app? You can:

Start by using Spotlight to search for whatever subjects or recipients define the group of messages you want to read, then Show All the results. Next, click on the plus-sign (+) option. You should now see the search criteria Kind Is Any. Click and hold on Any and then choose Other. In the text field, type Mail Message. Now click on Save and give the search whatever name you wish; make sure that Add To Sidebar is checked. Select this saved search in your sidebar, and click on the Cover Flow button at the top of the Finder window.

You may have to enlarge your Finder window to make the messages readable. You could use QuickLook to read them at a larger size.

In iTunes, you can change many of the tags associated with a movie. But you can’t change its rating (G, PG, etc.)–at least not with iTunes itself. But you can do it with a simple little app called MetaX.

After downloading and installing the app, right-click on the movie you want to re-rate in iTunes and select Show in Finder from the context menu. In the Finder, right-click on the movie file, select Open With, and choose MetaX.app from the list.

In MetaX, you will see a drop-down menu for Rating. Change it to whatever you want, then click on the Write button on the toolbar. (Note that, depending on the size of the movie file, you may have to select its Preferences -> General -> Enable Support for Large Files first.)

MetaX will proceed to rewrite the rating tag (and any other metadata you changed); this may take a while.When you go back to iTunes, the movie’s rating should be updated.

IGG Software today announced the release of iBank Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch. Users can harness the power of iBank to check account balances, enter transactions and categorize purchases, even in foreign currencies. Designed to sync seamlessly with the desktop version of iBank for Mac, iBank Mobile also works as a separate, stand-alone app for handheld finance management. iBank Mobile was created with the idea of being a great iPhone app as much as a great companion to iBank.

Muli Mobile today released FlowerPedia 1.2, an update to its popular flower gallery and encyclopedia for the iPhone. The new release focuses on improving the overall user experience with a simplified user interface, improved comprehensive flower search, improved flower photo gallery and more flower photos. FlowerPedia is a portable flower encyclopedia, identification tool and photo gallery, featuring over 1500 high-resolution photos of flowers, organized by flower family, genus and photo rating.