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Kavapoint has released iEmergency Lite and an update to iEmergency+, the top medical ICE application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Created by medical and tech professionals, the iEmergency applications are designed to keep your emergency information available to paramedics and hospital personal in the event of an emergency.

Kavapoint has released iEmergency Lite and an update to iEmergency+, the top medical ICE application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Created by medical and tech professionals, the iEmergency applications are designed to keep your emergency information available to paramedics and hospital personal in the event of an emergency.

Cult of Mac gathers an extensive gallery of cases from Chinese manufacturers claimed to be for the next-generation iPod touch and iPod nano. Cases for both devices feature holes in their backs that appear to provide openings for built-in cam…

InfoLogic, Inc. today announced MathMagic 6.4, their award-winning equation editing suite for Mac OS X. This release includes MathMagic Personal Edition, MathMagic Pro Edition for Adobe InDesign, and MathMagic Pro Edition for QuarkXPress. With a focus on ease-of-use and equation quality, MathMagic is an equation editor for mathematical equations and symbols. Version 6.4 adds more OpenType fonts, supports automatic font activation, Macros for file naming, and includes new or enhanced features.

Rapid Turtle Games is happy to announce that My Squares! Here & Now! 1.0, a strategy board game with puzzles is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game features four players, any number of which can be human or computer, thousands of levels, three difficulty settings and two game modes. The board layouts feature gaps in, which must be incorporated into the players strategy. There is an online Hall Of Fame where players can compete against other players around the world.

In a patent application filed in January 2008 and published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple describes its work on computer peripheral devices that are capable of initiating shut down of communications with the host comput…

Sona Software LLC today announced the release of Sona Vocabulary Assistant 1.0, a powerful multimedia tool for language learners, for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. Nine automatically generated activities provide engaging exercises for vocabulary enrichment. Sona Vocabulary Assistant gives users the ability to integrate sounds, images, video, examples in context, notes on usage, web links, and internet searches into word lists.

GarageBand has a useful feature called Master Tempo which lets you control the tempo throughout a song — type Command-B and choose Master Tempo to see it. The problem is, it only seems to let you change the tempo in about five to six beat-per-minute intervals. The secret is to click on the tempo dot you wish to fine tune, then press down the Shift key — this will let you tune in one beat-per-minute intervals.

This trick also works for Master Volume, which normally only lets you change in roughly 0.5dB to 0.7dB steps, but with the Shift key, you can change at around 0.2dB to 0.3dB. Master Pitch already allows the finest tuning (1 semitone) without the Shift key, and does not present any finer tuning with the Shift key down.

The trick also works with various of the track automations, such as frequency, though not with all.

I have been always extremely annoyed by the fact that one cannot resize the windows on Mac OS X using all four edges of the window. In fact, that is one of the most aggravating things for me about using a Mac. Another issue is that one cannot use the keyboard to move and resize the windows. I was aggravated enough to write a tool to address just those issues: MoveResize (free and open source). The MoveResize tool requires that System Preferences » Universal access » Seeing » Enable Access for Assistive Devices is checked.

How it works:

The implementation uses AppleScript to get the frontmost window and its bounds. It sends the bounds rectangle to a server implemented in Java over a socket connection. The Java server takes the screen shot of the full Desktop and uses it as the Image label (a JLabel with ImageIcon) as the content pane of an undecorated JFrame which has the same bounds as the Desktop…

If “tap to click” is enabled and suddenly stops working, a quick cycling of the option will fix the problem without rebooting. System Preferences » Trackpad » Tap to Click.

Uncheck then re-check, and the problem will be fixed.