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Unusual Things has announced The Day I Was Born 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. The Day I Was Born is a simple and easy-to-use application, which will allow you to find out everything about the day you or your friends were born. You will also know what happened on this very same day tens, hundreds and even thousand years ago. The program includes database, consisting of more than 80.000 events.

DistributorX are pleased to announce a free seminar offering users the chance to see solutions that can help their business to thrive during the recession by reducing many costs associated with their particular workflow. The free event is open to everyone and important for all businesses looking to be profitable by automating their workflows and reducing manual work.

Mireth Technology Corp. has released ShredIt X 5.8.7, its simple to use Mac file shredder and hard drive cleaner software for Mac OS X. ShredIt is the easy-to-use Mac file shredder for OS X that shreds anything so the data can’t be recovered. It can be used to erase files, folders, disk free space, previously deleted files, hard drives, external drives, network drives and CD-RWs. Version 5.8.7 is a maintenance release to enhance the documentation and the user interface.

BKeeney Software, Inc. today announced Font Pilot 2.4.3, an update to its popular font management software for Mac OS X. Font Pilot allows users to view their collection of fonts, as well as uninstalled fonts, quickly and easily. Additionally, Font Pilot offers numerous other features, such as the character map, key combo list, and print engine. Version 2.4.3 offers many enhancements to allow for easier and faster application of fonts.

CrunchGear reports that invitations for Apple’s September 9th media event have been issued. Apple has chosen “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it,” a take on the Rolling Stones song “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It),” as the tag line for …

Kavapoint LLC has announced that they will be giving out the following iPhone apps for free to students who have iPhones. The promotion will last until September 20th or until Kavapoint runs out of promotion codes. Abilene Christian University and many other universities have recently started to give out iPhone devices to their students. As a result, the company wanted to make sure students had the opportunity to get these important apps for free.

The Huffington Post reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating possible illegal insider trading of shares of Apple stock. Insider trading, or the buying and selling of stock by those with access to information no…

OSXpert Limited today announced FoneConnector for Daylite 1.0, a new and flexible inbound telephony solution for Marketcircle Daylite. FoneConnector offers unique and native CRM-telephony-integration on Macs. The number of an incoming phone call is automatically matched by FoneConnector to the appropriate Daylite contact in the actual Daylite database and triggers a Call Window. FoneConnector directly integrates with some popular 3rd party telephony.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today issued a note to clients this morning offering his team’s thoughts on 14 “unanswered questions” about Apple. Several of his more revealing comments relate to the iPhone, which Munster feels will see its reach…

iPhone CAZE today announced Swarovski crystal cases, a premium version of its Mirror Go and Love Pair for iPhone 3G and 3GS. Mirror Go and Love Pair are the flagship products of iPhone CAZE, featuring a shinny Mirror-liked surface and a matte surface. Its Premium version adds more than 40 Swarovski crystals around the Apple logo of the case. Combined with the Free Swarovski Apple logo, the Premium versions will give a shine and uniqueness to your iPhone 3G/3GS.