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Independent software developer David Palmerio today is pleased to announce E-Blues 1.1, his new blues music learning tool for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Discover and learn the Blues guitar in nearly 5 minutes. This method presents 8 pieces of progressive levels, and each lesson is explained and the difficulties analyzed. The musical notation and theory is accompanied by audio and movie recordings.

Quadion has announced a new release of NineGaps 1.2, it’s popular award winning puzzler. This new version of the game includes many social features such as friend and global leaderboards, challenges, achievements and social notifications. The game was featured by Apple as “Best Math Puzzle Game” and “New and Noteworthy” during 2009 and achieved excellent reviews both from the press and gamers, topping charts in the Puzzle and Educational Games categories of the AppStore for several weeks.

Vector 3, a pioneer in graphics and playout solutions, announced today that they will showcase for the first time at the CABSAT exhibition, held in Dubai from March 2 – 4, 2010, the revolutionary Vector Multi-Play playout solution alongside the company’s flagship VectorBox systems. The new, innovative, multi-tiered MultiPlay product portfolio offers broadcasters a unique distributed architecture for optimizing multi-channel playout automation and redundancy.

Independent software developer Shintarou Kinoshita is pleased to announce My Color 1.0, a simple and functional eyedropper tool for iPhone devices. My Color helps you capture RGB values readily and adjust brightness. Images taken with the iPhone’s camera are a little dark. So I added the “adjust” function. Users can also save color. My Color is the only app which has these three functions. Besides a loupe make you select a touch place easily.

Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting with Apple employees late last week following the iPad launch. Wired reports on what was said at the meeting by Steve Jobs. Two of the biggest topics included Google and Adobe.

On Google, Jobs conf…

Kansas based BKeeney Software has announced Task Timer 4.3, an update to their time management software for Mac OS X and Windows. Task Timer is an easy-to-use project management tool that tracks time spent on an unlimited number of projects and tasks down to the minute. Version 4.3 is a major update that allows users to duplicate projects and tasks and gives the user more options for charting. This version also fixes a number of minor bugs.

Norbert M. Doerner today released CDFinder 5.7, an update to the popular disk library cataloger. CDFinder organizes of your digital files, photos, songs, movies, on hard disks, CDROMs, Blu-ray disks, DVD-ROMs, server disks, & any other digital media. Version 5.7 can now geotag photos, and improves cataloging by supporting many more thumbnail and office file formats. For numerous photo and video formats, CDFinder generates thumbnails during cataloging, displaying them in all in a convenient list.

OmniPlan for Mac OS X
In a blog post, Omni Group has committed to bringing five of their productivity apps to the iPad including OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher.

Remember how Maci…

Veenix Technologies today announces TypeBook Creator 2.4, its highly acclaimed Macintosh font/type specimen book creation software for graphics professionals. TypeBook Creator features precision automatic font categorization via Veenix’s GlyphLogicEngine smart font technology. The new version features an innovative new approach to font organization which sorts fonts by energy and ranks them using an associative color, making it easy to index fonts of similar weights and more.

In response to confusion surrounding the iPad promotion video, Apple has replaced the video with a more accurate version.

The iPad promo video originally had mocked up scenes showing the iPad browsing the New York Times complet…