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AppleInsider reports that Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.6.3, termed Build 10D538, to select developers for testing. According to the report, the update addresses issues in several areas, including QuickTime X and Logic Studio.<p clas…

Cincinnati based Minorbits is pleased to release Beserk Scare Prank 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Beserk Scare Prank was designed to be an addicting game to make your friends jump and/or scream. It uses a button that appears and disappears randomly so the user has too stay focused on the scream. The randomly a “demon” breaks through the screen and screams, making the user jump and scream.

Seattle based Synthetic Bits has released FunkBox Drum Machine 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The app not only brings the functionality of the vintage drum machines, but also their quirks and rust, emulating six different vintage beatboxes and brings the sound, feel, and features to your iPhone. A variety of preset beat patterns, tempo adjustments on the fly, classic drum box sounds, a live mixer, and for those who want to really get in there a classic x0x style drum programming grid.

Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced a new Apple Final Cut Pro plug-in for MyMusicSource, a music licensing company. The plug-in, developed and freely distributed by Boris FX, allows users to launch MyMusicSource directly from within Final Cut Pro and then find, license, and download music that automatically appears in a Final Cut Pro bin.

Independent software developer Widemouth is pleased to introduce ColorMagine 1.0, a coloring application for the imagination. ColorMagine features a unique random pattern generator and a simple and fluid user interface to make creating and coloring patterns easy and fun. ColorMagine is designed to enable quick and accurate creation of beautiful images. With shake to undo, pan and zoom and a sliding cross hair, it is easy to place color exactly where it is wanted. The only limit is imagination.

Punflay has released Adam’s Trouble 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Adams Trouble capitalizes on the ‘trouble’ factor where the feisty creature Adam tries to dodge dangers and escape out of a basement which starts filling with toxic liquid.The advanced version which is expected to hit the app store soon comes with 25 exhilarating levels with bigger enemies to dodge, more friends to be rescued, power ups to be used and more than enough doors, locks, keys and gases to keep the gamer addicted.

Sounds Broken Inc. today announces gogoDocs 1.0, a Google Docs reader for the iPhone. gogoDocs keeps all of your documents handy by syncing with your Google Docs account. gogoDocs downloads documents to your iPhone while online, then lets you view them any time. Background syncing, blazing fast pdf viewer, automatic bookmarking, document filtering, and document sharing make gogoDocs an essential tool for all Google Docs users.

Illusion Labs, developer of the popular iPhone game Touchgrind, has posted a video demonstrating a Mac version of the game utilizing the multi-touch capabilities of the MacBook’s trackpad.

The developer describes it as tech dem…

Despite conflicting reports, we have reason to believe that the upcoming Apple Tablet will indeed carry a front facing video camera as recently described in the Wall Street Journal:

This person said Apple has experimented with the ab…

friedEgg Limited today announced friedEgg Touch 1.5, an interactive data analysis tool for Mac OS X. This latest release focused on usability, especially the formatting of charts and the use of the filters. In addition, there are further performance improvements and several bug fixes. friedEgg Touch allows the user to interact with their data by directly manipulating a chart. This enables complex analysis, across many dimensions, in easy steps.