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SuperMegaUltraGroovy today announces FuzzMeasure 3.2, an update to the award-winning audio and acoustics measurement package for Mac OS X. This release carries many general improvements, including new AppleScript commands, 64-bit support for Mac OS 10.6, and various performance enhancements. Since FuzzMeasure deals with large quantities of data, the 64-bit support in 3.2 is a welcome feature for users that regularly capture measurements at higher sample rates and bit depths.

Illinois-based Central Atomics today announces Rocketbox 1.0, a powerful new way of searching your e-mail in Apple Mail.app. Rocketbox is more advanced than Mail’s search, with search by person support, a blazing fast engine, and powerful filters that make it easy to find what you need. Inline previews show you exactly why a messages was found, and highlighted sections help improve your queries and takes the guess work out of using search.

Zevrix Solutions today announces InPreflight Pro 2.6.13, a maintenance update to its document preparation solution for Adobe InDesign. InPreflight combines batch-packaging, quality control and graphic reports, going well beyond the InDesign basics. For example, batch-packaging can collect shared links of multiple documents into one folder helping graphics and print professionals save gigabytes of space and hours of time. The new version addresses a relinking issue of collected images.

Ohanaware announced today that it will be participating in the TheMacBundles’ January bundle with the inclusion of its popular Mac photo editor, Funtastic Photos. Funtastic Photos is a non-permanent and easily reversible photo editor, with over 60 simple to use 1-Click Styles, Advanced Effects engine, direct sharing via Fun Cards, Cell Phone and popular photo sharing sites. Funtastic Photos features a creative print layouts system, with awe-inspring projects, including photo mosaics, and more.

Together with traditional Scandinavian children’s book publisher Satukustannus, game studio BeiZ today announces Mandy and Andy Renovating 1.0, their first interactive children’s book for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Mandy and Andy Renovating consists of cuddly characters and a story full of surprises. Cuddly cats, Mandy and Andy help their friend in renovating his cottage. Children can listen to the story or read it by themselves and peek under the “flaps” to see which animals are hiding.

Ki Systems, Inc today is excited to announce the release of KiBiz 5.5 and the introduction of KiBiz Mobile. With this new mobile application you can now view sales, products, contacts on your iPhone/Droid. KiBiz 5.5 is a customizable integrated multi-user business management and accounting system that fosters greater productivity and efficiency. From managing contacts, staff and customer relations, to managing the sales, inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, invoicing, payments, and accounting.

iPresentee today releases Keynote Motion Themes 9.0, a package of new Keynote themes to be used with Apple’s Keynote presentation software. This new package includes fifty two themes in all, and introduces five new themes: Blue Illusion, Red Illusion, Green Illusion, Black Illusion and Yellow Illusion. Forty seven more designs are carried over from the previous version. New Keynote Motion Themes are available in standard and HD formats.

California based PhatWare Corporation today announced WritePad French Edition 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. WritePad French Edition offers natural handwriting recognition input in the French language in addition to keyboard entry and integration with Bing Translation services. WritePad recognizes cursive, print, and mixed handwriting styles. To enter the text you can simply write with your finger on the iPhone screen in either landscape or portrait mode employing your own handwriting style.

CarusoApps is pleased to announce iLineup 1.3 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. To do our part, CarusoApps will be donating 20% of the profit from all of our downloads to relief efforts for the Haiti earthquake disaster from now until 2.2.2010. This application is dedicated to all baseball/softball players, coaches, and managers. It allows users to set their players lineup on the field and batting order. Positions, Player Numbers, and Substitutions are also included.