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Gravity Applications today announced Tags 2.0 for Mac OS X. Tags allows users to tag all their files on their Mac, such as files and folders in the finder, emails in Mail, photos in iPhoto, bookmarks in Safari, etc., directly from within the application. It allows the user to associate files of different types to one another with ease and without creating duplicates. Users can apply many different tags to a single file, as well as apply the same tag to multiple files.

DigiTimes today offers a series of reports involving Apple, revealing a number of claims from industry sources in Taiwan regarding the next-generation iPhone, Apple’s possible plans for USB 3.0, and iPad component suppliers.

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Niles Technology Group today is proud to present iPhone apps to three 21st century schools. The Achievers Writing Center apps focus on the development of strong writing skills by teaching students the critical thinking skills required to write logical, well-reasoned essays. Used independently or within a structured curriculum, the apps uniquely explain, in detail, over 40 different essay types using easy-to-read language and a clean, clutter-free interface.

Ohio based FORM today announces that their iPhone app Dum Dum Pops Flick-A-Pop has reached #1 in the App Store’s Kids and Family charts, and #10 in overall Free Games. Developed for Spangler Candy Company, the promotional app was designed to introduce the Dum Dum Pops brand to new and younger audiences. It challenges users to eat as many lollipops as they can by flicking the iPhone’s touch-sensitive screen.

Divine Fiat today announces Classic, their new theme for Apple’s Keynote Presentation Software. The Classic Theme is the perfectly named theme. Its entire look and feel is a throw back to a different era – an era with class and style. The heavy Baskerville font juxtaposed with the airy Helvetica Neue Light font all against a subtly textured and patterned background of reds, browns and a hint of gold bring a timeless weight and authority to your presentations.

Mac-Chi today announces WhoPaste 4.4, an update to their popular contact utility. With WhoPaste Macintosh users finally have a system-wide hot key for initializing new contacts in Address Book, Daylite, Entourage, or Google Contacts. WhoPaste is the most efficient way to create contacts on Macintosh. For brand new contact data just use the new user-configurable hot key. For existing contact data just select the text, control-click, and let WhoPaste extract the contact data automatically.

Phoenix-based JinDianZi, LLC today announces It’s On My Way 2.0.1 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It’s On My Way finds the most convenient stops on your way to anywhere. Enter a starting point and a destination along with search terms for places you’d like to stop. The app traces your initial route and finds matching businesses or other stopping points along your path. It provides an interactive map and step-by-step directions for your drive or walk with ideal matches along your route.

publicspace.net today announces A Better Finder Rename 8.51, an update to its popular file, music and photo renaming utility. A Better Finder Rename is a sophisticated tool that caters for the full range of file renaming tasks encountered by the modern creative professional. The new release overhauls the utilities regular expression support bringing it into line with what experienced command line users or developers have come to expect.

Mobile Applications Showcase will feature best of the best in booming business trend for iPhone app developers. A Macworld 2010 First Looks exhibitor, iPhoneAppQuotes shares Key indicators from 2009 and projections into 2010. With Macworld 2010 around the corner, the iPhone continues to lead innovation and dominate the smart phone market. iPhone application development has become an even bigger market with well over 140,000 available apps boasting just over three Billion downloads.

Cleverlike Corporation today announces StealthType SMS 1.1, a new iPhone app that allows users to type a complete and accurate message without looking at the phone or speaking to it. It uses a new text entry system designed to eliminate the visual attention required to type on a touchscreen device. By using your headphones, auxiliary output or phone speaker, the voice guidance in StealthType eliminates the need to look at the screen while still offering the ability to type with 100% accuracy.