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Arizona based G-Monkey Productions today announce the #iBaconLove Twitter contest. One lucky winner will win 2lbs of gourmet bacon shipped right to their door. The Winner will be announced on Valentines Day at 6 pm Mountain Time. ibacon is a novelty game app that uses 30 fps video loops to cook real bacon. Users can pinch virtual cooking tongs to flip individual slices, and even tilt to pour off the bacon grease, tilt to eat bacon, as well as shake to turn off the smoke alarm and more.

New Hampshire based Catamount Software today announces PocketMoney 3.0.2, a major update to their popular personal finance manager for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, PocketMoney lets anyone track their cash flow, understand their net worth, budget, track accounts, and improve the overall health of their finances. Version 3.0.2 sports an improved GUI, browser based file transfer options and more.

UK based Arten Science today announced that MonitorMyMac, their Macintosh software which gives Timed Screenshots and Webcam Images with FTP Upload, is now available free of charge for all parents to help them keep their children safe online by monitoring their computer usage. MonitorMyMac takes timed snapshots of your computer Screen and/or takes snapshots from your connected Webcam.

Apple today announced the release of Aperture 3, adding over 200 new features to the company’s professional photo editing and management application. The updated version includes the Faces and Places tagging features introduced in iPhoto las…

Treebune s.r.l. today announces the launch of a new web service, Pushme.to Business. Pushme.to Business is an instant communication tool for any company that wants to offer a richer mobile experience to their customers as well as cut down on SMS costs. Pushme.to Business can be deployed as a custom designed iPhone app or an API to main pushme.to service. Customers download a tiny app that enables them to receive short instant messages from you or your partners, with images and rich text.

Juicy Bits today released 3D Camera 1.3.3, a free update for iPhone devices. 3D Camera makes it easy to create 3D photos and share them with friends on Facebook and Twitter. It creates color and grey anaglyph images that are viewed using common red/cyan 3D glasses, stereogram images that are viewed without glasses, and “wigglegram” images that produce a simulated 3D effect. 3D Camera earned 4.5 mice from Macworld and is frequently among the top 100 photography apps worldwide.

CrumplePop today released Flipper, an effect for Final Cut Pro that lets busy editors create the popular “flipover” effect used in countless broadcast ad spots and television programs. Flipper works right on the Final Cut Pro timeline, without requiring a trip to another application. With Flipper, you can quickly and easily flip logos, text, photos, and video clips, all with a simple drag and drop operation.

Zevrix Solutions today announces PDF Checkpoint 1.2, a feature update to its PDF preflight and conversion machine. Remarkably fast, PDF Checkpoint preflights, exports as images, splits and reduces size of multiple PDF files. The program is equally suitable to process hundreds of files as well as single PDF documents. It’s a fast and affordable workflow solution for situations where hi-end tools would be an overkill. Version 1.2 lets users preserve transparency when exporting PDF to TIFF and PNG.

New York based MacWoodworking LLC today announces Full Count 1.0, the premier pitch counting and statistics app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Full Count makes it easy for coaches and parents to track pitchers performance for a game or a season. It tracks total pitch counts with user defined warning and max pitch count limits. FullCount also provides statistics including strikeouts, walks, hits, batters faced and average pitches per batter presented as totals and broken down by inning.

Yazsoft today announced Speed Download 5.2.11, an important update to their popular download manager for Mac OS X. Speed Download 5 redefines the Mac OS X download manager by combining four amazing products: a turbo-charged download manager, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity, into one small and easy to use application. Version 5.2.11 offers updated Growl integration and minor fixes.