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There are only three days to purchase the new MacFriendly Bundle of 12 applications for Mac users. The Bundle represents a savings of over 85% off the list prices. Additionally, two bonus applications will be added to the bundle for all customers when 1000 bundles have been sold. The bundle includes 12 downloadable software applications, and the latest version of each application is included in the bundle. The latest version of each application is included.

Bliss Software, Inc. has announced iColorBall 1.01 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. iColorBall is a colorful puzzle game that you won’t be able to put down. Try to empty the ball panel by popping balls by match the color above. The bubbles will be changed by color each time randomely. You’ll have to be quick and accurate to stay long before your time runs out. Try to Pop more balls and acquire more points. You will love it no matter who you are – kid or grown up.

Computerworld points to an Apple job listing posted last week which suggests that Apple is looking to expand the iPhone OS beyond the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to additional platforms. The position, entitled “Engineering Manager (Platform…

In an article from The New York Times, the cost for a company like Apple to develop an ARM-based mobile chip such as the A4 used in its forthcoming iPad tablet is estimated at approximately $1 billion, even without the need to invest in manuf…

VolnaTech today released NimbleKit SDK, an update to their software development kit for the iPhone platform. NimbleKit allows to develop iPhone applications much quicker using just HTML and Javascript. You have good ideas for iPhone software but you don’t know Objective-C? No need to spend time learning how to use complicated tools, just start development from a template. NimbleKit is well documented and sample code is available.

Independent software developer Christian Kienle today announced Ebbinghaus 3.2 for Mac OS X. Ebbinghaus is an easy-to-use flash card application with a beautiful iTunes-like user interface. Organize your cards in decks, folders and smart decks. Ebbinghaus 3.2 comes with a lot of new refinements, including the ability to resize the study window. When resizing the study window the current card becomes larger. Scrolling is now enabled in the study view.

Pardon me for paraphrasing Douglas Adams, but it seemed a most fitting way to begin this announcement.

Over 13,250 hints, written with something in excess of three million words. The internet’s smartest and friendliest community of OS X users. An incredibly helpful forum site renowned for its civility and useful answers. A career change. Uncountable articles for Macworld magazine and macworld.com. Two books. Two Geek Cruises. A couple of iWork video training projects. Handfuls of Macworld Expo presentations. Hundreds of people I consider friends (not “Facebook friends,” but friends in the truest sense), even though I’ve only ever met a handful of them in person. Nearly … ten … years!

I expected none of the above when I launched macosxhints.com back in November of 2000. At the time, I’d been married…

The New York Times reports that television networks are continuing to resist Apple’s push to lower episode pricing for their shows to $0.99, down from the current $1.99 price point for standard definition content. The networks reportedly con…

Intuitive Innovations has released Sound Wheel 1.0, their brand new iPhone and iPod touch. Sound Wheel offers high quality sound effects and unique art work. Sound Wheel features an intuitive interface is easy and fun to use sporting high quality sounds that people actually want to hear, as well as stunning pictures accompany each unique sound effect. Almost daily the App store becomes more and more inundated with inappropriate content for kids. Quality is the goal behind this app.

If you’d like to take any block of text and have it easily transferred as spoken text to your iPhone or iPod, I found this feature is now built in to Snow Leopard as a Service.

To use this feature, first enable it in System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Services. In the left-hand column, select Services, then scroll down to the Text section in the right-hand window and enable ‘Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.’ Add a keyboard shortcut, too, if you wish by clicking in the space adjacent to this services’ name.

Now whenever you have a block of text highlighted, Control-click on it and choose Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, you can press your defined keyboard shortcut, or get to the command from the Services menu item. The quality of the speech is quite acceptable!

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