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Onederr Inc. today released Social Fun Box 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to liven up their Facebook and Twitter posts. The application offers seven very cool, fancy features that bring life to otherwise boring text updates. Users can add symbols, icons and emoticons, as well as share their location, photos and original drawings. Users can now replace their boring text notes with bright, noticeable posts.

California based app4mac has released both Presto 1.2, and Jump 1.2.1. Presto allows users to define abbreviations for frequently used phrases. With Jump, users can quickly access to their Applications, Documents and Folders. With Presto, you will be able to quickly insert standard greetings, signatures or phrases into any application. Jump is a cool utility designed to quickly launch applications, open documents, or access folders.

UK based Coherent Graphics Ltd has released Proview 1.0, their new full-featured PDF Editor for Mac OS X. Sporting a simple, clean interface, Proview features a wide range of tools to edit existing PDF documents, as well as build new documents from scratch. Easily manage PDF bookmarks, add or remove PDF attachments, and add text and dates to one or more pages. All functions are easily accessible, and Proview ships with comprehensive interactive help.

Mografi has released Empire State Of Mind 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Empire State Of Mind is the most enhanced version of Simon Says available for the iPhone. Everything you loved about the 80′s Simon Says is here, as well as all the things that make modern gaming awesome. Empire State Of Mind features five gameplay modes including Classic ‘Simon Says’ and Four Challenge modes. Choose from the nostalgic tones of simon says or the sounds of the New York City streets in Classic mode.

The Pragmatic Studio is offering their next “Cocoa Programming for Snow Leopard Studio” in Reston, VA on April 14-16, 2010 and their “iPhone Programming Studio” in Chicago, IL on May 11-14, 2010. In these hands-on training courses you’ll learn how to create Mac and iPhone apps like the pros with guided instruction from expert programmers and renowned authorities. You’ll come away from these courses ready to create your first Mac or iPhone app, or improve your existing app.

PhatWare Corporation has released PhatNotes 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. PhatNotes allows users to create notes and organize them by category, color, subject, priority, creation, authorization, and modification dates. It is the first notes organizer to offer natural handwriting recognition input in addition to keyboard entry as well as full synchronization with PhatNotes Desktop software. PhatNotes now includes a library of 150 icons which can be assigned to note items and folders.

Berlin based ExactCODE GmbH has released ExactScan 2.9, a major update to its popular scanning solution. Version 2.9 comes with improvements in image processing performance. New mid-range document scanners with a sustained thru-put of 60 pages and 120 duplex images per minute required revisited image processing algorithms. ExactScan 2.9 is now able to process, color correct, auto-crop and de-skew and compress up to ten times faster than previous versions.

In honor of the 2009 Best App Ever Awards announcement, the world’s largest iPhone app promo code contest to give away over 1,000 copies of iPhone applications and games has been launched. Nominated developers have contributed 1,000 promo codes for over 110 different applications and games. The contest, which is open to all users with US iTunes accounts, has launched to great interest from users and developers.

PixelMags is the leading portal for worldwide mobile digital magazine distribution. Publications Powered by PixelMags release as Top 25 Paid Book Apps all over the world. Consumers are paying for quality content and convenience using PixelMags’ In App Purchasing Feature to purchase new issues, back issues and subscriptions of their favorite magazines through the iTunes Store. Publishers can add RSS or Twitter feeds in App, interactive advertising, and many other custom features.

Unfortunately, we already know how this story ends. Apple introduced the iPad in late January and made no mention of a camera – either on the front or back of the device. So that means no video conferencing or even photos are possible on the first …