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Independent developer Benedict Lowndes today announces WindowFlow Beta for Mac OS X. WindowFlow provides powerful keyboard commands for organizing your application windows. You can seamlessly move and resize windows which will snap into alignment with each other. WindowFlow's clean and simple interface also acts as a window switcher, allowing you to easily browse all of your open application windows. The beta is available today at a discount for early adopters.

SintraWorks today releases Metron 2.0, an update to their professional digital metronome for iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring an intuitive front panel, Metron offers a high-precision playback engine and a bar based sequencer to provide detailed control over tempo settings & time signatures, including mixed meters, accelerandos and ritardandos. Metron incorporates an instrument tuner. Version 2.0 adds a redesigned UI, copy/paste and fully customisable rhythmic subdivisions of the beat.

AppleJac Mac User Group president Tom Piper had some great things to say about TopXNotes in a recent review. TopXNotes is an award-winning full-featured personal note manager. Create, view, organize, and instantly access your Mac notes with TopXNotes. You can also encrypt sensitive information to protect it and create Classic iPod notes with TopXNotes. Version 1.5 includes many improvements, including an all new toolbar that puts the post frequently used tools at the user's fingertips.

POSCITECH today announces Fitaide Lite 1.0, the free version of Fitaide, for the iPhone or iPod touch. The Lite version retains the core features of Fitaide, but can be run for a maximum of 30 minutes per session. To celebrate the launch of the Lite version and to demonstrate the versatility of the app, iTunes gift certificates will be up for grabs this weekend for those who can use the app to capture the maximum number of distinct activities per day.

Lexington based Aster Software has announced FamViewer 2.2 an update to its genealogy application for iPhone and iPod touch devices. FamViewer displays individuals, families, notes and sources as well as an 8 generation family tree in chart form. It imports standard GEDCOM files and displays them on the iPhone. New in version 2.2 is the New Note feature. Add a New Note to anyone in the database. Users can then email all the new notes to themselves.

Tokyo based Monstar Lab announced today the release of Japanese Smash Girls vol. 1, the first iPhone Application that gives users the ability to enjoy virtual guitar smashing. Japanese Smash Girls allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone user interface to experience all the thrill and excitement of rock 'n' roll's ultimate status symbol, anywhere and anytime they want.

UK based Coherent Graphics Ltd has released the latest versions of two enterprise-level PDF solutions: Coherent PDF Command Line Tools 1.5, and Coherent PDF Toolkit for .NET 1.5. Perfect for the busy desktop publisher, prepress operator, the tools allow anyone to merge and split files, rotate flip and scale individual pages, or all pages, crop pages and modify the document information. Easily manage PDF bookmarks, add or remove PDF attachments, and add text and dates to one or more pages.

OmniXtudio has recently released Jailbreak: Voice Onrush 1.0, an adaptation of highly rated Nintendo DSi Ware title Escapee GO! for iPhone and iPod touch devices. In Jailbreak: Voice Onrush, you take on the lead role, waking up with no memory of who you are. Save for your name, all information of you has been destroyed. In its place, something within you has changed. Hunted down by an unknown enemy, you must find a way to escape your pursuers using your new found powers.

publicspace.net has announced A Better Finder Rename 8.53, 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 allows diacritical marks such as accents and umlauts to be removed from file names automatically.

TLC IT-Consulting has released MyTasks Pro 2.2.3 for iPhone and iPod touch users. This new task management app is the first of its kind for the iPhone. MyTasks organizes the development, storage and organization of tasks with an attractive, versatile and easy-to-use interface. Adding a task is super simple and can be done in seconds. The app extremely versatile, giving it the capacity to be synchronized with a wide variety of devices and even with the online to-do list program, Toodledo.