Macintosh/iPhone software update round-up – August 12, 2008

Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for August 11, 2008:

• In response to customer demand, Fullpower, a leader in mobile sensing solutions, today announced it has released MotionX-Dice for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As an introductory offer, MotionX-Dice will be available free through the Apple App Store for the first 90 days. With MotionX-Dice, the player shakes the iPhone or iPod Touch to initiate the roll. Real-world physics are used to control the way the dice roll, collide and settle just as if they were actual dice.
• Prepare yourself for the upcoming Azada: Ancient Magic by buying the puzzle game Azada for only 99 cents! This price is only valid through Aug 18th, 2008.
• Yazsoft has released a major new application, ShareTool. Developed for Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, ShareTool lets you access all of the Bonjour services on your home or office network from anywhere in the world securely over a 100% SSH encrypted connection. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and much more. No configuration. No complication. No server or technical skills required. Just a mouse click.
• O’Reilly’s newest book, slide:ology by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design in Mountain View, CA, the firm that created the presentation for “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design to offer practical approaches on how to create ideas, translate them into pictures, display them well, and then deliver them in your own natural way.
• Over the past two years, Ubermind has taken the digital photography world by storm; consistently delivering the highest quality Aperture export plug-ins available. Now, it’s set to change the map once again with the release of its first edit plug-in for Aperture: Maperture.
• Michael Cote has a lot to say about booming iPhone 3G sales, but does anyone even really know who he is? Aaron Steele would like to find out.
• XChange releases three XTensions for Quark XPress 8: OpenNow Pro, Bookletizer and MediaBoxXT.
• Faber Acoustical’s latest iPhone app, SoundMeter, turns the iPhone into a handheld sound level meter. The iPhone’s built-in and headset microphones exhibit a frequency response which is flat enough to make them suitable for basic sound level measurements. SoundMeter measures average sound levels with fast, slow, and impulse time weightings. Peak, maximum, and equivalent sound levels are also available. All sound levels may be measured with Flat, A, or C frequency weighting.