Macintosh/iPhone software update round-up – November 10, 2008

Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for November 10, 2008:

• Madrid based Wuonm has announced FaceCall 1.2, an update to their popular icon-based dialer application for Apple iPhone. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, FaceCall allows anyone to call their favorites contacts by simply tapping the photo icon on their home screen. Users select a contact from their Address Book, pick one of his or her phone numbers, and put the icon on their springboard. Perfect for one-touch calling.
• FindFileMakerDevelopers launched its newest feature this week, one that provides companies the opportunity to post available positions on the site completely free of charge. Designed to transform the way people manage their careers and the way companies’ source and subsequently hire FileMaker professionals, FindFileMakerDevelopers continues to provide the most effective means of connecting potential clients and employers with professional FileMaker developers around globe.
• With Christmas just around the corner, Easyishop has introduced some great discounted products to help ease the cost in today’s economic climate. The leading internet retailer of iPod accessories www.easyishop.co.uk has 10 cut-price gift and ideas that will make the perfect present.
• Better Energy Systems (BES), manufacturer of the award-winning Solio Hybrid Universal Chargers, has announced the expansion of its tread line of eco-conscious handcrafted cases and bags. These tough, yet fashionable, bags and cases are made with recycled butyl rubber—a super-material, which is rescued from discarded inner tubes of South American truck tires. BES purchases the used tires from local pit stops in Quibdó, Columbia, then cleans and ships them to its workshop in Barranquilla. There, BES-employed artisans turn the rubber into cases for Solio Hybrid Solar Chargers, iPods, cell phones, smartphones, and now also iPhones, Apple Touch MP3 players, digital cameras, laptop sleeves and attache bags.
• mStation | mophie announces the immediate availability the juice pack 3G. Now, iPhone 3G users never have to experience downtime as the juice pack effectively more than doubles battery life allowing more time to rock, talk, surf and send. The juice pack 3G boasts an array of great features.
• MacsDesign Studio LLC, an industry-pioneering provider of the comprehensive IT help desk software, Web Help Desk, has announced integration with LANrev Client Manager, a leading cross-platform client and patch management software suite. The new integration delivers scheduled imports of asset discovery data from LANrev to the Web Help Desk back-end database and instant access to the LANrev Admin application from within the Web Help Desk browser-based interface.
• Griffin Technology Inc., has announced the availability of updated versions of their TuneBuds Mobile and SmartTalk audio solutions for iPhone and iPod. TuneBuds Mobile and SmartTalk are now both equipped with inline microphones compatible with iPhone, iPod nano 4G, iPod touch 2G and iPod classic 120GB.
• Toon Boom Animation has announced the release of Toon Boom Animate, a new creative animation software packed with ground-breaking features and unprecedented productivity gains. With Toon Boom Animate, users have greater productivity, better quality and faster delivery of animation than ever before. Enjoy the flexibility of a fully-fledged in-depth animation solution and publish animation for all types of media, from online to HDTV.
• The new ColorMatch iPhone app is the easy way to take the guesswork out of matching dress shirts, neckties, dresses, accessories, upholstery, wall or house paint and more. ColorMatch is an inexpensive iPhone application for professionals and non-professionals alike that instantly finds perfect color matches at home, in a store, or on location in a customer’s home.