Macintosh/iPhone software update round-up – December 17, 2008

Macintosh and iPhone software updates and announcements for December 17, 2008.

• Retina-X Studios, LLC, announced today the immediate availability of Mobile Spy for the Apple iPhone. Using this groundbreaking iPhone spy technology, users can silently monitor incoming and outgoing text messages (SMS) and call information of children or employees even if activity logs are erased. Immediately after activities are logged, they are silently uploaded to the user’s private online account. Accounts can be checked online from any browser without needing further access to the phone.
• Ergonis Software has announced the release of Typinator 3.3, the latest version of its for auto-typing and auto-correction tool. Typinator 3.3 comes with a total of over 8,000 predefined snippets making it a guaranteed productivity booster right out of the box, even without defining any own snippets. The new set-specific options are great for customizing snippet sets—assign a custom expansion sound or add a common prefix to hundreds of snippets—all with just a few clicks.
• Ohanaware has announced the immediate availability of an update to their flagship product Funtastic Photos. Funtastic Photos is a non-permanent and easily reversible photo editor, with over 50 simple to use 1-Click Styles, Advanced Effects engine, direct sharing via Fun Cards, Cell Phone and popular photo sharing sites. Free to existing customers, this minor update features several important improvements to the printing aspect of Funtastic Photos.
• Tapping It is delighted to announce Memento Xmas 1.1, a free, lite version of their popular e-card creation and sending app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Memento offers a natural feel and ease-of-use. Compose a card by picking one of the beautiful built-in styles, add a favorite photo, enter personalized text, and email just the perfect postcard. Just in time for the holidays, version 1.1 includes new Christmas styles.
• Flick Bowling has just been updated to version 1.2. This version of the the popular bowling game now allows you to create your own custom bowling ball, using any image or logo.
• Shiny Development Ltd. has announced Charades 1.0 for the iPhone, a fun application for the holiday season that brings iPhone gaming into the living room for everyone to enjoy. Charades for iPhone is a digital assistant for the popular family game, instead of struggling to think of a film, play, book, song or musical to mime out – simply push the lever, a drumroll begins and the curtain is raised on a new Charades challenge.
• Drync, LLC has announced the release of Drync-Wine. Drync-Wine uses federated search to scour multiple databases of nearly 1 million wines in real time to identify the exact wine a user is drinking. See wine details, professional reviews, ratings, and pricing. Users may snap a photo, save the wine to their own virtual cellar, and add their own tasting notes, all from their mobile device.
• Sonoma Wire Works has released a free update for RiffWorks Standard recording software. Export, 32-bit recording and 32-bit mix make RiffWorks Standard the ideal DAW companion. With RiffWorks Standard you can record ideas at the moment of inspiration, create complete songs with drums and effects, collaborate online with musicians around the world, post tunes to the RiffWorld online community, and now export to any DAW for editing and mastering.
• Sonoma Wire Works’ FourTrack multitrack audio recorder for the iPhone has been updated to v1.2. FourTrack users can now import tracks, complete with pan and gain settings, directly into RiffWorks recording software for Mac and Windows. Songs can be instantly posted from RiffWorks to the RiffWorld community for comments, online collaboration, and contests. More tracks, effects, and drums can be added to songs using RiffWorks. All tracks can be exported as .wav files for use in any DAW.
• Debuting at Macworld in San Francisco in January 2009, the Wazabee 3DeeFlector an autostereoscopic overlay will fit over any 13.3-inch laptop screen, such as Apple’s MacBook Air, allowing you to view 3D images.
• Makayama Software has released new software for the iPhone called Television. The name says it all; this app lets you watch TV on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Watch 50 shows from 30 channels on demand. It’s not live TV, but the best pre-recorded content from the USA, UK, France and Germany. Get the latest news, sports and entertainment on your iPhone. Television allows you to watch TV whenever and wherever you like, with the touch of a finger, instantly and on-demand via WiFi.