Macintosh/iPhone software update roundup – May 15, 2009

Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for May 15, 2009:

Macintosh

• Yazsoft has announced Speed Download 5.1.4. Overhauled from top to bottom, Speed Download 5 redefines the Mac OS X download manager by combining four amazing products – a turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity – into one small and easy to use application. And now with RSS newsreader integration.
• app4mac has released the final version of Twin 1.0, a new online backup solution for Mac OS X. Twin is a true Mac product that preserves Finder info, resource forks, ACLs, Privileges and comes with an elegant user interface and a powerful assistant. Twin is very flexible, and compatible with most Internet servers: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, MobileMe. It even supports offline backups to external drives.
• If you’re a Flash designer or developer picking up Flash CS4 Professional for the first time, or a user upgrading from a prior version, you’ll want O’Reilly’s newest publication, Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash, by your side.
• Dare to be Creative has announced that it is offering a bundle of all their Mac applications, 75% discount off the retail price. The bundle includes Sponge, Yum, iArchiver, Renamer4Mac, ResizeMe, Dragoman, SlidePad and iCombiner. The bundle is available until end of May via Macsnack, the company’s bundle outlet site.
• Blueball Design has announced their latest new Sandvox design template: Blueball Ecom. Ecom offers a sleek, professional, and stylish alternative to the traditional Sandvox design layout and is perfect for any site need, from personal to small business sites, and more. Blueball Design has made it easier for users to add e-commerce functionality to their Sandvox site with their Blueball Ecom design bundle, including 2 pre-built Paypal e-commerce Sandvox 1.6 sites.

iPhone/iPod

• Inergize Digital and DoApp Inc. have announced Mobile Local News, an iPhone and iPod touch application that distributes locally branded news, weather, sports, politics and entertainment to consumer iPhone and iPod touch mobile digital devices. Television and radio stations, magazines, newspapers and other information publishers deploy Mobile Local News to provide text, images, photos and videos to iPhone and iPod touch users, while leveraging valuable revenue generating opportunities that support today’s business environment.
• ADGDM has updated iMatchsticks, a logical game related to matches where you need to solve the tasks by manipulating with the sticks. A simple yet absorbing game that puts you against the iPhone. It is quite entertaining and it will boost the logic of the player. The game has no age restriction and can be played by anyone.
• PlayCreek invites you to take a trip through five colorful realms in StoneLoops of Jurassica: from wild jungle, through endless glacier, to the edge of a blazing volcano! Own five houses and collect 24 trophies in this crazy, action-packed adventure.
• Skyworks Interactive—developers of several highly successful iPhone/iPod touch game apps, including Arcade Bowling and Arcade Hoops Basketball, both of which achieved top 15 paid game rankings in the Apple Apps Store, and more recently the highly ranked World Cup Ping Pong—have announced the release of a new high quality, family oriented game that is just as playable, fun and addictive: Horseshoes Pro.
• Need to take a break? Then take a spin with oeFun’s Stress Toy. Stress Toy improves upon the original by adding new features and requests from customers, and comes with three new boards and the ability to choose which board on which to pla. Each board is a grid of 5 x 7 blocks which can be spun using the finger “flick” gesture. You can spin the blocks left, right, up or down. Each board has a different theme, offering a variety of play possibilities. Make a doodle or solve a picture puzzle, it’s all up to how you play.