Simiotica has announced immediate availability of the iPhone and iPod Touch game aMaze—a translation of the classic wooden balance game Labyrinth in which players guide a steel ball through a maze of holes.

Apple includes about 20 Dashboard widgets with the OS X Install, and many more are available from third parties, targeted to a vast range of specific interests and tasks, but you're not limited to those - you can make your own custom-tailored widgets using the Web Clips feature in the Safari Web browser with just a few minutes work and a few mouse clicks

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uncomplex has released Mailplane 2.0 Beta for worldwide testing. Acting as a site specific web browser for Google's Gmail, Mailplane is a full fledged Mail client for the Desktop. It fully integrates the Gmail web interface into the Mac experience, offering users the best of both worlds. Beta 2.0 sports many new features, including full Gmail 2 support, new Gmail add-ons and keyboard shortcuts, better account notifications, more ways to create email attachments, plus a new OmniFocus plugin

Awaiting AppStore launch, international game developer Simiotica announces immediate availability of the iPhone and iPod Touch game aMaze! via Installer.App. aMaze! is very realistic transition of the classic wooden balance game Labyrinth, where players guide steel ball through a maze avoiding holes, to the iPhone.

Try the brand new recovery solution for Mac. Rescue Kit for Mac OS X Lite restores your system to its original state and rescues sensitive data enabling you to be up and running. It can safely and easily backup both Mac and Windows data to any media, including USB, Firewire and network storages. It does what it says - and comes to the rescue with a variety of solutions

Sonnet Technologies announces the immediate availability of the Presto Gigabit Pro PCI network adapter card, the Presto Gigabit PCIe Pro PCI Express network adapter card, and the Presto Gigabit Ethernet Pro ExpressCard/34 network adapter card

Titan clear iPhone case product line will now include two additional color choices

Jumsoft Releases Pages Templates 2.0 for iWork. The package includes a broad collection of 40 professionally designed, high-quality templates for books, brochures, business cards, invitations, resumes, sales posters, portfolios, catalogs, diplomas, certificate, menus, and even business reports and invoices. Almost every template features different pages with different layouts. Not only is it easy to make your documents look professional, but have many more options for styling them

Droid Assault is the latest in a series of modern-retro arcade shooter games by Puppygames. The game captures the raw feel of 8-bit games such as Paradroid and Quazatron, with a slick shiny sheen of modern graphics and sound. It's available to download now for Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

plasq has released Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X. This entirely new photo-comic desktop publishing software from plasq empowers users of all ages and skill levels with simple-to-use but eye-catching creative options typically found in professional products. Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground up to leverage the power of Mac OS X 10.5 core technologies, like Core Image and Core Animation resulting in photo-comics with unique visual effects and elegant layout.

Users of Elgato's EyeTV will soon be seeing a minor update to v3.0.2. The updates will vary ased on region, but users in the U.S. will benefit from Closed Caption support in QuickTime Exports.

Macgamestore today announced the release of The Scruffs for the Macintosh on its website. Developed by Sweet Tooth Games, The Scruffs is an original seek-and-find challenge.

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Tuesday evening when I plugged in my SimpleDrive external USB hard drive to do a routine Time Machine Run, instead of chattering energetically as it normally does upon mounting, it just made some feeble and pathetic clicks and grunts, and after twenty or thirty seconds, the dreaded "this disc is unrecognizable by this computer" dialog sheet appeared.... Computers have a way of sticking it to you in maddeningly frustrating and unlikely ways

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Nova media has dropped the prices for the popular USB modem GlobeSurfer ICON and the ExpressCard modem GlobeTrotter EXPRESS by 50,- Euro (around 77.- US-$) each, making mobile Internet for Mac users more affordable

New 320GB Notebook Hard Drive Combines High Capacity and Superior Performance With Power Efficiency and Low Acoustics

Pieter Omvlee announces DrawIt 3.5, the latest version of his easy-to-use, vector-drawing and image editing application for Mac OS X. In this new version, the Pro version adds support for boolean operations, adds a text-to-vector tool and supports a vector ghost-mode for quick drawing and numerous other improvements

Takes an Innovative Approach to Managing and Representing Information Within Organizations

Like Thought announces Opacity 1.1, an update to their innovative editor for screen graphics. Opacity has traditional graphical features like vectors, layers and filters along with exclusive features including variables, templates, factories and much more. Opacity combines all of the tools artists need to create beautiful images for icons, applications and the web. New in 1.1 are support for SVG, an introductory screencast, interface improvements and much more.

Many Tricks has released Leech, a new download manager that gives users complete control over their downloads. With Leech, users can queue, pause and resume downloads, download from password-protected servers and store their passwords in their system-wide, secure keychain. And like every other Many Tricks application, Leech is comfortable, easy to use, and fast

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• Opening up Psystar's Open Computer • The iMac turns 10 • The philosophy of iMac • Pros and Cons of Using Linux on a WallStreet PowerBook • Is It Time to Switch to a Mac? • My OS is the best OS because … • OpenBSD 4.3 released • Nanowires for Displays • Review: Apple iMac 20in Desktop Computer • Apple's Hot Air And The Advantages Of A Copyright Dongle • Hyundai and Kia's latest pitch to US drivers - Windows

Ambrosia Software, Inc. has announced the release of Uplink 1.6.0. This release brings support for PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and also provides enhancements to the cyber-hacking strategy game. This updated version, free to registered users of Uplink, may be downloaded from Ambrosia's website.

Macgamestore has announced the release of Supercow for the Macintosh. Developed by Russian-based NevoSoft, Supercow is a fun, side-scrolling game the entire family can enjoy.

Dare to be Creative today announced the release of iCombiner 1.2, a file merge utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. Designed to improve productivity and efficiency, the new version allows users to merge documents by dragging them onto iCombiner's dock icon, as well as to merge files directly in Finder using the contextual menu

Divine Fiat announces the immediate availability of Grunge, their latest theme for Apple's Keynote presentation software

Readdle, a leading provider of the book and document reader services for the iPhone and iPod Touch, announces its plans to release a native iPhone application for storing and reading office documents and eBooks on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Readdle is a web-based application that allows transfering, organizing and viewing documents on the iPhone and iPod Touch

Volitans software today announces SMART Utility 1.2, a significant update to the hard drive diagnostic scanning application. The new features include more readable attribute names, displaying the model family, sending additional information to the smartctl engine, and French localization. SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives

Charging your iPod has never been more simple. Proporta's Universal iPod Dock allows you to mount your iPod or iPhone - whatever member of the iPod family you may own, by providing a selection of insert trays to suit. Not only that, the iPod dock can also be used with your charging cable enabling you to power your iPod or iPhone whilst it sits merrily in the dock

DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases maintenance and feature updates for all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as for the intelligent note-keeper DEVONnote. DEVONthink Pro Office 1.5.2 reintroduces scanning support for flatbed and automatic document feeder scanners - IMPORTANT UPDATE - OCR in DEVONthink Pto Office 1.5.2 defective, 1.5.2.1 update available

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ZPower (formerly Zinc Matrix Power) is poised to launch a line of rechargeable, silver-zinc batteries for mobile electronics, which it claims last significantly longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries, pose no overheating or fire hazard, and are kinder to the environment as a bonus.

Times is a new type of newsreader for Mac OS X Leopard. Instead of treating news like email (as most RSS readers do), Times presents you with headlines and photos from a variety of sources all in one place, letting you more easily discover the news you want to read

The Digital Lifestyle today launched a new page featuring quick (one minute or less) independent video reviews of all of the currently available iPod games from the iTunes music store. The reviews mark a branching out into portable gaming for the site. The Digital Lifestyle will also review as many iPhone games and applications as possible.

iLounge, a leading resource of iPod + iPhone information has officially launched the Design The Next iPhone, Win The Next iPhone Contest. Think you've got what it takes to design the next iPhone? How can you win? Design the Next iPhone!

Kensington has announced the release of its Battery Pack and Charger for iPhone and iPod that also comes in an ultra small and lightweight portable version—the Mini Battery Pack and Charger for iPhone and iPod. These new offerings are especially convenient because they simultaneously power and charge an iPhone or iPod, and they are rechargeable, as well. Kensington's smart made simple design approach gives consumers a combination of two portable sizes to best accommodate their mobile lifestyles; the standard model is the perfect traveling companion for heavy duty power needs while the "mini" is designed for users to easily carry with them on a daily basis. This means that finally—even the most avid consumers can make the most of their devices, knowing that they always have a ready supply of power at hand to keep the conversations going and the music playing.

On Friday, iCab released version 4.1.1 of the iCab Web browser, a fairly substantial update with a number of new and enhanced features and bugfixe

Winter Wolves Games has announced a permanent price reduction of its space shooter game Supernova: Galactic Wars. The game, previously sold at $19.95, is now available for both Mac and Pc at half-price to promote the upcoming release of the sequel Supernova 2: Spacewar.

Maintaining the fight against breast cancer, Belkin International, Inc., has introduced new designs of its pink-ribbon cases for the iPod nano. For each Sport Armband, Leather Sleeve, Slim Fit, and Remix Metal for iPod nano case sold, Belkin will donate $2.50 to support Susan G. Komen for the Cure (with a minimum guaranteed donation of $225,000).

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