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Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for November 9, 2009:

Macintosh

• Conceited Software has announced HealthNut 1.0, a diet aid and calorie tracking application for Mac OS X. HealthNut comes with thousands of built-in food items, each with predefined nutrients and energy values. Browsing this huge database is as easy as opening the HealthNut bar and typing a few characters. HealthNut remembers everything you’ve eaten and lets you review diet changes by jumping days, or years, back.
• Independent game developer Enkord, Ltd. has announced Zodiac Tower 1.91, its new action puzzle game for Mac OS X. Zodiac Tower is a unique match-3 puzzle game. Uncover the secrets of ancient Zodiac Tower and solve all of its fascinating puzzles. Explore a just uncovered ancient continent searching for valuable treasures and Relics. Zodiac Tower features 2 game modes, includes over 100 mysterious levels with 10 Mechanism parts to uncover.
• Geeksuit has announced Client Folder Maker 3.5, a significant update to their popular folder creation and management utility for Mac OS X. Client Folder Maker is a simple to use, general purpose folder creation and management tool for the busy desktop publisher, prepress operator or web designer. It allows the user to set up a hierarchy of folders once, then re-create that hierarchy anywhere in the filesystem with just a few clicks from the Finder.
• Disk Doctors has announced that its Norcross, GA Data Recovery Center is offering a flat rate for one week only. Any Hard drive shipped directly to or dropped off at their Norcross, GA lab will benefit from this steeply discounted special. This Super Special does not vary with drive size, operating system, or type of drive problem. Offer is good only at Disk Doctors, Norcross, GA Service Center.
• XChange UK has announced a new unprecedented promotion which offers users of any other 3D software product the opportunity to own the powerful, new Strata Design 3D CX. The offer gives users the chance to move to 3D design with an affordable and intuitive solution. With an interface that Adobe users will recognise, Design 3D connects to a user’s creative toolset with links to Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash.
• Reggie Ashworth has announced AppDelete 3.0.1, an update to his popular application deletion utility for Mac OS X. With a simple Drag & Drop, AppDelete will uninstall anything along with all of the associated items. Mac users will no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually. AppDelete is a must-have utility for beta testers and the perfect companion to any Mac fanatic’s toolbox.
• The Mac Sale’s latest bundle comes to a close on the 13th, so this is your last chance to get an amazing bundle for a silly price. The apps in this bundle are HoudahGeo, MacJournal, CrossOver Games, Picturesque, Morph Age Regular, Searchlight, Vinoteka, iMaginator, Opacity Express and Stor. Read interviews with the 10 developers involved in this bundle and check out the rest of the software in the deal.
• Online video tutorial site MacSupportCasts is excited to celebrate their streamlined, easily navigated new look by giving away a free membership each week until the end of the year, plus a 32gb iPod Touch, a 16gb iPod Nano, a iTunes gift certificate, and two serial numbers for 1Password from Agile Web Solutions. According to Lead Caster Larry Pollock, MacSupportCasts’ easy-to-use video tutorials just got even easier to use, thanks to the recent homepage redesign.
• Zevrix Solutions has announced BatchOutput Server 4.2.4, an update to its output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Originally developed for a major publisher in the U.S., the software automates InDesign output by processing files from hotfolders. BatchOutput Server offloads printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. The new update adds support for Snow Leopard and improves error reporting.

iPhone/iPod

• Zurich-based cyclus.ch has announced WorkLog 2.1, an update to their popular time tracking utility for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, WorkLog is a powerful and easy-to-use time tracking tool. It supports user definable custom fields for each category, client or project. Logging time with WorkLog can be as simple as pressing Start to initiate a task and pressing Stop when done.
• Muli Mobile has announced Snob-O-Meter 1.0, the social personality test for iPhone and iPod touch. Snob-O-Meter is a personality test designed to poke fun at the egos of users and their friends. Do you have Facebook friends who aren’t real friends? Do you tailgate others unprovoked? Users are scored based on their answers to questions. Users can also rig the test for their friends to expose those who deserve it!
• Very Alien Productions has introduced Geometrics 1.0, their new geometry education and productivity app for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone interface, Geometrics is a powerful tool to construct and then calculate the area and perimeter of both regular and irregular two-dimensional shapes. Geometrics joins Very Alien’s very successful first app, Trigonomics, which is currently featured on the App Store in the New and Noteworthy section.
• Nor Eagle has announced Insulting Monk 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Insulting Monk features a hand-animated monk delivering humorous insults whenever he is touched. It is also possible to give the monk a smacking when you’ve had enough of his venomous tongue. Users can now carry an insult-spewing monk with them at all times. The app is classified as an entertainment app and the title character is eager to share his insults with anyone willing to part with their hard earned buck.
• Coresoft has announced Blood Beach 1.0, a simulated World War 2 game for iPhone and iPod Touch users. As much research as is humanly possible has gone into giving Blood Beach a true-life feel. Weapon firing, flight attack patterns, audio sounds, enemy behavior, ammunition and weaponry are all based on actual real life models. There are twenty different missions to be completed and users can keep track of their scores, as well as compete against others, online.
• Active Gaming Media Co., Ltd. has launched Barkeep 1.0, the new iPhone/iPod Touch app for drinkers. As a first-of-its-kind application, Barkeep has casual drinkers, recipe collectors and wine connoisseurs alike excited about the capabilities. With Barkeep, you can access a database of drinking recipes and add your own. Personalize it with your own photos, notes and dates.  Barkeep keeps track of all your drinking information in an easy-to-use format.
• Pingo, the prepaid international calling service from iBasis, has introduced Pingo EZ Dial, a new smartphone application that delivers automatic access to discount international calling rates for users of popular mobile devices including the iPhone, Blackberry, Treo and phones using operating systems such as Nokia Symbian, Windows Mobile and Google Android.
• Dive into a tranquil undersea environment with the newly updated iPhone application, MyReef 3D Aquarium. The new portrait display function allows users to view their fish tank vertically as well has horizontally. Paired with the ability to play music from the iTunes music library, the portrait setting enables users to watch beautiful tropical fish while listening to music on an iPhone docking station. The update also includes five exotic new fish species: the Threadfin Butterflyfish, Royal Gramma, Orange FireFish, Clown Trigger, and Porkfish. To celebrate the new update, MyReef 3D Aquarium will be available for a limited time for 99 cents in the iTunes App Store.
• Have you ever been involved in a steamy online romance? What would you do if your secret love letters were uncovered and published for the world to see? New media publishers First Fifteen are releasing the provocative e-mails of a true-life online love affair carried out 14-years ago during the advent of the Internet; published as a series of four tantalizing Appisodes to be enjoyed in the privacy of your own phone.
• M.O.C. Interior Designer, LLC has released Mark On Call 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, a major update to the incredibly popular interior design app. Now room designs can be published and stored on the Web where owners of the application can peruse the new Rooms Gallery, an aggregated area of all users’ published rooms. From directly inside the app, users can download, customize and apply the room designs of others to their own personal space.
• Bitnotic Mobile has announced Octavian 1.1.0, an update to their music theory app for iPhone and iPod touch. Octavian makes musical scales and chords instantly accessible to musicians of all skill levels. It is an essential musical reference tool for any musician, student, composer, songwriter, pianist, keyboard player, or hobbyist. Version 1.1.0 now features high-quality piano sound playback, so that users can listen to scales and chords as they explore them.