ConvenienceWare/AssistiveWare today announced that GhostReader with American English or Parisian French voices is available as part of the Give Good Food to Your Mac promotion that runs until 30 November 2008. Mac users can put together a meal of their own taste by choosing from a menu with over 60 great Mac applications. Discounts are as follows: 20% off for 3 applications, 30% off for 4 applications, and 50% off for 5 or more applications.

My Apple Space is excited to announce "The New Blog" on the popular social networking website for Apple enthusiasts. On My Apple Space developers are meeting reviewers and customers, media is finding new readers, gamers are setting up tournaments and switchers are finding new Apple friends to help them make the important leap to the fantastic world of Apple. WIth "The New Blog" the reader can also become the writer. The perfect place to test your blogging talent.

Houdah Software is pleased to announce their participation in the Third Edition of Give Good Food to Your Mac. This promotion is organised by Indie developers from all over the world. Diversity and quality are main features of this community action. Every Mac user can download and taste more than 60 apps and enjoy discounts ranging from 20% to 50%. The menu includes HoudahSpot and HoudahGeo.

Softpress will be on hand to demo Freeway 5 at both the Portland, OR and Seattle, WA Maximum Photoshop CS4 Tour events on Monday, November 17th and Monday, November 24th, respectively. Special pricing on both Freeway 5 Pro and Freeway 5 Express will be available at each show from the Softpress booth.

Altomac today announced the release of Speedy Mac 2008 Release 3, their popular file, folder and website launching utility for Mac OS X. Speedy Mac lets users quickly access frequently-used documents, folders, sites, applications and tasks by organizing them into a handy menu. Favorite and recently used documents are automatically placed into application groups, and web pages are grouped by site. Version 3 adds multiple text clipboard support, and includes many improvements.

bambooapps proudly announces the update of Keep Your Word for Mac OS X Leopard. Version 1.2 adds data import and export and a new tag browser. Keep Your Word lets you build your own dictionary, classifying and grouping the terms exactly how you want to, while helping you to learn the longest list of words thanks to its different exercise modes. To celebrate the update, and the launch of FNDMobile, bambooapps also reduces the price of FND, the film development database and clock.

Jon Brown Designs today announces the launch of Mac Advertising Network, a free banner and textual ad network for the Mac faithful. The Mac Advertising Network is a free service for Mac software developers and users alike to help promote their products and services. Anyone may sign up to the service to place their banner ads. Websites that are on the network will in turn display their ad on rotational basis. The service is free to all comers.

Information Appliance Associates announces the release of PocketMac iCalScreenSaver, the first screensaver to attractively display iCal appointments. PocketMac iCalScreenSaver leverages IAA's iCal sync technology to produce an attractive, clear and simple screensaver that cycles through users' calendars.

Macvide is proud to announce ScreenCap 1.9, their screen recording and capturing utility for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for Mac users, ScreenCap allows video recording, single screenshot or timed screenshot series capturing from your Mac. All of the most popular video and image formats are supported. ScreenCap offers an easy-to-use interface that guides the user through the capturing and recording process.

Nakahara Informatics, Inc. today released iGet Mobile 2.0.1, a maintenance release to the company's remote Mac access software for iPhone, iPod Touch and other web-capable devices. iGet Mobile gives Mac users a personal web interface to access their documents remotely, with a special emphasis on making various types of data more accessible on small-form-factor devices.

IGG Software announces iBank 3.3, the latest upgrade to its flagship application for personal and small business finance management. Among the most important changes in iBank 3.3 is improved migration of Quicken data for new users making the switch to iBank. iBank 3.3 also improves keyboard-based transaction entry to be faster and more efficient, and direct consultation with Apple has restored full functionality to iBank's iPhone/MobileMe integration.

DDH Software, Inc., coming on the heels of the 10th anniversary of the HanDBase mobile database application’s first release, announces today the launch of HanDBase for iPhone. It is available now through iTunes in the Apple App Store.
HanDBase for iPhone
HanDBase has been modified to fit the unique characteristics of the iPhone platform. Finger-friendly navigation enables [...]

Maintain has announced Cocktail 4.2 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. This version adds ability to search and delete corrupted preference files, adds a searchable database of Mac OS system error codes, adds a list of commonly used network ports and improves the clear log files procedure.

Freeway 5 Pro, the award-winning web design application for the Mac, will be offered at a large discount to anyone purchasing or upgrading to Dreamweaver CS4 or any of Adobe's CS4 packages with Dreamweaver included. With proof of purchase, owners can purchase download-only copies of Freeway 5 Pro for just $99 (regular price $249). This special 60% off price is available for a limited time only and only directly from the Softpress Store.

The week with heard about the Apple Tax from the mouth of Microsoft head master Steve Ballmer in a vague attempt to derail Apple’s notebook event, something that immediately the media echoed and started to refrain it like parrots, but does really exist an Apple Tax?, the short and truthful answer is yes.