Community-driven Macintosh news, tips, and rumors.

Reader Special: 10% off all Parallels products

Buy any Parallels product including Parallels Desktop 3.0 or Parallels Desktop Premium Edition and receive 10% off by using the coupon code MACM-VXKD-SALE .

ReaddleDocs - Business Document Management Solution for iPhone released

Readdle announces the release of ReaddleDocs, a complete document and file management solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With ReaddleDocs anyone can transfer files from Windows, Mac or Linux computer to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices, view them on the go, send by email and more.

Ohanaware releases Funtastic Photos: photo editor with funtastic tricks

Ohanaware, a new company specializing in photo software products announced the immediate availability of their flagship product, Funtastic Photos. Funtastic Photos is a Non-destructive and fully reversible photo editor, with easy to use 1-Click Styles, Advanced Effect engine, direct sharing via Fun Cards, Cell Phone and popular photo sharing sites. Funtastic Photos features a creative print layouts system, with awe-inspiring projects.

Scott Kleinberg gives rave review to MyWeather Mobile iPhone App

MyWeather, LLC announced today that it's MyWeather Mobile iPhone app has received a five-star rating from industry-recognized iPhone guru Scott Kleinberg from the Chicago Tribune's Red Eye. Kleinberg is creator, writer and editor of iPTIB, which draws readers from approximately 55 countries.

Web Help Desk Launches Version 9 Cross-Platform Help Desk Software

MacsDesign Studio LLC, developers of the leading cross-platform help desk software solution, Web Help Desk, today announced the availability of Version 9, a major update to its flagship service management solution. Web Help Desk Software Version 9 adds rules-based voting and approval process for change requests, an extensible plug-in architecture for popular 3rd party asset management tools, and an AJAX enhanced user interface.

MediaSilo Adds Direct FTP Video Upload

Boston-based MediaSilo, the online video management and collaboration leader, has eliminated browser-based upload limitations with an integrated FTP solution. MediaSilo's suite of online video tools includes it's signature collaboration toolset, content management and web broadcast channels. With the new FTP Dropbox, posting file size limitations are virtually eliminated.

OfficeTime Goes International: Track Time & Invoice in any Language

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Transcena Design, makers of OfficeTime, the renowned time tracker, has announced OfficeTime is going international. With OfficeTime's 1.3.3 internationalization release for Mac and PC, you can track your time and expenses in just about any language imaginable. Simply start the timer and add notes on your activity in the language of your choice. OfficeTime offers full support for a wide range of character sets, including multi-byte characters.

FMPug Live Broadcast of FMTouch

When was the last time you "touched" your database? Join FMPug founder Andy Gaunt for a live presentation of FMTouch on Thursday, August 21st at 1pm EDT. FMTouch is the application that brings your FileMaker data to your iPhone. If you use FileMaker Pro and you have an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, you can transfer that fully relational database to your iPhone or iPod.

Limit Point Software Releases Mailings 1.9.40

Limit Point Software announces Mailings 1.9.40, a full featured application for batch emailing that delivers any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates etc. Mailings facilitates the task of delivering regular bulk email distributions with such features as logging, progress monitoring, scheduling, error recovery, throttling, personalization and much more.

Flashforward2008 Conference Opens with a Bang; Closes with a Slam

The Flashforward Conference and Film Festival, which begins August 20 in San Francisco at the Masonic Center, announces the closing event. The three-day conference closes with a Tech Talk Slam comprised of twenty two-minute presentations - performed one after another - at the closing Flashforward Conference session. The Tech Talk Slam brings the Flash community together showcasing a broad spectrum of ideas, points of view, and opinions.