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Resco, one of the leading companies in software development of applications for mobile devices, announced today the availability of a brand new version of its award winning Resco Pocket Radio application for the Pocket PC platform. Version 1.90 now fully supports Bluetooth stereo head-sets and thus allows users to listen and tune into thousands of internet radio stations cable free.
Moreover, with the new version it is possible to install a touch-optimized player to the Today Plugin and operate the radio directly from there. Easy radio importing, scheduled recording and a very friendly user interface are some of the many other features that made Resco Pocket Radio a sought-after application.
Features in Resco Pocket Radio v1.90
* Support of Bluetooth stereo head-sets (A2DP, AVRCP)
* Today Plugin player
* List of thousands internet radios
* Easy radio import
* Scheduled recording
* Support of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats
PumpOne introduces iPump Total Body™, the first in a series of workout applications for iPhone and iPod touch available through Apple’s iTunes App Store. This ultimate on-the-go video, image and audio personal trainer contains three components, WORKOUT, LOG and INSPIRE, that not only coaches users through complete workouts, but also allows them to keep track of sessions and instantly send progress logs to friends, family or medical professionals.
“Everybody would love the luxury of their own live personal trainer, but not everyone can afford it,” says Craig Schlossberg, President of PumpOne. “iPump is the next best thing. The clear exercise videos, crisp fitness images and quick intuitive interface show a user exactly what exercises to perform, in what order and with the proper intensity. Plus, you can enjoy your music while training with the application.”
iPump Total Body is made up of three levels; Foundation, Intermediate and Comprehensive, each with three gym workouts, totaling nine. The exercises in each workout target all major muscle groups and include workout-specific intensity charts showing reps, sets and rest intervals. This easy to use program removes the mystery from performing effective workouts while helping users gain strength, lose weight and increase endurance.
With the world’s largest exercise image and video library, PumpOne’s content was created specifically for mobile devices that do not get in the way of a training session. The iPump series will contain fitness programs from all areas of training; Strength, Cardio, Flexibility, Sports, Yoga, Pilates and Physical Therapy. Available soon are iPump Abs & Core, Golf, Pulse, Pilates and Office Stretch. These interactive state-of-the-art fitness programs are exclusively distributed through the desktop iTunes application or directly from the App Store on a user’s iPhone or iPod touch.
iPump Total Body is now available for the introductory price of $2.99 from the iTunes App store or by going to http://www.PumpOne.com/ipump/totalbody.
Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network, today announced that Alltel Workforce Locator, a tracking and mobile resource management (MRM) solution designed by Autodesk, is now available on the first in a series of BREW devices enabled with location-based services (LBS) such as the Samsung R430, Samsung U520, LG AX260 and the LG AX300. Alltel Workforce Locator provides a scalable, easy-to-manage solution that empowers even small businesses to monitor their mobile workforce in real time, improving crucial aspects of business such as operational efficiency, customer service and workforce deployment costs.
Alltel Workforce Locator allows businesses to gain visibility into the field by viewing Web-based maps enabling management to quickly locate their workforce. The software maximizes resources by streamlining routing and fleet management, which can help reduce fuel costs. For example, Workforce Locator directs employees to the correct job site and improves communications between office management and staff, with the ability to send job updates via text messaging. Workforce Locator also delivers improved response time to customer service calls and reduces employee downtime. In addition, the scalable platform can accommodate any number of workloads or users for businesses, regardless of size.
“Due to the high cost of transportation, customers have been seeking solutions to increase efficiency within their mobile workforces,” said Rod Egdorf, head of worldwide sales and marketing, Autodesk Location Services. “Workforce Locator is a powerful and flexible tool that helps boost productivity and, as a result, reign in business expenses.”
This productivity solution software also features:
- Location enablement and privacy controls for mobile workforce;
- Travel directions to and from any location or point of interest;
- The ability to send text messages from PC to mobile phones;
- Maintenance-free manageability for IT administrators – no hardware or software to deploy, systems to monitor or custom developments;
- Reliable on-demand service to get both workforce and dispatcher provisioned quickly and easily;
- A robust and scalable solution that allows businesses to be more agile by adding field workers as needed
“Business customers can now more effectively manage and meet their business objectives using Alltel’s Workforce Locator with nationwide LBS coverage, while having greater communication with and control over their mobile workforce,” said David Maddox, vice president of product marketing. “This application is the latest in a series of product launches from Alltel that allows businesses to efficiently manage and communicate to their mobile workforce using Alltel mobile devices.”
The software is available for $15 per month and a one time charge per line of $19.99 on select Alltel phones. For more information or to purchase Workforce Locator and subscribe to the service, contact your Alltel Business Sales Representative or log on to www.alltel.com.
Today equinux has released Stationery Pack 2, a comprehensive collection of high-quality, interactive e-mail designs for Mac OS X Leopard Mail. Stationery Pack 2 contains over 660 e-mail designs, that can be generated from a total of 122 templates with a simple mouse click.
“We are proud that Stationery Pack 2 expands Mac OS X Leopard with a new feature: interactive e-mail designs,” said equinux CEO Till Schadde. “Particularly MobileMe users, who used to send greeting cards with .Mac, find Stationery Pack, with its wealth of e-mail choices, an ideal successor with even more possibilities.”
Many e-mail templates in Stationery Pack 2 change their designs: A click on the background alters color, themes and photos. A total of 122 high-class templates are thereby transformed into more than 660 possible e-mail designs for nearly every occasion: congratulations, invitations, holidays greetings and much more.
Stationery Pack 2 templates contain dynamic text fields, which adapt to the length of your message. To turn your own photos into a virtual postcard with a personal touch, you can insert photos from iPhoto, Aperture and any other picture folder in Mac OS X. Through sophisticated drop zones and clever combinations of place holders for pictures, you’re able to create exciting e-mails for unforgettable moments.
For an overview of the vast array of different e-mail designs, equinux delivers Stationery Pack 2 with useful software. The display surface is similar to iTunes and divides the template collection into seven categories. It also sorts according to key words and filters templates with the help of a text search. To give you a better idea of each template, an enlarged preview of each is also provided along with all its design variations.
Stationery Pack 2 is now available in the equinux online store at www.equinux.com/store from $49.95. The software appearing in a high-quality box is coming soon to Apple retailers.
MacPractice, Inc., the leading practice management and clinical applications company for Mac and developer of MacPractice MD, MacPractice DDS, MacPractice DC, and MacPractice 20/20 is collaborating with NewCrop™, a leading provider of electronic prescriptions, drug interaction and insurance formulary solutions.
In a release this fall, all MacPractice applications will delivered with an extensive drug list, at no additional cost. In addition, every MacPractice user will be permitted to use the NewCrop Electronic Prescribing system, which is an easy-to-use, web-based software solution that is safe and secure. This system requires no downloading and no new hardware and is also available at no additional cost.
The interface between MacPractice and NewCrop eliminates redundant data entry and retains prescription history in the patient’s clinical record in MacPractice.
Additional content including automated allergy, drug information and review, herbals, managed care formularies, drug interactions, and leaflets for patient education in 18 languages will be offered on a subscription basis. Managed care connectivity, as an option, provides an all-doctor drug history.
In July legislation was passed to increase payments made by Medicare to physicians who ePrescribe in 2009, and decrease payments to those who do not in 2010. The government is in the process of adding more strenuous requirements, and MacPractice is collaborating with NewCrop to satisfy those requirements.
“We are pleased to contribute to the improvement of healthcare in America by supplying doctors with a solution for ePrescribing on a Mac that also improves efficiency and will increase their reimbursement,” stated Mark Hollis, President and co-founder of MacPractice.
Physicians, dentists, chiropractors and eye doctors are encouraged to view QuickTime demonstration movies of MacPractice software after registering at MacPractice.com.
Two thousand two hundred (2200) doctors offices have chosen MacPractice to provide their practice management software and technical support. MacPractice, Inc. also supports the use of DentalMac, MediMac, and ChiroMac for several hundred offices.
It took a group of Stanford and Princeton music PhD’s (see, even these guys know the needs of Stoners every where) to come up with a safe way to show the rockers on stage that we can bring them a light show from the vast sea of die hard fans. Sonic Lighter is totally realistic and allows you to not just light the flame but also interact with it. Touch it and watch it dance around your finger. Tip the phone to the side and watch it burn the insides of your Cupertino-designed hardware. Blow at the flame (and blow long) and watch the flame extinguish! But if that wasn’t enough, worry not my pyro, you can find others with your same love around the country lighting up by glancing the global flame map.
Now, others have offered far much less than this wonderful flaming piece of software so at a penny under a dollar, it’s a steal. A fire sale, almost! So after watching the video demo of it on YouTube, purchase it on the App Store and impress all your rocking friends tonight!
Apple has had immense success with the iPhone as an application platform since the opening of the App Store in early July. With over 100 million downloads in just 60 days, iPhone users are frantic for software on their super-duper phone. Yet even with thousands of applications to choose from there still is many holes left at the App Store for various programs. Even with rapid development from software vendors and authors, the voids will continue for some time. Well, HanDBase wants to change that this winter with the release of the first full out relational database.
DDH Software has announced on its site that indeed it is bringing its well known database to the iPhone. With a three minute video to prove it, many will surely become excited by what they see in the video. For all those needing a certain application that just isn’t there in the App Store, they will soon be able to just download databases from the HanDBase website right from their iPhone. For free in many cases. Ranging from sales, CRM, medical databases, patient billing, and tracking systems, the vast amount of possibilities to fill your void will be incredible. Since these are fully functioning databases, you’ll be able to edit and tweak each database to your suiting or leave as is. With access to many built-in features of the iPhone, you’ll be able to tap on web addresses and view the page in Safari or email a client or friend from the address right in a database field with a simple tap of the finger. The easy and fluid interface structure of the iPhone seamlessly powers the HanDBase application and will leave little room for confusion while navigating ones database.
No pricing has been announce or a specific release date; however, do look for it in the end of the 4th quarter of this year. Further information can be obtained by visiting the site.
We all hear it from our wives or girlfriends, “Can’t you make me look better? Take out my blemish. Cover my zits. Make me look thinner.” It goes on and on and anyone that works in PhotoShop knows how much time these requests take. So in the end, we just don’t do them. With Alien Skin’s Image Doctor 2, however, you’ll be able to two out of the three of the requests in no time at all.
Graphic artist and just all around nice guy, Roger Hall has taken the time to learn Image Doctor 2 and use it and abuse it. He used his wife and two old pictures as examples for his review and you can read the results of it.
Anyone that has a collection of old photos or would like to touch up photos of model work quickly and efficiently, will want to take a look at Roger at to say about Image Doctor 2.
We all have them: lists. We all need to check ‘em off. We all have iPhones. Mmm, okay, all of us cool people. 
But seriously, if you are an iPhone/iPod Touch user with the need to keep better track of your lists and you’re not apt to just buy away on the App Store to find the best one, then you may want to read our latest review of SplashShopper.
The popular list program that has graced BlackBerrys, Palms, and Windows Mobile devices, as well as desktops, for some time now comes to the Apple made smartphone! If you were a fan of it on those platforms or you’ve never even heard of this application (not sure how that’s possible), then you need — no must — read this review before making your purchase. Heck, even if you’ve bought a list application, still read this. You may ditch it for SplashShopper.
Those familiar with last.fm with an iPhone will be excited to know that 2.0 is just around the corner and SvenOnTech as a full video demo of it. Leaked on last.fm’s site, SvenOnTech obtained the QuickTime video and is now making it available here on our site. The 3 minute and 35 second video runs through pretty extensively the features of last.fm 2.0. Most noted in the video is the cleaner and better streamlined interface. With an icon bar on the bottom for Bio, Tags, Similar Artists, Events, and Top Listeners, one will be able to quickly move around last.fm. With the ability to link in contacts from the iPhones address book and an extensive Events calendar to find when your favorite band, or newly discovered band, is playing near by, last.fm 2.0 looks to be very promising.
For those unfamiliar with last.fm, it is self-described as, “A music service that learns what you love… Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.” Play music and it learns what you like and makes suggestions of other bands you may like. The idea is that you’ll discover a band that you’ve never heard of before that you love.
With the newest version just around the corner, this should prove to make last.fm even more popular than before.