Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for November 4, 2009:

Macintosh

• TheMacBundles has announced the release of its November Bundle. TheMacBundles provides users with the best software bargains on the platform while also providing developers with an exceptionally high percentage of the revenue produced from the sale of their software. The November bundle contains 12 outstanding and diverse titles and will be available for 4 weeks. All titles in the November bundle work with OS X 10.6.
• This year, Mac-users can send out their Christmas greetings conveniently via Mail. Following the overwhelming success of our Stationery Pack Greeting Cards, Equinux is pleased to announce the release of Season’s Greetings Vol. 2—a collection of 22 wonderfully festive greeting cards for Mail in Leopard and Snow Leopard.
• Macware has announced MacTuneUp 3.6, a free update to the leading Mac disk utility software. MacTuneUp quickly discovers and fixes problems, restores hard disk space, creates bootable disk backups, and maximizes Internet and network connections to squeeze the best performance from your Mac. Easily prevent system instability and speed up your Mac with a few simple steps. Snow Leopard users can update by downloading the updater from the Macware support center.
• Boinx Software has released iStopMotion 2.1, an update to its wildly popular stop motion animation and time lapse software. iStopMotion 2.1 features markers–a convenient new way to structure the timeline–and improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It is the first Boinx Software product to provide a full Japanese localization. The update is free and strongly recommended for all iStopMotion 2.x users.

iPhone/iPod

• 1 pixel. 4 colors. That’s a minimum. Alexandre Minard has announced Minima for iPhone and iPod touch. Change your color to survive in the jungle of pixels? Yellow, pink, violet…make the right choice at the right time. 10 different levels are waiting for you. Would you be able to thwart the trapped pixels? Go and compare your score to the rest of the world in the world web ranking. That’s a Minima.
• Sean Maher has released Dead Panic: Survival 1.1.3, an update to his zombie game for iPhone and iPod touch. The undead are back with a vengeance. The updated game offers more playing modes, a new arsenal of kick-ass weapons, and a new set of twists and challenges to overcome. It also offers players a survival mode with unlimited waves of those persistent, shambling flesh-eaters.
• The Right Bite, Inc. today introduces The Right Bite 1.0, their revolutionary behavior modification & weight loss tool for iPhone/iPod touch. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, The Right Bite achieves weight loss results differently than alternative diet/programs. Based on proven scientific research, the system helps users lose weight by controlling the pace of their eating rather than typically focusing on what they eat.
• Energize Software has announced Christmas Experience 1.2, an update to their multi-game Christmas iPhone app. While listening to holiday music you can decorate a snowman, play Christmas hangman, solve a puzzle, and tilt your device in one of eight directions to hear different holiday sounds. Create your own snowman with 30 pieces that utilize pinch and rotate gestures, as well as save, load and replace up to 9 different snowman creations.
• Fore by Cobra is a pretty special game; it not only looks amazingly detailed, but it plays just so well on the iPhone using the touch and accelerometer control to perfection. On top of that, peer-2-peer multi-player adds a new dimension to the game along with fully integrated Plus+. Oh, and if you pull off a hole in 1 or any other great shots, the game automatically saves these for you to replay your best moments.
• JL Software has announced Edition 1.65 of their popular Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics for iPhone or iPod touch. Version 1.65 adds ultrasound images of fetal anatomy and H1N1 Flu information. Handbook of High-Risk Obstetrics is a new and original reference source for the medical student or resident physician who needs a comprehensive yet concise guide to perinatal care. The Handbook covers all major areas of high-risk pregnancy, and is cross-referenced and indexed with over 3600 search keywords.
• Ivan Karpan and Evgeniy Lebed have announced GlobeMaster 1.1.1, an update to their popular travel guide for iPhone and iPod Touch. GlobeMaster is an offline world-wide travel guide featuring 1400+ cities in more than 260 countries, including 4100+ photos, tips calculator and adviser, units converter and much more. It offers a wealth of information, such as traditions, rules of behavior, ways of getting in, out and around, how to stay healthy and safe and more.
• Sony Creative Software has announced the availability of 1,000 Ringtones, a DVD containing ringtones grouped into three categories: music, sound effects, and spoken words and phrases. Users can select tones for incoming calls, emails and text messages. Developed for iPhone users, the 1,000 ringtone files are included on the DVD in the popular .m4r and .mp3 formats, and are ready for immediate use without any additional fees, downloads or editing after the initial product purchase.
• Chillingo and MusiGames have announced a deal to publish DJ Nights games for iPhone and iPod touch via Chillingo’s mass-market brand, Clickgamer. The first release in the series—DJ Nights: Global Tour—will showcase world-famous electronic music stars including, Emilio Fernandez, Tom Cloud and Tiësto when it releases later this year.
• A new twitter account—@3WordAppReviews—sums up iPhone and iPod Touch apps in just three words. The service aims to make it quick and fun to learn all you probably need to know about many iPhone apps. Each tweet contains a link to the app, and a link to a full review, when available. The feed will have one new review each day, and might increase the daily number of reviews in the future.
• TimeStream Software has turned the iPod Classic, iPod nano and iPod Video into eReaders with its popular Notescast titles. Installing to the “Notes” feature found on nearly every iPod in use world-wide today, Notescasts are interactive books on the iPod, each containing up to hundreds of pages of digital copy linked to related photos and additional text.
• iSkin Inc. has introduced the latest evolution in its line of its trend-setting solo iPhone 3G/3GS protectors: the glamorously elegant iSkin solo FX Special Edition (SE). The iSkin solo FX SE debuts with a brilliant new look and feel thanks to a luxurious outer surface treatment, which combines an elegantly understated matte finish with a subtle embossed designer pattern. This elite edition of the solo line-up is available in three exclusive color options designed to enhance the iPhone’s natural beauty: Onyx (black), Cosmo (pink) and Ice (white).
• TechPad Productions has announced that an expansion pack based on the video game Overlord II is now available for iMEvil for iPhone and iPod Touch on the Apple iTunes App Store. TechPad Productions worked closely with the team at Codemasters, publisher of Overlord II, to create the expansion pack, which is exclusive to iPhone. The pack is an optional free update for those who already have the iMEvil application on their devices.
• JustPurePics.com, a development studio delivering personalized easy to use photo gallery packages for iPhone and iPod Touch, has recently released a new amazing application: Beauty Unleashed. Beauty Unleashed features selected works by a world famous photographer, Paul Buceta, whose pictures frequently appear on the pages of Glamour, Playboy, Penthouse and a number of other glossy publications.