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Opcoders announces the fifth public alpha of Toolbox, a visual programming language for constructing digital art. Toolbox is useful for generating textures, composing logos, photo manipulation, typography and web graphics. Among many new features in this release, Toolbox is now a single window program, and one the biggest changes.

2hadow for RapidWeaver 4, a RapidWeaver theme with considerable history is now offered by seyDoggy as an open source product. It was a variant of 2hadow that, in 2005, launched the theme design career of now renowned 3rd party developer, seyDoggy. Originally developed for RapidWeaver 3.1, the then dubbed "Shadow" was continually upgraded through each version of RapidWeaver that followed.

Flash Design presentations by GMUNK and Robert Hodgin balanced with Flash Developer presentations by John Grden and Grant Skinner. Flash on Tap also offers deep dive breakout sessions. Supporting main stage presentations, breakout sessions will offer an opportunity for attendees to concentrate on topics of interest and learn design and development tips, tricks and code from Flash industry specialists. Last Chance for Early Bird Registration.

Flash Design presentations by GMUNK and Robert Hodgin balanced with Flash Developer presentations by John Grden and Grant Skinner. Flash on Tap also offers deep dive breakout sessions. Supporting main stage presentations, breakout sessions will offer an opportunity for attendees to concentrate on topics of interest and learn design and development tips, tricks and code from Flash industry specialists. Last Chance for Early Bird Registration.

Tellini is pleased to announce the release of Tablatures 1.9. Tablatures is the first and only Mac OS X editor for PowerTab tablatures. PowerTab is a well-known and widely adopted tablature editor for Windows systems and thousands of transcriptions in this format are available on the net. Tablatures is thus an essential tool for guitar players wishing to learn new songs as well for trainers.

Freeverse, Inc. today announced the release of Sound Studio 3.5.7, an update to the popular sound recording and editing tool for Mac. This new version provides updates to the Monbots, which are are a collection of free Sound Studio Automation Tools that perform complex tasks on multiple sound files at once. Monbots allow you to drag + drop and batch process audio files, perfect for saving time.

ThinkMac Software has announced iKana touch, a new application for learning Japanese hiragana and katakana on your iPhone or iPod Touch. iKana touch features flash cards with stroke animations, spoken sound clips and example words. It offers a speed recognition test and a writing test to aide memorisation.

Chicago-based Jason Fried of 37signals, a featured speaker at An Event Apart Chicago, leads the way, teaching people who make websites how and which web app details to focus on. Fried joins An Event Apart to share with attendees his successes and failures in web application design. Using Mies van der Rohr’s famous quotation on architectural design, "God is in the details," Fried shares how he learned which web details to focus on, and how best to feature them.

Marware is pleased to announce the Sidewinder Deluxe for the iPhone 3G is now shipping. The Sidewinder Deluxe is the most complete carrying and cord storage solution available in a single product. A sleek smart holster, a retractable sidearm cord winder, and a sleek stand-alone scratch-resistant clear Flexi-Shell case are all included in this versatile product. As an added feature, the Sidewinder Deluxe holster works with Marware’s Sport Grip for the iPhone 3G.

International game developer FunGyre has released the iPhone and iPod Touch game, aMaze!. aMaze! is very realistic transition of the classic wooden balance game Labyrinth, where players guide steel ball through a maze avoiding holes, to the iPhone. aMaze! is unique for playing exactly like its real world prototype by tilting device to control the labyrinth attitude thus moving the ball.