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Today, An Event Apart posts an interview with two An Event Apart Boston 2009 attendees, Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl, who designed and developed an application during the two-day conference and took it live during the event. The application, A Feed Apart, was created using Django, django-syncr, and the Twitter and Flickr APIs in order to aggregate all attendee-posted information in one place.

Madrid based idealius.com today is proud to introduce LookItUp! 1.0, their new search engine utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Developed specifically to leverage the iPhones unique abilities and interface, LookItUp! offers a radically improved approach for searching anything. From a single search, gain instant access to millions of pages from hundreds of search engines. Tap into thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, images, audio, video, articles, blogs and associations.

Old Jewel Software is pleased to announce How Much 1.0, its new bargain shopping application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the shortest time possible, How Much lets anyone figure out the exact price they will pay at the register, including sales tax and discounts. Users can enter everything about their bargain purchase in one simple, fast interface. The final price of their purchase appears at the top of the iPhone screen immediately.

Random Ideas, LLC today announced the worldwide release of The Joy of Being 1.0, a new guided meditation application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The Joy of Being is a set of three guided meditations to help you find inner peace, relax, empower yourself, and open your mind to creativity and freedom. Entitled Beach, Forest, and River, the meditations are professionally recorded with specially selected imagery chosen to enhance the users meditative experience.

Vela Design Group announces VelaClock Deluxe 2.1.14 and VelaClock 2.1.14, Dashboard widgets. VelaClock is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, phase of moon, time zone information and more. It can easily be configured to use a minimum amount of screen space or if the user wishes, more detailed information about the currently selected city can be displayed.

Every month FMWebschool releases an exciting FileMaker newsletter to over 8500 FileMaker enthusiasts. Each issue is chock full of free FileMaker sample files, how-to workshops and articles on how to grow your business. This month we include two free unlocked sample files. FM Messenger enables you to chat with other FileMaker users. Think of a FileMaker Instant Messaging system built with FileMaker. Mac Address Book Sync enables you to sync your address book with FileMaker and the iPhone.

360Works announced today the launch of 360Works SafetyNet, the first automated offsite backup plugin designed specifically for FileMaker Server solutions. SafetyNet makes it easy to set up remote backup routines for FileMaker Server administrators. Files are stored on Amazons cloud-based online file storage service, which runs on the same reliable and fast infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network. Easy to use, low cost remote backup solution for FileMaker files.

DEVONtechnologies, LLC today releases the sixth public beta of version 2.0 of all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as of the smart note-keeper DEVONnote. The sixth public beta of DEVONthink 2.0 and DEVONnote 2.0 adds a first bunch of PDF annotation functions to DEVONthink, a further enhanced interactive web interface and many further enhancements.

Hog Bay Software today releases WriteRoom.iPhone 2.0. For people who want to write and take notes on their iPhone. WriteRoom is a distraction free writing environment. Unlike Notes, WriteRoom provides a clean interface and tether free syncing. Full-screen editing is a new WriteRoom.iPhone 2.0 feature. In full-screen mode toolbars and the status bar fade away, leaving you with a distraction free view of your text.

Seattle based CVZ Productions today released Daily Tracker 2.3, an update to their innovative personal organizer for iPhone and iPod Touch. Daily Tracker is a versatile organizer that allows you to track almost anything. Choose from an existing category such as calories, workouts, sleep, body weight or create your own. Version 2.3 features iPhone 3.0 support and sports many new improvements, including ability to add RSS Feeds to user defined lists and multiple themes.