Philips Tapster BT headset

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Philips has recently unveiled its latest Bluetooth headset, the SHB 7110, also appropriately named t...

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XpenseTracker, Tallymander

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vCarder ($1) selects any number of contacts from a users Address Book and sends them to business par...

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Absynth Spectral Expansion

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Native Instruments has expanded its line of KORE Soundpack libraries to include the Absynth Spectral...

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Cover Stream 2.5 released: [re]discover Your
Music

post from prMac on 20 February 2009 01:05:00 PM. © prMac

Snarb.tk announces the release of Cover Stream 2.5, a major update to their popular iTunes controller that extends Cover Flow to the desktop. Feature-rich, beautiful and unobtrusive, Cover Stream lets you control, browse and search your music, without leaving your work. The new version eliminates the need to sync with iTunes, adds a track list sidebar, a new Core Animation fullscreen menu, and plenty of new features.

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Taking Control of AppStore Reporting With AppViz

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Like the majority of Apple products and solutions, Apple’s App Store is sleek in its presentation to the consumer. However, one of the less polished aspects is the developer back end, iTunes Connect. Don’t get me wrong, this is functional, but it’s not targeted at the consumer market and as such it just does the necessary job without any of the usual Apple polish.

While you can get email notification of the availability of official monthly reports, it is up to you to open your browser and log into the web page. There you can view and download daily, weekly and monthly sales reports by using a basic user interface that lets you manually select one file (raw text data files) at a time to download. You can then take this raw data and do any fancy data analysis that you require with software such as Excel or Numbers.

Thus a new market has been created for applications to assist businesses in taking control of their App Store reporting. As a lone independent App Store developer I wanted to find such an application that would provide a ‘one-stop’ place to enable me to appraise the performance of my applications.

AppViz, by ideaswarm is this application. To get the best appreciation of what this application has to offer, a glance at the Dashboard tab presented on launch tells the story.

AppViz Dashboard

The Dashboard gives you an excellent summary of your state of play, enabling you to quickly see totals, charts and trends on sales, revenue, upgrades and downloads for one or all of your applications. After installing AppViz you simply provide it with your iTunes Connect username and password and it can do the rest. When you want to see the latest stats, you just fire AppViz up, tap Command-i and it will go off any find any new sales reports for all your applications. You can also import any reports you have already saved to disk directly from file if you have them.

AppViz Import

The Dashboard provides a great summary, but if you would really like to dig down to specific data, the Graphs tab gives you the power to do so, allowing graphing Sales or Geography (with a map and pie chart), Revenue, Downloads and Upgrades by any date range and country.

AppViz Graphs Sales

To see the original individual Apple provided reports all nicely presented in a grid that can be sorted, the Reports tab gives you an easy user interface to access it all. If you do want to do your own manipulation of the raw data, AppViz has an Export function to write these original reports out as a file for loading into a spreadsheet.

AppViz Reports

AppViz Export

Finally, AppViz can download App Store reviews from all iTunes stores. This lets you easily stay on top of your App?s user feedback. If a user edits their review, AppViz will update it accordingly too. Being able to sort the reviews by the date that they were downloaded just makes it too easy to see what?s new at a glance.

AppViz Reviews

AppViz is $29.95 and a free 30 day trial is available. I?m currently half way through my trial and have been extremely impressed by the functional utility provided, letting me focus my time on more enjoyable things. In the 15 days that I?ve trailed so far, AppViz has had two updates (provided by way of the standard Check For Updates menu option) and is in rapid development, taking note of comments from existing customers. I?m looking forward to seeing what other great timesaving functionality will be included in the future.

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Griffin Charging Solutions for the Latest Apple
Devices

post from prMac on 20 February 2009 12:33:00 PM. © prMac

EasyiShop has introduced the Griffin Charge Converter to their huge range of iPod accessories. Newer iPod and iPhone models use USB charging circuitry to charge their batteries. Older chargers provided power through the FireWire portion of the connector. This is where Griffin solves the problem without the user having to buy brand new speakers.

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App Store market tactics

Analysis of trends reveals the dynamics of how and why iPhone applications sell, claims Pinch Media....

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RBC on 2009 iPhone Rivals

A slew of new full touchscreen cellphones introduced at this week's Mobile World Congress could sign...

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iShred 1.3 Released - Adds Internet Song Sharing
with AirPlay

Frontier Design Group today announces the availability of iShred version 1.3, a major update that adds AirPlay song sharing features to the iPhone's most exciting and playable electric guitar. With AirPlay, users can easily share their songs with a worldwide audience, as well as listen in and rate songs created by other users. AirPlay turns the iPhone into a musical venue where a user can be a performer, a member of the audience, or both.

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