iPad News Tracker

grouptime GmbH today launched grouptime 1.0.1, its unique social messenger for mobile devices. grouptime is a new social messenger for mobile devices that lets users send all kind of text and multimedia messages to individuals and groups as well as post status updates to family, friends and colleagues in real-time. The messaging app serves as a private social network and helps users to communicate, share and get together with the people and groups in their life.

DEVONtechnologies, LLC updates all editions of its document and information manager DEVONthink and the smart note pad DEVONnote to use more of the new services offered by OS X 10.7 Lion. Starting with version 2.3 all editions of DEVONthink as well as DEVONnote fully support OS X 10.7 Lion’s full screen mode for main windows. But, of course, the user still has the choice: the old full screen mode optimized for reading documents and websites, using tabs, and writing focused stays available, too.

Hong Kong based Cross Culture Ltd announces today Mergemill Pro 4.1, an update to their versatile data processing and analysis tool. The release brings many improvements and bug fixes. Mac OS X Lion users can now choose any high-quality voice in a language provided by the OS and use Mergemill Pro to turn web pages and emails to near-natural speech. Users could also set up an automated voice announcement system that reads some generated text at scheduled times.

MindConnex Learning announced the third installment of its Shakespeare in Bits app series for iPad, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is now available on the App Store. With Shakespeare in Bits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s greatest comedy is brought to life on iPad to aid student learning and teaching effectiveness. With three hours of high-resolution animation and a professional audio soundtrack, each Shakespeare In Bits play is presented side-by-side with completely unabridged text.

MindConnex Learning announced the third installment of its Shakespeare in Bits app series for iPad, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is now available on the App Store. With Shakespeare in Bits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s greatest comedy is brought to life on iPad to aid student learning and teaching effectiveness. With three hours of high-resolution animation and a professional audio soundtrack, each Shakespeare In Bits play is presented side-by-side with completely unabridged text.

Giving readers an innovative new way to experience a sacred text, the Bible Audio Pronunciations iPhone application announces its recent launch, featuring audio recordings of over 1,600 challenging words.

California based Indeeo, Inc. today announces iDraw 1.1, a significant update to the vector illustration application designed specifically for the iPad. With support for vector shapes, brushes, layers, text, images, fully customizable canvas styles and much more, iDraw is the most feature-packed vector illustration application available on the iPad. iDraw 1.1 adds Dropbox integration and SVG import to create a complete solution for exporting to and importing from other vector applications.

Seoul based Geniein Inc. today announces an update to Contacts – All in One 1.5 for iPhone and iPad devices. Contacts- All in One was created to offer busy mobile users the option of centralizing and streamlining their many channels of communication- including e-mail & texting-into one easy to-use. Version 1.5 includes an improved version of the developers’ unique Pattern Keyboard technology to help users write messages as effectively as possible.

Leaping Bytes has announced Colorplex 1.2, an update to its color calculator app for Mac OS X. Colorplex allows you to manipulate colors in RGB, HSB, CMYK or Gray Scale colorspace and instantly see results in the large preview area. Colorplex provides individual controls for foreground and background, which makes the task of color matching much easier. You can even replace the background with an image of your choice or use text as a foreground.

Digital Heaven today announced the release of free updates to eight of their plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Express. From freeware grid and guides generators to animating counters, subtitle creation and dead pixel correction, these 14 plug-ins provide a suite of invaluable tools for professional editors. The most popular plug-in, DH_Subtitle now features automatic line wrapping and metadata support. Other updates include automatic format detection in DH_LegalText and more.