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Speck Products, which offers the largest collection of iPod cases on the market, today announced its latest iPod accessory, iGuy. The first bendable, posable iPod ‘friend’, iGuy is also fully functional, featuring rubberized protection, docking capability and scratch-resistant screen for the iPod and iPod Photo.

iGuy’s white, rubberized case features arms that bend to pose, and legs that fold and stretch outright to sit on the dock and recharge. The case includes a tough, removable screen protector, and enables full access to the control, headphone plug and hold switch.

The iGuy is designed to fit all 4G and Photo iPods, including 20, 30, 40 and 60 gig, and retails for $34.95. To purchase an iGuy online, visit www.speckproducts.com. iGuy will soon be available on retail shelves worldwide as well. Mini iGuy will be available in June, and will retail for $34.95.

Griffin Technology Inc., creator of exciting innovations for Mac, PC, and iPod, today announces that they are shipping the RocketFM, a unique wireless solution for broadcasting Mac or PC audio applications to any FM radio.

RocketFM uses any available FM frequency to transmit music or audio through your home or office stereo system. Applications such as iTunes, GarageBand, video soundtracks and even streaming audio can be conveniently broadcast with RocketFM.

RocketFM includes software for Mac and PC that presents a familiar and easy-to-use interface for tuning to any desired station. Remove the RocketFM from its desktop stand and it’s perfect for traveling, use your laptop in your car to broadcast your tunes to the car stereo, in a hotel room or DJ the next party.

Pricing & Availability
Price for the Griffin RocketFM is $39.99 USD. It is available at www.griffintechnology.com.

Speck Products, which offers the largest collection of iPod cases on the market, today announced its latest iPod accessory, iGuy. The first bendable, posable iPod ‘friend’, iGuy is also fully functional, featuring rubberized protection, docking capability and scratch-resistant screen for the iPod and iPod Photo.

iGuy’s white, rubberized case features arms that bend to pose, and legs that fold and stretch outright to sit on the dock and recharge. The case includes a tough, removable screen protector, and enables full access to the control, headphone plug and hold switch.

The iGuy is designed to fit all 4G and Photo iPods, including 20, 30, 40 and 60 gig, and retails for $34.95. To purchase an iGuy online, visit www.speckproducts.com. iGuy will soon be available on retail shelves worldwide as well. Mini iGuy will be available in June, and will retail for $34.95.

More information about the upcoming releases and links to the current beta version are available at <http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/4/>.

OWC and NewerTech now are offering four acrylic accessories for Apple Computer’s popular mini - the NuStand mini, NuClear mini, NuBlue mini and NuShelf mini. Prices range from $24.95 to $39.95. To read more about the new line, visit www.newertech.com/macmini. The NuStand mini is a curved acrylic stand that allows you to slip the mini underneath and a monitor on top. The stand supports CRT displays up to 22 inches and LCD displays up to 30 inches. It retails for $39.95. The NuShelf mini attaches to the bottom of a desktop or shelf and allows you to slip the mini inside. It retails for $34.95.

The NuClear mini is a perfectly cut 0.75-inch piece of acrylic plastic that raises your mini off the desk. It retails for $24.95. The NuBlue mini is the same perfectly cut acrylic base but with a cool blue glow. It retails for $29.95. More details regarding OWC’s Mac mini accessories, full line of upgrades and professional installation program are available online at www.macsales.com/mini, by calling 800-275-4576 or via email at sales@macsales.com.

Other World Computing (OWC) and Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech() are proud to round out their complete line of replacement batteries by adding two options for Apple’s PowerBook G4 17-inch Aluminum. Not only do NuPower batteries offer as much as 42 percent more capacity than Apple’s factory-shipped battery, but all NuPower batteries are designed, engineered and built in the USA using only top quality Lithium-Ion cells from Japan and/or Canada. The latest additions to the NuPower battery family, the new PowerBook G4 Aluminum 17-inch batteries, retail for $139.99 (60 watt-hour) and $169.99 (67 watt-hour) and offer up to 21 percent more capacity than the original battery shipped by Apple. They also come with a one-year NewerTech warranty.

NewerTech’s full line of NuPower high capacity battery replacements for Apple PowerBook G3 & G4, iBook G3 & G4 and iPod models can be purchased through OWC and other fine retailers. For more information or to order, please visit www.newertech.com/batteries or e-mail sales@macsales.com.

iStopMotion 1.8.1

The latest release of the award winning stop motion animation and time lapse capture application Boinx iStopMotion 1.8.1 fixes a few minor issues with Mac OS X Tiger and improves stability for all users. In addition, new default preview movie settings deliver much better quality playback when previewing your work. iStopMotion 1.8.1 is a free update to current license holders and is available immediately for download from http://boinx.com/download.

The recently released update for the award winning slideshow application Boinx FotoMagico Version 1.2.3 is already ready for Tiger. Users can simply keep their current version installed when updating Mac OS X.

FotoMagico 1.2.4beta is ready for you to give a try. On certain machines, the animations have become much smoother. Visit the FotoMagico beta website for details.

Still running strong and compatible with Tiger is the little gem Boinx iVeZeen, an elegant video recording application that turns your webcam into a digital camcorder. iVeZeen is for users who require more control over the recording device or want to trigger recording with AppleScript or Motion Detection.

The free fun screensaver gets a new life with Mac OS X Tiger as Apple fixed a problem that was introduced with Mac OS X 10.3.5 and prevented MiracleSight from working since then. MiracleSight can be downloaded for free at http://boinx.com/miraclesight/

Updated just this week to Version 1.2, the free tool that helps locate the mouse pointer on large screens or focuses the attention of a presentation’s audience now works on Tiger and features a freely assignable Hot Key and a Menu Bar Icon for controlling the app so that the Dock Icon can now be switched off. The free tool which requires a registered license key for operation, is available from http://boinx.com/mousepose

Transmit 3.2 improves the reliability of SFTP and iDisk connections, adds a “use queue for all transfers” preference, and introduces a number of Tiger-specific features including .Mac Sync for Favorites, Automator actions for FTP-enabled workflows, instant Spotlight searching of Favorites, local Smart Folder support, and a useful (and amusing) Transmit Dashboard Widget for quick file uploads. Transmit 3.2 is a free upgrade for all Transmit 3 owners — just download and use. For unpaid users, Transmit 3 is still only $29.95, and $17.95 to upgrade from Transmit 2. Download (both Transmit and Transmit Widget, separate downloads): http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Apple’s award-winning industrial design merits more than being plugged into a wall socket and hidden away. Accordingly, the new AirBase from Griffin joins with AirPort Express to make an elegant artistic statement that compels you to display it on the desk, shelf or entertainment center. The Griffin AirBase is $24.99 USD, now available at www.griffintechnology.com.

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The full and Lite versions of NetNewsWire 2.0 are available for download at the NetNewsWire home page. http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

NetNewsWire 2.0 costs $24.95 for a single-user license and $19.95 per person for multi-user licenses. It’s available bundled with MarsEdit 1.0 for $39.95. NetNewsWire 2.0 is a free upgrade for licensed users of NetNewsWire 1.x. See the Licenses and Upgrades page for more information. http://ranchero.com/licensesandupgrades.php

NetNewsWire Lite is freeware. The Full Version Features page lists the features exclusive to the full version. http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/fullversionfeatures.php

The limited edition PodFreq Black will be available in June with a retail price of USD $99.95.

For more information or to pre-order yours, please visit <http://www.podfreq.com/>

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