For those wanting to enter the world of iPhone development, Objective-C is the key. This course is designed for those with object-oriented programming experience, but little or no experience with Objective-C.

The Objective-C course is being offered in response to an increasing demand for smart phone development skills in Utah’s ‘Silicon Slopes’ technology sector.

“It’s really exciting to see students from our courses begin to publish their own apps to the iTunes App Store,” remarked Jason Izatt, CEO of Izatt International. “More than half a dozen new apps have been submitted by Izatt students, with more on the way. Other students have found jobs or contract work with existing development shops. It’s great to know we’re making a difference.”

The course is two hours on a Friday evening (April 17), followed by a full Saturday (April 18). Course price is $299 USD; only $199 for students. Information on the Objective-C Course, including cost, curriculum and pre-requisites can be found on the Izatt International website.

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Izatt International develops and delivers best-in-class applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, offers consulting and development services to those with iPhone projects, and delivers a quality series in training courses surrounding the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. For more information on Izatt iPhone applications and services, please contact us at 801.372.6031, email us or visit us online. Copyright 2009 Izatt International. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Up until now, photos needed to be geocoded before being imported into iPhoto. Indeed iPhoto is not able to refresh metadata for photos it manages. Thus it cannot see geotags added by third party software. HoudahGeo 2.2 is a game changer by taking over the responsibility of updating the iPhoto database with the new metadata. This makes HoudahGeo the perfect companion to the iPhoto’09 Places feature. HoudahGeo 2.2 brings GPS enabled geocoding and Google Earth geocoding to iPhoto.

Further enhancements brought along by HoudahGeo 2.2 include:

* New feature: iPhoto’09 Places
HoudahGeo 2.2 may write to the iPhoto’09 Places database. You may now geocode photos managed by iPhoto’09.

* New feature: All-new map based geocoding
The map geocoding interface has been completely reworked for efficiency.

* New feature: Track library
HoudahGeo archives GPS track logs to a library for later re-use.

* New feature: Lightroom 2 folders access
HoudahGeo 2.2 now supports both Lightroom collections and folders.

* New feature: Offline bookmark geocoding
Bookmarks from the map geocoding interface are now available for geocoding from the inspector panel.

* New feature: Automatic altitude information
Reverse geocoding may now retrieve altitude information.

Recently HoudahGeo 2.1 has added support for locr. Locr is a revolutionary geotagging photo community. With the “locr Geophoto Book”, the first travel photo book that contains auto created maps (kill street) and wikipedia based photo descriptions, locr extends its product range with print products.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4.8 or higher, including Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC & Intel
* Digital camera
* Optional GPS track logger

Purchasing HoudahGeo licenses:
HoudahSpot 2.2 is priced at $30 (USD) for a single-user license. It is a free upgrade for all registered HoudahGeo 1.x and 2.x customers.

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locr was founded in September 2006 in Brunswick, Germany. The founding team has many years of entrepreneurship experience in the fields of internet, software and multimedia. The main investor is the High-Tech Gruenderfonds, a joint venture of public and private investors (e.g. Siemens, Telekom, BASF). Due to strong partnerships locr aims to become Europe’s leading internet platform for travel- and geophotography in 2009.

The contact and event records are stored in a relational database on the server. The integration potential is endless, as shared contacts can easily be accessed from a large number of platforms and application. Most modern database engines are supported, as long as they support JDBC.

Contact details can be exported to vCard and LDIF format to integrate with a number of clients. A friendly web interface allows users to access and modify their contact details via the internet. ABCMobile (Address Book Client Mobile) a native iPhone client allows read-only access to contact details stored on the server. It is currently available for free form the iTunes AppStore.

The server can be deployed onto most modern operating systems, including Linux, Windows and of course Tiger and Leopard. The clients require Tiger or Leopard. Previous versions of OS X are not supported.

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Address Book Server is dedicated to the development of quality software to facilitate the sharing of contacts, events and task. Copyright 2009 Address Book Server. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Address Book and iCal are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

“A couple of years ago, a Mac OS X application came along and blew my socks off. Now, the company behind Papers, Mekentosj, has done it again, this time by bringing its killer app to the iPhone in a timely manner. It doesn’t disappoint.” - Ars technica.

New in version 1.1 of Papers for iPhone and iPod touch:
* Added ability to search your library, authors and journals
* Added ACM and IEEE Xplore search engines
* Added ability to fetch more than 30 search results
* Fixed Google Scholar search engine
* Fixed downloading PDFs from JSTOR and Wiley
* Added a number of other improvements and bugfixes

With Papers for iPhone and iPod touch, the world’s knowledge is never more than the flick of a finger away. Your personal library of Science, in your pocket. Visit our web site for a screencast to find out more.

Key Features:
* Browse hundreds of articles with the flick of a finger
* Explore full metadata of your papers
* Organize your library in collections and flag and rate articles
* Read your PDFs with the built-in PDF viewer
* Search on author and journals
* Wirelessly share papers with your colleagues
* Search through millions of papers with the built-in search engines
* Backup your library online for free
* Optionally sync your library with Papers for Mac

Minimum Requirements:
* Papers works on all iPhone and iPod touch models
* Syncing with the Mac version of Papers requires Papers 1.9 (sold separately)

Pricing and Availability:
Papers for iPhone and iPod touch is available for $14.99 in the iTunes app store. Review copies are available. If you are interested in trying Papers for iPhone and iPod touch and are a member of the press or would like to cover it on your website or blog, please contact us by email for a free copy. A press kit with high resolution images available on request.

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Papers is a program made by Mekentosj BV, a Dutch independent software company that writes innovative software for scientists. After a PhD in Cell Biology founder and CEO Alexander Griekspoor switched fields and initially joined the European Bioinformatics institute as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Alexander is perhaps most well-known as “Mek” from the duo “Mekentosj”. Together with his friend Tom “Tosj” Groothuis he developed a number of scientific Mac applications, two of which won Apple Design Awards for best Best Student and Best scientific Mac OS X application, respectively. What started in his spare time became his passion and has now also become his work: Mekentosj Inc. He aims to create new and innovative Mac OS X applications for scientists, of which his recently released new program Papers is a prime example, it won Mekentosj’ third Apple Design Award. Visit our website to learn more.

Whether it’s your name, your e-mail address, the URL of your blog, your personal address, etc, you probably often find yourself typing the same text again and again. Presto is here to help you save time by ‘typing’ these frequently used items for you. Just choose your list of abbreviations, and Presto will automatically show you related texts as you type.

With Presto, you will be able to quickly insert standard greetings, signatures (including formatted text) or phrases into any application. For example, instead of typing your address in full, you would simply type ‘Addr1′ and Presto would come up with our full address. Once you define an abbreviation, it is available at all times, anywhere text can be typed, no matter what application you are using.

Features:
* Insert greetings, text, and signatures, including formatted text
* Save time by typing short abbreviations to get long phrases
* Organize abbreviations into groups
* Automatic import from RapidoWrite database
* Cool animations build with CoreAnimation Frameworks
* Possibility to attach an abbreviation to a list of applications
* Possibility to disable Presto in a list of applications
* Available in English and French

Pricing and Availability:
The price is 9 Euros only (around $11 USD). Mac OS X 10.5 or higher is required. Presto is the commercial version of RapidoWrite, a freeware that is now discontinued.

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RBD Archive Volume 6 was published last year and is available for $49.99.

Each 300 page book contains the full contents of one year of the magazine (six issues) and features a full-color cover, black ink interior, and perfect-binding.

Those interested should place orders today on the REALbasic Developer website. This pre-order discount expires April 20, 2009.

REALbasic Developer is renown around the world as the premiere source of REALbasic instruction, tutorials, and programming advice. Each 50 page issue features articles from top REALbasic programmers and authors. Subscriptions in digital format (PDF) are $49.99 per year. Individual printed issues may ordered via MagCloud. More information is available at the RBD website.

About REALbasic:
For everyone who seeks the flexibility to create their own software, REAL Software provides REALbasic, a powerful, easy-to-use software development tool for Windows and Macintosh that creates software for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. REAL Software, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit REAL Software’s website or call 512.328.7325.

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- iSale …

The bundle now includes:

• iSale (equinux, $39.95)
• Picturesque (Acqualia Software, $34.95)
• SousChef (Acacia Tree Software, $30)
• World of Goo (2D Boy, $20)
• PhoneView (Ecamm Network, $19.95)
• LittleSnapper (Realmac Software, $39)
• Acorn (flying meat inc., $49.95)
• Kinemac (Kinemac, $299)
• WireTap Studio (Ambrosia Software, $69)
• BoinxTV Sponsored Edition (Boinx, $199)
• The Hit List (Potion Factory, $69.95)
• Espresso (MacRabbit, $80)
• Cro-Mag Rally (Pangea Software, $19)
• Times (Acrylic Software, $30)

Delicious Library & Multiwinia are also available as a bonus for participating in their tweetblast.

In addition to buying software at a great price, you will be contributing 25% of your sale price to charity. BoinxTV has already been unlocked after $400,000 was raised for charity earlier today. As I write this, it’s up to $434,894. When it reaches $500,000 the last two applications, The Hit List & Espresso, will be unlocked.