During exhibit hours on January 9-12, 2007, anyone who comes to the Bare Bones Software booth, number N4034, wearing any Bare Bones Software T-shirt will receive a brand-new, modernized "It doesn't suck" T-shirt, for free, while supplies last. Bare Bones Software specifically reminds out-of-town expo attendees to pack their old Bare Bones Software T-shirt if they wish to take advantage of the upgrade offer.

In just over three days, MacHeist has raised $50,000 for eight high-profile international charities. Touting this week as "The Week of the Independent Mac Developer," MacHeist began selling a software bundle of some of the hottest apps for OS X on Monday in the hopes of increasing the profile of the Mac shareware development community, as well as raising $100,000 for charity before the holiday season.

MacHeist has begun its weeklong software bundle sale of some of the hottest apps for OS X. The bundle is selling for $49, at an 83% discount, and features ten award-winning Mac shareware applications, including Delicious Library, Boinx's FotoMagico, ShapeShifter, DEVONthink Personal, RapidWeaver, iClip 4, Disco and a Pangea game of the customer's choice.

After weeks of activity as an invite-only event, MacHeist is now opened to the public with a new mission for everyone. MacHeist is a Mac software event involving weekly "heists" for its visitors with free Mac applications as rewards. MacHeist will also be hosting a final week of sales of a software bundle containing some of the hottest apps for OS X, with 25% of proceeds given to customer selected charities.

Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced that Halstead York, Extensis product manager will present a session titled "Font Management: Best Practices in OS X" at the InDesign Headquarters in Seattle Washington.

NOTION Music, makers of NOTION music composition and performance software, have expanded the NOTION Realize Music Challenge with three entry categories and more prizes to be awarded. The Grand Prize remains a recording session with the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.

DigitalLife 2006—the largest consumer technology, gaming and entertainment event of the year—will be taking place October 12 – 15, 2006 at the Javits Center, New York.

Quark Inc. will be exhibiting at the Society of News Design's annual workshop as a gold sponsor this year in Orlando, Florida. Along with a demonstration booth, Quark will sponsor a breakfast on Friday morning, as well as a speaking session from 8:30 to 9:15 am.

Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., has announced that Halstead York, font solutions product manager for Extensis, will present in a panel discussion in conjunction with TypeCon2006 - The Boston T Party, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston.

iPod accessory manufacturer Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO) announced it will be the presenting sponsor of ChazzFest, a new music festival launching in Charleston on September 16. Organizers today also released the festival's performance schedule.

VirtuosoWorks, Inc., makers of NOTION music composition and performance software, has launched a new composition competition and a chance to win a recording session with the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.

In an effort to show how business owners can run their retail businesses on Apple computers, Chris Peterson, President of Christian James, Inc., will demonstrate PayGo SP, the company's powerful point-of-sale program, at various Apple stores in June.