iAdvent is a Christmas Countdown calendar that helps you keep track of how many days left until Christmas. Like traditional advent calendars, each day has a box for you to click on. Inside each box is a fun Christmas fact, which you can email to your friends and family if you choose. The boxes are designed to emulate the look of iPhone app icons, giving Advent a modern look that goes with the sleek design of your favorite gadget

A new ChangeWave corporate IT purchasing survey shows an accelerating collapse in U.S. business spending that has now reached historic proportions – with record pullbacks occurring both in the current 4th Quarter and going forward. In one of the survey’s few upbeat findings, the corporate smart phone market continues to show growth – with Research In Motion (RIMM) maintaining its huge lead, and Apple (AAPL) continuing to make inroads into small to medium-sized businesses

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Give your MacBook Pro a smooth, semi-translucent frosted finish that easily slips in and out your bag while retaining a grippy edge for your peace of mind

Silky-soft to the touch with the same protection as the trusted SeeThru line; introducing SeeThru Satin

Charges Cell Phones, MP3 Players, Rechargeable Batteries

Mozilla.org updates its full-featured alternative to Mail, Eudora, and Entourage. Thunderbird is a modern email application with the features users have come to expect in their email software.

+ OWC and NewerTech External Solutions

SilverKeeper V2.0 is a new release of LaCie's free backup application. It has been designed to support Apple's OS X operating system for Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers

Creates/Restores bootable copy of your disks, Creates your own bootable DVDs

Substantial Performance Gains Make it Best Overall Performing SSD for PCs

My Apple Space announces "The New Blog" on the popular social networking website for Apple enthusiasts. On My Apple Space developers are meeting reviewers and customers, media is finding new readers, gamers are setting up tournaments and switchers are finding new Apple friends to help them make the important leap to the fantastic world of Apple. WIth "The New Blog" the reader can also become the writer. The perfect place to test your blogging talent

Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 1.3 for iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch. VelaClock is a world clock that can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, three kinds of twilight for dawn and dusk, moonrise, moonset, duration of daylight, moon phase and tilt, date and times for the next four moon phases, countdown to the next sunrise or sunset, and more. VelaClock is especially popular among photographers looking for the magic hour

ConvenienceWare/AssistiveWare today announced that GhostReader with American English or Parisian French voices is available as part of the Give Good Food to Your Mac promotion that runs until 30 November 2008. Mac users can put together a meal of their own taste by choosing from a menu with over 60 great Mac applications. Discounts are as follows: 20% off for 3 applications, 30% off for 4 applications, and 50% off for 5 or more applications

publicspace.net has announced The Big Mean Folder Machine. Version 1.6 adds the ability of storing frequently used settings in "droplet" mini-application and re-applying them to source folders via simple drag & drop. The "Big Mean Folder Machine" is an essential tool for anyone who works with large file collections, including digital photographers, content creation, post-production, system administrators, and other creative professionals

Softpress Systems today released Freeway 5.3, a free update to its award-winning web design software. The release offers a new solution to the problem of displaying Flash Video content on the iPhone by placing both FLV and iPhone-friendly QuickTime formats of the movie on the page, and serving the appropriate one for the viewer's device

After receiving over 250,000 downloads in the first few weeks, cracking the top ten in Entertainment Apps and getting chosen as a Staff Favorite from Apple, Cooliris for the iPhone has added new, richer features in version 1.2

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