Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find 'em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Transparent Language has announced Byki Irish for the iPhone and iPod touch. The free app comes with more than 1,000 words and phrases, including some special words and phrases for St. Patrick’s Day.

Aspen Publishers (http://www.aspenpublishers.com) now offers new Multistate Bar Exam content for the iPhone and iPod touch®, transforming the popular Emanuel Bar Review series into digital resources for Bar Exam study and making it easier for busy law students to study wherever they need to.

The Groupon shopping web site has launched a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch With it, users can buy, redeem and organize their purchases.

Glu Mobile, a...

At this year’s Game Developers Conference® (Booth BS506, Moscone South), Dolby Laboratories has announced new tools that will soon make it possible for gamers to enjoy Dolby Axon surround voice chat on more of their favorite gaming platforms -- including the Mac.

Dolby unveiled new software developer kit (SDK) ports that enable game developers to integrate the Dolby Axon surround voice technology to Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360versions of multiplayer online game titles. General availability of these ports is planned for April.

According to Matt Tullis, marketing director, Games, Dolby Laboratories, already adopted by several online games, including the most recently announced Dragon Nest by Nexon Corp., as well as ZT Online (Giant Interactive), Mission Against Terror (Kingsoft) and Jumpgate Evolution (NetDevil), the Dolby Axon SDK enables game developers to raise the online gaming experience to a new level through a number of features:

° Voice...

O'Reilly has recently released the Mini Missing Manual series (http://search.oreilly.com/?q=mini+missing+manuals&utm_content=em-orm-pr-Mini+MM&utm_campaign=O'Reilly&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&imm_mid=056d26&cmp=em-orm-pr-Mini+MM), available in ebook format only. They're US$4.99 each.


The current titles in the series are "Creating Keynote Slideshows," "Layout in Pages '09," "Sharing Keynote Slideshows," "Word Processing in Pages '09," "Add Audio and Video to Your Site," "Add Interactivity to Your Site," "Attract Visitors to Your Site."

FileMaker and Bracket Science have teamed up to deliver a bracket resource titled “Bracket Science Slam Dunk Charts by FileMaker Pro 11.”

The Facebook page is designed to give college basketball fans a competitive edge in creating their championship tournament brackets thanks to FileMaker Pro 11, the database software, which now features integrated charting. Fans will see a variety of daily charts and can select and share the charts that they find most useful in building their tourney brackets.

Bracket Science Slam Dunk Charts by FileMaker Pro 11 will be available March 11 to March 31, 2010. The Facebook App Site Groups can be found at:

° CBSSports.com Brackets - http://bit.ly/9TT2mW

° CitizenSports Bracket Challenge - http://bit.ly/ddySPT

° Watercooler 2010 Bracket Challenge -...

Macgamestore has announced the digital download release of Warbirds: Dogfights (http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=1417) for the Mac. The game is an action-air combat game that puts players in the cockpit of the greatest World War II (WWII) air combat planes during the pivotal battles of the war. The game was developed and published by iEntertainment Network.

Here's how Warbirds: Dogfights is described: "The game features the ability to engage in dogfights as a member of either the Allies or Axis powers, more than 100 WWII aircraft and realistic game environments from both the European and Pacific battle theaters of WWII. In addition, players can expect constant diversity in mission play and deep replay value via a dynamic game engine and access to one-month of free playing time for the classic massive multiplayer online game (MMOG...

NAB has debuted a new digital video workflow presentation stage, complete with a networking lounge and series of mini sessions, which will be held on the show floor at the 2010 NAB Show (http://www.nabshow.com), April 12-15.

Located in the South Lower Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Post Pit brings together user groups and individuals who use post-production and other digital story-telling software and hardware products on display at the NAB Show.

Produced in partnership with Final Cut Pro User Group (FCPUG) Network SuperMeet, fxguide, Digital Production Buzz and Future Media Concepts (FMC), Post Pit will offer attendees and exhibitors an interactive experience in which to showcase creative content, while top talent take the stage to share tips and tricks to aid digital video creators and editors in navigating the various tools used in the trade

Some of the presenters include Ted...

The latest edition of 
"MacNotables" (http://www.macnotables.com/wordpress/), a podcast that serves as home to Mac personalities who will comment on the latest news and opinions in the Mac community, is available.

Like most of us, Mac expert Ted Landau is looking forward to ordering an iPad, but in the meantime, has been looking at the questions of what configuration to order, especially when it comes to connectivity. He discusses the issues surrounding tethering of your Apple devices (and AT&T data plans), why the options are what they are, and what may make sense for you.

Landau also discusses his experiences in comparing Google Voice with the iPhone's Visual Voicemail, and why the latter works better for him, the uses, now and in the future of augmented reality apps, and some of the effects of a maturing iPhone platform. Then he turns his attention to Apple's...

Monkeybread Software is offering new REALbasic DynaPDF plug-in licenses. For adding PDF creation to your applications, you can now use the new DynaPDF Starter License for US$199.

In addition Monkeybread is offring new prices for the other REALbasic DynaPDF Plug-in licenses: For the different between Starter, Lite, Pro and Enterprise licenses (and pricing), go to http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/dynapdf.shtml .

Smith Micro has launched Poser Pro 2010, an update of the Mac OS X compatible (10.4 and higher) tool that lets professional artists and production teams add 3D characters to their projects. It sports over 2.5GB of ready-to-use content such as pre-rigged, fully textured 3D characters.

Poser Pro 2010 also boasts such advanced features as a Talk Designer, Walk Designer, Morph Brush, Face Room, Dynamic Hair and Cloth Tools and many more. New in the latest version are:

° A revamped user interface with a user configurable work environment;

° A content management system that allows easier access to content collections with the ability to search both a library’s content and Smith Micro’s online market Content Paradise by category and keyword, providing a hierarchy list view and more detailed pop-up expanding previews;

° The ability to combine indirect diffuse illumination with improved irradiance caching and path tracing;

° An improved rigging system that...

The rock band Pink Floyd have won a High Court battle to stop their record label, EMI, from selling album tracks as singles at places such as the iTunes Store.

The legendary band, signed to EMI since 1967, said their contract meant their albums could not be split up without their permission. The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8561963.stm) reports that a judge agreed, saying the contract contained a clause to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums". EMI has been ordered to pay £40,000 (approximately $60,000) in costs, with a further fine to be decided.

The group, whose latest contract was signed before download stores like iTunes appeared, also disputed the way royalties for digital sales were calculated.

Since PixelMags (http://www.pixel-mags.com) launched in December, 60+ titles for iPhone and iPod touch have been sold in 77 countries through the Apple App Store. New magazine titles are releasing every day. As the launch date of iPad nears, anticipation is reaching a fever pitch.

"Disney CEO Bob Iger and Wired Magazine Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson have called the iPad a 'game-changer'. We couldn't agree more. When iPad launches, we will have more magazine titles optimized for iPad than any other vendor."  says Ryan Marquis, founder and COO, PixelMags

PixelMags has 100+ apps ready for Apple's iPad. PixelMags publications are releasing to top paid book app spots all over the world. 30% of readers are making subscriptions their top In App purchase. The release of the iPad is sure to increase this digital publishing phenomenon, says Marquis.

Ryan Marquis describes the PixelMags platform as...