Darren Murtha Design is happy to officially announce Drawing Pad 1.3, a beautiful mobile art studio designed exclusively for the iPad. Drawing If only the iPad could output the smell of crayons, you may never buy another box of them. Pad gives kids the unique ability to create art with actual-sized, photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, stickers, roller pens and more. Save your artwork to iPhoto, share via Email or post to Twitter.

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PhatWare Corporation today announces WritePad for iPad 3.3, an advanced handwriting recognition software for iPad devices. WritePad lets users take notes in their own handwriting with an iPad stylus pen or their finger. The state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software will adapt and learn while it is being used, improving the recognition quality overtime. Version 3.3 offers customizable styles, improved recognition and spell checker, inline gestures, and support for external iPad keyboard.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia must move fast to create a home for innovative companies in high-tech industries, pushing a project he hopes can be a showcase of his presidency.

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Game studio BeiZ today announces Mandy and Andy – The Seasons 1.0, their new children’s iPhone-book. Mandy and Andy – The Seasons continues interactive Mandy and Andy book series. In this book cuddly Mandy and Andy cats present the seasons of Northern Hemisphere together with their friends. With the help of animated story children can experience what one can do in summer, autumn, winter and spring.

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Independent Macintosh developer Luther Fuller today announces MailWing, an organizer and archiver for Apple’s Mail running Leopard or Snow Leopard. MailWing organizes Apple’s Mail by moving messages from linked mailboxes to matching Finder folders located with a project, account, interest group or client folder. These messages open in Mail or with Quick Look. A Dock Menu provides instant access to MailWing, the Help document, the Mail-Safe Archive, MailWing’s commands and all linked folders.

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I Wonder Phone has released Voodo 2, a big upgrade of its GTD/todo app for iPhone and iPod touch, with a 50%-off celebrating price. Voodo stands out in the App Store as the most simple GTD app with so many powerful features including Sync with Google Calendar and a wonderful Tag System. Voodo 2 maintains the simpleness but brings more Todo Magics such as Non-intrusive Auto Sync, Task Search, Quick Add, Contacts Integration, Geo Locations, Nearby Tasks, and other improvements.

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MaxNick today announces iCurling 1.0.1, their new 1 or 2 player game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game follows the excitement of the 2010 Winter Olympics, where the sport of curling generated world-wide enthusiasm. Similar to shuffleboard, the game is played on a flat ice curling sheet, roughly 15×150 feet. Players slide round stones of about 40 pounds towards bull’s eye targets at either end. Two teammates may use brooms to sweep the ice in front of the moving stone.

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Yazsoft today released Speed Download 5.2.16, an important update to their popular download manager for Mac OS X. Speed Download 5 redefines the Mac OS X download manager by combining four amazing products: a turbo-charged download manager, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity, into one small and easy to use application. Version 5.2.16 offers optimized performance, better compatibility and more.

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California based Remo Software has published an interesting article on how to recover lost photos using the company’s REMO Recover (Mac) – Media Edition software. The software serves to recover accidentally deleted, lost digital photos, audio and video files from camera memory cards, USB drives and other flash memory storage devices. With all the digital data around these days it’s very common to hear “I lost my data”.

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Connecticut-based independent developer Robert Chitoiu announces Budget, Bills and Balance Forecasting 3.0, an update to his finance app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Designed to provide answers to the many practical “what if” questions which arise in home finance, Balance Forecasting requires the user to simply input their repeating bills and income, and one-time bills and income. The app is then ready to accurately forecast your finances. It now includes optional push reminders.

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Two out of three gay South African respondents to an online survey said that going online had helped them accept their sexual orientation and many admitted to coming out online before they did so offline. But the voices of transgender people rarely appear in studies and surveys. To address the gap, APC EroTICs researcher Jeanne Continue reading →

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It would seem that the phrase “to wear your heart on your sleeve” is in need of an update.  A Japanese husband and wife have masterminded a way for you to literally wear “your heart on your chest”.

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Lord of Apple Steve Jobs has penned a rare letter to the public, appearing not on a stage in 501s and a black turtleneck, but on the official Apple website to announce exactly why his company has taken an anti-Flash stance.

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The UK has come ninth in a top 12 list of the worst countries for relaying spam, in a report by Sophos.

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Nvidia is using its Tesla 20-series GPUs to power a new scientific tool, Amber 11, that promises to make life easier for scientists by harnessing supercomputer-like speeds on desktop PCs.

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