St. Clair Software has announced a contest to solicit application ideas for the iPhone and iPod Touch. A 16 GB iPod Touch will be awarded to the person who submits the best suggestion for a new iPhone application.

With the much-anticipated release of the developer SDK for the iPhone, a whole new class of iPhone and iPod Touch applications …

A few interesting items you might find useful - best I can do for an update today - busy week at work and I had an cervical epidural today (not nearly as fun as you would think, oddly).

Enjoy.

ScreensPro screensavers - Some very nice screensavers for both Mac and PC.

Belkin Mini-Surge protector with USB - A very slick …

Press release from PRMac.com:
Apimac announced today the release of Secret Folder ‘08, the latest release of its shareware utility made to conceal folders and files under Mac OS X. Apimac Secret Folder is a Mac OS X program that provides an easy and fast way to protect personal documents and avoid them being seen, modified, or erased by other users. It allows users to hide folders and their contents. Files and folders can be added by means of a single click on a choose dialog box or via drag and drop. The application is simple to use and can be protected with a password.

This program uses the standard functionality of the operating system to make folders and files invisible and it’s very useful to keep information away from prying eyes or kids who may accidentally modify or delete personal files. For users that need more advanced levels for protecting data, there are other ways as protecting information on removable media (as creating encrypted disk images) or using Mac OS X FileVault.

Among the other changes, new to the ‘08 release is a new user interface making the application more intuitive and easy to use; new options to make visible all the listed items at launch and make invisible all the listed items at quit; new option to make visible an item by double-clickin on it on the item list and various code optimizations.

Press release from PRMac.com:

Maintain is proud to announce the release of Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition) is the latest maintenance update for Cocktail (Leopard Edition). It adds Mac OS X 10.5.2 compatibility, improves network optimization presets, fixes a bug causing Safari RSS reader to report NSPOSIXErrorDomain:2 error, adds support for Firefox 3, contains updated Help files and resolves a number of other minor issues discovered in the previous release. The update is strongly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).

Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.5.2.

Cocktail 4.0.1 (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4.x and Cocktail 3.7 (Panther Edition) for Mac OS X 10.3.x are available for download from our website.

A follow up to my recent post about backup software. Giving this a try today also.

Freeridecoding announces a major update for its straightforward backup tool, SmartBackup v2.2. SmartBackup is the ideal application to perform all kinds of daily backups to hard drives, network sharepoints, webDAV, usb sticks, iPods etc.

From a smart efficient document backup to a full bootable …

The recently released Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard) upgrade caused the premiere password manager 1Password to stop functioning in Safari. Today, Agile Web Solutions announced that 1Password version 2.5.11 is now available to fix this issue, as well as adding support for the Firefox 3 nightly releases. This update is free to all 1Password customers.

What is 1Password?

Reinvented Software announced Feeder 1.5 today. Feeder is a versatile RSS editor for creating news feeds, podcasts and appcasts. Version 1.5 includes an updated user interface for Mac OS X Leopard and now supports thumbnails for video podcasts with the Media RSS extension, adds password-less SFTP, and brings improvements for tagging MP4 video files, item editing and Sparkle appcasts.

Feeder makes working with RSS as straightforward as writing email and is packed with thoughtful features such as templates, previews, HTML editing and auto-completion. For podcasters, Feeder includes full support for the iTunes RSS podcasting extensions, drag and drop episode creation, an iTunes Store preview and the ability to tag all popular podcast media files. Feeder can publish feeds and associated files via FTP, SFTP, .Mac and file export.

In Feeder 1.5, video podcasting is improved with support for thumbnails using the Media RSS extension, used for previewing videos by search engines and applications such as Miro. This version also improves performance when tagging MP4 format files, including those used for iPod, iPhone and Apple TV and has the ability to redirect uploaded enclosure files through sites such as blubrry.com for tracking podcast statistics.