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QuickerTek today announces that they are shipping carry handles for all models of the Apple Unibody MacBook~aluminum and white and MacBook Pro Unibody 13, 15 and 17 inch laptops. Along with the MacBook Air carry handle that was announced this past March, completes the Unibody family. This new lightweight carry handle is made from sturdy non-flex aircraft quality aluminum for strength and weight savings.

SkyVu Pictures today launched Dragon Checkers 1.0, their new iPad game. Inspired by the artwork of the StoryBoy book app, All About Dragons, the game is a themed twist on the traditional board game, complete with dragon checker pieces and dragon roars. Dragon Checkers features eight dragon characters where players can learn interesting facts about each dragon character. Play in one-player or two-player mode and more.

Toronto based Jones APR today announces Knitting & Crocheting HD 1.0, their latest app for Apple’s revolutionary iPad. A full featured knitting and crochet app, Knitting & Crocheting HD is chock full of over 500 photographs, detailed illustrations and step-by-step instruction. Knitting topics including increases and decreases, decorative touches, fixing mistakes, knitting in the round, knitting with color, finishing projects and more.

California based development lab olsonvox today announces olsynth 1.0 for iPad. This intuitively designed musical instrument app brings a monophonic dual oscillator synth sound to the iPad. By manipulating the seven flip-scrollable pages of settings displayed on the top half of the iPad screen, users can design limitless variations of electronic synthesized musical tones. A slide-able 5 octave range musical keyboard on the bottom half of the iPad screen allows the user to play olsynth.

Tome Studios today released Marbellous 1.1.0 for iPad users. The highly addictive, challenging marble puzzle game appears very realistic, giving players the sense of using a real board and actual marbles to make their moves. Marbellous features a clean, clutter-free interface with very few rules assigned to the game. That does not mean it’s easy. Without some forethought and strategy it is very difficult to win but quite easy to become addicted to.

Aji, LLC has just released iRead PDF, an elegant PDF reader that offers annotation viewing on the iPad, entirely free. Based on iAnnotate, the developer’s powerful PDF annotation tool, iRead is a full-featured PDF reader that supports tabbed reading, bookmarking, comprehensive library search for PDF’s. In addition, iRead provides support for viewing notes, highlights, underlines, or drawings added to documents using iAnnotate or other standard annotation tools like Adobe Reader or Preview.

TextExpander touch, the iOS version of SmileOnMyMac’s customizable typing shortcut tool, is now available as a universal application optimized for the iPad. The newly-released version takes advantage of the iPad’s larger screen, making it easier to create and edit snippets on the iPad. Over 30 iPhone and iPad apps have added TextExpander support. Users of these apps can expand their TextExpander snippets while typing within these apps.

California based NuNuApps LLC today announced iTinisHD 1.0, its latest interactive social networking-enabled mixology app that delivers drink recipes with a spin or a shake. Currently available for the iPad, iTinisHD is a top-shelf application that features blended drink recipes, social networking and latest hot tastes, with an advertising platform for liquor brands and bars. The Vegas-themed iTinisHD application includes a spinning drink selector that makes finding drink recipes fun and easy.

Karelia Software announced today the immediate availability of Sandvox 1.6.7, an important update to its Apple Design Award-recognized website creation application for Mac OS X. Developed with individuals, families, students, schools, and small businesses in mind, Sandvox features drag-and-drop website assembly, live editing, and much more. Version 1.6.7 fixes minor issues, includes a new Writing Direction menu, and adds improvements to RSS feeds, video pages, and Flickr feeds.

California based Kabuki Vision today announces DocsPortal 1.0 for iPad. With its stunning interface, DocsPortal makes it easy to browse, search, and view files stored in a Google Docs account. Files can additionally be e-mailed, imported, and exported from within the app. DocsPortal automatically downloads and stores Google Docs files right on the iPad, so they can be readily accessed even without an internet connection.