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Online shopping and price comparison engine, TheFind reports massive increases in shoppers using mobile devices as the holiday shopping season begins. TheFind also reported that mobile traffic accounted for roughly 25 percent of all shopping visits over the holiday weekend as compared to only 15 percent of all shopping visits for the Thanksgiving weekend in 2009. TheFind is a leading shopping search engine and provider of the best in-store price comparison app, TheFind: Shopping.

MacBundleWorld’s next Mac bundle software will be made available exclusively to our customers discounted over 80% off. This Bundle contains six very useful and even essential applications for any Mac at an unbeatable price. The bundle is going to launch in Dec 2010. All applications included in the Bundle are full versions without any limitations. Our aim is to share that kind of extremely discounted software package to all Mac users.

Jumsoft is continuing a string of updates to its design templates for Apple’s iWork and iWeb. The new Pages Templates 6.0 consists of 50 new templates, along with 50 designs. Pages Templates also features improved usability as well as the latest trends in graphic design. The current 100-template kit provides a wide range of documents, from brochures and photo albums to posters and invitations. Some templates include up to 12 different sections.

publicspace.net today releases version 1.37 of Vitamin-R, its productivity tool for creative professionals. Vitamin-R is a collection of tools and techniques designed to overcome the biggest productivity challenges facing today’s creative professionals: managing attention and maintaining motivation. This release adds a new chart showing the evolution of your ability to concentrate over the course of the work week.

Uncommon Projects updates Marco Friend Locator with numerous user-requested features. Marco is the free SMS powered app that allows friends to use their smartphones to find each other fast and privately. Marco Friend Locator 1.1.1 has added a recent contacts list, backwards compatibility with iOS 4.0, “zoom-to-here” and a “ping” feature. Marco now automatically includes the neighborhood directly in the body of the SMS a user sends.

Independent developer Ziv Aviv today announces Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz v1.1 for iPad, an update to his eBook that contains the complete text of the English book translated into Hebrew. The original children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1900. This eBook edition is an ideal story for an adult to read to a child, whether they are both native speakers of Hebrew, or wish to maintain a connection to the national language of the State of Israel.

Virginia based Deep Prose Software today announces FastTalker 1.0 for iPhone and iPad. FastTalker is convenient for making quick audio notes on-the-go without having to look at the screen or tap a lot of buttons. It is designed to capture quick audio recordings of 5, 10, 15, or 20 seconds at a time. FastTalker starts and ends recording automatically – just start the app and record your thoughts. That’s it! You can review all your recorded talks, and send them by email.

Koren Projects today released TrueKeyboard 1.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. An enhanced notes program, TrueKeyboard offers users a full ergonomic keyboard complete with all 4 arrows and number pad, in realistic 3D, complete with Auto-correction and speller. Messages can be sent to others via email or SMS from within the extremely easy-to-use app. Users are able to adjust the color of the keyboard. TrueKeyboard takes advantage of iOS 4.2 and the iPhone 4 retina display.

MacPhun LLC today announces Perfect Photo, an update to one of its leading products for iOS. Rated among the App Stores most popular photo editing applications, version 2.0 will introduce new editing and sharing features, as well as re-designed interface with extremely easy navigation. Perfect Photo is enriched with a number of new editing tools, including red eye removal and spot healing, which are hard to find in similar apps for iPhone and iPod touch.

Today, Appdicted, LLC, released Monster Studio 1.2 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Easy and entertaining for all ages, Monster Studio gives people a way to create their own custom high quality and fun monsters. The app offers many body types, eyes, mouths and accessories, over 100 parts available to create endless custom monsters. Create your monster in one of the 21 backgrounds included in this app or use your own photo as the background.