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TvTak, an innovative developer of video recognition mobile applications, will showcase for the first time in the United States, a new iPhone App that propels television interactivity to higher levels of engagement at the TechCrunch Disrupt convention held in New York City from May 23-25, in the Start-Up Alley. Instant Call-to-Action for Television on your iPhone, TvTak recognizes television shows and commercials in just one second.

New York based Appsolute Media today announced an update of Carmindy for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices running on iOS 4.0 or later. Created by Carmindy – TLC’s “What Not To Wear” make-up guru – the Carmindy app helps users create personalized looks for themselves. This app has the power to visualize over 1000 unique looks based on skin tone, hair color and eye color, and lists the exact sets of product that are needed to recreate each look in real life.

Seattle based m3me, Inc. announces Remote Conductor 1.0 for iPhone, bringing their popular iPad app to iPhone / iPod touch devices. Remote Conductor turns the iPhone into a productive, wireless, control center for a Mac or PC with features such as: Application / Window Switcher, Remote Program Launcher, Wireless Trackpad and Secure Keyboard. Remote Conductor communicates securely over Wi-Fi with a free server program and runs on a Mac or PC.

The San Francisco Chronicle today releases its first app for iPad. The Chronicle for iPad is an extension of the newspaper’s award-winning, in-depth coverage that readers have come to expect from the Bay Area’s leading news source. Paid subscribers have access to the iPad app through their current subscription. For new users, access to the app is free for the first 30 days. Stories, features & photos are optimized for iPad to give users a more visually dynamic presentation of the daily news.

Zevrix Solutions announces Deliver 2.3.4, a feature update to its file delivery solution for remote and local destinations. Deliver supports FTP, Amazon S3, MobileMe, WebDAV and other services, and offers automatic e-mail notifications, delivery to multiple destinations, file encryption and other powerful capabilities. The software also lets users send output files and collected jobs directly from Adobe InDesign. The new version lets admin users view destination passwords in clear text.

Berlin based nova media today unveiled iCON 461, a new 3G internet stick for Mac OS X made by the Belgium company Option. The new iCON 461 USB modem offers download speeds up to 7.2 Mbit/s and upload speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s for most 3G networks around the globe. The modem features an integrated GPS chip as well as a MicroSD card slot to double as a USB memory stick. iCON 461 comes with launch2net Premium for Mac OS X, a connection manager.

LogicalVue Software, Inc. today announces SQLVue 4.1, an update to their elegant IDE for SQLite developers. SQLVue will make your database development more productive. You can quickly edit table data using the data editor. This robust SQL editor will auto-complete SQL commands, table names and column names. SQLite a free, open-source, single-user database engine that is taking the world by storm. SQLVue also gives you quick access to the official SQLite documentation.

Stepcase, is pleased to announce the release of Fusioncam 1.0.1, a dynamic, easy to use classic toy camera with multiple exposure capabilities. Just like a real toy camera, multiple exposures are possible when you don’t wind the film. You can use the camera in the classical single shot with 3 different modes. Try re-exposing that shot. It’s easy to re-expose, by flicking a switch, the previous photo is overlayed in the viewfinder so that it is simple to measure up the next shot.

Today Readdle releases an update to Scanner Pro, its popular iOS application that transforms the iPhone into portable scanner. The new version improves Evernote integration and contains several other additions. To make the integration as smooth as possible, Scanner Pro relies on Evernote tags and notebooks, allowing users to control the way notes are uploaded. The latest update of Scanner Pro also uploads note location to Evernote servers.

Creaceed today announces the kick-off of their 3rd anniversary with a price reduction on all their Mac and iPhone applications. Creaceed is offering an incredible discount on all licenses purchased between May 31st and June 6th, 2011: 70% off Prizmo for iPhone, 33% off Movie Stiller, 30% off Hydra and Prizmo for Mac. Additionally, users who purchase a license for Hydra Express or Pro 2.x will get a fre upgrade to Hydra 3.x when it becomes available later this year.