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MindManager 9 for Mac Coming June 23, iOS Versions Due Mid-June

What is “Mind Mapping?” Well, if you want to take your analog thoughts and put them into the digital world, Wikipedia tells us that “a mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.”

MindJet, who makes MindManager, one of the premiere apps in the market selling 1.8 million copies worldwide,  is scheduled to ship MindManager 9 next month. It will cost $249 for new customers and $149 for current users wanting to upgrade. New features will include a presentation mode, “quick entry,” WYSIWYG priting, dynamic content like schedules and web links, offline import/export for iWork and Office, plus project management mode. For more info, read the Mac press release here. Read more

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HockeyApp Brings Enhanced Beta Distribution For iOS Apps

Launching today is HockeyApp, a new service for developers of iOS and soon Android and OS X apps. Its main function is to simplify the beta distribution process and collection of crash reports. Like other beta distribution tools and services, such as TestFlight, HockeyKit (for iOS apps) uses Apple’s over-the-air distribution process that was introduced in iOS 4.0.

HockeyApp, however, goes beyond just offering developers an easy way to distribute new beta builds. It also has a feature that lets developers automatically inform testers about a new beta version from within the app itself – even including release notes and potential to instantly update the app right then and there. Critically for developers, HockeyApp gives developers access to key data from crash reports and can optionally also give statistics on exactly what devices, iOS versions and languages were used and for how long.

HockeyApp will offer developers three plans, varying in cost but starting at $20 per month for 5 apps, 1GB storage and 100 users. Team members and testers won’t have to pay anything and there is a one-month trial for developers available. Jump the break for some screenshots of the service.

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TypeTool Chooses The Right Font For Your App, Becomes Powerful With Photoshop Touch SDK

Earlier this month, Adobe updated Photoshop to support the new Photoshop Touch SDK, which allows developers to build mobile apps that tie into and complement the full desktop version of Photoshop. Adobe themselves built three iPad apps that demonstrated the capabilities of the SDK, whilst they are neat we have been waiting to see how other developers would take advantage of the SDK in building innovative mobile apps.

TypeTool from appland is one of the first apps that takes advantage of the SDK. In essence, TypeTool is a simple app that aims to make the life of an iPhone designer or developer that much easier by assisting them in choosing the right font and font size for their app. There are two main features in TypeTool, the first of which is a size chart where you can preview what various fonts look like from sizes of 9pt to 32pt. The second key feature is the Typesetter where you can build up a basic UI, trying different fonts and font sizes to see how they look together.

Where the Photoshop Touch SDK comes in is with the Typesetter, previously TypeTool would let you email yourself the details of what fonts you choose, and a screenshot of what the fonts look like. However you can now opt to directly send your configuration into Photoshop, which will create a document that mirrors what you see on the iPhone with the specific fonts and sizes that you specified. From there you could either build up the rest of the design around the imported text or choose to copy over the text into an existing Photoshop document.

TypeTool is available on the iPhone for $2.99, to export to Photoshop you will need to have version 12.0.4 and be on the same network. The developers are considering building an iPad version as well as adding some more “designer tools” and increasing the usage of the Photoshop Touch SDK within the app.

If you’re you a developer of an iOS app that takes advantage of the Photoshop Touch SDK or know of a really innovative app that does, please let us know! Jump the break for some more screenshots.

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AT&T Begins LTE Rollout Across 5 Cities

AT&T today released its initial LTE rollout plan, with five markets to get LTE sometime “this summer”. Those lucky cities will be Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio.

Ten more markets, which are yet to be named, will also be getting AT&T’s LTE network built in the second half of this year. AT&T says in its press release that across those first 15 markets, 70 million Americans will have coverage on their LTE network. Currently AT&T does not offer any LTE compatible devices, but again claims that there will be, by the end of the year, some devices that are LTE capable.

Earlier this year, Apple posted a job listing for someone with cellular protocol experience, who would have the specific duty of implementing, integrating and maintaining various network protocols, including LTE. Whilst in January, China Mobile’s Chairman said “Apple has made it clear they will support TD-LTE.” This year’s iPhone, which is widely expected to be revealed in September, is unlikely to have LTE support. However, with LTE adoption spreading across the world, and multiple Android and soon Windows Phone 7 devices supporting LTE, it seems very plausible that the following iPhone will support LTE.

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