BlizzCon, the annual Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo gaming conference, was held in Anaheim this past week. Chris Barylick and Rachel Hoyer immersed themselves in the event and reported back with their experiences.

Chris Barylick and Rachel Hoyer dove headstrong into BlizzCon 2009, the annual Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo gaming conference, and came back with photos showing off attendee costumes, expo events, and Ozzy Ozbourne's concert.

BlizzCon, the annual Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo gaming conference, was held in Anaheim this past week. Chris Barylick and Rachel Hoyer immersed themselves in the event and reported back with their experiences.

Blue Crowbar Software announced the release of Aperture2Twitter 1.5 and iPhoto2Twitter 1.5, upgrades to its Twitter-plugins for Aperture and iPhoto, on Thursday. Both plugins allow users to send tweets and photos to Twitter without leaving the main application, and the updates added Mobypicture support.

Calf Trail Software on Friday released Geotagalog 1.4, the new version of the company's tracklog-based geotagging utility for Mac OS X. The new version includes several new features and other improvements.

Romanian developer Fanurio Time Tracking SRL announced Thursday the release of Fanurio 2.1, the company's time tracking and billing software application. The new version added support for printing along with German, Romanian and Spanish localizations.

Software developer publicspace.net announced the release of A Better Finder Rename 8.23 on Wednesday. The utility allows users to create custom file names, and the new version adds expanded capabilities to the existing music file renaming feature.

Lithuanian software developer Keynote Zone announced the release of its free Comics Keynote theme for Apple's Keynote application. The Comics theme layout is based on hand-drawn picture frames and word balloon shapes to help create a well recognizable, branded style and arrives in both Standard and HD versions.

California-based developer Thousand Oaks announced the release of InfoWallet, a secure, portable, personal life manager for Mac OS X on Tuesday.

Austrian developer restoroot.com announced Monday the released of Letter Opener 2.2, the company's winmail.dat file converter plug in for Apple Mail. The update adds several new features

Software developer iPresentee announced Tuesday the release of Keynote Themes 5.0 and free Keynote themes to be used with Apple's Keynote application. Keynote Themes 5.0 includes ten brand new themes, and extends iPresentee's Keynote themes collection up to eighty seven themes.

Software developer Terry Demco announced the release of Incoming! for Skype on Tueday. The application allows every incoming call to be downloaded onto a Mac via a helper app. The application also allows Skype to function over 3G or EDGE networks, thus eliminating VoIP restrictions.

Software developer Pixel Research Labs announced Tuesday the release of Ringer 1.0, a new iPhone ringtone creation and editing tool for Mac OS X. The application allows users to choose any unprotected file from their iTunes library or any media file on their system

Lithuanian software developer Jumsoft announced Friday the release of its expanded Goodies bundle, a set of five new iWeb themes available for free. The five iWeb themes included in Goodies are Modern Daybill, Cool Class, Baseball, Boy, and Girl.

Illinois-based peripherals provider Other World Computing announced the release of its OWC DDR3 1066MHz Memory Upgrades up to 8GB for the new MacBook Pro 13-, 15-, and 17-inch models this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.

Austin-based Mac-Chi announced Wednesday the release of WhoPaste 1.2, the company's contact acquisition utility for Mac OS X.  The new version adds several new features.

Swedish developer Snarb.tk announced the release of Cover Stream 2.6, the latest version of the company's iTunes controller application for Mac OS X. Version 2.6 adds several new features and fixes.

Long-time Mac and PC hardware developer LaCie announced the release of two designer USB hubs on Wednesday, the LaCie Core4 and LaCie Core7. Both hubs were designed by award-winning U.K. industrial designer Sam Hecht.

Los Angeles-based developer app4mac announced the release of CheckUp 2.2, the company's utility that allows users to check the health and monitor the behavior of their Mac, on Wednesday. The update for the application, which functions with any G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, added support for Apple's most recent Mac models, and also shows information for additional I/O ports.

Scottsdale-based Cynical Peak Software announced the release of Rivet 2.1, the company's streaming application on Tuesday that allows users to stream video, music and photos from Mac OS X to an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 via their home network, and the update includes many new features.

New Zealand software developer Freeridecoding announced the release of BurnAgain FS 1.3 on Thursday, the company's multisession CD/DVD burning utility for Mac OS X. The application allows users to repeatedly change the content of a data CD or DVD directly in the Finder.

Washington-based Calf Trail Software announced the release of Geotagalog 1.2 on Wednesday, the company's geotagging utility for Mac OS X. The new version enables precise iPhoto Places support with any digital camera and adds direct support for popular GPS loggers that record in the NMEA 0183 log format

German software developer Synium announced the release of its MacFamilyTree 5.5 public beta on Tuesday. The application adds a History Database for the user to browse hundreds of predefined historical entries or add world and personal history events as well as a completely rewritten database engine to deliver faster response times, even with huge family trees.

Dutch software developer AssistiveWare announced the release of GhostReader 1.6, the company's application which allows multilingual (Arabic, Greek, Russian, Italian, Turkish, British and Norwegian) text-to-speech reading of PDF, Microsoft Word and other text documents. The update includes new languages and other improvements.

Austin-based REAL Software announced Tuesday the release of REALbasic 2009 release 2. The new version includes more than 70 improvements and new features as well as COM automation support for Windows and support for MySQL. The company also released a new edition of REALbasic, REAL Studio.

Freeverse Software announced the release of BumperCar 2.2, the latest version of the company's kid-safe web browser, on Thursday. The new version of the browser, which boasts features such as site filtering, profanity blockage and time limit options, adds several other fixes and changes.

Software developer RNSoft has announced the release of RSS Replay 1.6, the company's Dreamweaver extension for placing RSS content feeds into web page layouts. The program, which uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and ASP or PHP to collect RSS content from RSS feeds, also applies formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Once installed, users can incorporate content from any RSS or Atom feed into their web sites.

Luxembourg-based Houdah Software announced Monday the release of HoudahGeo 2.2, the latest version of the company's geocoding software for the Mac. The update adds support for iPhoto '09's Places feature, as well as new interface enhancements and other changes.

UK-based Address Book Server announced the release of its self-titled Address Book Server software server for Apple's Address Book and iCal applications on Monday. The program allows users to share contacts, events and tasks with other Mac users in real-time.

Software developer MacVector has released MacVector 10.6, the company's DNA and protein sequence analysis program. Version 10.6 includes several new features.

UK-developer Urban Design announced the release of Mail-Grab 1.0, the company's utility for sending emails to multiple recipients from Apple Mail, on Friday. The application allows users to manage a mailing list, keep it up-to-date and allows users to extract and filter content as needed.

San Jose-based developer app4mac released Flexteam 2.1, the company's scheduling and information sharing application, on Thursday. The new version allows users to work jointly on schedule, print views, publish work schedules to the Web and generate PDF files.

Omaha-based Macware Inc. announced Tuesday the launch of DiskTools Pro, the company's system utilities package including bad sector detection and repair, lightning-fast file defragmentation, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and analysis and bootable disk backup with automated scheduling.

Amherst, New York-based ATTO Technology, Inc. announced the release of a family of five 6gb/SAS host adapters on Monday.

German developer Zykloid Software announced Wednesday the release of version 1.5 of Posterino. The program allows users to create life posters, photo collages, frames, postcards, greeting cards and contact sheets from digital images.

Chris Barylick let his inner musician out to put Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock through its paces. It might not turn you into a real rock star, but it may make you wish you were one.

Chico, California-based Mien Software has released MediaEdit 3.1.5, an updated version of the company's consumer-level video editing tool for the Mac on Monday. The application supports standard painting tools as well as multiple layers and can edit virtually all QuickTime-compatible formats.

UK-based developer Frameline released version 3.1 of its video database application, Frameline 47, on Tuesday. The application allows small to medium sized media companies a convenient means of storing and accessing video archives, and the update focuses on improving application speed, reliability as well as adding additional video networking functionality.

Italian software developer ZiggySoft announced the release of iWeb Valet 2.0, the company's utility for editing and uploading iWeb pages on Tueday. The new version allows users to add interactive widgets to Web sites as well as trailing cursors, music, falling objects such as snow or image rollovers, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, and flash graphics to iWeb sites.

Tension Software announced the released of version 2.4 of Invoices, the company's invoice creation and management application for Mac OS X on Friday. The update improved control over invoice fields and mailing labels.

Lithuanian software developeriPresenteeannounced Wednesday the release ofKeynote 3D Stuff 2.0, the company's package of 3D images for use with Apple's Keynote, iWeb and Pages application. The new version includes 115 3D objects as well as combines 70 images from Keynote 3D Stuff 1.0 with 45 new objects created for the new version.

Oakland, California-based Livescribe Inc. announced the release of its Livescribe Desktop for Mac 1.0 software this week. The company was honored withMacworld’s 2009 Best of Show Award and Mac|Life Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for its Livescribe Desktop for Mac software and its Livescribe product is highly anticipated among smart pen users.

Computer outfitter Other World Computing announced the release of its 8GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade Kit and 4GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade Modules for Apple's MacBook Pro 17-inch "Unibody" models on Thursday. The modules are also available in kits of up to 6GB for previous MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops.

Software developer Chronos LC announced the release of iClipboard 2.0, the company's clipboard manager program for Mac OS X. The new version boasts Rapid-Fire Clipboards that lets users quickly copy multiple clippings and then paste them consecutively, along with the ability to edit Web clippings.

Ukranian software developer CS Odessa and Uptown Inc. announced Tuesday that they have partnered to create a Japanese localized version of CS Odessa's business graphics and diagramming tool, ConceptDraw PRO. The new version will be cross platform for the Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.

Austin-based developer Mac-Chi announced the release of Googaby 1.0, the company's Google Contacts and Address Book utility for Mac OS X on Wednesday. The program features apervasive drag-and-drop and a customizable iTunes-stye browser that also allows Google Contacts to fully participate in a normal Macintosh workflow.

Torrance, California-based TRENDnet announced the release of its 300MBps Dual Band Wireless N USB adapter, model TEW-664UB for Mac and Windows-based PCs on Friday. The adapter can operate on either a 2.4GHz or 5GHz radio frequency and is compatible with older wireless 802.11b and 802.11g solutions as well as cordless phones, cellular phones and Bluetooth devices.

Accessory maker RadTech announced that the company had begun shipping its Sleevz, MacTrucks and NeoCases for Apple's new 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro notebook on Thursday. The company is currently also accepting pre-orders for its 17-inch unibody ScreenSavrz case which will ship out before March 11th.

Italian developer Tension Software announced the release ofProduct Manager 1.0 for Mac OS X on Thursday. The application allows users to manage an unlimited number of documents with an unlimited number of products, each subdivided into families and can serve as a repository for data used in marketing and technical management.

UK-based software developer iPresentee announced that the company has added five new business themes to create iWeb Themes for Business 3.0 on Wednesday. The new themes include Chess, Columns, Inside, Ribbon and Space Frame, each iWeb Theme for Business including nine templates as opposed to the ordinary seven.The new release extends iWebtemplate's iWeb themes collection up to 62 themes with the new iWeb themes being compatible with iWeb 2.0 and 3.0.