KavaTunes can add album artwork to your music library, and includes artwork in the catalog. KavaTunes can also create web catalogs that look and work just like an iPod. Visitors can browse and play your music using the familiar iPod clickwheel interface.

Your web catalog is a great way to introduce everyone to your favorite music. Your personalized home page shows your most played artists, recently added albums, recently played songs, and top rated albums. Visitors can then click on the music they like, listen to it online, and buy it directly from the iTunes Store.

KavaTunes 3.2 features a newly resdesigned music preferences pane. Users can choose whether to allow visitors to download music from their website, and can customize the volume of music for optimum playback.

Pricing and Availability:
KavaTunes costs $35 USD, and can be purchased using PayPal or Kagi. You can try all the features of KavaTunes on part of your library for free.

KavaSoft also announced Shoebox 1.7.3, the world’s smartest photo orgnizer, and Curator 1.1.2, the artwork manager for iTunes. More information is available on the KavaSoft website. Visit the Press Info page for press releases, high-resolution icons, screenshots, and a form to request an evaluation license.

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Founded in 2002, KavaSoft is the creator of numerous digital lifestyle applications for Mac OS X, including Shoebox, KavaTunes, iConquer, HyperImage, Curator and KavaServices. Copyright 2002-2008 KavaSoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Imagine you are a software development company that has been around for 11 years, with award-winning titles for mobile computing devices. You follow the rules, you submit iPhone versions of your applications to the App Store, and yet you still haven’t seen your programs make it to the store.

This is the boat that a lot of developers are in, but it is particularly frustrating for Ilium Software. Ilium has sold two well-respected applications — eWallet and ListPro — for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices for years, and has a number of other commercial and free mobile applications on the market.

According to Ilium spokesperson Ellen Craw, eWallet has been “in the queue” at Apple for over two weeks, and they can’t get any word from App Store personnel on when their highly anticipated app will actually appear online. The comments in Ilium’s blog are particularly revealing, as longtime customers are also frustrated by the black hole at Apple.

Having used Ilium’s products before, I’m waiting for both ListPro and eWallet to show up in the store to fill those niches on my iPhone. What other great products are being held up by Apple? We’d love to know!

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Has a sync somehow gone terribly wrong and you’ve lost your favorite paid application for your iPhone or iPod touch? Well, if you didn’t have a backup of it in your iTunes library, fear not. Apple has designed the App Store to allow for re-downloading purchased applications.

All you have to do is navigate to the application that you originally bought in the App Store and tap “Buy.” You will have to enter your password, and the App Store will return you to your home screen where it displays a message saying that you’ve already bought this application and are entitled to an additional free download. After you tap “OK,” your app will begin downloading.

Now you don’t have to fret about losing your favorite iPhone or iPod touch application.

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A lot of folks had been hoping for support for the A2DP Bluetooth audio stack in the 3G iPhone. (A2DP allows for stereo music over Bluetooth in addition to the standard mono Bluetooth headset audio.) Unfortunately, Apple did not gratify this particular wish, but now Hong Kong-based accessory maker Brando is stepping to the gap with the INFINXX AP23.

Basically, it’s a small dongle that plugs into the iPhone or iPod touch Dock port. You can then sync a pair of Bluetooth headphones (with microphone) to both the dongle and the iPhone allowing for phone as well as music support. While the INFINIXX is far from the first A2DP Bluetooth dongle, it is one of the smallest (~5 grams) and clearly takes its design cues from the iPhone.

The Brando INFINXX AP23 is $62. Standard shipping is $3 (7-20 working days) while express shipping (2-7 working days) is $39.

[via Gizmodo]

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In the Electronic Arts booth here at E3, nestled in among the raucous noises of various first-person shooters, is a completely white room with a few cell phones on tables. This is the EA Mobile space, and it was here that we got to play Spore Origins, the iPhone version of Will Wright’s sure-to-be masterpiece.

Like the EA Mobile space, Spore Origins is pretty simple and clean, and stands out as a fairly calm experience among the racket of a lot of other iPhone games. Spore takes you through a civilization from ameoba to space travel, but Spore Origins sticks with just the ameoba stage. You play a creature of your own creation and float through the microbial ether, eating things that are smaller than you, and running away from things that are larger.

Read on for TUAW’s impressions of one of the most anticipated iPhone games, and why it might not be all we had hoped.

Continue reading TUAW Hands-on: Spore Origins for the iPhone

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Contrary to other analysts’ rosy comments about Apple’s supply chain, Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray is estimating that shortages in the supply of iPhone 3G handsets will last until mid-August.

Munster said that he’d wager “we’ll see problems for another two to four weeks,” adding, “early demand has been more than [Apple] expected.”

Apple’s own supply-checking tool reports that a little over a quarter of Apple Stores had iPhone 3Gs to sell today. The hardest model to find is the black, 16GB version. It was available in only 18 stores worldwide.

AT&T stores are also “nearly out.”

[Via Macworld.]

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