Wonder Warp is participating in a new Mac shareware promotion called Make Your Own Mac Mix. For the next couple weeks, you can make your own bundle of Mac shareware apps and get up to 75% off the normal price!

PhoneFinger, my freeware iPhone testing tool, has been sighted in a few demo videos for iPhone apps that have just been released:

• Demo videos for all of Ambrosia Software’s new games: Aki Mahjong, Mondo Solitaire, and Mr. Sudoku
• uLocate’s WHERE demo video, naturally.
• A TUAW post on Shanghai Mahjong and Blackjack 21

Have you seen it in the wild anywhere else? Let me know!

uLocate Communications, a Boston-area startup I’ve been involved with since early 2008 has just released WHERE for the iPhone.

WHERE is a location-based application that runs a number of "widgets" to do anything from show you what events are going on around you to help you identify constellations.

My largest contribution to the product was the map interface. Apple doesn’t yet allow third-party developers to use the MapKit framework used in the Google Maps application, so I had to write a clone, entirely from scratch.

Unfortunately, after only about a week of development on the map, I was injured and had to take time off. But with a few Skype calls, everyone was up and running back in Boston, and pulled through to 1.0.

Congrats to everyone on the uLocate crew!

ShoveBox 1.2.1 is a small bug update fixing an embarrassing bug that cropped up recently where the ‘Undo’ command didn’t work in text note windows.

You can get it here or through autoupdate.

This week only, Wonder Warp is participating in a promotion where, you can get 20% off on any product from Wonder Warp, You Software, Azure Talon, M Cubed Software, and Lucerne Systems.

Just use the coupon code DF2008 when you check out.

You can read more about this week’s sale at IndieMacSoftware.com.

Support for all Wonder Warp products will be delayed for about a week starting on Thursday, July 3rd.

I will be undergoing an operation to remove a small brain tumor. Should I require more than a week to recover, I’ll have someone assist in answering basic/non-technical inquiries.

Thanks for your patience!

Update: The operation went well and I should be back shortly.

The folks on the MacThemes forums have a neat discussion going about improving ShoveBox’s UI. This is something I’m always interested in working on.

One user, dissatisfied with the dorky toolbar buttons in the current release, drew up some new ones, and they’re pretty good!

ShoveBox 1.2 (build 203) adds a few little new features and enhancements:

• New "Save PDF to ShoveBox" command will appear in system-wide print dialogs.
• Preliminary AppleScript support: basic scriptability of the app itself and the ability to invoke AppleScripts from rules
• You can now drag data directly to the app icon, not just the menubar icon
• Fixed bug where entry windows did not remember their position
• Interface refinements

You can download it here or through the auto-update feature.

ShoveBox, like many applications, has an entry in Mac OS X’s services menu. You can select text, an image, or a file and invoke the service by either choosing “Send to ShoveBox” from the Services menu, or by pressing the keyboard shortcut it comes configured with: command-shift-E. The selection is imported into ShoveBox.

A few users have written asking how to change this shortcut. Due to the way services work on Mac OS X, it’s not something that can be configured in ShoveBox’s normal preferences.

But using a nifty tool from Many Tricks Software called ServiceScrubber, you can configure this menu and change ShoveBox’s service’s shortcut to anything you like.

A small update to ShoveBox has been released that addresses an issue with iSight capture on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

It can be downloaded here or through ShoveBox’s auto-update.