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Vancouver, British Columbia – CogZest is pleased to announce the availability of Dr. Luc P. Beaudoin’s new e-book, Cognitive Productivity with macOS(R): 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge. In today’s competitive economy, Mac users need to deal with unprecedented amounts of information and technology options under intense time pressure. Beaudoin’s new, screencast-rich e-book demonstrates pro-active strategies for assessing, organizing, selecting, processing and mastering information.

Cognitive Productivity with macOS is the Mac-focused, practical sequel to Beaudoin’s ground-breaking e-book, Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective. When it comes to learning, not every app is created equal. Common ways of processing information actually interfere with learning. Using the right apps and the right strategies can enormously boost your ability to learn and think effectively. This is what Cognitive Productivity books are all about. Cognitive Productivity books are designed to help you “thrive in the sea of knowledge”.

Luc Beaudoin is a cognitive scientist, author and entrepreneur who specializes in cognitive productivity and well-being. His work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, Lifehacker, Popular Science Magazine, Cool Tools, The Guardian, The International Business Times of London, etc. He is co-founder of CogSci Apps, inventor of mySleepButton(R), founder of CogZest, and Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science and of Education at Simon Fraser University.

Cognitive Productivity books are themselves prequels to CogSci Apps’ upcoming, first-of-its-kind, cognitive productivity app. Cognitive Productivity with macOS book is available today on Leanpub and imminently on iBookStore and Amazon Kindle Store.

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Profound personal, organizational and societal achievements are based on knowledge. We use cognitive science to build products that improve your cognitive productivity. That is your effectiveness and efficiency at using knowledge to solve problems, develop products and develop yourself. Our products are designed for the human mind. We are here to help you “thrive in the sea of knowledge.” We’ve identified several important problems people have that can be solved by extending and applying cognitive science. Cognitive science is the modern science of the human mind. We develop simple, beautiful, effective products based on this understanding. CogSci Apps help you use technology to act in accordance with knowledge. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2018 CogZest. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and macOS are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Seattle, Washington – WhenWorks LLC is pleased to announce its new iOS app and web service designed to simplify the process of scheduling a meetings with others. WhenWorks eliminates back-and-forth emails by allowing others to book time with you online, only when you’re free and only during time slots you’ve defined.

Setup is a breeze. Just install the app on your iPhone to create your free WhenWorks account and you’ll immediately have a web page where guests can book appointments with you online. WhenWorks integrates directly with the built-in Calendar app on your iPhone, so it always knows your real-time availability and instantly updates your calendar as appointments are booked online.

WhenWorks is ideal for anyone who needs to regularly schedule appointments with clients and colleagues, including sales people, technical support and training representatives, financial advisors, attorneys, educators, personal trainers, massage therapists, hair stylists, photographers and more.

How It Works:
1. Use the iOS app to create rules that define when, where and how long you’re available to meet with others.

2. Share your scheduling link with clients and colleagues to view your availability and book appointments with you online.

3. When a guest books an appointment, a confirmation email is sent to you and the guest and the event is added to your calendar automatically.

What Makes Whenworks Unique?
There are many competitive services in this space. What they all have in common is that they are purely web-based solutions. What makes WhenWorks unique is that it is a mobile app that integrates directly with the Calendar app on your iOS device, is far easier to configure and use, more secure, and always with you when you need it.

WhenWorks supports all of the leading calendar services (iCloud, Google Calendar, Office 365 and Outlook.com) but is particularly well-suited for those who use iCloud, due to its deep integration with the built-in Calendar on iOS.

System Requirements – Scheduling appointments involves two parties:
* Host – a user who has created a WhenWorks account for Guests to view their availability and book appointments with them online. The Host must install the WhenWorks app on an iOS device running iOS 11 or greater.

* Guest – a user who visits the WhenWorks website to book appointments with a Host. Guests do not need to run the WhenWorks app. All a Guest needs is a web browser.

Pricing and Availability:
WhenWorks is available free on the App Store. All of its features can be used for free but heavy-users (based on the number of meetings booked each month) must pay a subscription fee for the Pro version.

Free:
* Online Scheduling Page
* Unlimited Event Types
* Support for iCloud, Google Calendar, Office 365 and Outlook.com
* Schedule up to 5 appointments each month

Pro:
* Everything in the Free plan, plus
* Schedule unlimited appointments each month
* $5 per month or $50 per year

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WhenWorks is a small team of talented developers focused on providing a convenient, friction-free scheduling experience for its customers. With a focus on iOS, WhenWorks provides a delightful in-app experience for anyone who needs to regularly schedule appointments with clients and colleagues. WhenWorks was founded in Seattle in 2017 by John Chaffee, a serial entrepreneur who has a long history of building great apps focused on scheduling and productivity. John got his start in the 1990’s as a product manager for Now Up-to-Date, a revolutionary network calendar for Mac OS 7. He was an early mobile pioneer as co-founder of SplashData in 2000, which developed productivity apps for Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian, before the advent of the iPhone. He later co-founded BusyMac in 2007, creators of the award-winning BusyCal for Mac and iOS. WhenWorks is the third startup that John has founded. Copyright (C) 2018 WhenWorks LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and iOS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Denver, Colorado – St. Clair Software is happy to release version 5.2.5 of Default Folder X today. This update of its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs adds preliminary support for Apple’s next release of macOS, code named ‘Mojave’. Default Folder X’s controls are available in Mojave file dialogs, but Dark Mode support is still to come. This version also provides an option to sort all folders in Default Folder X’s menus by date, adds default folders that can be triggered manually from its Favorites menu, and corrects bugs and user-reported issues.

Default Folder X’s custom keyboard shortcuts put your favorite and recent folders at your fingertips. Pop-up menus let you quickly navigate your folders and open Finder windows. Previews, file information, Spotlight tagging and comments are there when you need them. Open, save, and get back to work: Default Folder X speeds your workflow by making file management fast and efficient.

The changes in Default Folder X 5.2.5 include:
* Support for Open and Save dialogs in Mojave
* An option to sort all subfolders in Default Folder X’s hierarchical menus by date
* You can specify a default folder for an application that is only used when manually selected from the Favorites menu
* Fixed a number of user interface inconsistencies, bugs and crashes
* Support for the Oxygen XML Editor

For a complete change history, visit the URL listed below.

System Requirements:
* macOS 10.10 through 10.14 beta

Pricing and Availability:
Default Folder X 5.2.5 is a free update for existing version 5 users. New licenses are $34.95 (USD) and upgrades from version 4 and prior are $14.95. Please see the St. Clair Software web site for screenshots, a full change log, and additional feature information. St. Clair Software strongly recommends that anyone using Default Folder X install this update.

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Based in Denver, Colorado, St. Clair Software is a privately held company that has been specializing in utilities and custom software solutions for the Macintosh since 1988. St. Clair Software can be contacted at: St. Clair Software, 271 S. Emerson Street, Denver, CO, USA 80209. Copyright (C) 1988-2018 St. Clair Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, Macintosh, macOS and Finder are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Groton, Connecticut – Independent development team i2e Consulting today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Project Planning Pro 3.4.3, an important update to their project and task management app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. The app allows anyone to quickly create a new project plan by entering tasks, their durations, and their start dates. Users can use simple touch-based gestures to edit and update tasks via the app’s interactive Gantt chart.

Project Planning Pro helps teams increase productivity by allowing them to manage their tasks, communicate and collaborate, and avoid missing their all-important project deadlines. Anyone can make use of the award-nominated app to plan and manage any size or type of project, directly from their iPhone or iPad. The app’s flexibility allows users to manage apps anywhere, in or out of the office.

“Project Planning Pro allows users to perform the same project planning and management functions that were previously restricted to the desktop,” says Jay Vyas, Head of Digital Marketing for I2E Consulting. “And now, with our latest app release, users can take advantage of the power of ‘iVA.’ our AI-enabled chatbot that can assist them in managing their projects!”

iVA allows iOS device users to ask the chatbot for information about their projects, helping them to gain insight into the projects, allowing them to make better informed decisions. Currently, the feature is in a beta “iOS-only” version, but the company has plans to roll the chatbot out to other platforms in the near future.

Users can ask iVA questions about the overall project, specific tasks, or about specific resources:
* Are any projects due this week?
* What is the total cost of the project?
* Which projects are delayed?
* What are the milestones in the project?
* Which tasks should I be working on today?
* Show me all delayed tasks.
* Who is assigned to a particular task?
* List all delayed tasks.
* And many others

By answering important questions about projects and their associated tasks and resources, iVA makes project management easier. iVA helps users decide the best way to manage their work, providing the critical information managers need to make the right project management decisions.

Currently, iVA only offers information from existing projects. However, iVA will soon be able to create new projects, streamlining project management, something no other project management app currently has the capability to do.

Project Planning Pro still offers the ability to quickly and easily share project information with customers and coworkers in PDF, CSV, or XML file format, offering efficient compatibility with nearly any project management application available for both desktop and mobile devices. i2e Consulting also offers Mac, Windows, and Android versions of the app, making it easy to share projects with across various device platforms.

Features:
* Create or Import Project Plans/Schedule
* Task links types include: finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish
* Interactive Gantt: Tap or pinch the Gantt bar to change dates and durations
* Gantt view, Calendar view and Critical path view to analyze and review your plans
* Build team and assign resources
* Reorder Tasks
* Bird’s-eye view of Gantt for easy navigation
* Slider bar to increase viewing area for Gantt or Table view
* Filter tasks by task name, duration, %complete, start date, finish date and resource
* Export plans to Microsoft Project (XML File)
* Cost Calculation – Resource, Task and Project
* Backup and Restore plans
* Create plan templates and export to Dropbox, BOX or Email
* Import and view project risk from Risk Register+ (.prr)
* Import plans via email, Dropbox, BOX or iCloud
* Share plans as PDF, CSV or XML file

Project Planning Pro has been nominated for numerous awards, including the BestApp Ever Awards 2014 “Best Business App” Award (third nomination in a row), the 2014 Tabby Award, and the Appsters Award 2014, just to name a few.

Project Planning Pro allows iPhone and iPad users to manage any type of project, no matter the size. It’s an ideal tool for project managers on the go, especially with the new iVA chatbot feature that offers better insight into current projects.

“Our app has been developed based on the valuable feedback we receive from the project management community,” continues Jay. “Their feedback, comments, ideas, and app reviews have helped us to continue to improve Project Planning Pro. We’re looking forward to continued feedback from our users, especially after they’ve had a few conversations with iVA!”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
* Requires iOS 10.0 or later
* Universal Application
* 75.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Project Planning Pro 3.4.3 is free and is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Business category. The free version allows users to create one project. A convenient $24.99 in-app purchase offers the ability to create unlimited projects and removes all ads. The app is also available for the Mac, Windows, and Android platforms. Review copies are available upon request.

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i2e Consulting LLC is a global software services company providing innovative Portfolio Data Visualization and advanced reporting solutions. They engage with their clients to deliver superior information management solutions that empower organizations to make more agile business decisions. The company’s enterprise solutions improve collaboration, knowledge sharing and process management. All Material and Software Copyright (C) 2018 i2e Consulting LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Toronto (ON), Canada – Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 2.3, a feature update to company’s output automation plug-in for Adobe InDesign. Awarded 5 stars by InDesign Magazine, Output Factory automates and simplifies workflows of printers, ad agencies, and publishing houses worldwide. The software helps eliminate repetitive tasks through batch processing with time-saving output options.

The new version adds the ability to export every n pages of InDesign document (every 2 pages, 3 pages etc.) as single PDF files. The specified groups of pages can also be exported as spreads if the Spreads option is checked in the selected PDF export preset. This feature was in high demand by InDesign users and Output Factory is now the only tool on the market that provides the users with multi-page sequential export to single PDF files.

“I want to say how valuable and useful Output Factory has been for our company,” says Ed Saye, studio manager at Blue Sky Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. “The folks that use it are delighted to have a way to automate so much repetitive work in a consistent and organized way.”

Output Factory supports printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, IDML, EPUB and several image formats. It offers the following key features:

* Batch processing of InDesign files
* Output groups of pages as a single documents
* Output files to multiple formats with one click
* Variable output file names
* Layer versioning: output layer combinations as single files
* Preflight InDesign documents on the fly
* Split InDesign files into single pages
* Preflight final PDF files

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for $169.95 USD (Lite version $119.95), as well as from authorized resellers and Adobe Exchange. Trial is also available for download. The update is free for the users of Output Factory 2.x, and $84.97 to upgrade from Output Factory 1.x and BatchOutput. Output Factory requires macOS 10.7-10.13 and Adobe InDesign CS3-CC 2018.

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Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics and Microsoft Office output on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit their website. Copyright (C) 2018 Zevrix Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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