Appetit today announces Zoom It 1.2, an upgraded version of the virtual magnifying glass app for OS X. Zoom It provides an on-screen loupe that’s always available but never in the way. The new release provides a major performance boost, an easily-identifiable black and white icon on the task bar, retina display support, a loupe-size indicator in the drop-down menu, and the ability to hide the loupe when saving a screenshot, in addition to some minor bug fixes.

App developer, Musopia today announced a partnership with the US nonprofit organization Music for Life to support urban kids’ guitar lessons. Music for Life has defined a recommended play list within the FourChords Guitar Karaoke App. With each download of a song from that playlist, Musopia will make a donation to the organization. FourChords Guitar Karaoke is the fastest way to learn new songs. Songs are displayed in karaoke-style display with easy chords, an acoustic backing track and lyrics.

Ergonis Software today announces Typinator 5.7, an improved new version of their popular text expander. Typinator automates the process of inserting frequently used text and auto-correcting typing errors. Across all applications, it detects specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replaces them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters. Version 5.7 enhances dynamic input fields with optional default values and contains many further enhancements and fixes.

Dutch company RappTech B.V. introduces Badger? 1.0, its new puzzle game for iOS devices. Developed as a playful nod to the growing prevalence of icons and badges in people’s daily lives. this multidimensional game builds upon the player’s spatial awareness and calculation skills. Make combinations of at least three icons with the same letter, badge number or color by swapping icons in a 4 x 5 grid. The app also includes iOS Game Center multiplay, where players can compete anywhere in the world.

The developer Toivon Studio has confirmed the upcoming release of the long-anticipated Kingdom of Pirates 1.2, an important update to their popular MMORPG for iOS. Kingdom of Pirates is a magical story at sea, where pirates unite in order to recover the lost treasures of the legendary pirate Captain Drake. With the exception of many useful improvements, the game will also feature a brand new fishing system, which will add a new virtual currency to the game.

Vancouver based Alegre Software has just released Budgeteer for the Macintosh. By combining the functions of a spreadsheet and a calendar, Budgeteer offers an entirely new and effective way to keep track of your personal finances on a daily basis. Budgeteer will display a day-to-day running balance of an account up to a year into the future. This allows the user to identify cash flow issues well down the road and make necessary adjustments to their finances well before any problem occurs.

The new version of Inpaint 5.5, a super-simple photo retouching tool, introduces a number of tools to make removing unwanted objects from pictures, retouching scratches and pitches, hiding background objects and camera time stamps even easier. The improved mask option allows to quickly select unwanted objects on the image and save the mask for later use with other pictures in a row. Precise selection has also become easier. Holding Shift a user can draw straight lines with the marker tool.

App Developer, Simiula introduces Lotto Dice Roller 1.0, their new entertainment app for iOS devices. Lotto Dice Roller is a lucky random number selector for lotteries 6 from 49. It uses a set of dice designed to give you a balanced run of numbers, taking into account high and low numbers, and odd and even numbers. Share your lucky numbers with your friends and family through numerous social media channels using the iOS6 sharing panel such as Twitter, Facebook, Email, Message and even print.

MemoZy from DesignPlusD, Inc. is a new, popular productivity utility for iOS devices that seeks to redefine users’ expectations of efficiency in organization. The new application offers a streamlined, elegant user interface that focuses on gesture commands rather than nested menus to make adding, altering, and prioritizing categories and items quick and easy. DesignPlusD has recently announced that MemoZy will be available for free for a limited time only.

California based Locapalo Inc today introduces Instant Alert 1.0, its brand new social networking app developed for iOS devices. InstantAlert is an open communication app featuring virtual “Alert Towers.” You get tuned-in to those towers automatically anywhere you go. You can create your own towers and broadcast messages to people within its coverage. InstantAlert constantly gathers data from public sources to deliver small but valuable messages.