Vienna-based game developer Philipp Seifried today announces the trailer and first screenshots of his upcoming game “Ace Ferrara And The Dino Menace.” Ace Ferrara And The Dino Menace is a mission-based space combat simulation in the spirit of the Wing Commander and X-Wing series. Experience life among an elite group of oddball superpilots from the perspective of a lowly intern. Coming in early 2014 to iOS, with ports to Android, PC and Mac planned later in the year.

Nektony today announces VSD Viewer 4.0 for Mac OS X. Ideal for anyone who use Visio drawings as reference, VSD Viewer allows Mac users to open vsd files created with Visio 2000 – 2013, a file extension for a vector graphics format developed and owned by MS Visio. Opening a Visio drawing on Mac with VSD Viewer is as simple as drag and dropping the file to its application window. The new version extends VSD Viewer for Mac with ability to display the shape date of the MS Visio objects.

Shayes Apps announces Gift Suggester 3.1 free for iOS, a major redesign to their ad-free app that lets users search through and view thousands of affordable gifts for every person and occasion. Shoppers can find the ideal gift by using one or more powerful logic filters: Category, Recipient, Personality, Occasion, or Keyword. All listings include photo, price, merchant, and description, and each quickly takes the shopper to the merchant’s web page for that item, without leaving the app.

Preschool University today introduces SENTENCE READING MAGIC 2 (v1.0) for iOS, its new app that provides the missing link between reading words and reading books – reading sentences. The app has two modes: Sentence Building, where children drag words into their correct positions in the sentence, and Sentence Reading, where kids read the words of the sentence aloud and then check their work by touching the hidden picture. The app features audible pronunciation of words and 324 sample sentences.

The Battery Project, LLC announces FruitJuice version 2.0, a fully new version of its Macintosh battery application introduced in June of 2012. FruitJuice 2.0 offers a new concept in maintaining OS X laptop battery health, providing monitoring, notifications, guided maintenance, and full battery diagnostics. It keeps a detailed record of your battery charge and discharge activity and much more. Formerly available as a direct download, version 2.0 is available exclusively on the Mac App Store.

Louisiana based Tee-Boy announces WeatherSnoop 3 for Mac OS X Lion and above. Designed to procure, analyze and publish weather data, WeatherSnoop interfaces with a wide variety of personal and professional weather stations as well as Internet-based data sources. Watch your weather come to life with beautifully rendered instruments and gauges that show temperature, wind, rain, and more. This new release brings multi-station support & reporting features, as well as better weather station support.

Acespire introduces RogueTrader 1.0, the first and unique stock market simulation app for iOS. Modelled with colourful arcade-like graphics, RogueTrader is based on virtual randomly generated stock, which makes it very easy to play. Just buy if you think the stock will shoot up or sell if you feel the opposite. The more the player climbs through stock exchanges, the more volatile is the stock, which means bigger potential wins – and losses.

By Integrating with your iPhone or Android Smartphone’s voice recognition software, the iSimple InSeam makes it safer for you to interact with music, phone calls, navigation and messaging while driving. Named an Innovations Award winner at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, the recently-released InSeam adds a hands-free Bluetooth connection to virtually any factory or aftermarket car stereo, offering seamless, wireless integration of a smartphone through the radio.

Maintain releases Cocktail 7.0 Beta 3 (Mavericks Edition), a new edition of Cocktail for users running a developer preview of the upcoming OS X Mavericks 10.9. Cocktail is a general purpose utility for OS X that lets users clean, repair and optimize their Mac. Arranged into five categories, the app serves up a perfect mix of maintenance tools and tweaks, all accessible through a clean and easy to use interface. The final version of Cocktail 7.0 (Mavericks Edition) will be released this fall.

Indie developer Vadim Shpakovski today is proud to announce Timelytics – Personal Time Tracker 1.0.1 for iOS. Timelytics is a new app for tracking personal time. Instead of timers, it uses a plain list of daily activities with time stamps. In the end of the day or the week, you will clearly see how much time you spend on time eaters. Pick this app to find all bottlenecks in your time management. Timelytics is designed for iOS 7 and compatible with new 64-bit iPhone 5s.