DEVONtechnologies, LLC releases maintenance updates for all editions of DEVONagent, its pro-grade Internet research assistant for OS X. DEVONagent helps you search more efficiently on the web. It searches multiple sources for relevant results, and gives you power tools for your research. Both DEVONagent Pro and Express 3.5.2 come with an updated “Tube” scanner which scans webpages for embedded media. The update also fixes known issues and improves overall performance and reliability.

Jaidev Soin, the Australia-based developer behind life improvement app Balanced, announced today that the app has reached 100,000 downloads in just 10 weeks. Balanced is a motivational tool that helps users focus on doing more of the activities that matter to them. Balanced strives to make sure you always look forward to the activities on your list. The app’s smart prioritization, simplicity, and positive feel have been heavily praised by users, and play a large part in the app’s success.

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.