Of course, now that Apple’s deprecating Java, that’s probably going to annoy the folks
- Using the Cyberduck S/FTP/WebDAV/etc. client
- playing Minecraft.
Category: Games
Grand Theft Auto iPhone
Bnet Australia reports that at the $9.99 price point Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars is rocketing up the App Store charts, unlike the $30 or $40 versions for the Nintendo DS or the Sony PSP version. Quel Surprise!
WWDC 2009 keynote releases
- New 15″ MacBook Pro has built in battery lasts up to 7 hours, 1000 charges, approx. 5 years. 60% better colour gamut, 3.06 Dual Core CPU, 8Gb RAM max, 500Gbx7200RPM drive, or 256Gb SSD. Starts at US$1699 through US$2229
- SD card slots added to models except 17″
- 13″ Macbook is now a MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air updated to up to 2.13GHz CPU
Snow Leopard 10.6:
- Mail, iCal and Address book now support Exchange, with auto-discovery of Exchange Servers
- QuickLook can preview Microsoft Office documents in Mail without MS Office being installed
- Preview 2x faster, better PDF text selection
- Exposé integration with Dock (“Dock Exposé”) for displaying an App’s windows
- Chinese character input on trackpad
- Mail up to 2.3x faster
- Final version of Safari 4 released for Leopard, Tiger and Windows
- Safari now sandboxes plugins to prevent them crashing the browser (IMHO this means you, Google 🙂
- Stacks now have scrolling
- Page through, magnify PDF thumbnails and movies
- QuickTime X focuses on the content, overlays controls, lets you select from a visual timeline more easily and share it on YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes.
- All Snow Leopard applications are 64-bit
- Grand Central Dispatch supports multicore across all of Snow Leopard
- Open CL (Computing Language) has been open sourced and allows for hardware abstraction of the video hardware for use in processing or display
- Upgrade cost US$29 or US$49 for upgrading the Leopard family pack
There were some 16593 viewers watching the ustream live stream.
Apple pulls baby shaking iPhone App
Unsurprisingly, Apple has pulled an iPhone App game where the aim is to shake a baby to death.
Surprisingly, they approved it in the first place?
Free Mac First Person Shooters
Barrack, by Ambrosia
Recent events have reminded me of the game Barrack from Ambrosia.
If I recall correctly it’s kind of like Quix in that you have to block (barrack) off chunks of the playing field without getting hit while you’re doing it. But then it has been a while since I last played it.
How X-Plane got onto the iPhone
Cool story of how the pretty awesome flight simulator X-Plane got ported to the iPhone in 10 days.
Spore creature creator for the Mac
If you want to get in on the game with Spore Creature Creator, you can download it here. Ars Technica has some more information on getting it running on machines with not quite the right graphics card here.
Apple Design Award Winners 2008
Incorporating some iPhone categories this year (because hey, they’re cooler than those boring old Macs), we have
- Best iPhone Web Application – Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPod touch 1.0 You’ll never forget the milk again! (runner up was AP Mobile News Network 1.0)
- Best Mac OS X Leopard Application – ScreenFlow 1.1.1 from Vara Software Limited for capturing and producing screencasts. (Runner up was the cool Bee Docs Timeline 3D Edition 2.1 for producing 3D timelines, strangely enough)
- Best New Mac OS X Leopard Game – Guitar Hero: III Legends of Rock 1.1 (Runner up Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars 1.09)
- Best Mac OS X Leopard User Experience Macnification from Orbicule BVBA (Runner up, Checkout 2.1 point of sale system from Werck BV)
- Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application – Screenflow 1.1.1 (Runner Up FotoMagico 2.2 from Boinx Software Ltd.
- Best Mac OS X Leopard Student Product РSquirrel (alpha), a financial management application from Axel P̩ju (runner up Flow 1.0.1, an FTP client with editor and QuickLook from Brian Amerige)
Wii!
If you want to use your Nintendo Wii remote (Wiimote) with your Mac (via Bluetooth) (perhaps because you liked Tony Stark’s movie UI and a Wii is a cheaper way to get accelerometer gear 🙂 check out
- DarwiinRemote
- The Wiinstrument for use with MIDI and/or Garageband.
- Remote Buddy
For the more programmatically inclined there’s
- WiiremoteJ
- Wiimote Simple (an open source Java library)
- WiiJuce