Quiet Read
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A cool simple app to stores a web link to something for later reading. A pretty darn useful little app. It works well, worth a while checking out.
More info @ http://bambooapps.com/free/#
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I am that guy with the funny name.
In my first life I was a professional photographer. In my second life I started a multimedia studio. That studio began life by producing Flash Games and turned into Software company over the years.
My drive to make art continues with focus of producing my own tools with code. Along the journey others have jumped on to use these tools also. Where will this journey take us, no one knows. I do at least intend to enjoy the ride of finding out.
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iTunes 9.0.2 update is out. Many Fixes
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Thanks Apple, for actually reading bug reports. This fixes an number of issue with iTunes. Also added new things. But many of the fixes are what interest me, to write about it.
Here is the short list of fixes and improvements.
iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility.
iTunes 9 comes with many new features and improvements, including:
• An improved look and feel, including a new Column Browser for easily browsing your artists or albums, movies, TV shows, and more.
• iTunes Store has a brand new look, with improved navigation for quick and easy exploration.
• iTunes LP and iTunes Extras create unique experiences that feature exclusive interviews, videos, photos, and more — available with select album and movie purchases on the iTunes Store.
• Home Sharing helps you manage your family's iTunes collection between computers in your home. iTunes can automatically transfer new purchases, or you can choose just the items you want.
• Genius Mixes are created for you by iTunes and play songs from your library that go great together.
• iPod and iPhone syncing now allows you to organize your iPhone and iPod touch home screens directly in iTunes. Syncing is now also more flexible, allowing you to sync individual artists, genres, or TV show and Podcast episodes.
• iTunes U items are now organized into their own section in your iTunes library.
• Sync with iPod nano (5th generation), iPod classic (Fall 2009), and iPod touch (Fall 2009).
• iTunes 9 also includes many other improvements, such as HE-AAC encoding and playback, more flexibility with Smart Playlists rules, simpler organization of your media files inside an iTunes Media folder, and more.
Check software update for the upgrade.
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Say goodbye to lite versions in app store
In App Purchases now can be used in free apps to sell content, subscriptions, and digital services.
A single version of an app that uses In App Purchase to unlock additional functionality, eliminating the need to create Lite versions of an app.
This alone should eliminate about 50,000 apps from the store as there so many that have two versions, an lite (demo) version and the full (pay for version).
Good move.
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Steering Wheel for iPhone and iPod Touch Gaming.
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This is pretty cool, It no longer will be mobile , but may keep your device hitting the wall when it slips out of your hands.
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Pixelmator 1.5 is out
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My favorite image editing tool just got upgraded today. What is new: First off this supports 10.6 snow leopard. (That makes only one more app I own that yet does not function with 10.6)
They also added:
• Save for web. (Finally! Been waiting for this for a while.)
• Info Labels
• send to mail
• web colors plug-in
• Trim
and a few bug fixes and improvements.
More info @ http://www.pixelmator.com/
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GameSalad, Simple game creation for iPhone and Web
Do not understand programing? Do not worry. GameSalad is an Automator type creation tool for games and animation. Interesting concept, and it works. It can be used by traditional programers as a truly rapid prototyping tool. Or by anyone as designed. A simple to use, game creation tool. Web base games need a plug in.
iPhone publishing is just around the corner. (Here the first live iPhone game made with GameSalad, below)
What ever the needs you have, This tool could become very useful. Playing around and testing this product, was and has been truly amazing and fun. Start with a template and play around just as if you where using Automator and make something. One click publishing. with embed tags to put anywhere.
(Below are a few more, screens of the gameSalad interface)
Here is a video I found on youTube that speaks for it self.
If you are a programer looking for prototying. A gamer looking to make your own game, or just curious. I recomend checking out GameSalad. It is a great tool for any need. It is also fun toying around with. Check it out. It currently only works on OS X 10.5 or later with an Intel Processor.
More Info: gamesalad.com
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Added Oct 5th iPhone Deployment now available.
Bit pricey to say the least, consider unity 3D only $199 for there iPhone indy version (and also supports the web, Mac & windows DT). more info @ http://gamesalad.com/products/iphone
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Decompose: simple fast Masking with quality results.
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Decompose Is a little image utility for masking images. It does a better and faster job than, photoshop, pixelmator, gimp, and even better than mask-pro. It still takes some time to lay down the 3 layer mask. But the final output is the cleanest mask image I've ever seen with the less amount of work by the user.
If your doing a ton of masking and want a tool that will work without the headaches in time it takes other tools to give a quality final masked image. I would suggest trying Decompose out. I was pretty amazed by what it did in less than an hour with 6 images.
This is a quality imaging tool that worth test driving. Great job metakine
More Info @ http://www.metakine.com/products/decompose
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New Logic Studio
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woooh hooo! I been waiting for an update to one of the most used tools on my machine. Many new plug-ins to go around and making editing sound even sweeter than before. Logic studio already was one awesome tool, it get a little bit better with this new release.
Check it out @ http://www.apple.com/logicstudio
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Layers: Screen Capture
This might be one of the best screen capture apps yet. I still love using yellow mugs SnapNDrag freeware one, And Screen Steps for easy to build manuals. But Layers uses a complete different approach. You can capture anything and everything and it is a full psd layered image to edit in any image editor (like pixelmator and gimp) that supports layers. You can also drop out backgrounds etc. It really worth downloading the demo and playing around with to see what this bad boy can do. As it does many things other screen capture apps do not.
It's like someone really thought this one out. and I like it.
more info @ http://the.layersapp.com/
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Minitube
A different way to watch you tube. Works with Mac & Linux , with windows build still in works. It's a pretty good app for what it does. Sometimes it's nice to watch something and browse the web at the same time without opening multiple browser windows.
more info @ http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
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