Upcoming iPhone Games to Watch
The AppStore is known for a lot of things, but easy navigation isn’t one of them. With tens of thousands of games on the service, knowing when a real gem comes out can be more of a challenge than it should be. Big games may get featured on the What’s Hot or What’s New pages, and they may sit at the top of the sale numbers for a few weeks, but unless you’re actively checking to see what’s new on a regular basis it’s almost inevitable you’re going to miss a golden gaming experience.
Today we’re taking a look at 5 upcoming game worth keeping an eye out for. Why miss out on the big names if we can give you the heads up before they happen?
Snowtape Review: Who Needs Satellite Radio
Radio is a technology that has been around for a very long time. It has also evolved a lot. We now not only have radio that is broadcasted through radio waves, but we now have internet and satellite radio too. But the real future of radio is not in waves or from satellites, it is in the Internet. There is almost limit to how many stations there could be, albeit, not all of them can be good stations. Today I will be talking about an application for Mac that controls Internet radio in a beautiful way: Snowtape.
2009 Apple Design Awards
Every year at Apple’s WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference), awards called the Apple Design Awards are given to, well, in Apple’s opinion, the best designed apps. But in this case, design does not only mean GUI, it means the internals too. They are the beast, all-around designed apps. And because the App Store is officially out for the first time during a WWDC, there were app winners too.
Mac@Work Series: Part 1 – Does the Mac belong at work?
Today we are starting a new series on MacApper regarding the Macintosh at work. A couple months ago I started living this series and thought there would be some value in sharing my experience. First I must build a bit of a foundation for the series, explain a bit about my short history with the Mac, and give us a jumping off point to the question “Does the Mac belong at work?”. This will be an ongoing series where I will walk through my experiences of bringing a Mac into a windows only work environment. This topic is close to me as I recently went through this process at my work. There have been challenges, disappointments, breakthroughs, wow moments, and a great sense of satisfaction along the way. Without further explanation lets pour our series foundation.
Screenium 1.1 Released
Last year, we did a face-off of all the major screen-capturing apps. In the end, we thought that Screenium was the winner for its price and large feature-set. Just recently, Screenium has been updated to version 1.1 and holds a few new features.
The first new feature is the customization of mouse clicks–You can now show users your mouse clicks. There is a new Mouse tab where you can customize the size, color, duration and strength of your mouse clicks. You can even display the button name for the click. This means, if you click the left mouse button, it says, ‘Left’ where you clicked as well as showing the animation. You can visualize all these styles without having to create a video in the Mouse Actions Preview box at the bottom.
Intro to Web Development: The Tools
It’s no secret that the Mac has been designed to incorporate the internet into its daily life. Just think of the “i”Mac and how Apple advertised how quickly you could get online compared to PCs. Did you ever think about how people develop the sites you visit every day? If so, read on to figure out how to get your idea and products out there using tools and app available on a dock near you.
To start off this series, I’ve decided to talk about some of the many popular tools web developers use every day to create their own websites. This post is divided into two parts because there are two kinds of web development apps out there: W.Y.S.I.W.Y.Gs and Text Based apps.
Cocoa Development Part 1: The Beginning
Cocoa is an API consisting of many old frameworks from the NeXTSTEP days and new ones that Apple has introduced since then. Cocoa uses a language called Objective-C, which, being based on C, means that you can use C as well. Before you start to even learn how to use Cocoa and write code in Objective-C there are a few things you will need.
Versions Review: Subversion for the Rest of Us
If you’ve ever done any work where you needed to share files with others, or track changes easily, you know how hard it is to find good software for it. Most people use something called Subversion, which is a simple way (if you have a good client) to share files and track changes at the same time. You can always just use the Shell command, but it’s not user-friendly and it takes more time to do some things. So SVN (Subversion) clients were created. The most exciting and user-friendly of these has just been released: Versions.
CleanApp Review: It Does Much More than Just Clean Your Apps
A lot of us download many new apps each week. Some we like and some we don’t. But when you’re done with an app, what do you do? Do you just drag it to the trash? Or, do you go searching around for the Plist and Application Support. Well, if you do either of these, then you really need an app deleter, like Synium’s CleanApp.
Wallet 3 Review: Your Digital Wallet
A while back we had an interview with Dustin MacDonald, the owner of Acrylic Apps. We found out about his Mac app called Wallet. Wallet makes keeping track of things like serial numbers and Internet passwords easy. I’m very excited to say that Wallet has just had a massive 3.0 update and they have just released the iPhone Version of Wallet.
