1. Handy App

    May 29, 2008 by dan

    For all you mac lovers out there like myself, its a nifty way to make DMG’s without having to guess about the required size then have to drag all your stuff in…

    iDMG

    P.S. I’m still alive.  :)

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  2. Fantavision … 2008

    April 7, 2008 by jef

    oh the pain

    Most people probably know Fantavision as a weird PS2 game, but nerds will know it as one of the first (if not the first) consumer computer animation programs for the Apple ][e. It was a bitch to use and you had about 6 colors at your disposal. But it did have rudimentary tweening and a timeline of sorts. I was pleased to run across this amazing video of an Aeriae music video made with Fantavision. The transitions, all of the scene stitching, and some of the major frame movement were done with Final Cut but still, each animation taken separately, it is a gorgeous feat, all done by Wade Clarke on an emulated Apple IIgs on an iMac G5. Wade said it took him 4 months in his spare time to produce the video. It had to be a ton of planning and hours of management of very tiny files. Bless you Wade!

    Watch the video and then visit Wade’s making of AMay photo tour.

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  3. the iPlay

    March 21, 2008 by dave

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    A pretty good read comparing games on iPhone with DS, PSP and other consoles:

    iPhone 2.0 SDK: Video Games to Rival Nintendo DS, Sony PSP

    It reveals all the juicy bits on the technical specs of the handhelds and compares strategies with a smattering of history.

    Posted in apple, awsesomze, gaming, shameless fanboyism, video games | Comments (1)

  4. Hey Flash Developer, Your iPhone Hates You … And So Does Steve Jobs (who made the iPhone)

    March 5, 2008 by jef

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    So start learning Cocoa or find another way to play Kitten Cannon (or Breakout w/ Nude Lady) on the road.
    Steve Jobs pans Flash on the iPhone from AppleInsider.

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  5. Windows makes better music than the Mac.

    February 27, 2008 by jef

    Sound made using only Mac interface sounds. Windows version after the jump. (more…)

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  6. Apple Roundup

    February 12, 2008 by dan
    • Aperture 2.0 released (over 100 new features oh boy!) hopefully fixes time machine corruption bug.  edit: according to various sources it does fix the time machine bug on both AP 1.5 and 2
    • 10.5.2 is available via software update. A special note to graphics people–currently 10.5.2 BREAKS LINOTYPE FONT EXPLORER… yikes! So you may want to hold off on updating (if you are even lucky enough to be running leopard) edit: update just dropped to fix this issue.  Nice work linotype!!!
    • Flash rumored for iphone. Total speculation from gearlive, but last time they were right… lets see if they are right again, and if so, will it be flash lite? (yuck) or flash9? Hopefully with JIT making a serious performance difference on mobile processors.
    • This is more of a personal note, but Mac Pros with the upgraded 8800GT graphics cards are now shipping in 7-10 days instead of 2-3 weeks… early adopters are reporting that theirs have finally shipped after nearly a month of waiting.

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