Game (and Game Utilities) developer, Phelios, announced the release of
PTK version 1.30, a significant update to PTK, the game SDK. Since its
last update incorporating a brand new sound engine, GamePad support
and further enhancements, PTK now supports 3D.
Phelios Updates Bongo Boogie Just in Time for Chinese New Year
Phelios Updates Bongo Boogie Just in Time for Chinese New Year01/22/2004 12:57 PM Phelios announced the release of a significant update to their game,
Bongo Boogie, the breakout game with monkeys that have gone bananas.
The update coincides serendipitously with the Chinese New Year 2004:
The Year of the Monkey.
August 9, 2004 - Phelios announced the release of their new game for
Mac called, Bud Redhead, a retro-style, side-scrolling game that takes
the real spirit of Platformers and mixes it with adventure and time
travel. Bud Redhead is another game in the growing Phelios library
created with their game engine, PTK.
Bud Redhead, a multi-award winning game, was originally created for PC
by game developer, Space Ewe, and was rewritten with Phelios'
multi-platform game engine, PTK, so that it could easily be ported to
the Mac. Phelios was more than happy to team up with Space Ewe to help
with getting them on-board using the PTK engine, and within a very
short period of time, Bud Redhead for Mac was completed.
Phelios releases Abracadabra game
Phelios releases Abracadabra game01/27/2004 10:23 AM Phelios today announced the release of their new game, Abracadabra, an
arcade game that will "take you on a magical trip...
A New Game ABRACADABRA from Phelios - Demo Available
Phelios Releases a Valentines Edition of Swap and its 2 for 1
Phelios Releases a Valentines Edition of Swap and its 2 for 102/10/2004 02:51 AM Phelios announced the release of a Special Valentines Edition of
their game, Swap--one of many Phelios games made with the game engine, PTK. Upon launching Swap, players
now have new Valentine Skins to choose from; one is called, For Her,
the other, For Him, as well as the original Swap skin, Classic. In
addition to the Valentines Skins, there are now 2 new sets of
heart-shaped tokens to choose from, bringing the selection of sets to
4. Players also now have the ability to design their own token sets
and add them to Swap.
Phelios Posts Games by Developers Using the PTK Game Engine
Phelios Posts Games by Developers Using the PTK Game Engine02/10/2004 02:51 AM Phelios, Inc. announced that they are publishing the game, Spin
Around on the Phelios.com website. Spin Around is an innovative twist
on the matching color puzzle games, created by Winter Wolves
Programmer, Celso Riva. Not only must the player match 3 or more
colored balls in rows, but can do so by spinning the whole board
around and letting the balls fall, as well as shift individual rows of
balls.
Configuring Automatic Updates to Prompt You Before You Download Updates in Windows XP
Hmm -- it looks as if OS X 10.2.4 supports journaling, and not just on
the Server edition. There's no "enable journal" button in the Info
pane of Disk Utility, but when I opened a terminal window and typed:
sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil enableJournal /
... It created a journal file and enabled journaling on my new
Powerbook G4.
FlickIt supports MarsEdit06/05/2005 10:56 PM ChanceCube:
“Whether you want to post a photo to your blog, send a link to
one via E-mail or instant message, or would like to paste the source
of it into an application you’re using - FlickIt can handle
it.”
The FlickIt
dashboard widget lets you access Flickr photos and put them inside
your weblog posts written in MarsEdit.
Senate Supports Tax Cut for Manufacturers (AP)
Senate Supports Tax Cut for Manufacturers (AP)05/12/2004 01:27 AM AP - The Senate threw its support behind a tax cut for American
manufacturers, urging the House to follow its lead and head off
punishing tariffs that creep up every month.
FileWave supports LDAP
FileWave supports LDAP09/21/2004 12:21 PM FileWave on Tuesday announced the release of FileWave
1.7, a new version of the system management software for Mac OS X
developed to distribute software across a network. FileWave 1.7 gains
support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This speeds
the creation of new clients on the FileWave XServer, according to the
developer. FileWave 1.7 requires Mac OS X v10.2 or higher. Pricing
depends on the installation size; an evaluation version is available.
Dock-It 2.0 supports Mac OS X docklings, more
Dock-It 2.0 supports Mac OS X docklings, more06/22/2004 10:32 AM Gideon Softworks Inc. has released Dock-It 2.0, an
upgrade to its multifunctional launcher, extra Dock creator and Finder
enhancer. The new version features support for Mac OS X docklings as
well as changing the label size, fixes bugs and adds performance
enhancements. It also comes with Clock, Clipping, Shelf Space and
Preferences applets that add a digital clock to all your docks, create
a spot to store URL clippings and cut text and images, store dragged
items so that they can be dropped to another spot in the Finder and
offer quick access to all your System Preferences. Dock-It 2.0 can be
downloaded as a 7-day demo and costs US$10 for the full version, with
upgrades from version 1.x available for $6. It runs in Mac OS X
v10.2.x or higher; the developer told MacCentral that it may run in
v10.1 but hasn't been tested in that OS.
Both ecto
1.0 RC4 and Fee
dDemon 1.10 RC5a were released yesterday, which is good timing
since the developers of ecto and I have been working to enable ecto as
"Blog This" tool in FeedDemon (thanks, Alex!). This adds to the list
of desktop blog publishing tools which FeedDemon already
auto-detects:
BTW, if you're not sure how to blog from FeedDemon,
all you need to do is right-click a news item in FeedDemon's news item
list and select "Blog this News Item."
SwitchXS now supports Japanese, more
SwitchXS now supports Japanese, more09/15/2004 09:43 AM AssistiveWare on Wednesday announced an incremental release to its SwitchXS
utility for Mac OS X that adds support for Japanese. SwitchXS offers
full mouse and keyboard emulation to quadriplegic users and others who
can only operate their Macs using one or more switches. Also new in
this release is improved support for mixing switch and mouse input, a
faster and smaller file format for scan panels, and the ability to
display button labels in bold to improve visibility. AssistiveWare has
announced that an editor to design custom scanning panels will be
released for free in October. SwitchXS v1.5.5 is a free update for
current users; the full version costs US$249 or €199 (excluding
VAT). System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2 or higher.
Study Supports View That Ice Age Is Still Quite a Way Off
Study Supports View That Ice Age Is Still Quite a Way Off06/09/2004 08:47 PM In an eagerly anticipated study, a group of climate and ice experts
says it has new evidence that Earth is not even halfway through the
current warm era.
Wow. Say that 10 times fast. Seriously though, I got a
nice email yesterday from James Robertson of Cincom
Smalltalk who is also the individual responsible for the
BottomFeeder RSS aggregator. He let me know that he's
added support for Feedster as a search option within
BottomFeeder. That's very cool. Here's some more info on
BottomFeeder:
Now here's the interesting thing, look at all the supported
platforms:
Windows
Mac OS8, OS9
Solaris
HPUX 10
SGI
Linux 86
Mac OSX
AIX
HPUX 11
Alpha Unix
This is written in Cincom Smalltalk and the number of platforms
available is a huge endorsement for the portability that Cincom must
offer. Neat. Thank you James !
Random humor that's running through my brain right now, I can just
hear this: "Yes Virginia, that's right. You can now aggregate
feeds on your AlphaServer. Its wicked fast".
WebDesign 2.6 now supports more Web languages03/17/2005 04:01 AM Canadian developer Rage Software on Wednesday released WebDesign 2.6,
a free update for existing users to its HTML source code editor, which
includes an integrated Site Manager. This upgrade adds support for
such Web languages as JavaScript, XML, ASP and VBScript and enhances
its syntax coloring with customizable options. In addition, it adds
Rendezvous support to the FTP client, new options and commands and
more. WebDesign is US$29.95, which includes a free year of Web
hosting. Mac OS X v10.2 is required.
Zend Accelerator 2.0.2 Now Supports PHP 4.2.0 And 4.2.1
Zend Accelerator 2.0.2 Now Supports PHP 4.2.0 And 4.2.107/03/2002 03:05 AM The latest release includes:
- the Zend Optimizer v. 1.3.1 for more efficient code utilization
- new and improved installation that autodetects the PHP version
- Compatibility with PHP 4.2.0 and 4.2.1
NDP supports bad Internet treaties06/24/2004 04:37 PM This is painful. I've been a New Democratic Party supporter all my
life, and was proud to cast my absentee ballot for Olivia Chow in this
year's Canadian Federal election -- and would love to see Jack Layton
in the PM's seat.
That said, the NDP's tech policies are rotten. For one thing, they
support WIPO's punishing Internet treaties. I hope that this is a
matter of ignorance and not a well-thought-out, stable policy. I'd be
happy to talk to any NDP policy person about these treaties, and why
they're so poisonous to liberty.
The NDP endorsed the Committee's recommendations on swift ratification
of the controversial WIPO Internet treaties, and even more
surprisingly, it gave its approval to an extended licensing scheme for
educational materials, despite the heated opposition from the
education community.
FWIW, I think extended licensing -- where all material is considered
to be covered under a blanket license once a certain minimum of
rights-holders have opted in -- is a great idea. It keeps holdouts
from stalling blanket license regimes that simplify re-use and
distribution.
Link
(Thanks, Tim!)
In 1995, he was sending his
friends in San Francisco e-mail messages with lists of local events.
With their encouragement, this became Craig's List, which has now
expanded to Boston, Seattle, New York and 19 other regions. Nine years
later, Craig's List now gets 500 million page views and 4 million
unique visitors every month. The staff numbers 14, and the site runs
on about 30 Linux boxes. Craig says his success is based on "a culture
of trust." When I asked about his business model, he just laughed.
A self-described nerd, Craig has become somewhat of an
international celebrity. He has been asked by San Francisco
mayor-elect Gavin Newsom to join the mayor's transition team. "In San
Francisco City, people have given up because they seem to feel that
their leadership has told them that it doesn't matter if they're doing
a good job. It doesn't matter that much if they get things done."
Craig's mission -- should he decide to accept it -- is to recommend
how the use of computer systems and the Internet can better serve the
public. "So far, it looks pretty good," he says.
And coming soon to a theatre near you -- no kidding -- "24 Hours on
Craig's List." That's right -- the movie! Look for it to premiere at
South by Southwest or the San Francisco International Film Festival.
[IT
Conversations]
OK I got just one question: "It's been over six months
since the Tribe appeared - aiming right
at Craigslist and their Listings service. So how long will it be till
Craigslist support FOAF and opens up to the world?"
Mathematica Supports 64-bit Addressing
Mathematica Supports 64-bit Addressing06/22/2005 02:55 AM Wolfram Research, Inc., maker of Mathematica™, has always been
quick to support the latest version of Mac OS. With the release of
Tiger, Wolfram is providing a Spotlight plug-in and Automator actions,
but the biggest and perhaps most significant change for Mathematica is
support for 64-bit memory addressing. And that means much more than
just greater speed and performance — in fact, 64-bit addressing
made possible by Tiger opens up a whole new realm of problems that can
now be solved. [Jun 21, 2005]
quickSub supports NetNewsWire
quickSub supports NetNewsWire01/07/2004 05:37 PM quickSub 0.3.2 adds NetNewsWire support. quickSub is a
“Javascript function that adds intelligence to the XML feed
button on your web page.”
Broadcom claims first Wi-Fi chipset for PCI
Express: PCI Express is the next next generation
of motherboard-based expansion technology with a high
er-speed switched bus architecture for better throughput. PCI
Express (PCIe) can push 1 Gbyte/s of data; even the fastest
proprietary flavors of 802.11 support about 3 to 4 Mbyte/s (30 to 40
Mbps), so it's not a stretch to have multiple cards in a single PCIe
chassis, even. The Broadcom chipset is sampling now.
Colubris Supports Voice05/10/2004 05:35 PM Colubris Networks, the maker of fat APs, introduced support for voice
over Wi-Fi: The new system will support SpectraLink's voice over Wi-Fi
solution. Colubris is touting its ability to isolate voice and data
services so that each can have its own security parameters and quality
of service profiles. The company says that previously companies would
have to either resort to the lowest common level of security or deploy
separate networks for each application. However, a number of WLAN
switch vendors support voice and enable the separation of traffic
based on the application. Voice traffic is often treated differently
than data traffic because most voice over Wi-Fi handsets don't support
VPNs. Enterprises that want to secure data transmissions using VPNs
must treat that traffic differently than voice traffic....
WWDC: Xcode 2 supports 64-bit application dev, more
WWDC: Xcode 2 supports 64-bit application dev, more06/28/2004 04:28 PM "64-bit" is a mantra that this week's Worldwide Developers Conference
(WWDC) 2004 attendees are hearing a lot. The memory addressing
capability is something that's unique on Macs to Apple's Power Mac G5
systems. A year after G5s were first introduced, it looks like the
operating system and code programming tools are finally catching up.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs told WWDC keynote address attendees earlier today
that Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" will ship with 64-bit support, and now
word has come from Apple that its Xcode 2
development environment will support the development of 64-bit
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