Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 12, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh Alesis has announced that the MultiMix 6 USB six-channel USB mixer, is now shipping to retailers. The MultiMix 6 USB is a six-channel desktop mixer designed for easy integration into a computer-based recording environment. This compact mixer is perfect for use in recording setups, video editing and production studios as it outputs not only line-level analog audio, but also stereo 16-bit, 44.1 kHz digital audio over USB for low-noise, simple computer connection. MacinMind Software has released Radiologik DJ 1.7 , optimizing loading and playback for this radio automation and DJ tool. This release includes several optimizations to help ensure the Radiologik system is as reliable and robust as possible for 24/7 radio stations both streaming and terrestrial. Radiologik DJ is the DJ music and playout system for radio or most DJ needs, offering beautiful real radio transitions by employing Track Prep through the accompanying scheduler program. Mode de Vie Limited has announced MyThoughts 1.1 , an update to their popular Mind Mapping software for Mac OS X. Intuitive, flexible and powerful, MyThoughts for Mac provides an ideal solution for those wanting to improve their brainstorming, learning and recall abilities through the use of Mind Maps. MyThoughts for Mac features an intuitive interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas with fluid, organic, Mind Maps. Bohemian Coding has released Fontcase 1.5 , a free update to the Apple Design Award-winning font manager that is like an iPhoto for your fonts. A few feature-highlights include versatile metadata support, the ability to share fonts on your local network and fantastic ways to preview all your fonts. Version 1.5 adds much-requested auto-activation, duplicates detection, speed increase and stability among other things

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Please Note: All these apps are on sale only for a limited period of time, so if you snooze, you simply loose!             Race against the time or be a wordsmith. Here is today’s list of discounted apps.   Comet Race r – From $0.99 to Free Take part in crazy races that take place inside abandoned mining rocks and comets throughout the universe!     TransMate – From $4.99 to Free A great online translator and an offline dictionary as it features the Google translator and the WordNet English dictionary.     N.O.V.A. – From $6.99 to $4.99 Save mankind by fighting off aggressive aliens known as Judges in this immersive space opera.     Alexia Premium – From $1.99 to Free If you like Boggle and Scrabble then you will enjoy this one as it involves building words from falling characters.     PUZZERO – From $2.99 to Free This mathematical puzzle game has  25 panels all together, where 12 of them are random NUMBERS, 9 of them are PLUS signs, and 4 are MINUS signs.    

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Sale Apps And Games For iPhone And iPod Touch (March 12 2010)

Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Reviews Arachnadoodle Genre: Arcade Game Developer: Connect2Media File Size: 9.8 MB Version Reviewed: 0.3.5 Requirements: iPhone 2.2 Software Compatibility: iPhone or iPod touch Age Rating: 4+ Retail Price: $0.99 Arachnadoodle is a charming throwback to the arcade games of my youth, but with better graphics. It takes a simple premise—a spider building a web to catch flies—and makes it goofy and fun with bright colors, surprisingly difficult gameplay, and heartless rules. If this game had come out in the ‘80s, we’d have seen Arachnadoodle lunchboxes, Trapper Keepers, and a Saturday morning cartoon that hipsters would look back on with ironic fondness. Boris the spider, in all his googly-eyed glory, must be launched by the player to connect strands of webbing to the pins scattered randomly about a room. You primary goal is to hit all the pins—fail to do that and the game ends—but your secondary goal is to attach strands to as many pins, multiple times, as possible. This makes your web stronger, and you’ll catch more flies during the bonus round that follows each level. The game starts simply enough, then gets harder as more pins are added, along with later obstacles such as pins that change your trajectory and bombs that explode when touched, destroying the webwork. Connecting all the pins is hard enough (you only have a limited number of jumps), and at later levels figuring out how to get a web strong enough to catch the most flies will leave you puzzling over levels. It’s an odd mix of outright crazy, physics, and colorful cartoon characters. Appletell Rating: Buy Arachnadoodle Star*Burst Genre: Arcade Developer: Super Happy Fun Fun File Size: 21.5 MB Version Reviewed: 1.0.5 Requirements: iPhone 2.2.1 Software Compatibility: iPhone or iPod touch Age Rating: 4+ Retail Price: $1.99 (Free Lite version available) Speaking of arcade throwbacks, Star*Burst was developed by the creator of KLAX, and it shows.

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 8, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh Zevrix Solutions is offering BatchOutput Server —its output workflow automation solution for InDesign—at 50% off on maczot on Tuesday March 9th. BatchOutput Server offloads printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript to a central system by processing InDesign files from hotfolders. Originally developed for a major magazine publisher in the United States, the software saves companies countless hours that are lost each year because operators have to wait for InDesign to output files. Macgamestore.com has announced Murder, She Wrote . The game was developed by leading casual games developer and publisher, Legacy Interactive. Murder, She Wrote is an interactive seek and find who-dun-it mystery adventure with unique minigames in every scene. Play as the lovable murder novelist Jessica Fletcher and solve each of the five cases by carefully and methodically investigating murders using an innovative new style of hidden object and light adventure gameplay. Eternal Storms Software has announced the immediate availability of flickery 1.8 for Mac OS X. flickery is a unique desktop flickr client which combines the flickr photo-community with the ease-of-use and elegance of Mac OS X. Easily upload photos and videos to your Flickr photostream, organize items in photosets and groups, browse Favorites, and more. flickery 1.8 adds Google Maps to the search functionality to bring more powerful searches to flickery users. Badia Software has announced the public beta release of Exportools Professional 3.0 , its flagship software for high-end exporting and printing of multiple Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress documents. Exportools Professional 3.0 has been entirely rewritten in Cocoa, and it’s the first add-on for InDesign and QuarkXPress built with 64-bit code, boosting overall performance and stability.

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Up until now, the fidgety furballs of Chuzzle, which took Macs and PCs by storm in 2005, have been notably absent from PopCap’s iPhone library of puzzle games. An intensely addictive tile-matching puzzler in the style of Columns, Chuzzle presents you with six-by-six rows of brightly hued chuzzles–puffy, big-eyed critters that resemble Star Trek ’s Tribbles, only more high-strung. Slide the columns with your finger to match three, four, or even five chuzzles of the same color, and they’ll pop in delight, allowing more chuzzles to flood the game board. As you advance to later rounds, you’ll be hit with obstacles like chains that lock random chuzzles into place. The goal, of course, is to keep popping chuzzles until no moves are left. Pop multiple chuzzle strings for extra bonus points. The iPhone port of Chuzzle is nearly flawless, delivering all the one-more-level appeal of the original game, as well as its quirky animations and sound effects. In addition to the Classic gameplay mode, you can also play in Zen mode, an unending, obstacle free game; Speed mode, a faster-moving and more difficult version of the classic game; and Mind Bender mode, an offshoot where you must re-create a pattern by sliding chuzzles. Levels are even automatically saved when you quit out, allowing you to return to where you left off.

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Section: Macintosh / Apple Hardware , Laptops , MacBook Air , MacBook , MacBook Pro , Peripherals , Cases / Bags , Features , Contests and Giveaways A few months ago, the fine people at Saddleback Leather provided us with a medium laptop case for review. Now they’re extending that generosity to you by allowing us to give it away to one of our readers. This is 100% waterproof full grain boot leather with a high density Neoprene padding, and is valued at $265. It’s lightly used, but as is the case with all quality leather products, we like to refer to it as being “broken in.” If you read my review (all pieces covered in the review are included in the giveaway) but didn’t get your order in for the Saddleback Leather laptop case, this may be your last chance. Saddleback Leather has discontinued their laptop case line, directing portable computer users towards their line of thin briefcases , instead. Good thing we’ve made winning this one easy to do. To enter, just follow these three easy steps: Read the Saddleback Leather Laptop Case Contest Rules . Make sure you’re registered with Appletell and logged in. Leave us a comment below on this page , not on the contest rules page. Doesn’t matter what you say, just tell us hello if you want to. That’s all there is to it. Entries will be accepted from March 8th through March 21st. The winner will be randomly selected from all qualified entries, and will be notified by March 28th.

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Filed under: Cult of Mac , Apple , Developer I love these bits of art by Anders Clauson featuring iconography from the old Aqua OS X interface — obviously it’s not a straight representation of the actual interface, but instead, it’s kind of a weird deconstruction of the scrollbars. There’s one that’s just a random desktop screenshot, and another that shows the interface actually opened up in a Photoshop document. The overall effect is that the artist isn’t just showing off the parts of the UI, he’s also deconstructing the actual process of creating and using a UI as well. Good stuff. It’s also interesting to me to think that with the coming of the iPad, we may be seeing the end of interface widgets like this. When all you have is a touchscreen and gestures, you don’t really need to deal with buttons and widgets — if you want to close a window, just swipe it to the side, or to expand it, just pull two fingers apart. Of course, it’ll probably be a little while before the iPad and its interface fully replaces the more traditional UI, but I think it’ll happen at some point in the future. Aqua scrollbar art originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac. This time, we review Angry Birds, Bloom, FallDown!, Icy Escort, RandomPlay, Sir Revs-a-Lot, SteamPunk Hockey, Vector Runner APP OF THE WEEK Angry Birds: Artillery game w/ suicidal pig-hating birds. Low replay value & frustrates, but fun

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iPhone Weekly Digest: Very Angry Birds, Vector Running, Eno Musical Doodling, And More

Illustration by Pasquale D’Silva   We’re giving away a ton of cool stuff on Twitter! Follow us and watch for Twitter Giveaway posts, then reply to @MacLife to be entered to win. Check out the prizes: Urbanears Plattan Headphones   http://www.urbanears.com/press.html   Joby Gorillamobile   http://joby.com/gorillamobile/3gs/   Ten One Design Pogo Stylus   http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php   iBend stand for iPhone/iPod touch   http://www.myibend.com/   iSkin ( @iSkininc ) ProTouch keyboard cover for MacBook   http://www.iskin.com/protouch_macbook/common_features.html   iSkin iPhone cases (solo, solo FX, revo2, Fuze) http://www.iskin.com/products_iphone.tpl To find out more about the contest and have a chance to win, you HAVE to be following us on Twitter. ( http://www.twitter.com/maclife )     RULES! 
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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Reviews Genre: Hidden object game Developer: Alawar Games File Size: 55.6MB Version Reviewed: 1.1 Requirements: iPhone 3.0 or later Compatibility: iPhone or iPod touch Age Rating: 4+ Retail Price: $3.99 The Treasures of Mystery Island (TMI) takes the find-the-hidden-object game and adds dimensions and difficulties. How much these add to the game is up for debate. There’s a backstory, of course, in case you need a reason to hunt around for random objects hidden in cluttered backgrounds. You’re a pilot on a cargo plane which crashes, and beyond finding the objects to repair your plane, you have to get in touch with your company, help the local shaman with a ritual, and reach other objectives which are all oddly dependant on your ability to find the fish on top of the lampshade. TMI makes the hunt more difficult, though, by breaking each object into pieces. So you’re not looking for a hat, you’re looking for a brim, a hat band, and two pieces of a top. Once you’ve found all the objects on a screen, you’ll unlock other sites on the map, some of which require you to use the objects you’ve found to complete the scene. The art within the scenarios is very good, and of course the hidden objects blend in well—exceptionally well, considering they’re broken into pieces. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, there is a hint button which outlines the piece. The button has a status bar which refills over time. Fans of object hunts will enjoy The Treasures of Mystery Island and perhaps find it a bit more challenging; you are, after all, given no idea what the pieces of the objects look like, only their general shape and color. If the structure and story of the game are odd, it doesn’t distract from the meat of the game. Appletell Rating: Buy The Treasures of Mystery Island Full Story » | Written by Bill Stiteler for Appletell . | Comment on this Article »

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