Category: Software
XperimentalZ Games has released an update to their popular iPad and iPhone runner game, Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword or DRWAPS. Version 1.1.2 adds a number of new features to the game and includes: – Revamped the objectives system in endless to add much more variations– Added an indicator in story mode, to let the player know when the section will finish– Added new leaderboards– Fixed several minor bugs The game is a high paced runner game with high…
Apple has released an update to Java for Mac OS X Lion. The update 2012-001 is intended to address issues with reliability and security. It also addresses compatibility issues for Java SE 6. This update require Mac OS X Lion 10.7. You can download the update through the software update option on the Apple menu or from the Apple support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1515
Apple has released an update to the iPhoto ’11 Application. IPhoto Verison 9.2.3 addresses a host of issues and includes the following updates and enhancements: Improves overall stability Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly on systems with multiple user accounts Fixes and enhancements included in iPhoto Versions 9.2 to 9.2.2 Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Addresses compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5 Left and right swipe gestures can now be used to navigate…
Apple has released an update to their Safari Internet Browser software. version 5.1.5 is intended to address a couple of stability issues in both Lion and Snow Leopard: You can update the browser through the Software Update function under the Apple Menu or by downloading the update from the Safari Support Page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1070
Apple has released an update for the Apple Software Installer for users running Mac OS X 10.6. Update 1.0 of the Apple Software Installer is intended to address an issue which prevented certain Apple Software packages from installing properly. You will need to be running Mac OS X 10.6 and have updated to at least Mac OS X 10.6.8 to install this update. The update can be installed from the Software Update option under the Apple Menu or by going…
Apple has updated the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility, releasing version 3.10 of the compatibility driver. The update adds the following cameras to the compatibility list for Apple’s Apperture 3 as well as their iPhoto ’11 packages: Canon PowerShot G1 X Nikon D4 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GX1 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ35 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ38 Samsung NX200 Sony Alpha NEX-7 Sony NEX-VG20 You will need at least Mac OS X 10.6.8 or Mac OS 10.7.1 installed in order to use this update. You can…
Apple has released an update to the Epson printer drivers for Mac OS X. The latest version of the Epson drivers, version 2.10, requires users to have at least Mac OS X 10.6 on their machines. You can download the drivers through the Software Update feature under the Apple menu or from the Epson Printer Support page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1398
Apple has released an update to their Safari Web Browser. The update, Version 5.1.4, includes a number of fixes that improve the performance of the Safari Browser. Included fixes are: Improve JavaScript performance Improve responsiveness when typing into the search field after changing network configurations or with an intermittent network connection Address an issue that could cause webpages to flash white when switching between Safari windows Address issues that prevented printing U.S. Postal Service shipping labels and embedded PDFs Preserve…
Brian Picchi has posted a new video review of the Will Harvey produced Apple ][ Game, The Immortal. The Immortal was a glossy graphical adventure that was produced in 1990 by Electronic Arts. Brian takes you through an entire level of play in the 12.5 minute video and talks about some of the nifty tricks within the game including resurrecting a dead player. See the video below or on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELSlynnKrk You can also play the game online at…
Oliver Schmidt, long known for his work on several projects in the Apple][ community including Contiki and Applewin, has now delved into documenting the internals of GEOS, the Berkeley Softworks produced operating system for the Apple ][. In his announcement in the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroup, Oliver says” Although the Apple GEOS filesystem is based on ProDOS 8 the Apple GEOS files are not standard ProDOS 8 files. I’m not refering to file content here but to the file structure – meaning…
Rovio, in coordination with NASA, has made an announcement about the availability of Angry Birds Space, the latest in the Angry Birds franchise. They have posted a video of the announcement and a bit of the gameplay on they website at: http://space.angrybirds.com/announcement/ The anouncement starts with NASA Astronaut Don Petitit, and current International Space Station Resident, in a old school style announcement clip with cutesy graphics being added to his announcement. His demonstrates some of the physics involved in the…
The Creator of the Apple IIgs program SoundSmith and the Apple IIgs game LaserForce, Huibert Aalbers has added his Apple IIgs based programs to his website. SoundSmith was one of the premier music programs of the Apple IIgs years and allowed game music to be written quickly and eloquently. inspired by what he had heard on an Amiga system of the time and knowing the capabilities of the Apple IIgs, the non-musician Huibert set out to write a program that…
Brian Fargo has posted some ideas about what he thinks the Kick Starter rewards will look like when he posts the project later this week. The re-start of the famed Apple ][ based franchise came earlier last month when Bran decided to try and make the project completely funded by a Kick Starter project. Ideas include statues within the game dedicated to the upper level donors as well as a private party hosted by Brian and Alan Pavlish in honer…
Rovio, the maker of the iTunes Store #1 hit, Angry Birds has posted the latest teaser for their next rendition of the Angry Birds franchise, Angry Birds Space. The quote “In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Squeal…” is emblazoned on the page when you go to the website meant for the game itself. Teaser three, shown in the photo above has the usual Angry Birds pig in a Face on Mars like moon scape type scene. With the announcement coming…
Kelvin Sherlock’s Shrink-Fit X, the application which allows for ShrinkIt files to be manipulated on Mac OS X, is now available in a Universal Binary for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The binary is downloadable from his new website at: http://osx.ksherlock.com/ Or you can download the file directly at: http://osx.ksherlock.com/Shrink-Fit-X-10.4.zip
Spectre Media announced that they will be introducing a new iOS based Starship Troopers game, done in cooperation with the movie house, Sony Pictures. The game will be announced at the Game Developers Conderence going on this week in San Francisco, Ca. The game will be released sometime later this summer with the timing of the release coinciding with the release of the new Starship Troopers movie also due out this year. This will be the dirst time the Starship…
For many of us, Super Mario Brothers was one of the first Nintendo games or Famicon games we owned. That was the epitome of the 1990’s gaming scene and had only one aspect to the game. Now there is a new Super Mario Brothers game, Mari0 which introduces a host of elements including portal gun mechanics. The open source game is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh and the complete source code is also available. Some of the new features…
Apple Inc. has released an update to the latest release of its Mac OS. Mac OS X 10.7.3 was released last month, however some users were reporting issues with the Time Machine backup system on the latest version of the OS. Apple has released a Supplemental Update to the OS, version 1.0, to address that particular issue. Whether the update addresses another known sleep issue bug or not is not yet known. The update does not require a system reboot…
This is a generic sort of article… I have only tried it on one type of machine but this advice may prove useful in other situations. As regular readers know, I volunteer at an educational non-profit organisation every Friday as a systems administrator.One of the privileges is I get to borrow a computer every so often for one of my projects. In this case I had a computer I was using as a file server (using FreeNAS v7.x). Since I…
Apple has released an update for the Graphics Firmware on the iMac. Version 3.0 of the Graphics Firmware targets an issue that causes the iMac to hang. You can download the firmware update through the Software Update function under the Apple Menu or from the Apple Support Page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1444
