How to capture freehand region on Mac OS

post from prMac on 21 October 2011 10:50:00 PM. © prMac

Ondesoft introduces Onde Screen Capture for Mac. It is the most powerful screen grabbing utility on Mac OS, by which you can easily capture any part on your Mac desktop including rectangular or ellipse region, freehand region, full screen, active window or all windows, etc. You can snag frame rectangular or ellipse region of your desktop. The knobs on the sides and corners can be used to resize the frame according to your need. The transparent frame, you see the content through it.

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Physics Strategy Smash Hit Troll Blaster for iOS
Gaining Momentum

post from prMac on 21 October 2011 09:40:00 PM. © prMac

Montreal based software firm eMobiSoft launched their physics strategy / puzzle game Troll Blaster 1.0.2, for iOS. The game enters the popular projectile destruction genre of gameplay in which the player fires a strategically selected weapon onto a structure containing evil trolls. In Troll Blaster, each level presents a new challenge for the player. The trolls are in structures to the right of the screen that are build of wood, stone, glass and metal.

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MyCosmetics 1.2 is now available in Chinese,
Japanese and Korean

post from prMac on 21 October 2011 08:36:00 PM. © prMac

After the enormous success of MyCosmetics 1.1, Bubble Surprise introduces MyCosmetics 1.2, for iOS devices, now in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. MyCosmetics will be the definitive choice for millions of Women's. My Cosmetics 1.2 app is the best solution to keep track of cosmetics and beauty products. MyCosmetics is designed both for the professional market segment and non-professional users. MyCosmetics tracks expire dates, organize cosmetic and beauty products and stores it.

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VueScan Mobile

post from Daring Fireball on 21 October 2011 08:03:27 PM. © Daring Fireball

My thanks to Hamrick Software for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote VueScan Mobile. VueScan Mobile is a powerful, easy-to-use app that lets you use your Wi-Fi printer/scanners from HP, Epson, and Canon on your iOS device.

VueScan Mobile works with a long list of popular Wi-Fi-enabled scanners, saves scanned images to your photo library, and can send images to any other app that reads PDFs or JPEGs, including iBooks, Dropbox, and GoodReader.

VueScan Mobile’s big sibling VueScan is great desktop scanning software for the Mac, Windows, and even Linux. Hamrick does one thing and they do it incredibly well: they make great scanning software.

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Jon Stokes on Next-Gen ARM CPUs, and Apples
Switch to Intel

post from Daring Fireball on 21 October 2011 08:03:27 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jon Stokes:

Years ago, I heard the back-story on Apple?s switch to Intelfirst-hand from some folks on the IBM side of things, and what Ilearned was that Steve Jobs agonized over this decision and waiteduntil the morning of the keynote before pulling the trigger onthis move. He actually went into that day with two keynotepresentations prepared: one for a PowerPC-based product line, andone for The Switch. When he pulled out The Switch presentation,the IBM team was absolutely as stunned as the rest of the world,as was the P.A. Semi team who had been separately assured by Jobsthat their dual-core PowerPC part would find its way into Appleportables.

I believe it, but this sort of conflicts with reporting by CNet and The Wall Street Journal — both of which reported Apple’s surprise switch to Intel for the Mac a few days before the WWDC keynote. Of course, it’s entirely possible that Apple “decided” to switch to Intel a few days before WWDC, but that nothing had been signed in ink until the morning of the keynote.

Anyway, good stuff on next-gen ARM technology, as usual from Stokes.

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This Is Not a Cheesesteak

post from Daring Fireball on 21 October 2011 07:03:56 PM. © Daring Fireball

Splendid new blog documenting sandwich atrocities.

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Maybe Microsoft Should Get Into the Concert
Ticket Business

post from Daring Fireball on 21 October 2011 07:03:56 PM. © Daring Fireball

Some camp-out-all-night-outside-the-store lines are not alike.

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Undocumented APIs and Android

post from Daring Fireball on 21 October 2011 06:03:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Tim Bray on the Android Developers Blog, in a post euphemistically titled “New Public APIs in ICS”, which is really about widely-used undocumented APIs (a.k.a. private APIs, in Apple parlance) that have changed in Android 4.0:

And we also think that most developers know that when they useundocumented APIs, they?re making a commitment to doing theright thing when those APIs change.

Interested to see how this goes.

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Newsstand Is Driving a Surge in Magazine,
Newspaper iPad App Subscriptions

Jeff Sonderman, Poynter:

A couple weeks ago I predicted that Apple?s virtual Newsstandfor iPads and iPhones would provide ?a little more conveniencefor the user, and a little more discoverability for the publisher— but nothing here is a game-changer.?
I stand by the first part of that diagnosis, but it?s now clearthere is something game-changing about Newsstand. Since Applelaunched it last week in the latest version of its iOS operatingsystem, its impact has been immediate and significant. ManyNewsstand apps now rank among the top free apps overall, andmagazine and newspaper apps are benefiting from a surge ofdownloads and subscribers.

I think it’s all about prominence and visibility. The iOS home screen is prime real estate. It’s up there with the Google home page. There is no clutter, and Apple is judicious when adding new items. People notice Newsstand. It was the first thing my mom asked me about after she upgraded her iPad to iOS 5.

Ben Brooks said it well:

For power users the Newsstand seems stupid and annoying, I suspectthough that for many non-power users it is more of a ?finally?type system. It makes searching for, downloading, paying forperiodicals very easy.

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