New Openfeint/Game Center Enabled game Color
Tower for iPhone released

post from prMac on 22 June 2011 09:38:00 PM. © prMac

An Individual Developer Tanu Kush just released his first iphone/iPod touch/iPad game. Color Tower is a colored block building game. In the lower left corner a blueprint is given in each level that needs to be constructed. You can move a brick by selecting it with a tap and move it to the another place by tapping where you want it to go. In this way you replace the bricks until you have constructed the plan as shown on the blueprint.

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The Final Cut Pro X Backlash

post from Daring Fireball on 22 June 2011 07:03:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

Chris Foresman at Ars Technica:

Many users have expressed their frustration with a litany ofmissing features in Final Cut Pro X. To begin with, there’s nosupport for output to tape, and input from tape is very limited.There’s no support for EDL or XML export, commonly used to moveprojects from the editing stage to the finishing stage using othersoftware. There’s no OMF output for mixing audio using Pro Tools.And because FCPX uses a completely re-architected underlying mediahandling and editing paradigm, it can’t import projects fromprevious versions of Final Cut Pro.

The gist is that many professional editors see Final Cut Pro X as an improved version of iMovie, not an improved version of Final Cut Pro. This Twitter search, for example, is instructive.

On The Talk Show earlier today, Dan Benjamin and I made the analogy to the first release of Mac OS X — a true ground-up rewrite with the intention of laying a solid foundation for the long-term future, but, in the short term, lots of missing features and frustrating changes compared to what current users were accustomed. The difference is that with the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, Apple kept Mac OS 9 around for years, both as a boot-the-machine OS and in the form of the Classic emulation layer. There was a years-long transition. Whereas the previous — dare I say classic? — versions of Apple’s professional video software were discontinued upon yesterday’s release of the new versions.

This ground-up rewrite may well have been the right thing to do. Apple seems convinced that this is a better fundamental concept for video editing — and, really, storytelling in general. But it may prove risky not to offer a transition period. Hell, even with iMovie, when they made the switch from old-style editing to the new one (and lost a bunch of features in the initial release of the new iMovie), Apple kept iMovie HD 6 available as a free download for two years. If iMovie users were worth appeasing with a transition period, surely professional Final Cut Pro users are too. If Final Cut Pro X can’t even open Final Cut Pro 7 projects, how quickly can editors be expected to switch?

Further reading on what’s missing in FCP X vs FCP 7:

Walter Biscardi, Creative Cow:

All in all the worst product launch I’ve ever seen from Apple orpretty much any software manufacturer. Instead of a nice suite ofapplications that worked well together (FCP, Color, Motion,SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro) you now have one big app thatreally doesn’t do all that much well. It completely ignores the 11years of existence by giving you zero options to open olderprojects. We called it iMovie Pro when it was debuted back inApril and quite honestly, that’s what it is.

David Leitner, Filmmaker Magazine:

Great design, like great music, is almost always foreign at first,if not disturbingly strange. You have to spend time with it. Butif it is great, and if you invest your attention, it will changethe way you look at the world. After using FCP X for a week,Premiere Pro looks to me like the past.
At present there is no way to translate timelines from olderversions of FCP to FCP X. Setting aside the question of why youwould want to do this in the first place, you will, in any case,always want to preserve a copy of FCP 7.0.3 into the future, inorder to open older timelines.
Which underscores the obvious: FCP 7.0.3 is as robust and capablethis morning as it was before the announcement of FCP X yesterdaymorning. No reason to cease making a living using it, into theforeseeable future.

Philip Hodgetts, concluding his excellent Final Cut Pro X FAQ:

From the answers above you should be able to see that at version 1Final Cut Pro X won?t support some professional workflows, butfor other professional workflows it will be more than capable.Using Final Cut Pro X to cut together a story, I?m struck by howfast it is to achieve a result, as if everything was designed toget a result a quickly as possible.

Lastly, the reviews in the App Store are worth reading to gauge the pulse of those users who depend on the features in FCP 7 that were omitted in FCP X. Some of this, no doubt, is simply a knee-jerk rejection of the new and unfamiliar, but much of it is along the lines of “I depend upon some specific feature of FCP 7 and now it’s gone.” I predict this transition going the way of iMovie’s (and, again, Mac OS X’s) — with a two-year transition where the previous Final Cut Pro suite remains available, whilst the new Final Cut Pro X suite regains lost features.

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Win a Galaxy Tab Just by Having the Highest Score
in Minefield Navigator

post from prMac on 22 June 2011 06:35:00 PM. © prMac

Today indie developer Interex is pleased to announce a contest of skill in playing their latest game, Minefield Navigator. The player with the highest global high score at contest end will win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The contest began at 12:00 a.m. PST on Monday, June 20, 2011 and ends at 12:00 a.m. PST on August 31, 2011. Minefield Navigator is a new arcade style game set underwater. A casual, pick-up-and-play game, players must navigate through a minefield.

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Hocobi's KillingZone Defense will be Free for
Limited Time

post from prMac on 22 June 2011 05:07:00 PM. © prMac

Hocobi Inc. a mobile game publisher announced that its action survival-defense game KillingZone Defense 1.1.0 developed by CB Mobile will be free on the App Store for limited time. KillingZone Defense is a fun animated non-stop action survival defense game with the elements of role-playing, strategy and time management. KillingZone Defense features story mode with nine unique maps and 45 different stages, and also has never ending survival mode.

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Roadshow 1.0 Offline Web Videos for the iPad

post from Daring Fireball on 22 June 2011 05:04:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Great idea and a nice app, from long-time Mac developer Fetch Softworks. Free, with ads, for up to 15 videos; $5 to remove the ads and video limit. (Via Aayush Arya at Macworld.)

Update: Fireballed at the moment, so here’s a direct link to the App Store.

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Bloomberg Apple Rumor Dump

post from Daring Fireball on 22 June 2011 02:04:09 PM. © Daring Fireball

Tim Culpan, Peter Burrows, and Adam Satariano, reporting for Bloomberg:

The screen resolution on Apple?s new iPad would be aboutone-third higher than that of the iPad 2 and will boast a moreresponsive touchscreen, one of the people said.

Higher-res makes sense to me. “One-third higher” makes no sense to me.

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Volley your way to Victory in Pro Tennis Volley

post from prMac on 22 June 2011 12:16:00 PM. © prMac

Neon Play has launched Pro Tennis Volley 1.0, another must-have sports game. Players control an on-screen tennis racket to volley shots back across the court. Pro Tennis Volley stays true to the real game of tennis by rewarding players who have quick responses. With 30 achievements to complete and live global leaderboards, Pro Tennis Volley should keep tennis fans very busy this summer. This games launch coincides perfectly with Wimbledon, the Grand Slam UK tennis tournament.

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Souffle, the new SWF previewer for Mac by Eltima,
has been released

Eltima Software, a global software developer, releases a powerful SWF previewer for Mac OS X running computers - Souffle 1.0. Souffle allows previewing Adobe Flash files without the necessity of opening them. Searching for any SWF file on a Mac with Souffle installed on it is a piece of cake - just enter in Spotlight or in Finder search line the required dimensions, height and width, or duration, in seconds, of the SWF file.

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Aliens and UFOs for iPhone is Updated to Include
Video Footage

Today Apalon announces the release of the updated version of Aliens and UFOs for iPhone and iPod touch. Users can now watch mysterious video footage in the new Video gallery, enjoy more content and access even more testimonials to uncover the truth. The newest version of Aliens and UFOs app is optimized for the iPhone 4 Retina display and has an improved user interface. Video has been seamlessly integrated into the app and now users can enjoy the latest mysterious UFO videos and sightings.

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Crazy Formula Hits 1 Million Users and Adds 45
New Levels

AppGeneration's puzzle/board game Crazy Formula has achieved the 1 Million users milestone. To celebrate this mythic mark with their fans, AppGeneration is launching 45 additional levels. 18 of the levels have already been released and the others will be launched on a monthly basis. The new version has a new element, The Portal, along with minor tweaks in the UI resolved and access to Crazy Formula's Facebook page.

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