Walking Mars is an adventure and exploration game where you travel through tunnels on Mars discovering new life forms and ancient artifacts. Each element you discover helps you solve puzzles and moves the story forward. The game has nice graphics and a leisurely pace that is a good change from some of the high-intensity games for iOS.
It is always nice to see classic arcade games come back to life, especially when they are near-exact duplicates of the originals, and not so “re-invention.” Midway Arcade includes games like Joust and Spy Hunter along with the app. Plus you can buy more depending on which are your favorites.
If you are looking to clean up your Address Books/Contacts App, you can use the Card, Merge Selected Cards menu command to merge two or more contacts. You can use Look For Duplicates in the same menu, but that doesn’t give you as much control as you may want. It is usually better to take the time to look through your contacts and merge ones that you know belong together.
Apple announced and released a new version of the MacBook Pro this week, the biggest announcement at Monday’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. The new MacBook Pro is the first laptop to feature a retina display, similar to the new iPad. The new machine also comes with an SSD hard drive, no optical drive, HDMI output and a redesigned case featuring a new fan and battery system.
The rest of the MacBook line was given an incremental boost with new processors and memory. The 17-inch Macbook Pro was retired. The Mac Pro was also given a small incremental increase in power, but remains the only Mac without Thunderbolt support. Apple did add this week that new professional Macs will be coming in 2013.
In other news at the keynote, Apple revealed that the next version of OS X for Macs will come out in July. A new version of iOS is now in the hands of developers. iOS 6 will bring Siri support to new iPads, and Facebook integration, a new Maps app, and many other features.
The ball and paddle game has been around since, well literally the very beginning of video games. Multiponk finally takes it to the next level with interesting variations and nice graphics. There are traps, bumpers and bonuses in the middle of the playing field. Play against the computer or up to three other people on the same device.
I know this probably isn’t what Apple meant by sandboxing, but I just want to be sure we are doing things right.”
Do you drag and drop files to the trash in the Dock? A power user tip is to select a file and use Command+Delete to move the selected files to the trash.
Apple will kick off next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference with a keynote at 10 a.m. pacific time on Monday. Rumor sites have been publishing article after article claiming evidence that new Macs will be announced at the keynote.
Of particular interest is the potential for new Mac Pros, a line that has not been updated in a while. The new Mac Pros may feature faster processors and memory, Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, and other features. There are also rumors of new MacBook Pros, a larger screen MacBook Air and new iMacs. The Mac Pro refresh can also be considered likely as the WWDC is an event for developers and Apple has announced new developer hardware at the event in the past.
We can also expect to hear more about Mountain Lion and iOS 6, the next versions of Apple’s two operating systems. While Mountain Lion has been in developer’s hands for a while now, this may be the announcement of an official public release date. iOS 6, on the other hand, has not been talked about previously. There is much speculation about new features in iOS 6, such as Siri integration with 3rd-party apps, new mapping functionality, and Facebook integration.
Evidence seems to strongly suggest a new Mac Pro will arrive next week at the WWDC. Are you a Mac Pro user? Have you been looking forward to a new machine? Or, do you think Apple should ditch the expensive tower and focus on consumer models only?
Bravesmart is a fun puzzle game where you create matches of three on a board to build better pieces. It is a single-player puzzle board game, but with a bit of a forced construction metaphor to make it a little more fun.
I bought a Kindle book on how to use the Kindle. I can’t figure out how to read it.”
There are several ways to access menu bar items with the keyboard. Here is one you may not know about. Press Command+Shift+?. This gives you access to the menu bar’s help field. Then type part of the name of the command. For instance, in Safari you can type “New.” When the list of help items appears, the menu choice is usually the first one. Use the down arrow to get to it. Then Return to activate that menu item.
