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Apple fan dating
Friday, 07 May 2010
Apple fan dating: If you don’t want to go out with a PC, a new start-up has determined to help you meet other Apples. Because diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in common – personalities, creative professions, a similar sense of style and aesthetics, taste, and of course a love for technology, 'Cupidtino' consists of a skeleton staff of three based in San Francisco, who say that the MacMatchmaking site should launch in June.
They say the site will be gay-friendly, as long as you don’t bring a “Vista laptop, Windows Phone & Zune.” Sounds fair ...
New Mac games: Macgamestore.com has announced four new games – Mishap: An Accidental Haunting and Megaplex Madness: Summer Blockbuster. Mishap is a new hidden-object game where players must rid a house of all its ghosts by uncovering their secrets.
Megaplex Madness: Summer Blockbuster is a time management game that has players try to put together five different theatres and create their own megaplex. \
Also new are Fiction Fixers: Adventures in Wonderland Premium Edition, and Pet Pals: New Leash On Life.
Handwriting recognition cheap till end May: Axiotron has updated its handwriting recognition application, Quickscript 3.0. The software uses a handwriting recognition engine from Vision Objects, and recognises cursive handwriting, hand printed text and single characters, with support for 26 languages.
It supports direct input into applications like Word, Excel, Pages and TextEdit. It uses Kopernikus digital assistant software, which supports AppleScript, allowing users to open applications and perform other tasks by writing short commands on the Quickscript writing pad.
(Good luck with mine – even I can't 'recognise' it.)
Quickscript works with Axiotron's ModBook Mac tablet computer along with standard Macs with pen tablet devices attached. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 and works with Snow Leopard. The software is US$40 but will sell for US$30 (about NZ$40) until May 31.
I said Adobe would support HTML5, and ... Adobe isn't going to avoid HTML5 development to drive Flash, company CTO Kevin Lynch said in a brief talk. He argued that Adobe didn't see the universal standard as a threat and would make "great" tools to produce for HTML5. Whether that would involve Flash-to-HTML5 conversion, a more advanced Dreamweaver or other tools wasn't part of the discussion.
(I wrote that Adobe would support HTML5 in the Herald a couple of weeks ago.)
New Epson scanner 'superfast': Epson has unveiled the new WorkForce 520 all-in-one printer, scanner, copier and fax machine along with the Perfection V33 and Perfection V330 Photo scanners. The WorkStation 520 is said to be the fastest offering in its category, with 15 ISO pages per minute in black and white or 5.4 ISO pages per minute in color. It also has a built-in Wi-Fi radio for cable-free printing, and a 30-page automatic document feeder.
(I'll let you know when it's available here.)
Macworld releases new Troubleshooting Superguide: Macguide magazine has distilled Mac troubleshooting knowledge acquired over the past 10 years of putting together columns, and created the Mac Troubleshooting Superguide, the latest in Macworld's popular Superguide series (pic).
The book is available in several formats. Buy one and download it immediately for just US$12.95, or you can get it as a high-quality, full-colour paperback book for US$19.99. Get it mailed to you on CD-ROM for US$12.95 (plus postage).
