вторник, 13 марта 2012 г.

Games

Games


Neoteria - Screenshots

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:19 AM PDT

The release version comes with three worlds, end bosses, secret level pathways, unlockable pilots, thumping 90s style soundtrack, and a lot of retro action and challenge as can be expected from an OrangePixel game.
Features:
- Three worlds with end bosses and secret pathways
- Unlockable pilots for the hardcore gamers
- Cut scene animations
- Openfeint and Gamecenter (iOS) support!
- Android playable with Touch, Hardware keyboard, GameGripper, Xperia-Play, or Wii-mote
- iOS playable with Touch-screen, iCade / iControlPad, or the Joypad app!

Positron - Screenshots

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:37 AM PDT

The game features 3 unique game modes which offer a number of challenges:

Arena
Based on the classic Arcade games this mode sees you battling against enemy vehicles that are trying to destroy you by forcing you to crash in to their trails or in to the arena's walls. It is your goal to do the same to these enemies and remove them from the arena. Featuring 12 unique arena designs and layouts the levels progressively get more intricate and more difficult to navigate while also offering more opportunities to take out your enemies.

Maze
Your only goal in maze mode is to reach the end of an intricate maze laid out in the arena. There are no enemies to deal with and your only goal is to reach the exit as quickly as possible. Once you have memorized the path to the exit it is then your goal to complete the maze without crashing even a single time and to share your fastest times with the online community. The maze mode offers 3 difficulty levels, each featuring 12 levels with increasingly complicated mazes to complete.

Race
Somewhat similar to maze mode, in race mode you must complete laps of a circuit laid out in the arena. The trick is however to avoid hitting your own trail (and the arena walls) on subsequent laps of the tracks! This mode features 12 levels of increasing complexity making navigation more difficult as you progress. Ultimately your goal is to complete the required number of laps as quickly as possible and share your fastest times with the online community.

Annoying Orange: Kitchen Carnage Lite - Screenshots

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:10 AM PDT

Features:
- Fast-paced fruit-slinging arcade action in a beautifully rendered 3D kitchen!
- A flick of the finger sends Apple, Banana, Cantaloupe and more to juice spraying deaths.
- Over 50 unique voice clips and animations from your favorite series characters!
- Collect big points with bonus multipliers on blenders, cutting boards and the almighty "Vent Hood of Death"!
- Collect Nuclear Limes to power up the 10,000,000 Watt microwave that destroys all fruit in sight for juicy bonus points!
- Earn bonus time from Orange's entourage hiding in the cabinets (shake device or tap door when the cabinets knock)!
- More modes and excitement in the full version!
- Knife!

Cake Pop Maker - Screenshots

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:06 AM PDT

Cake Pop Maker has over 15 batters and hundreds of decorations in Hi-Res!

Batters include:
- Confetti Cake
- Lemon
- Strawberry
- Mocha Swirl
- Blueberry
- Vanilla
- Yellow Cake
and TONS More!

Decorations include:
- Tons of Chocolate Dippings to coat the cake pop
- Variety of multi colored cake pop sticks
- Toppings with icings and fruits, candy, and nuts
- Fun extras like party hats and diamonds
- Beautiful hi res backgrounds to show of your creation
- Faces to make your own cake pop animals

Catch the Airplanes - Screenshots

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:15 AM PDT

There are three game modes you can select:
-MULTIPLAYER MODE: this game mode works only on iPad. Two players are playing at the same time. The first player will have to touch only the blue and the green airplanes, whereas the second player will have to touch the yellow and the red ones only. The winner is the player who destroys more airplanes within 90 seconds.
-SURVIVAL MODE: Your mission is to destroy all the airplanes that appear from the screen edges without missing any of them, otherwise you lose. You can chose the difficulty level between easy, medium and hard.
-TIMER MODE: In this game mode your mission is to destroy as many airplanes as possible within a certain time span (60 seconds, 90 seconds and 120 seconds)

Your score results will constantly be saved and updated in the main menu, and you can check them at any moment.
FEATURES:
- three completely different game modes
- multiplayer mode: two players on one iPad (for iPad only)
- continuous updating of the score results
- real looking explosion of the airplane
- realistic sound effects
- funny soundtrack
- fireworks at every new score

Future Internet, Vol. 4, Pages 265-284: WikiGIS Basic Concepts: Web 2.0 for Geospatial Collaboration

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT

With the emergence of Web 2.0, new applications arise and evolve into more interactive forms of collective intelligence. These applications offer to both professionals and citizens an open and expanded access to geographic information. In this paper, we develop the conceptual foundations of a new technology solution called WikiGIS. WikiGIS's strength lies in its ability to ensure the traceability of changes in spatial-temporal geographic components (geometric location and shape, graphics: iconography and descriptive) generated by users. The final use case highlights to what extent WikiGIS could be a relevant and useful technological innovation in Geocollaboration.

Micromachines, Vol. 3, Pages 137-149: A Flexible Capacitive Sensor with Encapsulated Liquids as Dielectrics

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Flexible and high-sensitive capacitive sensors are demanded to detect pressure distribution and/or tactile information on a curved surface, hence, wide varieties of polymer-based flexible MEMS sensors have been developed. High-sensitivity may be achieved by increasing the capacitance of the sensor using solid dielectric material while it deteriorates the flexibility. Using air as the dielectric, to maintain the flexibility, sacrifices the sensor sensitivity. In this paper, we demonstrate flexible and highly sensitive capacitive sensor arrays that encapsulate highly dielectric liquids as the dielectric. Deionized water and glycerin, which have relative dielectric constants of approximately 80 and 47, respectively, could increase the capacitance of the sensor when used as the dielectric while maintaining flexibility of the sensor with electrodes patterned on flexible polymer substrates. A reservoir of liquids between the electrodes was designed to have a leak path, which allows the sensor to deform despite of the incompressibility of the encapsulated liquids. The proposed sensor was microfabricated and demonstrated successfully to have a five times greater sensitivity than sensors that use air as the dielectric.

Cells, Vol. 1, Pages 5-14: ELISPOT Refinement Using Spot Morphology for Assessing Host Responses to Tuberculosis

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Tuberculosis is a global health problem. The Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine has variable efficacy (0–80%) so there is a drive to develop novel vaccines. The cytokine, interferon gamma (IFNγ), is an essential component of the protective response to M. tuberculosis (M. tb) infection and is also produced in response to BCG vaccination. Induction of an IFNγ response is used as a biomarker of successful vaccination in the assessment of new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines. The IFNγ ELISPOT assay provides an important tool for TB research. It is used for both the diagnosis of infection (T.Spot assay), and for the evaluation of the immunogenicity of new TB vaccine candidates in human clinical trials, in the non-human primate (NHP) model of TB infection studies. The ELISPOT assay captures IFNγ produced by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) following specific stimulation, onto a membrane so individual cells can be enumerated and the frequency of responding cells determined. Hence spot forming units (SFU) per 106 cells provide the traditional measure for ELISPOT assays. The discriminatory power of SFU is limited. In some situations, the number of SFU in BCG vaccinated, and unvaccinated, subjects was found to be similar, although the spots were observed to be larger in vaccinated subjects. Spot size potentially provides a measure of the quantity of cytokine produced by individual cells. The AID ELISPOT plate reader software used to determine frequency of spots also has the capability to determine the size of each spot. Consideration of spot size in combination with spot forming units was investigated in our studies of BCG immunogenicity. This additional readout was found to enhance the discriminatory power of the ELISPOT assay, and provide more information on the immune response to BCG vaccination and infection with M.tb.

IJGI, Vol. 1, Pages 32-45: EASE-Grid 2.0: Incremental but Significant Improvements for Earth-Gridded Data Sets

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Defined in the early 1990s for use with gridded satellite passive microwave data, the Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) was quickly adopted and used for distribution of a variety of satellite and in situ data sets. Conceptually easy to understand, EASE-Grid suffers from limitations that make it impossible to format in the widely popular GeoTIFF convention without reprojection. Importing EASE-Grid data into standard mapping software packages is nontrivial and error-prone. This article defines a standard for an improved EASE-Grid 2.0 definition, addressing how the changes rectify issues with the original grid definition. Data distributed using the EASE-Grid 2.0 standard will be easier for users to import into standard software packages and will minimize common reprojection errors that users had encountered with the original EASE-Grid definition.

Awkward in groups

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:58 AM PDT

During the phone interview I explained to Lance that I didn't really like playing poker.

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Lockdown London: how the Olympics will turn London into (more of) a police state

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:47 AM PDT

In the Guardian, Stephen Graham describes the militarized security that will transform the UK capital into "Lockdown London" for the Olympics. London is set to meet and exceed Beijing for civil liberties violations, violent suppression of dissent, and overwhelming surveillance during the games, from the rule that says you're not allowed to display anti-Olympics posters in your own home to the sniper-toting helicopters hovering over the town. "Security" trade magazines are buoyant about the enormous sums of money the industry stands to take out of "austere" Britain's tax-coffers to buy razor-wire, drones, and water cannons.

In addition to the concentration of sporting talent and global media, the London Olympics will host the biggest mobilisation of military and security forces seen in the UK since the second world war. More troops – around 13,500 – will be deployed than are currently at war in Afghanistan. The growing security force is being estimated at anything between 24,000 and 49,000 in total. Such is the secrecy that no one seems to know for sure.

During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames. Surface-to-air missile systems will scan the skies. Unmanned drones, thankfully without lethal missiles, will loiter above the gleaming stadiums and opening and closing ceremonies. RAF Typhoon Eurofighters will fly from RAF Northolt. A thousand armed US diplomatic and FBI agents and 55 dog teams will patrol an Olympic zone partitioned off from the wider city by an 11-mile, £80m, 5,000-volt electric fence.

Beyond these security spectaculars, more stealthy changes are underway. New, punitive and potentially invasive laws such as the London Olympic Games Act 2006 are in force. These legitimise the use of force, potentially by private security companies, to proscribe Occupy-style protests. They also allow Olympic security personnel to deal forcibly with the display of any commercial material that is deemed to challenge the complete management of London as a "clean city" to be branded for the global TV audience wholly by prime corporate sponsors (including McDonald's, Visa and Dow Chemical).

And on top of it all, some of London's public roads will be turned into "priority" roads that are only open to corporate sponsors' vehicles -- off-limits even to the athletes competing in the games (and ambulances).

Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London

(Image: Policeman with his balaclava over his face, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from bagelmouse's photostream)

VINTAGE: Maserati's First Sports Racer

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT


The A6 engine spawned a race car that became the foundation for a long line of Maserati sports and grand prix machines.

Sound Byte: Meet the Composer – Jeff Broadbent

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:31 PM PDT

We talk to the composer who recently scored the new survival action title I Am Alive.

 

Get the full article at GameSpot


"Sound Byte: Meet the Composer – Jeff Broadbent" was posted by Jonathan Leo Toyad on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:31:10 -0700

Super Monkey Ball rolling onto Vita in Japan

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:55 PM PDT

Sega's puzzle game will feature motion controls and rear touch controls; coming to Japan this June.

 

The last time gamers were rolling in bananas with the Super Monkey Ball series was on the 3DS iteration of the franchise, which was met with mediocre reception. Sega has now announced a PS Vita entry of the franchise, slated for release on June 14 in Japan.

Titled Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz!, this version of the game will retain all of the classic gameplay modes of past titles. New additions include motion controls, rear touch pad controls, wireless two-player co-op play, and the ability to use the game's camera system to create stages in stage-creation mode.

There is no official word from Sega on a North American or European release date at this point in time. For more information on the last Super Monkey Ball title, head over to GameSpot's recent coverage.

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"Super Monkey Ball rolling onto Vita in Japan" was posted by Jonathan Leo Toyad on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:55:40 -0700

Evo qualifiers confirmed for Singapore

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:26 PM PDT

The event is fully sanctioned and open to international competitors for Evo points acquisition.

 

Get the full article at GameSpot


"Evo qualifiers confirmed for Singapore" was posted by Jonathan Leo Toyad on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:26:54 -0700

Now Playing: One Piece: Kaizoku Musou

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:21 PM PDT

Stretch yourself out and join GameSpot Asia's Jonathan Toyad as he beats down pirates en masse in the Japanese version of One Piece: Kaizoku Musou!

 

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"Now Playing: One Piece: Kaizoku Musou" was posted by edmondt on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:21:35 -0700

The HotSpot - GDC Indies - 3/12/12

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:24 PM PDT

Independent Game Festival contenders Doug Wilson, Zach Barth, Paul Taylor, and Ian Hardingham discuss making games on the small scale.

 

Get the full article at GameSpot


"The HotSpot - GDC Indies - 3/12/12" was posted by Tom Magrino on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:24:08 -0700

Google Chrome 18.0.1025.56 - Modern and fast web browser (beta).. (Free)

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PDT



Google Chrome is a Web browser by Google, created to be a modern platform for web pages and applications. It utilizes very fast loading of web pages and has a V8 engine, which is a custom built JavaScript engine. Because Google has used parts from Apple's Safari and Firefox browsers, they made the project open source.

Version 18.0.1025.56:
  • GPU acceleration of the Canvas 2D is now disabled by default and can be enabled in about:flags
  • We've disabled the image transport surface on Windows Vista and 7. For gpu accelerated content gpu process now renders directly to the window.
  • Core Animation plugins no longer trigger gpu accelerated compositing on the Mac.


Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Apple Safari 5.1.4 - Fast and elegant web browser.. (Free)

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PDT



Safari is the most popular Macintosh web browser. Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web up to 4 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 2 times faster than Firefox.

Version 5.1.4:
  • Improve JavaScript performance up to 11% over Safari 5.1.3
  • 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 links in PDFs saved from webpages
  • Fix an issue that could make Flash content appear incomplete after using gesture zooming
  • Fix an issue that could cause the screen to dim while watching HTML5 video
  • Improve stability, compatibility, and startup time when using extensions
  • Allow cookies set during regular browsing to be available after using Private Browsing
  • Fix an issue that could cause some data to be left behind after pressing the "Remove All Website Data" button


Mac OS X 10.7.3 or later

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TurboTax 2011.r13.009 - Manage your 2011 U.S. taxes and maximize your return (update via app).. (Commercial)

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PDT



TurboTax guides you through your tax return step by step, does all the calculations, and checks your return for errors and overlooked deductions. It lets you file your return electronically to get your refund faster or prints IRS-approved forms on plain paper. Plus, TurboTax has more money-saving advice. It provides easy access to official IRS publications, Money Magazine's Income Tax Handbook, comprehensive Tax Planners, expert video clips, and more.

Version 2011.r13.009: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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