Monday, December 28, 2009

Rip application encoding and copying audio CDs

iTunes allows for a very long time to encode its audio CD easily. However, the Apple Mac application is stingy in settings before encoding and especially output format. Recently emerged Rip Which allows to go further to encode your albums.

Still in beta, Rip is not considered stable by the developer but to have it tested, I can tell you that it works perfectly.

The injection of tags in the tracks to be encoded can be made via MusicBrainz, FreeDB or iTunes Store. Rip Aboard encoders needed to convert files to FLAC, AIFF, WAVE...

I knows that Rip also create a disk image, a true replica of its physical equivalent. The application also has other interesting features. To discover absolutely.

For those looking for even more advanced settings and codecs (and still free) there is also XLD works of thunder, although the interface is rather austere.

Battleship game for iPhone Review

Among the naval battle games available on AppStore, there are very few people who can claim to remember parts of our childhood with the Battleship game (real and plastic). Electronic Arts must have heard the complaints and cries of torpedo vessels in shorts because Battleship has arrived. Battleship is available on App Store!

Battleship game for iPhone happily takes the principle of the naval battle by offering. In addition to the Classic mode, a mode super-weapons that we facilitate the detection of enemy ships by using bursts of air and missile batteries.

Between each round, the publisher added animations that if it gives a certain cachet to the game. It quickly becomes tiresome as to slow down the game, because we can not move (no option). Apart from this, Battleship is really interesting, because you can play against the game or with another player by Bluetooth or WiFi.

I also prefer Warships, more beautiful and less expensive. I love the game: nostalgia. I hate the game: animations impede the flow of play.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Reasons to love Snow Leopard

Here are some reasons to love Snow Leopard.

1: A completely rewritten OS
Mac OS X 10.6 has been rewritten to 90%.

2: OpenCL in the system
OpenCL is a technology that seems most effective with compatible cards.

3: QuickTime X
QuickTime X can use the acceleration of certain graphics cards.

4.Support Blu-ray
Mac OS X is perfectly supports playback of media and burning files on Blu-ray.

5.64-bit
Snow Leopard offers something that Microsoft could never do: launch applications 64-bit and 32-bit applications on the same system.

6: A lot of new
The Snow Leopard system is updated at multiple locations with multiple small improvements are really ergonomic.

7: 64-bit accelerates
8: An enhanced Finder
9: A very good compatibility

Flip4Mac WMV update

Flip4Mac WMV is Version 2.3.1 (19.7 MB, English) appeared. This fixes problems associated with exporting in Final Cut Pro to import MP3 songs and export of audio files. With the free basic version of the play from Mac OS X 10.4 executable plug-ins can be Windows Media Audio and Windows Media video files in QuickTime Player and web browser.

The extended versions of Flip4Mac WMV (cost 29 to 179 dollars) to offer including the ability to export Windows Media files in QuickTime-compatible applications.

Flip4Mac WMV in the Silverlight plugin from Microsoft is included. Who does not want to install must uncheck it in the installer.

After installing the "updates" can be converted to Pro "no more high-definition movies in my version of Flip4Mac Studio.

For that I had bought and paid for this software. This function has now been removed and we should update to the HD version. I am sure I will soon receive a quote by mail to the "reduced" upgrade to the HD version.

For extended Quicktime component 'Flip4Mac' that Apple's Quicktime functions to the Microsoft WMV format, has published an update. The changes that will affect feeder in version 2.3.1.2, the export from Final Cut Pro projects, import and export of multi-channel sound from mp3, and support for third-party applications.

Many people who work in large companies where they are allowed to install anything on their computers. And since Windows is the default media player and QuickTime not supported (unless you installed software) still need WMV.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

RunKeeper Fitness tracking for your iPhone 3G/3GS

The iPhone App RunKeeper is available in the Appstore.

What does RunKeeper Free?
The app features on the iPhone requires OS 3.0 or newer + GPS. you can track activities, including distance, time, speed, pace, calories burned, elevation, and path traveled on a map. In addition, all tracked lines in the history visible. The recorded tracks can also be directly on the iPhone in a map.

The first run
Today it was finally arrived, the first unit of the Training plan for beginners is denied. The iPhone I had fastened with a belt clip on my sweat pants under my sports jacket. Is maintained as in some other forums, the GPS receiver with me at my absolute top track jacket - RunKeeper says: "GPS Strength: Good."

“Fitness without jog-tracking device (iPhone + RunKeeper) makes only half as much fun!”

The app worked perfectly and has really inspired me. The only drawback is the strong battery thirst. With Wi-Fi turned off, the App has consumed about 30% percent of the GPS proud of the battery, with a short running route KM of 4.32 and a duration of 36 minutes. It is therefore on longer running distance (not a beginner workout) recommended to recharge the battery completely and turn off Wi-Fi to.

Friday, December 25, 2009

The 5 best ball games of the iPhone

The ball games for iPhone combine a principle very simple game to understand, a quick start and make an immediate pleasure.

The 5 best ball games of the iPhone:

1.Rolando
Rolando is a game platform where it leads a person rolling on the ground. To move, just steer the iPhone in the direction we wanted it to. His goal? Save the people of Rolandoland, solve puzzles and play with the interactive environment.

2.Super Monkey Ball
Guide a monkey trapped in a transparent ball down slopes littered with obstacles of all kinds without falling off levels, following the principle of Super Monkey Ball. Very pleasant to take in hand, everything is played by tilting their iPhone, here is an excellent adaptation of the Game Cube versions of the hit Wii and Sega.

3.The Bounce
In the same vein such as Sonic or a Mario, The Bounce is a game of any platform that is more conventional: it runs a little ball in a fifty levels avoiding enemies, obstacles and other fatal traps. Gadgets offer new skills to the ball, allowing him to move on to new areas.

4.Gravity Well
Blend pinball game or mini-golf Gravity Well also draws many Magnetic Joe in principle: run a ball in tables, some forty in total, simply by pressing his finger on the place we want to achieve it. Laser switches to operate, spikes, doors locked ... requires severe whipping to advance!

5.I Love Katamari
Adaptation of the hit game on PlayStation 2 I Love Katamari immerses you in a game completely mad rolling a Katamari ball on a variety of objects in each level in order to stick to your ball. This grown increasingly allowing you to retrieve objects always larger and varied (salt, wine bottles, flower pots, cars, etc..).

Good games!

The 4 million for Parachute Panic iPhone App

The Parachute Panic iPhone App App Store endless surfing on the wave of success: it has more than 4 million downloads.

Remember that game from a simple idea: to save up to parachute from drowning, but also the dangers surrounding (helicopters, flying saucers, sharks ...).

If you play the game, you can even say it are ugly, and yet are super catchy.
The first thing that strikes us, it is the graphics. My daughter, who is in CE2, is better! Streamlined as possible, but it is voluntary, they replicated children's drawings in pen Bic grid on a sheet of poor quality. It's ugly, but it gives a certain air to the game.

The second thing that marks the player is disconcerting simplicity of the game The goal is to land his parachute on the deck of a boat. Dropped from aircraft over the top of the screen, you fully control your snowmen so they arrive safe and sound on the boat.

Attention, all is not that simple as barriers disrupt the flight of the parachute. Lightning or helicopters for example. These will be pleased to decapitate and carve your snowmen! One solution: destroy the helicopter by repeatedly pressing it with your finger.

Its last update - 1.4 - invites you to return cameo, a character Doodle Jump! The game is offered at a promotional price of 0.79 € at the moment.