Mavericks is the first OS X release since Snow Leopard that doesn’t constantly make you stop, consider a new feature that has just made your life worse in some incomprensible way, and then hope very hard that this is a bug, because it cannot possibly be an intended feature, because the world is, at a rest, a basically good place where people (like software engineers) do not deliberately inflict things like Launchpad on good, hardworking people. And that’s a decent enough start.
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If you played XCOM: Enemy Unknown earlier this year on your high-powered gaming PC, you may have noticed the user interface and the top-to-bottom playability to seem a bit more expansive than a simple desktop setup would suggest. What’s going on now is that folks behind the game are, indeed, expanding the game beyond its
Creator Scott Garner tests his app in a video.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia)
Like most social media, Foursquare is designed to connect people, but what if you feel like being alone?
Web app Hell is Other People takes friends’ check-in data from your Foursquare account and calculates what the creator calls “optimally distanced locations” to make sure you don’t bump into any of them.
Scott Garner, designer of the app named after Sartre’s famous “hell is other people” quote from “No Exit,” made a video in which he tests the effectiveness of these safe zones. You can watch it below.
Of course, the success rate depends on just how dedicated you and your friends are to Foursquare. You might have more success calling in sick, closing the blinds, and pretending not to be home.
But Hell is Other People, spotted by The Verge, was designed more as an art project than a functional app, and in those terms it works just fine.
(Source: CNET Australia) [Read more]
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Forget layer cake, level cake is what it’s all about for gamers. This amazing Super Mario Bros. cake represents the water, land and sky levels from the game in amazing detail.
If I could eat this cake, I would start on the bottom with a fork, taking a big chunk that includes some fish and coins. Then I would move up to the land level for some piranha plant and goomba goodness. I’d try a coinbox too. Then it’s time to eat some vine and clouds to top it all off. Now that I’ve made a mess of the cake, no one else will want it and it will be all mine.
This cake was baked and decorated by cake maker Cakecrumbs who did an amazing job… of making me hungry. Thanks.
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