April 1st, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Bellevue, WA, USA - Eltima Software, a global software Development Company, has released Flash’in’App 2.0 version, a Cocoa framework which lets load and fully manage Flash movies right within Mac applications. This framework contains a set of classes, which provide application with the ability to load, play and manage any SWF files right within this application. Application can communicate with SWF file via External API, FSCommands and Variables.
Implementing Flash’in’App in application extends its functionality in several time. Flash is able to handle sounds, video and images. With Flash’in’App application will be able to work with all these media files too. Additionally, Flash’in’App allows creating custom-shaped windows and running your Windows Flash-enabled applications’ GUI on Mac.
With Flash’in’App users can easily create amazing Flash interfaces for any of Mac applications, add a tutorial or anything else. In fact all the advantages of adding Flash files can be used in application. Flash’in’App lets completely re-design an application using the latest possibilities of Flash, make it stand out and match exquisite design&user-interactivity requirements without the need to develop custom controls.
The new version provides several added features that allow users to set Flash background color for playback, to specify the scaling option used to display the Flash movie, and the ability to set vertical and horizontal movie alignment within the player region. In addition, the upgrade has made changes to the zoom percent calculation, and makes it possible to set the root level variables to pass to Flash Player.
End users will need at least Mac OS X 10.4 and higher and Flash Player 8 or newer to run applications that are developed with Flash’in’App. The only one demo limitation is a nag screen shown when opening a SWF file. As for the other features, it is a fully functional framework, which lets test all of its features and abilities for free. Additional information about Flash’in’App, along with detailed technical documentation, online help and changelog as well as demo installation package can be found at our site.
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Eltima software delivers top-notch solutions having a friendly team of 30 professionals. Devoting effort to develop the software of highest quality that can fit the needs of both experts and computer beginners, Eltima Software has developed the complete line of system utilities, security and flash software. We develop solutions for serial communication and implement virtual serial technologies into our software. Among our other products are monitoring solutions, network utilities, developer tools for Java and software for smartphones. With the design concept of 3 “E”: Experience, Efficiency, Expertise - Eltima Software has successfully established a world-class brand of the best price-performance software products.
March 31st, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
New York, New York - Chromatic Bytes, LLC announces the immediate availability of ZeusDraw 1.3.3, an update to its Mac OS X vector drawing program. ZeusDraw is a vector drawing program with a fluid, graceful interface, great brushes and a host of other features. ZeusDraw 1.3.3 adds French and Spanish language localizations. It also fixes a several minor bugs in offsetting and PDF conversion.
ZeusDraw Features:
* Color managed (RGB and CMYK)
* Converts PDF to editable objects
* Full layer system
* Both vector brushes and textured, pixel-based brushes that remain objects that can be selected, edited (path and attributes), moved, scaled and rotated
* Easy to use path tools. Points are entered in order and can be edited at any time while the path is being created. When editing, all points are immediately editable - there is no confusing secondary selection tool
* Gradients can be edited live, in-place on the objects they fill
* Multi-Copy tool to place multiple copies along a line, an arc, a circle or a path
* No text boxes. ZeusDraw has in-place editing of text, even if it has been scaled sheared or rotated
* Construction and layout aids: Snap to Grid, Snap to Path, Snap to Point, * Snap to Angle and automatic alignment guides
* By gesture or by the numbers. ZeusDraw allows precise setting of the size and position of objects
* Actual size viewing. With ZeusDraw 100% means 100%
* No size limits. If you’re making a banner or a billboard, ZeusDraw will work for you
* E-mail artwork from within the program
* Color Picker. ZeusDraw adds a pane to the Color Picker to allow you to choose from a grid of closely related colors
Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
Pricing and Availability:
ZeusDraw 1.3.3 is $90 (USD) for new users. This is a free update for currently registered users. A fully functional 30-day free trial is available from the Chromatic Bytes website. ZeusDraw is localized for English, German, French and Spanish. German, French and Spanish language sales and support are provided by danholt4mac (DanHolt Consulting).
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Located in New York City, Chromatic Bytes, LCC makes Macintosh software for OS X, specializing in graphic arts software and iPhone applications. Located in New York City, Chromatic Bytes, LLC makes Macintosh software for OS X, specializing in graphic arts software and iPhone applications. Copyright 2008 Chromatic Bytes, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
March 27th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Apple Insider is reporting that some US-based Apple Stores are, following a similar to move by AT&T, starting to sell unsubsidized and off-contract iPhones. Pricing is $599 for the 8GB model and $699 for the 16GB, but in this case there seems to be no restriction on the quantities purchased.
While Apple Insider suggests these units could be unlocked, we’re not aware of any official policy or method in place to do so — unless they’re referring to Jailbreaking and running the yellowsn0w software.
Speculation as to why Apple and AT&T are now more fully embracing the off-contract model, of course, centers around their desire to clear inventory prior to an anticipated (by the Internet) hardware revision sometime this summer, perhaps introduced at WWDC in June as the iPhone 3G was last year.
Anyone rushing out to get their off-contract iPhone 3G while supplies last?
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US Apple Stores Now Selling Unsubsidized, Contract-Free iPhones?
March 14th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Our guess is that the buildup to this Tuesday’s iPhone OS 3.0 Preview will be filled with rumors, new and old. Speaking of old, Wired has just dusted off the Premium App Store (or App Store Plus) story from back in January. While that story focused on Premium Games, and Wired re-enforces that focus, they all suggest there could be a wider range of content:
This “velvet rope” section of Apple’s store could feature software programs that cost $20 or more, making it friendlier to publishers whose products are too complicated to be created in one developer’s spare time. That change would make the App Store more friendly to game publishers, as well as enterprise software companies such as SAP that would otherwise prefer to focus on the more business-user targeted BlackBerry phones. BlackBerry is expected to launch its own app store, called the BlackBerry App World, later this month.
I would pay $20+ for an app that was worth $20+, and if separating those apps off from the $0.99 fartsnjiggles crowd helps developers pay their bills while making what we hope are the Next Great Apps, more power to them.
The question then becomes, what’s worth $20+ to you in an iPhone App?
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Premium App Store Plus! iPhone 3.0 Rumors Recycled!
March 13th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Vienna, Austria - Eternal Storms Software is very proud to announce the immediate availability of flickery 1.0. flickery is a unique desktop flickr client for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which combines the great photos and community of flickr with the elegance and ease of use of Mac OS X.
With flickery, you can easily upload photos to your flickr photo stream (you can even take pictures right inside the application with your built-in iSight or screenshots of your desktop), organize photos in photosets and groups, browse your Favorites and add to them, check out the gorgeous photos available in “Explore”, take a look at your contacts’ photos, their photosets and favorites. flickery even features basic photo editing capabilities like resizing, cropping, rotating or running filters on them - so you don’t even need to switch to another application to do that. If you’re looking for a particular shot you saw on flickr, flickery lets you search the entire flickr database for pictures.
For viewing photos, there are three modes available. The first one is the thumbnail view, where you can quickly browse through the photos and get a glimpse of them. The second mode, reachable by the push of the space bar or a double click on a photo, is the “windowed mode”. In this mode, you can view photos in larger detail. Lastly, there’s the full screen mode. In full screen mode, flickery loads the largest available resolution of the photo while fading out everything else so you can really focus on the photo.
flickery even lets you download images to your computer, if the owner of the photo allows it.
While solely looking at photos is great, flickr is a community after all. So flickery gives you the possibility to comment on photos to leave a little message of appreciation.
What has changed since the public beta?
* Most importantly of all, browsing (and adding to) Groups is now implemented.
* Users can now view their contacts’ favorites and photosets.
* Adding to multiple photosets or groups at once is now supported and has been improved.
* Fixed performance and memory issues when adding photos for upload.
* Many bugfixes and performance improvements that the public beta testers pointed out
System requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* For flickery to run, an internet connection is mandatory
* A flickr account is not necessary, but it is highly recommended
Pricing and availability:
flickery has a 15-day trial period. After that, licenses for flickery are available for the introductory price of Euro 9.90 (or $12.70). After that, it will bump up to Euro 14.90 (or $19.20).
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