Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone
Adventure released for the iPhone
Part of me just wants to post this screenshot, link this app, and say "go get it," but I have a feeling that my blogging overlords here would think I was just being lazy -- they might not understand that this is a screenshot from Adventure, which is available for free on the iPhone. Anyone who ever played an Atari 2600 and owns an iPhone won't need any more explanation than that to install this.
But I don't want to be seen as lazy (any more than I already am), and so I'll also say that Adventure basically pioneered the action-adventure genre of games, and that though its art is spare and its noises are little more than bleeps and bloops, both are classic and coated with pure nostalgia. While Adventure is currently controlled on the iPhone with tilt controls, its designer will add touch controls as well in the future.
Other than that: go get it. It's free.
But I don't want to be seen as lazy (any more than I already am), and so I'll also say that Adventure basically pioneered the action-adventure genre of games, and that though its art is spare and its noises are little more than bleeps and bloops, both are classic and coated with pure nostalgia. While Adventure is currently controlled on the iPhone with tilt controls, its designer will add touch controls as well in the future.
Other than that: go get it. It's free.
It
appears that while typing a word in many OS X apps, such as iChat and Yojimbo, hitting the Esc key will present a
drop-down list of word completion options. I *think* this might be a Cocoa-related service of Mac OS X (sorry, Firefox
users), but I'm always hesitant to toss out a guess like that because I am constantly surprised as to which apps are
actually Cocoa (Finder, for example, is still Carbon, even in Tiger). I get this popup in Ecto, Stickies and Mail as
well, but not in any input areas on websites in Safari, so feel free to experiment with this handy but (as far as I
know) undocumented feature.
Today's tip
involves a Mail.app hint I found that I thought was just too handy not to mention. If you use Mail.app and you open
some messages in their own window, you might have noticed that if you hit reply, the original message disappears in
favor of your new message composition window. Understandably, this is a source of frustration for many a user.
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