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Sega giving away Columns on iPhone for free all this weekend

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jul 3rd, 2009

Normally we'd just send out a tweet about this (that's usually what we do with free app deals, so if you're not one of the almost 40,000 people following us yet, you definitely should be), but this is a good one, and it's a holiday, so we wanted to make sure you knew. Sega is feeling particularly generous this weekend, so they're giving away free copies of their Columns Deluxe, a port of the old Genesis game, for the iPhone. The game is a pretty straightforward port -- it doesn't have any extras, and the accelerometer controls are a little tacked on from what we hear, but if you like the puzzler gameplay of Columns, and you should, it's a fun one to pull up for a few minutes at a time.

Plus, it's free -- from July 3rd to Monday, July 6th, Sega says it'll be on sale for the low price of nothing at all. Sounds good to us -- sit back, put a few brats and burgers on the grill, grab a Corona (and lime, of course), and enjoy some old-school dropping block gameplay for no money at all.

Tags: columns, download, free, free-stuff, gaming, genesis, holiday, independence-day, iphone, sega

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Mac Whine: Mail.app's wandering columns

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 18th, 2007

As long as I can remember - at least since Mac OS X 10.4 and possibly even 10.3 - Mail.app hasn't been able to maintain column widths to save its life. It doesn't matter if I never touch the window width, or if I manually set each column exactly where I want it, or even if I ask nicely - Mail.app almost seems to enjoy playing an obnoxious game of 'what me worry?' with my column widths, tossing them to the digital wind at every opportunity. Run a search? Hello suddenly-double-sized-Attachment-column. Put on a pot of coffee in between TUAW posts? Better make extra room for the Date Received column, cuz there's no telling how much space it's going to gobble up behind my back.

Ok fine, for the record: I don't actually believe Mail.app can tell when I'm making coffee. Still, the point stands: Mail.app needs to brush up on the 'How to be a Good Lil App' rules and learn how to keep everything in its place.

Tags: columns, mac whine, mac whines, MacWhine, MacWhines, mail.app, UI

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Features

The Dock: Apple's Two Cs

by Dan Pourhadi (RSS feed) on Feb 1st, 2007

Starting this week and continuing every other Thursday, Dan Pourhadi will contribute The Dock, an opinion column on all-things Apple.

"Dan, stop."

I looked up -- there stood my friend Jennifer, shaking her head, a glance of unquestioned disapproval painting her face. It's the same expression she typically shoots me after I tell an offensive joke or make an overt Star Trek reference. But here I did neither.

What's the matter, dear friend?

"Please, stop pinching your phone."

Continue reading “The Dock: Apple's Two Cs”

Tags: columns, iphone, os x, OsX, the dock, TheDock

Filed under: Software

Tofu

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on May 26th, 2006

Have you even been reading something online and wished it was in column format? I know I have, and now I don't have to suffer anymore. Tofu is a cool little application that takes in text and then renders it in columns (the number depends on the length of the text and the size of the window). Donations are accepted, but the app is free.

Tags: columns, text, tofu

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