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Daily Mac App: PixFit

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 18th, 2012)

Last week, we looked at SnapRuler, a tool for measuring the dimensions of an object on your screen. This week, we are taking a look at PixFit, a similar, but less expensive tool for taking measurements. Whether it's a square image or an irregularly-shaped block of text, PixFit will give you the ...

Pixelmator 2.0 released with new tools, content-awareness, Lion support

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 27th, 2011)

I ditched Photoshop for Pixelmator about a year ago, but there were a few things missing in Pixelmator which caused me to fire up Photoshop once in a while. I also recently bought Aperture in an effort to better organize and retouch photos I started taking on my new Canon Rebel. Pixelmator 2 ...

Daily Mac App: inPaint

by Mel Martin (Sep 19th, 2011)

I've used Photoshop for years, and recently upgraded to Photoshop CS5 mainly for one feature called Content-Aware Fill. It allows you to remove an element from an image, and the software very cleverly fills it in based on what is around the deleted object. It's quite amazing to use, and I'm often ...

TerraRay for Mac gets a speedy update

by Mel Martin (Sep 19th, 2011)

I took a look at TerraRay recently, and found it a good, low priced 3D scenery generator. It didn't have the features of the big boys like Vue or Bryce, but it is a fraction of the price. One of my biggest complaints in my review was that the rendering was slow. Now the app has a free update to ...

Daily iPad App: Quaternion Julia Raytracer HD

by Mel Martin (Sep 15th, 2011)

Of the many things I expected my iPad to do, ray tracing was not one of them. The ability to make realistic looking objects with accurate reflections was originally the domain of high end workstations, but over the years it has migrated down to laptop and desktop class computers. Now the ...

New category home pages arriving in the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2011)

Apple's been quietly tweaking the design of the App Store, and The Next Web notes Apple has been posting new updates to App Store category pages and their designs. Games and Education are the first two to get a new, cleaner look. If it looks familiar, that's because the main music homepage uses ...

Mac OS X 10.6.8 benchmark reveals graphic speed improvement

by Steven Sande (Jun 24th, 2011)

Sure, the (hopefully) last version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released yesterday. Yes, it addressed a laundry list of improvements to both networking and Mac OS X Lion readiness. But did you know that installing Mac OS X 10.6.8 might also improve graphic performance on your Mac? Bill ...

3D (sort of) on your iPad without glasses

by Mel Martin (May 23rd, 2011)

There's a nifty little free demo you may want to pick up that uses the iPad camera to do some head tracking and create a kind of faux 3D on your iPad display. We took a look at an early demo for this last month, and now the app has arrived for your downloading pleasure. Unlike stereoscopic 3D ...

OS X 10.6.7 update causing problems with 3D acceleration for Quadro 4000 users

by Chris White (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Users of NVIDIA's Quadro 4000 workstation graphics card may have a problem with 3D acceleration when updating to OS X 10.6.7. Apparently NVIDIA's display driver was incompatible with OS X 10.6.7, and during the installation process, the updater simply removes it. Without having the right driver ...

Analysis of iPad 2 display shows performance similar to iPhone 4

by Chris Rawson (Mar 16th, 2011)

The iPhone 4's Retina Display rightly gets praise for its high pixel density. Since its release, many iPad owners have longed for Apple to bump up the display resolution from 1024 x 768 in order to provide a similar viewing experience on Apple's tablet. When viewing an iPad's display next to an ...

AnandTech benchmarks the iPad 2, shows huge graphics gains

by Chris Rawson (Mar 13th, 2011)

AnandTech is in the midst of a lengthy analysis of the iPad 2's hardware. The results so far confirm what most of us already knew: the iPad 2's display is virtually identical to the original iPad, the cameras are nothing to write home about, and the CPU is slightly more powerful. What's most ...

Apple countersues S3 Graphics in patent dispute

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 24th, 2011)

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has countersued S3 Graphics after the company, a maker of graphics-visualization technologies for the notebook and desktop markets, originally sued Apple last June for patent infringement related to a number of Apple's devices, including the iPhone, iPod touch ...

Zen Bound 2 arrives on the Mac via Steam

by Mike Schramm (Nov 17th, 2010)

Zen Bound 2, the second in the series of terrific iPhone and iPad games, is now out on the Mac platform as well, courtesy of Valve's great Steam platform. If you've ever played this one (and you definitely should), you'll know how it works -- wrap a virtual rope around a series of weird shapes ...

TUAW's Daily App: Game Dev Story

by Mike Schramm (Oct 15th, 2010)

Man, I love everything about Game Dev Story -- from the excellent premise to the cute, pixelated aesthetic to the great simulation gameplay. The idea is that you run your own game studio, and that idea is executed flawlessly. You hire your staff, choose a game genre (or do some contract work if you ...

TUAW's Daily App: Awesome Solitaire

by Mike Schramm (Sep 24th, 2010)

Awesome Solitaire is (surprise!) an awesome solitaire game. The usual card game is so simple by now that presentation is everything, and Awesome Solitaire has presentation in spades. If you play in Awesome mode, the graphics are flashy, you get rewarded with points for combos, and the animation ...