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Apple announced that Mac OS X Lion — the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system — is available today as a download from the Mac App Store for $29.99. Lion offers more than 250 new features, including Multi-Touch gestures; systemwide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, a bird's eye view of everything running on your Mac; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail app. 21 Jul, 2011--
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Innsbruck & the Alps offers 14 one day tour guides covering in and around Innsbruck as well as the neighbouring Alps in Austria and Germany. Each tour has been aimed for users wanting to use public transportation with car driving also suitable. It’s a pretty wordy app but it’s also very informative. Throughout each tour is a thorough explanation of directions as well as passing attractions. Prices for anything like that are clearly explained with details of the average meal in local restaurants also offered. Website links and phone numbers are also bundled along with a Google map image and a way of seeking directions. It’s all geared in a way that makes it easy to avoid getting lost while exploring the area.
It’s not everyday that we write about hardware on 148Apps. So when we do, you know it’s about something awesome.
Socializing is the most important element within School 26: Summer of Secrets with players controlling Kate as she gets to know more about her school friends as they team up to compete in the local music festival’s Battle of the Bands competition. Echoing real life teenage relationships, things go far from smoothly with secrets scattered throughout. It’s down to the player to coerce secrets out of others while also using tact to share the relevant secret with the relevant person. It’s a dilemma that will be familiar to anyone who’s been a teenage girl and it’s a refreshingly realistic portrayal. Understandable considering School 26: Summer of Secrets is developed by the first female owned and run games studio in Canada: Silicon Sisters.
If there is one thing on this planet that is about as un-gamelike as it gets, it would have to be books. The pages and pages of written word, while immensely entertaining for some, bore others (like yours truly) to absolute tears. So how could you take this potential entertainment kryptonite and turn it into something that could be fun for everyone? Why not try turning it into a game?
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Puzzle/RPG hybrids have become somewhat of a popular genre. Of course, it seems like almost every category of game is trying to shoehorn some kind of RPG elements into their mechanics these days, but the level-building and loot-grinding really goes well with shape-matching and block-clearing. Sort of like peanut butter and chocolate. Riding this delicious, delicious wave is The Dungeon Saga: a similar kind of hybrid that does scratch the itch, but doesn’t make it go away completely.
As smooth as the experience is, The Dungeon Saga still runs into one pitfall: accuracy. The icons on the puzzle board are rather small, which makes for more than a few occasions where I didn’t hit all the icons I’d wanted to. Another issue, or rather nagging complaint, is that the existence of levels (as in stages) seems pointless. There is no control whatsoever over the movement of the character, save that they move forward when the screen is tapped. They can’t go in any other direction but straight ahead, and there are never any branching paths. This linearity to the pacing is fine, but creating the illusion of choice seems like a waste.