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Ten cool OS X screensavers

Top 10 OS X ScreensaversPhill Ryu is making us Windows users jealous (again) with his list of the Top Ten OS X Screensavers. With one $20 shareware exception, all of his picks are free, and all of them are universal binaries and look stunning. I'm particularly intrigued by the Simpsons-inspired Mr. Sparkle screensaver at #9, Hills at #3, and Fenêtres Volantes, which turns your windows into floating, drifting 3D objects, at #1. Ryu also names a handful of promising runners-up.

Filed under: Design, Macintosh, Adobe, Apple, Commercial

Why there are no Adobe universal binaries

Adobe Creative SuiteGeeks and designers alike have been grumbling about the fact that Adobe hasn't released, and won't be releasing (PDF) universal binaries of the current versions of their apps, in particular Photoshop, and Adobe's answers to the cries of "Why?" have so far been pretty unsatisfactory. So what's really going on? Over at Adobe's Photoshop blog (who knew they had blogs?), engineer Scott Byers explains. Basically, porting a huge legacy app like Photoshop isn't just a recompile like Steve Jobs said, and much of the problem lies in the fact that XCode, Apple's development environment, just isn't as mature as the tools Adobe's engineers are used to. Of course, Byers makes it sound a lot more convincing than that, so you should just head over to the Photoshop blog and hear it from him.

[Via TUAW]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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