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Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Shareware, Freeware

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]

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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