Mark Spain presented a really cool widget for seeing lyrics of songs in iTunes.
VisitMobile.com was unveiled. Its a great iPhone app and service created here at Y-Partnership in Orlando.
Johnathon presented Apple News and some games:
- EVE Online – a massive multiplayer game. You are on a spaceship, working various missions. Gameplay focuses on interacting with other players. The graphics are very high quality. $19.95 includes the game purchase and first month of play. (We’re not sure of the ongoing fee.)
- World of Warcraft – Call of the Crusade ($12 to $15 per month, software purchase and expansion packs are extra) We have members who know a lot about this game, so ask around.
- “Savage 2″ by S2Games – software and gameplay is free. to a point. Upgrades to your characters and lifetime stats cost a one-time $9.95 fee. Similarity to “Guild Wars” was noted by the audience. Windows and Linux versions are also available.
- “Rune Scape” – claimed to be the world’s most popular free MMO. Fees are required to advance beyond a certain point. The game is played entirely in the web browser. (It won’t work on the iPhone browser due to being made in Flash or Java.) Updates are immediate for everyone since it updates as the browser loads the page. The full version is $6 per month. There is no software purchase.
- “Oberin” – a “multiplayer” game, rather than “massive multiplayer”. It is Mac-only. No video is on the site, and screenshots appear to be user-submitted. Systems back to PowerMac G3 with MacOS 8.5 at 800×600. They recommend G4 600 MHz at a minimum. Stats are provided on the poll for the age of the computers being used.
Scott Mousseau presented on “Automator and Services in Snow Leopard”
Automator is based on AppleScript and
Services was introduced in 10.0. They are services provided by one application to another and by web services. Back then it was just a menu and a bit of a mess.
In SL, its more organized and can be made to work with Automator to build whole workflows for yourself.
Scott demoed using these to take text from a free science-fiction story and have it read through a voice synthesizer and place the result in iTunes so that you can listen to the story in the car on the drive home. A quick demo played the reading to us in the crowd.
Websites:
- MacOSXAutomation.com – online videos for learning how to use these are free. The voice you hear in the videos are synthesized.
- PixelCorps.com – if you listened to a TWIT podcast (excuse me Leo, Netcast) you’ve heard Alex Lindsay talk about using Automator and things. On this site, Scott showed us a brief clip of a “MacBreak” video of Alex interviewing Sal Saghoian from Apple on using all these.
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