magazines, newspapers, books, and corporate agencies — has released
Smart Styles for Adobe Creative Suite 4. Smart Styles is an automated
formatting tool that simplifies repetitive formatting of text,
frames, and other objects in InDesign and InCopy.
Besides support for CS4, the new Smart Styles release also
incorporates Nested Styles enhancements (including GREP) and
enhancements for text with a stroke.
JAZ Games (http://www.jazgames.com) has released Sounds of Adventure,
a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It uses the built-in
accelerometer on the devices to create a mix of sounds — crack a
whip, wield a laser sword, or snap nunchucks with a flick of the
wrist.
Here’s how the game is described: “Once you have chosen your genre,
choose your weapon.
Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com)
has announced DDR3 memory upgrades up to 4GB for
the new Mac mini desktop computer models
announced by Apple this week.
With the announcement of the new 2GB Memory
Module for the mini, OWC provides an additional
memory option for the mini not offered by the
factory. The OWC 2GB Memory Module can be added
to an existing 1GB factory chip for 3GB of total
memory.
OWC says its memory upgrades for the Mac mini
cost up to 57 percent less than the factory
upgrades.
Radical Breeze has released RadicalCodex
(http://www.radicalbreeze.com/radicalcodexwin.shtml), an US$25 Mac OS
X app for collecting and reading digital comic books. It supports the
most popular eComic file formats (including CBR and CBZ), and sports
advanced reading and organizing features.
RadicalCodex provides a customizable interface for reading comic
books, automatic bookmarking, and bookmark lists. You can view and
search through your books with a customizable cover view, then
organize your books into definable collections.
Freeverse and MrJoy are donating their tower defense game, Hordes of
Orcs, to the non-profit Games For Soldiers organization. In turn,
Games for Soldiers will deliver the digital copies of the game to
over 20,000 American armed services personnel stationed throughout
Afghanistan, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan and Kuwait.
SPC Jesse Williams first began contacting video game publishers while
stationed in Afghanistan, securing donations to help outfit his
unit’s MWR (Morale, Welfare and Recreation) center.