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Cities in Motion Collection launches on Mac App Store with 50% discount

Cities in Motion Collection launches on Mac App Store with 50% discount

Posted by | Jun 5, 2015 | , |

MacPlay has announced that Colossal Order’s hit title, Cities in Motion Collection, is now available on the Mac App Store. It requires Mac OS X 10.6.3 or higher.

Cities in Motion is a city-based mass transportation simulator. Players operate their own transportation company, building a public network with a variety of vehicle types, including buses, trams, and subway trains. By meeting the needs of city residents, the player tries to make as much profit as possible.

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DayBack Calendar for FileMaker adds multi-day resource scheduling

Posted by | Jun 5, 2015 | , |

SeedCode has updated DayBack Calendar, the add-on scheduling calendar for FileMaker Pro databases. It lets users balance their workload with multi-day resource scheduling.

Users can see their workload as a series of columns, each representing the tasks, activities or appointments allocated to each resource. The new multi-day resource scheduling view is delivered as an in-app update, so there’s no need for existing calendar users to re-integrate DayBack Calendar with their database.

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AltConf streaming of WWDC content cancelled (and then not)

AltConf streaming of WWDC content cancelled (and then not)

Posted by | Jun 5, 2015 | , |

AltConf has received a letter from Apple’s legal representatives demanding that AltConf refrain from streaming or displaying any video content from the Apple Worldwide Develper Conference.

This includes the Keynote and State of the Union stream on Monday, June 8, which has been a part of the AltConf program for the last few years. This also affects the Viewing Room, where video sessions from WWDC were going to be shown in the hopes to create a collective place where AltConf attendees could view and discuss WWDC content together.

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There’s little interest in autonomous driving systems

Posted by | Jun 5, 2015 | , |

Semi-autonomous features like adaptive cruise control (ACC) and traffic jam assist (TJA) represent early real-world tests for human-machine interaction (HMI).  At their best, when operated correctly in proper conditions, ACC and TJA completely control all acceleration, braking, and steering, removing some of the cognitive load from the driver.  From an HMI perspective, this presents the challenge of how to convey control and status information on a number of different subsystems, in an immediately clear and meaningful way to users.

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