Infinity Blade update coming next week

At the end of my review of Infinity Blade from Epic Games, I said that I liked the game, but I wished there was more of it. It looks like I’m getting my wish much earlier than I’d anticipated, because new content for Infinity Blade is coming next week. Chair Entertainment, the subsidiary of Epic Games who developed Infinity Blade, told Joystiq that development of additional content began immediately after the main game was finished, and these “booster packs” of content will all be offered for free.

Next week’s content will include five new weapons, five new shields, five new helmets and a new set of armor, raising the maximum possible level to 45 (welcome news for nerds players like me who have already mastered all of Infinity Blade’s existing items). A new enemy, the Marrow Fiend (pictured above) will also appear in next week’s update. Another “booster pack” for the game is due in January; more substantial updates are also forthcoming, including new areas, additions to the storyline and new enemies that, according to Chair, make the game’s current fiends seem like weaklings by comparison.

It’s very nice to see that Infinity Blade’s creators aren’t resting on their (US$1.6 million in five days) laurels and are committed to delivering additional content to make the game even better than it already is. The bar has definitely been raised for gaming on iOS, and as a heavily entrenched iOS gamer myself, I couldn’t be happier.

Infinity Blade update coming next week originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Humble Indie Bundle 2 offers more Mac gaming deals

humble indie bundle 2

The Humble Indie Bundle is back for round two, which means that you’ve got another deal with some terrific indie games to run on your Mac, completely DRM-free. This time, you get Jonathan Blow’s excellent time-shifting platformer Braid, quality puzzle game Machinarium, iOS favorite Osmos, and Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans, two titles still under development. Just like last time, you can pay any price you want. While the games by themselves would cost you $85, people have paid up to $1000 just to promote and support independent game development — and just like last time, all of the games are playable on Mac, Windows and Linux as you choose. You can also give any or all of the money donated to charity, so really this is about as awesome as a game deal gets. Pay whatever you want to someone worthy of the money, and you get five games to do with as you please.

Last time around, the bundle raised upwards of a million dollars, and Linux users, we’re told, were twice as generous as Windows users. That seems to be the case this time as well (with Mac users only a little better than Windows), so let’s head on over and represent, since it’s definitely true that Mac users are willing to pay a quality price for quality software. I can tell you outright that Braid and Osmos are worth a $20 donation on their own, so head on over, give some money, and support some more than generous independent game developers.

Humble Indie Bundle 2 offers more Mac gaming deals originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Five men rob Apple Store in Greenwich, CT

Greenwich Apple Store RobberyApple Store burglars have struck again, this time in Greenwich, Connecticut. Police say that at least five suspects, seen in the surveillance photo to the right, broke through the front door and helped themselves to a whole bunch of Apple products valued in the tens of thousands of dollars. The store obviously had security cameras in place to record the break-in when it happened, but I wonder if any employees also got to watch the robbery in real-time, like this guy who watched on his iPhone as thieves robbed his house.

So if you happen to live near Greenwich and receive an Apple product as a holiday present without a gift receipt, you may want to inquire as to where the generous gift-giver was on the morning of December 14. Most of these Apple Store robberies actually turn out well for the stores, since the police usually do a nice job finding the crooks. We’ll have to see if the cops in Greenwich are able to catch the parties responsible here and recover any of the stolen merchandise.

Five men rob Apple Store in Greenwich, CT originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Epic Games to release updated Unreal Dev Kit for iOS on Thursday

Unreal Dev KitEpic Games, creator of recently released game “Infinity Blade,” is publicly releasing an updated version of its Unreal Development Kit on Thursday. The game-development package simplifies the creation of graphics and animations on Apple’s iOS, and if TUAW’s Chris Rawson’s recent review of Infinity Blade is any indication of what can be done with it, we should be in store for some amazing graphics in upcoming games.

While it is free to download and use, iPhone and iPad developers interested in selling paid apps they have created with it must pay Epic a $99 licensing fee and 25 percent of royalties after the initial $5,000 in sales.

Gaming has really taken off on iOS devices, as 43.8 percent of the gaming market is playing games on phones like the iPhone, and game developers for iOS outnumber their DS and PSP counterparts two-to-one. With Infinity Blade raking in at least 1.6 million dollars in the first five days of its release, you can be assured that developers will be clamoring to create the next big thing with Epic’s release of its Unreal Development Kit.

Epic Games to release updated Unreal Dev Kit for iOS on Thursday originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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First iAd for iPad features Tron Legacy

The first iPad iAd has been released today, and it’s for Disney’s upcoming film Tron Legacy. The iAd features video from the Tron movie, which leads to an interactive menu. The menu itself is designed to look like a light disc and allows the viewer to navigate to a photo gallery, movie trailer, theater finder, email notifier, story synopsis and a preview of the movie soundtrack.

An Apple spokesperson told AdAge that the Tron Legacy iAd will be the only iAd to appear on the iPad this year. “The format, designed to maximize the ad potential of Apple’s tablet computer, will be launched widely in early 2011 when other ads start flowing onto the platform,” the spokesperson said. “Like its iPhone and iPod touch predecessors, the first iPad iAd is chock-full of the rich graphics, touch navigation and video native to apps.”

No word yet on which ad-supported apps are featuring the ad yet, but you can check out a demo of the ad in the video after the break. Tron Legacy opens on December 17th and is produced by Disney, which Steve Jobs just happens to serve as the largest shareholder.

[via MacStories]

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Download iTunes 10.1.1 for Windows & Mac

Apple has just pushes the iTunes 10.1.1 update. You can download iTunes 10.1.1 for Windows and Mac from below. iTunes 10.1.1 update addresses music videos and playlists related issues.

Full changelog after the jump…

New in iTunes 10.1.1

  • This release provides a number of important bug fixes, including:
  • Addresses an issue where some music videos may not play on Macs equipped with NVIDIA GeForce 9400 or 9600 graphics.
  • Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit when deleting a playlist that has the iTunes Sidebar showing.
  • Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit when connecting an iPod to a Mac equipped with a PowerPC processor.
  • Addresses an issue where some music videos may not sync to an iPod, iPhone, or iPad.

The previous iTunes 10.1 was released a month ago featuring AirPlay, iOS 4.2 support, and important stability and performance improvements.

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You can download iTunes 10.1.1 via Software Update or from the link below.

  • Download iTunes 10.1.1 for Windows & Mac.

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Android App Development-Controls Part Two: Android Button Controls

In last week’s Android App Development tutorial I covered Android UI and Text Controls. This week I am going to cover Android Button Controls.

Android offers three types of button controls:

  1. The Basic Button.
  2. Image Button.
  3. Toggle Button.

The basic Button:

The standard Android button is a subclass of the TextView class so it inherits all of its properties.

<linearlayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
>
<Button
android:id="@+id/btn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Click Me"
/>
</linearlayout>


If you want to implement the OnClick event handler for a button there are three ways to do it:
The first way is to implement the OnClickListner Interface for each single button in the activity like this:

Button btn=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btn);

        btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
        {
   public void onClick(View v) {
    Button btn=(Button)v;
    btn.setText("You clicked on the button");
   }
        }
        );

The downside to doing it ths way is that it will lead to large code blocks with a lot of redundancy because you will have to repeat this for each button in your activity.

The second method is to make your activity implement the OnClickListner Interface and use the onClick method by switching between the buttons IDs:

public class ButtonControls extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

    }
 public void onClick(View v) {
  // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  switch(v.getId())
  {
  case R.id.btn1:
   //Do something
   break;
  case R.id.btn2:
   // Do something
   break;
  }
 }
}

Finally, the third method is to define the OnClick for the buttons using the XML layout definition.  This is a nice new feature introduced in Andrpod 1.6. Which is similar to that in ASP.NET.

<button
android:id="@+id/btn1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:onclick="ClickHandler"
android:text="Click Me"
/>
<button
android:id="@+id/btn2"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:onclick="ClickHandler"
android:text="Click Me too"
/>
Then you define the event handler method in your class file in the same normal way
  switch(v.getId())
  {
  case R.id.btn1:
   //Do something
   break;
  case R.id.btn2:
   // Do something
   break;
  }
 }

Image Button:

The ImageButton control is similar to the Button except it represents a button with an image instead of the text.

We can place an image in the res/drawable directory and reference it to be the source image of the ImageButton.

<linearlayout android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
/>
<imagebutton
android:id="@+id/btn1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/globe"
/>
</linearlayout>


You can set the image source property from the code like this:

ImageButton btn=(ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.btn1);
btn.setImageResource(R.drawable.globe);

Toggle Button:

The ToggleButton is like a check box or radio button, it has two states: On or Off. The default behavior of ToggleButton is Off state, it displays a gray bar and the text Off.

When in On state it displays a green bar and has the text On.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
<ToggleButton
android:id="@+id/tb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Switch On"
/>
</LinearLayout>


See that despite we specified the android:text property of the toggle button, it displays the default text “Off”.
This is because ToggleButton inherits from TextView. But practically the android:text property is useless.
Instead we define the android:textOn and android:textOff properties.
In code to check the state of the Toggle button programmatically you can define the click handler in the regular way:

<ToggleButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textOff="Switch On"
android:textOn="Switch Off"
android:id="@+id/btn"
android:onClick="ClickHandler"
/>

Then check the state of it like this:

public void ClickHandler(View v)
    {
     ToggleButton tg=(ToggleButton)v;
     if(tg.isChecked())
      //Do something
     else
      //Do something else
    }

here’s what it’s gonna look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
<ToggleButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textOff="Switch On"
android:textOn="Switch Off"
/>
<ToggleButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textOff="Switch On"
android:textOn="Switch Off"
/>
</LinearLayout>

That is all for the intro to Android button controls. Stay tuned for the next Android development tutorial where we will explore more controls.

Multi-step Sign-up Web Form

I need a PHP sign-up form to be made. The form must be in steps – where the user enters their information, then it verifies required information before you are allowed to go to next part of form. I would lik the form to be in 3 steps with a progress arrow bar image indicator above form to indicate what step user is on. This will be hosted on SSL site with their own certificate.

Here are the fields wanted (* indicates required fields):
*First Name, Middle Initial, *Last Name, Sex*, *Address, *City, *State, *Zip Code, *Primary Email/Username, Secondary Email, *Password, *Primary Number (cell), Secondary Number (work)

End of part one:

Primary Work Field, Total Monthly Income, **Transfer%, Monthly Transfer Total, *Signup Date, (the name information gets past on from first part of form)
*First Name, *Middle Initial, *Last Name, If Corporation name of Corporation, State were incorporated, *S.S./EIN/TIN #, *Sex, *Status, (the address information gets past on from first part of form) *Street Address, Apt#, *City, *State *Zip, (*the phone information gets past on from first part of form)Home Phone, Work Phone, Cell Telephone, *Date of Birth, *Approx. Monthly Income (from all sources), *Banks name, *Routing#, *Account#.

End of part two:

*Check to agree, *Write Name, *Amount, *Date

The form must look professional/clean..otherwise I would do it, if you cannot do this type of work, please do not contact me.

Pleaes let me know cost and delivery time.

Proxy Squid Configuration Required

Proxy -Squid configuration required. (2 options/versions)
System: Debian, Squid installed
Whats needed:
Utilise, use 5 ip addresses as outgoing ips for connections coming from a single remote system (with dynamic ip!) and
to be able to connect to the proxy securely from remote network(via internet) with username and password the way below:

version 1
traffic to proxy-listening-on-ip1:8080 -> via outgoing ip1
traffic to proxy-listening-on-ip1:8081 -> via outgoing ip2
traffic to proxy-listening-on-ip1:8082 -> via outgoing ip3

version 2
traffic to proxy-listening-on-ip1:8080 -> via outgoing ip1
traffic to proxy-listening-on-ip2:8081 -> via outgoing ip2
traffic to proxy-listening-on-ip3:8082 -> via outgoing ip3

Data Entry Of Adult Web Site

I need some one to upload,describe and price products of adult sex toys,lingerie etc.
The products we are talking about is about 1500-2000 items, images are available as well as the prices, however most of the descriptions can be copied and pasted from a link that I will provide.
You must be expert in joomla and virtue mart as these programs are used and you need to prove that you can do it.
Please if you are not serious and cannot do it do not bid.

I do not want to discriminate wherever you come from but all I need is to get the job done. If you cannot respond quickly and also if you do not have any previous experience just look elsewhere and do not bid.

Thanks

Business Presentations And Marketing Design

We are looking for a contact to do various marketing materials. Work would be per project, and if we like your work, there’ll be plenty more.

The applicant should ideally be geared towards marketing and design. MBA is a plus. Work includes making PowerPoint presentations, as well as fliers and other for-print documents. The work is most commonly related to web and/or mobile applications.

A sample of your work would be great.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Website Changes/additions…..very Simple

I need some additions and changes to my website…. www.markelgee.com. I need the following changes made:

1) change the heading and address on each page
2) insert another link on front page which will link to additional page (very brief paragraph)
3) change my picture
4) insert/change some text on a couple of pages.

I will supply all text/copy/photo. Very simple and short job.

please look at the website…..very simple job. shouldn’t take an hour of your time

Compare Excel Spreadsheets

This should be easy for a spreadsheet guru!

1st .XLSX Spreadsheet: 14,071 rows of data, A-AM columns.

2nd .XLSX Spreadsheet: 14,058 rows of data, A-AF columns.

3RD .XLSX Spreadsheet: 4,262 rows of data, A-AF columns.

Primary Key among all files is the Sku column.

YOUR JOB==>

1. If a Sku exists in the 1st and 2nd spreadsheets, copy columns Z-AJ from 1st spreadsheet to columns AG-AQ of 2nd spreadsheet.

2. If a Sku exists in the 1st and 3rd spreadsheets, copy columns Z-AJ from 1st spreadsheet to columns AG-AQ of 3rd spreadsheet.

Additional Skus in 1st spreadsheet that do not exist in 2nd or 3rd spreadsheet should be ignored.

Data on all spreadsheets should not be altered in any way.

Also, the data is confidential so your bid means you agree not to distribute it or share it with anyone.

Thanks!