mushroomPiotr 'mushroom' Grzyb
BaseApp
BaseApp sits in your menu bar and notifies about any activity in your BaseCamp projects. It cooperates with Growl notifications system.
Nothing less, nothing more, simple and usefull. And also beutifull due to Tim Van Damme‘s interface and icon design.
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Eliss
I’ve bought Eliss some time ago. Simple graphic, nice music, straightforward controls and interesting idea. The goal is to group and split planets to fit them into squeesar this gives supernovas which dissapear. Each completed supernova gives you one point. Crucial is to keep planets of different colours apart. When different colours overlay part of life meter is taken away. Gameplay is a little like Twister for your fingers.
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Divvy – window(s) resizer for Mac
Recently I’ve encountered a problem which is the resizing of window(s) on a Mac. Do not get me wrong scaling windows is very simple, what can be annoying for example, is maximizing the window in the Windows way (to fill the entire screen available). For example, maximized Safari occupies the entire height of the screen but the width has to be adjusted manually.
After ‘asking’ Google a few questions I’ve received a list of several programs whose goal was to change the window sizes. After reviewing their options and how to handle one seemed interesting.
Divvy, as the only, offered interface. To change the size you just select desired number of previously defined rectangles you want the window to occupy. After assigning global shortcut to it it is really fast and straightforward. With the price of $14 it in not the best bargain but entering coupon code I’ve been able to save 20%.
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Horror Vacui iPhone app
Another iPhone app review. This time I’m taking a look at Horror Vacui by Shaun Inman (well known from his commercial projects Mint and Fever).
Horror Vacui is a strategy board game with one simple rule “Nature abhors a vacuum”. Actually rules are more complex but since you play it a few times they become clear. There are two players: water and earth. Each of them is randomly given one of three cards: hot, cold or neutral. Oposite nonneutral cards neutralize each other. Hot or cold makes neutral hot or cold and neutral stays neutral. Rules are explained in nifty ingame tutorial with animations.
As to the design app is made to look like old 8bit games. It is very interesting to see this kind of design on such a modern device like iPhone. Also the music is stylised to the old console games from early 80′s.
Shaun Inman is working on new game Mimeo. This will be platforming game and I’m really looking forward to it.
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HELVETIQ iPhone app
Recently I’ve found this little iPhone game made by Jilion company. And I will only say that I love this kind of design. It’s clean, user friendly and very nice to look at.
Also check out Helvetiq for iPhone and classic Helvetiq game site.
