Articles Archive for July 2006
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Legion Arena (site takes some time to load up) $34.99 is a really interesting game.
It comes with movies (600MB) or without (180MB). The price is the same so if you have the space grab the “with movies” version.
To quote them, “Fans of Roman history, fans of role-playing and strategy games, fans of Naked Fanatics, will be thrilled with this exciting and incredibly well-researched game.
Legion Arena is a Role Playing Strategy game on a massive scale. Take control of a small band of warriors and train them to be the mightiest army in the world!”
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Chat Fx $20 is yet another fun product that works with iChat. 
As they say on their web site; “ChatFX brings outstanding visual effects to iChat that are practical but also incredibly fun. Kids love seeing the bluescreen and other fun effects. Adults will find it makes video-conferencing a whole lot more entertaining and a lot less intimidating. Spice up your chats and make them more memorable with special effects like those seen only seen in movies and PhotoShop. Effects like bluescreen (which is capable of showing any movie, tv, video, or animation in the background of a video chat), twirl, comic book, alien, interrogation, pencil, vortex, dent, bump, bodyart, facepaint, fisheye, waking life, bubbles, mercury, on fire, ogre, sepia, sobel, xray, and many more, are included and any kind of special video effect can be created.”
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iChat Conference Recorder 2, $14.95 is another neat little add on that makes using your Mac even more fun.
I am sure that there are a number of serious uses for the application, but to be honest I just had a great time messing about with it.
In terms of the details, this is what they say on their web site:
“Conference Recorder is an add-on for iChat AV which automatically transforms your conference sessions into QuickTime movies.
Features:
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TextMate 39€ was the toughest application that I have used since I bought my PowerBook in January.
It was also the most “fun”, if you can call staying up into the early hours of the morning fascinated by the challenge of trying to use the application. I must stress that this isn’t anything to do with the application, it is my lack of development skills! I did an MSc in Information Systems Design and Management in the late ’80’s but I think most of what I learnt has dropped out of the old brain over the years.


