Fieldrunners: DTD for iPhone
Filed under: Gaming , iPhone Yes, I am one of those people.: the bleary-eyed Desktop Tower Defense addicts. The game concept is simple, but remarkably addictive. A series of creatures is attempting to get from the left to the right side of the playing field. You get a limited budget to build various kinds of weapons towers to prevent them from getting across. The more you kill, the more money you get to build more towers
TUAW Hands On: MacSpeech Dictate 1.2 ships
Filed under: Hardware , Software I’ve written blog posts on planes, on trains, and definitely in automobiles. This is the first time, however, that I’ve written a section of a post just using my voice. MacSpeech Dictate , version 1.2 (the first third version using the Dragon technology licensed from Nuance ), released this week, is so much better than any previous Mac dictation system that I find I can’t think fast enough to keep up with it. The new MacSpeech version isn’t cheap. For $200 you get the software on a CD and DVD, plus a Plantronics headset with a USB adapter (other microphone setups are available as options; I’m using it with a Sennheiser headset).
My Dad, the Switcher: Day Zero
Filed under: Switchers , Features As far as database management and Windows programming is concerned, my dad is what you’d call “hard-core.” He’s been writing software since the 1960s, starting at Honeywell, then Hewlett Packard, eventually starting his own business. He is an expert with the HP 3000 minicomputer , which, in its day, was heavy computing iron to have lying around. So it came as a bit of a shock when he called last week and said, “I’m ready to buy a Mac.” He and I are working on a web development project together using open-source tools.
