How Facebook and Twitter improved my hospital stay

How Facebook and Twitter improved my hospital stay We hear a lot about how social networking relationships aren?t ?real,? how they rip at the fabric of society, how everything?s going to hell. Maybe that?s true. But Joel Mathis knows that when he entered the hospital, Facebook and Twitter kept him supplied with love and good feelings that made it easier to bounce back from major surgery.

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OnLive Announces iPad Support for Cloud Gaming with Optional Bluetooth Controller


At E3 this week, OnLive announced the coming of an iPad client App for the OnLive gaming service.
OnLive is pleased to announce the OnLive Player App for iPad and Android. Like the recently announced consoles, the OnLive Player App will enable gameplay of virtually all OnLive games on an iPad and Android tablet with touch or OnLive's new Universal Wireless Controller.
We previously covered OnLive demoing this as a "tech demo" but it seems they've progressed to a final product. OnLive has already delivered a viewer app so iPad users can watch live games. Today's announcement, however, extends that to actual gameplay from your iPad.

OnLive delivers console-quality games to Macs, PCs, your TV (and now your iPad) by remotely streaming the game from their central servers. The customer's home computer need not be fast enough to render high resolution graphics -- instead it simply has to play back what amounts to a video stream of the game, while user controls are sent back to the central server.

We spoke to TouchArcade's Eli Hodapp who had a chance to demo the new system which he said worked "amazingly well". The OnLive iPad client will offer a visual overlay so customers can control games using on-screen touch controls to replace the usual physical controller. They also are giving developers the opportunity to implement actual touch/swipe controls as seen in the video above. Finally, OnLive will be offering a physical game controller (photo above) that communicates directly to the iPad through wireless bluetooth. The physical controller is optional but significantly improves the gaming experience. Hodapp described the entire package as a "game changer". OnLive has not yet announced pricing for the optional controller, and had no comment about an iPhone version in the future.

This app seems like it would be find perfect usage for iOS 5's new AirPlay mirroring that would allow you to display the game on your HDTV.


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Accessories for iPad 2: Joby, Marware, Qmadix cases

Three separate companies have recently debuted new products for the iPad 2, ranging from Joby's famous "Gorilla" line of hands-free positioning stands and cases with their emphasis on displaying the iPad, to cases from Marware and Qmadix -- the former emphasizing a thin, light but full-featured case, while the latter opts for a bluetooth keyboard-including model....

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Restore behavior in the InDesign polygon tool

Here's how to restore the old method of adding sides and changing star inset to the Polygon Tool in InDesign CS5.

I have previously used the Polygon Tool to create star shaped objects in InDesign, and I like the old way of changing the number of sides and the star inset of the shapes dynamically while drawing the shape.

In every version of InDesign until version 7 included in the CS5 package, you could change the number of sides by pressing the up- or down-arrows on the keyboard, and change the star inset by pressing the left- or right-arrows.

Adobe, however, in InDesign version 7 introduced the very clever option of drawing multiple shapes simultaneously by using the arrow keys while drawing a shape, and the only official way to change the polygon is to double click the Polygon Tool before drawing or with the polygon selected. While this is useful, you have no preview of the result before applying.

Today I got annoyed enough to start looking for ...

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Bulk convert text files to PDF

Here is a quick AppleScript droplet to bulk convert text files (plain text, rich text, html, some code files like C and javascript files...) to PDF format.

Copy the following script into the AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor) and save it as an application.

Then drag-and-drop files onto it to convert them to PDFs.

on open theFiles   set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters   repeat with thisFile in theFiles     -- get file path as posix path     set inputFilePath to POSIX path of thisFile          -- create output path - same name with .pdf extension     set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."     set outputFilePathBits to text items of inputFilePath     set last text item of outputFilePathBits to "pdf"     set outputFilePath to outputF ...

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