A new easy to defeat Pong bot

If you thought that Electrocuter and Stealth were too hard to defeat, try out my latest bot: Anakin. Because it features “live” prediction, where it predicts based on your current paddle location, all you have to do is fool the prediction.

So go and get it now!

A status update on Pong

I’ve been hard at work developing a new Pong bot: this one’s called Stealth. You can find it on the new Pong page, which now lets you choose which bot you want to download!

So what does Stealth do? As its name suggests, it is stealthy. It may seem easy to defeat, but at the last moment, it will change its behavior and cause you to lose. Give it a try, and tell me what you think!

Interesting iPhone Game Concept (UPDATED)

This just shows how cool games can get on the iPhone platform.

UDPATE: This app is real, and you can download it for free in the App Store.

Tweetie 2: Is it worth it?

Tweetie 2 was approved by Apple and got into the App Store yesterday. Now, many people are complaining about the super affordable $3 price tag. C’mon people. This developer, Loren Brichter, spent months working on this app. Software takes time and money to develop. So stop complaining. It’s only $3. I usually don’t pay for apps–I’ve only bought three apps since I got my iPod touch–but Tweetie 2 is such a well-designed app that it deserved my $3.

So what’s new? According to Loren Brichter, Tweetie 2 is a brand new app, based on a brand new, super efficient and speedy core called “Bigbird.” What’s that for the user? It puts Tweetie 2 ahead of all other Twitter cleints for the iPhone. Here’s just some things that it can do:

• An awesome UI. Super smooth scrolling; swipe over a tweet to reveal options, refresh your feed with a gesture…
• Full offline browsing. Yep. Tweetie 2 lets you compose tweets, read tweets, everything–all offline. Everything is seamlessly cached, even avatars.
• Persistence. If you quit the app, it opens instantly back to where you were the next time you open it.
• Post photos and videos with any service you want: TwitPic, yFrog, TweetPhoto, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, Posterous, img.ly, TwitVid…
• Shorten URLs with any service you want: j.mp, bit.ly, TinyURL, is.gd, l.pr, u.nu, Linkyy…
• Geotag your tweets.
• Draft tweets so that you can send them later.
• Threaded Direct Messages that make it look like a conversation.
• View nearby tweets and see what’s around you.
• Live filter your stream. Using the iPhone 3.0 SDK’s live search technology, you can instantly search for anything in your stream.
• Landscape support everywhere: composing tweets, reading tweets, etc.
• and much more…

A gallery of what Tweetie 2 can do is after the break.

Pixelmator for Mac

It’s been a while since I last blogged. Like many other students who have recently returned to school, I’ve been caught up in a bunch of work. Anyway, today I bring you the ultimate Photoshop replacement: Pixelmator. What makes Pixelmator so special?

Pixelmator version 1.5 "Spider"

Well, first of all Pixelmator’s only $60. That’s compared to Photoshop CS4, which is a whopping $700. Greedy pigs, Adobe is, right? Pixelmator is OS X only, letting it take full advantage of all the native Core Image APIs in Leopard and Snow Leopard. Pixelmator has almost all the functionality of Photoshop, including full read and write of PSD files. A free trial is available, so go check it out!