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“The Fate of Mankind Depends Upon One Man – Murno – and Two Words OMHA ABIDES”
From the back cover:
WHO – OR WHAT – IS “OMHA”?
“For over a thousand years the alien Gaddyl have ruled Earth, reducing men like Murno to bare existence and a Stone-Age technology. Now the Gaddyl have changed their tactics, and men are to be hunted and slain like animals.
“The only hope for man is in the mysterious slogan, ‘Omha Abides!’ If Omha, the long-promised savior, exists, then Murno must find and awaken him. . . or it. Pursued by the Gaddyl and their savage mutant hunters, Murno must make his perilous cross-continent journey on foot in search of a legend.
“And if he fails, mankind dies. . .”
Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Evelyn E. Smith / Sentry of the Sky
> Keith Laumer / Doorstep
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: Let's Do Something About the Weather
> Fred Saberhagen / Volume PAA-PYX
> C. C. MacApp / The Drug
> Gordon R. Dickson / An Honorable Death
> Daniel F. Galouye / The Chasers
> Damon Knight / Auto-da-Fe
> Murray Leinster / Doctor
Cover: Bob Ritter
[Cover showing: Flight by Deep-Freeze]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1961
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Amazing Stories / Magazin-Reihe
- Lester del Rey / Boiling Point
- Cordwainer Smith / Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
[The Instrumentality of Mankind]
- Ben Bova / Planetary Engineering
- Phyllis Gotlieb / Sunburst
- Rosel George Brown / The Artist
- Harry Harrison / According to His Abilities
- C. C. MacApp / For Every Action
cover: Ed Emshwiller
(Cover illustrates "Boiling Point")
Editor: Cele Goldsmith
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company / USA 1964
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
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Amazing Science Fiction Stories / Magazin-Reihe
- James Blish / And All the Stars a Stage
- Robert Bloch / The Bald-Headed Mirage
- John Brudy / If at First You Don't ...
- Rosel George Brown / Step IV
- C. C. MacApp / Tulan
cover: Leo Summers
Editor: Cele Goldsmith
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company / USA 1960
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
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Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Jack Vance / The Star King
> Damon Knight / The Big Pat Boom
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: The Names of the Constellations
> Philip K. Dick / If There Were No Benny Cemoli
> C. C. MacApp / And All the Earth a Grave
> Will Mohler / In the Control Tower
> Fritz Leiber / No Great Magic
cover: Ed Emshwiller
[Cover illustrates "The Star King"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1963
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Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> C. C. MacApp / The Mercurymen
> Norman Kagan / Laugh Along with Franz
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: The Healthfull Aromatick Herbe
> Robert Silverberg / The Warriors of Light
> Harlan Ellison / "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
> Frederik Pohl / The Age of the Pussyfoot (Part 2 of 3)
cover: John Pederson, Jr.
[Cover illustrates "The Mercurymen"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1965
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Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Frank Herbert / Committee of the Whole
> Larry Niven / Wrong-Way Street
> Hayden Howard / Death and Birth of the Angakok
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: Symbolically Speaking
> Gordon R. Dickson / A Wobble in Wockii Futures
> John Brunner / Wastet on the Young
> Joseph Green / The Decision Makers
> R. A. Lafferty / Slow Tuesday Night
> C. C. MacApp / Sculptor
> Keith Laumer / War Against the Yukks
cover: George Schelling
[Cover illustrates "War Against the Yukks"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1965
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Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Poul Anderson / To Outlive Eternity (Part 1 of 2)
> Gary Wright / Mirror of Ice
> R. A. Lafferty / Polity and Custom of the Camiroi
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: Another Look at Atlantis
> C. C. MacApp / Spare That Tree
> Jim Harmon / Howling Day
> Larry Niven / The Adults
> Charles V. De Vet / Alien's Bequest
cover: Gray Morrow
[Cover illustrates "The Man Who Loved the Faioli"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1967
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Galaxy Magazine / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Cordwainer Smith / On the Storm Planet
> C. C. MacApp / A Flask of Fine Arcturan
> Willy Ley / For Your Information: Forerunners of the Planetarium
> Robert Silverberg / The Sixth Palace
> J. T. McIntosh / The Man Who Killed Immortals
> Richard Wilson / Harry Protagonist, Brain-Drainer
> Donald H. Menzel / Fin's Funeral
> James H. Schmitz / Planet of Forgetting
cover: Wright
[Cover illustrates "Planet of Forgetting"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1965
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My first idea for Mac OS 10.7 is a fairly obvious one because I've talked about it here before. The Mac OS is screaming for an iPhone-like App Store, not just because of the convenience of such a thing, although that would be a definitely plus, but because having an App Store could possibly spur more app development for the Mac. And when I say apps, I'm really talking about games.
Despite popular myth, there is really nothing that you can do on a PC that you can't already do on a Mac. Word processing? No problem. Internet browsers? Take your pick. Photoshop? Check? E-mail? Hell yes. Music? You're kidding, right?
Except for the very rare app, Macs almost always have either an equivalent or pretty good alternative, but we're still lacking in games. There are two reasons for this. The most obvious reason is install base. The cold economics of gaming market doesn't leave much room for mistakes. A typical video game can take up to three years and cost from $1 million to over $20 million to develop. And the PC platform is rife with piracy concerns. In fact, given the pull to consoles in the last few years, many developers have dropped game development on the PC altogether. Consoles give them a better developing environment, a built in audience and a consistent platform to develop for, that is, the hardware running in consoles is pretty much standardized, unlike the general PC market.
Hey, now, I know what you're thinking 'cause I'm thinking it too. Isn't the Mac market pretty much standardized as well? I mean, there only so many ways you can configure most Macs, right? And doesn't Apple already have a DRM scheme (Fairplay) set up to deal with piracy concerns on iTunes and the iPhone App Store? Seems like a perfect environment to develop video games.
I know this will work because it has worked for Steam, the PC game distribution platform developed by Valve Software.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(content_delivery)
Steam is one of the few reasons that gaming is still a viable market on PCs. Furthermore, hosting such apps on Apple's already powerful iTunes servers, would be a snap. An unscientific review of most of my third party apps reveals the fact that a good 70 percent of third party apps are less 100 megabytes in size. A good many of them are less than 30 megabytes.
And what better way to provide security on the Mac? I mean, I'm not saying that Apple has to abandon (or should abandon) the ability to install apps from the web, but if a customer wanted 100 percent verification of all apps, what could be better than a Mac App Store?
And as I've discussed before, a Mac Store could also clean up some of the problems that new users have regarding the install process in OS X. Apple has made the install procedure so simple (simply drag and drop an app in the Applications folder) that some Windows switchers get confused.
The one thing I like about the iPhone App Store is that once you buy an App, it installs itself without any interaction from the user. In principle, this KISS type methodology would work wonders in OS X.
Back three centuries ago (okay, more like five years ago), Final Cut Pro was the go-to app for digital video editing. It was also pretty cheap ($999) compared to Avid Media Composer ($7500), especially if you bought the Academic version ($500).
You could actually buy it off the shelf from the university library (which is what I did) and have it up and running within a hour in your dorm room, rather than waiting to get in the queue at the university Avid lab.
Since those days, Final Cut Pro has pretty much stayed at the same price, but a great thing has happened over time. Apple kept adding free apps to the mix: Cinema Tools, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor. In four years, Final Cut Pro turned into Final Cut Studio.
With the addition of Cinema Tools, Final Cut Pro has grown into a general purpose film editor, while retaining its digital roots. Cinema Tools allowed for a method of encoding film into a workable digital master, while Color allowed for in depth color correction, the lack of which was one of the early drawbacks to Final Cut Pro when compared with Avid Media Composer.
Of course, Avid Pro Tools is still the industry leader with sound design and editing, although Logic and to a lessor degree, Soundtrack Pro, have been making aggressive inroads. In addition, Final Cut Server, while a separate product (also $999) has also made inroads, providing a great solution for organizations with large editing databases and a great alternative for Avid's Unity/Interplay system.
Final Cut is no longer a prosumer level app to be used by film school students shooting cheapy video projects on university campuses. It has now been used in features films such as Cold Mountain, The Ring, and more recently, 300, No Country for Old Men, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Where the Wild Things Are.
Of course, there will always be a segment of the Hollywood community that clings to Avid, just because that is what they trained on, and there are good reasons to be suspicious of Apple as a single vendor.
Apple's sudden abandonment of the great compositing tool, Shake, comes to mind. Also, Apple's refusal to jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon and its abandonment of Firewire in some MacBook models, has given the industry some cause for unease.
Of course, as a Mac user, Final Cut Studio is without parallel when it comes to showcasing quality software on the Mac platform.
And for the Prosumers, there is always the cheap alternative known as Final Cut Express (for a mere $199 at the time of this post).
Related Links:
Final Cut Studio
Final Cut Express
www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/
Final Cut Server
Logic Studio
Logic Studio Express
Anthology, translated from parts of The Best From Galaxy I (1972) and II (1974).
Cover art by unknown (Podwil? Compare with www.flickr.com/photos/jim_and_kerry/2767536657/), previously used for C.C. MacApp - Recall Not Earth (Dell 1970) and Karl Mannheim - The Vampires of Venus (Five Star 1973).
Encryption is coming soon, we have to roll it out in unison with the iOS app.
1.2 includes:
• Password
• Calendar
• Export
• 24-Hour
• Lion Support
CONTENTS for Amazing May 1964 Vol 38 No 5
5 • Editorial (Amazing Stories, May 1964) • [Editorial (Amazing Stories)] • essay by Norman M. Lobsenz
6 • Boiling Point • shortstory by Lester del Rey
18 • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
35 • Planetary Engineering • essay by Ben Bova
44 • Sunburst (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Phyllis Gotlieb
93 • The Artist • shortstory by Rosel George Brown
104 • According to His Abilities • shortstory by Harry Harrison
118 • For Every Action • shortstory by C. C. MacApp
125 • The Spectroscope (Amazing Stories, May 1963) • [The Spectroscope] • essay by Robert Silverberg
125 • Review: The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick • book review by Robert Silverberg
126 • Review: Skylark Three by E. E. Smith • book review by Robert Silverberg
127 • Review: Analog 2 by John W. Campbell, Jr. • book review by Robert Silverberg
A new screen for the Day One Mac app update submitted for review today.
1.2 includes:
• Password
• Calendar
• Export
• 24-Hour
• Lion Support
CONTENTS for Fantastic Sept 1963 Vol 12 No 9
bc • The Singing Sands of Prester John [bc] • interior artwork by Schelling
5 • Editorial (Fantastic, September 1963) • [Editorial (Fantastic)] • essay by Norman M. Lobsenz
6 • The House That Time Forgot • novelette by Robert F. Young
6 • The House That Time Forgot • interior artwork by Schelling
38 • The Sudden Afternoon • shortstory by J. G. Ballard
38 • The Sudden Afternoon • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
52 • The Singing Sands of Prester John: Introduction • essay by Sam Moskowitz
54 • The Singing Sands of Prester John • (1939) • shortstory by H. Bedford-Jones
55 • The Singing Sands of Prester John • interior artwork by Schelling
72 • Vanity, Thy Name Is • shortstory by Ron Goulart
72 • Vanity, Thy Name Is • interior artwork by Adkins
86 • The Demon of the North • novelette by C. C. MacApp
86 • The Demon of the North • interior artwork by Schelling
120 • Adjustment • shortstory by Wilton G. Beggs
120 • Adjustment • interior artwork by Blair
A new screen for the Day One Mac app update submitted for review today.
1.2 includes:
• Password
• Calendar
• Export
• 24-Hour
• Lion Support
Our local camera club put together a challenge to come up with an image a la Paul Weber of the Hudson River School. I found a lovely pastoral scene that members of the school were so fond of and changed it up. Let me know what you think. I used the MacApp "PhotoArtista - Oil" to achieve the final painterly effect.
Well here's an interesting product. I'm surprised given my love of browsers that I hadn't seen this one yet. It appears it's been around. The copyright refers to 2005. Where the hell was I anyway?
My first impression/thought was this: what could this browser possibly have that flock/firefox/camino/omniweb don't? Curiosity peaked, and looking to add another browser to my dock, I downloaded and tried it.
Interesting.
So obviously it browses (using the webkit engine and cocoa), and does so fairly quickly on my macbook pro. Good so far. There are some other neat features that I dug so I thought I'd explain:
1. visual bookmarks (see note)
2. window transparency via slider (all windows have this option, so if you want to semi-hide your source or the resulting window, you can)
3. quicksilver-like url display for presentations
4. screengrab as pdf (which I thought anyone could really do, assuming there are no print stylesheets, using the print to pdf feature in tiger, BUT this lets you specify the download directory and range of printing in the prefs)
5. Save the favicon as whatever filetype you like. Neato.
6. The source can be modified and reloaded so you can edit and preview without uploading. (see note) Much like the edit css feature in the webdeveloper toolbar for firefox (is there one that does that with html?? I don't know)
7. Download Panel allows target selection and it says you can download embedded files like Quicktime. I have Quicktime Pro so I already had that particular ability. (If, btw, you don't own QP, please buy it. It's worth way more than you pay.)
8. Photoshop-like zoom text feature in toolbar
9. Encoding selection menu in toolbar
10. Yes, it's also open source and is available as a Universal Binary.
It's clearly built with the web developer in mind. If you've installed the webdeveloper toolbar for firefox or flock, this is at least worth a boo. It's still a little rough around the edges in my opinion:
1. The interface is too tight - I don't mind the icons, but I need more air around them and the text in the toolbar, title bar, and the status bar.
2. The website for the product is weak in documentation/support. But hey, the product is free and open source so who's complaining?
3. The updater could check for the version first, before offering the download of the current version.
4. Developers use more than html and css. What would really toss this over the edge for me would be server side scripting rendering engines like zend studio has for php built in. Of course this would bloat the app (and given that it's so small, that might be a shame) but perhaps the option to enable/disable? The web developer is a python/ruby/java/php/perl developer too. No current browsers help us with that. Yet.
Anyway. I've added it to my browser list. I'll be keeping an eye on the updates and waiting to see what other great ideas this guy has. He's definitely thinking outside the traditional browser window, and there's nothing wrong with that. At the very least, these are some great features that could make some great extensions for other browsers like flock - maybe they should hire Atsushi... I think there's some serious potential in this guy.
Next week I'll try to have this up before midnight. Another pseudo mac app monday it is.
An old problem is solved using this great new tool called Pando: sharing FOLDERS via email without having to use archiving programs like tar, rar, zip, sit, gz etc. I know trying to explain why entire folders can't be emailed to my dad is painful. Well now they can. And big ones.
"Pando lets you send your home videos, giant presentations and entire folders of original quality photos to anyone with an email address."
Why do I use Pando?
1. No more email attachment limit
2. download accelleration
3. no file size limit (halleleujah)
4. all email based
5. my personal favorite: drag and drop folder goodness
6. oh and my other personal favorite: so far, it's free...
I actually was able to drag a folder of thumbnails to the window, type an email address to send the files to, fill out info like any normal email, and hit send. Kick ass. The program zips the file up using a proprietary archiving format called .pando and ships it out. Only requirement is that the end user has to go download and install the app on their end before they can open the file.
So my dad is still screwed, for now, but if this catches on, and the technology can be repurposed/sold to the right email company I think we could be in luck (aha, it appears that's their business model, I wondered how this was going to make money...). There is already a plugin for yahoo messenger and a pending plugin for Microsoft Outlook... when it's built in my dad might be in luck :-) Sorry daddy, for making you my token web/computer noob, but you really are... *kisses* heehee
The beta v0.9 is available to both windows and mac users, which makes me very happy because it seems mac beta apps are always behind the windows ones.
Keep an eye on this one. You might be getting files from me sent this way, so you might as well go download it now :-)
www.pando.com/beta/ (and how good is their tagline?... it's THAT good)
If / Magazin-Reihe
> A. E. van Vogt / The Replicators
> Ron Goulart / Reporter at Large
> E. Clayton McCarty / Small One
> Basil Wells / Blind Alley
> C. C. MacApp / Gree's Commandos
> J. L. Frye / Zombie
> Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson / Starchild (Part 2 of 3)
Cover: Richard McKenna
(Cover illustrates "Small One")
Editor: Frederik Pohl
Galaxy Publishing Corporation / USA 1965
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2020
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A list of all the applications I have installed currently on my Apple MacBook Pro laptop. A screencast showing how I found this list is on:
I took two screenshots of this application list with Skitch and then combined the images with SeaShore. Both Skitch and Seashore are free.
I'll be updating (soon) my linked list of Mac apps on:
CONTENTS for IF magazine August 1964 Volume 14 Number 4
4 • Chess and the Giant Brains • essay by Frederik Pohl [as by The Editor ]
6 • The Slaves of Gree • [Gree] • novelette by C. C. MacApp
36 • A as in Android • shortstory by Frances Hall [as by Frances T. Hall ]
45 • The Prince and the Pirate • [Retief] • novelette by Keith Laumer
65 • The Life Hater • [Berserker] • shortstory by Fred Saberhagen
72 • Farnham's Freehold (Part 2 of 3) • serial by Robert A. Heinlein
VLC, Perian and Flip4Mac is the answer to all your multi-media video needs on a Mac. VLC is an alternative to Quicktime and the native DVD player in OS X, while both Perian and Flip4Mac provide the necessary codecs to run just about all the video codecs available in the known universe. Stuff like DivX, H.264, Flash, AVI, MKV, and even the crappy Windows Media stuff that you can't escape from on the web.
A lessor known feature in VLC allows you to record video from your iSight camera. Of course, iChat already has this function, but it's good to know it's there.
There is a debate among Mac users as to whether Flip4Mac is even necessary if you have Perian installed, but I find its integration with web browsers important when playing embedded WMV files. Of course, Perian probably allows for Quicktime to play such content in the browser without help from Flip4Mac, but I've been too lazy to research it.
If you are lazy like me, just install all three and forget about it. And oh yes, all three downloads are free.
Related Links:
VLC
Perian
Flip4Mac
CONTENTS for: IF January 1967Vol 17 No1
4 • H. G. Wells Plus 100 • essay by Frederik Pohl [as by The Editor ]
8 • The Iron Thorn (Part 1 of 4) • serial by Algis Budrys
17 • The Iron Thorn (Part 1 of 4) • interior artwork by Gray Morrow
46 • A Hair Perhaps • novelette by J. F. Bone
48 • A Hair Perhaps • interior artwork by Vaughn Bodé
63 • - Still More Fandoms • [Our Man in Fandom] • essay by Lin Carter
67 • The Scared Starship • novelette by D. M. Melton
70 • The Scared Starship • interior artwork by Nodel
86 • By the Seawall • shortstory by Robert Silverberg
95 • On the Shallow Seas • novelette by Robert Mason
100 • On the Shallow Seas • interior artwork by Burns
117 • The Impersonators • shortstory by C. C. MacApp
128 • Snow White and the Giants (Part 4 of 4) • serial by J. T. McIntosh
133 • Snow White and the Giants (Part 4 of 4) • interior artwork by Gaughan
160 • Hue and Cry (If, January 1967) • essay by Frederik Pohl [as by The Editor ]
Do you hate the ugly Finder icon on your Mac and want to replace it with that ultra cool Boba Fett icon that you found on the web? Well, look no further, friend! I got the App you've been searching for and it's completely free! From the makers of AppCleaner comes Lite Icon.
And it's very easy to use. Just open the folder containing the icons you want to use, drag it into the pane of the default icons you want to change in Lite Icon and hit "Apply Changes." It really is that simple!
[Note: changes to the Finder icon requires a relaunch of the Finder, an option that's provided in LiteIcon. Also, a change to the Dashboard icon requires that you remove the alias already there.]
And before someone badgers me, yes, I have the link for the Boba Fett icon, along with Darth Vader and a bunch of Storm Troopers. Enjoy!
Related Links:
Lite Icon
Icons
www.iconarchive.com/show/starwars-icons-by-everaldo/Boba-...
itunes.apple.com/us/app/collage-maker/id434548368?mt=12
Make an elaborate collage for Mother's Day with Collage Maker, using gradient background.
itunes.apple.com/us/app/igreetingcard/id481945555?mt=12
iGreetingCard is an e-card app for Mac to make holiday or special occasions greeting cards. This is a showcase on making Mother's Card as a meaningful present (gift) for Mother's Day, wishing all mom have a great and unforgettable day
itunes.apple.com/us/app/collage-maker/id434548368?mt=12
Collage for Mother's Day with Collage Maker, using color as the background.
Aldiss, Brian W.
Bermel, Albert
Clement, Hal
Dick, Philip K.
Elliott, Chandler
Harrison, Harry
Kornbluth, C.M.
Laumer, Keith
Leiber, Fritz
MacApp, C.C.
Pohl, Frederik (edited)
Thomas, Theodore L.
West, Wallace
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Handbrake is one of the first must have apps that I encountered on a Mac and it is without a doubt, one of the most elegant DVD ripping apps on the market. As a PC user, I was used to having to use three different crappy shareware apps to do what comes natively in Handbrake and even worse, the Windows apps only supported low quality AVI! Yuck!
Handbrake, on the other hand, comes with the options to encode DVDs using the latest in H.264. It also have a butt load of presets, including presets for the iPhone, iPod Touch, PS3, Xbox 360, AppleTV and PSP.
Handbrake also comes with options to output to Dolby, and 5.1 Channel Surround sound and bitrates up to 160 kbps. You can optimize your outputs for web, create chapter markers or even include subtitles. Handbrake is just a kick ass app!
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