Checkers HD, now with Peer to Peer multi-player and Plus+ integration! You can now play against your friends over Bluetooth with our Peer to Peer support. Also included in this last update, earn awards within the game and compete for leaderboard glory with the Plus+ social network!
Play against your friends or against the computer with Checkers HD, now available for the iPad! With 3 levels of difficulty and a host of great features, it is sure to keep players of all levels entertained for hours!
With Checkers HD, you can choose to play on any of 4 great board and token designs as well as 3 token color choices. You can play the traditional red vs. white, black vs. white or red vs. black. You can play against your friends directly on the device or against the AI in easy, medium or hard difficulty levels. Coming soon, you will also be able to play against your friends over Bluetooth with our Peer to Peer option.
Features:
- Single and Multi-Player Player games.
- Three levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard.
- Game statistics, including Kings and Captured Tokens count.
- Four beautiful board and token designs.
- Three token color options: red vs. white, black vs. white and black vs. red.
- Ability to turn off Mandatory Jumps.
- Play as the Red, the White or the Black Tokens against the computer.
- Choose from 3 animation speed options, Normal, Fast and Zippy.
About Plus+
Plus+ is a division of ngmoco that brings externally developed titles to the App Store. The Plus+ Network is a social play service free to players that harnesses the iPhone OS 3.0 technology and enables players to create a persistent profile, challenge friends via social channels, compete for leaderboard glory, participate in game events and discover new games.
What's new in Version 1.2.1
Important bug fix for our iPad users. This makes single player games playable again.
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The very best of what we now think of as the classic "Germanic" approach: solid tempos, clear orchestral balances, and a performance that emphasizes the music's grandeur at the expense of some of its more intimate moments. There's nothing "pretty" about Klemperer's Brahms; it has all the emotional honesty of Shakespearean soliloquy...
It's amazing to return to Klemperer's Brahms some 40 years on and recall that, in his day, his performances were sometimes considered slow. After the unbelievably distended versions of conductors like Giulini and Bernstein (to say nothing of Celibidache), Klemperer sounds positively zippy. Actually, his Brahms never was in any way eccentric--just the opposite. This performance of the First Symphony, in fact, offers the very best of what we now think of as the classic "Germanic" approach: solid tempos, clear orchestral balances, and a performance that emphasizes the music's grandeur at the expense of some of its more intimate moments. There's nothing "pretty" about Klemperer's Brahms; it has all the emotional honesty of Shakespearean soliloquy, and if by the time this music is over you don't think that it's the greatest symphony ever written, you're probably tone deaf. Klemperer is that good. He's just as persuasive in the "Tragic" Overture, and his performance of the "Alto Rhapsody" with Christa Ludwig is widely regarded as the best ever recorded. If somehow in the past 40 years or so you haven't heard these incomparable performances, now's your chance.
More info:
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=5657
Tracklist:
1. Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1855-1876; Austria
2. Tragic Overture, Op. 81 by Johannes Brahms
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Austria
3. Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 by Johannes Brahms
Performer: Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1869; Austria
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ohn Pizzarelli takes so naturally to these Ellington classics that if you didn't know better, you might think they were written for him. Following With a Song in My Heart, the guitarist/vocalist's 2008 tribute to songwriting icon Richard Rodgers, and, prior to that, 2006's Dear Mr. Sinatra, it would seem that Pizzarelli is systematically checking off all of those to whom he feels indebted. And that's a good thing, because his dedication to and understanding of this music is unquestioned. Rockin' in Rhythm doesn't stray all that far stylistically from those previous outings: Pizzarelli isn't out to rewrite history here, just to celebrate a hero. On the zippy opening "In a Mellow Tone," Pizzarelli, his rhythm crew, and his brass section come out swinging. Larry Fuller's mid-song piano solo is brisk and sparkling, and when it gives way to Pizzarelli's guitar-and-scat solo, the transition is smooth and sweet. As always, Pizzarelli's guitar playing is skilled and striking, though nowhere does he let it upstage the tunes that he's here to honor. And although his vocalizing has been described as thin, on easygoing tracks like "Satin Doll" and "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" he puts it to fine use, much as Chet Baker did: the emotionalism in his low-key delivery is palpable and Pizzarelli understands that soft and cool fit the bill, so no need to shout. His song choices aren't exactly radical, but neither are they entirely predictable (there's no "Take the 'A' Train," for example). Some tunes, though covered to death, suit the program despite their ubiquity: you can't go wrong with either "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" or "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," and Pizzarelli fuses them seamlessly into a medley whose arrangement hews closely to the originals while still leaving room for his personalization. Other less celebrated numbers ("Just Squeeze Me," performed solo; "Love Scene") break up the familiarity, and there are several guests joining the proceedings to liven things up -- not surprisingly, dad Bucky Pizzarelli sits in on a few tracks (soloing on "Satin Doll"), and Kurt Elling and (John Pizzarelli's wife) Jessica Molaskey's duet on "Perdido" (with a Gerald Wilson arrangement) makes for a natural pairing that gives the set a welcomed lift midway. And "C Jam Blues," featuring violinist Aaron Weinstein and saxophonist Harry Allen, is a gem. Horn arrangements by Don Sebesky give more than half the tracks a zest that Ellington would certainly have approved of.
Tracklisting:
01. In A Mellow Tone (4:12)
02. East St. Louis Toodle-oo/Don't Get Around Much Anymore (3:41)
03. Satin Doll (3:39)
04. C Jam Blues (7:59)
05. In My Solitude (3:52)
06. Just Squeeze Me (3:21)
07. Perdido (w/ Kurt Elling, Jessica Molaskey) (4:11)
08. All Too Soon (3:10)
09. I'm Beginning To See The Light (4:07)
10. Love Scene (3:48)
11. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (3:47)
12. Cottontail/Rockin' In Rhythm (4:00)
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Master classes of developers: Google Android platform
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Contents
A beginner's guide to Android (Reto Meier)
This session will introduce some of the basic concepts involved in Android development. Starting with an overview of the SDK APIs available to developers, we will work through some simple code examples that explore some of the more common user features including using sensors, maps, and geolocation.
Writing real-time games for Android redux (Chris Pruett)
This session is a crash course in Android game development: everything you need to know to get started writing 2D and 3D games, as well as tips, tricks, and benchmarks to help your code reach optimal performance. In addition, we'll discuss hot topics related to game development, including hardware differences across devices, using C + + to write Android games, and the traits of the most popular games on Market.
The world of ListView (Romain Guy, Adam Powell)
ListView is one of the most widely used Android widgets but also the most complex one. Join us to learn how to master ListView and learn all about its features, optimizations, quirks and limitations.
Casting a wide net: how to target all Android devices (Justin Mattson)
One of Android's strengths is its flexibility to run on a wide variety of devices. In this session, we will explore the facilities the Android resource system provides to developers to make supporting many devices from one application binary easier, as well as common pitfalls. In addition to hardware heterogeneity, more than one version of Android may exist in the wild at any given time. We will go over strategies for providing cross-version compatibility.
Android UI design patterns (Chris Nesladek, German Bauer, Richard Fulcher, Christian Robertson, Jim Palmer)
In this session, the Android User Experience team will show the types of patterns you can use to build a great Android application. We'll cover things like how to use Interactive Titlebars, Quick Contacts, and Bottom bars as well some new patterns which will get an I / O-only preview. The team will be also available for a no holds barred Q & A session.
Developing Android REST client applications (Virgil Dobjanschi)
This session will present architectural considerations for developing RESTful applications on the Android platform. It focuses on design patterns, platform integration and performance issues specific to the Android platform.
A JIT Compiler for Android's Dalvik VM (Ben Cheng, Bill Buzbee)
In this session we will outline the design of a JIT Compiler suitable for embedded Android devices. Topics will include an architectural overview, the rationale for design decisions and the special support for JIT verification, testing and tuning.
Writing zippy Android apps (Brad Fitzpatrick)
Come hear tips & war stories on making fast, responsive (aka "non-janky") Android apps. No more ANRs! Eliminate event loop stalls! Fast start-ups! Optimized database queries with minimal I / O! Also, learn about the tools and techniques we use to find performance problems across the system and hear what's coming in the future.
Advanced Android audio techniques (Dave Sparks)
In this session, we will explore advanced techniques that you can employ in your apps when working with media. This includes using Android's low-level audio APIs, selecting the appropriate format for your media files, and what's now possible using new media framework APIs introduced in Android 2.2.
Building push applications for Android (Debajit Ghosh)
Are you building cloud based apps for Android but are wondering how you can avoid polling and enable push functionality? This session will introduce the new Android Cloud to Device Messaging framework, showing you how you can integrate compelling mobile alert, send-to-phone, and two-way push sync functionality into your Android apps.
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