prMac serves to enhance the visibility of press releases in the Mac world, offering Mac-centric news media distribution services as well as top-notch RSS feeds. © 2012 prMac http://prmac.com/ en-us http://prmac.com/release-id-39958.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-39958.htm Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:30:00 CST Xeric Design is celebrating the 10th anniversary of EarthDesk, with a special savings off the Single User and Five User licenses. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as dynamic, real-time global cloud coverage on your Macintosh or Windows desktop. It operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. This offer is valid only from the Xeric Design website from March 20-29, 2012. http://prmac.com/release-id-36947.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-36947.htm Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:00:00 CST Kids App "Nimbus Littling & the Flu from Nebtune 2" is hailed as "one of the most original and enchanting stories" for kids. Winner of Ebook Quarterly's prestigious "Best Ebook for Children" award. Nimbus Littling is a 2-inch tall Littling tween who fell to Earth when she was just a baby. She has long, brown hair and purple eyes. She wears a semi-transparent, starry hairband and clothing resembling rose pedals. As with all Littlings, Nimbus has a special gift. http://prmac.com/release-id-33720.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-33720.htm Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:00:00 CST UK based Quantum Sheep today introduces "Sunshine - Here comes the Sun!", a unique and beautiful new game for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Take on the role of the Sun itself, rising and setting throughout history, trying to bring happiness to the world. This is accomplished by shooting grumpy clouds, and trying to avoid setting fire to things. Immensely cute graphics, addictive gameplay and a huge sense of fun round off this addictive game. http://prmac.com/release-id-33362.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-33362.htm Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:00:00 CST UK based Microlemon today introduces Egg Ski Free 1.1, for iOS devices. Control Eggbert the egg and enable him to ski as many Egg Yards as possible in 30 seconds. Touch and hold the screen to dive, release on an upslope to jump. Collect hearts for a temporary boost of speed and clouds for extra time. Gameplay is inspired by the hit game "Tiny Wings". Simplicity is key - the player never has to do anything more than tap the screen. http://prmac.com/release-id-32246.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-32246.htm Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:30:00 CST Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to support high-resolution cloud data via a data feed service. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background. http://prmac.com/release-id-29309.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-29309.htm Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:00:00 CST Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to support spaces in Lion. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background and optionally as a screen saver. http://prmac.com/release-id-28214.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-28214.htm Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:00:00 CST Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to support the forthcoming Lion OS. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background and optionally as a screen saver. http://prmac.com/release-id-22370.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-22370.htm Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:00:00 CST Xeric Design is celebrating the 9th birthday of its flagship product, EarthDesk, with a special offer for a single-user license at a 60% discount. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems. This offer is available on our website, as well as from Apple's Mac App Store. This offer is valid for 9 days only: March 1-9, 2011. http://prmac.com/release-id-20491.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-20491.htm Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:10:00 CST Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, and has also made the application available in the new Mac AppStore. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh desktop. http://prmac.com/release-id-20323.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-20323.htm Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:00:00 CST California based Wolverton Apps today announces SkyWriting 1.0 on the new Mac App Store. SkyWriting lets users simulate writing with smoke in the sky over various backgrounds, such as well known city skylines, palm tree lined beaches, and famous landmarks. The smoke then realistically drifts away in real time, in some cases staying behind the foreground features of the image so as to appear as real-life skywriting. http://prmac.com/release-id-16797.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-16797.htm Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:30:00 CST Shaverma Games today introduces Words Magic 1.0, their challenging, new word-building game for iOS. Deceptively simple in its premise, the player must connect a starting word and an ending word. This is done using linking words which are only a single letter different from the previous word. For example, the player must select from the following to connect "bend" and "bank": end, band, blend, bead, bed, and bond. The answer, "band", is obvious, but higher levels of gameplay are quite difficult. http://prmac.com/release-id-16708.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-16708.htm Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:30:00 CST Xeric Design today announces EarthDesk 5.5, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh desktop. Version 5.5 adds a new "Fit To Screen" projection and now fully supports dual GPUs on newer i5 and i7 Macs. http://prmac.com/release-id-15807.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-15807.htm Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:45:00 CST MiniMonos today announces MiniMonos Flight 1.0 for iOS, an iPhone adaptation of the game in MiniMonos, the popular children's virtual world. Players of the game become flying monkeys, and have to tilt their iPhones left and right to swoop through the sky, collecting wind clouds and avoiding energy-sapping pollution clouds. Trampolines on the ground provide bouncing rescues to monkeys that get too low. http://prmac.com/release-id-14483.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-14483.htm Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:00:00 CST Sunnyvale based Playees today introduces Balloon Heaven, their ethereal balloon flying game for iOS. The object of the game is to carefully inflate a colored balloon to its full size and then guide it through the matching color ring in the sky. Gameplay ramps up slowly, preparing the player for higher levels where the tempo, number of balloons, evil clouds, and devil balloons all add difficulty. The game is played in Balloon Heaven, amidst sunbeams, angels, rainbows, and floating balloons. http://prmac.com/release-id-13930.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-13930.htm Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.4, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh or Windows desktop. Version 5.4 allows a single map to be seamlessly spanned across all connected displays. http://prmac.com/release-id-11450.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-11450.htm Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announces EarthDesk 5.3, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh or Windows desktop. Version 5.3 provides a work-around for a long standing screen saver hang in OS 10.6. http://prmac.com/release-id-10202.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-10202.htm Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announces EarthDesk 5.2, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh or Windows desktop. Version 5.2 adds a fourth map style - a new high-resolution shaded relief map. The cloud updating mechanism has been greatly improved. http://prmac.com/release-id-8723.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-8723.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:30:00 CST Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.1.1, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. EarthDesk 5 was entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is compatible with both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Version 5.1.1 fixes a stubborn bug that caused partially downloaded cloud images to be displayed, resulting in a milky white area across the bottom portion of the map. http://prmac.com/release-id-8247.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-8247.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.1, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. EarthDesk 5 was entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is compatible with both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Version 5.1 adds a new cloud contrast control, fixes minor bugs and has several internal improvements. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, and more. http://prmac.com/release-id-6394.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-6394.htm Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:56:00 CST Xeric Design today is pleased to announce the release of EarthDesk 5.0.1, a major upgrade to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, for Macintosh OS X. EarthDesk 5.0 has been entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is fully compatible with both Leopard and the upcoming Snow Leopard. Version 5.0.1 is an update to fix three issues uncovered since the release of 5.0.