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David Alison recently decided to learn Ruby on Rails. This article covers the early stages of that learning experience and has some book recommendations that are helping him get started.

David Alison tries adding Ruby on Rails Development to the list of things he has switched to since getting his Mac.

Flashforward2008 opens the nomination process for the 18th Flashforward Film Festival. The festival, now in its ninth year, celebrates the most innovative and compelling projects created with Adobe® Flash™. Nominations Open for submissions to the Flashforward Film Festival, taking place August 20-22, 2008 in San Francisco, with 10 Realigned and Refreshed Categories for all Work Created with Adobe® Flash™.

Awaiting AppStore launch, international game developer Simiotica announces immediate availability of the iPhone and iPod Touch game aMaze! via Installer.App. aMaze! is very realistic transition of the classic wooden balance game Labyrinth, where players guide steel ball through a maze avoiding holes, to the iPhone.

aMaze! is unique for playing exactly like its real world prototype by tilting device to control the labyrinth attitude thus moving the ball. This is the most intuitive game control because anyone who has ever played original Labyrinth game knows how to play the game.

uncomplex has released Mailplane 2.0 Beta for worldwide testing. Acting as a site specific web browser for Google's Gmail, Mailplane is a full fledged Mail client for the Desktop. It fully integrates the Gmail web interface into the Mac experience, offering users the best of both worlds. Beta 2.0 sports many new features, including full Gmail 2 support, new Gmail add-ons and keyboard shortcuts, better account notifications, more ways to create email attachments, plus a new OmniFocus plugin.

Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Rainer Brockerhoff has announced an update to Quay, a system utility for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard". Quay extends the Dock's functionality, allowing the user to sort Stack menus in several useful ways, and see extra information for each item.

Macgamestore has announced the release of The Scruffs for the Macintosh on its web site. Join the Scruffs on a scavenger hunt that will not only save the day, but will also uncover the secret that will change their lives forever. Developed by Sweet Tooth Games, The Scruffs is an original seek-and-find challenge.

plasq has released Comic Life Magiq 1.0 for Mac OS X. This entirely new photo-comic desktop publishing software from plasq empowers users of all ages and skill levels with simple-to-use but eye-catching creative options typically found in professional products. Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground up to leverage the power of Mac OS X 10.5 core technologies, like Core Image and Core Animation resulting in photo-comics with unique visual effects and elegant layout.

Version 9.2 introduces a new XML Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features. The major additions in Oxygen XML Editor 9.2 are related to the WYSIWYG-like editing support and in particular to the DITA support. The general visual editing improvements include displaying the resolved content in the editor and navigation through links. With the new DITA features that include a new DITA map editor, actions for inserting conref links, a tight integration of the latest version of the DITA Open Toolkit, Oxygen XML Editor becomes the leading DITA editor and the easiest to use.

The Fast Icon has released "Mask Icons", a collection of 4 freeware icons.

The Mask Icons was inspired by some great tribal masks and is available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for linux, web or blogs on FastIcon website.