Thursday, 17 August 2006

macDazzle: magic tricks for your Mac

macdazzleI'll cop to being a magic trick geek. I'm no good at performing them, but I love the mechanisms, and used to try to create new tricks and presentatio as a kid (and, OK, later in life as well). I'm surprised it's taken this long for there to be a software-based trick for the Mac, or at least, one that really was worth using. But macDazzle is offering one trick now, and another that looks even more promising later.

iPick, available now, is a cla ic card reading trick. A ectator picks from three distinct cards and you gue their pick. What's neat about this is that the ectator can download the a on their machine, and you can do the trick via iChat (or Adium, but the presentation i 't nearly as cool).

iMath, available "soon," looks just like the calculator widget from A le, but it again allows you to divine the numbers provided by a ectator. To further enhance the trick, the ectator can perform calculatio with the calculator, and you'll still be able to read the number, without ever touching their machine.

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