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Finally, our new game for iPad is available on the App Store. We call it Quasar Touch, and it takes you into a world of dark emptiness, where your only objective is to protect a source of light.

We like the simple gameplay that can change rapidly from easy to challenging. The soundscape has been generously provided by russian artist x3d5.

Quasar Touch has been created using OpenFrameworks (which is increasingly replacing Processing as my weapon of choice for creative coding).

We’d love to hear what you think about Quasar Touch! Let us know in the comments.

What is that again? Flipboard? What is it? It‘s the world‘s first social magazine. It‘s inspired by the beauty and ease of print media, Flipboards mission is to fundamentally improve how people discover, view and share content across their social networks.

Flipboard began a quest one week ago. Going to transform how people discover and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media. Flipboard also announced the immediate availability of its Flipboard App for iPad?, a social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across Twitter and Facebook.  With over 1 billion messages posted every day, social networks are quickly becoming the primary way people discover and share content on the Web. The result is a huge influx of incoming messages and links people must sort through across multiple web sites just to stay up to date? said Mike McCue, Flipboards CEO. They believe the timeless principles of print can make social media less noisy, more visually compelling and ultimately more mainstream.

Designed from the ground up for iPad, Flipboard creates a magazine out of a user‘s social content. Simply launch Flipboard and flip open the cover to get started. From the Table of Contents readers can view their sections and personalize the magazine. The Facebook and Twitter sections let readers quickly flip through the latest stories, photos and updates from friends and trusted sources. Because Flipboard renders links and images right in the magazine, readers no longer have to scan long lists of posts and click on link after link – instead they instantly see all the stories, comments and images, making it faster and more entertaining to discover, view and share social content.

Flipboard also lets readers easily create sections around topics or people they care about. You can choose from Flipboards suggested sections on topics such as sports, news, tech and style, with content hand-curated from popular and interesting Twitter feeds. Or, create an entirely new section by searching by topic, person or Twitter list to make Flipboard even more personal.

Start reading your magazine by downloading Flipboard. You can follow them at www.twitter.com/flipboard.

As you might know, we built our own little schedule for the football world championship in South Africa. Of course, we needed a way to keep track of how many people are downloading it. So we quickly fired up TextMate and wrote a little HTML5 app for the iPad in order to stay up to date on the numbers.

As you see in the image, almost 13000 people have downloaded it, which makes us really proud. By the way, that number does not count the downloads from external sources like chip.de, where we have about the same number of downloads now, bringing the total count all the way up to 25000! Thanks to everyone who loaded the planner! Hope you like it.

Oh, and we recently also added a french version, so you can keep track of the world cup while having a baguette avec camembert!

Honestly, I am not really a fan of Adobe. I think their software has become way too bloated which in turn is slowing down the development. Also, the Flash IDE (not the technology itsself) is just horrible.

Now Adobe has shown off a prototype for their very own tablet at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. It runs Android and features both Flash in the browser and AIR applications.

Now, from what I wrote in the first paragraph, one could assume that I must hate this thing. But as a matter of fact I find it rather delightful to see, that Adobe (and Google, who provide the Android operating system) are not simply sitting there, leaving the field of tablets entirely to Apple with their iPad and HP (I am assuming that HP will announce a WebOS tablet, which would be awesome).

In the video, the software appears to run quite smooth and I love the prototypish transparent enclosure you see in the video – even though I would never buy one that looks like that.

Remember iScraper, our iPhone app? Well, it also runs like a charm on the new iPad – and the larger images really enhance the experience. Now I’m looking forward to see people on the street, waving their iPads in the air…