https://touchreviews.net iPhone, iPad Games, Apps, Reviews, News Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:57:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 WWDC Style iTunes App Store Sales Screen Saver https://touchreviews.net/wwdc-style-itunes-app-store-sales-screen-saver/ https://touchreviews.net/wwdc-style-itunes-app-store-sales-screen-saver/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:25:09 +0000 https://touchreviews.net/?p=7962 Read More]]> If you remember, around WWDC time we were all blown away by an Apple creation that was almost a piece of modern art. Especially if you were someone experiencing decent App Sales on a daily basis! In the lobby of the developer conference they setup a bank of monitors showing live iPhone App Sales cascading down them in real time.

Well a Polish developer has come up with something similar. But this time we can all have one at home. He uses the Top Free and Top Paid app data to fill a screensaver with app icons which update over time.

It’s a free download… So why not give it a whirl.

Do let us know in the comments if you’ve managed to get it working on any funky multiscreen setups you may have.

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Currently on display at WWDC is a veritable Christmas Tree celebrating the eternal Christmas of Apple’s iTunes App Store.

Apple’s Hyperwall, put simply, is 30 LED screens which together form a video wall showing the top selling 50,000 apps in the App Store cascading down in a virtual waterfall of real time sales data. Each falling icon representing an app sale.

Apple’s own PR describes it like this:

This hyperwall is powered by 30 Mac Pro towers with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and EVGA NVIDIA GTX 285 graphics cards. As apps are downloaded from the App Store, their data is coalesced via an XML feed every five minutes. Apps are sorted and scheduled using Cocoa and Objective-C. The data is then passed to an OpenCL kernel, which drives the animation. Quartz Composer brings all the technologies together and renders the final synchronized output using Quartz Composer Visualizer.

It is both a geek fest visually, and in the underlying technology that powers it.

There is a video available, below. I spent a while watching it very closely to see if I could see any Apps I have been involved in. What a great feeling to see those little virtual pennies fall from heaven as you visit Santa’s grotto.

Did you spot any apps you recognise, or were involved in in the video? Let us know in the comments…

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