![]() "But having gone back to the 2005 iteration since completing the RE4 Remake, I can decisively say it has aged far more than you probably realise, and the Remake does an incredible job of capturing all of the details, moments and mechanics that matter, while bringing everything else up to a standard modern players will enjoy." "It's that funny thing about remakes and remasters done right, the new and improved version tends to look exactly like the original does - in your head," Wilson details. "2023's Resi 4 sticks incredibly close to the format laid out by the original – more so than any of Capcom's previous REmakes, which themselves felt far more dated by today's standards (partly set by Resident Evil 4 itself)."Įurogamer's Aoife Wilson says that although it may not look like a lot has changed, the Remake has actually done a thorough job of being faithful for old school fans, but updating things enough to make it more than appealing to newcomers. ![]() " a game that incorporates evolutions of the original's template, rather than attempting to recapture lighting in a bottle," writes Andy Robinson in his five-star review on VGC. You make far subtler changes that may not be as surprising as those from the other remakes, but still results in yet another terrifying Resident Evil adventure. "The Remake does an incredible job of capturing all the details that matter, while bringing everything else up to a modern standard Aoife Wilson, Eurogamer But how do you give Resident Evil 4 the 'Resident Evil 4 treatment'? This week, Capcom launches its Resident Evil 4 Remake. They basically gave those two games the 'Resident Evil 4 treatment', and it worked. Yet with Resident Evil 2 and 3, the developer didn't just improve the visuals and tweak the controls, it took the story and characters and changed the gameplay into something decidedly more modern. ![]() It not only re-defined the Resident Evil franchise, but most of the third-person action games that followed.įourteen years later and Capcom decided to start remaking some of its classic Resident Evil games. The title jettisoned the gameplay that the franchise had become known for – no more fixed camera angles, and goodbye the older 'tank' controls – and in its place was a new third-person action horror experience. When Resident Evil 4 launched on Nintendo GameCube, it was a revelation. ![]()
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Autopano Pro is a comprehensive and reliable software solution whose main purpose is to help you create panoramic images from multiple sources, saving you valuable time and effort in the process, by automatically performing most of the operation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In September, 2019, Trump appointed him deputy national-security adviser. Scandal removed Flynn from his job almost overnight, but Pottinger stayed, serving five subsequent national-security chiefs. When Trump named Flynn his national-security adviser, Flynn chose Pottinger as the Asia director. In Afghanistan, he co-wrote an influential paper with Lieutenant General Michael Flynn on improving military intelligence. ![]() He left journalism at the age of thirty-two and joined the Marines, a decision that confounded everyone who knew him. Fluent in Mandarin, he spent seven years in China, reporting for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is one of the few survivors of Donald Trump’s White House, perhaps because he is hard to categorize. We didn’t appreciate that until late February.” The first mistake had been made, and the second was soon to happen. “You’re going to be missing fifty per cent of the cases. “That whole idea that you were going to diagnose cases based on symptoms, isolate them, and contact-trace around them was not going to work,” Redfield told me recently. ![]() The virus in Wuhan turned out to be far more infectious, and it spread largely by asymptomatic transmission. The new pathogen was a coronavirus, and as such it was thought to be only modestly contagious, like its cousin the SARS virus. specialists visited China in early January, they would have learned exactly what the world was facing. 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When wealthy Sybil Harrington died in 1998, at the age of 89, a New York Times story called her a philanthropist “who besides supporting medical, education and arts charities was the largest individual donor to the Metropolitan Opera in the company’s history.” Harrington, who died in 1974 and now is remembered as a big-time Texas oil man. He and his first wife, Sybil Buckingham, divorced after only about two years. Harriet represented the second of Reeder’s three marriages. She and her family lived just outside the city limits of North Dallas. Her mother was Harriet Hays Palmer Reeder. Suzanna was born on May 23, 1946, in Dallas. And that’s not even counting her family connection to a now-deceased multi-millionaire philanthropist from New York City. Courtesy photoĭeeply involved in her community, she was named Citizen of the Year in Port Aransas at one point. Suzanna Reeder poses for a photo with her father, Ray Reeder, on New Year’s Eve, 1971. During her time here, her life experiences have crossed over with some classic figures like Elda May Roberts legendary local events like the Barroom Bicycle Race landmark Port A places including the Sea Horse Inn and Miyako Yacht Club and respected organizations like the Port Aransas Community Theatre. She has worked for about 50 years in the real estate business in Port Aransas. Starting up this community’s now- 51-year-old newspaper of record is noteworthy in and of itself.īut there is much more, of course, to Suzanna’s background than that. I feel so privileged to ride on your coattails.” You two (Judson and South Jetty Editor Dan Parker) are just fabulous. “I’m just so grateful that we began it and then Mary took over,” Suzanna said. Courtesy photoĪnother person being interviewed in this kind of situation might use the occasion to do a little boasting, belaboring the fact that she laid the groundwork for what would become a community institution.īut, to the surprise of no one who knows her well, Suzanna modestly turned attention away from herself, choosing to praise others instead. In the foreground is Peter Fernand, left, and Russell Vetters. Seated at far left is Ann Melee Skipwith. Sohl is seated in the background, at right, and Reeder is next to him. William Shakespeare’s ‘A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream’ is performed at the wedding of Suzanna Reeder and Walter Sohl, at the Port Aransas Community Center on June 21, 1977. The newspaper has been owned and operated by Mary and Murray Judson since 1981. With backing from her father and working with then-local resident Steve Frishman Suzanna founded the South Jetty in 1971. “It’s the privilege of living in a small town, where things circle around,” she said. That’s the situation that Suzanna Reeder found herself in recently. Then, decades later, an employee of that same newspaper contacts her and requests an interview so that she might be profiled at length in the very paper that she was largely responsible for establishing. About a year later, she sells her interest in the publication. This profile was based on a series of South Jetty interviews with Suzanna Reeder over the past few weeks.įirst, a woman helps found a newspaper. Megan Biggs PhotographyĮditor’s note: Port Aransas Profiles are stories about folks who are longtime residents or are otherwise noteworthy. Reeder has lived in Port Aransas for more than 50 years and once was named the town’s Citizen of the Year. Suzanna Reeder has her toes in the sand on a recent day on Mustang Island. ![]() ![]() Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. 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This free app is an audio engine that is ideal for anyone who wants to mix between their tracks to create a flow of music. Jeremy Milliner Updated 9 days ago Get the Music Pumping With Cross DJ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vox’s model, however, is to have their video producers take the story from inception, through research and production right on to delivery. Sure, you can have a consistent presenter but it’s tough to make that land as truly ‘authentic’ and ‘authored’, particularly if said presenter goes elsewhere. Unlike independent creators, they struggle to build a one-to-one connection with their audiences purely because of the nature of their businesses. This is something lots of publishers and brands struggle with. How viewers will find your video should always be the first consideration in your commissioning process - it sounds ruthless but in the YouTube game if you can’t think of a title for it, don’t bother making it. But that’s built on the fact that their writers and producers each have a deep understanding of the platform they’re creating for. Fortunately, Vox have both great content and great metadata. It’s also about getting an audience for it, being able to transact efficiently and being able to target efficiently.” This is, of course, about building a community on social but it’s also about bringing in new audiences and a core factor in this is metadata.Ī former colleague of mine, Tom Martin - founder of FAQTube and now Head of Audience Development at Endemol Shine - sums up the whole ‘content vs metadata’ question brilliantly: “A mediocre video with great metadata will always outperform a great video with bad metadata”. Vox CEO Jim Bankoff in conversation with Digiday noted that “It’s not just about creating great content. I’m speculating here but I would suggest that Vox can create these videos in a matter of hours, thus ensuring that when the news breaks they are one of the first digital-first publishers on the scene with editorial commentary. A simple production set up of a well-informed talking head, archive footage and simple but good looking graphics. They also have an agile and nimble production model ensuring that they can turnaround relevant video content in response to rapidly changing events - and rarely in history have events been so rapidly changeable! This is most notable in Ezra Klein’s videos. Fundamentally, they never forget the key motivation behind their own content proposition - understanding the news, rather than just broadcasting it. This ensures they stay part of the wider conversation without alienating their core audience. They don’t just churn out a Superbowl video for the sake of it. The difference with Vox compared to many other content creators is that they always take a new and intriguing perspective on these ‘tent-pole’ moments. This feels like a no-brainer - if the Superbowl is coming up, make a video about American Football. Much has been written about Vox’s growth in the trade press, but I thought I’d look into Vox’s approach to content strategy from a good old-fashioned YouTube Certified audience development perspective.įirst things first. Incidentally, CNN (or more broadly Turner) also have an interesting YouTube strategy that appears to be paying dividends - they recently announced considerable investment in their fantastic original content channel Great Big Story and Beme News headed up by a duo of YouTube royalty in Casey Neistat and Jake Roper is on the verge of launching - but I digress. Consider that CNN launched their channel 9 years ago and have around 2.1 million subscribers and you clearly see how Vox’s growth in such a short period of time is genuinely meteoric. For a relative latecomer to the YouTube game, that’s remarkable. Two years ago (July ’15) they had 138,000 subscribers, a year later they had 900,000, at time of writing (Aug ’17) they have over 2.6 million. Vox launched their YouTube channel in July 2014. That would make for a very short article. Beyond the simple answer that they create awesome Emmy nominated videos, of course. Like many others in the confusing and semi-defined world of ‘content strategy’, I’ve been pondering what it is about their channel that makes them stand out in such a competitive landscape. There’s only a handful of other YouTube channels I can honestly say that about and most of those I worked on. It’s no exaggeration for me to say that I’ve watched every video Vox have published for months. And with you being the kind of erudite digital-native who still has enough time on their hands to be reading ‘thought pieces’ on Medium, I’ll assume you are too. ![]() ![]() While we can see the resulting apps, there are still plenty of questions Preview in Mojave with apps like Home, Stocks, News and Calculator. Well t his year they announced that they will be bringing In this post on macOS development for iOS developers, we speculated about what ”Marzipan” could be. “Marzipan” a bridge which brings UIKit over to the Mac. The user interface of iPhone and iPad apps. example of "Marzipan" in action on Mojave with the Stocks app UIKit is the framework for developing You may have to tweak how you track your user Website which is using any sort of tracking or pixel targeting, keep Giving permission for certain websites to track them. ![]() Safari Privacy Features in Mojave With Mojave, Safari users will have to start explicitly Stay up to date on possible queries you can add to your styling to keep How to support Dark mode.** For websites, make sure your [background Long as apps are built with this in mind.** To take advatange, Developers love this and it can look slick as Dark Mode and Mojave Dark mode is the ability to change UI to use a more ![]() This means if your app uses any of those functionalities, you'll need to update your code to ask for those permissions as well as handle when permission is not granted. MacOS Mojave now requires your apps to request permission when using the camera, microphone, or any automation (i.e. Enhanced App Permissions in Mojave for Developers Otherwise your ancient 32-bit app will no longer work in the fall of 2019. This means macOS has had to support both 32-bit and 64-bitĪpple has announced that Mojave will be the final OS to support 32-bit. With this change in Mojave for developers, you have one year to get ready and update your build for 10.15, the first 64-bit only OS from Apple. However, many older applications are still built with only 32-bit MacOS apps already out there: Phasing Out 32 Bit Support for Applications 64-bit computers have been around for at least 10 years. Here are 5 ways this could affect those with Probably be some time in September or October and it's already creatingīuzz in the tech world. ![]() ![]() Mojave for developers (version 10.14).** The final release date will MacOS Mojave is available in developer beta right now, and you can install it right away on compatible hardware if you have access to a developer profile.4 mins **Apple just announced the upcoming macOS update called Mac Pro (mid-2010 and mid-2012 models with recommended GPUs, and anything newer).iMac Pro (2017 - that’s the first-gen and only model so far).If you want something more affordable, but still guaranteed to run Mojave, then make sure you buy one of these - the newer, the better, as it’ll likely receive plenty of macOS updates: If you want to upgrade to a Mac that can run Mojave and enjoy that Dark Mode experience, then your best bet would be waiting for Apple to release its 2018 Macs, which will probably run macOS 10.14 out of the box. There’s perhaps no Windows-based machine made in 2009 or 2010 that can offer a great Windows 10 experience. On the other hand, if you still own a 2009 or 2010 MacBook or Mac that’s already on High Sierra, then you’ve probably had a more than decent run. What that means is that Apple dropped support for several Macs, including older MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro models. Coming this fall as a free update, which is customary for Apple’s new OS releases, Mojave will be compatible with MacBooks and Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, as well as 20 Mac Pro models that feature recommended Metal-capable graphics cards. ![]() |