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Star Apps: Jordan Casey


Star Apps: Jordan Casey

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 03:28 PM PDT

Jordan Casey is no ordinary 13-year-old. The Irish prodigy is a self-taught iOS app developer and also the founder and CEO of Casey Games, an indie games company that he launched late last year. Some of his successful titles include Alien Ball VS Humans, Greenboy Touch, and Save The Day, the official game for National Children's Day in Brazil.

He's currently working on several more games and speaking at international conferences such as Cannes Lions, European Pirate Summit, Gamecity7, TedxYouth New Delhi, The Smartphone and Tablet Games Summit, BETT 2013, and most recently, TiEcon Conference in Silicon Valley. Now he speaks to Download.com about his recent successes, his upcoming releases, and his early start as an iOS developer.

Jordan Casey, 13-year-old app developer

(Credit: Jordan Casey)

How did you teach yourself to code? I taught myself to program when I was nine. I used to play an online game and saw that some of the users were making Web sites about this game. I thought this would be a fun hobby so I went to a store and bought a book on how to program Web sites. After a year of Web development I was thinking of different projects I could do and so I just thought, "games."

Most people don't know what they "want to be when they grow up" till much later. How did you know, at such a young age, that you wanted to be an app developer? Because, I was doing it as a hobby, at ... [Read more]

    


Power2Go Essentials hits Version 9

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT

On Tuesday, Cyberlink launched an updated release of Power2Go, a suite of burning utilities for Windows, exclusively on Download.com. Version 9 includes some basic burning features, in addition to added support for backing up photos and videos from sites like Vimeo, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube.

Notable improvements and upgrades in this version include support for ripping audio CDs to high-quality, lossless FLAC formats, as well as DVD burning support from Flash Video (FLV) and MKV file types.

Though the basic Essential pack, which lets you view ISO image files and copy basic video and audio discs, is free, Cyberlink also includes many extra, premium features to help users manage their system files, like the ability to back up their Windows to recovery discs and encrypt their DVDs.

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