It’s the season for games — and we haven’t seen any Mac games hitting the market, but there sure is a glut of iPhone games, about two new ones a day. Here are some of our favorites: Pogs to Milkcaps * Goldfin action underwater * KidCalc helps teach math * Monster Bash * Mouse House 2 * Free Version of Soosiz * A Doodle Flight * New millennium solitaire * zooSpelling Helps Early Learners * Furballs * Video Poker: Jacks or Better * FingerDancer … and more to come next week!
About.com has tried to answer a question I get frequently. “Which virtual machine is better for running Windows on the Mac.” Actually most people only know about Parallels and Fusion, so they don’t ask about VirtualBox.
In an article called “StuffIt enters the cloud”, Brian Lawler first talks about the history of Stuffit. Stuffit was originally written by Raymond Lau, a high school student from New York City in 1987.
It quickly became the standard for Macintosh users. Over the years, it was developed and sold by a number of companies. However it lost its prominence when Apple developed it own ZIP format utility for MacOS X.
This site gives 10 tips to improve security and privacy. Of course most of these can be adapted for the PC as well if you look at the basic concepts.
Apple’s Mac mini has shot to the top of sust-it energy efficiency charts for computers. Having been slated by Greenpeace in 2006, when they launched their ‘Green my Apple Campaign’ Apple has responded by making their products more recyclable, removing toxic materials and now proving that they can make fast and energy efficiency computers too.
I don’t know how this gentleman came up with this list. I doubt that he actually used any statistic to support his decisions.
His list of the top 10 Apple related websites include:
Major clamp-down on illegal online drug sites … IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION, then you are part of the problem!
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Continue reading »Last Friday DealCatcher announced TGI Black Friday for iPhone and iPod touch. Consumers now have a new mobile tool to save time and money while holiday shopping this Black Friday. The app allows users to browse over 8,000 deals from all the major retail store’s Black Friday ads. Users can create a personal shopping list within the app to map out their Black Friday shopping. They can also use the app to compare prices with online stores and purchase select items online avoiding the crowds.
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Google has announced that they are closing the Grand Central web site at the end of the year. They purchased Grand Central a couple of years ago and now are shutting it down after they have transfered all the registered users and the technology to Google Voice.
In this article in Computer World, Mike Elgan seems to agree with me about understanding Apple. He start with “Apple actions seem inexplicable — unless you understand how the company views the world.”
Apparent Software has launched the MacGraPhoto bundle — Mac users get 7 premium graphics applications for the price of one — or even for free. Applications in MacGraPhoto bundle will satisfy most of imaging needs of any Mac user: image editing, applying effects, format conversion, batch processing, vector drawing, geo-tagging photos, framing them or even creating posters and postcards. Continue reading »
How do you keep track of all those references, excerpts and links? Reference Tracker is an indispensable tool for writers, researchers or students. It creates documents that store all the citations and references in an essay, research project, or book and automatically creates formatted reference lists in a variety of popular reference styles to insert when needed.
Continue reading »As the shopping season gears up, we’re being flooded with “deals” — particularly for ‘Black Friday.’ While there are a few killer deals for consumer electronics products there are a lot more not-so-great deals. Buyer beware!
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Ringce has rolled out Slammer 0.9.6, an update to their unique designer’s layout and geometry utility for Mac OS X. Suitable for graphic designers, web and application developers alike, Slammer is a universal layout tool which embraces the grid system.
