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Posted on August 17, 2006

Mac Gaming :: Halo (Universal Binary)

Yesterday, the Universal binary version of the popular videogame [tag]Halo[/tag] was released for [tag]Mac[/tag] users to enjoy. That is, if said Mac users are willing to pay for it even when they have already own the Mac retail game.
It costs $5 dollars if you choose to download it, and a bit more if you’d like [...]

Posted on August 16, 2006

Free app for downloading YouTube videos

Does anyone remember the YouTube downloading guide I made a while back?
Well, here’s a relatively new app for downloading [tag]YouTube[/tag] videos into the [tag]Mac[/tag] in an [tag]iTunes[/tag]/[tag]iPod[/tag]-compatible format. The app is named PodTube. And the best of all? It’s free!

Just remember that this is a bare-bones piece of [tag]software[/tag] — all it does is download, [...]

Posted on August 14, 2006

How to turn a Mac into an expensive music alarm clock

About the same time Tiger came out, I’ve been enjoying a simple iTunes alarm clock from my laptop. It’s nothing fancy — just an Automator script working alongside iTunes and some tweaking in the System Preferences. If this sounds appealing to anyone, here’s the how-to.
In order to save you a couple of minutes from configuring [...]

Posted on August 12, 2006

Leopard leaked!

Users are reporting that the preview version of Leopard that was give out to developers has been leaked into the net — now sighted in the BitTorrent network, apparently.
In the meanwhile, you can already hear Apple’s lawyers slithering in the darkness — preparing a massive legal strike. Remember how it all went when the same [...]

Posted on August 10, 2006

Best Mac OS X Enhancers

Now that everyone’s excited about Leopard, it’s time to give ol’ Tiger some enhancements so that it’ll remain fresh and useful to the user (as if what it packs isn’t enough, already). Also, did I mention all of them are free? So here’s the best enhancers I could find for Mac OS X — and [...]