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Getting ready for Snow Leopard: Think about your applications

by Steven Sande (Aug 27th, 2009)

Ahhhh, there's nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that tomorrow I will be spending much of the day upgrading the Macs in my house to Snow Leopard. I received an email from Apple this morning telling me that Snow Leopard had shipped, so now I ...

Mac 201: Preparing your Mac for Snow Leopard

by Chris Rawson (Aug 17th, 2009)

With Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, expected rumored to ship out any week day now, it's worth looking at one thing that can make upgrading to 10.6 a lot easier (at least on an Intel Mac-as most PowerPC Mac users should know by now, ...

Cocktail 4.3 Leopard edition released

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2009)

It's Cocktail time yet again -- the intrepid folks at Maintain are updating the Leopard version to 4.3, and bringing more utility than ever to the already extremely popular and versatile Unix function and OS X tweaking app. The new version adds the ...

iLife '09 begins move to Intel-only mainstream software from Apple

by Mat Lu (Feb 4th, 2009)

Our friends over at Ars have discovered a potentially foreboding sign concerning the recently shipping iLife '09. Apparently, GarageBand's new Learn to Play feature, in which various recording artists talk about their songs and "teach" you to play ...

Codeweavers says cheap gas = free software today

by Michael Rose (Oct 27th, 2008)

Update 10/28: Welcome, Digg fans. CodeWeavers' site is getting crunched under the massive demand for the free versions of CrossOver, so there is now a minimal site at down.codeweavers.com that will accept your email address; you will be mailed your ...

VMWare Fusion 2.0 is released

by Christina Warren (Sep 16th, 2008)

Great news for any virtualization junkies out there (I know I'm not the only one). VMWare Fusion 2.0 has just been will be released Tuesday! Fusion 2.0 is a free upgrade for all existing 1.x customers, and it adds more than 100 new features and ...

Chessmaster 9000 finally goes Universal

by Mat Lu (Jul 2nd, 2008)

I thought Adobe and Microsoft were bad, but Feral Interactive has just released a patch for Chessmaster 9000 that brings Universal Binary status to the well known chess application. Other changes in version 1.1.2 include support for the latest ...

Name Mangler: batch rename your files

by Joshua Ellis (May 21st, 2008)

Most people rarely ever have to rename a whole lot of files at once. Let's face it -- batch file renaming isn't UNIX kernel reprogramming, but it's one of those irritating tasks that can be a surprising amount of trouble for casual or even more ...

Adium adds Facebook Chat support; emo kids cheer worldwide

by Joshua Ellis (May 9th, 2008)

Adium, the tasty multi-client Mac chat app, is about to get even tastier: developer Evan Schoenberg announced today on the Adium blog that he's adding Facebook Chat to the ridiculously long list of instant messaging protocols already supported by the ...

Renoise: A multi-platform tracker for music composition

by Joshua Ellis (May 9th, 2008)

Back in the day before Ableton Live and Reason and all the other sequencer apps out there, desktop electronic producers made do with trackers: apps which allowed the budding Moby or Paul Oakenfold to sequence samples. They were basically software ...

Calling shenanigans on MacUpdate Parallels vs. VMware link

by Michael Rose (Apr 25th, 2008)

Imagine you're trying to sell a bundle of Mac applications that includes Parallels. It's an obviously appealing deal for anyone in the market for Windows virtualization, since the bundle is priced below the retail cost of Parallels alone. Might you ...

VMware Fusion video contest offers a MacBook Air

by Michael Rose (Apr 17th, 2008)

There are so many ways to get your hands on a MacBook Air (and apparently several ways to lose your grip on one, as well). You could visit the Apple Store, or Best Buy, or shop online. You could take up a collection with friends and family, or ...

Gish goes universal

by Mike Schramm (Dec 31st, 2007)

Gish isn't a Mac-only experience, but as a platform game, it's a pretty good one. I played it way back when it was released on Windows, but Inside Mac Games reports that Chronic Logic has released a universal binary of Gish, so now you can play it ...