Big Bang Board Games come to iPhone/iPod touch

by Robert Palmer (Sep 11th 2008 5:30PM)

If you're looking for a collection of classic timewaster games for your iPhone or iPod touch, look no further than Freeverse's Big Bang Board Games, which includes Chess, Backgammon, Checkers, Mancala, Reversi, 4-In-A-Row, and Tic-Tac-Toe. The artwo...

IBM demonstrates Deep Thunder weather app on iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 12th 2012 9:30AM)

Almost everyone knows about Deep Blue, the chess playing supercomputer. But have you heard of its counterpart Deep Thunder? If you haven't, you will, because it may be coming to iOS as an iPad app, says IBM in an IdeaLab article on the Talking Poin...

Chessmaster 9000 finally goes Universal

by Mat Lu (Jul 2nd 2008 11:00AM)

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 MacBoo...

Today in the App Store -- the best free apps, new apps and app updates

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 12th 2014 3:30PM)

Here are some of the best free apps, app updates and new apps that have landed in the App Store recently. All app prices are USD and subject to change. Some deals may expire quickly, so grab them while you can. Apps Now Free Dementia: Book of the...

Freeverse updates Big Bang Board Games

by Erica Sadun (Feb 6th 2008 12:30PM)

If you're a fan of the Big Bang suite of board games, you'll be happy to learn that Freeverse has released a fully Universal version of the seven-game package, with performance improvements, sleeker graphics and greater stability. The new version no...

Nazi tracker app coming soon to a German iPhone near you

by Mike Wehner (Dec 12th 2014 1:00PM)

At a time when ultra-nationalist rallies are becoming a weekly occurrence in the German capital of Berlin, activists are turning to apps to help track the extremist movement and ensure it doesn't evolve into something more dangerous, RT reports. Th...

Some of the awesome, lesser-known new features in OS X Mountain Lion

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 13th 2012 9:00AM)

The big new features of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion like iMessage, Notification Center, Dictation, Facebook and Twitter integration, and AirPlay are getting all the attention. However, for me, the coolest stuff in major releases of OS X are always t...

Nethack: The Best Game on your Mac

by Erica Sadun (May 20th 2007 12:00PM)

It has spawned numerous websites, user groups, mailing lists and Usenet topics. It has been around for decades and yet it still has uncounted adherents. It is, perhaps, the best game you can install on your Macintosh. It is Nethack. Nethack is a fir...

According to Hoyle, it's 2009

by Steven Sande (Sep 26th 2008 8:00AM)

Encore Software apparently has a time machine, and it's not the one built into Leopard. They have just introduced three new entries in their Hoyle series of Mac games -- Hoyle Puzzle & Board 2009, Hoyle Cards 2009, and Hoyle Casino 2009. Hoyle P...

Google CEO discusses relationship with Apple

by Mike Wehner (Dec 12th 2012 8:00AM)

Apple and Google are clearly competitors on a number of levels, but being two of the largest tech companies on the planet means having to work together at times. In a recent interview with Fortune, Google CEO Larry Page dishes the dirt -- or lack t...

Samsung hopes new jury will nullify Apple patent infringement award

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd 2013 1:30PM)

FOSS Patents is reporting that Samsung is asking the court to appoint a new jury to determine whether or not 14 of its products infringed on Apple's patents. The move, if granted by the court, could result in a lower monetary award to Apple than...

Mac Gamer Gear: WoW Status v1.3

by C.K. Sample, III (Mar 26th 2005 10:31AM)

I usually avoid playing games on my Mac. I instead reserve the gameplaying for things like my new PSP (have I gloated about owning a PSP enough yet?). The notable exceptions to this rule are various chess games, Go, and, of course, ...

Bose triumphantly returns to Apple Store, Apple pretends like nothing happened

by Mike Wehner (Dec 10th 2014 1:00PM)

After unceremoniously culling Bose products from Apple Stores around the globe a couple of months back, the popular audio brand has snuck back into Apple's good graces just in time for the last weeks of holiday shopping. Recent reports claim that A...

Hands On: Big Bang Board Games for iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Sep 17th 2008 8:00AM)

I love Freeverse's Big Brain Bang Board games for Mac so I was super excited to hear that they'd ported them over to the iPhone [iTunes link]. And sure enough, many of the great features that make the software such a winner on the Mac are there on th...

Free TunePrompter tool lets you make your own iKaraoke vids

by Michael Rose (Jul 21st 2007 2:00PM)

There's a dark family secret in my house, but it's one I must reveal: my wife is a karaoke fiend. Seriously, she's got a monkey on her back, and that chimp is singing "I Know Him So Well" from Chess. With this in mind, I've considered getting her Gri...