Blizzard has done an excellent job looking out for the Mac gamers. There definitely not enough games available for the Mac. Mac users who like to get their gaming fix without resorting to Bootcamp, Parallels, or a Windows computer are able to get their game on (with their Mac) when playing games created by Blizzard. It’s true World of Warcraft, Diablo, or Stracraft are all Mac compatible.
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Bloggers being arrested, websites being blocked and now it seems that China may have blocked access to the iTunes store over what the government considers an “offensive” song.
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I am as big an Apple fangrrl as anyone, but lately Apple has just not been making happy news for me to write about. The company seems to be bound and determined to destroy all of the positive reputation it has built up over the years with a series of bad decisions and snafus.
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Hictu is giving away a free, unlocked iPhone 3G. What is Hictu? A free micro video blogging service. Think YouTube meets Twitter, in a similar vein to 12Seconds or Seesmic. You record a simple, short video and other people see your video and comment on it.
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We knew it would eventually happen, Apple was going to eventually take action against Psystar. The question was when. On July 3, 2008 Apple filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. The suit alleges counts for violation of its shrink wrap license, trademark, and copyright infringement. Also in the complaint Apple alleges that Psystar has offered Leopard updates at its website “that are either direct copies of Apple-generated updates and/or unauthorized modified versions of software updates from Apple.”
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With summer in full swing, and after the iPhone 3G frenzy has calmed down (it will be released this Friday July 11) many people will be eagerly looking forward to “leaks” about the updated MacBook Pro lineup. What should we expect? This past February Apple updated the MacBook and the MacBook Pro lineup; however, it wasn’t a major update.
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By this time today, I was expecting the US Apple Store site to be down, instead it is the exact opposite.  The US site as well humming along just fine (for now) as all the international sites are down.
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Google has long been a fan of Apple and its products, but it wasn’t until recently that it translated into useful development for the Mac platform. Mac use on the Google campus has reached about 30% (or approximately 6,000 of their 20,000 employees use Macs as their preferred platform). This means that those Mac lovers are using Google’s famous 20 percent time to develop applications for the platform they love.
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Apple’s OS X Leopard, now on update 10.5.3, has long been accused of being released before it was ready. Apple is already working on update 10.5.4 just a short week after releasing the last major update, which had nearly 200 fixes and upgrades in it. It comes as something of a surprise, then that rumors of an OS X 10.6 would be circulating as a potential WWDC announcement.
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If you have had a Mac for as long as I have, and if you also have an irreverent sense of humor, you have at least tried playing the popular cult Mac game Postal. This game stretches even the most macabre sense of humor to its limits, so I was surprised to hear a movie was being made based on it and released here (if you can call 15 theaters a release).
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