In celebration of the release of iPhone 4 this week, Gameloft is offering some of their best games at only $0.99. One such game is N.O.V.A. (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance), a highly acclaimed game that has garnered great reviews. IGN gave N.O.V.A. a 9/10 rating and called it “Best Action Game of the Year”. Macworld gave [...]
Gameloft’s 99-cents sale
Jun 24
Electronic Arts has dropped the prices on some of their iPhone games to $0.99. The sale is only good for 48 hours according to EA, and they have included top-rated games such as SimCity ($1.99), Need for Speed Shift ($4.99), Need for Speed Undercover ($2.99), and Command and Conquer Red Alert ($6.99). The games included in the [...]
I’m planning to purchase a one terabyte Western Digital My Book Essential external hard drive. I want to migrate my Time Machine backups for both my iMac and MacBook Pro to a larger capacity drive. The problem I have is both Time Machine backups are in two separate drives. I didn’t know whether moving a [...]
iTunes 9.2 is out
Jun 17
Hot on the heels of Mac OS X 10.6.4, Apple released an update to their multimedia management application. With this update, iTunes not only will manage your songs, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and podcasts, it will now manage your PDFs. One of iTunes 9.2′s new feature is organizing and syncing PDF documents as books. PDFs [...]
Apple just released at update to their Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system. According to Apple Support page the update is “recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It includes Safari 5 and general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.” Fixes include: resolve [...]
After vilifying and casting Apple as Big Brother during Google’s I/O conference last week… : If Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. That’s a future we don’t want. …Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google, then backpedals: Well, [...]
A little more than a week after the release of Steam for Mac and offering Portal for free, Valve announced the availability of Half-Life 2 and its two expansion packs, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Lfe 2: Episode Two, on their Steam gaming store. As a special treat, Valve is offering 30% off the regular [...]
Apple today quietly updated its most affordable Mac portable. The update brings the white MacBook at par with the low-end 13.3″ MacBook Pro in terms of processor, hard drive space, graphics processor, and battery life. The current MacBook specs read: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB DDR3 memory 250GB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive NVIDIA [...]
Valve Corporation released the Mac version of their digital distribution platform, Steam, last May 12th. This lets Mac owners download and play hit titles such as Half-Life, Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead natively on their machines. To help celebrate the release of Steam for the Mac, Valve offered one of their acclaimed games as [...]
On April 8, Apple introduced the future of the iPhone OS. iPhone OS 4.0 was unveiled with 100 new user features and 1500 new APIs. Some of the new user features include multitasking, folders, updated Mail app, and iBooks for the iPhone. Apple also introduced iAd, Apple’s own mobile advertising platform. Apple has been seeding [...]
Apple in a press release announced the availability of the iPad in 18 more countries by July this year. All of the iPad models will be available starting May 28 in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Customers in these nine countries can start pre-ordering today. Nine more countries, Austria, [...]
EMC Marketing Executive Chuck Hollis wrote on his blog about how his family has reacted to the iPad. Initially: My wife and kids summed it up in 30 seconds. “Oh no, Dad bought another toy”. “Why do we need something else with a CPU in it?”. “What does it replace?”. And so on. Which later [...]
Mark your calendars for April 8th. Apple has sent out an invitation to various media outlets for an event on April 8, 2010, 10 a.m. Pacific at the company’s Cupertino campus. The invitation shows the shadow of the number “4″ with the words “Get a sneak peek into the future of the iPhone OS”. One [...]
Disclaimer: I’m no gastronome Service Quick. Attentive. A tad servile but it’s all good. Ambience Cozy. Comfortable. Simple decor. Menu Could use some more selections. They’ll Probably add more later. Reasonably priced. Golden Fried rice didn’t seem adequate for two (99.00). Curry Was anticipating a gloriously hot dish of beef curry. I am disappoint. Especially [...]
