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Head over to MacMall.com before 28th August and get Snow Leopard for USD 24.99 (with shipping to South Africa for USD 30.05). Snow Leopard will be released on 28th August and currently there is no official word from Core (the...
I got Guitar Hero – Greatest Hits over the weekend and going through the tutorials, found that with the new slider-guitars you can also “tap-strum”: The slider bar can take the place of the normal strum bar (you can tap-strum)....
The recent release of Synology’s 2.2 beta firmware includes Time Machine support. For all Synology users, my tutorial OS X: Time Machine backup has now really become a piece of cake: Create a shared folder called “TimeMachine” Create a user...
Microsoft released the latest Office:Mac update. It includes a number of improvements (especially speed and stability) for Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The horrible Exchange client, Entourage, is still not capable of properly managing calendaring and synchronizing events with an...
Although still in beta, the new firmware sounds promising. I installed the beta-firmware yesterday and have not noticed anything not working. Surprisingly network transfer is faster (I attribute this to a new version of Samba). The new Media Server supports...
I got Sacred 2: Fallen Angels over the weekend and am mightily disappointed. The local two-player mode is unplayable as you constantly clash with your buddy. Unlike Return To Arms or Baldur’s Gate, two players can also not change their...
So there I was, back in December 2008 — all ecstatic about the iPhone Killer in the form of the Nokia N97. The specs (3.5inch tilting touch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, GPS, 5megapixel camera and a 32GB internal memory)...
I missed that Logitech released the latest version (7.6) of their Harmony remote software for the Mac. I have not updated my Harmony 895 and remote extender in a while (must have been 6 months) and did notice that the...
It certainly makes you wonder (and worry) that within one week at least 3 members at the PS3ZA forum faced credit-card fraud (here, here and here). Allegedly all users have been using ShopTo.net and I am aware of users who...
Microsoft just released a new update for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac which included numerous fixes to stability & performance. This is almost a mandatory update as it addresses significant bugs in almost all Office components. Users experiencing crashes in...
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