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Hardware tweaking, code writing, coffee drinking, video game playing, Dad with a serious Mac addiction.

Fast Food? Counting Calories? Yes please!

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Fast Food Calorie Counter from Concrete Software (iTunes, US$2.99) is an application that allows you to select a restaurant from a database and then select the food items that you would like nutrition information for. It is quick, easy and convenient. Once you have selected the food items, it will track them for you so [...]

Skype 2.8 Gold out now!

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Skype has released the latest version of their cross-platform VOIP/chat client. There are a bunch of new features and bug fixes in this version so there is definitely something for everyone in this release. The new features since 2.7 break down into two main areas: Screen Sharing An unbelievably useful feature that has been in iChat for [...]

ï£¿TV 2.4 Update

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Apple recently released a minor update for their set-top media center which adds gesture support for the iPhone/iTouch Remote application. (Free, iTunes) This is great news for those of us who have longed for a consistent method for controlling the Apple TV. The standard Apple remote allows a user to navigate the menus of the [...]

Lexic FTW!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Lexic (iTunes, US$2.99) from Kieffer Bros. is a very simple game filled with tons of challenge and fun. Lexic is basically a word circle game like those that you can find in the newspaper on a daily basis only on steroids and with an attitude. And who doesn’t like a game on steroids and with [...]

WWDC Ruminations

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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Like what I strongly suspect, most Apple fans who couldn’t make it to this year’s WWDC in San Francisco did this morning, I sat at my desk feverishly hitting the refresh button in my browser so as not to miss a single juicy detail. So I’m not going to bother listing them all out here [...]

Kaloki Adventure

Saturday, May 23, 2009

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Kaloki Adventure (US$1.99, available now iTunes link) is a slimmed down version of the Xbox Live Arcade and PC game called Outpost Kaloki for iPhone. It is similar in style to the Tycoon style resource management sims. Set out before each level of the game are goals to meet. Beyond that it’s primarily supply, demand, and [...]

Need an iPhone dock on the cheap?

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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For those of us either unwilling or unable to fork over US$29 for an Apple branded iPhone dock, there is now a cheap alternative. Meritline.com currently has a white charger dock for the iPhone 3G for US$5.99 with free shipping! I don’t know about you guys but for 6 bucks I’m going to buy one [...]

Convert your PC into a Mac with EFiX

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Definitely something that would have been filed under the too-good-to-be-true category which turns out to actually be in reality is a USB dongle from EFiX, that promises to let a user take their PC hardware and install Leopard on it with little more than an EFi-X USB dongle a USB header on your motherboard (not [...]