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Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse coming to the Mac on April 15th

11. March 2010

Telltale Games has officially announced that the third season of Sam & Max will be released on Windows, the PS3, and Mac OS X on April 15th. Subtitled The Devil’s Playhouse, this is the first season of the franchise to utilize direct control instead of the point and click paradigm. If you want to pre-order your [...]

Plainview: Get a real fullscreen browser

9. March 2010

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Plainview: Get a real fullscreen browser

A couple weeks ago, a buddy was asking how he could give people access to a photography portfolio in his studio without having to worry about potential clients ripping off photos while his back was turned. Being in the web business, I said serve them up a website, and let them navigate at will, but he [...]

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge — Special Edition is likely coming to the iPhone

6. March 2010

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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge — Special Edition is likely coming to the iPhone

After The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for the Xbox 360, Windows, and the iPhone went over like gangbusters, it makes sense that LucasArts would want to continue revitalizing their classic franchises for this generation of gamers. Kotaku is reporting that they have sources that say that LucasArts will be announcing the special edition [...]

Movist: A better way to play your Video

5. March 2010

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Movist is a free, open source movie player for Mac OS X. Like VLC, this application will pretty much play anything you throw at it. It uses FFmpeg and QuickTime codecs to play your video. That, in and of itself, is pretty great, but there are other reasons to use this app as well. Customization You can [...]

ScummVM: Play your old adventure Games on your new Computer

3. March 2010

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ScummVM: Play your old adventure Games on your new Computer

Do you remember playing classic point and click adventure games? I really miss the days when LucasArts didn’t just rehash the same Star Wars games over and over again. The late eighties to mid nineties had a number of innovative adventure games that still hold up to this day. That means people still want to [...]

Squeeze: Getting extra space in tight places

2. March 2010

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Squeeze: Getting extra space in tight places

Remember the early windows days when you’d hop into DOS and run Memmaker? I felt like such a badass telling people about that as a kid. I still don’t really know what it did, but it felt awesome telling grown ups how to get a little bit more out of their system. [...]

MacHeist gives us more space with Squeeze

26. February 2010

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MacHeist is currently giving away free copies of LateNiteSoft’s Squeeze. All you have to do is register, and then get to downloading. You only have a few days to get it for free, though. Squeeze uses Snow Leopard’s built-in file compression to transparently compress your data without you noticing it. Once you’ve compressed a file, it [...]

iDocument: Why manage your documents manually?

26. February 2010

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iDocument: Why manage your documents manually?

It’s 2010, and for some reason we’re still relying on paper trails and paper bills instead of taking advantage of the digital age. Part of the reason is our skepticism about a computers ability securely store your valuable information, and part of the reason is a complete lack of tools or organizing these digital [...]

Mac Gaming: Tales of Monkey Island

24. February 2010

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After years of waiting, Telltale Games released a new entry in the Monkey Island series last year for Windows and the Nintendo Wii. Luckily, the good folks over at Telltale announced that they are porting over most of their catalog to Mac OS X. The first game of theirs to get the royal Mac treatment is Tales of Monkey Island, so I decided I'd buy it to show my solidarity with the Mac gaming community. Here is my review.

Telltale on the Mac: Tales of Monkey Island

18. February 2010

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Telltale on the Mac: Tales of Monkey Island

As I reported earlier, Telltale Games is porting the majority of their games to OS X. As of this past week, Tales of Monkey Island has been released for the Mac. As a display of my solidarity, I have purchased the $34.95 bundle of all five episodes of the game. I want to support independent [...]

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