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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition — A solid port with some flaws

17. March 2010

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition — A solid port with some flaws

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has been available on consoles for a while now, but LucasArts and Aspyr have teamed up to bring a special edition to Windows and Mac OS X subtitled as the “Ultimate Sith Edition.” Unfortunately, the Mac version was delayed until recently. I have had it for a while, and now [...]

Live Interior 3D

10. March 2010

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Have you been thinking about redesigning a room in your house, or maybe you’re thinking about remodeling your kitchen. Whatever you have in mind Live Interior 3D can assist you. From their vast template libraries to their custom and blank templates, you’ll be able to knock that renovation out in no time. Right off the bat [...]

Use one Keyboard and Mouse for all of your Computers

9. March 2010

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Use one Keyboard and Mouse for all of your Computers

After doing some shuffling of desks, I now have my iMac and my MacBook Pro sitting next to each other. Everything was going well until I began to tire of switching between keyboards and mice every time I switched computers. Some quick Googling lead me right to Synergy. This tiny application allows you to use one [...]

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 [...]

Personalize Your E-mail Signature with WiseStamp

6. March 2010

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Editor’s note: Mason Taylor is a musician and social enthusiast. He blogs at a’tris HQ and tweets @atris If you are a plain text purist then this post is not for you. However, if you prefer a richer e-mail experience, then WiseStamp may be up your alley. Several months ago Joshua wrote a great piece here about [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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.

Clean up a particular folder with File My Files

10. February 2010

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Clean up a particular folder with File My Files

When it comes to my work flow I find myself struggling to keep files organized. Generally I spend most of my day saving my files to the desktop, for easy expose access, and then once I’m finished with them I move them to the appropriate locations. The only problem that I tend to [...]

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