Sounds like Steam is coming over to the Mac, and it looks like Half Life is going to be one of the first games to come over.
Although, hackers have already ported the game over obviously not multiplayer (Counterstrike etc).
Hopefully, the license will work on the mac too?
Check out these images found around the place:
New pack of software is available for OS X for only $19.95 from www.macheist.com
Package includes:
and if the bundle reaches 50,000 downloads they will open up
I find the first 4 useful, the two web creation software are a bit… elephants.
The days are numbered for all the Mac vs PC debates. Apple and Microsoft may be once again harmoniously holding hands as they skip down digital lane to beat the crap out of the neighbourhood bully that is Google.
Now that Google has their own phone, own OS, own voice channel (US only, so far), own search and own applications – this is an all out strike against Apple who have had similar products, even before the search giant had.
It appears that Apple maybe ditching Google’s search string in favour of Microsoft’s “Bing!”. Many Mac users are like, wtf mate. And it’s rumored that Apple are even creating their own search engine. High hopes.
Anyways, competition is always grand.
You can add a simple hack to ‘Stocks’ to show currency conversions.
For GBP to USD add the following into a new stock:
GBPUSD=x
or for GBP to NZD:
GBPNZD=x
I just heard an interesting advert on the radio from BT, saying “if a conversation is worth having – use your BT landline”. Sounds like BT are feeling a bit left out in the cold while most people these days favour the ease of mobile phones rather than be tied to one fixed line.
Plus at £38 a month is a bit steep for a fixed line…
When I arrived in London at the start of August 2006, the pound was 3.2x the NZ dollar.
Now, November 2009, three and a bit years later, the pound is 2.2x the dollar.
Check out this graph from fxstreet.com:
It’s been almost a year and a half of using Apple’s iPhone and after paying a pocket cooling £40ish a month I’ve decided to realign my needs and wants with a realistic and ideal phone/plan.
No more shall I have to wait for my phone to reboot. Never shall I have to choose one of the eight constantly annoying message tones (WTF why can’t we customise these anyway). Nor shall I wait and wait and wait for o2’s sad and tired “childrens” data network.
I’m returning the phone from whence it came* and leaving o2** at the start of next year.
I’ve just bought a second hand Nokia 6300 for maz which is amazing, yet still on o2. However it’s not using their data line so it’s fine.
Had a look around for variations and the newer 6303 and 6700 have better battery, more features etc. But none have native syncing with OS X. This guy has made a free plugin for Nokia phones so you can download it and sync then stick it to th guy with the iPhone. Or buy the plugin from this guy if your Nokia is either 3109 classic, 3110 classic, 3120 classic, 3500 classic, 5000, 5200, 5220 XpressMusic, 5300, 5310 XpressMusic, 5610 XpressMusic, 6233, 6234, 6300, 6300i, 6301, 6303 classic, 6500 classic, 6500 slide, 6555, 6600 fold, 6600 slide, 6700 classic, 8600 Luna, 8800 Arte, 8800 Sapphire Arte, 8800 Carbon Arte.
* Arrested Development quote
** I’ll probably stay with o2, just have a different contract
Unfortunately for o2, the iPhone has been opened up to other carriers. Vodafone and Orange have both cited that they will start selling the iPhone soon as o2 was the exclusive reseller.
And this is a good thing. o2’s network is quivering under strain from heavy usage. A word from a bird says o2’s network is at 97% capacity. It’s apparent to iPhone users that their network is showing signs of defeat as most times signal drops and data crawls even disconnects frequently. Hopefully Orange and Vidafone have enough beef to hold the rest of us in a digital downward spiral of bits before we all hit the bottom of timeouts.
I dislike record companies. People will disagree, but i find they are not too disimilar to pimps who solicit prostitution.
They entice young bands, then squeeze every single last penny out of them until theyre unfit too work then discard them like yesterdays beef.
The record companies also limit the bands creative exploration. Which I don’t like. Music should be about art – not about creating something that will sell like a wet flannel on a hot summers day.
From wikipedia (talking about The Klaxons):
At the beginning of 2009, it was reported that the band had been told to re-record parts of their second album, after it was rejected by their record label. The Sun confirmed that Polydor deemed the record “too experimental” for release, with Reynolds stating that “…we’ve made a really dense, psychedelic record” and that “it isn’t the right thing for us [the band]“.
P.S. happy 1000th post!
I’ve been talking with some peoples on to make an Amazon-like wishlist system, but for the whole internet. I thought i had done some investigations but hadn’t searched those dodgy back alleys of the internet. Until i found this:
http://wantz.it/
It’s a wishlist system which lets you bookmark things that you want for birthdays, christmas, or little presents just because. It’s a great system, utilising Delicious, and Twitter – the only thing missing is Facebook integration.
At least i don’t have to go to all the trouble in making the site, although it would have been fun. Thanks a lot Ching.. :)
Check out what i want, and buy me a present for my birthday:
http://marksy.wantz.it/