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:
RipIt is a great small app to quickly rip a DVD to your harddrive. However, it uses ffmpegx which can only utilise two cores.
Handbrake goes nuts. It uses as many cores available and can rip discs from DVD to mp4 on the fly (without having to rip to harddrive first).
Of course you have to click a couple of buttons (source, then start) with Handbrake, whereas RipIt can rip without any clicks.
Here is the CPU log of just RipIt (notice the 150%):
Now, here is Handbrake:
Results:
Handbrake 33mins, 743mb
RipIt 1hr 58, 1503mb
Handbrake wins. Flawless victory.
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.
Every once in a while i get this message in Windows XP VM “Network connection has limited or no connection”. Some people suggest to turn your VM settings to NAT. However, this was already set to NAT. To fix the problem, quit VMware, delete the plist files in your ~/Library/Preferences/
com.vmware.fusion.plist
com.vmware.fusionDaemon.plist
This should restore your network connection.
Mac fonts have to be converted first via command line. Use the following in a new terminal window:
cat “MyFontReg/..namedfork/rsrc” > “MyFontReg.dfont”
Here’s a neat and free trick. Logictech have created an app for iPhone that allows you to control your pointer all over the screen, just like a trackpad.
It allows basic multi-gester too, such as scroll – no three finger flipping.
Download the Logictech server software and also the iphone app to get your tippytapping on.
If you’ve just installed Adobe CS3/4 you may be wondering why your Safari on OS X can’t display PDFs anymore.
It’s because Adobe mucked up the plugin which tells Safari to choose an application to view the PDF files.
To fix the problem go to:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/
and delete the file:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Restart Safari and you will be looking at PDFs in a snap.
I’ve always had the headache of trying to multiselect in windows and have now finally sorted it. Follow the screengrab to fix the CTRL+CLICK madness!
You can export to a folder (such as Desktop) from purchased music (AAC) to MP3 via iTunes easily!
Hold down ALT when right clicking on the file and select Create MP3 format :)
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.