Archive for April, 2009

 

Angry MacBook Air Owner Takes Kitchen Knife to Laptop

April 30th, 2009

Some of us take out second mortgages to make ends meet. Some of us toil away at menial jobs to weather the economic crisis…

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The Macalope Weekly: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of

April 30th, 2009

The Macalope’s old enough to remember when rumors of an Apple tablet device were made of nothing more than fairy dust and…

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Final Draft 8 Scriptwriting Software Adds Tools, XML

April 30th, 2009

Final Draft has announced the release of Final Draft 8 for Mac OS X and Windows. The full version costs US$249; upgrades are…

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Warhol Silkscreen of Apple Logo up for Auction

April 30th, 2009

Who doesn’t love a great piece of Apple-themed art? Then again, once you’ve seen Adam Reeder’s sculptures, is there anything…

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Unity Game Development Engine Boosts Performance

April 30th, 2009

Unity Technologies has announced the release of Unity iPhone 1.0.2, a new version of their game development engine for the…

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MarcoPolo 2.5

April 30th, 2009

[Ed. note: This week, Glenn Fleishman takes a Mac Gems look at two utilities for automatically configuring your Mac's settings...

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IBM Supercomputer to Compete on Jeopardy

April 30th, 2009

IBM develops a supercomputer called Watson that producers of the long running TV game show Jeopardy plan to pit against human contestants.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine, First Impressions

April 30th, 2009

He slices, he dices, and even horror schlockmeister Wes Craven could learn a thing or two from Raven Software’s ultra-violent take on Marvel Comic’s iconic claw-slinger.

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Apple Looking to Design Its Own Chips

April 30th, 2009

Move could keep the company’s product plans hidden from competitors, report says.

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My PC Keeps Freezing Up

April 30th, 2009

Denise Griffee’s computer freezes up every two or three days. I offer advice.

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