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with Lynn Wegley

 

InfoManager for December 24, 2007


     

Games of Macintosh Past

This time of year Mac users attention turns to games. Yes, the family and friends and their kids are coming over, and it's a great time to enjoy some gaming. Follow along as we visit some Games of Macintosh Past

Pop-Pop Action Game

pop-pop is the pulse-quickening action arcade game that pits you against a dazzling color world with fierce action. And now there's a new version Pop-Pop Action Game

Hidden Relics comes to Mac

One of the best-selling games on Windows is now available for Mac users -- Help the Professor track down 100's of stolen antiques as you travel the globe to retrieve priceless antiques and hidden artifacts. See the full story...

Venice Mystery Puzzle

Travel through the beautiful city of Venice, one of Italy's most intriguing cities, and solve an ancient mystery before Venice sinks into the water. (Read More)

Gish ... can you beat it?

Life isn't easy when you're a 12 pound ball of tar ... Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.

Santa's Super Friends

Just in time for the holiday, Freeverse has added yet two new games to their Macfun.com game portal -- Santa's Super Friends lets you be Santa's helper... but watch out for Mr. Stink!

Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder

User Group personality Maria O. Arguello shares her experiences with the new Flip Video -- next-generation video processing produces the highest quality mobile-compatible video while using minimal memory (Read More)

Audio Studio for Mac

With WireTap Studio, you no longer have to wrangle music files or online recorded music through several applications to end up with your favorite MP3 files or high quality recordings. See the full story...

You are under attack

If your network and computers could make new year's resolutions, here are eight they would make for a more safe, secure 2008 (Read More)

Intuit fixes QuickBooks

On December 18th, Intuit announced that it had fixed a problem with an update that caused files to be deleted from the users hard drive. See the full story...

Front Row - QuickTip

Front Row of course, was introduced by Apple to handle the interface requirements of AppleTV. However it and the Apple Remote will work on any Mac with an IR interface. (Read More)

How's your Mac's Health?

app4mac has released CheckUp Preview 2, an innovative tool to check the health of a Mac computer. The computer monitoring software allows you to view the activities of a Mac and control the health with an innovative user interface.

Syndicate Yourself in RSS

Cynical Peak Software has updated Cyndicate 1.1, their next generation RSS/Atom aggregator and content management application for Mac OS X. Version 1.1 brings better Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility and adds a number of new features.

Everyone likes fonts

Macware's FontLibrary is a collection of great fonts in both TrueType and OpenType format -- features 100 font families in creative, classic, designer and refined categories. (Read More)

Quotes: For the holidays...

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
      Emile Zola

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas
      Linus Pauling

Enjoy when you can and endure when you must.
      Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Have a great week... (See last week)

Lynn

 

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