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October / November

Halloween goodies plus some great games...


 

Tricks and Treats with Chameleon 1.5.1

Zonic has just released their special "Halloween Edition" of Chameleon -- the innovative application for transforming digital photographs into works of art.
      Starting from a single photograph, Chameleon can generate a wide variety of images in a range of artistic styles such as Oil Painting or Chalk Drawing. Chameleon 1.5.1 includes a set of six themed Halloween borders, ideal for creating spooky images for the holiday season. With a single click, Chameleon allows everyone to quickly and easily achieve effects that previously required complex applications costing hundreds of dollars. Chameleon 1.5.1 costs $19.95, and is a free upgrade for existing users. It requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. [PIC / Chameleon_1.5.1.dmg- 5.9MB]

Recipes for the Holidays

iCuistot 1.1 is a "complete recipe and nutrition management" application for Mac OS X. This update adds Ingredients scaling, Full recipe content searching, MasterCook Mac recipes import, and more. [Download - 5.8MB]

Play Golf with the Tiger

Tiger Woods 2003 1.1.1a is the latest version of the golf game for Mac. This patch fixes a bug that prevented the game from launching on video cards with more than 128MB of video memory. [PIC / DL - 1.4MB]

New Marble Game: Corregon

Corregon 1.0 is a new puzzle game in which players match colored marbles to clear the game board. "As marbles are cleared, the board collapses, often leaving one or two orphaned marbles at the end of the game. However, careful planning will yield an empty board." Higher levels include more marble colors, blocking walls, shifting boards, cloaked "invisible" marbles, and other twists. ($20) [Download - 4.6MB]

Ambrosia Darwinia in BETA

Darwinia for Mac OS X combines fast paced action with strategic battle planning -- plus a novel and intuitive control mechanism. This graphical style game, ripped from 80's retro classics, concerns a tribe of video game sprites trapped in a modern 3D game world. The world of Darwinia is a surreal and Retro place, filled with epic fractal vistas and populated by iconic video game sprites from the past twenty years of computer games. The world is locked in warfare and on the verge of self-destruction, as the once peaceful Darwinians are besieged by a massive Red Viral Sneak Peek Be a BETA tester:

Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down Mac Patch 1 is the latest update to the action game for Mac. The update allows the game to run on certain PowerBooks that incorrectly report their CPU speed under Mac OS X 10.2.8. It also fixes a random crash. [Download - 1.4MB]

Cool Labels for your CD/DVDs

Acoustica CD Label Maker allows users to create their own CD/DVD labels and jewel cases with "the ultimate in ease and flexibility." The latest version adds support for the Epson R320 Printer. ($22) [Download - 2.3MB]

The Best of Free Mac OS X Software

This most recent post includes free Mac OS X software (freeware) from independent developers worldwide. A wide range of software categories was chosen: from useful, constructive home and learning utilities and unique tools, to unproductive but amusing applications. All choices demonstrate excellence in quality and Mac Games and More hopes to give the much needed exposure to the developers who take the time to create free programs for Mac users. In addition, this post encourages Mac users to make donations of any quantity to the developers, when requested.

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Until next time...

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Fred Showker
      Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News

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