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The round up of this week’s Mac Games is here: mac games. New releases for Mac are below:

Quick Reply 1.0 – Quickly send messages to your Adium contacts. (Free)
Pagehand 1.0.4 – Word processor. (Demo)
App Store Expense Monitor 1.0.6 – Menubar item displays amount of money you spent at App Store. (Free)
Time-Shift Radio Library for iPhone 1.0 – Create your own radio player in just hours all for free.
PrintRipper 1.0 – Allows the user to use as many printers as the user would like and assign as many hot folders as needed.  (Demo)
NZ Earthquakes Screen Saver 1.0 – Shows the latest earthquakes that occured in New Zealand. (Free)
Burger Shop 2 1.0 – Rebuild your restaurant empire, adding new twists to your menu. (Demo)
RPN Scientific Caculator 1.0 – Calculator with many mathematical functions. (Free)
Easy Currencies 1.0 – Displays current exchange rates and conversions. (Shareware)
ModBusProbe 1.0 – Poll MODBUS enabled control system devices. (Shareware)
Vocalex English 1.0 – Extend your vocabulary in English in a fun and easy way. (Demo)
Toy Train Widget 1.0 – A little Choo Choo on your Dashboard. (Free)
SmashTunes 1.1 – Displays the currently playing song in your menubar. (Shareware)
Black Friday Countdown 1.0 – Widget that countdowns the biggest shopping days of the year. (Free)
GeekCalc 1.0.7 – Caclulator for software developers. (Free)
Wiimote Whiteboard 1.0 – Use Wii Remote to turn any surface to a whiteboard. (Free)
TurboMCS Controller 1.0 – Interface with high speed time resolved pulse counters. (Free)
Walk of Fame 1.0 – Become a famous Hollywood movie maker. (Shareware)
Moonwalk 1.0 – Fastest PDF page order reversal tool. (Free)
Doorman 1.0 – Password generator. (Free)
Cram 1.0 – Study for tests. (Shareware)
Artwork Gofer 1.0 – Find artwork for your iTunes albums. (Free)
Bunker Run – Side-scrolling action game like Armor Alley.  (Shareware)
Gmail Studio 1.0.0.6 – Brings Gmail Studio to your desktop with minimal interference to your (Shareware)

Have a great week.

Picks are up! Click here: mac games. Software and other new items are below:

Quit All 1.0 – Quits all running applications except Finder/sys apps. (Free)
Right Zoom 1.0 – Created for people who don’t like default behaviour of green Zoom button. (Free)
ActionGear 1.0.4 – Task management application that lives in the menubar. (Demo)
Hacker Evolution- Untold 1.0 – Use hacker skills, keep computers from being the next alpha species. (Demo)
StoryTweaker for InDesign 1.0 – Allows round-tripping text out and back into an InDesign layout. (Demo)
MacVideoTunes 1.0 – iTunes-like player for media files supported by QuickTime. (Free)
Display Maestro 1.0 – Full control over attached displays and available resolutions. (Shareware)
Lounge 1.0 – Shows current iTunes song on screen saver. (Shareware)
Zero 1.0 – 21 Icons as well as some extra’s.
SpiralBound 1.0 – Stickies along with basic organizing and security features.
Besmashed 1.0 – A game with a ball and two rackets. (Demo)
ITTSW.growlView 1.0 – Customize animations for Growl. (Free)
atMonitor 1.0.3 – System monitoring software tracks CPU, RAM, GPU, VRAM, FPS, more. (Shareware)
SkypeCap 1.3 – Record Skype video and audio conversations. (Demo)
Stream 1.0 – Quartz Composer visualizer plugin for iTunes. (Free)
Mish-Mash 1.0 – Rebuild the photos that have been divided and randomly laid out. (Free)
FusionCharts for Flex 1.0 – Charting component for Adobe Flex solutions. (Demo)
Click Archive 1.0.1 – Makes streamlined archival as easy as a single mouse click. (Demo)
RadicalCodex 1.0 – Digital Comic Book reader and organizer. (Shareware)
fp Plugin 1.0 – Add BigInterger and BigFloat to REALbasic. (Free)
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 – Change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta. (Free)
png2icon 1.0 – Convert .png images to OS X icon formats. (Shareware)
TCTimer 1.0 – Tool designed to perform timing of animations. (Shareware)
PDFDek 1.0.3 – Extract images from PDF files. (Demo)

Have a good week!

Excerpt from pcworld:

“…Jailbreak your iPhone
Download and install QuickPwn, an easy-to-use jailbreaking application for Windows and Mac (the latest version works with iPhone OS 2.2.1). Run the software and follow the onscreen instruction very carefully!

Install iPhoneModem by Addition
QuickPwn installs an app on your phone called Cydia, which is essentially the App Store for apps that were rejected from the official App Store (or, for whatever reason, the developer chose not to release through Apple). Run Cydia, search for iPhoneModem by Addition and install it. Keep in mind you can only delete Cydia installed apps via Cydia’s Manage-Sources function. Now download and install the helper app on your laptop and you’re almost ready to go.

Set up the network
Run the helper app and hit Connect. The helper app sets up an ad hoc wireless network that can be accessed via iPhone. The default network it creates is called “iPhoneModem” and does not have a password (you can change this in the Preferences of the helper app). Now open up your iPhone’s Settings and tap WiFi. Make sure WiFi is turned on and select the network “iPhoneModem” (or whatever you called it). Type the password if you assigned one. Open up the Modem iPhone app and everything else will configure automatically. After a few moments the helper app and the iPhone app will confirm that a connection has been established and you can browse away with all the comforts of your laptop!

Shortcomings
While 3G seems plenty fast on a phone, it feels a little slow on a laptop. Also, most major web browsers work but not all are supported. In addition, a lot of other internet applications aren’t supported, but for all intents and purposes, you should be able to browse just fine….”

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From AP:

“Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos about a card-counting program for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch that can illegally help players beat the house in blackjack.

Card counting can help blackjack players determine when they are likely to win a hand and should adjust their bets.”

There seems to be a war on game pricing lately, and we’ve been seeing a lot of reduced prices on all kinds of mac games. Want some great games at a lower cost?

Click here to get really good deals on mac games.

Are you at work on a PC? Check out the sale on PC Games.

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A new game for mac!

Though you may guess that this is all about jewel games, you are slightly mistaken. It is SOOOO much more than that. The magic of the four elements that kept an ancient kingdom running for centuries, has been tampered with and the content of the four books of magic have been mercilessly scrambled. It is up to you to help unscramble the words on these books of magic and collect 16 mysterious cards. On your quest to be a hero, you will face jewel games, find the difference games and hidden object games, which will leave you having fun through 64 levels, 16 find the difference games, and 20 bonus games.

Play 4 Elements now and download it below to try it out for free.

Games like this: Fishdom, Jewel Quest 1, 2, 3 & 4, Big Kahuna Reef, Rainbow Mystery and Bejeweled. See more mac games.

A new game for mac for jewel game fans who also love aquariums.

Create a wonderful aquarium filled with the most curious and lovable fish you’ve ever seen. Lose yourself in a myriad of addictive seashell puzzles and earn enough cash to create a wonderful home for your pet fish.

How will you spend your hard earned cash? Buy exotic and colorful tropical fish, miniature aged lighthouses or other accessories and fill three different aquarium tanks. Win awards and upgrade your tank as you perfect your aquarium design skills. But the best part is watching our slippery beloved fish friends in a home you designed – because you can save your aquarium as a desktop screensaver. Very fun and pretty graphics.

Check out Fishdom now and download it below to try it out for free.

Want to continue with Fishdom Hidden Odyssey?

Games like this: The Jewel Quest Series, Big Kahuna Reef, Rainbow Mystery and Bejeweled. See more mac games.

Hi there! Here are this week’s picks: mac games. Below are new releases for mac.

Roman Theme 1.0.1 – Theme for RapidWeaver. (Demo)
CSoM Remind Me 1.0.2 – Reminds you of appointments, birthdays and anniversaries. (Shareware)
SongGenie 1.0 – Untitled, incorrect music titles in your iTunes library are now histor (Demo)
ModelBaker 1.0 – Create production-ready, database driven web sites. (Demo)
JuiceDrop 1.0 – Upload files to an iPhone by drag and drop. (Free)
Viscosity 1.0.2 – Graphical user interface for OpenVPN. (Shareware)
Rock’N’Roll Dice 1.0 – Rolling dice has never been more visually appealing and fun! Rock’n’Roll is, without a doubt, the most stunning dice application on the market. Ideal for Dungeon Masters and dice rolling fanatics around the world.
Things 1.0 – Elegant personal task management. (Demo)
Table2GridBag 1.0 – Java console tool for configuring java.awt.GridBagLayout. (Free)
ClipToIconCM 1.0 – Contextual menu plug-in which adds custom icons to files. (Demo)
ProxyMill 1.0 – Create low-res, preview quality QT movies from Panasonic P2 HD media. (Demo)
CropaRatio 1.0 – Easy photo cropping and print adjustment. (Free)
Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery 1.0 – Recovers lost and deleted data from HFS+, HFSX file systems. (Demo)
Simply Stylish Pages Templates 1.0 – Spice up your Apple Pages documents. (Free)
DVD RegionCode Unlock 1.0 – Allows user to set the DVD region code. (Free)
Caster 1.0 – Episodic game presents an intense 3rd person action shooter experience. (Shareware)
Sunken Words 1.0.2 – Race the clock to unscramble and assemble as many words as you can before the clock runs out.
Canon 400D + lens icon 1.0 – Canon 400D camera + lens 17-85mm icons. 512px to 16px. (Free)
PocketMac RingtoneStudio for iPhone 1.1 – Just drag any movie or unprotected music file onto PocketMac RingtoneStudio and it does all the rest.
AppManager 1.04 – Track rating and comments for iPod Touch/iPhone Apps. (Free)
ExchangeRateCM 1.0.2 – Contextual menu converts various currencies. (Demo)
Remind Me 1.0.2 – Create iCal events for birthdays, anniversaries for iPhone/iPod touch. (Free)

Have a great week!

Picks are up: mac games. New releases are below:

xampp 1.0 – Complete webserver solution. (Free)
GrandPerspective 1.0 – Graphically shows disk usage within a file system. (Free)
Ringy Dingy 1.0 – Create ringtones for iPhone. (Demo)
Snowmen Saver 1.0 – 3D animated group of snowmen whimsically skating on a frozen lake. (Free)
Filter Designer 1.0 – Simplifies the design of lumped element audio filters. (Free)
Apple Mail Updater 1.0 – Addresses stability issues with Mail in OS X 10.5.6. (Updater)
PhoneFinger 1.1 – Transform your mouse into simulated finger for testing iPhone apps. (Free)
MovieInfoCM 1.0.1 – plugin used for displaying the properties of movie files as entries of the Finder’s contextual menu.
Float 1.0 – Light, airy RapidWeaver theme. (Commercial)
Textcast 1.0 – Turns any text into personal podcasts. (Demo)
Indicator(s) 1.0 – Divide your Dock applications into sets, categories. (Free)
Qu-s 1.0 – Organize your temporary items on your desktop. (Shareware)
Audio Splitter 1.0.1 – Split big audio files in unprotected MP3 or AAC file format. (Free)
iPhotoBurnToDisc 1.0.1 – iPhoto plug-in burns images to multiple DVDs or CDs. (Demo)
Dropbox Cache Cleaner 1.0 – Widget to keep your Dropbox cache at a respectable size. (Free)
iPhoneScreenGrabber 1.0 – Easily grab and save high-quality LZW-compressed TIFF screenshots from the iPhone SDK’s iPhone Simulator.
My iTunes RSS 1.0 – Widget displays the music of all countries available on iTunes Store. (Free)
Skeiron 1.0 – iTunes controller, displays track info and artwork and more. (Free)
FMSmallBusiness 1.0.3 – FileMaker solution for running a small business. (Demo)
GPS2Aperture Pro 1.0.24 – Geotagging application for Aperture and Google Earth. (Shareware)
Winter Wonders 1.1 – iTunes visualizer adds magic and merriment to your holidays. (Demo)
sed+awk Cheat Widget 1.0 – All the main commands for sed and awk *nix tools. (Free)
FlyPath 1.0.6 – Fle browser and file manager. (Demo)

Happy New Year!!!!

A new game for mac!

Monarch the Butterfly King needs your help to rescue his friends from the claws of an evil wizard. The wizard plans to freeze the Kingdom of Monarch, and the king is not very happy about it. Take a trek across majestic Celtic ruins in this entertaining match-game that will remind you of your favorite games, and save the day.

Games like this one: The Jewel Quest Series, Big Kahuna Reef, Ancient Quest of Saqqara, Deep Blue Sea, Bejeweled, Magic Match and Rainbow Mystery.

Check out Monarch The Butterfly King now and download it below to try it out for free.

tags: mac games, butterfly king, apple

You know that when you hear a game title like, “Bullet Candy” it’s just got to be a shooter. Yup. You’re right. It’s a fun, action packed shoot em up for Mac with a top-down 360 degree perspective. Keep your enemies in view at all times so they’re easy to see and, more importantly, easier to blow up! With more than 50 levels, un-lockable extra play modes and loads of enemies and power-ups.

If you enjoy games like this you will probably also like Ultratron, Titan Attacks, Kaijin and Jets N Guns.

Check out Bullet Candy now and download it below to try it out for free.

tags: mac games, shooter games, mac, fun

Magic Match Adventures takes the addictive Magic Match game play and pairs it with a unique simulation where each match you create will not only give you special powers and magic spells, but will help repair the imp villages and restore peace and tranquility across the realm.

You will probably like this game if you liked the Jewel Quest Series, Bejeweled, Ancient Quest of Saqqarah, Big Kahuna Reef, and Chuzzle.

tags: mac games, match games, mac, Magic Match Adventures, apple

If you were as addicted to Build-a-Lot 1 as much as I was, you’ll be happy to know you can now play Build-a-Lot 2! It’s just one of those games you can’t stop playing. Luckily, it’s a weekend.

About Build a Lot 2 Town of the Year
It’s time to get busy again building, buying and selling houses in this excellent sequel. There are new towns to explore, new Mayors to meet and lots of money to be made. Use your keen eye to pick the right locations to build parks and shops. Pick your paint colors, upgrades and landscaping to create the ultimate curb appeal and earn outstanding profits. How about a latte from the new coffee shop? Some new flower boxes from the garden center? Check it out and download it for free to try out.

tags: mac games, build a lot 2, mac, real estate games, apple

Play more games like this: Build in Time , Real Estate Empire, Virtual Villagers

New mac game!

About Diner Dash Seasonal Snack Pack
This is from the Diner Dash series. In Diner Dash: Seasonal Snack Pack, stroll down memory lane with Grandma and Flo as they reminisce about their favorite seasons. If you think the denizens of Dinertown like to have a good time when they stop by Flo’s, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Journey through stops at five new restaurants: Coral Cove Café, Crypt Café, Hometown Harvest, Winter Wonderland, and Romantic Rendezvous.

From wired:

“You can fix the hole by remapping the “Home” button. In the iPhone’s Settings/General/Home Button, assign double clicking the Home button to “Home” — not “Phone Favorites.”

iPhone’s 2.0.2 firmware allows almost full access to your iPhone even when it’s under password protection, according to a report in MacRumors. Access can be gained through the “Emergency Call” keypad that appears on the passcode entry screen, allowing unrestricted use of Safari’s browser as well as access to Mail, SMS, Contacts, Maps and more.

Here’s how it works:

1. On the passcode screen hit “Emergency Call” button at bottom left.

2. In the Emergency Call screen, hit the “Home” button twice. You’ll be taken to the Favorites screen.

3. From there, hit the blue arrow next to a contact’s name.

4. You can now access all the iPhone’s functions by selecting their email address, homepage URL or address.

5. For example — hit the contact’s “Homepage” URL — and you are straight into Safari.

6. Hit the email address, and you enter Mail. Cancel the message, and you have full access to the iPhone’s email.”

From the latimes:

“By creating games and other programs for the iPhone, software developers hoped to find millions of new customers. But they didn’t expect to feel muzzled.

The software development kit that Apple Inc. distributed to programmers bound them to not discuss the process of creating programs for the iPhone. Companies typically waive such legal restrictions once the product in question launches, but Apple didn’t. And it won’t say why.

As a result, iPhone developers — and businesses that cater to them — say they are prohibited from asking technical questions or sharing tips anywhere in public. On Apple’s official support website, moderators remind visitors that they are bound by the nondisclosure agreement and should mind what they say or ask.

Conference organizers are trying to figure out how to plan sessions for iPhone software developers when they’re not allowed to talk about iPhone software. Book publishers are sitting on how-to manuals, afraid that if they ship them Apple will sue.

And software developers are forced to make applications for the iPhone in an information vacuum, without the help of a developer community that is used to openly sharing tricks of the trade. Quality may suffer.

The Cupertino, Calif., company is famous for tightly controlling its products and image. But even professionals who for years have made products and services to complement Apple’s are startled by the information clampdown.

Many had hoped to make big money off the much-hyped iPhone franchise, and many developers are. Apple recently said that customers have downloaded more than 60 million games, productivity tools and other widgets through its iPhone App Store, which lets programmers sell software or give it away.

But many Apple enthusiasts are left in the cold.

“We can’t talk about our problems,” said Jeffrey Long, a developer for Banterability who is working on a satellite radio program for the iPhone. “At the same time, we can’t talk about the problems we’ve fixed.”

Apple did not return calls seeking comment.

When it launched the iPhone last year, Apple decided it would be a closed platform — developers could create programs that ran on the device’s Web browser but not programs that could be downloaded to the device itself, as they can for computers.

After a backlash, Apple opened the iPhone to programmers in March and began selling their programs through its App Store in July. Apple says it sells about $1 million in iPhone programs each day.

But to get the software needed to create iPhone programs, developers had to sign a nondisclosure agreement. They expected Apple to lift the restrictions on July 11, when the new version of the multifunction gadget, the iPhone 3G, hit stores.

Many developers say they are erring on the side of caution. They interpret the agreement to mean they can talk about the programs that they make, but they can’t discuss the Apple developer tools used to make them, even with friends.

They also believe they’re barred from…….” Read the rest

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From gizmodo:

“Business Week is citing an internal Apple source today who is hinting at the company’s upcoming manufacturing plans for the 3G, and they’re huge—between 40 and 45 million phones by this time next year kind of huge. The numbers are necessary, obviously, to cover for the impending Best Buy availability and the additional 20 countries that make up the second phase of the international launch starting today (with over 70 launches eventually, China rumored to be among them). But, wow. How about some perspective?

That’s just under the total number of…….” Continue reading

From reuters:

“When Apple Inc rolled out its iPhone in the United States, some fans paid big money to be among the first to get their hands on the device. In Poland, people are getting paid to line up.

There were no queues at T-Mobile’s Era stores, which will also due to launch the iPhone on Friday.”

This week’s mac game picks are up! Here they are mac games. Have a great week, everyone!

Below are newly released mac software, widgets, etc.:

SAPO Messenger Mac 1.0 – A free Jabber/XMPP client.

Pointy Guys Icon Set 1.0 – Cute little pointy guys mac icons with horns. Free.

Par2 For Mac 1.0 – Repair usenet downloads that are accompanied with par2 files. After repair the archive can be safely un-archived with popular apps such as Stuffit Expander.

Calcul Engine 1.0 – a user-friendly calculator which evaluates expressions with parentheses, basic functions and variables.

Collaborative drawing for iPhone, iPod touch – a full-featured vector drawing app which allows users to sketch in real-time with friends on multiple iPhones.

Invoy 1.0 – Easy to use invoicing and more. (Shareware)

RoboRail 1.0 – Watch how your Mac attempts to write a computer program that steers a robot on a track. Will it eventually succeed? The machine learning experience for your coffee break turns you Mac into an AI lab.

Reference Tracker 1.0 – Create documents to store citations and references. (Demo)

Mathusalem 1.0 – Unintrusive backup system for Leopard. (Free)

iPhone apps for travelers – travel info on the go.

Eternal Lands 1.0 – Massive multiplayer online role playing game. (Free)

PhotoCalc 1.0 – a utility for iPhone and iPod for photographers to calculate exposure reciprocation, depth of field, and flash exposure.

HD Quick Look 1.0 – lets you view the first frame of your AVCHD (mts and m2ts) files without even opening them. View multiple files as a slide show, as an index sheet or full screen – all with a single click.

Xray Vision 1.0 – Make files invisible on your computer. (Shareware)

PsychWidget 1.0 – Latest psychology news from around the world, with search function. (Free)