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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!

From Apple:

CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.

Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.

Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

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From gizmodo:

“Steve Jobs is leaving Apple. Not tomorrow, but probably very soon. That’s why he started to say good bye today, doing something more important than just presenting new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and an updated MacBook Air. Today’s event was a play in which he clearly told everyone that the company is more than himself. Since the very first minute, when he immediately sat down to let Tim Cook talk, he was saying: “Hey, look, Apple is more than Steve. These are The Guys, the Goodfellas, the A-Team. They share the same vision I have. And they are going to push the company forward when I change my office chair for a hammock and caipirinhas on my private beach in Hawaii”…..

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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?

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From yahoonews:

“Apple CEO Steve Jobs has confirmed that the iPhone 3G has a kill switch that can remotely remove software from the devices.

Jobs told The Wall Street Journal that Apple needs the capability in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program — such as an application that steals user’s personal data — to be distributed to iPhones through its App Store.

“Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull,” Jobs said.

Switch Not Used

Jobs’ statement reveals Apple hasn’t used the kill switch yet, but the company did remove an application from the App Store last week.

Apple removed the $999 “I Am Rich” application, which had the sole purpose of showing people the owner has money. The program creates a red icon that sits on the iPhone deck with a the words “I Am Rich” underneath. After the user activates the application, it glows on the handset like a ruby.

Apple initially approved the application, which bumps up against the pricing limit for applications sold on its App Store. The company was not immediately available for comment on why it decided to pull the plug.

Disappearing Acts

But the real controversy started when Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the books iPhone Open Application Development and iPhone Forensics Manual, discovered a URL buried in Apple’s firmware. That URL links to a file dubbed “unauthorizedApps” where malicious or simply bad apps might go once they disappear from the App Store.

According to Zdziarski, I Am Rich isn’t the only app to disappear. BoxOffice (renamed to Now Playing) and NullRiver’s NetShare were also removed. But removing the applications from the App Store and removing them from a consumer’s iPhone are two different issues.

“The kill switch is a very controlling gesture. I am not sure why Apple didn’t disclose it up front as simply a security measure,” said Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis. “Consumers will accept an awful lot if you let them know what they are accepting.”

What Else is Apple Hiding?

In the past, Jobs has said he wants to be careful not to allow applications to bring down the network. Greengart doesn’t see that as a major threat, especially since Apple is approving the applications.

However, Greengart said he’s less concerned with the “heavy-handed and Big Brotherish” kill switch than the fact that Apple didn’t disclose it in the first place. As far as he knows, no other mobile phone has a kill-switch capability.

“To my way of thinking, the issue is that you don’t really know what your phone might be doing or not be doing,” Greengart said. “I am not 100 percent sure what the capability is or is not. That is the problem. What is the capability? When might they use it? When wouldn’t they use it? Is there anything else Apple is not disclosing?”

The meat of the 107 minute keynote in just one minute. Here it is. That’s how all keynotes should be!

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Sort of like pointilism but instead of using dots to paint a picture, Steve is painted with Apple products.
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From Fortune:

“Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.

In October 2003, as the computer world buzzed about what cool new gadget he would introduce next, Apple CEO Steve Jobs – then presiding over the most dramatic corporate turnaround in the history of Silicon Valley – found himself confronting a life-and-death decision.

During a routine abdominal scan, doctors had discovered a tumor growing in his pancreas. While a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often tantamount to a swiftly executed death sentence, a biopsy revealed that Jobs had a rare – and treatable – form of the disease. If the tumor were surgically removed, Jobs’ prognosis would be promising: The vast majority of those who underwent the operation survived at least ten years.

Yet to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he’d confided, Jobs was…”

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From appleinsider:

“Over the last year, many observers have wondered when Apple would deliver Adobe Flash support on the iPhone. At the company’s shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Steve Jobs made comments that indicate that support isn’t coming anytime soon, thanks to architectural limitations in Flash itself. A full explanation of those limitations follow.

Less technically inclined pundits have expected Apple to release a Flash plugin for the iPhone that works identically to the plugin used on desktop computers, similar to how the iPhone supports viewing PDF documents or Microsoft Word and Excel files. The problem is that the Flash runtime has never been designed to work on anything outside of a desktop computer, which has almost unlimited access to processing power and few constraints on battery use, available RAM, or heat dissipation…”

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Just in case you missed it, here’s the keynote from MWSF 2008 in 60 seconds – with Steve Jobs. If only all keynotes were this short. Also, I wished they could have left out R. Newman.

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From Forbes:

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SteveNote Expo – the game
Imagine being Steve Jobs.
Imagine getting ready for this years MacWorld Expo keynote presentation.
Imagine having to collect all the insanely great stuff you are going to present at Macworld Expo without revealing it to industrial spies and journalists.
Try the game that lets you experience what it feels like to be Steve Jobs just before your Keynote presentation.

Instructions:
- Collect all of the 10 items you need for your presentation (the blue dots)
- Avoid industrial spies and journalists (arrow keys)
- Use your “Reality distortion field” to momentarily stun spies and journalists (spacebar)

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from left lane news:German car customizer Mattes Interieurtechnik has created a customized Mercedes CLS with a nicely integrated iMac personal computer in the rear seats. The iMac’s compact all-in-one design lends itself to such an installation, and the firm makes sure the integration is complete with slick leather covering around the machine. A wireless mouse and keyboard mean there are no exposed wires to contend with. Of course, the customized CLS also gets a completely revised interior, with some pretty fancy upholstery and trimmings…

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