Archive - Dec 2007

A few days ago Mike Lee of Delicious Monster started a grass roots effort to unify the Mac development community behind a great cause: make a tax-deductible donation to the Madagascar Fauna Group and he will send you a plush lemur.

Wanna have some cool ocean backgrounds for your cutscene videos or game titles?
Then you should try Sea 1.0!

The Fast Icon has released " Creatures Vol.3", a collection of 8 freeware icons.

This icon set, designed using a funny and cute style, is available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for Linux, web or blogs.

Some lowlife posted two ads in the forum for their questionable gray-market electronics sale, and after I blocked their login, that same sleazeball registered again with a different name, which I also blocked. I will continue to delete such posts immediately and block any users who post them. I've also enabled the Akismet plugin that will prevent such posts from appearing.

It's that time of the year again, so here are my predictions for 2008. Some of these may be announced at MacWorld Expo, starting Jan. 15.

We are renewing the Halloween scouting fest until January 2nd.

Until then, non subscribers can borrow a vehicle for a small (in game money) fee, and participate in a very exciting part of the game.
With their brand new armed combat car, they will be allowed to join or to venture alone in scouting events, around the relatively safe area of Somerset, one of the Northern towns of Evan.

According to several sources, Apple and Think Secret have reached a settlement, resulting in the site's closure. Apple sued ThinkSecret in January of 2005 for "posting Apple trade secrets and encouraging and inducing persons to provide product information in breach of agreements." Today's settlement brings a close to this lawsuit.

One Laptop Per Child's XO Laptop is an extremely rugged, energy efficient, low cost laptop designed to be used by children in developing countries. The only way most people in the US or Canada can get one is through the Give One Get One program, which ends on December 31. I got mine yesterday.

Syncro Soft Announces New Release of Oxygen XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT/XQuery Debugger.

Release date: December 18, 2007

With a new approach to XML authoring, Oxygen XML Editor 9 makes easier than ever before to work with XML frameworks (DocBook, DITA, TEI, XHTML, etc). The CSS-based visual XML editor introduced by version 9 allows WYSIWYG like editing of XML documents.

Fast Icon, which aways offers high-quality free icon sets, is pleased to announce it's latest great resource for this holiday season: Santa Claus Hat - Decorative File, which contains 1 PSD File to decorate your Logo or Icons and give a festive and funny look to your website.