Archive - Jun 2008

ByDesign Games launches new addicting casual game, "Make Bouncy Bouncy" worldwide. In Make Bouncy Bouncy, players bounce-bounce-bounce their way through puzzling mazes of challenge and reward. Earn and collect Bouncy Bouncys through fun and layered gameplay, where each bounce can lead to an explosive bonus.

Macgamestore today announced the release of Fitness Frenzy for the Macintosh. The game was developed by Gogii Games. With a hard bod and healthy mind, your clients can conquer the world. As Vicki, a personal fitness trainer, you must help all sorts of people from newbie joggers to muscle-bound weight lifters reach their personal goals. Fitness Frenzy features 50 unique levels to play, 10 different Fitness Centers, Cute funny characters and tons of upgrades and Special Helpers.

Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update, which is now available via Software Update or as a standalone installer. This update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. For more information, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1994.

Palo Alto, CA - Five enterprise software companies today announced the creation of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) to facilitate the acceptance of the Mac in environments managed with Microsoft Windows. The alliance will validate and promote the availability of solutions that make it easy to deploy, integrate and manage Macs using Microsoft Windows-based solutions, thereby increasing user productivity, reducing total cost of ownership and increasing IT acceptance of Macs in the enterprise. Founding members include Atempo, Centrify, Group Logic, LANrev and Parallels.

Customers have less than 24 hours to take part in a massive sale of Parallel's flagship Windows virtualization software for Mac users. The sale, hosted at MacHeist, ends today at midnight, EDT.

MacHeist has been offering Parallels Desktop, the popular software that enables users to run Windows software on their Mac without having to reboot, for $49 over the past few days, raking in over $100,000 in sales in just two days.

All customers of this offer receive the $19.95 MacPilot, a handy tool that enables access to hundreds of hidden features of OS X, as a bonus for free. As added incentive, the first 3,000 who purchase will also receive the popular Freeverse game, Kill Monty, a $19.95 value.

David Alison switched to Macs from Windows 5 months ago and over that time has written about the applications he has found critical. In today's blog post he updates his list of key Mac applications, the ones he uses every day and why.

The MacBook Pro is Apple's top of the line notebook computer. Two weeks ago David Alison purchased a new MacBook Pro to replace his MacBook. Today's blog post covers some of the key features he's found valuable.

Once you switch over to Macs it doesn't mean that you can escape the problems Windows users encounter. David Alison was reminded of this when a friend looked to him for help in clearing off his virus infected Dell laptop.

Dare to be Creative today announced the release of its software bundle for Mac OSX targeted at photographers, designers and creative professionals. The software bundle consists of Dragoman, a batch image converter, and Renamer4Mac, a batch file renamer, tools designed to save hours of work by automating manual tasks. The bundle is available for $40 at Macsnack and offers savings of $25 off retail prices.

Second Gear is pleased to announce the release of Today 1.2, an update to their popular Mac OS X application for managing iCal events and tasks. Version 1.2 introduces several new features and enhancements such as date browsing and editing of events from iCal. Today offers a 10 day trial and is available for purchase for $15.

Full release notes can be found at the Second Gear Website.