29 Jun 07
SiCKO Film
SiCKO is the new documentary film by director Michael Moore....
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iCal + Facebook Google and Internet
How to make Facebook and a diary application of your choice work together. Although I am starting to get queazy Déjà vu feeling about the new Facebook "Applications", there are still nifty little features that keep me in a warm happy glow.
I recently got invited to a BBQ via Facebook, and I was busy copying the event details verbatim into my calendar, when I noticed the little "Export" button. To my delight, it produced a little ical file for the event which can then be imported to Apple iCal, Outlook, Google Calendar, and many others. Most of the supported apps/online services for this export standard are listed on Wikipedia's iCalendar page....
Read the rest of this entry »15 Jun 07
Max Payne Gaming
They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.
From one landmark game, to another. Max Payne was created by Remedy Entertainment and set free into the world in July, 2001....
Read the rest of this entry »13 Jun 07
OS X Leopard Apple
So as an update to my post yesterday, Apple released the final details for Leopard. Quite a lot of disappointment really, there isn’t anything new in Leopard that makes me go "Wow! I must have that".
Like I said on Paul's site, mostly it seems just glitzy stuff, although the Automator "record actions" bit is pretty neat. Apple have got a complete features list of Leopard, but generally it is mostly eye-candy, and not much that seems to be truly innovative and useful....
Read the rest of this entry »11 Jun 07
Apple WWDC 2007 Apple
Update
Only two of my predictions came true, Vista virtulization and GUI update. Find out more on my OS X Leopard post.
Later today, Steve Jobs will deliver the Keynote address of the 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference, in San Francisco....
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