Recently I have found a few new good tools and I also want to show you some General tools I am using on my mac.
I want to give a quick overview of tools I use daily. This is a list of the main tools I use on my daily work and which make my daily life easier. I hope you will find something you were looking for or if you had any experience with those tools you might want to leave a quick comment. If you also have some tools you that could replace the tools bellow just post a comment.
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Apple
New York City nightlife used to mean hanging out in smoke-filled nightclubs at the edge of town and stumbling home as the sun came up. But, from what we hear, you can’t smoke in the clubs anymore (not that we’re really too upset about that), the real estate boom has squeezed a lot of them out of town, and there’s even been talk of more aggressively enforcing the city’s decades-old anti-nightclub statute. So, what’s a denizen of the night to do? Well, it looks like Apple’s come up with the answer. As previously rumored, the company’s new midtown store, which opens tomorrow, will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The store, which has gotten a lot of buzz for its five-story, glass encased, Jobs-designed, cube-shaped entryway, will feature 4,000 square feet of retail space, most of it underground, and will be able to satisfy those musical and computing urges, day or night. Word is that the store will also be giving away one MacBook an hour to lucky visitors over the next couple of days (starting with tomorrow’s 6pm opening), so we expect some pretty sizable crowds to show up. Yo, Steve: Add a dance floor and teach your Geniuses to really tend bar, and we may just drop by one night and pick up one of those pods of yours.
Apple, News, Tech
World of Warcraft. Everybody is talking about it for a long time now. I heard of it too and I was reading couple of texts about it too but I never tried it out. I just was to busy with work and I also never really got the push to see why should I pay monthly for a Game. But then I went to Game with my girlfriend and I saw it there and was reading trough it. I didn’t know then when you buy it you get 1 month free trial time to test the game. Ok so we decided to buy it. Well after nearly 45minutes of installation of the 5 CD’s it was finished. One thing I heard is that lot of ppl have a 4 CD version. Is there any difference btw. those? Well then I started it, registered my account and logged in. Bang … I had to download a 360MB Update. Ok no problem but then I realised this thing is using bittorrent for sharing there updates but it went trought fast enough for me. With 2mbit it’s ok. After that we started it again and I created first a Nightelve/Hunter and I have to say “I am really impressed”. My girlfriend is not playing but she really enjoys to watch me and my Charactere groing up. She pushes me sometimes after work to play. So I am addicted to it too. I am not playing so many hours on it as some other. Mayb 2-4 hours a day after work sometimes I don’t play at all. But I have it not fo 1,5 week and I spent already at least 60hours with it. And I can’t get enough. I think it is really worth it’s money. The world is so big and nice, so many quests, so many people, so many monsters and so many time you can spend withit and you still won’t know everything about it. I think it’s just fantastic. One more thing at the end. I think the best part on that game for me is that it runs perfectly on my Powerbook. 
Apple, RPG
This weekend I tried to get my old Neverwinter Nights PC version with both addons running on my Macintosh as I thought it might work so I don’t have to buy the game again. But I found out its more a money making thing that this doesn’t really work. Well my thoughts were all I need are the binaries to run NWN on my Mac.
That was wrong. Well I did a basic install of NWN on my Windows XP machine. Copied it over to the Mac. Then there is a nice tool called NWNUpdate on sourceforge which is a program that lets you install the Windows Version of the addons on your macintosh and also has an update option. So I copied the windows install over, run the program to install both addons but then stop. Whats the story with the keys it doesnt ask for them. No you have toedit the nwnkey file by yourself and have to add the keys manually. Ok no problem I have a backup of my old key file. Then I run the update option in the NWNUpdate program, after 20minutes of download the patch it told me an error and he couldn’t update. Well I downloaded the Patches manually and then …. TADA … nothing. All I could start was the Dedicated Server and there was not even text in all the boxes, they were just empty but when I tried to start the DM Client or the NWNClient it just crashed. Check the logs … nothing in it. Ok that’s funny because I got the binaries there. So I started looking in the forum about anything simular because there must be somebody out there that has tried that before. But all I found was that you need the NWN Mac Version because there are the binaries on it that are not in the patches (so they must be linked to something) and that it’s because the NWN Mac version is made by MacSoft and that they wouldn’t make any money if you could install NWN with the PC Version and that Bioware doesn’t support any exchange (what I understand because they just made the game and not the CD).
So my final conclusion is I got at least Diablo 2 running ( after installing OS9 Classic) and that I have to buy NWN for Mac. But I won’t because I have the game and I have also gentoo on my laptop and I might try to get it running on that then. But I won’t buy it again. Either I play on my old windows desktop or I try to get it work with gentoo.
Apple
It is out now. Apple has released all the Information about there New MacBook Pro. This is what it is called now. Powerbook was yesterday, MacBook Pro is the Future. It’s avaible with the Intel Duo Core (1.67 Ghz or 1.83Ghz) and is supposed to be 4.5 times faster then a Powerbook G4. It comes with a 15.4″ Screen (1440×900 pixels), Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.0, Firewire 400 and USB 2.0. Memory starts by 512MB Ram and is upgradeable with up to 2GB of Ram. In default it comes with an 80GB Hdd but you also can get 100GB and 120GB Hdd’s with 5400rpm or a 100GB 7200rpm Harddrive. The real good Graphicpower comes with the ATI X1600 with either 128MB or 256MB Ram. It weights around 2.5kg and starts by 2179Euro including Vat. It comes with Mac OSX 10.4.4 and also gots iSight build in over the screen. One of the nice new features is a thing called MagSafe with is a new chargerplug that goes into your Mac and is held by a magnet so even if somebody falls over your cable it prevents your Mac from getting pushed down from a table. There were no information avaible yet about the Battery Runtime. Apple also wants to have changed there hole Product range to Intel till the end of 2006.
Here are some images of the MacBook Pro
Here is a quicktime animation.
There is also an interesting TV Ad out now.
It includes the following lines:
“The Intel chip: for years, its been trapped inside PCs, inside dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks, when it could have been doing so much more. Starting today, the Intel chip wlll be set free and get to live life inside a Mac. Imagine the possibilities.”
http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/
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Yes, after 2 weeks waiting I got myself a new Apple Powerbook 15″ and I really enjoy it.
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