Archive for February, 2009

Far Cry for Mac OS X? No, it is 3D Paradise Paintball

Posted on February 26, 2009 by admin

Recently I have discovered couple of nice games. I have just described Bubble Bazinga however I have seen games like that in Mac OS X dashboard. Despite of it I have never expected a game with graphics and a climate that reminds me one of the best FPS (First Person Shooter) games on Windows – [...]

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Bubble Bazinga for Mac OS X

Posted on February 25, 2009 by admin

Amazing, how many interesting applications for Mac OS X I discover every day. Recently I have discovered couple of nice time consuming games for my Mac’s dashboard. One of them is a widget called Bubble Bazinga by mysterious Rastaduck. The rules are simple and well known, based on those of the classic Tetris. Of course [...]

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Paparazzi for Mac OS X

Posted on February 19, 2009 by admin

Sometimes on my blogs I post website screenshots. Typically, to take a screenshot I use keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X to take a full screen picture (CMD-SHIFT-3), piece of it (CMD-SHIFT-4) or selected application window (CMD-Shift-SPACE – 4). Saved the PNG files fit nicely into blog posts (like this), and Worpdress now have quite [...]

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The Hal Project and screensaver for Mac OS X

Posted on February 19, 2009 by admin

Quite recently I have came across a website of the fan of Stanley Kubrick’s and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 Space Odyssey – The Hall Project.

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MenuTunes for Mac OS X – something for those who were late for Coversutra birthday

Posted on February 12, 2009 by admin

On 23th Jan 2009 the most popular iTunes add on – Coversutra – celebrated its birthday. On this day everyone had the opportunity to get this paid program for free. Birthday unfortunately ended and again Coversutra costs a little. To all those who have not managed to wish all the best and were too late [...]

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Poland: they have stollen 4 WW2 tanks from the military training ground

Posted on February 12, 2009 by admin

A few men have stolen 4 WW2 T-34 tanks (made in USSR) from a military training ground of a Polish army. Those 4 old wrecked famous WW2 soviet tanks were used as a training targets in the military training ground in Jagodne. They have illegally entered military area with big lorries with the carriages and [...]

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ImEdge Blender for Mac OS X

Posted on February 11, 2009 by admin

I have found a great program for the quick creation of images, that can be used to tile the background of the blog, another web page or the desktop. Typically, the preparation of such images by an unexperienced person is rather difficult and the main problem is the preparation of the edges, to avoid the [...]

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Anti piracy regulations affects one of the Polish ISPs

Posted on February 11, 2009 by admin

As TVN24.pl informed yesterday, the one of the leading ISPs in Warsaw – Aster -  that has just added an anti piracy paragraph to the customer contracts signed with its customers, has been affected in the massive loss of them. Changing the agreement gave the customers an extra occasion to cancel the contract without suffering [...]

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Nursing the hard disk – SMARTReporter for Mac OS X

Posted on February 10, 2009 by admin

Sometimes among the jungle of different free programs I can spot those that appear to me – an ordinary user – unattractive. However, such programs are needed in an emergency when it is already too late. That concerns all applications for analyzing and controlling your Mac in case of emerging signs of impending hardware failures. [...]

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FolderLister for Mac OS X

Posted on February 10, 2009 by admin

If you need sometimes to send someone listing of the contents of a folder (directory) on the hard disk of your Mac, certainly, for that purpose you can use the terminal or a free program written by P-Edge Media named FolderLister. Just run the application and drag the selected folder on its icon in [...]

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