journal: mac
Guitar Hero III - coming soon to a Mac or PC near you!
Okay so you’ve just spent the last three hours playing Guitar Hero on your console, but now you have to get down to business and write that paper that’s due tomorrow on your computer. But what’s that? Guitar Hero III will be released for Windows and Mac OS X?
Goodbye, productivity; we hardly knew thee.
Yup, that’s right, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock will make its debut this fall as expected, but game port house Aspyr will also release a hybrid disc containing a version for Windows and (surprise!) Mac OS X.
In an interview with GameDaily BIZ, Jay Gordon of Aspyr states that that the company is “working toward a simultaneous ship with the console version.” He also notes that, “all of us in this business know that dates can slip, so we’ll let you know when we’re able to announce a ship date. We’re quite certain that you’ll see Guitar Hero III for PC/Mac in stores before the holidays.”
The Mac/PC version of Guitar Hero III will feature a guitar with USB connectivity modeled after a Gibson guitar. Details regarding system requirements and pricing has yet to come (I’ll be happy as long as it runs on a MacBook 
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Outstanding. My guitar-junkie brother will be pleased. It’s also nice seeing that Mac users won’t be left out of the Guitar Hero fun.
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iPhone: over 1 million sold
Today Apple has announced that it has sold 1 million iPhones since the product’s launch on June 29. In a press release issued today, Steve Jobs notes, “One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod.”
As noted, the iPhone has been on the market for 74 days. If you do that math, that calculates to roughly 13,514 iPhones sold each day, 563 sold each hour, and nine every minute--and that’s just in the United States! They’re a long ways off from McDonald’s claim of “Billions and billions sold,” but one million iPhones in 74 days is nothing to sneeze at.
Needless to say, the $200 price cut likely wasn’t much of a factor, being it was announced a mere five days ago.
How big a deal is this? The local morning news on channel 4 in the Bay Area referred to it as a developing story; go figure.
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Apple issues open letter to iPhone owners
Price drops are good, right? Not if you already own an iPhone and found out yesterday that Apple would be knocking $200 off the price of the 8 GB model and dropping the 4 GB model completely, in which case you might be a little angry. Upset iPhone owners flooded online message boards and Steve Jobs’ own inbox. Today, Jobs wrote an open letter to iPhone owners, offering them an olive branch:
Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.
As a result of the outcry from iPhone owners, Apple will offer everyone who bought an iPhone a $100 credit for Apple’s online and retail stores. More information will be available from Apple’s web site next week. Stay tuned.
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Macteens relaunches with new site, staff
Teen Mac user site and community Macteens has relaunched, featuring a newly-redesigned site and rebuilt staff. In recent months, new article posting on Macteens had become somewhat slow, as existing staff members either grew out of their teen years or moved on to other projects. In mid-August, editor-in-chief Dan Hollister announced the new staff and the relaunch, stating, “Macteens has been in need of some major changes for some time now. I am pleased to announce that we are implementing every last one of them.”
“Our team worked really hard and I’m proud of what we accomplished, and I’m excited for what we’ve got going on right now,” Macteens staffer Anthony Cole told Deep Thought. “We worked together and pushed ourselves beyond our limits to get this all put together, and had a blast putting it together for you guys. Enjoy it.”
Although the site’s content is written entirely by teenagers, Macteens has a history of producing high-quality, well-written articles.
Good luck, Macteens!
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Apps Every MacBook Owner Should Have
programs that he had dug up form the immense amount of open source/freeware floating around for OS X
Yesterday I finally received my MacBook. There was much joy and celebration as I told the other guys here at DT about it. I also was pretty excited about it; I mean, I have written for DT almost a year now, and not until now have I had any say on Apple subjects. All of that is beside my main point, which has nothing to do with me being happy about my MacBook. The point I am aiming for is how I ended up in a video chat with my friend Aaron, who has owned his MacBook for as long as I can remember. He started sending me programs that he had dug up from the immense amount of open source/freeware floating around for OS X. There are a couple that I feel obligated to give the spotlight to.
smcFanControl
This little beauty of a program has saved the top of my legs from receiving the burns from a MacBook running at 80℃. Basically what smcFanControl does is it takes over fan speed control and does an excellent job of it. The newest version allows for multiple fan speed profiles. You can assign each profile to a power state, i.e. battery profile is 1800 RPM, and you assign it to be activated while the MacBook is running on battery power. This program really shines when you’re charging your MacBook; everyone knows that charging causes the temperature to shoot through the roof. It also is quite useful during long video rendering sessions.…
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