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Guitar Hero III - coming soon to a Mac or PC near you!

By Nick, September 12, 2007

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 wink ).

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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John C. Dvorak Now Recommends Macs Over Windows PCs

By Mac Fan, August 3, 2007

John C. Dvorak is an infamous Mac basher and writer for PC Magazine. In a recent column of his titled “Me and My Mac”, John says he’s using a Mac and now recommends them to friends and neighbors.

John says,

I can see why the Mac is gaining market share, because the rationale for using one is simple. Do you want to deal with the agony of antivirus, firewall, antispyware, and other touchy software subsystems, many of which do not work well? Or do you want to boot Microsoft Word and write a document and be done with it?

Generally speaking, the interface is slicker than the PC’s, and you get the sense that the computer isn’t about to start acting weird because of some virus, spyware, or endless Firefox loading procedure going on in the background and killing all the cycles of the computer.

John has finally realized what Mac fans have been saying for years, it just works. He uses a word to describe Windows that I’ve been using for a long time, “hassle”. I find Windows to be full of hassles.

First you have Chris Pirillo (longtime Windows advocate) break up with Vista and switch back to XP, now you have John C. Dvorak recommending Macs! It’s not a good year for Windows fans.


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Fullscreen playback now in free Quicktime

By Liam, July 12, 2007

Quicktime 7.2, released on July 11th, was not a major update. It fixed a few bugs and patched a few security vulnerabilities. It also added fullscreen video playback to the free version of Quicktime, a feature that has remained Quicktime Pro only for a long time. Many have wondered why that is, but now Apple has had a change of heart.

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XvsXP now MacvsWindows

By Liam, June 28, 2007

The days of pages being sorely out of date are OVER

Believe it or not, XvsXP has had much to do with the formation of Deep Thought. In fact, Nick and Pilky, the founding fathers of Deep Thought, met on the XvsXP forums. So it’s pretty damn newsworthy when they fundamentally change, like they have just recently.

With the release of Vista and the looming thought that the X moniker won’t be used by Apple forever (try as they might,) it was clear that XvsXP needed a domain name change to something a bit more timeless. Today, that change has happened. XvsXP is now Mac vs. Windows, and with that change comes an interesting twist: the shootout is now a wiki, free for anyone to edit.

The wiki method was used due to the time-consuming nature of maintaining the comparison. That same factor caused the site to change ownership from the hands of Dan Pouliot to James Scariati and Michael Moriarty in late 2005. The new format isn’t a 100% free-for-all. Instead, only Scariati and Moriarty can create pages or edit the conclusion section of each page. Any user can register and edit pages, but only users promoted for having made meaningful contributions to a comparison will be able to upload and insert images. “The days of pages being sorely out of date are OVER,” Scariati said in a post to the Mac vs. Windows forums.


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Safari for Windows

By Liam, June 14, 2007

Introduction and Installation

I don’t ever watch the actual WWDC keynotes, nor do I take that much interest in them, but I will have a look at the Engadget or Ars feeds after it’s all over to see just what kind of carnage took place. In this case, that carnage was the announcement of Safari 3, which has been ported over to Windows. The reasons why are pure speculation, ranging from allowing the widest range of developers to be able to test iPhone applications without having to pay for Macs all the way to wanting web developers to take Safari and therefore WebKit seriously, as they have come to do for Firefox and Gecko. (Lack of) reasoning aside, Safari 3 is here, at least as a beta. Not only that, it’s here for Windows. In this review, we’ll see not only how Safari stacks up as a web browser, but how Safari stacks up as a Windows application.

Downloading Safari is much like downloading iTunes from Apple. You select a radio button, the click a button and download/run the installer. There is an option for Windows that downloads Safari plus the omnipresent Quicktime, but users can opt to download only…
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