Archived posts for December, 2006

Christmas bargains for Mac heads: MacSanta

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

The lovely people over at MacSanta.com have organised 20% discount on software from 33 (at the last count) Mac developers including Bare Bones, Rogue Amiga and Potion Factory.

The deal is simple … just shop online at one of the participating developers and enter the coupon code for your 20% MacSanta discount when you pay.

You can [...]

Microsoft Bill Doesn’t Like DRM

Friday, December 15th, 2006

So, Bill Gates met with a select bunch of ‘influential’ bloggers to chat about stuff yesterday.

As reported on the BBC, and several of the select bloggers sites, Bill dissed DRM.

Quotes from techcrunch:

Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which “causes too much pain for legitmate buyers” while trying to [...]

MacHeist Mac Software Bargain Bundle

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Fancy an early christmas present?

Hop over to MacHeist and grab a bundle of top quality Mac apps worth around $300 for $49 (given the exchange rate that’s about the price of a pint and a pie to us Brits)!

Yep, you get Delicious Library, Fotomagico, Shapeshifter, DEVONthink Personal, Disco, RapidWeaver, iClip4 and a choice of Pangea [...]

Your name on toast, why not?

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Parallel Windows

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Parallels, oh, Parallels!

In case you don’t know, Parallels is …

“the first solution that gives Apple users the ability to run Windows alongside Mac OS X in a secure, isolated virtual machine.”.

In other words, you can run Windows (or other OS), in a window, on your Mac desktop at near native speeds. Very [...]