Category Archives: Mac OS X

Half-Life series for Mac

Valve announced earlier that they were gonna release Half-Life series of games for Mac (1984 Apple ad Parody). Today is the day… as of the time of this post they aren’t showing in Steam on mac side yet but I was able to trigger the downloads via simple steam:/// urls.

No status on playability but the downloads are trigger-able.

(Behind the scenes of the screenshot)

Here are the links:

Half-Life – Install
Half-Life: Blue Shift – Install
Half-Life: Opposing Force – Install
Half-Life 2 – Install
Half-Life 2: Episode One – Install
Half-Life 2: Episode Two – Install

Update: Only seems to cover Half-Life 2 series

Steam for Mac is OUT!!!

The mac version of Steam is finally out today months after it was first announced.

Portal is the first Valve game to be released as a free download until May 24th and a new set of games will be released on subsequent Wednesdays.

The first games will also enable users to get a glimpse of “Steam Play” which will let them buy a game once and play it on both platforms supported by Steam.

The only noticeable difference between the mac and the Windows client is the position of the window controls. Everything else is pretty much the same for both platform clients.

Additional Screenshots (By kteck)

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Downloads

Apple Refresh

In preparation for the holidays, Apple did a refresh on almost all of their products that I honestly don’t know where to begin with this blog post. So I’ve decided to just give you guys a run down of what Santa Steve (yeah I know it’s lame. get over it.) and his Apple elves have in store for us sheeples.

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RSS Digest #84 – iPhone OS on Mac Pro, Warp Drives, and Twitter on the Commodore 64… o rly? kthnx bi

RSS Digest for Sunday, June 14th, 2009:

PSP Go battery life worse than PSP-3000
Bigger Loss: Cell Phone or Wallet?
A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64
The Pirate Bay Joins Anonymous’ Fight Against Scientology
CrunchDeals: Asus Eee 900 for $170
Swine Flu Vaccine In Production
Memory and Perspective
Theoretical Warp Drives Theorized To Be Black Hole-Creating Doomsday Devices [Space]
The Daily Show on New York Times: Read It and Weep (with Daily Show video)
DTV Transition Mostly Smooth, Windows Media Center Problems
Pioneer explodes your dashboard with new AVIC U, X and Z-series in-dash navigation systems
MySpace problems may spread to Facebook, Twitter
What Intel Can Teach Google About the Cloud
Four years later: Why did Apple drop PowerPC?
Does Microsoft’s Bing have Google running scared?
CrunchDeals: 37-inch 720p LCD TV for $398
DIY High Speed Photography Studio In the Comfort of Your Own Home [DIY]
PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Book About Video Game Violence [Casemods]
Weird Science ponders angry flies and guilty dogs
Apple and the Environment
Well, that explains the 8-hour battery life…[MacBook Pro]
Talkcast tonight: 10pm post-WWDC wrap-up
Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number [Google Voice]
Does America Need to Make Things?
Mac laptop glossy screens hazardous to your posture?
Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field
Samsung Omnia Pro to be the Louvre B7610?
Nintendo outsells competition nearly 2 to 1 in May
Win a high-tech wheelbarrow for your Dad
iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor, multi-touch and al
Alienware M17x unboxed… by Mr. Bicep
Windows Weekly 111: An F.U. To The E.U.

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #81 – OLED kills DLP, Lycos Coming Back… WHY?, and Mac Attacks

RSS Digest for Thursday, June 11th, 2009:

Data Protection Makes Identifying Online Pirates a Nightmare
Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That’s Just Two Atoms Thick [Future Tech]
Researchers ditch DLP, develop OLED panel-based mini projector
Sharp’s remote controlled LED light-bulbs generate seven-shades of smart
US brain-plug interface gets live human trials
Security holes poked in Chinese compulsory PC filter plan
Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran?
Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software – Will You Use It?
Samsung goes official on the WB1000/TL320 digicam
Over 50,000 Palm Pres Sold, Over 150,000 Pre Applications Downloaded
Epson to mass-produce world’s first HTPS-TFT panel
New AMD Neo Athlon / Turion chips emerge in HP Pavilion dv2z
Lycos To Relaunch Search Services In Europe, For Whatever Reason
‘Bionic ear’ can detect Wi-Fi, FM,GPS signals simultaneously
Does the Wii Provide A “Watered-Down” Game Experience?
Product News – OWC Announces DDR3 1066MHz RAM Upgrades for New MacBook Pro Models
Apple already testing 10.5.8 update to Mac OS X Leopard
Scientists Create Form of Pre-Life
Nobody Recognizes The Chrome Icon, So Google Wants You To Make A Video About It
Periodic table adding new element
How to modify RSS
How to Install Windows 7 from a Flash Drive
Windows 7 build 7229 leaked
Microsoft plays recession card with Novell
Opera lashes out over Microsoft’s browser removal
Six-Core Nehalem Processors Might Arrive This Year [Processors]
Two new Mac attacks surface
RedEye turns iPhone into universal remote control
Psystar Owes Apple $75k For Some Reason [Psystar]
AMD plans ‘Congo’ chipset for a future world of thin-and-lights, dodging netbooks for now
Doom Comes to the iPhone
Handlebar-mounted bike mp3 player sounds dumb but it’s totally not
Shuttle Endeavour set for grueling station mission
Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Actually Verifying Them
DRM licensing group presses on with plan to plug analog hole

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Mice – Then and Now

Over the years the computer mouse has evolved… but for those who wern’t around in the 80′s they won’t know how far its evolved… I recently was given a used a Apple IIc that had the Mouse IIc with it. For the fun of it i did a comparison between the Mouse IIc and a Comfort Mouse Optical 3000

Here is the pic:

As you can see the Apple Mouse IIc is far more boxy compared to the Microsoft Comfort Mouse optical 3000

Mac OS 8.2D8 Beta Themes

In the development of Mac OS 8.2 (Later known as verson 8.5) they added multiple theme support and the developer builds shipped with 3 extra themes… These are the themes that shipped with Mac OS 8.2d8 Beta. Despite how unstable the theme suppport in that build the themes are well done with sounds schemes and all.

I made the screenshots on Mac OS 9.1 on my Performa 6360 but they should work on any Mac with Mac OS 8.5 or newer.

Check out the themes here:

Gizmo

In the Zone	On Curves	Sounds	About
Hi-Tech

In Perspective	Neon	Sounds	About
Drawing Board

On a Grid	Oon Parchment	Sounds	About

You can download the themes here…