Valve has released updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Half-Life 2 Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French Fixed Lambda logo at […]
It turns out that the Magic Mouse is fine, it’s the Mac Pro that has problems. This issue is not, as is commonly reported, that the metal case of the Mac Pro impedes the signal. In fact, the antennae are hooked up incorrectly in many of the units. A number of Mac Pros were shipped […]
So far, so good… Â I had an issue with a Western Digital External Firewire 400 Mybook 500Gb drive… Â After a few days, it would seemingly “go to sleep” and not always wake up properly for a Time Machine Backup… Time Machine would start processing, but continue on indefinitely, and would get “stuck” in the backup… […]
VMWare Fusion 3.1 has been released, as a free update to all existing v3.xx owners… VMWare is stating: 35% better end-to-end application performance (Measured with WorldBench 6) Better graphics support, with up to 5x 3D graphics performance. (Hardware Accelerated OpenGL 2.1 support) And More… See VMWare Fusion v3.1 for more details…
World of Apple Reports: Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the fifth build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F58 includes a multitude of fixes and like the previous build of Mac OS X 10.6.4 contains no known issues. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F58 weighs in at 593.2MB in its […]
Steam has just released a new Portal Update…. Portal Update Released: “Portal Update Released Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Portal Performance improvements Fixed crash during offscreen rendering Fixed overbright screen when rendering with Radeon X1x00 on 10.5.8 Fixed […]
Here’s a sneak peak at some of the preliminary findings we’ve gathered about Mac hardware since we launched on that platform just over a week ago: Roughly two thirds of all Steam Mac users are running on a laptop. Portal (with the same code base across platforms) is one fifth as likely to crash on […]
Since the release of Time Machine, backing your Mac up has never been easier. If you want to back up different sets of files to more than one drive, though, this script will help you do so. Time Machine, in typical Apple fashion, will seamlessly back up your data with little effort on your part. […]