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Star Trek Online -- Specials from Amazon.com

Folks,

Here’s some deals from Amazon.com:

Star Trek Online for $27.99….

The Collector’s edition is also available at $47.99, that’s another price low, this time by $25.

I haven’t played, but friends keep trying to get me to play…. That has to count for something, right?

Star Trek D.A.C. for Mac

I hate to sound like a me-too-er, but this pretty much sums up my thoughts on Star Trek D.A.C. for Mac.

I can’t believe that I was suckered into purchasing it for $9.95…  Simply don’t do it.  Instead go find a copy of Asteroids, and you’ll be much happier…

Star Trek: D.A.C. (Deathmatch. Assault. Conquest) is not a [...]

Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 confirmed… Macintosh…

Right from the horses mouth…:

Steam on the Mac will behave just like Steam for Windows, but through Steam Play will add cross-platform ownership. That means if you own Left 4 Dead 2 for Windows, then you already own it for the Mac. There’s no need to buy it twice! Unless you want to buy it [...]

NVIDIA pulls 196.75 driver amid reports it’s frying graphics cards

One of the discussions that arise anytime we bring up a new graphics card from ATI or NVIDIA is about which company has the better drivers. Well, this should help sway the argument a little bit. It would seem StarCraft II Beta players were among the first to notice low frame rates while using the [...]

What disk formats can MOSX read?

All versions of Mac OS X, at least past 10.2, can read NTFS. USB, Firewire, network drive, doesn’t matter…

According to Wikipedia, it supports HFS+ (default), HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV, ZFS (experimental). Snow Leopard, assuming you re-install the boot camp drivers, allows your Windows OS to [...]

Does it actually matter whether you have open applications when installing new software?

Why do installers often ask you to close all your applications before installing a new software package?   Does it actually matter whether you have open applications when installing new software?

It seems the norm these days is for installers/setup programs to request that you close all open applications before initiating the install process for a [...]

OpenOffice.org 3.2 Improves Startup Times, Office 2007 Compatibility [Downloads]

Windows/Mac/Linux: The latest version of OpenOffice.org, the free and open-source office suite, improves startup times by over 40 percent (by some tests), improves importing and support for password-protected and 2007 office files, and improves many areas of the Calc spreadsheet.

You can check out the full feature list at OpenOffice.org, but the majority is nitty-gritty stuff.

Importing [...]

No Menu Bar or Tabs in Windows XP Task Manager

When you open up Task Manager in Windows XP, there is no title bar, menu bar, or program tabs showing. Only the running applications, End Task, Switch To, and New Task buttons show up.

This problem is easy to fix, the Task Manager is running in “tiny footprint mode”. To correct this, simply double-click on [...]

Valve might need a few Macintosh and Linux engineers

It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve’s Chris Green’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the [...]

Why can’t I see my extra hard drive?

i added another hard disk on my computer, but when I opened My Computer the extra hard disk was not on there. What’s  happening?

Chances are you added the hard drive correctly, but you haven’t finished installing it in Windows…It probably needs to be formatted.

Right-click on My Computer and select manage
Expand out Storage on the left [...]