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Category: OS X Daily Dose
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  OS X Daily Dose: Battle for Wesnoth: Free Mac Roll Playing Game
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 07:15 AM Topic: Fun and Games
 
 
Today's Daily Dose is an open source roll playing game called Battle for Wesnoth. This game is a turn-based RPG akin to many other popular action-based RPGs like Warcraft. As an open source project, the game has been developed for multiple platforms including Mac OS X, Windoze, and Linux. Fortunately, the game has advanced multi-player options, including network play, so all of these platform choices mean you can play against any of your friends, regardless of what platform they have. Read on for a look under the hood at Battle for Wesnoth.

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  OS X Daily Dose: MacMiner Mac News Portal Announced
Posted by: admin on Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 12:02 AM Topic: Internet
 
 
Looking for the largest, most complete listing of Mac news from around the web? Then you'll definitely want to check out a new site called MacMiner.com. MacMiner news compiles thousands of mac news sources for the most complete listing anywhere on the web. You can search, view by category, and even have pre-made searches (for example, all "GarageBand" news) culled for you. This one's not to be missed. Check it out at MacMiner.com

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  OS X Daily Dose: Installing KDE for MacOS X
Posted by: admin on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 09:27 AM Topic: All Topics
 
 
You may have heard of the popular Unix "windowing" software called KDE, which provides a GUI interface for the Linux operating system. KDE is so ubiquitous on the Linux platform that many applications are designed specifically for it. Recently, some enterprising programmers have ported KDE to the Mac OS X platform so you can now run KDE-specific programs on the Macintosh. One helpful user has posted a Guide to KDE for Mac OS X to help people install and run KDE on their Mac. Check it out!

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  OS X Daily Dose: iChat AV User Resources
Posted by: admin on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:58 AM Topic: Software
 
 
New users of Apple's iChat AV now have a number of resources available for finding other users with whom to commence video chats with. iChat AV (free beta) allows users with a broadband internet connection to conduct real-time video conferencing using virtually any firewire-capable webcam or camcorder (the author uses an old Canon ZR10 camcorder and it works very well). Several sites now exist where users can search for and find other users with video or audio capabilities for chatting. The most recent site, iChatters.com, was just announced. Other, more established sites include iChatFinder.com and MyiSight.com.

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  OS X Daily Dose: GNU-Darwin to Discontinue Development of PPC Collection.
Posted by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 05:22 PM Topic: System
 
 
GNU-Darwin has put it's PPC software collection into maintenance mode and will be switching it's entire focus to the x86 line. The full release of this story can be found here.

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  OS X Daily Dose: Internet Explorer 5.2 Released
Posted by: Miguel Danielson on Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 07:34 AM Topic: Software
 
 
Microsoft has released version 5.2 [Download 7.2 Megs] of its flagship Web browser, reportedly with security and performance enhancements. Users have reported slight speed improvements. The upgrade also brings Quartz text smoothing to those with the OS 10.1.5 upgrade from Apple. Please note that the installer will quit all open applications before installing, and that the upgrade will change your home page to www.msn.com. Feel free to post your own experiences here.

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  OS X Daily Dose: OS X 10.1.5 - Reader Reports Roundup
Posted by: Miguel Danielson on Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 08:32 AM Topic: System
 
 
Yesterday evening, Apple released the update to version 10.1.5 of OS X. The release aims to bring greater stability to certain applications, additional hardware support, enhanced iDisk support, and a some new Quartz text rendering capabilities for applications re-programmed to take advantage of it. We've done a quick survey of reports on 10.1.5 from around the web and gathered them here for those deciding whether or not to take this particular plunge. For those interested, 10.1.5 is available trough the Software Update preference panel.

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  OS X Daily Dose: OS X Web Browsers Plunge Forward
Posted by: Miguel Danielson on Friday, May 24, 2002 - 08:15 AM Topic: Software
 
 
There was some excellent forward motion for a couple of OS X web browsers this week. Netscape released Netscape X v. 7.0pr1, the next generation release of its primary browser. And the Mozilla project let loose Mozilla 1.0rc3, a late stage release candidate of its excellent browser. We take a brief look at these new versions, and offer some commentary for those interested in downloading. Read on for the full scoop. [UPDATE: We've added OmniWeb 4.1b7 to the list]

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  OS X Daily Dose: Apple's New OS X: Jaguar
Posted by: Miguel Danielson on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 10:17 PM Topic: System
 
 
Many of you have probably been hearing of Apple's new version of OS X, Jaguar. We'll be taking a brief look at some of the changes coming in Jaguar, and, perhaps more importantly, we'll give you a comprehensive roundup of news coverage, screen shots, and other information about Jaguar. Read on for the full scoop.

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  OS X Daily Dose: World Wide Developers Conference
Posted by: Miguel Danielson on Monday, May 06, 2002 - 01:29 PM Topic: System
 
 
Update: In case you haven't heard yet, there were some interesting announcements as expected at the Apple World Wide Developer's Conference. Included in 10.2 ("Jaguar") will be the following: iChat (an AIM-compatible IM client), updates to Mail and Address Book, better C++ compiling, a graphics-card accelerated version of Quartz, and more. Checkout MacNN for the full scoop and links to Apple's press releases. The update, originally schedule to be released several months ago, is now due at the "end of the summer."

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