Tag: mac
OS X Leopard Watch: Tech Digest's UK liveblogging/tweeting starts here
For Tech Digest's latest information about the UK launch of Apple's OS X 10.5 Leopard, bookmark this post and check back frequently. Hint: If you find operating systems, and the liveblogging of them, immensely boring, then you're advised not to…
BBC teams up with Adobe (not Microsoft!) to create Flash-based cross-platform iPlayer
We've already criticised the BBC's iPlayer software for being too restrictive, but now it seems that the BBC Trust's commitment to opening it up might be more than just boardroom talk. The BBC has announced that it's partnered with…
Phone The Priory, this man has a spare room full of almost every Apple Mac ever made
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, that is one sick, sick man who has collected over 100 Macs in the past five years. Look at them all. Disgraceful. Not a PC in sight. I think I might cry…
Gizmodo has interviewed the Mac fanboy about his obsessive collecting, ranging from an ancient Apple II+ to…
UK Government backs BBC Trust's commitment to make iPlayer available on other platforms (eventually)
The Government has responded to an online petition calling for the BBC to make its iPlayer software, currently available for beta testing – available to more than just Windows XP users, by backing the BBC Trust's commitment to making the…
LINDY launches 3.5" USB Data Dock, add portable USB hub, card reader, hard drive to a PC
LINDY Electronics has launched its USB Data Dock, a peripheral which utilises a PC's spare 3.5 inch drive bay to allow users to easily add on a portable USB hub, 2.5 inch hard drive, and a memory card reader, in…
Is EA bottling out of Mac games?
One of the big stories of Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference back in June was that EA would bring out its major games on the Mac.
However, two months on and it seems as if Electronic Arts may have gone a little cold on the idea.
Madden NFL 08 came out on most devices, but was a no-show on the Mac.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 03-Aug-07: Facebook, Sony, Google phone, Wii, Microsoft Office
– Vodafone pulls adverts on Facebook, Orange possibly to follow (The Register)
– Sony to recall 350,000 cameras due to dangers posed to users (CNet)…
Shiny Shiny's speculation about the Apple event next week
No doubt the Mac purists are well aware of the big Apple event going down next Tuesday at their headquarters in California, but do they have any inklings as to what will be announced?
Well, I bet each Apple fanboy can ‘feel it in his waters’, but Shiny Shiny has a couple more ideas as to what’s up Steve Jobs’s big black turtleneck sleeve…
INTERVIEW: Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive MD, tells us all about Football Manager 2008
Charming Miles, one the the game world's nicest blokes, invited us up to his North London bachelor pad for a barbecue. We had a lovely burger, although the July weather was a bit cold and we regretted not brining a jumper. But that's not the point.
The point is, Miles told us about the most important new features in Football Manager 2008, plus a few of the other "over 100" changes he and SI have made to the man-pleasing footie series. He also revealed the company's plans for console versions – that bit's at the end, so you might want to skip the bulk of it if you're just interested in the PSP or Xbox 360 versions…
Destroy your Mac laptop and use it to control Pong's paddles
You’d be forgiven for thinking Tech Digest had turned into a blog focussing purely on ways to hack the game Pong and play it through various mediums other than your arcade or Atari systems. No, we’re not renaming ourselves Pong Digest, much to the distress of these guys, sorry.
One such Pong-enthusiast has created a version of the game to run on his Mac laptop using the sudden motion sensors and microphone. People who smother their Macs in protective laptop cases or daren’t take it out into the wild should avoid this game, as it actually involves ohmygod tilting your laptop vigorously and potentially harming your laptop’s microphone by screaming into it. Tilting the laptop controls the direction of the paddle as you’d expect, and raising your voice, by say, screaming into the microphone, actually increases the size of the paddle.
Take a look at the video under the jump for some Apple/Pong-hybrid humour, and the link where you can actually download the game for yourself…
