Will Wrights often delayed epic Spore will be winging its way to Apple’s OS X, launching at the same time as the Windows version. The announcement is timed to coincide with the Macworld Expo, which at the time of writing is still running. At the convention EA has three booths running Spore on Macs.

“With Spore [...]

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What are these?
qsinstall:id= com. blacktree. Quicksilver. QSFileTagsPlugIn Not Found Jan 12, 2008
qsinstall:id= com. blacktree. Quicksilver. QSFlickrPlugIn Not Found Jan 10, 2008
qsinstall:id= com. blacktree. Quicksilver. QSImageManipulationPlugIn Not Found Jan 13, 2008
qsinstall:id= com. blacktree. Quicksilver. QSRadialMenuPlugIn Not Found Jan 14, 2008
It appears in my Adsense log as ‘Items not found’. It seems to refer to Blacktree’s Quicksilver [...]

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A two part post, you can find part two here.
Own a MacBook Pro or Windows Laptop? Want to write to / from an external disk at theoretical 3Gb/sec? Which, in practical terms, is a maximum of 280MB/sec.

Tags: Apple, art, book, conversion, disk, firewire, free, FW, mac, macbook, macintosh, sata, usb

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Granite Digital has a seemingly great product for recovering data from older IDE and (newer) SATA disks. Works with all drives and on Windows, Linux and OS X; good work on multiple OS support.

Remember that I mentioned this a while ago? Well it only does SATA drives, and Granite’s covers IDE drives too. So I’ve [...]

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11 Mac apps, plus another rumoured to be bundled in when the total is achieved, are bundled together on Mac Heist. They are for sale at a great price, saving over 300 bucks on retail.
It’s a good deal, you get some useful apps in the bundle, plus a couple of stinkers of course. So [...]

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Tags: free, freerunning

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While Japan’s “Robot of the Year” for 2007 is a rather dull mechanical arm, albeit an arm capable of grabbing 120 items-per-minute from a conveyor belt, 2007 did have some nice robot related developments, neatly rounded up in this link.
I still love the Toyota/Honda people robots. These are advancing really well now.

Earlier this month, Toyota [...]

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Honestly, I don’t care what console this is coming out for, I’m buying it. This is graphically great, I hope the actual fighting is fun. Maybe their is room in my wee heart for more than just SFIV :)

Tags: application, art, console, game, Games, mac, star wars, vader, yoda

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