The “Break it Down” Blog
Tag Archive | "Mac"
Microsoft Will Never Understand Usability – Vista Device Driver Security Example
We took our first look at Microsoft’s inbility to create something genuinely useful and a minature review of Vista when we evaluated Windows Vista Backup at the beginning of the year. The premise of that article being that by evaluating a single program, and all the usability/functionality flaws it had, you got an impression of [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama is a BlackBerry Mac User
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thanks to Laurence Hartje for sending this in, looks like Barack Obama is an iChat-loving, Mac-using, BlackBerry-addicted president elect. This puts my mind at rest a bit more knowing that our president-to-be understands and utilizes technology to get work done, as opposed to still being impressed with Fire and Water… not that they aren’t cool, I’m [...]
Continue reading...New Releases for the Week of 9/14 – 9/20
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Xbox 360 Armored Core: For Answer (Sep 16) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Sep 16) Battle Fantasia (Sep 16) Pure (Sep 16) Rock Band 2 (Sep 14) PC LaTale (Sep 18) Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (Sep 18) Igor (Sep 16) LineRider 2: Unbound (Sep 16) Crysis Warhead (Sep 16) Pure (Sep 16) S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky (Sep 15) Witcher: Enhanced Edition (Sep 16) Wii Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk (Sep 16) Igor (Sep [...]
Continue reading...New Releases for The Week of 9/7 – 9/13
Monday, September 8, 2008
Xbox 360 NHL 2K9 (Sep 8 ) NHL 09 (Sep 9) TNA Impact! (Sep 9) Zoids Assault (Sep 9) PC Spore (Sep 7) Romance of the Three Kingdoms: XI (Sep 9) Righteous Kill: the Game (Sep 12) Nintendo Wii NHL 2K9 (Sep 8 ) Hell’s Kitchen (Sep 9) The Price is Right (Sep 9) NintendoDS Spore (Sep 7) Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise (Sep 8 ) Hell’s Kitchen (Sep 9) The Price is [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s Leopard Requires 867 mhz G4 or Higher
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Word on the street is the new Leopard OS (OS X 10.5) will require an 867 mhz G4 or higher to run and will not work on the original 800 mhz G4. Not too much news there for folks that use OS X… or computers… or have an Apple product. For the folks that are [...]
Continue reading...EA Games on Mac Not Native
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
 OSNews has the scoop that the games EA agreed to co-release for Mac Leopard (OS X 10.5) are actually running on top of Transgaming’s Cider emulator platform. This essentially boils down to a “Mac version of Wine” running the games and not a native port.
Continue reading...Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) using ZFS
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
This is very slick news… looks like Sun’s drool-worthy ZFS file-system is going to become the default for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I know very little about ZFS, but the bits I’ve read about it are impressive to say the least… more like “How does it do that?!”. It’s an extremely slick file system, and [...]
Continue reading...OpenOffice Officially for Mac OS X
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
For the Mac users out there the OpenOffice Mac Team has announced an Alpha release of OpenOffice for the Mac platform finally. They do make it clear that this is an alpha release and will likely crash and corrupt files, so not ready for prime-time yet, but it’s a step in the right direction. For [...]
Continue reading...1986 Mac vs 2007 AMD Dual Core
Thursday, May 31, 2007
This is pretty unbelievable. HubPages has put together this great “productivity comparison” between the original Mac Plus and a brand new AMD Dual Core machine. The idea being not the overall functionality, but the productivity boost doing the most common office-based tasks (Saving, editing, copy-paste, etc.) and seeing the performance differences between the machines. Even though [...]
Continue reading...
Loading ...
Monday, November 17, 2008
7 Comments