When Valve announced they will be bringing Steam to the Mac there was a cry of joy not heard since the Israelites were led out of captivity from Egypt. Not only is Steam now available they've done what companies like EA haven't... gone native. When EA announced they will be releasing their Mac titles at the same time or at a similar time as their PC versions there was a lot of speculation as to how this would be achieved. When they announced that they would be .....

What do you get when you cross World Of Warcraft with spaceships? Well as luck would have it Eve Online is the answer. I have to admit that when it comes to MMPORG games I'm A): a novice B): not really interested. It all boils down to the fact that most MMPORGs are based around warriors and elves and wizards and personally that gets real old real quick for me. I had seen the ads for Eve Online for some time and even created an account only to find out their Mac suppo .....

There is a change coming in software and Apple is proving to be right at the forefront of it. Software is going from the 'do it all' to the 'do it well' regime where features aren't necessarily being added but what is there is being refined and tweaked and optimised to make a system that is flawless or as close as it's ever going to be. Apple has done exactly that with Snow Leopard. There are new features but 95% of Snow Leopard you will not see because it's all hidden in .....

I'm not real big on plug-ins mainly because I like the right tool for the right job and I've rarely found a plug-in that does exactly what I want. Then a couple of days ago I was visiting NZMac.com and in the MacNN feed at the bottom of the screen I saw something that intrigued me... "Boris Continuum Cartoon Look package uses BCC filters". "Cartoon Look eh?" I said so I checked it out, the spiel was saying exactly what I was looking for and so I downloaded the demo and th .....

One of the coolest features of Mobile Me is one of the trickiest to get up and running. This is not because Apple dropped the ball on this but because everyone's ADSL modems are not set up by default to run it. The purpose of this document is to explain how to setup your ADSL modem in order to get Back to My Mac working. Most of the information relates to a Dynalink modem, but there are also screen shots of the Linksys modem (untested) to give you an understanding of the generic .....