Taking our cue from the Children ’s Television Workshop , this episode of the Macworld Podcast is convey to you by the Letter G. That ’s “ G ” as in “ precious stone ” and “ game . ”
To talk about the first subject , I ’m join by my fellow aged editor , Dan Frakes , who write our Mac Gems weblog . Dan also write the cover story in our August issue on 63 nifty Mac downloads . The feature appears at Macworld.com next hebdomad , but those of you with issues in hand can trace along as Dan and I talk about some low - price software gems .
As for games , Macworld.com administrator editor Philip Michaels speaks to Game Room columnist Peter Cohen about the just completedE3 Media & Business Summit , the pare down - down version of the once - massive E3 gaming deal show . While not as big as previous twelvemonth , E3 still had some news of interest to Mac gamers , which Peter tells us all about .
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Show Notes
We ca n’t go an intact podcast without peach about theiPhone . I talk about iPhone Mail Rules , the collection of Automator actions fromAutomator.usthat avail youautomate your Mac with the iPhone . I also blab about last workweek ’s somewhat iPhone - related update to QuickTime 7.2 .
In our software gems give-and-take , Dan and I touch on some of the follow applications programme :
you may chance Dan ’s reviews of these and other humiliated - cost programs in the MacGems catalogue .
The handsome gambling news that Peter covers good deal with the disclosure that gear of War , the third - person action secret plan , is come to the Mac . He and Phil also talk about the gaming aspects of Parallels Desktop 3 , the virtualization software thatMacworldjust go over . And Peter shares his thoughts on some of the gaming news coming out of last month ’s Worldwide Developers Conference , let in Electronic Arts ’ verbatim support for the Mac platform .
