Teddy Factory

Toybox Games’Teddy Factory — trade for the Mac byMacgamestore.com — put you on the assemblage melodic phrase of a factory that makes teddy bears . It ’s cute , it ’s adorable , and it ’s a heck of a lot more challenging that it reckon at first glance . It ’s your first twenty-four hour period on the forum job , and you have to patch together parts of variously color teddy bear as they total down the gathering strain ....

May 29, 2006 · 5 min · 978 words · Carol Rios

Contextual menu shortcuts?

As longtime Mac Gems reader have probably deduced , I eff keyboard shortcuts . If I can get at a procedure more chop-chop or more easily , I ’m all for it . I ’m also a big rooter of contextual menu plugins — being capable to add useful feature to Mac OS X ’s omnipresent “ right - click ” menu is a boon to my productivity . But until now , I have n’t been able tocombinethe two features ....

May 25, 2006 · 6 min · 1151 words · Brad Robinson

Kickin’ Soccer

Back in February , I excogitate that what the Mac platform necessitate was summercater games — not the incredibly intricate and elaborate 3 - D games we find on console , but the top - down colonnade - dash games that were once democratic on the Commodore Amiga and other computer chopine . Phelios has pace up to the plate with an answer by introducingKickin ’ association football . It ’s a satisfying beginning , and I ca n’t wait to see what else the game maker has up its arm ....

May 25, 2006 · 5 min · 896 words · Joseph Odonnell

MacBook 1.83GHz and 2GHz

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict replace both the 12 - inch PowerBook G4 and the entire iBook G4 short letter , Apple ’s MacBooks deliver many of the same feature as the higher - end MacBook Pro line — include an Intel Core Duo processor and a work up - in iSight camera — in a 13 - inch case with a lustrous widescreen display . Like the Intel - based Mac miniskirt , the MacBook line features an integrated Intel graphics central processing unit that partake its computer memory with main RAM ....

May 25, 2006 · 15 min · 3010 words · Norma Hardy

MacJournal 4

With MacJournal 4 , Mariner Software importantly revamps the blogging architecture of its unequalled diary - keep lotion and dips a toe into podcasting waters . Unfortunately , bugs — and what seems to be an incomplete effectuation of the podcasting features — mar these welcome sweetening . MacJournal ’s hallmark is the way it organizes document , grouping them as entries within journals — which can besides be nested within other journals ....

May 25, 2006 · 4 min · 801 words · Dennis Aguirre

Prevent unintended sleep

Many of us have more than one Mac in the firm — usually a compounding of a desktop and a portable . In my case , I have a Dual G5 background system , and a new MacBook ( which replaced a PowerBook ) that I expend when I need to free myself from the tether of the desk . I attempt to be relatively zip conscious in our home , and so I ’ve gravel the G5 do to go to sleep after about 10 minutes of inactivity ....

May 25, 2006 · 3 min · 490 words · Robert Goodman

DoorStop X Security Suite

Like some other OS X firewall product , such as Flying Buttress ( ) , DoorStop X Security Suite puts a friendlier front end on OS X ’s build up - in firewall , make it an excellent solution for drug user who like the idea of using that built - in firewall but would like to be able to configure it more all without recur to the Terminal . The question is , are you willing to make up $ 80 for such admission ?...

May 23, 2006 · 3 min · 569 words · Kelsey Monroe

QuarkXPress 7

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict For several year , Adobe InDesign ( ) has been steal the public eye from longtime Sir Frederick Handley Page - layout front - moon-curser QuarkXPress ( ) . So the design community has been looking onward to the release of QuarkXPress 7 to see if Quark could reignite its flagship software package . unluckily , XPress 7 does not represent a significant leaping forwards ....

May 23, 2006 · 13 min · 2565 words · Katie White

QuarkXPress 7 comes out swinging

If you needed to nibble an appropriate location in New York ’s SoHo district to set up the latest variation of a page - layout applications programme , you could n’t wind up with a more fitting setting then thePuck Building . Designed in the former 1800s for the German - language magazinePuck , the historical edifice served as a meet backdrop for Tuesday ’s launch of QuarkXPress 7 . mayhap if background publication had been around back then , Puckwouldn’t have met its dying in 1916 ....

May 23, 2006 · 3 min · 560 words · Theresa Morris

More mini mice

I now and then report hardware in Mac Gems , and two of my favorite such mathematical product have been portable mouse : Back in September 2004 , I reviewed RadTech ’s BT500 Bluetooth model , and the next month I cover BenQ ’s releasing hormone - base M310 . If reader electronic mail is any denotation , I ’m not the only one who prefers a mouse to a trackpad if space allows , and both the BT-500 and M310 fulfil my demand for a travel - well-disposed pointer : low size , multiple buttons , and wireless functionality ....

May 22, 2006 · 7 min · 1432 words · Susan Fowler

Quark ships QuarkXPress 7

Quark on Tuesday announce that its much anticipated pageboy - layout software , QuarkXPress 7 , is shipping . The transport translation is not a Universal Binary , meaning it will not race natively on Apple ’s new Intel - based Macs . During his demonstration this morning in New York , Quark Senior Vice President of Desktop Products , Jurgen Kurz , confirmed that QuarkXPress 7 is a PowerPC program ....

May 22, 2006 · 4 min · 716 words · Joseph Smith

Quark: Intel-native Xpress to be ‘fast as hell’

QuarkXPress 7 debuted to much ostentation Tuesday . But while the initial release of the page - layout practical app swash many newfangled features , one affair it wo n’t have mighty off the chiropteran is the power to die hard natively on Intel - ground Macs . Not to worry , Quark executives said Tuesday . The fellowship is working to produce a Universal Binary version of QuarkXPress 7 , and Quark ’s fourth-year vice president of background ware believes that Mac users will be please by the final result ....

May 22, 2006 · 4 min · 800 words · David Thompson

QuarkXPress 7 unveiled at special event in NY

New York City ’s voguish SoHo territory is the setting for Quark ’s rollout of QuarkXPress 7 , the newest variant of its page layout software for Mac OS X and Windows . Quark Senior Vice President of Desktop Products Jurgen Kurz spoke to an audience of Quark exploiter , spouse and press at a keynote address that kick off a one - day training and mathematical product introduction issue on Tuesday ....

May 22, 2006 · 4 min · 831 words · Edward Gardner