Back in 2005, I reviewed the iCub, the first “digital lifestyle” product from French audiophile company Focal-JMlab. It was a unique product with excellent performance and great design. Its biggest drawback, for many people, was that it was too general in its focus: Rather than a dedicated iPod or computer speaker system, it was a subwoofer, an amplifier, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) [...]

TypeIt4Me expands your abbreviations as you type, and works in all applications, not just one. It also lets you define meaningful abbreviations, so you can type them naturally, as part of your writing, without memorizing – or reaching for – obscure ctrl-cmd-xyz combinations. Born in 1989, TypeIt4Me is still a teenager youthful 20 in human years, yet old & mature in Mac years. No matter [...]

Geneforge 5: Overthrow is the final installment in Spiderweb Software’s Geneforge saga, a series of fantasy-themed role-playing games. The Geneforge saga features enriched story lines, open-ended gameplay, and multiple endings, but lacks graphical sophistication or a quality soundtrack. With Geneforge 5, the developers have crafted a strong ending note to the series, but the game’s main problem [...]

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Here I presents you 8 twitter applications for Mac OS X based on popularity, downloads and ratings on MacUpdate, Version Tracker and i use this Twitterrific ($14.95) Twitterrific is [...]

One newly excavated ribcage to go please, hold the glass shards and nails. Imagine that you’re living on the tough streets of the big city, just trying to liberate someone from their hard-earned cash when you accidentally “fall on some bullets.” A visit to a regular hospital is out of the question. That’s where an amateur surgeon comes in. You play a pizza boy with a penchant [...]