Pig Shot: Rolling Towards Porky Victory One Fart at a Time
Pig Shot is a highly addictive game that uses pigs and slingshots to navigate your way through different trails. This game is great for all ages, and has only one downfall, you’ll never be able to put it down!
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Weekend Round Up 12/26 – 1/1
Welcome to the first MacApper Weekend Round Up! At the end of every week we’ll put up all of the week’s articles as well as some extra tidbits and links for you to catch up on.
App Store to Offer Corresponding Application for Unknown Extensions
Images have surfaced depicting the ability for someone to use the new App Store for the Mac to find applications to open files on your computer with unknown file extensions. Click here to find out more.
Apple Awarded Filtered Messaging Patent
Apple got the patent rights to an idea that has received a whole lot of attention from the media this week. The idea, originally submitted in 2007 and made public for viewing in 2008, makes it possible for supervisors of a device to filter or block out certain email and SMS content. The idea has received consideration from the media being that it can be used to prevent parent’s children from participating in to what has become a hot topic in recent time: “sexting”. Sexting (for those of you who don’t watch daytime television) is the action of sending sexually explicit content by SMS/MMS or email means.
Steve Ballmer Applauding Apple?
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, had some really positive things to say about Apple during a speech he was giving at the University of Washington, specifically hailing the company for it’s creation of the App Store.
Apple Adding a “Explicit” Category in the App Store?
Well, if you haven’t heard already, Apple recently added a new category to the App Store labeled as “explicit”…and then…took it down. It seems as though Apple created the “explicit” category in the App Store to house some of the content of its massive early spring cleaning of applications (some 5,000+ apps!) that were determined by the App Store rating team as “overtly sexual” due to some complaints made by some people who apparently found the content objectionable (which most of the stuff was pretty subtle, but hey, I’m one person…) and some parents who were concerned about the content being looked at by the younger people of the world (which is understandable, but that’s why there’s parental controls on the iPhone.
Focus On the Day at Hand With Today 2.0
I’ve been looking for something like this from Apple for years. It isn’t a very difficult concept. It’s a simple idea, and something that doesn’t require a big window or elaborate interface. Just a simple list of what’s on tap for today, and maybe a quick peek at tomorrow. Well, that’s exactly what you get with Today 2.0.
How-To: Monitor your network on your Mac with Wireshark – Snow Leopard Tutorial
Wireshark is an amazing utility that lets you view and analyze captured packet data from your network. It has become a must-have for many institutions and their admins.
It features support for inspection and decryption of literally hundreds of protocols, with more being added constantly. It supports live capture, and also allows you to save, export, and compress data for further analysis later offline. It’s display filters are top notch, as well as it’s UI.
BumpTop Presents: Your Desktop in 3D (Well Sort Of)
Bump Technologies Inc. brings you the same 3D desktop environment you saw on Windows last year, in a new and multitouch capable version for the Mac.
With features such as Piles and four walls and a floor to throw your stuff around on, BumpTop’s interface is a versatile workspace to organize your files. It isn’t a Finder replacement, but if you like to organize your stuff in plain sight, such as multiple files relating to a project, or a bunch of pictures, you can resize them and place them on any of BumpTop’s surfaces. It’s also easy to quickly jot a note and literally throw it up onto the wall in front of you, sticking there to remind you about your son’s soccer game in two hours.
It’s A New Year, Get Organized With Help From Your Mac!
Admit it. If there’s one thing you need to do this year, it’s get organized. 90 percent of all your resolutions and promises will soon fall by the wayside, lost in an endless sea of assignments, work commitments, appointments, travel, and unexpected turmoil. But the Mac you use every day can help you lock down and keep track of your busy life. Here’s 6 tips to help you get started!
Upcoming iPhone Games to Watch
The AppStore is known for a lot of things, but easy navigation isn’t one of them. With tens of thousands of games on the service, knowing when a real gem comes out can be more of a challenge than it should be. Big games may get featured on the What’s Hot or What’s New pages, and they may sit at the top of the sale numbers for a few weeks, but unless you’re actively checking to see what’s new on a regular basis it’s almost inevitable you’re going to miss a golden gaming experience.
Today we’re taking a look at 5 upcoming game worth keeping an eye out for. Why miss out on the big names if we can give you the heads up before they happen?
