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Favored Freeware: D2X

Filed in Freeware on September 17, 2005 at 12:23 am

D2X is an enhanced version of Descent 2 with 3D OpenGL graphics.
At this stage, most of Descent 2 works under Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. Supported features include: Graphics, Sound, OpenGL, Joystick, Mouse, CD audio, Movies, and Networking.
Pros: D2X is a fun time-wasting game. Playing D2X is like playing Doom in a space ship. [...]

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Review: Drive Genius

Filed in MacMerc, Review, Technology on September 16, 2005 at 12:31 am

As far as professional-grade utilities are concerned, Drive Genius is the new kid on the block. Though it is young, it does exit the starting gate with quite a few useful features. Read the review to learn more about Drive Genius.

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Blogroll Dive: 9/12/05

Filed in Blogs on September 12, 2005 at 12:05 am

Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Bonnie discovers some facts which thankfully contradict some recent rumors about events that hopefully did not occur in the Memorial Convention Center.
Michael Heilemann discusses his frustration with bloggers who use Feedburner to combine their feeds.
Khaled reviews The Authority: Revolution.
Michael Hampton is not pleased with David Coursey’s proposal to [...]

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Full Content Feeds and Hotlink Protection

Filed in General on September 10, 2005 at 2:46 pm

Due to an overwhelming response of one to zero, MacManX.com’s RSS and Atom feeds are now presented in full XML glory with a little bit of added copyright protection spice from Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin. As these new full content feeds will allow my content to be “re-blogged” by certain content-stealing sites, I have [...]

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Favored Freeware: Armagetron

Filed in Freeware on at 12:15 am

Armagetron is a modernized clone of Tron with 3D OpenGL graphics.
Tron was an arcade game based on the movie of the same name, release by Disney in 1982. The original game consisted of 4 sub-games, the only one of concern is the ‘Light Cycles’ one, in which the player uses a left/right joystick to control [...]

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RSS Feed Madness

Filed in General on September 9, 2005 at 4:01 pm

Well, wasn’t that fun? If you’re currently subscribed to MacManX.com’s RSS feed, you probably know what I’m talking about, and I do apologize for that. Last night, I was thinking about increasing the feed to 16 articles. Unfortunately, I managed to enter “160″ instead, and I didn’t notice until this morning. [...]

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Stellarium Update v0.7

Filed in Freeware, Technology on at 11:29 am

Stellarium has been updated to v0.7. “Stellarium is now scriptable, new languages have been added, mouse dragging is available… explore, and enjoy!” The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Stellarium here.

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ColourMod Konfabulator Widget

Filed in Freeware, Technology on at 11:10 am

ColourMod has now been released as a Konfabulator widget. If you’re a Konfabulator user, and you have been dying for a good color pickers, then ColourMod is for you! Read the Favored Freeware entry for the ColourMod Widget here.