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20 October 2009 Music, Technology

I’ve had the opportunity to try out various audio companies plugins of late and came up with a short list of those that really impress me for ease of use, starter presets and synthy goodness:
- Lennar Digital’s Sylenth1 – It’s small, cpu friendly, and packs a whallop of Virtual Analog …

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10 June 2009 OSX, Technology

It’s finally confirmed.  OS X 10.6 aka. Snow Leopard will only support Intel based Macs.  It had to happen at some point, but you can’t support multiple platforms forever.  Snow Leopard offers much in the way of multiprocessor/GPU/CPU support and will open the doors to very interesting functionality and developments …

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22 January 2009 OSX, Technology

A few very interesting and useful things came out over the past month or so:
Universal OSx86 Installer – PCWiz once again rocks our world with a post installation tool for Mac OSx86, which quickly finishes all your post installation procedures to get your system working perfectly and reliably.
Voodoo Kernel 1.0 …

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24 August 2008 OSX, Technology

I have dug in deep and figured out a lot about building Hackintoshes with regular PC’s.  I’m happy with my results and the speed at which they run:

Post Thumbnail of Apple needs to fix what's broke
19 August 2008 OSX, Technology

I won’t lie and say I don’t like the Apple hardware and software.  It does what I need, but i’m not one to try to convert others.  There are pros and cons to all hardware, and no one is perfect.
Apple needs to get things fixed, and fixed quickly.
They are having …

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7 July 2008 OSX, Technology

Now, I wouldn’t consider this for everyone, as there are some applications only found in the Windows world, but if there was a way to get something like VMWARE bulk at a cut rate, this could be a tasty way to switch.
A German newspaper publisher, Axel Springer, is switching to …

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29 June 2008 OSX, Technology

Here we grow again.
Apple, never to sit still with furthering development, is hard at work on the next revision of the operating system that is designed for use on Apple computers, codenamed Snow Leopard.  Now, some experimentalists will hack around to get it working on regular pc’s, and for some …

Post Thumbnail of Diablo III first announcement :) & StarCraft 2 next year :(
29 June 2008 Games

Back in 1997, Blizzard Entertainment released a really cool dark action-role playing game named Diablo on the PC.  You moved around a small village and the evil dungeons beneath it – hacking and slashing away at the denizens of evil, including Diablo himself.  It was a simple game and very …