
So another MacHeist has been and gone, and no doubt a lot of Cult readers jumped in to get their bundle of apps for a bargain price.
But not everyone thinks it’s necessarily such a good idea.
Patrick Rhone of Minimal Mac has written a controversial, yet persuasive argument for not partaking of these regular bargain fests. [...]



Written by Giles Turnbull on March 16th, 2010 with no comments.
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Soft Sailor is a tech blog I’ve not encountered before, but today I stumbled across a very odd post indeed. Published just yesterday, it recommends downloading something a little bit unusual: Internet Explorer 5.2.3.
Which is only, let’s see now… about seven years old.
The author Dragos Pirvu writes:
“Although it’s not that popular on Mac computers, [...]



Written by Giles Turnbull on March 12th, 2010 with no comments.
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Free, open source operating system Ubuntu will take on a new look in its forthcoming 10.04 release.
Gone is the brown, in comes the auberginey-purple. It’s actually quite appealing and obviously takes a lot of cues from OS X (the file manager windows) and iPhone (the menu bar and its plain white icons).
Reaction among Ubuntu users [...]



Written by Giles Turnbull on March 9th, 2010 with no comments.
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is today’s Best Thing Ever.
Panic are the people who make fabulous Mac software like FTP client Transmit and web dev box-of-tricks Coda.
Now they’ve made their own status board – it’s a monitor hung on the wall, displaying an internal web page that aggregates stuff from different sources and displays it [...]



Written by Giles Turnbull on March 9th, 2010 with no comments.
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Well, it looks like it’s official: after accidentally leaking the existence of a Mac client in their latest beta, and teasing the same in a series of hysterical promotional images, Valve has announced that the Steam games delivery service will indeed be coming to OS X… along with the sequel to their nabacularly terrific [...]



Written by John Brownlee on March 8th, 2010 with no comments.
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