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Lightroom 3 out
Friday, 11 June 2010
Team Fortress Two coming to Mac: Last week, as Valve released the Half-Life 2 games to Steam for Mac, it was noted on their forums that the OS X port of their frenetically cartoonish team multiplayer game Team Fortress 2 needed a little more time.
But Valve teased last night that Team Fortress 2 will be available on the Mac later today.
If the last few weeks’ Steam for Mac releases are anything to go by, Team Fortress 2 should debut on the Mac at a roughly 30% discount to entice new players.
Adobe Lightroom 3 is out: Adobe’s Lightroom 3 (pic) is now available for Mac OS X (and Windows). You can pick it up from Adobe's Australian online store for A$412 (upgrade A$136.12 if you own a previous version). You can get a 30% discount if you order it with Creative Suite 5 and an 80% discount if you order it as a student or teacher.
Lightroom is justifiable popular and a worthy competitor to Apple's Aperture.
Plans for Tweetie: A few days after Tweetie for Mac was named a winner in Ars Technica’s design awards for best Mac OS X software, Tweetie (which became Twitter) for iPhone developer Loren Brichter has said an iPad version is in the works… and he soon plans to get back into the update cycle for Tweetie for Mac (free) as well, which I use (it's great – use it for free with ads that appear among the tweets or pay $U25 for the ad-free version). .
As far as the iPad version of Tweetie is concerned, Brichter says: “The goal is to exceed the Twitter iPhone app in the iPad,” he said. “I swear the reunification is coming between iPhone, Mac, and iPad.”
As for Tweetie for Mac – a fantastic application, although some say features by competitors TweetDeck has surpassed it – Brichter has plans to get back into working on Tweetie 2 for Mac in the next few weeks, and even already has ideas for a Tweetie 3, reports Cult of Mac.
Next Office:Mac to be 32-bit only: Microsoft is claiming that it’s part their fault and part Apple’s fault at this point. They’re saying that if they were to move to the faster 64-bit, Apple’s framework would require them to completely rewrite their application in Cocoa, and apparently they aren’t ready to do that just yet. Snow Leopard handles 64-bit, which is faster.
The move is being downplayed by Microsoft, says Macgasm, “most users with typical or even larger-than-average document content will not notice a difference in performance.”
That's because 64-bit really benefits those with tons of RAM, and (hopefully) Office:Mac software (Word, Excel) shouldn't need loads of RAM. Fingers crossed ...
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