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Review: OOTP 14 for Mac
The challenge with any sports game, be it video or text, is keeping things familiar enough that hardcore fans don’t feel betrayed, but also fresh enough to entice fans to spend yearly to have the latest version. Over time, OOTP has answered this challenge. The question is, does OOTP 14 …
Awesome Mac game sale – 50% off many popular games at Origi...
If you are a Mac owner who loves to game, there is an awesome sale going on at Origin where many Mac games are 50% off through April 15. Some of the great deals include Dragon Age II for $9.99, The Sims 3 for $14.99, Batman: Arkham City Game of the …
OOTP 14 launches April 12 for pre-orders, new features announced
Out of the Park Developments recently announced some more details regarding its signature baseball sim, OOTP 14. The official release date is April 15, but everyone who pre-orders the game will get it three days earlier on April 12. They also announced a few new surprise features for this year’s …
OOTP 14 releases first batch of screenshots
While I patiently await the OOTP 14 beta, Out of the Park Developments has released the first batch of screenshots from its upcoming release. There isn’t anything groundbreaking in the screenshots, but they do provide some insight into a few of the changes to this year’s edition. The new screen …
Review: Collins Convertible Backpack by Brenthaven
For over 30 years Brenthaven has been making high caliber products rooted in their heritage of outdoor backpacks. Their Collins Collection consists of 9 products that range from an iPad folio to this Convertible Backpack – all of which sport a sleek “heather gray” tweed appearance. The Look From first glance, …
Retina MacBook Pros see update, price drops
Apple has announced an update to their Retina MacBook Pro lineup, which features new processors and lower pricing for the 13-inch models. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: “The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 for 128GB of flash, and $1,699 for a new 2.6 …
Siri, find me someone to port you to Mac
MacRumors is reporting that Sir may be coming to OS X 10.9; the next major version of of OS X. The site claims that they have been seeing builds of OS X 10.9 in their site logs since November, which corresponds to when the first rumors of Siri coming to …
Tweetbot for Mac shows the best and worst of Twitter
Twitter has managed to take what was initially a niche service and made it more mainstream than anyone could have imagined. In 2007, Twitter saw an average of 400 thousand tweets per quarter. Back in March 2012, that number exploded to 340 million tweets per day. Just last month, they …
OOTP 14 now available for preorder
Time to break out the bats, boys. Baseball is almost here! OOTP 14 was officially announced last week. Due in April, OOTP’s next release boasts some promising new features. A full description of all the new features can be found here, but here are some of the highlights: Completely Recoded …
Things for Mac – On Sale!
I don’t generally post a lot of sale stuff … because well we’d be posting about sales all day every day. But this one was too good to pass up. If you’ve been on the fence about getting into the ‘Things’ ecosystem for to-do management (our slightly old review), this …
Tuning up iTunes using TuneUp: My Success Story
Now that it is officially cold season in my corner of the world, I think it is the perfect time for some sorely needed cleaning up and reorganization of various things around my house and around my computer. Having now set up my new MacBook Pro as my main machine, …