OSXGuide.comOSXGuide.com BackendOS X Freeware of the Day: Quinn Network Tetris Game- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Today's OS X freeware of the day harkens back to the days of Nintendo and the original Gameboy system, in front of which many of us spent hours upon hours destroying lines of blocks in a game called Tetrist. Since that time, many versions of Tetrist for many different computer and gaming systems have come and gone. Now, we look at a free version of Tetris for Mac OS X users, namely: Quinn. Quinn is a completely free OS X version of Tetrist that includes multiplayer and network playing...http://osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=209 Photoshop 35% Faster on Intel Macs with OS X 10.4.8- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Reports are now coming in on the latest system update to Mac OS X, and they indicate that speed improvement for non-Intel native binaries is significant. These improvements stem from Apple's changes to the Rosetta sofware that allows PPC binaries to run on Intel Macs. Lab tests from Macworld show that improvements to certain application like Photoshop are as high as 35% faster versus prior versions of Mac OS X. This news will come as a very welcome surprise for the many Adobe users who have..http://osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=208 Battle for Wesnoth: Free Mac Roll Playing Game- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Today's Daily Dose is an open source roll playing game called Battle for Wesnoth. This game is a turn-based RPG akin to many other popular action-based RPGs like Warcraft. As an open source project, the game has been developed for multiple platforms including Mac OS X, Windoze, and Linux. Fortunately, the game has advanced multi-player options, including network play, so all of these platform choices mean you can play against any of your friends, regardless of what platform they have. Read..http://osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=207 Free Windows Media Plugin for Quicktime Available- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Visitors to Microsoft's Windows Media website for Mac have recently discovered that the company is apparently no longer making a version of their Windows Media Player for the Mac platform. Instead of providing access to a download of the latest version, Microsoft now provides for download a free third-party plugin that works with QuickTime so users can open Windows Media files directly through QuickTime Player or QuickTime aware applications such as web browsers. The free program, called...http://osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=206 ToThePoint Software Releases The Fontz v4.3.2- (Found July 11, 2008 ) The Fontz is a versatile font utility that allows you to browse installed and uninstalled fonts, see what they look like at different type sizes, styles and colors, and even group them in like categories using a "wysiwyg" group editor. For fast and easy browsing run either a manual or an automatic font slide show where you can change size, color, style, and even the display text while the slide show is still in progress. You can view or print out individual fonts, any of your font groups, all...http://osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=192 |