Mac Software
Empire: Total War Gold Edition lands on Mac shores this spring
Feral Interactive is once again letting it be known that when Mac gamers fight, there are no skirmishes or police actions. For us, it’s war—Total War—as evidenced by the announced that The Creative Assembly and Sega’s Empire: Total War Gold Edition will be launched for the Mac this spring.
Upcoming OS X app to provide AirPlay mirroring from iOS to OS X
Napkin Studio’s David Stanfill has been hard at work developing an OS X client that will allow for AirPlay mirroring from iOS to OS X, something that is currently unsupported. Stanfill’s decision to develop such a client and the technology behind it came from his desire to find a better way to demo his iOS applications during online meetings and to be able to record live video of the apps as they are being used.
Adobe discloses additional details on its Creative Cloud offering
Creative Cloud offers a web-based storage center for syncing content between a user’s devices, along with all of the upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps, Adobe Touch apps and services, and the newest content from Adobe (such as new products and features) as soon as they are publicly released. This includes Lightroom 4 once it gets out of beta, and Adobe’s new Muse and Edge web authoring software. All of these great things come at quite the cost, however, starting at a steep $49.99/month fee.
Rage lashes out on Mac OS X
There’s been a lot of gaming news today—big releases—but they’ve all been for iOS. If you’re a Mac gamer, how do feel about that? Angry? Does it make you mad? Maybe even fill you with rage? Good, because Aspyr is offering up an appropriate way to release it. The venerable Mac game publisher has announced that Rage: Campaign Edition is available now from GameAgent.com. And if you order it by February 8th, you can get Doom 3 for only $1.
Treasure Seekers 4, Virtual City 2 amongst G5′s February iOS game releases
February is upon is, and I can think of no better time to check out G5′s February gaming releases. You? Casual gamers will have plenty from which to choose, including strategy and adventure games, the sequel to a fan-favorite, and a Valentine’s update to a hit city-builder.
Mac OS X v10.7.3 update available for download
The update brings several bug fixes for improved performance and compatibility across all Mac computers, and fixes a critical bug within OS X Lion which causes WiFi connection issues when Macs try to wake-up from sleep. Apple has also released software updates for the Lion Server, Safari 5.1.3, new version of Sever Admin Tools, some bug fixes for the Apple Remote Desktop, and security updates for users still running the Snow Leopard.
OS and browser market shares for January 2012
NetMarketShare’s desktop Operating System Market Share metrics for January 2012 show the Mac OS gaining a minuscule three tenths of a point on the month, with Windows falling back slightly. In the Mobile/Tablet category, the iOS was still well out in first place, and recovering some of the ground it gave up in December.
MacWorld | iWorld 2012: MokaFive debuts “Mac in Minutes”
MokaFive announced the addition of Mac in Minutes to their MokaFive Suite of virtual desktop management software at MacWorld | iWorld 2012, and this addition is designed to increase the simplicity and speed up deployment of virtualized corporate-standard Windows desktops to Macs. MokaFive provides IT shops the ability to centrally and securely support Macs or PCs more easily than past methods of supporting individual hardware+software combinations for each employee.
Mozilla releases Firefox 10
Mozilla continues to keep its word on excessively rapid releases with Firefox 10 now out of testing and available to the public. Firefox continues to remain one of the most popular web browsers on both OS X and Windows, alongside others such as Google Chrome and Safari. Firefox 10 is a pretty significant update to the browser, and brings a few new features that make it worth the upgrade.
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, multicam editing returns
Apple updated Final Cut Pro X to v10.0.3, adding multicam editing, advanced chroma keying, broadcast monitoring, support for XML 1.1, and more. Current owners of Final Cut Pro X can get the update for free from the Mac App Store. For those interested in giving it a try before you buy, there’s a 30-day free trial available.

























