Articles from December 2007



Next-Gen Game Costs: A Burden on Development

According to BBC, an average PS3 game costs nearly $15 million to make – and that’s before any marketing is done for the game. Not only is this bad news for gamers, as it almost ensures our store shelves will be stocked with sequel after buyer-recognizable sequel, but it’s also bad for developers, who could [...]

Using GrowlMail and Leopard

Evan Shoenberg has built a new Leopard-compatible version of the plugin for Mail.app that shows new messages via the Growl notification system. It’s aptly named, GrowlMail. You can download the latest version here:
http://evands.penguinmilitia.net/GrowlMail-rewrite-r4729.zip
If you have Growl installed, you should be able to install this update, run Apple Mail, and see the GrowlMail preferences pane.

However [...]

Safari 3 Adblock

For Safari 3 you can now get an AdBlock utility just like the one available for Firefox. The only challenge is getting it installed correctly. And no, the documentation that comes with the Safari 3 Adblock isn’t correct (at least not as of release 2r3). So after doing some digging I found [...]

Landon Fuller’s Java 6 for Leopard – First Looks

If you’re a Java developer with a Mac you’ve probably heard that Java 6 isn’t available from Apple yet. And Apple’s not talking about when it will be available. You’ve probably also heard about Landon Fuller’s SoyLatte Project. After reading Fabrizio Giudici’s blog about his experience getting Netbeans working with SoyLatte I [...]

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