Well, sometimes it’s good be a part of mailing lists, otherwise I would have missed on the great giveaway by MacHeist. In the spirit of christmas they are giving away free copies of fun and useful Mac apps and if you refer friends - and those friends register with MacHeist - you can get even more apps.
iConquer
iCame, iSaw, iConquered.
iConquer is an addictive game of world conquest, played by one to six players. The object of the game is to conquer the world by occupying all countries on the map.
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Mac computers don’t play AC3 files natively so what to do? And how to add them to iTunes so you can sync them to your iPod or Mp3-player of choice?
First thing’s first: How to play those files? You need to download the A52 codec, that will enable Quicktime to play the files. Read the instructions in the »Readme«!
Now, I am running Mac OS Leopard and conversion did not work for me with mac3dec.1.6.3 - it worked fine under Tiger, but not anymore. Instead, I downloaded MpegStreamclip. Just load your AC3 …

Okay, don’t get me wrong: Just because I am an Apple user doesn’t mean that I am bashing Microsoft products just because they are from MS. The Office Suite is actually pretty decent and you can go far on it. But sometimes I just want to throw the PC out of the window … I just don’t do it because they PC belongs to the company I’m working for and I am not sure they’d react positive to the destruction of their property.
Anyway … I’ve been working with MS Office …

Finally I have all the time I need to re-install all my essential applications and migrate my data.
As I wrote here, a very nice employee of Cyberport helped me backing up my data from my broken MacBook before sending it in for repairs. Thank godness he did, because the Mac was returned to me with a new logic board and a new hard drive.
Migrating Mails
This was on top of my priority list. Since I didn’t have a clone of my system, I could not use the migration assistant and had …

Now that I have finally finished my thesis - yes, I keep repeating that, but after all, it’s a huge success for me - I want to write about the tools that I employed. Before I started my thesis I kept searching the internet for applications that would suit my needs and wouldn’t cost too much. Bringing those two factors together was no easy task, let me tell you … as my friends would tell you, I do have high expectations.
I found a number of articles and ended up downloading …