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Feral Interactive on Thursday announced that later this year it will publish Lionhead Studios’ Fable: The Lost Chapters for the Mac. The role-playing game was released for Xbox last year and is also currently in development for the Windows XP operating system. Feral said in a statement that the title represents “a significant strengthening” of…

Apple Computer’s Mac mini and the iPod shuffle told first place gold in this year’s Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAS), with the Airport Express receiving a second place silver recognition. The competition, sponsored by Business Week magazine and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), gave a total of three awards to Apple and its…

CodeWeavers on Wednesday announced that its CrossOver technology, which enables Linux users to run Windows applications on their computers, will support Macs once Apple makes the move to Intel processors next year. CrossOver was built on UNIX, as was Mac OS X, but the technology wasn’t previously available in the Mac world because it requires…

The performance gap between PowerPC and x86 is "not a myth," according to Mac and Windows gaming developer John Carmack, cofounder of id Software. Mr. Carmack made the comment at Slashdot in response to a discussion there about Friday’s Devil’s Advocate column by John Kheit at The Mac Observer. According to Mr. Carmack, the compilers…

I wonder if the Atlantic ocean has as vast a collection of spineless jellyfish as seemingly comprises significant portions of the Macintosh user base and its ass-kissing punditry.  With far too few exceptions, this is a group that just days ago was smugly debunking, dismantling, and railing against the notion of Intel processors in their Macs, only…

Macintosh developers at this weeks Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco have mixed feelings on whether the switch to Intel processors by Apple Computer will ultimately be a win for the company and software companies, two published reports said Tuesday. “It’s certainly the right decision in the long run. In the short term, there’s the…

Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich issued a research note Monday reiterating his ‘Buy’ rating on Apple Computer (AAPL), saying Mac sales are “accelerating” and that the iPod maker would probably start a subscription music service like Yahoo’s within a year. Having recently met with Apple management in Cupertino, Calif., Mr. Milunovich said Apple’s PC differentiation…

As first reported by MacDailyNews, an Associated Press article published on Wednesday revealed that former Cobb County commissioner Butch Thompson has filed suit to stop the roll-out of iBook computers to teachers and students at pilot schools in the Georgia district. Even though voters in 2003 approved a 1% sales tax to fund the program,…

Home builder Lennar Corp. has announced a unique amenity for the houses it’s building in six of the neighborhoods in the Bressi Ranch community located in Carlsbad, Calif. Every dwelling comes with a 14-inch iBook, an AirPort Base Station, AirPort Express, a three-year AppleCare support package and a 5.1 surround sound stereo tuner with speakers…

The Cobb County, Ga. School District’s US$70 million laptop program is scheduled to start this week with teachers in four pilot schools receiving their computers and training, according to Atlanta TV station WXIA-TV. Being called by Apple “one of the largest ever one-to-one computer learning initiatives” in the U.S., the contract calls for the initial…

During a Q&A with Feral Interactive president David Stephen, MacGamer.com owner Corey Tamas received an intriguing scoop: the publisher will bring Colin McRae Rally 2005 to the Mac sometime during the next six months. Mr. Stephen told Mr. Tamas: “While rally driving is a sport that’s probably better known in Europe and Asia than it…

Don’t do business with Mac-Pro, an Apple VAR in Campbell, CA. Why? Because they were rude to me, did a terrible job of working on my PowerBook, and the owner wouldn’t take care of the situation to my satisfaction. That’s right, I am using my column to complain about customer service. The story starts with…

LAS VEGAS — Dan Myrick, who co-created the hit low-budget film The Blair Witch Project, looks forward to breaking boundaries once again with his “Webisodic” series The Strand, which relied heavily on Macs during production of its first three episodes. He was at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show to promote the…