Blizzard has done an excellent job looking out for the Mac gamers. There definitely not enough games available for the Mac. Mac users who like to get their gaming fix without resorting to Bootcamp, Parallels, or a Windows computer are able to get their game on (with their Mac) when playing games created by Blizzard. It’s true World of Warcraft, Diablo, or Stracraft are all Mac compatible.

It’s that time of the year again, kids are heading back to school or college and the Apple rumor mill is in full swing.  Nothing is certain at this point but given the history of the company, it may announce some new products in just over a weeks time.

If you were paying attention, reports from the Intel Develop Forum intrigued you. With talk of future concepts requiring some advanced capability not out yet, Intel could have been foreshadowing potential Mac hardware to come. With such ideas as 3-D movies, advanced intuitive human to machine interaction, Internet based TV and other consumer electronics taking center stage in the keynote, Apple and Intel may have big plans.

Have you seen the latest pictures that have surfaced about an updated Apple product? Recently, pictures of an iPod nano have hit the web and it has caused many to speculate that we are looking at fourth generation iPod nano. Digg’s Kevin Rose recently commented on updated iPod. What should we see in the upcoming refresh with the iPod line? If Kevin Rose, claims are accurate we should be seeing a curved screen with the iPod nano refresh, and it will sport a horizontal screen.

Recently, Apple released an update for the MacBook Air. The MacBook Air software update 1.0 isn’t a large file. It weighs only 368 kb. Issues that have been addressed within this software updates a few problems including issues with video playback and processor idling.

Tired of taking the beating from Apple in its Mac vs. PC commercials. Microsoft has decided to put on the gloves and fight back. The ad campaign is being created by MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

Bloggers being arrested, websites being blocked and now it seems that China may have blocked access to the iTunes store over what the government considers an “offensive” song.

Macs have been ideally suited for creative endeavors for years. If you are looking to break into podcasting but don’t have a huge budget for equipment and software, your Mac will be your best tool.

NetNewsWire, a popular RSS feed for Mac users, received an updated recently. When subscribers open up NetNewsWire they’ll be greeted with a message asking them whether they would like to update to NetNewsWire 3.1.7b4.

When Apple unveiled, MobileMe at WWDC ‘08 many people were excited about the service. Apple was bringing enterprise to the home user. Many of the features that we grow to depend on in the corporate setting, like synchronization between a variety of devices, was finally making its way into an Apple product.

While a storm has raged around Apple’s inability to release a working MobileMe product and other issues, Apple has been quietly going about the business of increasing its market share. After years of building on “lifestyle marketing” that target the family, the student, the hipster crowd and now enterprise, Apple is taking the concept one step further and going after a whole new lifestyle - the luxury market.

Apple has not been getting high marks from customers lately. Between it’s insistence on using AT&T for the iPhone and troubles in the Genius Bars around the country, not to mention the whole MobileMe fiasco, Apple has been taking a beating.

Simplify media is a duo of applications that allow your PC or Mac to stream your entire library (videos, music) to your iPod Touch.  If only it worked perfectly and I so wish it did.

Apple works hard to project a benign image, and sometimes the company is even successful. This past year has brought them some serious public relations grief, and this revaltion about Apple and Washington may not ease the burden.

Recently, NeoOffice was updated to NeoOffice 2.2.4. I updated my version earlier today. What was addressed in this update? According to the release notes boast that there has been a significant improvement to the slide shows (up to 33%). I checked it out for myself did notice a noticeable improvement in speed. Some users were having issues where a file or other menus were being displayed wen upon launching NeoOffice with the “nodefault” option. This bug has been fixed. Also fixed was a crash that could happen at startup if the home folder was on a remote volume.