Mac 911: Intel iMac

My 2-year-old baby sister grabbed a CD or DVD off my desk and smashed it into the optical drive of my iMac. We pushed it the rest of the way in, thinking we could then eject it. That didn’t work, and the disk became stuck. It would not eject the disk. We tried all sorts of ways to get it out, but ended up making an appointment at the Apple Store. That’s where I am now. I’ll let you know what happens.

UPDATE: The people at the Apple Store couldn’t eject it either. They are going to replace the optical drive. It is under warranty for another three weeks. My iPod Touch and my Powerbook Wallstreet are my computers now.

Review of 2000+ Games for Mac OS X

I bought 2000+ Games for Mac OS X at Macworld 2008. I am just now playing with it a lot and I thought I would share my thoughts with my readers.

2000+ Games for Mac OS installs itself in the form of an HTML file. In simpler terms, you don’t play it in a special application, you play it in Safari. For this to work, all the files are stored on your computer like websites are stored on a server. Anyway, like the name says, there are over 2000 games. They seem to be gathered from all over the internet because they aren’t all the same company.

Now for my review.

Age Group: Any, games range in difficulty
Difficulty rating: 0-10 Depending on Game
Fun Rating: 8
Price: $9.99
Where: http://www.selectsoftnow.com/software/info.php?ID=5803

The only problem that could happen because of this game is that almost all games require Flash Player, if not all. This is only a problem on older Macs that can’t run a new version of Flash, so…

Read the System Requirements

• G3 700 MHz or faster, or Intel processor (1.2 GHz recommended)

• 512 MB RAM

• 500 MB free hard disk space

From www.selectsoftnow.com

iPhoto ‘09 First Impressions

I just got iLife ‘09 yesterday! I have not had much time to play around with it, but today I wil give you my first impressions about iPhoto.

Faces
iPhoto’s new face detection feature works quite well. You tell it who some pictures are of, and it will go through and try to find other pictures of that person. It has some crazy ideas as to what is a face. I have seen it think a knee, a tire, a flower on a shirt, and a lens cap leash on a camera are a face. Telling it whose face is whose is very simple.

Places
I haven’t gotten to try Places much because I don’t have any photos with a location attached to them. If you have tried this, leave a comment with your thoughts! From what I can tell, it looks pretty cool.

Upload
Since I am not a MobileMe, Facebook, or Flickr user, I haven’t gotten to try the upload options for these sites.

Slideshow
The new feature to play a slideshow of photos in an album works great! You can choose effects and music to play during your show.

If you have any thoughts on iPhoto, please leave a comment!