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Paris based Coladia today is delighted to announce a special week-end promotion on their Mac Games. From Friday 29th January to Monday 1st February 2010, customers will receive a free game when they buy 2 games. The deal applies to The Secrets of Da Vinci, Return to Mysterious Island, Cleopatra: a Queen’s Destiny, Destination: Treasure Island, Secret of the Lost Cavern and Still Life 2. All games are available for download from Coladia online.

Texas based Pocket Watch Software today announced iPad support for ActivePrint 7.0. One of the best features is that virtually all iPhone and iPod Touch Apps are compatible with the iPad. Which means that you can already print from the iPad using the current version of ActivePrint for the iPhone. With ActivePrint you can print to any printer that your PC can print to over your Wi-Fi network or over the internet using your iPhone’s EDGE or 3G network.

DigiTimes reports that several Asian notebook manufacturers were taken by surprise by the unexpectedly low entry-level $499 price point for Apple’s iPad, forcing them to reconsider how they will price upcoming tablet models.

The vendo…

A discovery that Apple’s promotional materials for the iPad show properly-displayed Flash content while Web browsing in contrast to the “broken plug-in” icon observed on-stage at Apple’s media event has generated a great deal of interest and discussi…

Valentine ~ Postage is the latest edition to RogueSheep’s award-winning Postage suite for iPhone. Valentine ~ Postage allows users to send romantic postcards to their loved ones using Facebook, Twitter or email from anywhere they use their iPhone. It has 14 professional and romantically-inspired postcard designs ready for customization with portraits and messages.

M.O.C. Interior Designer, LLC today released Home Interior Layout Designer – Mark On Call 2.1 for the iPhone/iPod Touch, a major update to the incredibly popular interior design app. Now users can publish and store their room designs on the Web and owners of the app can import, customize, and apply the room designs of others to their own personal space. The English/Metric Systems Units Settings has been moved from the device’s general Settings app to the Mark On Call main menu “Design” section.

One of the major complaints so far about Apple’s new iPad tablet device has been a lack of support for Flash content, a limitation also placed on the iPhone. At several points during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ demonstration of the iPad at Wednesday’s med…

In 10.6, Apple moved Directory Utility to the /System » Library » CoreServices folder; you can launch it directly from there, if you wish.

However, the “official” way to get to Directory Utility now is through System Preferences » Accounts » Login Options. At the bottom of the panel you’ll see Network Account Server; click on the Edit button and there is a listing of directory services. The button in the bottom left-hand corner says Open Directory Utility; click on this to launch.

The other day I was using df -h to check disk space usage, and was surprised to see some odd entries in the output:

$ cd /Volumes
$ df -h
...
/dev/disk2s3    75Gi   51Gi   24Gi    69%    /Volumes/datafiles
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /home
...

I had no idea what the map entries were there for; they don’t show if you simply do ls /Volumes. After inquiring around, a friend managed to find the answer for me: they’re related to the autofs feature in 10.5 and 10.6. You can read all about it, if you care, in this Apple PDF. I was more curious than alarmed, as I hadn’t remembered seeing those entries before (I don’t use df -h folder all that often).

Whether your kids are on the field or watching a game, FIght Lights is for them. Kids can type in the name of all of their favorite teams and select from a color picker to create their own team library. Proud parents can make them feel like professional athletes while their team colors flash in special effect modes in support during their game. A fun way to show team spirit! FIght Lights is 1/2 price until after the Superbowl.