Dracosoft has released Avalanche Extreme, an arcade/puzzle game for Mac OS X. “Click on three or more matching blocks to destroy portions of the Avalanche. The more blocks destroyed the more points earned. Beware; the Avalanche is quickly gaining speed. Used color bombs to destroy similar colored portions of the Avalanche and black bombs to destroy giant areas.” Avalanche Extreme is priced at US$9.99.
Read MorePaul Sloan has written a feature article for Business 2.0 [paid sub. required] that aims to answer the question of “What’s next for Apple?” In addition to the article, the magazine has posted five mockups of imagined Apple products created by Robert Brunner, Apple’s chief designer from 1989 to 1996.
Read MoreApple has settled its lawsuit with one of three men it sued for distributing beta versions of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. “Apple said it had settled the case it brought against Doug Steigerwald, who was a student, in late December,” reports Reuters. “As a member of the Apple Developer Connection, Steigerwald was given early test copies of the next version of the operating system, code-named Tiger. Apple has said Tiger will be available by this June.
Read MoreOther World Computing today announced the latest addition to its line of SuperDrives — the Mercury Pro DVR-109 dual layer DVD-/+ R/RW external solution. As the speediest of OWC’s Mercury Pro SuperDrives, it offers up to 16X DVD-/+ R/RW and up to 40X CD-R/RW burn speeds. OWC’s Mercury Pro DVR-109 external SuperDrive solution includes both FireWire and USB 2.0 ports, and supports the burning of up to 8.5 Gigabytes of data or video per disc. The drive is available for US$159.99.
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