Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

ActionSoft releases Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills

ActionSoft has released Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills (http://www.actionsoft.com/games/midnightmansion2/), a US25 game for Mac OS X 10.2 and higher. A demo is available for download.

Here’s how the game is described: “Jack Malone is back, in his biggest adventure yet! Join Jack in his quest for treasure as he explores underground caverns, mad scientist laboratories, spooky graveyards, old abandoned castles, and more!

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Category Review: retail management apps for Mac OS X, part two

This MacNews Category Review is the second of our multi-part look at retail management software for the Mac. Products covered include Gesta Complet, Grocery Website Modules, Gym Organizer, HansaWorld Enterprise, iAuthorize, InfoBusiness, IntelliScanner Wine Collector, Inventory Tracker Plus, Joyaux, KiBizSystem, Kinhelios TPV, Kita-Livres, Legato CRM, Logicmac Sesam Vitale, MacBusiness POS, MacPOSX, MacroPrint, McKassa, NetSuite CRM, Octopus Enterprise Resource Planning, Office Assistant, Optimal ERP, Partenaire Pro, PayGo RoadTrip, PlatipusPRO Advanced POS, POS/OE4, PressGenie, ProBe, ProHandwerk, ProScope,

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Defender provides a ‘tank’ for the iPad

By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum

I’ve only been in a tank once. It was some museum in my childhood and I can’t remember where, but it was impressive. When you were inside you couldn’t hear anything from the outside world.  You’d bang on it and your hand would hurt.  It was an impressive vehicle that provided unbelievable protection from the outside.

“Tank” is the first word I thought of when using my Otterbox Defender for the iPad.

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Perhaps Apple will skip USB 3.0 entirely and go with Light Peak

I still haven’t bitten the bullet and upgraded to a new iMac for a few reasons. One is that I was certain that USB 3.0 would be included, but wasn’t. At first I felt that another iMac revision might be coming sooner than expected (early 2011?) with USB 3.0 support, but now I’m not so certain.

The more I think about it, Apple likes to push the envelope, and it’s possible the company will forego USB 3.0 entirely and make the quantum leap to LightSpeed sooner than anyone expects.

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