Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Rome: Total War patch adds PowerPC support

Feral Interactive has released an 1.1 patch for Rome: Total War Gold Edition for the Mac. The update fixes some bugs and includes support for PowerPC gamers with G5 Macs.

Here’s how the game is described: “Rome: Total War is one of the all-time top-rated strategy games where players take charge of one of three Roman families with the goal of increasing their family’s power in Rome through diplomacy, economic skill, and of course, war!

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Google Sitemap Automator update informs about broken links

RAGE Software has updated RAGE Google Sitemap Automator (http://ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.html) — the software package that helps web-masters get their web site listed in Google, Yahoo and MSN search — to version 2.3. The update will now inform users about any broken links on their website and which pages they occur on.

With Rage Google Sitemap Automator you can automate the process of creating Google Sitemaps by utilizing filters and preset conditions. You then upload your Google Sitemap to your web server and notify search engines so they know where to find your sitemap file.

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Apple analyzing purchasing habits of iTunes users

Apple is analyzing the purchasing habits of its 150 million iTunes users in order to help serve up targeted adverts through its iAd platform, according to “those with a knowledge of the new mobile advertising scheme.”
“Apple knows what you’ve downloaded, and how much time you spend interacting with applications,” Rachel Pasqua, director of mobile at iCrossing, a marketing company told the “Telegraph” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7876822/Apple-iAd-secrets-revealed.html). “It even knows what you’ve downloaded, don’t like and deleted.”

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