A Mac Mini Enthusiast Network

Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update via its Software Update utility and on the Web.

I’m a speedy typist and it’s often the case that my fingers run away with themselves – words quite often suffer the ignominious fate of having their internal letters swapped around. Often my fingers will assuming I’m typing another word (usually one that I type quite often) instead of the one that I actually want. I experienced this a few seconds ago when I typed “internet” instead of internal: I wanted the latter.

So it is not at all surprising to me that the OfficialAres.com website gets a staggering number of visitors to the site that have spelled Ares incorrectly. Some of these typos appear to be genuine mistakes – Aers is ‘Ares’ with the middle two letters the wrong way round, while Aeres and Aris appear to be common misspellings of a common word – but some seem to have their roots in the linguistic differences of many of the visitors.

As an example, take the variation ‘Arez’. This is most common from our French speaking visitors. Another common variation is Aries (and Aires) which are predominantly from those users from Latin America. The strange spelling ‘Areas’ appears in the logs and is largely from those users from Greek and its beautiful surrounding islands.

Linksys today announced that it is now supporting router setup for Mac OS X with its Linksys EasyLink Advisor (LELA) Setup Wizard.

Linksys today announced that it is now supporting router setup for Mac OS X with its Linksys EasyLink Advisor (LELA) Setup Wizard.

Patong girls are an enigma, of that there is no doubt, and any attempt at trying to understand Patong girls is doomed to failure.

Some people don’t even feel like trying to understand Patong girls, nor their motives for doing what they do, and these people can get into serious trouble. These girls can bleed a wallet dry in a matter of hours. Once the vacation money (and probably some of next month’s rent money with it) is gone, the girl tries for the security of marriage. Sound scary? You’d better believe it.

So what is it about Patong girls that has Western guys so enthralled? And why do they have so much trouble trying to understand Patong girls? The Patong girls are masters of stroking a man’s ego, and really hitting him where it hurts. They are charming and sexy in equal measure and anyone who doesn’t make a serious attempt at trying to understand Patong girls risks being dragged seriously under by their siren-like qualities.

The girls are masters at games – Connect 4 and the classic ‘hit the nail into the wood with the wrong end of the hammer’ games are just some of the ways the girls will try to snare a man and his wallet.

I am not one to turn down a challenge, so when a buddy of mine dared to tell me I shouldn’t try smoking Salvia, he knew exactly what would happen.

So we sat down in my living room and opened the packet that had come – quite legally – through the postal system. Neither of us had tried smoking Salvia before so we were not prepared for the horrendous smell emanating from the packet. Really.

We got our pipes, sprinkled the black flakes that came in the vial onto them and lit them up. A short puff later and we were away, smoking Salvia. Within a minute we were both bordering on coherent and within two we could do nothing but giggle. I felt like I was drifting slowly up and to the right, away from my body.

I’m a veteran of quite a few mind altering drugs and I can say with complete honestly that smoking Salvia is up there with the strongest of them. If it weren’t for the relatively short time frame involved – I clocked seven minutes from start to finish – then it would undoubtedly be as popular (and as illegal) as LSD and mushrooms. Smoking Salvia is serious business.

Ares Galaxy, the P2P filesharing software, is synonymous with the concept of filesharing. But like in so many other industries where the most popular and well known brand is not the best product, Ares Galaxy is not at the top of the tree when it comes to filesharing applications.

The original version of Ares was Ares Galaxy and this remained the case for some years; during this time, it seems, the name was ingrained on users’ minds and has remained there since. Everything else that did the same job was quickly dismissed as a pretender or a clone.

But today we look at some of these ‘pretenders’ and ‘clones’ and it becomes apparent that they are in fact superior in every way to the original. Take Ares Vista for example. Ares Vista is all the best bits of Ares Galaxy, but is easily setup to work with Windows Vista. Ares Vista also provides to its users customer support. Ares Vista is just better than Ares Galaxy. The same can be said for Ares Ultra and Ares Ultimate.

Not all the new versions of Ares are up to scratch, however, and it is advisable to steer well clear of Ares Destiny and Ares Gold, both of which are inferior to Ares Galaxy and both of which package adware with the software.

Macally today announced the availability of its IceCam 2 USB 2.0 webcam with built-in microphone.

Microsoft today released updates for Office 2008 and 2004 for Mac.

Logitech today unveiled the QuickCam Vision Pro webcam for Mac with Carl Zeiss optics.