TOKYO (MacHouse) – Aspyr Media has updated the Mac version of popular simulation game Civilization IV: Warlords. According to the company, this patch (Fize: 841 MB) will “bring the Mac version up to date with the PC version of the game offering a variety of fixes.”
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Yesterday, Microsoft released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.1 Update. According to Microsoft, Office 2008 12.0.1 Update “fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.” And the company says that Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.1 “fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
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Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 06: Using Fireworks’ Batch Process
Many scientific and economic analysis software programs (GAUSS, Shazam, RATS, CATS, SAS…) support batch process. A batch process is also called macro. It’s a function that you can use to apply multiple commands to process a large data set. Another prominent software program that supports batch process is Microsoft Excel. Microsoft introduced Excel 5.0 in the mid-1990s. Microsoft incorporated Visual Basics into Excel 5.0, which eventually led to the death of once-dominent spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.
Anyway, one of the major differences between Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop is that the former title supports batch process. (Adobe Photoshop CS3 now supports batch process.) For example, if you have several dozen PNG-formatted files and just want to change the format of those files to JPEG, you can apply Fireworks’ batch process to them at a time. You definitely don’t want to open each file and save it in JPEG, do you?
This 6-minute video tutorial shows how to use Adobe Fireworks CS3’s batch process. At first, we use it to change the format of 15 PNG-formatted graphic files to JPEG. Another example we show in the tutorial is to change resolutions and put files upside all at a time.
Key words: PNG, Batch Process, Export, Add, Custom, Edit, JPEG, Quality, Save Script, Same location as original file, Batch, Scale, Scale to Size, Commands, Rotate 180, Save Script, Custom location Continue reading
TOKYO (MacHouse) – According to Nintendo, the company will commence the sale of downloadable game titles for its fifth home video game console Wii in March 25. Nintendo calls this project WiiWare. There appear to be at least 20 game titles that will be available in March 25. Those game titles include Dr. Mario & Saikin Bokumetsu, Star Soldier R and LONPOS. According to WiiWare website, one must purchase Wii points at first and then make purchases at Wii Shopping Channel.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has released software updates for MacBook Air and Mac Pro. According to the company, MacBook Air SMC Update 1.0 fixes “the speed and operation of the internal fan.” ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Firmware Update applies to Mac Pro computers “with one or more ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics cards installed, running Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later with the Leopard Graphics Update.”
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