VIRUS ALERT: iTunes Gift Certificate Email iTunes users beware, a scam is on the loose! I received an email today which was actu­ally sent to “webrian@mac.com” — which is not my email account — and it was sent from “products@itunes.com”. Titled “Thank you for buy­ing iTunes Gift Cer­tifi­cate!”, and the mes­sage looked like this: When I first...

EA Announces Medal Of Honor, Available October 12 This Year Bad Com­pany and Mod­ern War­fare play­ers, lis­ten up! EA today announced that Medal of Honor will be avail­able on Octo­ber 12th this year — and a beta is on the way! EA, which recently announced Bad Com­pany 2, seems to be at it again with its sec­ond big title this year. The graph­ics, at least from the...

Apple’s Back to School Promotion Opens Up Well, it’s that time of year again folks, Apple has once again posted their Back to School pro­mo­tion. If you aren’t famil­iar with this pro­mo­tion, Apple has annu­ally held a Back to School pro­mo­tion where you can get a free iPod Touch when you buy a Mac for col­lege or any other grade level. But not...

Easily Secure Your Facebook Account’s Privacy In Seconds! If you’re wor­ried about your Face­book account’s pri­vacy — or just curi­ous if any­thing may be open that you don’t know about — this tool will help you find out in a mat­ter of seconds! After Facebook’s many pri­vacy state­ment updates, many peo­ple have been curi­ous just how open the wall (no...

Springpad — Online Note Management [GIVEAWAY] If you’re one of those peo­ple who just can’t stay orga­nized, Spring­pad may be your answer to keep­ing all of your notes tidy and eas­ily accessible. Founded in 2008, Spring­pad is still pack­ing. When you log-on to the site, you’ll see just what I’m talk­ing about. You can add reg­u­lar notes, photo...

Portal For Mac [Review] Just yes­ter­day, Valve released Steam for Mac, an iTunes-like online store for pur­chas­ing full games. This was a big deal par­tic­u­larly since it’s been PC-only for six years — not to men­tion how awe­some it is to have more game options for Mac. Today I tested out the orig­i­nal Por­tal, which is free...

Steam For Mac Released, Say Goodbye To Emulators! Today is the day that Valve, the com­pany behind Steam, began to tear away the tight peal that is Mac gaming. Steam, a soft­ware that allows you to buy and down­load games online, is now avail­able for Mac. Ever since 2004, when Valve ini­tially began Steam, Mac users have won­dered if they’d ever receive a waft...

Meet Hot Machearts In Your Area With Cupidtino Love or hate Apple prod­ucts, you gotta’ give the guys behind the new ser­vice, Cupidtino, some props. Cupidtino, obvi­ously a play of words on Apple’s head­quar­ters in Cuper­tino, is an “Apple dat­ing” site which claims it will offer a ser­vice for peo­ple inter­ested in find­ing other diehard Apple fans. In...

Photoshop CS5’s Content-Aware Fill Is Cool, Not Perfect I was anx­ious to try out the newest ver­sion of Pho­to­shop, CS5. Of course, the most talked-about update is a fea­ture called “content-aware fill”, which can use other parts of your image to get rid of any objects you don’t like — for exam­ple, a tree or sand pile. I also wanted to try how well Pho­to­shop...

Make Your Own Jailbroken Theme In Minutes with CodeThemed We’ve all seen the beau­ti­ful themes for jail­bro­ken iPhones and iPod Touches. This ser­vice will allow you to make your own cus­tom theme for your jail­bro­ken device(s) in minutes! Code­Themed, a ser­vice which recently opened to the pub­lic, allows you to choose from a plethora of pre-made back­grounds,...

One Huge Reason Why You Shouldn’t Share iPhone Photos Well folks, we found some­thing pretty inter­est­ing. By email­ing, post­ing, or in any way dis­trib­ut­ing your iPhone images, you can be tracked to, well in some cases, your home. Photo shar­ing sites such as Flickr are get­ting more pop­u­lar. As that hap­pens, we’re see­ing fea­tures such as “geo-tagging”,...

Call of Duty: Black Ops Arriving 11.9.10 Well that was fast. If you remem­ber, it was only last year that Infin­ity War launched Mod­ern War­fare 2, a huge suc­cess fol­low­ing Mod­ern War­fare. We reported yes­ter­day that the new game, com­ing Novem­ber 11, 2010, would be based in Viet­nam. Accord­ing to a reli­able source, it will be based in...