Yesterday Apple released the latest version of Mac OSX, codenamed Snow Leopard. Being the geek that I am, immediately after work I ventured to the Apple Store closest to work and purchased it. Between last night and this morning I have successfully upgraded both of our machines with very little hassle.

For Stephanies’ MacBook, I just upgraded from the disc and it looks like every one of her programs is working without a hitch. For my iMac I chose to do a wipe of the harddisk and install from scratch since I tend to mess around with my machine so much. A few of my programs didn’t want to work right away but the majority already have an update out to fix any issues.

I also was able to reinstall most of my programs and all of my settings from my Time Machine backup. What a timesaver and great backup system that is for Apple users! Overall, you don’t really see a difference visually other than your applications menu, which now has full-size icons and just adds a scrollbar to see everything.

Overall, for the price of $29 for an individual license, or $49 for up to 5 Macs in the same household, it’s a bargain and any increase in speed or reliability is worth it.

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Just downloaded the beta version of the ‘next-gen’ version of Quicken for Mac. It’s been over 2 years since they last updated Quicken for Mac and this is a completely new code base. Looking forward to trying it out and will let you know my first impressions later.

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Well I’m currently downloading the Mac client for Eve Online, which was released today, so that I can take it for a 14 day trial spin. I just signed up for a cheap introductory month for Pirates of the Caribbean Online. I still have my World of Warcraft account. They are all MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) that have a Mac client available. And that’s why I’m trying them.

I don’t want to have to boot into windows anymore, although I can if I need to. I want to play games in the genre that I enjoy and play them with a native client. I’ve played Lineage II, Planetside, Dark Age of Camelot, and City of Heroes. I am looking forward towards the new Warhammer game. However, I have not seen a single thing indicating that there is a Mac client in development. Very disappointing and I may even take the drastic step of just sticking with one of the games that I can play natively. I guess we shall see.

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I’ve gotten a program for my Mac to track my golf progress and calculate my handicap. It’s called Scorecard and one of the lead guys involved in the project is the owner of TheSandTrap, which is a very popular golf blog / review site / forum.One nice feature is that it lets you export all of your scores to a web page. Check mine out HERE.

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