Link I refer to in the video:
Mono Project
Rawr Homepage

Link I refer to in the video:
Forum post with unofficial Crossover Games build

I get the replacement unibody MacBook and I do a restore from Time Machine.  I had previously installed all my apps from scratch on the exact same Mac before it died. (again see other post)  I log in for the first time and I do all my updates.  Everything works great!  Except for one thing:

Everytime I open my Screen Saver Preference pane…  I get the Beach Ball and my System Preferences hangs and I must force quit!

I google and google…  Finally I found a fix at the Apple Support Discussions:  Screen Saver Preference Pane Lockup thanks swmbuk!

Let me lay out the Symptoms and summarize the fix:

Symptoms I noticed:

1. Opening System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver caused my System Preferences to crash or beach ball for a good while then crash
2. I noticed that in my system.log (Console > system.log) there was an entry: “Call to deprecated method ILApertureMediaManager::init. Please update your code to use ILApertureMediaManager::sharedManager:“
3. When I could navigate in the Screen Saver preference pane and select “iTunes Artwork” it would claim that I had none.
4. Attempting to install another screen saver would cause the system to hang.
5. Creating a new admin account and then log in as that account would produce the same results.

The fix summarized: (kudos again to swmbuk)

1. I got my install dvd’s that came with my MacBook and inserted the second one marked “Applications Install Disk”
2. Went to Finder and deleted the folder: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework
3. Dowloaded and Installed Pacifist from: http://www.charlessoft.com/
4. Executed the Pacifist application
5. With the “Open Package…” dialog in Pacifist, I opened “Installed Bundled Applications” from the disk. (it took a while to extract the packages)
6. I expanded the “Contents of  InstallBundledSoftware.mpkg”
7. Selected “Contents of iLifeMediaBrowser_v2.pkg” and clicked install.
8. I had to enter my admin password and some other dialog boxes.
9. I ran software update and installed “iLife Support 9.0.3″

VOILA! All symptoms resolved

I post this because it took quite a while for me to find a fix that actually worked.  There also seems to be several people experiencing a similar issue.  I hope this post helps some of you.

Games attempted in this video:

• Mabinogi
• Dungeon Runners
• Gunz: The Duel
• Runes of Magic
• Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine

Three thumbs up for Apple!
BOOO for AT&T!

Today was the highly anticipated WWDC (apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference) keynote.  Rumors have been focusing on the iPhone, but in just the first half of the keynote speech, they WOW’d us in true apple form with some interesting announcements.

Wow, I just got finished watching TWiT’s feed and commentary on the WWDC Keynote speech.  WOW.  A lot of very exciting things coming down the apple pipeline.  I took some notes while watching/listening to the cast.

The most anticipated announcement is that the new iPhone will be available on June 19th. It is known as the 3GS.  With the S for SPEED .  Some of the new features are 3 megapixel with video and autofocus, faster speed 7.2 megabit, and a compass.  WOW  32GB for $299 and 16GB for $199 and the old 3G at 8GB will be available for  $99.

The following is a bullet list of what was announced.

MacBook Pro’s
- all MacBook Pro’s have been refreshed
- battery life extended
- non-replaceable battery
- 13″ Unibody MacBook now a Pro
- – Firewire added to the 13″ unibody

Quicktime New
- iMovie like editing

OSX Snow Leopard
- Available in September
- 64 Bit
- 16 Billion Gigabyte Memory ceiling
- Multi core support more efficient
- $29 upgrade $49 family pack upgrade (not confirmed, but that would rock)
- $129 Standard buy (not the upgrade)
- Exchange support in ical, mail, address book, etc (great for business users)
- Snow Leopard will be available for all intel mac

iPhone
- 50,000 apps in the app store
- 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod touches sold
- in 9 months of the app store, 1 billion apps downloaded

iPhone OS 3.0
- more than 100 new features
- cut, copy and paste
- landscape keyboard in all applications
- mms added
- AT&T will support mms later this summer LOL
- message search
- spotlight – search across the phone

- iTunes rent and purchase movies and audiobooks from iPhone
- Parental control on apps and movies etc

- Tethering USB AND Bluetooth
- – AT&T not supported yet BOOO

- support for streaming video and audio HTTP
- autofill
- HTML 5

- robust language support (over 30 languages)

- Find my iphone (??) available to mobile me…
- – it will show you on a web browser where your iphone is  NICE
- – if completely lost you can erase all data on the phone

- support for peer to peer gaming over bluetooth

- hardware protocol support for external devices

- push notifications
- turn by turn using core location

- free for iPhone – $9.95 for iPod touch
- Available June 17 (devs get it today)

iPhone Hardware
- iPhone 3GS (S for Speed for the most powerful, fastest one ever)
- same design as 3G
- OpenGL|ES 2.0 support
- 7.2 megabit HSPDA
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera
- – tap to focus
- – low light sensitivity
- VIDEO
- – 30fps 640×480
- – autofocus
- voice control
- – control things like ipod (“play more songs like this”)
- digital compass
- hardware encryption
- improved battery
- Pricing: $199 16 GB and $299 32 GB plus $99 for the 8GB 3G (non-S)
- Availability: June 19th, 2009

Wow,  kudos APPLE!  The boo for AT&T is that the MMS and Tethering “is coming” LOL