Hell freezes over: Valve announced that they’re finished porting their Steam and Source technologies to the Mac and are going to release it next month.

I still vividly remember me spending my nights playing the first part of the Half-Life series about 12 years ago, but haven’t touched the series since after switching to a Mac.

It’s not that the initial release of Steam wasn’t accompanied by several complaints, especially by preventing any reselling of purchased titles as they are tied to a certain account. But the idea of having a single storefront and checkout system for purchasing various titles from one place that don’t need me to handle physical media always sounded very appealing to me. I’m really looking forward to it.

One nice little utility that I used to use but left it, as i thought it was abandoned is back: Notational Velocity. Its a very small an unobtrusive note-taking application that, because of its cool interface design doesn’t need features like tags, folders or categories, which is pretty remarkable.

The current version was brought up to date to support Snow-Leopard and has become open source.

Just one feature would be nice: the option to put it in the Menubar instead of the Dock as it feels more natural for an Application that is almost always running in the background (like ShoveBox does). But that doesn’t stop me from using it for now. Nice.

Apple has updated their manuals for Snow Leopard.

I Find the Introduction to Command-Line Administration (PDF) pretty useful. Although mostly basics are covered, the list of OSX-specific tools at the end looks very handy.

with tumblr and I’m surprised: Although tumblr-support is planned for MarsEdit 2.3 according to the official blog, it seems to be partly enabled in 2.2.3, as I’m writing this post in MarsEdit. I’m going to watch the progress on the Marsedit Tumblelog and will be waiting for the things to come.

Well, i guess everybody has heard of ClickToFlash by now. It’s a plugin that prevents flash content from being automatically started, you have to click first. But one great feature is, that it works in any Mac OS web browser thats based on WebKit.

In NetNewsWire, i had plug-ins disabled in news items, as it dramatically slowed down my feed-reading workflow. That, obviously, enforced me to open a browser-tab to view embedded videos. Not anymore, with ClickToFlash I have speed and convenience. Nice work.