2009-04-30T11:05:04Z 56636 0 While WoW is one of the most popular and successful MMORPGs ever developed, it still suffers from all of the common problems of the genera. It's full of grind, puerile players, and a relatively static game world. While the environments may be interesting and expansive, the quests are all too often repetitive clones of one that came before -- and after some play, the environments and monsters become repetitive, different-colored clones of one another. Also, the recurring monthly charges regardless of actual playtime by users is disadvantageous to casual gamers such as myself, as is the amount of time one must invest to actually be able to level a character and its gear to the point where the often much better developed end-game content may even be entered, let alone enjoyed. The only thing that kept me playing as long as I did was the fact that WoW had consumed the free time -- and in at least one case, the entire life -- of my friends; it was a choice between never interacting with them or subjecting myself to doing so within the confines of Azeroth and Outland. However, I must say that when I chose to view it as a complex, real-time econometric simulation, I did find manipulating and occasionally crashing the markets for various virtual goods was quite stimulating, but then I discovered Eve Online, a game built almost explicitly around market dynamics. In the end, I can say that while a relatively well-developed game, it's not one I could recommend. 1119038591 2007-04-23T14:59:37Z 244 2011-04-17T13:38:32Z World of Warcraft 3963 2009-12-02T22:58:19Z http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ http://wakoopa.com/software/world-of-warcraft http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/002/047/normal.png?1238514395 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/002/047/thumb.png?1238514395 122 Blizzard Entertainment http://wakoopa.com/developers/blizzard-entertainment 44 Adventure & RPG http://wakoopa.com/categories/games/adventure-rpg mac win World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. World of Warcraft is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game which allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory. 2009-01-22T21:05:34Z 37820 0 This is one of the best puzzle games I have played in quite a while. It's solutions are often intuitive and mind-boggling at the same time. It's story is compelling and engrossing, leaving me feeling fulfilled and deeply saddened at the end. 17812815 2008-02-17T14:19:06Z 97159 2009-12-04T23:29:52Z World of Goo 2123 2009-11-30T21:13:04Z http://2dboy.com/games.php http://wakoopa.com/software/world-of-goo http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/163/376/normal.png?1257494675 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/163/376/thumb.png?1257494675 38765 2Dboy http://wakoopa.com/developers/2dboy 45 Puzzle http://wakoopa.com/categories/games/puzzle mac win World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious. 2008-10-29T04:04:27Z 17249 0 Consistently the best search engine I use... It offers a simple interface for those needing to make a quick search but still has the ability to perform powerful searches when you need to harrow the results down to a more-useful few. 773338666 2008-10-09T10:03:11Z 150851 2146-01-10T18:34:55Z Google Search 43806 2009-12-04T17:57:24Z http://www.google.com http://wakoopa.com/software/google-search http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/130/164/normal.png?1249702771 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/130/164/thumb.png?1249702771 10267 Google Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/google-inc Tools that will find what you're looking for online 61 Search Engines http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/search-engines web Google search is the most used search engine on the web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. Besides the main search engine feature of searching for text, the search engine can also be used as a calculator, base, unit and currency converter, dictionary and many other useful tools. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google's search algorithm uses a patented system called PageRank to help rank web pages that match a given search string. The PageRank algorithm computes a recursive score for web pages, based on the weighted sum of the PageRanks of the pages linking to them. The PageRank derives from human-generated links, and is thought to correlate well with human concepts of importance. The exact percentage of the total of web pages that Google indexes is not known, as it is very hard to actually calculate. 2008-10-09T22:52:33Z 14918 0 Spore is a wonderful game. It's incredibly well-done. However, the DRM it's wrapped in is horribly broken. I haven't given in to buying this myself yet because of the DRM, but if/when I do, I'll put the nice shrink-wrapped game on the shelf and download a cracked copy of software I've legally purchased. I have been excited about this game since I first heard it announced years ago, but I refuse to purchase software wrapped in DRM so broken that it precludes my Right of First Sale and must phone home regularly. 59310903 2008-09-02T03:01:38Z 140995 2009-12-04T21:33:11Z Spore 1622 2009-12-01T19:17:21Z http://www.spore.com http://wakoopa.com/software/spore http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/147/716/normal.png?1253691767 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/147/716/thumb.png?1253691767 22922 Electronic Arts Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/electronic-arts-inc 48 Simulations http://wakoopa.com/categories/games/simulations mac win Spore is a multi-genre "massively single-player online game" by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. 2008-07-20T11:55:31Z 11566 5 My only regret about this game is that the full version requires Steam to play. I like knowing that as long as I have a registered version of a shareware app and a valid key that I can always reinstall the app, regardless of the existence of an external entity. 12534330 2007-05-06T20:20:49Z 7182 2017-05-16T13:12:57Z Audiosurf 1358 2009-12-02T22:58:28Z http://www.audio-surf.com http://wakoopa.com/software/audiosurf http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/087/939/normal.png?1245678154 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/087/939/thumb.png?1245678154 31601 Dylan Fitterer http://wakoopa.com/developers/dylan-fitterer 42 Arcade http://wakoopa.com/categories/games/arcade win In Audiosurf, you race down a futuristic and colorful highway. The highway, the traffic patterns, and the scenery are all synchronized to the music you have chosen from your own collection. You earn points for clustering together cars of the same color on the highway, and can compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs. This application was the first to use the Steamworks distribution platform created by Steam, and has won many awards for it's amazing and innovative gameplay. 2008-07-06T10:55:36Z 11170 2 I'll admit that I've only been using the software for a short while now, but it's been nothing but trouble. I love my Tivo because it just works, but this is frequently crashing with strange errors on the XP VM it's running in on my Mac Pro. Hopefully things will get better or at least are better for other users. 238666 2007-05-02T11:19:03Z 846 2009-12-04T06:13:27Z TiVo Desktop 168 2009-11-24T12:48:08Z http://www.tivo.com/desktop http://wakoopa.com/software/tivo-desktop http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/002/351/normal.png?1238515186 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/002/351/thumb.png?1238515186 387 TiVo Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/tivo-inc Manage your audio and video 26 Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/audio-video/management win TiVo Desktop software allows you to send shows that you have recorded on your TiVo to a networked computer in another room of the house or any wireless laptop. 2008-06-18T00:58:59Z 10519 5 Thus far, I only know how well Mozy works when it's just hangin' out, doing its thing in the background, but for the last few versions, that's been much improved. My only complaints were some memory and processor hogging issues in the Mac client, but those seem to be completely gone. Also, on my new Mac Pro, where Spotlight works at a reasonable speed, backups seem to process in much less time than on my older, PowerBook G4. 3287629 2007-06-21T09:33:13Z 37621 2009-12-04T09:37:23Z Mozy 1197 2009-11-11T15:51:22Z http://www.mozy.com http://wakoopa.com/software/mozy http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/088/442/normal.png?1245753380 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/088/442/thumb.png?1245753380 1050 Berkeley Data Systems, Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/berkeley-data-systems-inc 32 Backup http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/backup mac win off-site backup application developed by Berkeley Data Systems. 2008-05-12T02:32:40Z 9396 5 Definitely the best tool I've found for making whole-disk backups of home movies I've archive to DVD and whatnot. 1353646 2007-05-11T17:11:01Z 12977 2009-12-04T13:20:42Z MacTheRipper 887 2009-11-06T09:09:03Z http://www.ripdifferent.com/forum http://wakoopa.com/software/mactheripper http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/163/399/normal.png?1257498072 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/163/399/thumb.png?1257498072 4321 Geezerbuttz http://wakoopa.com/developers/geezerbuttz Audio & Video rippers 27 Rippers http://wakoopa.com/categories/audio-video/rippers mac MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper (extractor) for Mac OS X. It can extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, without all the copy protection, and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. Free registration at the RipDifferent forums is required for the latest versions of MTR. 2008-04-08T22:14:55Z 8466 5 While it seems like forever since I've had to update the firmware on a keyboard, I'm glad Apple chose to do so instead of simply pushing updated devices out, leaving existing customers in the dust. Also, this one went a lot more smoothly than any keyboard firmware update I have ever done. Thanks Apple. 7708 2008-04-08T21:23:51Z 107436 2009-11-24T06:00:10Z Aluminum Keyboard Firmware Update 235 2009-04-01T12:06:49Z http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ http://wakoopa.com/software/aluminum-keyboard-firmware-update http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/010/388/normal.png?1238587607 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/010/388/thumb.png?1238587607 14397 Apple Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/apple-inc Tools that help you manage your system 12 System tools http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/system-tools mac This software updates the firmware on Apple's aluminum wired USB keyboards. 2008-04-05T11:20:05Z 8324 5 This is one of the best Tetris™ clones I've played with in quite some time, and it's one of the prettiest and most Mac-like I've seen yet. I love it! 5580519 2007-05-12T00:18:07Z 13507 2009-12-05T01:42:57Z Quinn 457 2009-12-04T13:09:44Z http://simonhaertel.de/quinn http://wakoopa.com/software/quinn http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/005/135/normal.png?1238523047 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/005/135/thumb.png?1238523047 7828 Simon Härtel http://wakoopa.com/developers/simon-hrtel 42 Arcade http://wakoopa.com/categories/games/arcade mac Quinn is a freeware implementation of Tetris for Mac OS X. Its features includes a full Aqua interface, multiple configurable options, network play with Bonjour support , an online server list, and an online highscore list (as of version 3.4). It is developed by Simon Härtel and it was first released on October 24, 2002.