A picture from the rehearsal room of the show I’m currently Stage Managing. Five macs - 3 MacBooks, one PowerBook and one iBook. There are at least 2 other MacBooks belonging to other members of the production team that aren’t here…there isn’t enough table space!
I’m really excited to announce the launch of Defuddle.com, a brand new website I have been developing with friend and colleague Oliver Bolton. Defuddle is a place to answer questions. When faced with dilemmas we make it easy to make up your mind. Ask a question, provide your choices (you can let other people suggest other options if you like), and see what the world has to say. Don’t waste time - you can get an answer in as little as an hour (but if you’re not in a rush you can leave it much longer). We’ll send you an email with the best answer (and of course, detailed results are available too) so you can be on your merry way.
So please, check out www.defuddle.com and sign up yourself and ask questions!
A few weeks ago, I finished up work as a Stage Management secondment (internship) with Melbourne Theatre Company. While there, I worked on The 39 Steps, a completely reworked comedy version of the Alfred Hitchcock film and John Buchan novel. If you live in Melbourne, go and see it! It is simply amazing and is a fantastic production.
This is the same production that is currently playing on Broadway, in Boston, in London and touring the UK. MTC bought the original director, Maria Aitken, over to direct the Aussie version.
It features four great actors (Marcus Graham, Tony Taylor, Grant Piro and Helen Christinson) doing 130 roles, and is absolutely hilarious. I can almost guarantee you have not seen anything like this ever before.
So head out and see it now! More information and ticket bookings here!
There are a few Mac programs I simply cannot live without. Some of them are free, some of them aren’t. But I highly recommend all of them! Trust me, I’ve tried a lot of Mac software, but these are definitely my favourites!
Read more to see what they are! » Read more after the jump →
A few weeks ago, I wrote about playing retro games on a Mac.
I’ve been getting back into gaming recently (I used to be a PC user) and tried to run Quake 4 on my MacBook. When I first tried, in September last year, I had no luck at all - it was virtually unplayable. But then Leopard came out and a few months after it came the Leopard Graphics Update. So I decided to try it again.
Now, it actually plays quite well! On modest settings, it is completely playable and enjoyable. It’s not 120 FPS, but who cares if it plays fine, right?
Read more to find out how I did it! » Read more after the jump →