The Sims Life Stories - Mac Mini Friendly Game

It is great to see that Aspyr Games have finally released a game for the Mac that is compatible with the Intel GMA 950 graphics card. The Sims Life Stories is another game in the successful Sims series, and this time you can either play in story mode or classic free mode. It does not require Sims 2 or any other Sims game to work, and is a great game for those who enjoy playing The Sims.

This I hope is the first in a line of games that will work happily on a lesser spec Intel Mac - many Mac Laptops, the Mac Mini and the cheapest iMac (machines that I understand sell well for Apple) do not have ATI Radeon or nVidia chip-sets, and are thus not able to play the latest and greatest Mac games, which is a pity.

If Aspyr is not going to release that many games that work with the Intel GMA 950 graphics card, then Apple need to think about adding ATI Radeon or nVidia graphics support in to there lesser specced Macs - there are a large number of Mac owners who cannot afford to spend £1000 just to get a decent graphics card in their mac laptop or iMac. I think it would be great to have a Mac Mini with an ATI Radeon or nVidia graphics card as it would then make the Mac Mini an even better games machine.

So come on Apple, persuade Aspyr and other games makers to release good games for the Intel GMA 950 graphics card!

Boney M - Summer Megamix

Interesting video this one, shot on location in Monaco. Liz Mitchell decided not to join in on this single and was replaced by Madeline Davis, who sings the Liz solo parts.

Coffee The Easy Way

Just bought myself a Tassimo hot drinks maker. It’s a fantastic way to make an easy cup of coffee, a cappucino, latte, tea or hot chocolate. A Tassimo machine uses a disc, called a T-Disc that has a barcode on the label. This barcode tells the machine how to make that particular drink - how much water, how hot and how to ‘spurt’ out the drink in to the mug.

I find this machine is so much easier than boiling a kettle, and then putting a tea bag in a cup or measuring the right amount of Hot Chocolate powder as the machine does this all for you - each T-Disc contains the right amount of ‘drink’ needed. When making a cappuccino or a latte you use 2 discs - 1 with the espresso coffee and another with the milk or creamer. You can even combine T-Discs to make drinks, eg an espresso T-Disc with a hot chocolate T-Disc to make a mocha

My only bugbear with the machine, is the limited amount of T-Discs available to the UK - you can only get Kenco Classic Blend Coffee, Kenco Classic Blend Decaffeinated, Kenco Espresso, Kenco Cappuccino, Kenco Caffe Crema, Twinings English Breakfast Tea, Suchard Hot Chocolate and Carte Noire. Online you can also order Tassimo Creamer, Twinings Earl Grey, Twinings Green Tea and Mint and finally Twinings Camomile Orange and Linden Tea. Yet if you live in America you get brands such as Maxwell House, Mastro Lorenzo, Gevalia, Nabob, Carte Noire, Jacobs, Seattle’s Best & Tazo, as well as Twinings and Kenco, giving you a much wider choice of hot drinks available. I hope that the range of drinks available to the UK increases soon.

I can quite see why this is product of the year, it is fantastic! and the best way to make a hot drink, with no fuss.

Trust

Recently when talking to a friend on the telephone, he suggested I read a bible verse - Proverbs chapter 3 verse 5, which goes like this:

Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.
Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.

This is a really good Bible verse as it is reminding me that God has got my life in his hands, and I should listen to God’s voice as he is the one who will keep my life on track, although sometimes I forget that God is in charge of my life, and it is great to have this Bible verse reminding me of this.