free mac software and free online games or casual game downloads

Think of this game as a Goldminer meets Pacman retro-y action arcade experience that will take you back to the days of spending a gazillion quarters on games instead of doing your laundry. You were sooooo happy to be wearing dirty clothes working that greasy joystick while sitting at that console with your favorite guys on the grainy screen.

This game is hard. You have a drill pipe with a mouth a la Pac Man at the end of it that must collect all of the gold pieces in the mine before you can move on to the next level. You have little defenses against the monsters trying to destroy the pipes except for get away from them as fast as you can!

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One of the best online racing games I’ve seen. Race against three other retro beetle vw’s and choose racing tracks from Germany, Italy, the UK and Belgium but make sure you pay special attention to the weather as well as other factors. For example, road surfaces like gravel, sand, patches and quality of the surfaces are important to take into consideration because they will affect your speed and steering especially if you skid.

Use cursor keys in the game and have fun. Ready?

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Play a sort of handball with paddles. Is that paddleball? Anyway, the paddles are rectanglular and you play against the computer opponent in a simple, 3D environment that is like a racquetball court but instead of a wall, there’s the computer player. This game is perfect if you want to play a game that starts out easy and slowly then works its way to a more increasingly difficult and challenging game as you move on to higher levels. Play in a very basic UI but that shouldn’t stop you from having a good time.

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I might be missing something when I say I have no idea why this is called Movie Puzzle. It IS a puzzle but there isn’t anything related to movies or movie trivia or movie actors or movie scenes.

Movie Puzzle is a board that you have to put pieces together to fit correctly. The interesting twist, however, is that there are moving and bouncing balls within the pieces. They’re initally all mixed up so you have to follow the bouncing ball, so to speak. Simple yet brain challenging.

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You’re a little snaily-like froggish creature trying to find your honey snail in order to save your species by having lots and lots and lots of baby snaily-like froggish creatures. However, the task at hand is to first find her. To do that you have to find a switch which isn’t that easy to find but just deal with that. Then you have to flick the switch to access the exit. THEN! You must find the exit to leave the level and move on to bigger and better levels. This all, of course, gets you closer to your sweetie.

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I like the instructions for this game: click on stuff to make things happen, eventually you’ll figure out how to pass a level. Allllrighteeee then! Well, it turns out that they were right to explain it like that. You simply have to find out how to accomplish what is asked of you by figuring it out and trying various combinations of actions. Your mission is conveniently written at the bottom of the screen so all is not completely lost to generalities. The ultimate general instruction here, however, is to get James Mahoggany to defeat his archrival, Gregory. Vague enough? Now go do whatever it is you’re supposed to do!

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No, no, no, I’m not going to talk about that totally overrated Broadway musical with dreadfully boring music that makes you want to cut off your arm or set your hair on fire because it won’t die, “Cats.” Instead, I’m going to recommend the adorable online game with the same name. Cats the game won’t make you want to pluck out your eyes. No. This game for kids will make you smile as you click on cats to try to get them to mimick what the highlighted cat is doing. Simple with beautiful graphics, Cats is even relaxing.

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More of an activity than an actual game, here you plant a seed and find ways to get it to react. Type in messages to the seed and it will respond to your input. Give a plant some love? some happiness? It might like that. Does it need water? Then type that and watch what happens. Seed of Imagination is a wonderful relaxing activity but would work best for small kids that will learn positive and caring behavior as they try to get a plant to grow for them, and most importantly, they can grow their flower while growing their own imaginations.

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Show off your stuff playing Crazy Golf by negotiating with your clubs the various slopes, tunnels, and bunkers. How will you putt the ball? Are you as good as you’ve been saying?? Would Tiger Woods laugh at you? Prove to the world that you’re the king of the green. 18 holes don’t lie.

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The object of Rodeo is to keep the mouse pointed on the very center of the bull in order to stay on top of it while you’re riding it. Sounds easy? Uh, that would be the case if you could see your cursor while the bull is squirming and moving all over the bullring. For every 10,000 points you earn, you’ll get tomove on to the next level. Three lives will help you be the best rodeo bull rider on the internet! That’s something to be proud about. Now. EEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAA!

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A tried and true platformer, Pigsty Panic, is a fun little diversion from your daily doldrums or hohums (what IS the word?)…when you need to get away from what your doing (which is boring) to have a bit of free fun and games and to smile for the first time in the whole day?

Back to the game. Pigsty Panic plays out where you are assigned the tasks of running many errands and being your basic handyman. Fix leaking plumbing or falling signs, feed the pigs so they don’t starve and anything else you’re alerted to. Be careful to avoid your venomous wife’s wrath and avoid the milder plague ridden, rabid rats out to get you. Look for the yellow exclamation points to find your next errand and complete the necessary amount of errands in a timely manner to go on to the next level. You have to be extremely conscientious because if you do not complete an errand, you’ll lose a life!!! And if you lose all lives, well, the world falls to pot and all hell breaks loose and then you die.

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This little widget will measure the tempo of a song or anything you tap into it. Tempo measures beats in music per minute, so you can play a song and tap right onto Tempo. It can tell you the measurement and if it is correct by displaying green for correct measurements and red for incorrect or inaccurate measurements. Once you find an accurate measurement with a song, you can double click on the numbers to set the tempo in iTunes. How is this helpful? If you write music and plan to write a song in a particular tempo like another song you’ve heard, you can find out the exact measurement. This can also be handy for students just starting out with music theory.

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An easy way to send screenshots of your desktop particularly handy when you need someone to help you with something because you need some troubleshooting done on your Mac. This method is much easier than taking a screenshot via the key combo which then creates a huge pdf file. Use Screenshot Sender to simplify this process.

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Not really an “inside out” pinball configuration but rather a hole in the middle with the pinball arcade playground all around it. You only have one “flipper.” Use your cursors to move around your flipper that moves in a circular motion around the black hole and use the spacebar to hit the ball. Avoid falling in the hole.

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Create your own virtual fantasy world where you start out as a humble peasant and must diligently work your way up the ladder in search of fame and fortune and to become the world’s hero. The focus here is clear: concentrate your efforts on a real world, keeping in mind the various politics and economic factors necesssary to grow and improve your world - this, along with several non-player characters are controlled by the PlaneShift server that will bring the entire fantasy world to life.

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After years and years of being abused by snot-nosed, spoiled generation XBox kids sporting zombie expressions and having no ambitions of aspiring for successful lives, the cuddly plush toys, belonging to these generation brats, now discarded to the side, must fend for themselves and somehow manage to live out the rest of their miserable existence having to process all of the beatings they had to endure from their owners. This left scars. Lots of them.

Now, these cuddly toys, once lovable and adorable, are battered and are carrying years of baggage in their hearts and souls. They’ve been admitted to The Asylum: A Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys, but they don’t even know why they are there. Their main psychiatrist has abandoned them so it is now up to you to help them. Muster up all the knowledge you can and get to that hospital to save these once cute and cuddlies!

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The makers of this game claim that First Star Online Stratics is the first tactical party-based MMORPG for Mac and PC. You must build and assemble your party by choosing from a pool of several hirelings. Once chosen, your job is to send them off to battle. Battle for complete domination and control of the fortresses and fight united with your necessary and helpful allies. Your reputation is at stake so your mission you must never forget is that your guild reputation is everything. Fight and compete for winning prizes in the gladiator arena. Take and play through dozens of quests, and to close the gate to the world of evil, you must locate all of the eight orbs.

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Consider this an online memory game of “Simon” except replace the plastic lights and computer hum sounds with 3D bonobo chimps and their bongos. Bono or Bado (I’m not sure what his name is!), the chimp on the left, will play a rhythm for you on his bongos. You, the cute guy on the right, have to mimick the exact rhythm that he just played. Click on the bongo to make the sounds. If you mimick correctly, you’ll know by the reaction of the bonobos. If you’ve played incorrectly, you’ll get an obvious thumbs down (or a shake of the head). You’ll continue until you have to go back to work.

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The band, Polyphonic Spree has gone a different route to publicize and market the release of their upcoming CD/album called “Together We’re Heavy.” Rather than the usual magazine ad or short promo spot on television, they’ve decided to take a more fun approach, a way for prospective listeners to have fun while hearing samples from their new works to be released and published on July 13.

The Polyphonic Spree - The Quest for the Rest is an interactive adventure in the form of an online game. The player/listener must find ways for the main characters of the game to find each other. There are no rules and so, the player has to experiment and explore. It is hypnotic and fun all at the same time, and you get to listen to the band!

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are you a world traveler? think you know your geography and history? are you sure because i think i remember you ditching classes and going to the beach or going to the bowling alley or arcade or anywhere that didn’t resemble an educational institution.

cities games over at lonely planet is a trivia game with an attitude. simply hover your mouse over objects in the city scene. these cityscape objects are symbols that represent particular cities on the planet. you’ll then open up a question screen from which you must choose the answer. pick the right answer and find all of the 45 cities hidden in the scene. answering correctly the first shot will earn you 2 points; second correct guesses gets you 1 point. ready to play the cities game?

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tell me, who DOESN’T love monster trucks? c’mon. everyone loves them. what’s not to love? if you can’t get to a monster truck show because there aren’t any where you live or you have no idea where to go then this online game here, monster truck, will have to be your alternative means to satisfy your excessive jonesing for all things monster truck and more. what am i talking about? i don’t know - except that this game is really very very cool and fun. you have to get your monster truck to successfully get through each course and it is not as easy as it looks at first. you’ll see! but it’s at least a lot of fun. now, stop wasting time and get to that monster truck love.

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Here’s a silly, kooky yet immensely fun and adorable game made in Denmark. In the game, you have to run around the streets of Copenhagen but the nasty trick is that you have to run around naked! Why do you have to run around naked? I dunno. Chalk it up to the Scandinavian humor of the game developers and possibly think about how COLD it is up in those Nordic countries. (lightbulb moment?!) Kind of funny I guess. Anyway, you have to dodge cars and other obstacles getting in your way of getting to your destination? Where’s your destination you ask? I’m glad you asked because you have to jump in with a group of Japanese tourists having their picture taken by the little mermaid in Copenhagen. Just imagine the photo of you having jumped into the photo at the last minute before that “click!” of the camera taking a photo. Cute? That depends on what you look like naked

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25 abstract strategy board games, including Ataxx, Reversi, Checkers, Gomoku, and many more. Play against computer opponents or over the Internet. Supports Rendezvous, saving and loading of games, and unlimited undo and redo of moves. by Dozing Cat Software

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Delibar is a Mac OS X menubar application that collects del.icio.us bookmarks in an easy way. You can access all your tags, and chose the bookmark that you want. by Matteo Rattotti

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If you’ve been wanting to host Bingo games at home just for fun, or if you simply aren’t ready to join the senior citizens’ community center near your house, BingoCaller is calling your name. by Custom Solutions of Maryland

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