A little while back I took the Apple sample source code and hacked it a bit so that it had a new look and feel to it. My webapp is Religion Pop, and it sure does suck.

But Apple still accepted it onto their website! Thanks Apple! So be sure to head over to it whilst using your iPod Touch or iPhone, at my site.

The name’s wrong, but it’s still me :).

I really do see this as a major issue for Mac Users and the consumers considering to purchase a Mac… playing poker on a Mac. I like to have that occasional game, and I am sure there are 1,000s of other that would too, but the market for online gambling programs on Macs at the moment is very empty at the moment.

Let me explain.

There really is only one major only gambling program for OSX that is actually trustworthy, popular, and works well. Full Tilt Poker. I use it, and I’m sure that a large proportion of Full Tilt’s users are Mac owners too.

But it seems strange, that one poker room should control close to 100% of the OSX Poker market, while there are 100s of poker rooms for PCs. Why aren’t there any other companies trying to cash in on the exclusivity of Mac poker? I have no idea why.

Another option for a trust worthy poker room (from my experience), would be Absolute Poker. Luckily, they give Mac users the option of playing on their poker room using a Java applet. This works pretty well, but can be slow, and the amount of games playable is slightly limited. Also, the chance of your web browser unexpectedly exited is far higher than the chance of an Application quitting.

Either way, there aren’t many options, and this is one software category for Macs that really needs to be improved!

Links
— Full Tilt Poker: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com
— Absolute Poker: http://www.absolutepoker.com
—http://www.macpoker.com
—http://www.maconlinepoker.com

If you know any other great poker rooms for Mac, be sure to comment about them.

UPDATE: I recently found out about another trustworthy one that supports Mac - check out Bodog. Check it out at http://www.bodoglife.com

I don’t know if you’re into that whole ‘dominatrix’ thing, like being told what to do, and to shut up, but I know I am (not really, I’m actually quite normal). That’s why I found Conan the Librarian to be my ideal cup of tea.

Let me fill you in on how it works. You download the program, Conan the Librarian from this website: http://www.jschilling.net/sw_conan.php.

Only 164kb, easy download for you dial up users (if you really are using dial up, do yourself a favor and shoot yourself

NOW). Now open up the program, and nothing will happen. OK good, it’s working.
Now talk. BAM! Instant Insulting. “Pipe it down!”, “Shut up!”, this program has it all. Go ahead, irritate it more. The librarian gets very agitated. Some notes below:

*If you need to kill the application because your life is being threatened, open up a Terminal window and type in the following command:

killall QUIT “Conan The Librarian”

*If Conan is too sensitive to sounds, try lowering the Input Volume in the System Preferences (under Sound->Input).