Strap in, folks. A week today (the 20th, if you don’t wanna hit F4), Apple will be holding a media event dubbed ‘Back to the Mac’. By the image, it would seem we may be seeing a new jungle cat enter the OSX family – Lion. That’s honestly all the info. Just a heads up to save the date, so you can watch Steve jump around and assimilate more buzzwords into Apple’s fold. ‘Magic?’ Please. I’m gunning for something even more spectacular. Like, ‘legendary’. ‘Mythic’. You know, something totally ridiculous. I’m vibrating like it’s Christmas, guys….

I can’t get enough of widgets. I remember, back in the day, as a rabid PC user, vehemently anti-Apple, I flat-out lold at the concept of widgets. Now, years later, on a Mac Pro, I seem to be hitting F4 for one reason or another every four or five minutes. My widget addiction is about to get worse. With Google having recently acquired 3D desktop manager BumpTop, it would appear Apple’s looking to create an entire new generation of widgets in response, both multifunctional and existing in 3-dimensional virtual space. OSX was already a champion of pointless eye candy, but this is going to waste SO much…

Valve is bringing its popular Steam platform to the Mac. If you’re not familiar with Steam, it’s the super popular digital store front for Valve and its big hits like the Half Life franchise and Portal (the game where we all learned a very valuable lesson about cake.) This in itself is very cool if you’re a Mac owner. It’s even cooler if you’re a “switcher” who has missed playing games on the PC for years and even though it’s awesome and everything, that Xbox 360 sitting next to your TV just isn’t the same. I mean, the Mac hasn’t really ever had a universe of gaming options to choose from… I mean, there’s…