If you own a Mac, by now you've become used to the idea of watching on the sidelines while your PC pals have all the fun. They burned all those strictly legal backup games for their Dreamcasts with the slightest of ease, threw all those marvelous Psyvariar II and Ikaruga parties which you weren't invited to, while you tooled around in some dark closet trying to perfect your command line prompts, waiting for the coach to throw you in during the last inning out of pity. It's hard to be a lazy Mac user. If you want to take advantage of all the recent exploits you have to actually, ya know, work for it. 

Which is why I rejoiced when I discovered the fine folks over at Nullriver Software had already integrated the recent 360 dashboard update with their Mac compatible media-streaming software, Connect360. This means sane people have absolutely no reason to blow $299 on an Apple TV. How does it feel to no longer play second-string to all the loud, proud Vista users? Within a day or two, the cavalry had already arrived for the downtrodden game enthusiasts who happen to bat for the other team. I've tested the updates to Connect360 myself over the last few days and it's one of the rare times when I actually didn't pine for the sprawling, virus-ridden yesteryears of owning a PC. Upon downloading this nifty program, I promise you that I did not immediately torrent episodes of Battlestar Galactica to watch effortlessly on my large TV. That would have been morally wrong. I suggest that you refrain from such reprehensible activity yourself, for the sake of deceny. Because, really, DivX and Xvid are the perfect codecs for sharing footage of your daughter's softball practice with strangers over the internet. That's what you're using it for, right?

By the way, apart from functionality, what's sexier, a Mac or a PC? Wait, stop! But it was only a joke ...

[Pew, pew, pew, Kotaku. Much love.]