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Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) Possibly in Q1 2009?

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:14:22 -0600

From MacRumors: "Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. [...] This year's conference invited Apple's Jordan Hubbard to speak about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms". The presentation slides (PDF), besides generally interesting info on Mac OS X, feature a table that shows a release date of Q1 2009 for OS X 10.6 Leopard.

Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 Released

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:51:41 -0600

Yesterday, Parallels unveiled Parallels Desktop 4.0. The virtualisation tool for the Mac. Parallels allows you to run several operating systems 'on top' of Mac OS X, similar to VMware, Qemu, and other similar tools. Version 4.0 comes packed with new features and improvements.

Snow Leopard Gets Cocoa Finder, ImageBoot?

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:08:54 -0500

Even though Snow Leopard is supposed to be all about tweaking and performance, AppleInsider claims to have some information regarding new features coming in Snow Leopard. They claim Apple is working on bringing Exchange support to iCal, Address Book, and Mail, a feature called ImageBoot, and - insert drum roll - a new Finder written in Cocoa. Testers also claim that other bundled applications are written in Cocoa. This isn't all that weird seeing Carbon doesn't come in a 64bit flavour.

Apple Releases Java 6 for PPC, 32bit Intel Macs

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:50:33 -0500

Apple has released Java 6 for PowerPC and Intel 32bit Macs yesterday. Apple released Java 6 for 64bit Intel Macs earlier this year, only to receive criticism for not only being late, but also for not releasing Java 6 for older Macs. This release brings everybody up to speed, and allows PowerPC and early adopters of the Intel Macs to enjoy the latest release of Sun's Java.

Review: 'EFI-X Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac'

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:15:59 -0500

If you want to run Mac OS X on a standard, non-Apple-labelled x86 box, you have various options. You can go all creative and build and install one yourself, and then be weary when installing updates from Apple. You can also buy a Mac clone from PsyStar, and then be weary of Apple's crack team of lawyers. A third option has just become available: EFI-X.

Mac OS X 10.5.5 Released

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:17:42 -0500

Apple has released the latest update to its Leopard operating system, Mac OS X 10.5.5, with tons and tons of fixes. As always, the release is a recommended update fr all Leopard users, so fire up Software Update, and let's hope it doesn't cause any troubles. Read one for a quick rundown of the most important changes.

Macs Get a Business Boost From New Organization

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:49:34 -0500

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) eases integration woes for combined Windows and Mac environment.

Discover OS X' Hidden Artistic Side

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:38:17 -0500

"One of the most frequently used Cocoa classes is NSImage which, as the name suggests, is all about displaying and manipulating image data. The imageNamed: method of this class retrieves an image reference for you - provided that you know the name of the image you're after. Many of the images that can be retrieved via the imageNamed: method have well documented names, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's not well-known. It's those images - including some for Windows - that I'll be digging into here.

Top Ten Myths and Misconceptions About Mac OS X Server

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:40:36 -0500

Think you the truth about Mac OS X Server? Find out as Ryan Faas counts down the top ten commonly held myths about Apple's server platform. Warning: while it's a decent article, it will make you click through 10 pages to get the 10 reasons.

"Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS"

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:50:12 -0500

An interesting article has been making its way around the internet the past few days, titled "Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS". Mac OS X indeed does some things very, very right, just like many other operating systems and graphical environments do some things very, very right. The issue with the list of the article in question is that many of the items on the list are not exactly examples of "Usability Highs" at all.