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Quicken 2007 to become Lion compatible in Spring 2012
Ending a waiting game that went on for years, Intuit this week finally announced that they’ll soon be issuing an update to Quicken 2007 to make it compatible with OS X Lion. Now it’s not as if Quicken 2007 was wholly unavailable to Mac users over the past few years, but with Apple recently ending […]
Continue reading...Tim Cook highlights rousing success of OS X Lion and the Mac
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Tim Cook kicked off today’s keynote by highlighting the roaring success of the Mac and OS X Lion (sorry, we couldn’t help it). After starting off with an obligatory blurb from Walt Mossberg stating that OS X Lion is the “best operating system out there”, Cook dropped a number of interesting data […]
Continue reading...Jon Whipple’s solution to OS X Lion’s invisible scrollbars – The “Scroll Compass”
Friday, September 2, 2011
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By David Goldman: OS X Lion ushered in a number of significant user interface changes with one of the more controversial debates centering on Apple’s decision to reverse mouse scrolling so that scrolling downwards takes a user to the top of a particular window – which is exactly how it works on the iPhone and […]
Continue reading...Apple releases OS X 10.7.1 update with Wi-Fi improvements, better video performance in Safari and more
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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Apple today issued its first update to OS X Lion with version 10.7.1. The update checks in at a paltry 17.4 MB and includes the following updates, tweaks, and improvements that. Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari. Resolve an issue that may cause system […]
Continue reading...When people are a little bit too mad at OS X Lion [Video]
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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Here’s an entertaining, albeit pointless, video for you guys. YouTube user AlexKrasny did a video review of OS X Lion and let’s just say he’s less than impressed. But what makes this video so ridiculous is that this guy gets inexplicably mad and frustrated at every new change in OS X. Indeed, he thinks OS […]
Continue reading...Lion beefs up OS X security
Friday, August 12, 2011
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As Apple’s marketshare in the PC market continues to increase, the Mac platform is increasingly becoming a target for hackers. Serious attacks and threats remain few and far in between and there’s certainly no reason to sound any alarm bells, but as the Mac becomes more visible, Apple will have to stay a few steps […]
Continue reading...OS X Lion’s new gestures visualized [Hilarious Photo]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
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OS X Lion is great and all, and we’re still coming around on the new scrolling mechanism, not to mention the new scrollbars and the like, so the always entertaining folks from Joy of Tech did us all a solid and came up with this handy graphic depicting some of OS X Lion’s lesser known […]
Continue reading...“Record” user in OS X Lion has a nifty little easter egg
Friday, August 5, 2011
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As OS X matured over the past few years, Apple seemed to do away with Easter Eggs – you know, those fun little surprises Apple developers would leave around the OS, much to the delight of the nerdy among us. Well, with OS X Lion, we seem to be seeing a few more of these […]
Continue reading...Apple begins paying back OS X Lion purchasers who were charged multiple times
Monday, August 1, 2011
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Apple has started refunding OS X Lion users who were erroneously charged multiple times for one software purchase.
Continue reading...Apple sells over 1 million copies of OS X Lion in 24 hours – most successful OS launch in company history
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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Since going on sale yesterday, sales of OS X Lion have been so impressive that Apple decided to issue a press release touting that its latest OS update has been downloaded by over one million users, making it the most successful OS X launch in company history. Apple today announced that in just one day, […]
Continue reading...OS X Lion disables hardware acceleration for Adobe Flash Player – Report
Thursday, July 21, 2011
TUAW reports that Adobe has posted a knowledge base article detailing a number of bugs and issues found in a slew of Adobe products running on OS X Lion. The list is quite long and seemingly affects Adobe’s entire product line, but one issue worth noting in particular is Adobe’s admission that their Flash Player […]
Continue reading...OS X Lion to be available via USB thumbdrive this August for $69
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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OS X Lion not only marks a new beginning for Apple software wise, but distribution wise as well. Whereas all other iterations of OS X were available exclusively via tried and true boxed software, OS X Lion will primarily be available via the Mac App Store. This departure led many to wonder how users with […]
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Friday, December 23, 2011
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