Tag Archive | "Snow Leopard"
Apple changes Finder sidebar behavior in OS X 10.6.7
Adman Engst of TidBITS reports on a subtle design change in OS X 10.6.7 that we hadn’t noticed before. In the latest OS X update from this past April, Apple changed the way users can drag items out of the Finder sidebar. Whereas users could previously just drag an item out, users now must “command-drag […]
Continue reading...Proof that Snow Leopard is the hottest OS on the market
Monday, December 7, 2009
A lot of College girls use Halloween as an excuse to put on skimpy outfits and dress up as sexy devils, policewomen etc. Now this, of course, is nothing new, but we gotta give props to the girl below for extending the sexy Halloween motif to include Snow Leopard. What better way to show your […]
Continue reading...Apple releases OS X 10.6.2, kills support for Atom processors
Monday, November 9, 2009
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Apple today released OS X 10.6.2, and surprise surprise, it kills support for the atom processor that’s quite popular in the PC netbooks that run un-auhtorized versions of OS X. Apple has undoubtedly been keeping an eye on the growing popularity of Hackintosh’s, and they either a) finally got around to doing something about it […]
Continue reading...Moronic Apple article of the day compares Snow Leopard to Vista
Monday, November 9, 2009
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Today’s daily dose of idiocy comes courtesy of Rory Reid writing for CNET UK. Reid takes the position that Apple’s recent Snow Leopard release has been hobbled to the extent that it may very well be Apple’s version of Vista. Child, please! For starters, sales of Snow Leopard have been through the roof. More specifically, […]
Continue reading...Report: Upcoming OS X 10.6.2 update kills support for Atom processor
Monday, November 2, 2009
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Hackintosh netbook owners take note – the upcoming OS X 10.6.2 update reportedly kills support for the Intel Atom processor, according a report from OS X Daily. Owners using a hackintosh machine are advised to stick with 10.6.1 and refrain from upgrading once 10.6.2 becomes available. You can’t help but suspect this move is Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Some final notes of interest from Apple’s earnings conference call
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Here are a few interesting tidbits relayed by COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer from Monday’s earnings conference call. In the last quarter, Apple sold more Macs and iPhones than in any previous quarter, a fact which Apple is more than pleased with given the economic environment. Apple’s operating margin was the highest ever, […]
Continue reading...Apple seeds OS X 10.6.2 to developers, fixes “guest account” bug
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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World of Apple writes that Apple has seeded developers the next build of OS X 10.6.2 (10C527f), and the update reportedly fixes the nasty and data-erasing “guest account” bug that surfaced over the past couple of weeks. Some of the other changes included in the update involve bug fixes relating to iChat, iMovie crashes, and […]
Continue reading...Psystar announces OEM licensing program to help get Snow Leopard on even more non-Apple hardware
Monday, October 5, 2009
Earlier today, Florida-based clonemaker Psystar announced that in addition to installing copies of OS X on its own hardware, it will soon launch an OEM licensing program whereby third party hardware manufacturers will be able to license Psystar’s virtualization technology which would then enable users to seamlessly install retail copies of Snow Leopard on a […]
Continue reading...How to activate Expose from within the Application Switcher in Snow Leopard
Friday, October 2, 2009
Expose was completely revamped in Snow Leopard, and one of its more nifty features is that you can now activate Expose from within the Application Switcher. Here’s how.
Continue reading...Court denies Apple’s motion to include Snow Leopard in current Psystar case
Thursday, September 24, 2009
After hearing from both Apple and Psystar, U.S. District Court Judge Alsup refused to dismiss Psystar’s newly brought lawsuit in Florida and denied Apple’s motion to re-open discovery in the current case to include issues pertaining to OS X Snow Leopard. If you recall, Psystar recently filed a lawsuit in Florida seeking an injunction against […]
Continue reading...Snow Leopard sales off to record breaking start
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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Due in large part to its extremely affordable $29 price point, copies of Apple’s most recent OS X release, Snow Leopard, have been flying off the shelves. According to market data recently released by the NPD research group, Snow Leopard sales are more than two times as high as Leopard sales were when it was […]
Continue reading...What ever happened to these Snow Leopard features?
Monday, September 14, 2009
Snow Leopard is admittedly low on new eye candy features, which makes us wonder what ever happened to these window resizing features, originally spotted a few months ago. Were they fake, or did Apple decide to remove them? Our take is that the features above look better in a demo than would translate into actual […]
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
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