August 31st, 2009
John Siracusa of Ars Technica has written incredible reviews of each OS X release for years — 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, 10.3 Panther, 10.2 Jaguar, 10.1 Puma, the original release of OS X, and even the public beta. His take on Snow Leopard is no different. All 23 pages of it are great. He covers the [...]
August 31st, 2009
I noticed today just how much smaller the box has gotten since 10.0:
August 31st, 2009
Mac|Life has discovered 100 tweaks on Snow Leopard — including some very obscure ones. It really shows the level of detail Apple went to on this release.
August 31st, 2009
Mashable: Last week, the Newspaper Association of America posted the quarterly financial data of the U.S. newspaper industry. It tracks both print and online revenues for the industry as a whole. But unlike past updates, the NAA did not promote these numbers. When you look at them, it’s easy to see why. In Q2 2009, [...]
August 31st, 2009
Reuters: Apple Inc said on Monday that it would host a media event next week, when the company is widely expected to unveil an updated line of iPod media players. Apple declined to say what products would be featured at the September 9 event, which was announced in an invitation emailed to members of the [...]
August 30th, 2009
Apple support article #ts2948: Learn what you can do if you experience one or more of these issues with the hinges on your MacBook Air. • Unable to close lid completely. • Broken or cracked plastic near one or both of the hinges. • More than one inch (2.54cm) of free play while opening or [...]
August 30th, 2009
CNET: Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system, released Friday, by default loads with a 32-bit kernel, despite running 64-bit applications. While Mac OS X version 10.6 ships with a number of 64-bit native applications, the kernel itself defaults to 32-bit, unless the user holds down the “6″ and “4″ keys during boot time, at which point [...]
August 30th, 2009
Mac OS X Automation has quite a collection of downloadable services available. Nice stuff.
August 29th, 2009
Randall C. Kennedy of InfoWorld: Mac OS X Snow Leopard is truly an underwhelming release, one that borrows most of its “new” ideas from Windows Vista. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to drive OS evolution forward, introducing a raft of truly innovative features with Windows 7. The new Taskbar puts Apple’s clumsy Mac OS X Dock to [...]
August 29th, 2009
Well, Snow Leopard is here. I — like millions of other users — upgraded my Macs yesterday to 10.6. Snow Leopard is a curious release. It doesn’t introduce a lot of end-user features, but rather, is a refinement of what was already there — for the most part. Installation After 9 years, Apple has changed the install process [...]