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| STORIES ABOUT: Mac OS X |
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| New Mac Clone Appears on Ebay... For a While |  | Tired of Psystar news? OK then, why don't we talk about this fellow who is selling "non Apple Mac OS X" systems that come "pre-loaded with genuine Mac OS X 10.5" on eBay. OK, so it's Mac Clones Strike Again... again, but hey, at least the name of th ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 02:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac OS X 10.5.3 Build 9D27 Documentation Disclosed |  | Reportedly, on Monday, Apple has seeded another Mac OS X 10.5.3 build to its developers, build 9D27 to be more precise. The build, accompanied by documentation, lists (shockingly...) no known issues and asks eagle-eyed devs to continue their focus on a list of 12 core system components, according to people familiar with the distribution, AppleInsider is reporting.
"Continuing to plug away at the next maintenance and security[ADMARK ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Psystar Proves it Can Deliver |  | Endless controversy has surrounded Miami-based (or so they say) Mac clone maker Psystar who, most recently, has decided to prove it can deliver while it is not yet known exactly how legal their installing ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Salesforces Is Switching to Mac |  | Remember that piece of news saying IBM was expanding its Mac Pilot Program ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 18:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SplashMoney and SplashID Mac Versions Out |  | Formerly available only in the form of productivity software for smartphones, SplashMoney and SplashID have been confirmed as Mac OS X applications too by developer SplashData. Users are able to sync the applications with the apps on their handsets. Free trial versions are available for both SplashMoney 4 ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TextExpander Updated to Version 2.1 |  | SmileOnMyMac, a team of localizers, marketing experts, graphic and web designers, professionals and friends have released the latest version of their typing shortcut application called TextExpander. Version 2.1 adds improved performance and reliability for people who type faster than the average b ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 18:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.3 Build 9D23 to Developers |  | Apple has released yet another build of its upcoming maintenance update for Mac OS X Leopard users, just three days after the last build seeded to devs. This time around, Apple has also issued the seed notes that talk about the known issues (there a ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Academic Couple Turns to Apple for 'In-House' Research |  | They got 11 video cameras, 14 state-of-the-art microphones, they built a temperature-controlled data-storage room in their basement, loaded it with 5 Xserves and a 4.4TB Xserve RAID, backup tape drives as well as robotic tape changers. What is all this for, you ask? To capture "practically every waking moment of their son’s first three years" hoping to unravel the mysteries of how children acquire language, ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista Slows Down Even an Apple Mac |  | Folks at Popular Mechanics thought it would be great to see which between the Mac and the PC runs Vista better. Using similarly specced systems, benchmarking tools and user feedback PM were able to prove that Macs indeed run Vista smoother in real-world scenarios, the Inquirer & ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leopard Leaves Vista in the Dust in Performance Benchmark |  | Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has left Windows Vista Home Premium in the dust in a performance benchmark put together by Popular Mechanics both on desktop machines and on laptops. On computers featuring similar hardware configurations Apple's proprietary operating system proved its s ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 13:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Analyst Says Apple is Surrounded by Myths |  | Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenberg blogs about the "The Myths of Apple and Business Users" saying that folks see Apple computers as expensive, short on software and based on proprietary protocols. Gartenberg ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Expands Mac Pilot Program |  | It is not often that we read news concerning both Apple and IBM. The last time we mentioned the two together was when Duke University folks and the University of Waterloo conducted ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Fastest OS, Courtesy of Microsoft - x64 Vista SP1 vs. x86 XP vs. OS X |  | The latest evolution of the Vista vs. XP vs. Mac OS X face-off involves the 64-bit version of the first service pack for Windows Vista, the 32-bit variant of XP SP2 Professional and the 64-bit Mac OS X. The comparison, because the tests cannot be referred to as a benchmarking per se, has been provided by ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 12:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Secure by Default – Windows, Linux and Mac OS X |  | The correlation between the ubiquity of the Windows operating system and the volume of attacks targeting the product, together with the platform's ill reputation for protecting end users have forced Microsoft to step up its security game. As a consequence, the Redmond company has adopted new models, strategies and best practices of building software including Secure by Design, Secure by Default, and Secure in Deployment (SD3), the Def ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Softpedia Recommended Mac Apps of the Week - 12.04.2008 |  | Not a week goes by that developers don't release great software for your Mac. It's one of the many reasons why people go with Macs in the first place. Comparing the amount of programs available for Windows with those available for Macs, we're i ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2008, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| DVD Studio Pack (Conversion Heaven) Released for Mac |  | Aimersoft has released DVD Studio Pack for Mac users looking to rip DVD to all common video and audio formats. Rip any chapter you want, merge several DVD chapters/video files into a singe file, trim DVD/Video length, crop movie, set the parameter like brightness, contrast, resolution and more. Aimersoft is offering its bundle of 4 multimedia applications for an affordable $65 (instead of $144) - Speci ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Don't Blame the Mac, but the Browser |  | Following last month's CanSecWest conference which saw Apple's MacBook Air pwned and owned in less than two minutes, people have started talking. Apple's Macs are known for being secure, not because of the operating system's architecture, bu ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| My Piano Released for Mac |  | My Piano, eMedia Music's latest addition to its My Music line of programs for Mac OS X and Windows, is now available for $29 ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows vs. Apple Mac OS X vs. Red Hat Linux |  | Windows, Mac OS X and Linux have long disputed superior positions in comparison to one another, in what is essentially a race without a finishing line. Microsoft, Apple and members of the open source community involved in the development of Linux distr ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Adobe Launches Lightroom 2.0. Beta Available |  | Already own a registered copy of Lightroom? Great! Click HERE, download and then hold on to the Lightroom 2.0 beta until August 31. Among the distinguishing new features you're probably going to notice the first time you fire Lightroom up are the dual-monitor support, localized ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TeamViewer Beta Released for Mac |  | TeamViwer is a useful remote maintenance software. Up until this point, the software has been available solely for PCs running Windows, but the developer put his back into it, again, and came up with a Mac version (beta) as well. What's even better is that the new version, runn ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Mocks Vista (SP1) and Praises Hack Victim No. 1 Leopard |  | There is simply no end in sight for the Mac OS X and Windows operating system measuring contest, at least not from Apple's perspective. The Cupertino-based company has a consistent marketing arsenal, and it uses it to take jabs at both Windows and the PC manufacturers. This because Apple through Mac OS X is competing directly with Microsoft, and via the Mac computers is going head to head against OEMs building PCs. Among App ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 14:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 64-bit CS4 Not for Macs. Users to Wait for CS5 |  | It has come to our attention that Adobe's Creative Suite 4 for Mac is going to launch as a 32-bit suite, not a 64-bit suite, like the one Windows users are getting at launch, but as a 32-bit app bundle. If you're so upset that you just need to blame someone for this (and fast), blame Apple for dropping Carbon 64-bit support.
"At the WWDC show last June, however, Adobe & other [AD ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista Closes in on 150 Million Sold Licenses |  | With the wind of adoption blowing hard in the sales of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the latest Windows client from Microsoft is closing in on the 150 million sold licenses mark. According to the latest statistics from Net Applications, Vista's market share has jumped over 1% in March, up to 14.02%. At the end of February, Vista accounted for no less than 12.92% of the operating system marker, but the past month represents a ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Outspring Mail, 'For Those Who Take Their Email Seriously' |  | How many times a week do you clean up your inbox/outbox? How many times do you forget to reply to someone at the appropriate time, whether it's just the minute later, or on their birthday? What about having to open each and every one of your inbox messages to know what their contents are? All this is just unnecessary fuss for "those who take their email seriously." That's why, as a Mac user, you might want to ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Begins Mac OS X 10.5.3 Testing |  | Apple has begun the third maintenance and security update to the Leopard operating system, issuing a "pre-release copy of the software update featuring a focus list spanning some two dozen core components," according to AppleInsider.. Build 9D10 ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 05:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| If You Think Mac OS X Is More Secure than Windows, Think Again |  | If you think that Mac OS X is more secure than Windows, by all means, think again. Despite the fact that the Cupertino-based hardware company claims that Mac OS X is secure by default and out of the box, data put together by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology comes to contradict Apple's ma ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 14:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Wants Handwriting Recognition Engineer |  | Did your teachers tell you that you've got calligraphic handwriting? Good, thumbs up from Softpedia, but that won't get you anywhere near the desk Apple has wiped the dust off for a Handwriting Recognition Engineer to sit at. What you need for this ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac Does Its Job While User Is SoundAsleep |  | A lot of Mac owners will leave their Macs on over the course of the night or even days at a time for one reason or another. The Mac, as any computer out there, makes sounds. Surely you've left the volume at maximum falling asleep while the machine was d ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Play Today's Popular Windows Games on Your Mac |  | Codeweavers has just rolled out the Mac gamer's dream emulator, CrossOver Games, specifically crafted for use with video games, instead of office productivity applications, which is what the software was originally created for. According to Codeweavers, you won't have any trouble running popular titles such as World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Half Life 2 and dozens more. Both ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac OS X Turns 7 |  | March 21st marks a memorable day for Macintosh fans and users of Apple's operating system. Mac OS X has just turned seven, but it still has a lot to grow. Why? Mac OS X is a cat, right? The Mac really took off with the release of OS X 10.0, code-named Cheet ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Running Windows on Your Mac? Symantec Wants You Covered |  | Mac and security just don't make good news together, since the Mac is quite safe for the time being (a programming glitch here and there, but that's it). Still, Symantec believes that Mac users running Windows through ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 08:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tiger Update (10.4.12) Coming in 2 Weeks? |  | All those still using Tiger listen up and listen good 'cause this one's gonna rock your world (thought I'd use old school expressions to which you guys can refer better, if you catch my drift). Blokes over at macenstein.com say that 10.4.12 is on the way, claimi ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Will Vista SP1 Trample XP SP3, OS X and Linux in Its Way to the Top? |  | Slowly but surely, Windows Vista is leaving its rivals in the dust and making its way to the top. In terms of growth, neither Mac OS X nor Linux have been capable of keeping up with it. And following the introduction of SP1, there is only Windows XP Service Pack 3 standing between the Vista and the lion's share of the operating system market currently owned by XP SP2. According to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Vista's install ba ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Attacks on Mac OS X Exploded by 1,550% in 2007 – Just a 36% Growth for Windows |  | Windows is without a doubt the most attacked platform in the world. Microsoft's proprietary operating system attracts no less than 96.36% of the world's malicious code, according to malware statistics for 2007, released by Kaspersky. But while Windows leads by a landslide when it comes down to the actual volume of malware that preys on it, Apple's Mac OS X is also a leader in a top that is designed to provide little comfort ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Quazal Adds Mac OS X as Supported Platform |  | Quazal, a supplier of multiplayer middleware solutions for the entertainment industry and maker of the award-winning Net-Z, Rendez-Vous and Spark! online multiplayer middleware, have recently gone public on their latest move concerning Mac< ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Will Mac OS X Ever Be as Insecure as Windows? |  | Over 93% of the respondents in a survey conducted by security company Sophos revealed that they expect Mac OS X to come under increasing attacks from cybercriminals in the future. Sophos is essentially discussing an interesting perspective over the security of Mac OS X. Is there a Big Mac attack in the making? Or are the professed scenarios where OS X would come under a barrage of fire nothing more than the results of super-sized hype.
... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 07:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Survey - Computer Users Trust Mac OS X Over Windows for Security |  | A recent web poll of more than 350 computer users has revealed that 93% believe Macs will be more targeted by hackers in the future. In light of the discovery of the first "financially motivated malware for Mac OS X," Sophos' poll has also revealed that polled computer user ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Boost Your Mac Downloads with Speed Download 5 |  | Heavy downloader are we? Well, if "heavy" doesn't mean a bunch of songs and a couple of wallpapers per day to spice things up, then Speed Download 5 is what you need. Yazsoft is now making available a turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a file sharing u ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac OS X 10.5.2. Out. Update Now! |  | Apple has finally released Mac OS X 10.5.2. Just click on the Apple button and then hit software update, it's currently available for all Mac OS X users to download. It addresses a bunch of commonly known issues with ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TrueCrypt 5.0 Out - First Mac Version! Download Here |  | After four full years of development, TrueCrypt can finally confirm the release of the only open-source disk encryption software that runs on all today's major operating systems: Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. TrueCrypt 5.0 adds ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 11:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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