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Quicken Mac 2007 Now Supports OS X Lion

Intuit has announced that “Quicken Mac 2007 OS X Lion-compatible” is a re-engineered version of Quicken Mac 2007 that will work on OS X 10.7 (Lion). Quicken 2007 is a popular piece of personal finance software originally coded for PowerPC processors. However, with Apple no longer supporting Rosetta in re...

9 March 2012
15:41 GMT

Apple Fixes Rosetta Issues with New Software Update

The Security Update 2012-001 launched this week delivers a ton of fixes, but it also breaks Rosetta compatibility for some users, rendering their PowerPC apps useless. Apple has now released Security Update 2012-001 version 1.1 to address this issue. Earlier this week, one Softpedia reader commented: “Don...

4 February 2012
03:47 GMT

Asteroid Lutetia May Still Retain a Molten Core

In a study that could help unlock the secrets of some of the weirdest meteorites in the solar system, a group of investigators has recently determined that the asteroid 21 Lutetia may still retain a core of molten metal some 4.5 billion years after it was formed. This discovery could have considerable implications ...

28 October 2011
02:17 GMT

PowerPC Games Hit Hard by OS X Lion

Following Adobe in its footsteps, video games publisher Aspyr Media has issued a knowledge base article to highlight some problems posed by the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system - OS X Lion. As previously reported, Mac OS X version 10.7 completely drops support for Rosetta, the PowerPC emula...

22 July 2011
05:52 GMT

Rosetta Enters Hibernation Mode

For the next 31 months, the Rosetta spacecraft will remain in hibernation mode, experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday, June 8. They say that the final commands have been sent to the spacecraft, which is now on its way to meet comet 67-P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.It has now entered the longest leg...

9 June 2011
09:42 GMT

Carbon Fibers from Spacecraft Make Tool Manufacturing Easier

A German company is currently using the same type of material that is flying through space aboard a robotic probe to improve the accuracy of laser cutter devices used in the manufacturing of various tools and components. The Braunschweig-based company, called Schütze, is using a type of ultra-light carbon fiber ...

7 March 2011
07:18 GMT

OS X Lion Abandons PowerPC, Java runtime, Front Row

Mac OS X 10.7, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system dubbed Lion, has dropped support for several elements that help make up the OS X experience today.One of those is Rosetta, the dynamic translator that enables PowerPC applications to run on Intel hardware.While Snow Leopard also shipped wit...

27 February 2011
16:46 GMT

Colliding P/2010 A2 Seen by Rosetta Too

As we reported earlier, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that space object P/2010 A2 is most likely a pair of colliding asteroids. The same conclusions come from data collected using the Rosetta spacecraft as well.The probe, which is operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), is a comet-chaser, but it happen...

14 October 2010
05:45 GMT

Asteroid Lutetia Is Covered in Sand

According to recent observations made by a deep-space probe, it would appear that the asteroid Lutetia may be covered by a layer of dust that is up to half a mile thick.A potential manned mission to the space rock would need to be conducted with astronauts outfitted with snowshoes, which should prevent them from gett...

6 October 2010
16:01 GMT

It's Best to Approach Comets from the South

A team of experts has recently refined a series of astronomical calculations, and determined that the best solution to approach a comet before landing on it is from the south, and with caution.The research is published four years ahead of a planned rendezvous between the Rosetta probe, built by the European Space Age...

25 September 2010
03:50 GMT

ESA Probe Sends Image of Asteroid Lutetia

The Rosetta spacecraft, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), has recently beamed back impressive images of the asteroid Lutetia. Astronomers say that the new data deepens the mystery associated with space rocks, rather than clear it up.The photographs were taken as the space probe was flying by Lutetia, with...

11 August 2010
03:42 GMT

New Predictions About 21 Lutetia

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft is currently en-route towards the inner asteroid belt, the circle of space debris that exists between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The feature contains numerous interesting structures, including the dwarf planet Ceres and the large asteroids Vesta, which ar...

11 March 2010
15:01 GMT

Rosetta Completes Earth Swing-By

The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta is currently en route to meet up with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the fringes of the solar system. The two are scheduled to first see each other in 2014. The probe was launched back in 2004, and it has completed about 4,500 million kilometers of its 7,...

14 November 2009
02:26 GMT

Final Rosetta Flyby May Clear Up Cosmic Mystery

The Rosetta spacecraft, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to an asteroid orbiting at the edge of the solar system, is scheduled to make its final flyby today, November 13. It already completed two similar swings, in 2005 and 2007, and the new flight will provide it with a sufficient speed boost to send it to its ...

13 November 2009
05:49 GMT

Rosetta's Earth Approach 'Within Expectations'

Last Thursday, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta space probe managed to perform one of the most successful trajectory correction maneuvers (TCM), according to officials at the agency. The spacecraft's gravity-assist maneuver was very close to projections, and it is now well on its way to meeting up ...

28 October 2009
15:51 GMT

Last Earth Flyby for Rosetta

On November 13, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta comet chaser will swing by our planet for the last time, before it begins the final segment of its ten-year journey to the outer reaches of the solar system. During its approach, it will provide astronomers with new data on the Earth-Moon system, before f...

21 October 2009
06:11 GMT

Quick Tip: Greet Snow Leopard with Universal Binaries

As avid Softpedia readers should know by now, Apple is widely believed to have given the order for mass production of Snow Leopard install discs. Last week’s Build 10A432, claimed to be the Golden Master edition of the software, is seemingly arriving even sooner than expected. So, why not greet Snow Leopard wit...

18 August 2009
10:43 GMT

Fake Diamond for Rosetta: Probe Passes by Steins

As Rosetta, the ESA (European Space Agency) space probe launched in 2004, marched on towards its destination, the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, it sent its first images back to Earth.  As it turns out, the images are of the Type E asteroid known as Steins, a 5 km-wide rock in the shape of a diamond, brighter ...

8 September 2008
10:54 GMT

SteamTRAIN 3.1 Available

Fans of the steam locomotive and train simulator SteamTRAIN 3 (exclusive to the Mac) now have the chance to upgrade to the latest version and benefit from a number of enhancements aimed at the snow, visibility, traction sand and collision recovery. For those who haven't got a a chance to try out this simulation ...

22 July 2008
18:06 GMT

ESA Asks for Amateur Help

Similar to the spacecraft Mars Express, the Venus Express is a project of the European Space Agency to study Venus. The Venus Express was the first mission to Venus, since the 1994 NASA's Magellan mission, but unlike NASA's spacecraft it is not designed to take direct pictures of the planets' surface, ...

26 November 2007
10:01 GMT

Astronomers Defend the Potential Disaster

The incident in which the spacecraft Rosetta was mistaken last week-end with a Near Earth Object, that had an incoming trajectory which missed the Earth, determined the astronomers to defend the system that failed to make the difference between a rock and an artificial spacecraft. The fact that the Distant Artificial...

14 November 2007
04:06 GMT

Near-Miss Asteroid. Or Not?

Last weekend, the Minor Planet Center announced they detected a Near Earth Object that would miss the Earth only by 5,600 kilometers. The newly discovered object, has been given an official name by the MPC, run by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. 2007 VN84 was tracked by a number of astronomers around the world...

13 November 2007
03:50 GMT

Rosetta Will Approach Earth for the Second Time

The robotic spacecraft Rosetta will approach Earth for the second time to boost up its speed and to correct the trajectory. ESA's comet chaser, the Rosetta spacecraft was launched in 2004 and it intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It consists of two main elements, the Rosetta space probe and t...

9 November 2007
03:51 GMT


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