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Download OS X Lion 10.7.3 Build 11D50 — Developer News

Apple developers in charge with OS X testing have been handed a new beta build of the latest version of Lion - OS X 10.7.3. Build 11D50 has no known issues and should precede the final / public version of the software, or at least the Golden Master seed.Seeded to developers in almost identical increments bearing no k...

25 January 2012
08:03 GMT

Quicken 2007 for OS X Lion Coming Soon

Intuit, an American software company that develops financial and tax preparation programs, has announced plans to offer an update to Quicken 2007 for Mac. The new version will be Lion-compatible.According to Aaron Forth, General Manager, Intuit Personal Finance Group, the new version will be arriving soon, and there ...

23 December 2011
05:28 GMT

Mac OS X 10.7.3 Shows Work-In-Progress on ‘Retina’ Display Support

Apple has removed the "Open in HIDPI mode" checkbox from the "Get Info" window in Mac OS X 10.7.3 builds which, at the very least, indicates work-in-progress for Retina Display support in future Macs.Spotted by developers with access to the latest Lion beta (Build 11D36), the removal of said option is regarded as a t...

22 December 2011
04:41 GMT

Apple Pushes Out OS X 10.7.3 Build 11D33 to 'Testers'

Select Apple ‘testers’ have been handed a new beta of OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) with instructions to look for any potential issues prior to the final release of the software which should be just around the corner. The leaked seed notes reveal that testers are to focus their skills on Address Book, iCal, Mail, S...

16 December 2011
07:33 GMT

Apple Documents Keyboard Illumination Flaw on OS X Lion

In a Support document talking about the "Automatically Illuminate Keyboard in Low Light" setting, Apple seems to admit there’s a problem with this function in Lion. The company doesn’t mention plans to address the problem, though.Knowledge-base article HT5031 is there primarily to help you learn “ho...

10 November 2011
08:11 GMT

Apple Details Lion’s Push Notification Server, Supported Applications

Users of Apple’s OS X Lion Server may want to check out a new Support document posted online by the Cupertino giant with the purpose of explaining push notification support in Lion Server.Apple informs that the Push Notification service in Lion Server supports sending Push Notifications not only to Mac OS X app...

18 October 2011
13:01 GMT

NVIDIA Driver Bumps Heads with OS X Lion Update

The latest update to the operating system of MacBook Pro systems has already stirred its share of conflicting reactions, but it looks like things are more complicated than they first seemed. Apple customers are probably aware by now of the problems surrounding the update to the OS X Lion, the ones that caused har...

6 August 2011
05:43 GMT

Apple Giving Free Flash Drives to Customers Bitten by the Lion

Apple hit a snag recently when its OS X Lion ended up injuring the hard disk drives of some customers, so the Cupertino-based company decided to make amends by shipping some complimentary flash drive units over to those affected. Software updates are usually a cause to rejoice, but that is not the reaction that t...

5 August 2011
09:03 GMT

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Features: Versions

With Mac OS X Lion, Apple claims to be taking its best thinking from iPad and bringing it to the Mac. The revolutionary desktop OS will be available this summer. We like to treat our readers to one new feature at a time, in the form of short previews (like this article here) before the software is released to the ge...

4 March 2011
07:37 GMT

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Now Available for Download as Developer Preview

Apple has confirmed the availability of Mac OS X Lion through the company’s Mac App Store. A Developer preview for now, Lion is touted by Apple as “the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system.” According to Cupertino, Lion takes some of the best ideas from iPad and ...

24 February 2011
13:51 GMT

Mac OS X Lion Release Scheduled for July-August Timeframe, Amazon Listings Suggest

References to Mac OS X Lion have emerged on Amazon.co.uk where several book listings indicate that Apple’s next-generation desktop OS is due out around mid-Summer.MacNN reports that several book listings at Amazon.co.uk may indeed suggest that Lion will ship in late July or early August.Despite the fact that Ap...

15 February 2011
05:20 GMT

Environmental Changes Affect Mostly Lions, Tigers and Polar Bears

A team of researchers from Durham University and the Zoological Society of London, have carried out a study on eleven species of carnivores and concluded that larger species are more vulnerable than small species, to environmental changes.The reason for this is that besides habitat change and over-hunting, these anim...

25 November 2010
02:58 GMT

Windows 8 Will Take on Mac OS X Lion

With the next version of Mac OS X Apple is blurring the line between the platform for actual Mac computers and iPads, and Microsoft is looking to do the same with the next major iteration of Windows when it comes down to PCs and slates. Apple has shared the first details on Mac OS X Lion, the successor of Snow Leopa...

21 October 2010
12:45 GMT

The Marsupial Lion Would Have Killed an African Lion in Fight!

Its closest relative were the koala and the wombats. But it was not a leaf lover; instead, it slew extinct cow-sized kangaroos and hippo-sized Diprotodons. The extinct Australian marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) was the largest carnivorous marsupial mammal ever and a new research published in the Journal of Zoolo...

18 January 2008
03:32 GMT

Top 7 Unusual Animal Guardians

From about 15,000 years, humans rely on one animal as guardian: the dog. In time, we have created more aggressive, more massive, more dreadful dog breeds for this purpose. But only dogs save our asses?1.There is the famous legend (and historical fact) of the geese that saved Rome in 300 BC from the attack of the Celt...

7 January 2008
07:08 GMT

Wildebeests and Lions: the Amazing Migration of the African Savanna

This is the main character of all documentaries made on the savanna. We like to watch lions, hyenas or wild dogs hunting and in most cases they hunt wildebeests. That's because this is the most common African antelope of the savanna. Today wildebeests live only in eastern/southern Africa, but 300-400,000 years a...

12 December 2007
14:06 GMT

The Man-Eater Lion

People are an easy prey for any large predator. And between death by hunger and death by shooting, perhaps a lion won't starve till dying. In Mozambique, the rainy season is the moment when the lions turn into man-eaters, because the too tall grass impedes them to approach to their normal preys. This happened in...

20 October 2007
06:24 GMT

How Did the Saber Tooth Tigers Kill Their Prey?

These were the horror cats of our prehistory. But as it wasn't the case with T-rex, Stone Age people had to face these beasts. A new research has shown the way the terrible predators used to kill their prey and the surprise is that, despite their huge fangs, the bite of these predators was surprisingly weak. Smi...

2 October 2007
03:11 GMT

Huge Leopard Eating Wild Chimpanzees

This looks like another Congolese myth: huge jungle apes that kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. The legends speak about a legendary creature, a type of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.But how to investigate this in the middle of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the D...

16 July 2007
03:48 GMT

The Lion Whisperer

Perhaps amongst the beasts that haunt our imagination, triggering the deepest fears, there is nothing more powerful that the big cats. Up until a few millennia ago, we were their breakfast, lunch and dinner. And even today, lions, leopards and tigers are causing quite a number of victims in Africa and Asia. Still, so...

28 June 2007
07:03 GMT

The Oldest Mammoth Carving: a 35,000 Years Old Lion

During Ice Age, the plains of Europe were filled with a savanna-like fauna: elephants (read mammoths), lions and rhinos (even if woolly ones). And this was recorded by even the first Homo sapiens entering Europe. American and German archaeologists have found in southwestern Germany the oldest woolly mammoth-ivory car...

25 June 2007
03:38 GMT

Ancient Europe Was Full of Lions, Elephants, Rhinoceros and Hippopotamuses

During the Ice Age, huge beasts forming the megafauna, like mammoths, saber-toothed cats and woolly rhinos roamed the continents of our planet. But the Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago and most of the megafauna disappeared, a fact which is connected to the spread of modern humans. This fauna loss left the Holocene...

1 June 2007
10:06 GMT

Cats' Records

Grace, power and intelligence ...This is a combination that fascinated people since ever; in cave painting 30,000 years old found in Europe, scientists discovered images representing the so-called cave lions (direct ancestors of today's lions). Cats emerged 37 million years ago. First cats were arboreal and rese...

12 March 2007
12:24 GMT


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