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Giant Paper Supplier Puts Tiger Habitat at Risk

Environmental coalition Eyes on the Forest has recently issued a new report indicating that one of the most important companies producing paper products, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), is threatening the habitat of already extremely vulnerable creatures, like orangutans, tigers and elephants. The new information highligh...

14 December 2011
02:32 GMT

Tiger Bone Wine Auctioned in Beijing

Although China tries to display an eco-conscious attitude supported by numerous animal preservation campaigns, a recent tiger bone wine auction shows anything but respect for endangered creatures and vulnerable ecosystems. The Beijing auction has raised a lot of interest with its unusual, expensive exhibits, represe...

6 December 2011
07:05 GMT

Nokia C7 (Astound) to Hit T-Mobile on April 6th for $79.99

Nokia C7, the Symbian^3-based smartphone that T-Mobile is expected to make available for purchase on its airwaves, might hit shelves as soon as April 6th, if some of the latest reports on the matter are to be believed. The mobile phone was previously spotted into the wild under the codename of Tiger, but it seems th...

17 March 2011
03:14 GMT

Nokia C7 Spotted at FCC En Route to T-Mobile

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile is expected to add to its offering in the not too far future a new smartphone coming from the Finnish handset giant Nokia, namely the Nokia C7, and it seems that the device might have already received the necessary FCC approvals. The Nokia C7 user manual was spotted at FCC, and it offer...

9 March 2011
10:54 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

How Did Leopards Get Their Spots

A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol and led by Will Allen of Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology, tries to answer the question everyone has asked themselves at least once: 'Why do leopards have spots and tigers have stripes?'.They studied 35 species of wild cats ...

20 October 2010
03:43 GMT

Download Opera 10.62 with OS X 10.4 Tiger Fixes, PPC Tweaks

Released September 9, 2010, Opera 10.62 is the latest stable version of the popular Internet-centric application from Opera Software, the Norwegian company developing and maintaining the most feature-packed web browser available today.The browser’s makers say that Opera 10.62 is a recommended upgrade offering s...

10 September 2010
09:08 GMT

Apple Promotes Safari to Version 5.0.2 for Mac OS X, Windows

Safari 5.0.2, the latest version of Apple’s proprietary web browser, is now available for free download to both Mac and Windows PC users, while version 4.1.2 is also available for those running an older version of Mac OS X, 10.4 Tiger.On the Support Downloads area of its web site, Apple reveals that Safari 5.0....

8 September 2010
03:47 GMT

World of Tanks Brings Famous World War II Battles for Free

Wargaming.net has announced it is developing World of Tanks, a new free-to-play MMO that will allow gamers to control a wide array of World War II tanks in a number of impressive armored battles. World of Tanks is set to arrive in the fall of 2010 and Wargaming.net says that it will not charge for any part of the exp...

19 February 2010
04:21 GMT

Mozilla Firefox Dropping Mac OS X Tiger Support

Mozilla is dropping Tiger support altogether, as far as its Firefox web browser is concerned. A post over at mozilla.dev.planning has Mozilla developer Josh Aas laying out the case for dropping support for Apple’s five-year-old OS, explaining that Mozilla needs to start taking advantage of modern features avail...

8 February 2010
09:23 GMT

Snow Leopard Upgrade Outsells Tiger, Leopard

NPD is reporting that Apple’s Snow Leopard has outsold sales of both Leopard and Tiger in just two weeks. NPD not only believes Snow Leopard sales are over twice those of Leopard, but also that they are around four times higher than those achieved by Tiger. “Even though some considered Snow Leopard to be...

18 September 2009
04:48 GMT

Apple’s EULA Forbids Direct Upgrade from Tiger to OS X 10.6

It has been revealed that an Intel Mac user can directly install Snow Leopard over Tiger, as the system specs and install disc see the match and carry out the instructions. However, as surprising as this may sound to some, Apple says it’s not allowed. A little while ago, tech-columnist Walt Mossberg stated that...

4 September 2009
09:48 GMT

Claim: Tiger-to-Snow Leopard Upgrade Directly Possible

It has been revealed that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (the previous-generation Mac OS) users will be able to directly upgrade to Apple’s new generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. According to the Wall Street Journal, Snow Leopard will install on Macs running the Tiger OS without requiring installati...

27 August 2009
08:31 GMT

Apple Releases Leopard and Tiger Security Update 2009-004

In what has been a Software Update-full week for Mac users, Apple has released yet another security update for Client and Server versions of its OS X Leopard and Tiger operating systems. Security Update 2009-004 comes a mere week after the 2009-003 Security Update (issued in tandem with Mac OS X 10.5.8), and just one...

13 August 2009
02:26 GMT

VLC Drops Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Support

The people at VideoLAN Project have updated the popular cross-platform multimedia player for Mac, PC and Linux, VLC Media Player, also posting a few important notes. Particularly, the team stresses that Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses while support for Mac OS X 10.4.x has be...

1 June 2009
06:52 GMT

Tiger Security Update 2009-002 Available – Download Here

With the release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, Apple has included security fixes for numerous areas of the Mac OS. A separate Security Update 2009-002, available for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) users plugs holes in areas like Apache, CFNetwork, WebKit and X11. The download is free and can be immediately acquired, right here, on Softpedi...

13 May 2009
06:25 GMT

Firefox Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Support

A debate playing out in the Mozilla planning forum reveals that the company behind the popular web browser for Mac, Linux and PC is likely to drop Tiger support in the versions following Firefox 3.5. "I'd still like to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 in Gecko 1.9.2, I don't want to be worrying about 10.4 un...

30 April 2009
06:08 GMT

Cocktail 4.3.3 Removes Trojan, Supports Mac OS X 10.5.7

Maintain has released an updated version of its general purpose utility for Mac OS X, Cocktail. Reportedly, the new release adds clearing of the latest (F and G) variants of the RSPlug trojan horse and clearing of the Inqtana.C worm. The release also contains updated Automator actions.Citing major improvements on the...

1 April 2009
10:07 GMT

Apple Updates Java for Mac OS X 10.4 / 10.5

Although Java is the work of those over at Sun Microsystems, Apple needs to release its own updates for the platform. Because of the multiple vulnerabilities recently found in Java Web Start and the Java Plug-in, Apple has rolled out two separate Java updates for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard users. Both are free to dow...

13 February 2009
03:29 GMT

Vienna Updated to Fix Tiger Crashes

Mac owners using the popular RSS/Atom news feeder, Vienna, can update to a new version. Previously dropping Panther support, and requiringTiger or greater to run, Vienna 2.3.1.2302 fixes a crash on Tiger when customizing toolbar. Vienna is a free Mac app that allows you to read RSS or Atom news feeds on your Mac. It...

18 November 2008
15:51 GMT

Tiger Users Get Safari 3.1.2

Rumor had it that visiting a maliciously crafted website using Safari may lead to "an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution," because of a memory corruption issue in WebKit's handling of JavaScript arrays. Therefore, Apple has released Safari 3.1.2 for Tiger, available as a free download...

1 July 2008
04:28 GMT

Security Update 2008-004 - Download Here

Apple has issued the fourth security update for users of Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger), improving the security of (what else?) Mac OS X. The company assures us that previous such updates have also been incorporated into this last version, Security Update (2008-004), available as a free download."Security Update 2008-004 i...

1 July 2008
03:59 GMT

Quick Tip - Making a Backup Copy of Mac OS X

Often are the times when even your original Mac OS X installation disc fails to do its bit. Discs get scratched, damaged, or lost. That's why, as a Mac user, it is always a wise choice to make a backup copy of Mac OS X.This short guide details the steps to making a bootable copy of Mac OS X Tiger. You will go th...

19 June 2008
15:17 GMT

Beta - Three Adobe CS 3 Apps up for Grabs

Adobe Labs has released three apps from its upcoming Creative Suite installment, as betas, for the public to try out and report bugs, if any. Buyers of Adobe's graphic design suite of apps can download Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth for free, and even keep them for longer than 48 hours. ...

28 May 2008
03:00 GMT

Kensington Docking Station with Video Now Supports MacBooks

Kensington rolled out an update to its sd200v Notebook Docking Station with Video on Tuesday. The company creating innovative products that make the connection between you and your computer more enjoyable and productive also announced this week a new beta software for MacBook owners looking to use its sd200v. You can...

23 May 2008
16:21 GMT

The Smallest Tiger

The world's most beautiful tiger is at the same time the smallest: the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae). This tiger subspecies inhabits the island of Sumatra and is today reduced to a number of 600-800 individuals. The Siberian tiger is the largest cat ever to exist, measuring up to 2.8 m (9.3 ft) witho...

23 April 2008
10:00 GMT

About 50% of the Captive Tigers Are Purebred

A new research published in Current Biology comes to confirm the role zoos, farms and private collections could have in saving menaced species: it seems that up to 50% of the captive tigers could be "purebred" members of an endangered subspecies. This finding may boost the number of animals to be involved in breeding...

21 April 2008
03:42 GMT

iSoftPhone 2.2 Adds Dock Icon, Prompt Before Quitting

Xnet Communications has released iSoftPhone version 2.2 for Mac. The VoIP telephony app is available as a free download to existing iSoftPhone users. iSoftPhone 2.2 adds both fixes and new features. A noteworthy addition is the Dock icon which lets users know when they've missed a call. Those looking to pick up ...

16 April 2008
16:16 GMT

Circus Animals

Circus, in its modern meaning, has been employing both domestic and wild animals. The horse was the first animal used in circus shows, whose canons emerged during the 18th century. Since then, the circus animals have been gradually increasing in number and variety. At the beginning, the trainers used animals that wer...

14 April 2008
10:59 GMT

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, running from Mac OS X 10.4 on, offers c...

4 April 2008
16:51 GMT

Updates Available for Tiger (AirPort), Mac Pro Users

Apple has rolled out two more updates, one for its Airport-enabled Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) users, while the other is aimed at the Mac Pro (early 2008). Owners of the latter can now update to firmware version 1.3.As usual, Apple falls short of specifying what it is the updates actually do, in plain English. Neverthele...

28 March 2008
07:04 GMT

Mega Security Update Released for Tiger and Leopard Users

Apple has just issued a new security update for Mac OS X users. The update has been made available for both Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard) users. It addresses vulnerabilities that may lead to arbitrary code execution, or enable a local user to execute arbitrary code with system privileges. It ...

19 March 2008
07:29 GMT

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, claiming reliable sources indicate that the upd...

5 March 2008
06:24 GMT

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 OS X support. The company has confirmed adding Mac OS X to their list of suppo...

19 February 2008
05:10 GMT

Think Vista Is Insecure? Have You Looked at Mac OS X Lately?

Think that Windows Vista is insecure, just because it's the latest iteration of the Windows line of operating systems and lack of security is taken inherently as a default characteristic? Well, here is your chance to have a look at Mac OS X. At the bottom of this article you will be able to find a video with the...

21 January 2008
12:16 GMT

How High Can a Tiger Jump?

The event is fresh: just two weeks ago, a 300-pound (136-kilogram) tigress escaped from its enclosure in San Francisco Zoo, killing one man and mauling other two. "The tiger's enclosure is surrounded by a 15-foot-wide (4.5-meter-wide) moat and 20-foot-high (6-meter-high) walls, and the big cat did not leave thr...

11 January 2008
02:51 GMT

Escaped Zoo Tiger Kills One, Mauls Two!

We expect to hear these news from the villages of India. But this crime scene occurred Wednesday at the San Francisco Zoo: an escaped Siberian tigress killed one visitor and mauled two others. The 300-pound (136-kilogram) Tatiana had been already involved in an attack on a zookeeper last Christmas. That incident made...

27 December 2007
05:16 GMT

Think XP and Vista Are Security Disasters? Have You Looked at Tiger and Leopard Lately?

Do you think that Windows Vista and Windows XP are security disasters? Well, in all fairness, chances are that indeed you would think that. Traditionally, the Windows platform, no matter the actual label of the iterations, has not been associated with a bulletproof operating system. Mac OS X and Linux, on the other h...

18 December 2007
11:12 GMT

The South Chinese Tiger, Saved in South African Reserve!

Last year, the South China Tiger, also known as Amoy tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis), a subspecies native of south China, was catalogued as the fourth race of tiger extinct in the wild in just 100 years. The last one was seen in the wild in 1964. In 1994, the last known wild South Chinese tiger was shot by poachers...

10 December 2007
05:50 GMT

Tiger Update Bricks Some Macs

The potential problems that one can have when upgrading their MacBook to Leopard have been widely reported and users should be aware of them. While holding off jumping to the next big cat might be the best move for those with portables, it now looks like even upgrading to the latest version of Tiger can cause seriou...

26 November 2007
10:05 GMT

Tiger Population Could Double in 10 Years

It is the symbol of wild Asia, the king of the jungle. But now only about 5,000 tigers are to be found in the wild. One century ago, 100,000 tigers could have roamed Asia, but since then the Caspian tiger (P.t.virgata), Bali tiger (P.t.balica) and Java tiger (P.t.sondaica) were hunted to extinction. In 2007, the Sout...

8 November 2007
06:37 GMT

7 Things You Did Not Know About Tigers

1. Today we say the tiger is the king of the jungle but the tiger originated in the Pleistocene of Asia, about 2 million years ago, in a clime of temperate forests. This nocturnal and solitary cat has a territory varying in the case of the male from 60 square kilometers in tropical forests and savannas to 4,000 squar...

3 November 2007
05:01 GMT

Apple Preparing Leopard Gold Master

It looks like Leopard is just about ready, with the company already starting to prepare for after the launch. Although there is no Gold Master yet, Apple is in the final stages of polishing the last release candidate and preparing the last Tiger update.AppleInsider's reports that Leopard is just about finalized...

10 October 2007
12:53 GMT

The Indian Safari

The elephant was called "hatti", the bear "balu", the deer "sambar" and the tiger "bagh". Even if in his political and social writings Richard Kipling proved pejorative and even racist towards the Indians, he had as a source of inspiration the Hindu names of the beasts to create a universe that turned on the imaginat...

3 October 2007
14:06 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

Microsoft Does It Again: Vista Is the Safest - Linux and Mac OS X Bite the Dust

Microsoft did it again! Windows Vista is the safest operating system available on the market today, elevated from the position of the securest Windows platform, and three different distributions of Linux along with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger are left to bite the dust. The data illustrated in the graphics included at the bot...

17 August 2007
10:00 GMT

Windows Vista Wipes the Floor with Mac OS X and Linux

Windows Vista is Microsoft's key to achieving an install base of 1 billion by mid 2008. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, revealed at the Financial Analyst Meeting 2007 on July 26 that in just 12 months Windows compotes will pass the 1 billion milestone, according to company's estimates. And ...

1 August 2007
12:17 GMT

Vista - the Second Most Used OS Worldwide Ahead of Tiger and Linux

Windows Vista is after just six months of availability, the second most used operating system worldwide, runner up to Windows XP, and ahead of Apple's Mac OS X Tiger and the various distributions of the open source platform Linux, according to statistics delivered by web analytics company OneStat. Released to bu...

1 August 2007
06:01 GMT

60 Million Copies of Windows Vista Completely Eclipse Apple

It takes just 60 million copies of Windows Vista to totally eclipse the whole of Apple. 60 million being the number of Vista licenses Microsoft sold in the operating system's first six months on the market, considering the January 30 general consumer launch, and not the November 30, 2006, business release. This ...

27 July 2007
10:31 GMT

Vista Machines Don't Even Come Close to the Linux Supercomputer!

There is absolutely no comparison! No common ground... Linux hardware is in a league all of its own. And Windows Vista machines fail to even come close to the Linux supercomputer featured in the image at the bottom of this article. Just feast your eyes on this Linux based trailer park marvel of technology! Take into ...

26 July 2007
04:52 GMT


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