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 d ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 through two main steps – the first: creating the Mac OS X image; the second: burning the image on an empty, writa ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 15:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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. Non-users can also download free of charge but will only be able to use the software fo ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 download your version of the driver right ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 16:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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) without the tail in length and weighing up to 384 kg (850 pounds), which is almost twice the weight of a lion. The B ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 programs, in a bleak time for the wild animals. About 3,000 tigers are still live in the wild, as compared to ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 were easy and cheap to keep: dogs, cats, pigs, goats, crows, geese, pigeons and so on. Later, the shows turned far-reach ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 10:59GMT | (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

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. Nevertheless, the Cupertino-based company noted a few specifications for each update: AirPort Extreme Update 200 ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 is aimed at around 80 (most of which critical) issues. The must-perf ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 07:29GMT | (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

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

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 effects of the OSX/DNSChanger on Mac OS X, courtesy of F-Security. DNSChanger was initially detected by Intego, at the end o ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 12:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 through an open door. There was no way out through the door. The animal appears to have climbed or otherwise leaped out ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 the Zoo improve the pen where tigers were kept. "The three men—one of them 19 years old and the others in their earl ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 hand, come with a natural end user perception of security. But at the same time, and this is a direct result of Apple's i ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 in the Hunan province. The Amoy tiger is considered to be the most primitive tiger, it originated 2 million years ago, a ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 serious problems. The release of the Mac OS X 10.4.11 update was by no means a significant event, except for a few unl ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 South Chinese tiger (P.t. Amoyensis) was included in the list of the extinct tiger subspecies. The endangered survivors are th ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 square km in prey-poorer Manchurian forest. Females have smaller territories: 30 to 500 square km, and the territory of a male com ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 and that Apple is already starting to train its support staff on the upcoming OS. The company has started providing ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 12:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 imagination of generations of children worldwide. You can hear these names repeated by th ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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. Smilodon fatalis lived in grasslands from North America to South America (in the west coast down to Peru) being almost the size o ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 bottom of this article was put together by ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 with Windows XP's availability via direct retail and OEM license ending at the end of January 2008, Vista will take Micr ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 12:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 businesses in November 2006, and to the general public in January 2007, Vista is advancing towards the dominant position on the ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 means that on average, Microsoft shipped some 10 million Vista licenses per month. By comparison, Apple delivered just 1,764, ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 10:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 consideration the extravagant design and the artistic approach to bridging the gap between cost, aesthetics and fun ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mac OS X Continues to Grow as Windows Vista Is Just a Disappointment
	Apple's Mac OS X 1.04 Tiger operating system is on an ascendant trend together with the Cupertino-based company's Mac computers, as Windows Vista is just a disappointment, considering the perspective of Gianfranco Lanci, President of Acer, the fourt ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 03:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scrap Vista and DirectX 10? Mac OS X the Next Gaming Platform!
	Why does the association between Apple's Mac OS X operating system and the term gaming platform equal comedy? Well, the answer to this is rather simple. Mac OS X from the perspective of a gaming platform is simply a funny concept. There is no other way to describe it. Gaming has never been Mac OS X's top appealing aspect. By all means in fact, it is the one anodyne detail that is deterring gamers away from the Apple platform and ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 10:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Ubuntu Is Nothing... Compared to Windows Vista
	In Microsoft's own vision, the self applauded status quo of the most secure Windows platform to date for Windows Vista has extended to other rival operating systems as well. For instance, the Ubuntu distribution of Linux fails to compare to Vista in terms of security. But the scenario in which Vista is considered the most secure operating system on the market is a Microsoft perspective not shared by third-parties. By counting vulnerab ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Linux in Last Place! Windows Vista Didn't Do It!
	Linux is an operating system with a major handicap in its design, an indisputable affinity for the last place... The open source platform is perpetually in the shadow of rival products such as Windows and Mac OS X. The traditional bronze winner in a three horse race, Linux is far from the levels achieved by Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger. But this time, the open source operating system managed to come in dead last with no cont ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 12:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rare Three-Legged Tiger Captured on Camera
	This animal has rarely been captured by a camera in the wilderness. And one of the few images of the endangered Sumatran tiger presents an individual which has lost one of its paws. This is probably due to a snare, in which the animal lost its leg. The Sumatran tigers are the smallest tiger race nowadays: the males can reach a maximum of 136 kg (300 pounds), being just twice bigger than a leopard. The females are smaller. The Sumatran ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2007, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Is the Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct? Feces Will Tell...
	This is the "Bigfoot" of Australia. But unlike the North American beast, this animal was real, exterminated by people: the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine. Now Australian researchers are on their way to investigate 50-year-old animal droppings in their search for solving one of the nation's great mysteries: is the Tasmanian tiger truly extinct? The project will be led by zoologist Jeremy Austin, from Adelaide Unive ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista Is Top Dog
	Counting the first 180 days worth of vulnerabilities impacting Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 reveals that Microsoft's latest operating system is outperforming all direct rivals in terms of the most reduced number of security flaws. Vulnerability statistics are by no means an accurate measurement of the security level o ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Forget about Linux and Mac OS X - Windows Vista the Most Secure Operating System
	Forget about Linux, Mac OS X Tiger and Windows XP, Windows Vista is the most secure operating system available on the market. Microsoft has applauded Vista from the get go as the most secure Windows platform, but according to a comparison put together by Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, the status quo is also valid for rival operating systems. Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstat ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple Settles GUI Lawsuit And Licenses GUI technology
	Apple has entered a Settlement and License Agreement with IP Innovation, a wholly owned subsidiary that is a part of the Acacia Technologies group. The agreement resolves patent litigation that was pending in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas with respect to certain Apple products. A little over a month ago, IP Innovation LLC issued a formal complaint that accused Apple of "willful and deliberate" ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Analyzed Linux and Mac OS X Tiger When Building Windows Vista
	Microsoft has admitted to having observed what the competition has to offer, and integrated the lessons learned into the development of Window Vista. For Microsoft, when it was building Windows Vista, the grass was greener on the other side of the operating system's kernel. And the Redmond Company was not shy at getting some inspiration from several Linux versions and Mac OS X Tiger. But the scenario is not as bad as it might seem ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2007, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista Still Top Dog – Mac OS X Sinks to the Bottom
	Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger has chocked on the biggest vulnerability ball in its existence since the debut of 2007. This year simply started wrong for the Cupertino-based company with the month of the Apple bugs in January. As Windows Vista made its triumphant transition to general availability, Apple was licking its 30 wounds from the daily vulnerability disclosures in the first month of 2007. Now, fast forward to May, the performance Windows ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2007, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mac Hacker: Windows Vista Is Superior to Mac OS X Tiger
	Dino Dai Zovi – the New York security researcher that managed to hack into one of the Macbook Pro computers that were up for grabs at CanSecWest Vancouver 2007, for a $10,000 prize in addition to the Apple machine – has no doubt in his mind that Windows Vista delivers superior security compared to Mac OS X. Zovi broke into the Macbook Pro computer via a vulnerability on QuickTime, Apple's media player that ships by defaul ... [read more >>]
	01 May 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple Sued Over Tiger Interface
	Apple is being sued by an Illinois-based company and its Nevada partner over the Mac OS X. Apparently, Apple is infringing on a patent for tabs. Little-known intellectual property agency IP Innovation LLC and its parent Technology Licensing Corporation are claiming that Apple is abusing a patent they hold. The formal complaint accuses Apple of "willful and deliberate" infringement of the computer control patent, by ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista and the Sins of the Forbidden Fruit – Apple
	The world's most advanced and still advancing operating system will never be the same in the Wow aftermath. Mac OS X Tiger has been downgraded to nothing more than a modest platform by Windows Vista. This past week I had a Tiger test drive. One of our iMac G5 computers was just lying around so I picked it up and moved it on my desk. Next to Windows XP and Windows Vista running on Intel based Mac computers my desk is the ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2007, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mac OS Crushes Vista in OS Deathmatch!
	As I was saying a few days ago, the Mac team here, at Softpedia, was challenged to a "duel of operating systems" by those at Windows, who claimed Vista has dethroned the Mac OS as "supreme" operating system. We obviously resent that (as would, of course, any sane human being), and we are now fighting on Mac OS' behalf, armed with a "digital feather" and a small dose of cruel sarcasm towards the Mac-wannab ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mac OS X Leopard Bites the Dust – Windows Vista Didn't Do It !
	The next operating system for Mac computers is here! Forget about Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger! Forget about the Leopard mirage! The world's most advanced Windows operating system is here. Install Windows Vista on your Mac today! That was a tad uncalled for, but I simply could not help myself. Apple has announced that it will delay the release of the world's most advanced and still advancing operating system until October 200 ... [read more >>]
	13 April 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Electronic Arts Release NBA LIVE 07 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 for Mobile
	Electronic Arts recently announced the availability of Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 07 and NBA LIVE 07 for mobile, allowing fans and gamers alike to experience two of the leading sports franchises in the palm of their hands. In a slam dunk for basketball fans everywhere, NBA LIVE 07 bounces all the dram ... [read more >>]
	23 March 2007, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 resembled the palm civets. They were agile, with a keen hearing and binocular vision. Modern cats are amazingly homogeneo ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2007, 12:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia