OS X Mountain Lion looks to improve on Lion with UI refinements and some significant changes for developers. Most of those changes appear to be out in the cloud. Here’s a list of changes that Apple is rolling out, and how they will affect developers.
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weldond
Feb 16, 2012 - 2:10 PM PST
With the release of 10.6.2, Apple (s aapl) killed unsupported support for the Atom processor — the processor used in low-cost netbooks.…
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Mark Crump
Nov 11, 2009 - 9:19 AM PST
I was just installing the Garage Band update on my Mac mini, when lo and behold, upon checking again at completion for…
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Darrell Etherington
Aug 5, 2009 - 2:36 PM PST
Last week, we discussed the evolution, rhyme and reason behind some of Apple’s (s aapl) icons since the public release of OS…
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Chris Ryan
Jul 27, 2009 - 11:00 AM PST
There was a lot of buzz that it might come today, and it has. Apple (s aapl) just released Mac OS X…
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Darrell Etherington
May 12, 2009 - 2:41 PM PST
I imagine most people using OS 10.5 have become acquainted with Quick Look, which is one of my favorite Leopard features. Quick…
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Charles Moore
Jan 2, 2009 - 11:41 AM PST
The Dock has become an iconic feature on the OS X operating system, present from the very earliest versions. It provides a…
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David Appleyard
Dec 2, 2008 - 2:00 PM PST
For basic photo editing, if you’re running OS X 10.5 Leopard you don’t need Photoshop Elements or Pixelmator. Leopard’s Preview graphics viewer…
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Charles Moore
Nov 24, 2008 - 10:00 AM PST
Hopefully Benjamin Disraeli will posthumously forgive me for the major abuse of his quote (made famous by Mark Twain), but the fine…
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Bob Rudis
Nov 21, 2008 - 5:00 PM PST
Several websites have reported in recent days that Microsoft are once again extending their period of official support for vendors offering Windows…
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David Appleyard
Oct 8, 2008 - 9:18 AM PST
The UK security consulting firm Corsaire has just published a new whitepaper on securing Mac OS X Leopard (you may remember them…
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Bob Rudis
Aug 21, 2008 - 8:50 AM PST
We trust spellcheckers to be right, right? We expect that the spellchecker will yield an accurate correction, or at the least, real…
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Nick Mediati
Jul 10, 2008 - 10:30 AM PST
Apple releases a security guide for Mac OS X 10.5
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Opal Tribble
Jun 5, 2008 - 10:00 AM PST
Macworld magazine just announced the release of a new superguide by MacOSXHints.com editor Rob Griffiths called Mac OS X Hints. It features…
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Josh Pigford
Apr 8, 2008 - 9:54 AM PST
I normally avoid anything that looks like tech support in my entries here, but this may verge on an exception. Bear with…
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Stephanie Guertin
Mar 13, 2008 - 8:07 AM PST
Given the large amount of “feedback” I receive from many venues on why I’m crazy for suggesting that OS X users employ…
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Bob Rudis
Feb 27, 2008 - 12:40 PM PST
It came to my attention recently – read: I’ve been checking – that Unsanity has, finally bumped at least some of their…
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Stephanie Guertin
Feb 27, 2008 - 12:17 AM PST
Apple has just released 10.5.2 via Software Update. There are a slew of changes/fixes, some of which are: Improved Airport connection reliability…
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Josh Pigford
Feb 11, 2008 - 3:52 PM PST
The guys at VMware are supremely dedicated to bringing the best support for Virtualization that they can to the Apple platform. I’ve…
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Nick Santilli
Jan 15, 2008 - 1:58 PM PST
I have a confession to make: I have not always been a Mac person. For the period of time between the retirement…
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Bob Rudis
Jan 14, 2008 - 9:38 AM PST
So, as indicated, I finally switched to Leopard (went from 10.4.11 to 10.5.1 to be precise). As with previous operating system installs,…
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Bob Rudis
Jan 8, 2008 - 4:00 AM PST
The upgrade to Leopard has improved more than just the OS – it made Mail, in my opinion, much more usable. One…
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Stephanie Guertin
Dec 28, 2007 - 8:43 PM PST
Apple managed to sneak a few security updates in at the tail end of December and Security Update 2007-09 adds 41 to…
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Bob Rudis
Dec 18, 2007 - 12:47 PM PST
No sooner do I write about how I miss CandyBar then lo and behold it appears! CandyBar 3 was released today, available…
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Stephanie Guertin
Nov 27, 2007 - 10:32 PM PST
As you might have guessed from my past articles here, I tend to heavily customize the appearance of OS X on any…
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Stephanie Guertin
Nov 26, 2007 - 5:00 AM PST
After my recent painful experience of doing a fresh install of Leopard, I’m going through the paces of reinstalling and reactivating my…
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Matt Radel
Nov 15, 2007 - 9:45 AM PST
Its been a while, but we now have three shiny new GetAMac ads to laugh at and gloat over! Justin Long and…
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Danny Greg
Nov 12, 2007 - 11:35 AM PST
If you’ve previously installed the Developer Tools from the OS X installation discs, (be-it, Tiger, or now Leopard) you’ve had available to…
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Nick Santilli
Nov 9, 2007 - 10:13 AM PST
Since I installed Leopard, I’ve been noticing some strange behavior with my wireless networks. When my Macbook Pro wakes from sleep, I…
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Stephanie Guertin
Nov 9, 2007 - 8:01 AM PST
I never quite understood Apple’s decision to include RSS support in Safari, but not in Apple Mail. Other mail clients such as…
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Victor Johnson
Nov 8, 2007 - 4:05 PM PST
For the most part, I find Apple’s marketing messages to be clever, engaging and somewhat accurate. Usually, pretty imagery accompanied by a…
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Matt Radel
Nov 6, 2007 - 9:22 AM PST
Separate from the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death – it’s generally a Windows term, if you’re somehow unaware…) that some folks experienced…
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Nick Santilli
Nov 5, 2007 - 10:23 PM PST
I’ve been using multiple virtual desktops for years, in just about every operating system imaginable. Since sometime in 2004 I’ve used them…
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Stephanie Guertin
Nov 5, 2007 - 1:45 PM PST
Jon Buys wrote in letting me know of a little issue he’s having with the new Parental Controls feature of Leopard. He…
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Josh Pigford
Nov 1, 2007 - 10:58 PM PST
I was one of the many loyal enthusiasts that pre-ordered Leopard and couldn’t wait to install it on all my Macs. Unfortunately…
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Brandon Eley
Nov 1, 2007 - 10:06 PM PST
So Leopard finally launched last Friday at 6pm. It’s great, it’s lame – no matter your stance, it’s here. And in case…
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Nick Santilli
Oct 30, 2007 - 12:36 PM PST
This past Friday, after my little FedEx experience, I promptly backed up my hard drive and then did an Erase & Install…
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Josh Pigford
Oct 30, 2007 - 11:00 AM PST
One of the most highly touted features new to Leopard is Time Machine, the “always on” backup system that takes the effort…
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Billy Halsey
Oct 29, 2007 - 11:20 PM PST
Step 1. Announce a device running a version of said operating system with proper modifications for the device’s interface and applications. Apple…
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Todd Baur
Oct 26, 2007 - 6:00 PM PST
Well this is interesting. I pre-ordered my copy of Leopard the first day it was available to do so. Apple guaranteed shipment…
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Josh Pigford
Oct 26, 2007 - 10:46 AM PST
When Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) arrives on Friday, Apple retail stores will be open extended hours from 6 p.m. until 10…
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Billy Halsey
Oct 24, 2007 - 7:09 PM PST
As you may know, Apple has posted a guided tour of Leopard to the company’s Web site, giving us the most in-depth…
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Louis Gray
Oct 22, 2007 - 12:00 PM PST
Apple (AAPL) will release its new operating system upgrade, code named Leopard on October 26. The $129 upgrade is packed with 300…
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Om Malik
Oct 17, 2007 - 7:00 AM PST
Iyaz Akhtar wrote earlier about some of the new features in Leopard, set to debut in nine days. The full list spans…
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Billy Halsey
Oct 16, 2007 - 9:17 PM PST
With the announcement of Leopard’s release date, there were plenty of comments that the Leopard upgrade is nothing but a few bells…
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Iyaz Akhtar
Oct 16, 2007 - 12:00 PM PST
Today Apple officially announced that their next version of OSX, Leopard, will go on sale at 6 P.M. on October 26. Leopard…
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Josh Pigford
Oct 16, 2007 - 8:13 AM PST
apple.com, 9 May 1998 [via] Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History…
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Billy Halsey
Sep 30, 2007 - 11:58 PM PST
The CookBook application which was one of the 3 top spots in the My Dream App competition has some updated details. The…
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Nick Santilli
Jul 12, 2007 - 10:00 AM PST
Thank all that’s Holy and good – something other than iPhone to write about! Macrumors reports that Mac Developers have gotten a…
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Nick Santilli
Jun 26, 2007 - 8:56 AM PST