Leopard

What developers need to know about OS X Mountain Lion

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.

Apple’s Atomic War

With the release of 10.6.2, Apple (s aapl) killed unsupported support for the Atom processor — the processor used in low-cost netbooks.…

Windows XP Lives On…Again

Several websites have reported in recent days that Microsoft are once again extending their period of official support for vendors offering Windows…

Mac OS X Hints Superguide

Macworld magazine just announced the release of a new superguide by MacOSXHints.com editor Rob Griffiths called Mac OS X Hints. It features…

Apple releases 10.5.2

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…

VMware Virtualizing No-hack Leopard Server

The guys at VMware are supremely dedicated to bringing the best support for Virtualization that they can to the Apple platform. I’ve…

Smarts in Mail?

The upgrade to Leopard has improved more than just the OS – it made Mail, in my opinion, much more usable. One…

Finally Time For Leopard?

Apple managed to sneak a few security updates in at the tail end of December and Security Update 2007-09 adds 41 to…

CandyBar 3 Review

No sooner do I write about how I miss CandyBar then lo and behold it appears! CandyBar 3 was released today, available…

“No Software”

After my recent painful experience of doing a fresh install of Leopard, I’m going through the paces of reinstalling and reactivating my…

Quartz Composer in Leopard

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…

Riiiight…

For the most part, I find Apple’s marketing messages to be clever, engaging and somewhat accurate. Usually, pretty imagery accompanied by a…

Leopard’s Green Tint

Separate from the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death – it’s generally a Windows term, if you’re somehow unaware…) that some folks experienced…

Spaces Review

I’ve been using multiple virtual desktops for years, in just about every operating system imaginable. Since sometime in 2004 I’ve used them…

A Half-Hearted Jab?

So Leopard finally launched last Friday at 6pm. It’s great, it’s lame – no matter your stance, it’s here. And in case…

Leopard-print T-shirts?

When Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) arrives on Friday, Apple retail stores will be open extended hours from 6 p.m. until 10…

In Defense of Leopard

With the announcement of Leopard’s release date, there were plenty of comments that the Leopard upgrade is nothing but a few bells…

Is PowerPC Doomed? Nahhhh

apple.com, 9 May 1998 [via] Noted blogger and podcaster Daniel Eran Dilger writes today at Roughly Drafted on Leopard and the History…

MDA Has CookBook Update

The CookBook application which was one of the 3 top spots in the My Dream App competition has some updated details. The…

Leopard Might ZFS Afterall

Thank all that’s Holy and good – something other than iPhone to write about! Macrumors reports that Mac Developers have gotten a…