Os X Lion

Apple releases Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 update

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 a 4:30 pm

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.3 and while there doesn't seem to be any new goodies for iPhone or iPad users, if you're running Apple's desktop OS, it's waiting for you via Software Update.

OS X Lion was first shown off at Apple's Back to the Mac and presented as taking iPhone and iPad innovations back to Apple's traditional computer lines. While some of the changes have been welcomed with open arms, others have experienced birthing pains, and hopefully this and future updates help take the rough edges off. Either that, or 10.8

The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that:

Apple updates Airport Utility for OS X Lion, makes it look just like iPhone, iPad version

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jan 30, 2012 a 6:21 pm

Daily Tip: How to transfer your MobileMe account to iCloud [Developers]

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Aug 7, 2011 a 12:57 pm

Developer trying to figure out how to transfer your old MobileMe account to a hot new iCloud account? Luckily Apple has just opened up the transfer procedure and we'll walk you through it, after the break!

iPhone Live 163: Over the air

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 a 9:22 pm

Rene and Seth talk about native apps killing the open cloud, Apple passing Nokia, iOS 4.3.5, facial recognition, iPhone 5 rumours, and Jailbreak tweaks. This is iPhone Live!

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Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)

Georgia (@GeorgiaTiPb)

iTunes 10.5 beta for Mac is -- finally -- 64-bit, Cocoa app?

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jun 12, 2011 a 11:06 am

MacRumors is reporting that the iTunes 10.5 beta for Mac runs in 64-bit mode on Mac OS X Lion, and since the old Carbon APIs don't support 64-bit, it must have, at long, long last, finally been re-written as a Cocoa app. Before you get too excited, however, it still runs in 32-bit mode on older versions of OS X and doesn't particularly seem very Cocoa-like, at least at this stage. (Hey, at least the

I'd always assumed maintaining Windows compatibility was was hamstrung iTunes, forced it to do too much and stick with older API far too long. Sort of revenge for Microsoft Office on Mac. Wrapping up everything OS X does, like CoreAnimation, CoreAudio, and the other frameworks and bundling them up for Windows can't be trivial, after all.