Os X

Apple holding "Back to the Mac" event October 20

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Oct 13, 2010 a 11:18 am

Looks like Apple will be holding an event in October again, this time called "Back to the Mac" and no doubt focusing on -- OS X 10.7 Lion?! -- new MacBooks, a new MacBook Air, and maybe iLife '11 and iWork '11?

Since iOS is such an integral part of Apple these days, it's hard to believe they'll skip iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad entirely, so we'll be keeping our eyes peeled for anything from new slideshow exports (yawn!) to a whole new app for making HTML 5 goodness for our mobile devices, or Back to my Mac for iOS?

I still want an iOS layer to replace Dashboard and FrontRow. How about that?

What do you expect?

[Engadget]

The Competition: RIM to Release BlackBerry Desktop Manager... for Mac?!

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 20, 2009 a 2:07 pm

Via CrackBerry.com:

RIM has officially announced that BlackBerry Desktop Manager software for MAC will be available this September. THANK YOU RIM. You can visit blackberry.com/mac to sign up for updates and learn more or visit the Inside BlackBerry blog to see a few screen captures of it in action.

Yeah. Good luck with that. Any guesses how long that lasts before Apple releases a patch to disable BlackBerry sync?

(Kidding! Joking! Don't panic, Kev! We're happy for you -- now you're at least half-way towards restoring your childlike sense of wonder...)

iPhone Dev-Team: Mac OS X 10.5.7 Safe for Jailbreak, Fixes DFU Bug

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, May 14, 2009 a 8:50 am

Good news for Mac OS X-based Jailbreakers! After having to resort to using powered USB hubs or patching in older versions of files to work around a bug in 10.5.6 that prevented DFU mode from being recognized, the iPhone Dev-Team dropped a note a Twitter to give 10.5.7 the all-clear:

The new 10.5.7 Leopard update is safe. In fact it's more jailbreak-friendly than 10.5.6, since the DFU-mode bug is gone.

So no nasty cat-and-mouse-game shenanigans this time around, and even a slight improvement over the previous -- unintentional -- round.

More iPhone Goodness Coming to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Feb 5, 2009 a 11:28 am

We already knew that Apple's next computer operating system, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (estimated for delivery mid-2009) was leveraging some of the amazing work done by the iPhone team, including the highly optimized QuickTime X. Now Apple Insider brings word that things like CoreLocation and more Multi-Touch might be making their way back to the big desktop brother as well:

Flash Still Fizzles on OS X? Version 10 Benchmarked!

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 a 7:55 am

Apple Gives First Hints of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 a 10:55 am

Apple.com has put up a teaser page for their next-generation OS X, 10.6, code-named Snow Leopard. And the features, to put it mildly, are mind blowing:

Exchange support built in, so that iPhone and OS X share common business email, calendar, and contact sync.

64-bit monster, supporting a theoretical 16TB (terabytes!!) of RAM.

Multi-core optimized, using "Grand Central" to chip away at one of the biggest problems in programming: how to really take advantage of multi-core processors.

OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" for Mac... and iPhone?!

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jun 5, 2008 a 7:55 am

Last year Apple infamously delayed the release of their long anticipated OS X 10.5 Leopard in order to devote more resources to their soon-to-launch iPhone. When Leopard finally roared, it brought with it a host of new features, including CoreAnimation, Time Machine, Coverflow and Quicklook, and some 296 more according to Apple.

So would the next OS X release be similarly feature-packed... and delayed?

Turns out maybe just the opposite. Rumor is Apple may release OS X 10.6, claimed to be code-named "Snow Leopard" as early as Macworld in January 2008, and maybe even debut a beta this WWDC (?!).