http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:14:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22462/Earlier_Report_a_Fake_10_6_2_Still_Doesn_t_Support_Atom/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22462/Earlier_Report_a_Fake_10_6_2_Still_Doesn_t_Support_Atom/ Despite reports to the contrary, current Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard builds do not support the Intel Atom processor. The report that support had returned is a fake, and the most recent build 10C540 still does not support the Atom processor. C'est tout. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:59:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22438/Atom_Support_Returns_in_More_Recent_Mac_OS_X_10_6_2_Seed/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22438/Atom_Support_Returns_in_More_Recent_Mac_OS_X_10_6_2_Seed/ We reported on the lack of Atom support in development builds of Mac OS X 10.6.2, but a more recent build re-enables support for Intel's Atom line, popular in netbooks. "In the latest development build Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535. The Atom lives another day, but nothing is concrete until the final version of 10.6.2 is out." Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:10:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News mckill http://www.osnews.com/story/22437/Parallels_5_Skins_Windows/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22437/Parallels_5_Skins_Windows/ "Parallels' annual update to its eponymous virtual machine software is out today, looking a bit smarter, and promising to be even more seamless than before. A new Coherence mode sees Windows applications skinned with a Mac-like scheme. Dialogues look like Windows dialogues, and there's easier keyboard mapping - so your Windows app can use Apple-C/X/V to cut and paste, rather than Ctrl-C/X/V." Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22419/Snow_Leopard_10_6_2_Drops_Atom_Support/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22419/Snow_Leopard_10_6_2_Drops_Atom_Support/ Anyone who hangs around on websites with information about installing Mac OS X on non-Apple labelled computers has probably already encountered this report, but it's newsworthy anyway. The upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 will remove support for the Intel Atom line of processors from Mac OS X. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:08:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 102 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22388/Apple_Shuts_Down_Mac_OS_X_ZFS_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22388/Apple_Shuts_Down_Mac_OS_X_ZFS_Project/ John Siracusa, the Mac OS X guru who writes those insanely detailed and well-written Mac OS X reviews for Ars Technica, once told a story about the evolution of the HFS+ file system in Mac OS X - he said it was a struggle between the Mac guys who wanted the features found in BeOS' BFS, and the NEXT guys who didn't really like these features. In the end, the Mac guys won, and over the course of six years, Mac OS X reached feature parity - and a little more - with the BeOS (at the FS level). Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:13:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 95 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/22355/Apple_Seeds_Mac_OS_X_10_6_2_Beta_Contains_Guest_Account_Fix/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22355/Apple_Seeds_Mac_OS_X_10_6_2_Beta_Contains_Guest_Account_Fix/ "Apple Friday sent its third beta release of the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6.2 update with fixes for QuickTime, iChat, and a widely reported guest account glitch that could delete user data. People familiar with build 10C527f said the latest update has only one known issue, and has a number of fixes in 13 different focus areas. It also reportedly provides reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, iDisk, and Safari plug-ins." Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:21:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22328/Guest_Account_Bug_in_Snow_Leopard_Causes_Data_Loss/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22328/Guest_Account_Bug_in_Snow_Leopard_Causes_Data_Loss/ We generally don't report on individual bugs or security issues in operating systems, but a pretty serious bug has reared its ugly head in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. If you had a guest account enabled prior to installing Snow Leopard, then you are at risk of losing all your data. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:05:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22322/Digging_Into_Mac_OS_X_s_Single-Application_Mode/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22322/Digging_Into_Mac_OS_X_s_Single-Application_Mode/ Way back, when we were recovering from our hangovers from the millennium parties, Apple introduced, for the first time, Mac OS X and the Aqua user interface. This was still a preview, so it wasn't quite as polished and finished, of course. It also contained a feature that never made it into the final releases: single-window mode. Or did it...? Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:14:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22302/VMware_Fusion_3_Takes_Windows-on-Mac_Up_a_Notch/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22302/VMware_Fusion_3_Takes_Windows-on-Mac_Up_a_Notch/ "Was it really only a little over three years ago that the formerly fanciful notion of being able to run Windows apps within OS X without major limitations became reality? Today, archrivals Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion continue to undergo aggressive upgrades aimed at making the virtualization of Windows on Macs even more powerful, seamless, and simple. And today, VMware is announcing that it's taking preorders for VMware Fusion 3, which will ship on October 27th." Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:30:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News Moulinneuf http://www.osnews.com/story/22226/Siracusa_on_UTIs_in_Snow_Leopard/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22226/Siracusa_on_UTIs_in_Snow_Leopard/ "It seems that UTIs are in the news again. It all started with a change in application binding in Snow Leopard. In a scant few weeks it's degenerated into a sometimes-angry bout of cross-blog debate. I have an opinion about the changes in Snow Leopard, and I'll get to that eventually, but my main goal is to clarify the issue. It's really not that complicated, and seeing all the confusion on the web has been disheartening." Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:26:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22195/Improving_the_Mac_OS_X_Application_Installation_Process/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22195/Improving_the_Mac_OS_X_Application_Installation_Process/ There are several things which take quite some getting used to when switching from any platform to the Mac. There are things like the universal menubar, the dock, Expose, and many more. One of the things that often leads to confusion for new users is the installation process for applications. Mozilla developer Alexander Limi talks about the problems Mozilla runs into when it comes to Firefox' installation process on the Mac, and a possible solution. Update: A possible solution? Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:34:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 57 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22189/Snow_Leopard_Leaps_to_Record_Sales/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22189/Snow_Leopard_Leaps_to_Record_Sales/ During the first two weeks of its release, Snow Leopard outsold Apple's two previous operating systems by a wide margin and set a record for the Mac maker. Sales of Apple's latest OS were more than two times higher than its predecessor, Leopard, and almost four times more than Leopard's predecessor, Tiger, according to the NPD Group, which tracks retail sales, excluding online sales. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:44:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News haus http://www.osnews.com/story/22173/Miller_Apple_Misses_Boat_on_Snow_Leopard_Security/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22173/Miller_Apple_Misses_Boat_on_Snow_Leopard_Security/ While Snow Leopard includes some improvements in the area of security, noted security researcher Charlie Miller, winner of two consecutive "Pwn2own" hacker contests and co-author of The Mac Hacker's Handbook, concludes that Apple missed the boat on security in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. "Snow Leopard's more secure than Leopard, but it's not as secure as Vista or Windows 7," Miller said. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:56:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 70 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22152/Apple_Releases_Grand_Central_Dispatch_as_Open_Source/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22152/Apple_Releases_Grand_Central_Dispatch_as_Open_Source/ One of the main new features in Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system has been released as open source. Apple has released the code of the userland portion of its Grand Central Dispatch technology under the Apache License, version 2. Mac OS X also has kernel support for Grand Central Dispatch, which is also released as open source via the XNU project. While we're at it, let's take this opportunity to look into exactly what Grand Central Dispatch is. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:15:54 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 67 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22150/Mac_OS_X_10_6_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22150/Mac_OS_X_10_6_1_Released/ Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is barely out the door, and Apple has already released the first update, Mac OS X 10.6.1, which includes, among other things, the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player. "This update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac." Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:40:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mac OS X 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/41 News