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The first technical papers have been made publicly available from the ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference) website. It includes, but is not limited to: "Cross-Platform Approaches from a Macintosh Perspective", "Hacking the Mac OS X Kernel for Unsupported Machines", "Program Analysis and Verification on Mac OS X".

According to an announcement posted on the Carbon developer's mailing list, Metrowerks announced at AdHoc that the forthcoming release of CodeWarrior 10 will be the last for OS X. This isn't surprising given that Apple is transitioning to Intel chips and Metrowerks has exited the Intel market, but it's still the end of an era. CodeWarrior literally saved Apple's bacon during the transition to PowerPC in the early 1990s by shipping the first working set of developer tools for the new platform. And since then CodeWarrior has been the main toolkit for commercial development on the Mac (especially pre-XCode).

Core Data Explorer is an interactive tool for browsing, manipulating and querying Core Data, the new object-oriented persistence layer in Mac OS X Tiger. It provides full object introspection, graphical browsers for objects and collections and a graphical interface for querying the Mac OS X persistent stores.

Do you want to make the most of your Mac applications? Like all operating systems, the Mac has many different levels of programming, and more than 80 percent of all applications built for OS X leverage AppleScript as an automation tool. In this introductory article, Matthew David tells you how you can best leverage AppleScript for your Mac applications.

MacNN reports that Apple today released Mac OS X 10.4.2, which the company says delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users. It includes fixes for file sharing, authentication, autologin, AirPort/wireless access, several graphics updates, .Mac fixes, Apple's core applications, and more.

Most reviews of Tiger were conducted on fairly new and fast Macs. This article, however, focuses on running it on a low-end Mac. And, to the reviewer's surprise, it runs ok.

Two interesting articles on OS X today. This one summarizes some of the less-obvious new features of Apple's Tiger. The other one theorizes that Apple's shift to Intel is an incentive for Windows developers to port their software due to the lack of the endian problem.

Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, founded NeXT, developed a powerful object oriented operating system, and saw it become Apple's modern OS. That's the short version. The long version can be found here.

This article provides details on how OS X handles multithreading to help port your Win32 application.

A few months ago I published a how-to article showing how to make a Linux machine a Bluetooth 'LAN Access Point' so Bluetooth clients can get internet access via it. This worked fine with Panther, but it seems that the new Bluetooth preference panels on Tiger are not only much better to a certain level, but buggy and puzzling at the very same time.

User-interface experts at one of the world's top design houses say Mac OS X Tiger is the beginning of the end for the Macintosh Finder -- the era of organizing files in nested folders is over. Experts at Silicon Valley's frog design say new features like the systemwide Spotlight search are far more useful for locating information than the hierarchy of files and folders that underpins most computing interfaces, whether on Macs or Windows-based PCs.

According to reports, OSX 10.4 and 10.4.1 is freezing after ~2 hours of uptime when Watching QuickTime7 from Safari or Fullscreen / Using Slideshow / iPhoto slideshow "fullscreen" / ALL OpenGL games in Fullscreen, freezing in either entering or exiting the game.

Apple seeded a new build of Mac OS X 10.4.2 to developers. Build 8C27 addresses a few bugs from build 8C26 and features an "improved widget download experience." Individuals have submitted Xbench benchmark results from Apple's Pentium 4-based Power Mac systems. The benchmarks do not reflect native performance of the 3.6GHz systems, however, but rather provide an indication of how PowerPC-compiled applications will run under Rosetta on Intel-based systems.

ExtremeTech's Jim Lynch reviews Mac OS X Tiger on his Powerbook. The Register's Tony Smith also reviews Tiger.