macOS Archive

As Apple strives to complete the development of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for a potential launch in early 2005, several system utilities are being revamped and rejuvenated.

Apple is hinting that the immediate availability of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) could be announced at the Macworld Expo San Francisco show.

Java 1.4.2 Update 2 for Mac OS X provides improved behavior for applets in Safari and increased stability for desktop Java applications. It is an accumulative upgrade.

ArsTechnica interviews the leader behind the OSX Camino browser project, while O'Reilly has an article about the OSX utility browsers you never knew about.

Panther server can be used as a Primary Domain Controller and host both Macintosh and PC clients. This is an excellent solution for small offices looking to support a mixed-client environment with limited resources, for large installations using mostly Mac clients or for any installation that does not have a PC server in place.

In need of a modern graphing calculator application for its Mac OS X distributions, Apple stopped coding and went shopping overseas.

New builds of Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system are beginning to surface with dozens of previously unpublicized features.

AppleInsider has got info about a new build of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" seeded to a few select developers. Screenshots show iChatJabber support, new "Family Controls," and advanced Safari RSS features.

Mac OS X makes it easy to develop applications then deploy them to other flavors of UNIX. This article discusses tools and techniques for developing code on Mac OS X for deploying on other UNIX platforms.

Yesterday Apple released a security patch that addresses 15 issues, including a serious Kerberos vulnerability. The patch repairs issues in OS X versions going back to 10.2. The patch is available through Software Update, and an advisory can be found at Apple's web site.

Forget the new iMacs and iPods. Apple is leaving a lot of dough on the table by not pushing its Mac OSX software aggressively into corporations running Windows. So says Technology Execution Network Corp., a Microsoft solution provider and Apple Authorized Dealer based in Needham, Mass., which says the latest versions of the Unix-based Macintosh OSX operating system code-named "Panther" significantly enhances the ability for the Mac client and server to integrate with Microsoft's Active Directory and Windows server environment.

Instead of reducing the number of plug-in formats, Mac OS X has added one more to the mix. Furthermore, many Windows-based developers have not found the AU format easy to develop for, and the rollout of AU plug-ins has been slow. Finally, as with other plug-in formats, not all AU plug-ins function equally well in all host applications. Read the article here. Also, make sure you read MacDevCenter, as it contains a number of interesting Mac development articles lately.

The next major release of the Mac OS X operating system will include technology that will eventually grant users more control over the way application windows are displayed to the screen. According to sources, Apple Computer's Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" OS will introduce developer support for resolution independent user interfaces (just like in Longhorn), breaking the software assumption that all display output is to be rendered at 72 dots per inch (DPI).

"So, even if it doesn't catch on with your enterprise at large, Mac OS X Server will definitely contribute to the rising swell of Windows-alternative servers, and the open source community can always plunder its best features." says ServerWatch on their review of Panther Server. Elsewhere, ComputerWorld says that Apple Remote Desktop 2 is 'well worth the money'.