OS X

Apple's desktop operating system, Mac OS X, is considered the soul of the Macintosh computer. This BSD-based OS is built on technologies developed at NeXT that were acquired by Apple in early 1996. The first consumer-oriented release of OS X was in March, 2001. Since then, Apple has had a very aggressive release schedule with significant updates coming every 12 to 24 months.

All versions of OS X have an associated "big cat" code name - 10.0 was "Cheetah", 10.1 was "Puma" and so on. Over time, Apple began using the code names in marketing materials and even began branding the releases, starting with OS X "Jaguar". A client version and a server version are usually released in parallel.

As with Apple hardware, there is a huge rumor ecosystem based on speculation of what features the next release will hold. There are also many tip sites and troubleshooting sites to help with operating system issues or running software on these operating systems.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “OS X”

• What Makes a Good Operating System?

  
  JJinuxLand — Authority: 110
  There are a lot of good operating systems these days. How do you pick one? If youre going to pick Linux, how do you pick which distribution to use? Here are the criteria that are important to me: It must support my hardware. It doesnt matter if its the best operating system in the world, if I cant run it on my ...
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• Drag Songs from iTunes to iChat to Easily Share Music with Friends

  
  OS X Daily — Authority: 665
  Listening to a great song that you think everyone should hear? You can easily share music with your friends thanks to iChat and iTunes, just drag a song from iTunes into an iChat window and off it goes! This may be Snow Leopard and iTunes 9 only, I don’t recall this feature working in Leopard.
  8 hours ago

• The Kindle 2 Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn’t Tell You (Kindle Edition)

  
  Cool Stuff — Authority: 131
  The Kindle 2 Cookbook provides stey-by-step recipes to do everything the Kindle 2 User’s Guide doesn’t tell you about–for free. Learn the Kindle’s hidden secrets and follow clear, convenient instructions to unlock them. The Kindle Cookbook’s handy reference format will make this one book that is always ...
  9 hours ago

• Get Sky Mobile TV App Free !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 439
  Now you can get Sky Mobile TV App on the App Store with live streaming TV via WiFi. The TV channels are Sky Sport Channels, Sky Sport News, Sky News, ESPN and At The Races. In addition, the app lets you browse the Sky Mobile TV electronic program guide free to know what is on over the next 24 hours. If you want to ...
  12 hours ago

• iDeskCal update for Mac Os X adds support for changing time zone...

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 460
  HashBang Industries has updated iDeskCal , their iCal-to-Desktop embedding solution, to version 2.3. The upgrade adds support for changing time zones and reflecting differences automatically on time zone sensitive events.
  14 hours ago

• AdWords Editor 7.6.1 for Windows and Mac – Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities announced

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 527
  AdWords Editor version 7.6.1 is now available for Windows and Mac, and includes support for ad scheduling, advanced location targeting, YouTube Promoted Video ads, and other features. If you are already using AdWords Editor, you will be prompted to upgrade automatically. If youre not already using it, you can ...
  21 hours ago

• Arkeia Releases Free Network Backup Software for Ubuntu

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 460
  Arkeia Software (www.arkeia.com) has released Arkeia Network Backup version 8 in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS repository as a no-cost, small-network package exclusively for Ubuntu users. More from the press release: read more
  22 hours ago

• Engadget Podcast 171 - 11.13.2009

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Engadget Podcast 171 - 11.13.2009

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Hey there, web surfer. Whats cracking? Us? Oh, not much, just listening to this side-splitting episode of the Engadget Podcast on our portable listening device. Yeah, its the episode where Josh, Nilay and Paul find a purse on the sidewalk with $500 in it and debate whether or not to take it to the police or spend the ...
  22 hours ago

• TechStuff Podcasts and the Hackintosh Conspiracy

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks TechStuff — Authority: 124
  Welcome to the week They Dont Want You To Know About. Chris and I risked almost certain doom (or at least an iPod failure) by bringing you this weeks episodes of TechStuff. We addressed two of the most-requested topics we receive from listener mail: hackintoshes and technology conspiracy theories.I can hear some of ...
  23 hours ago

• The Gingerbread Announcer Desktop [Featured Desktop]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 817
  Reader andykashyap85s Mac desktop proves that sometimes simplicity is all you really need for an awesome desktop that helps keep you motivated. The simple OS X desktop consists of nothing more than: Wallpaper: Announcement Geektool Quote of the Day Geektool Time: date +%D VLC Icon See Andys ...
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• News Story Microsoft to enable Visual Studio on Linux and Mac OS...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Microsoft this week acquired Teamprise , a division of SourceGear that built tools to give developers access to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server from systems running Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.SourceGears flagship SourceOffSite provides remote access to Visual SouceSafe, Microsofts version control system. ...
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• Final Cut Studio Resources

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Below is a list of resources to help you learn more about Final Cut Studio and find answers to questions you may have. More from Apple OS X Support ...
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• Configuration Mania Tweaks Popular about:config Options in Plain English [Downloads]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 817
  Firefox only: If you love tweaking every aspect of Firefox with the browsers very useful about:config feature , but you get frustrated trying to decipher cryptic configuration strings (whats a 0 or 2 mean for layout.spellcheckDefault?), Firefox extension Configuration Mania is for you. Weve mentioned ...
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• Microsoft Admits, Then Denies, Copying Mac OS X

  
  TheAppleBlog — Authority: 651
  It boggles the mind, it really does. Microsoft tries  so hard but for each step forward, it seems to take three steps back. Windows 7, Redmond’s answer to the train-wreck that was Vista (subscription required), has been out for just a matter of weeks and has managed to garner mostly positive reviews. But ...
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• Delete Flash Cookies

  
  OS X Daily — Authority: 665
  Flash cookies are not deleted when you remove your browser cookies , because they are stored independent of your browser, meaning Flash cookies from Safari are accessible via Firefox, and vice versa. The interesting thing about Flash cookies though is that they could technically track your web browsing long after you ...
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• Apple tablet to feature Newton-style handwriting recognition

  
  Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site — Authority: 708
  Another day, another Apple tablet rumour. But this one comes with a juicy patent to go with it. Apple’s just resubmitted a patent devised by the brains behind the old-school hand-writing recognition enabled Apple Newton . The patent , published yesterday, is rather boringly titled “Method and Apparatus for ...
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• Samsung Bada OS Based Cell Phone: Get Ready To Get Confused

  
  areacellphone.com — Authority: 138
  Samsung mobile platform, named ‘Bada’ will put the world’s second-largest cellphone maker in competition with some of its key technology suppliers such as Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. Clouds have nonetheless formed over Symbian as Nokia, the largest proponent of the operating system, has also been linked to ...
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• CoverScout update has Snow Leopard Core Graphics improvements

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 460
  The upgrade has Mac OS X 10.6 Core Graphics improvements. Also, now during web searches, "Apply Cover and Continue" can now be selected by holding down the control key.
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• Detect and Add iCal Events Directly from iChat

  
  OS X Daily — Authority: 665
  Did you know that iChat and iCal work very well together? If you’re having a conversation in iChat and you or anyone else mentions a date or a day, you can hover over that mentioned date/day and add an iCal event directly from iChat without ever launching iCal! Try it out yourself with any iChat conversation, just ...
  1 day ago

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