OSX

Apple’s desktop operating system, Mac OS X, is considered the soul of the Macintosh. 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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• Apple’s Magic Mouse Unboxing and Review

  
  Learn Free Internet Marketing Learn Free Internet Marketing Strategies using Video, Articles, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogs, Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 167
  http://go.tagjag.com/magicmouse/ - http://twitter.com/chrispirillo - I believe in magic. I also believe in Apple. Therefore, I had to buy the new Apple Magic Mouse. There is no scroll ball on this particular mouse, as there was on the Mighty Mouse. The entire surface of the Magic Mouse is touch-enabled. I like this a ...
  8 hours ago

• Setting /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in bash PATH for Mac OSX Snow Leopard for all users

  
  Chris Searle — Authority: 107
  Just a short reminder - the list of paths that path_helper (/usr/libexec/path_helper is called from /etc/profile) is stored in /etc/paths. Just add /usr/local/bin at the top of the file. Technorati Tags: mac osx snow leopard English
  18 hours ago

• Window is just a bit high for the Leopard to climb in

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 440
  Windows 7 is really doing great as stats roll out stating that the OS is actually doing better than Snow Leopard Mac OS. The stats put Windows 7 powered PCs at 5.07% while the Mac OS X is just a fraction behind with 5%. While that is great to know, but it isn’t surprising given that Microsoft leads the OS ...
  1 day ago

• OS Xbox Pro Mod Is Nicely Done

  
  Hardware Sphere — Authority: 574
  Stuffing Apple’s things into Microsoft Shell, that’s probably what’s OS Xbox Mod were made for. Design my WillUDesign (Will), OS Xbox Pro Mod is probably the coolest mod up to date. Featuring an EFI-X hackintosh dongle, the mod did comes with a cool specs such as 2.93Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, 8GB or ...
  1 day ago

• Hotest Hackint0sh ever : OS Xbox PRO

  
  Mac OSx86 — Authority: 100
  This video documents the build of the OS Xbox Pro. For more information about this build visit www.willudesign.com Related posts: Play Wave 3/Wave 4 Backup Games on XBOX 360 Play backup games on XBOX-360 w/ Benq drive
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• Getting my OS X calculator back into the Dashboard

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  In OS X Snow Leopard, my calculator has escaped from the Dashboard and is always on my screen, and always on top. How can I send it back to the Dashboard? Its definitely the Dashboard widget calculator, and not another calculator - its the same orange design, and definitely not the normal OS X standalone calculator. ...
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• My Dream Dual Boot Netbook

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  Help me build my perfect netbook! Ive had my iBook G4 since I started Uni over 6 years ago, but its starting to show its age and things are starting to play up (apart from the battery!) So Ive ordered myself a Samsung NC20 with a 2Gb of RAM upgrade. Id really like to dual or triple boot between Windows, OSX, ...
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• OS Xbox Pro is the hottest hackintosh ever

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
  -: Desktops , Hardware , Mac Pro Warning: some NSFW lyrics on the music in the video above. What do you get when you combine an old Xbox with OS X and some Mac Pro level hardware? This monstrosity . Read more here: OS Xbox Pro is the hottest hackintosh ever
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• SnowOSX : First Snow Leopard 10.6 Distro for Intel PC

  
  iHackintosh — Authority: 471
  This article will discuss the first “snow” assembly SnowOSX Universal 10.6 v3.4. Distribution is based on the Snow Leopard 10A421 and installed on a PC computer based on Intel processors with support for instructions SSSE3. First, you need to download the distribution from the Internet. Image SnowOSX Universal ...
  2 days ago

• Apple Seeks to Shut Down Psystar for Good With Permanent Injunction

  
  TheAppleBlog — Authority: 663
  It’s been a long, drawn out legal battle, but Apple is clearly winning by almost all accounts, and it just filed for a motion that could end Psystar’s party permanently. On Monday, the company filed a claim for a permanent judgment against Psystar that would stop the clone maker from selling any products at all, ...
  2 days ago

• This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job [Image Cache]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
      It might not be the smartest way of giving a zero-weeks notice at work, but you’ve gotta give this guy some credit for doing extra work and making a custom Mac OS X app just for the purpose of quitting. Supposedly the pop up prompt (which apparently doesn’t do anything) was seen by the fellow’s coworker ...
  3 days ago

• This is How a Pissed Off Designer Quits His Job [Image Cache]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
      It might not be the smartest way of giving a zero-weeks notice at work, but you’ve gotta give this guy some credit for doing extra work and making a custom Mac OS X app just for the purpose of quitting. Supposedly the pop up prompt (which apparently doesn’t do anything) was seen by the fellow’s coworker ...
  3 days ago

• OS Xbox Pro the coolest Xbox mod. Period. Mac Pro stuffed inside…

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 564
  Ok, did I miss some announcement on some bizarre national mod week? I mean the OS XBox Pro (pictured above) is now one of many gadget mods we’ve covered over the last couple of days. All things considered, it could be the millionth custom mod and I would still be just as captivated and geeked out. Some of you may ...
  3 days ago

• My new 27″ iMac

  
  smashin' pOpstar — Authority: 129
  2 days ago I went to Epicenter at Pavilion to purchase my new toy. Called up all the Machines branches in KL and they all ran out of stock.. Luckily Epicenter still has some in store. This is my new toy. The recently launched 27″ iMac . Photo taken at Epicenter itself before I pulled the giant box out of the ...
  3 days ago

• Energy Stocks Weak After Downward GDP Revision

  
  FOXNews.com — Authority: 940
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• Dual Monitor Setup on Mac OS X

  
  Learn Free Internet Marketing Learn Free Internet Marketing Strategies using Video, Articles, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogs, Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 167
  live.pirillo.com - I’ve been using the dual 30″ monitors with my Vista machine, hooked up with Dual Link DVI cables. Someone in chat suggested I use one of them for the MacBook Pro. With these new MBP’s, it’s quite easy. Just plug in one of the DVI cables, and off you go… or so I [...]
  4 days ago

• A very early and very short Christmas wish list

  
  Upstart Blogger — Authority: 459
  The more attentive amongst you will already be aware that I have been away on vacation with my wife and daughter for the last 8 days. Wordpress, in particular the way it easily facilitates the scheduling of posts in advance, made it easy to keep all my blogs updated while I enjoyed a wonderful, and [...]
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• Glitch Pattern Generator [QuarzComposer]

  
  CreativeApplications.Net — Authority: 573
  Glitch pattern generator is the latest app by David Szauder we mentioned few days ago ( Curly Code ). Currently in it’s second alpha only, the app lets you generate some glitch-patterns from your webcam or from existing quicktime mov files. Built using  QuarzComposer , there are a number of options including ...
  4 days ago

• VistoThemes returns with a few BlackBerry 9700 themes: BB OSX, Droid 2.0, and Docked

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 564
  While Corey over at VistoThemes has been pretty quiet for a while, it’s nice to see that he hasn’t given up BlackBerry theming for good as he’s freshed up a few of his older themes for the new BlackBerry 9700. Those themes include: BB OSX, Droid 2.0, and Docked. Back in the day (all of one roughly one year ...
  4 days ago

• Uninstall Applications Completely In Mac OS By Drag and Drop Using App Cleaner

  
  TECH YARD — Authority: 136
  Applications can store files across various location of the drive on installation, on un-installation all files have to be deleted leaving out no files, AppCleaner a Mac OS application allows you to thoroughly and completely uninstall unwanted apps in MacOS. AppCleaner Features : Removes all traces of ...
  4 days ago

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