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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “OSx”

• Ecoute 1.3.2

  
  DownArchive - Your Future Downloads — Authority: 533
  Ecoute 1.3.2 | Mac Os X | 4.2 MB Ecoute plays your iTunes library. Music, videos, and podcasts goes into this small application that doesnt require iTunes to be launched to play your library. Some other cool features are included like search for missing artwork, last.fm, customizable themes, etc..
  10 hours ago

• MSI Wind U100 netbook: How to update to 10.6.2

  
  trick77.com — Authority: 91
  Because Apple didn’t release the Darwin 10.2.0 XNU sources (the kernel in Mac OS X 10.6.2)  yet (as of 11-14-09), there’s no way to re-enable Atom CPU support on the MSI Wind (and other Atom based netbooks) once you update to 10.6.2. I’ve seen some russian bin-hacks (Tea’s kernel) but they don’t work on ...
  10 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 ...
  11 hours ago

• Holiday Gift Guide: Get them something they will love. Get a Mac

  
  Notebooks.com — Authority: 564
  If you’ve already started holiday shopping, you’ve no doubt realized that purchasing a computer is more daunting of a task than ever before. Dozens of companies making hundreds of models with thousands of possible configurations – it’s enough to make you dizzy. When it comes to buying laptops as a gift, the ...
  15 hours ago

• Whats the deal with Flash video on OSX? I cant click the play button!

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 647
  Why do Youtube (and other flash videos) become unresponsive on my Mac when they are embedded in other sites? [iMac and MacBook Pro, Snow Leopard (and previous OS), Firefox & Safari] Often, when I come across an embedded YouTube clip (and sometimes videos from other services like Vimeo) on my RSS feed or in a ...
  21 hours ago

• AppleWatchers: Mainstreaming the Hackintosh?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 647
  AppleWatchers: Mainstreaming the Hackintosh? What does the hive mind know about Apples history, culture, marketing, business models, people, etc. which would confirm or refute the hypothesis "Apple will fully embrace the use of Apple OS and applications on non-Apple hardware in the next 3 - 5 years"?
  1 day ago

• iPhone gets live Sky Mobile TV, O2 offering 3 months free access

  
  Gadget Ressitance — Authority: 161
  Filed under: Multimedia , Apple , iPhone OS British satellite TV purveyor Sky has been pushing hard lately to expand into new spheres, a desire marked most clearly by its Sky Player integration with the Xbox 360 Dashboard. Now the company is keeping momentum going with the Sky Mobile TV app for the iPhone. ...
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• How to bulk rename itunes files from external data source.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 647
  How can I bulk rename files in itunes according to data contained in a separate file? I have 4000-some .wav files in itunes that are essentially field recordings of people talking. The files are named with a 10 digit unique id number and the date acquired. Example: 1234567890_11122009. In a separate csv file I ...
  1 day ago

• Prowling around with an iPhone

  
  Jan-Piet Mens — Authority: 129
  Prowl is a Growl -like client for the iPhone which accepts notifications from your computer (Mac, Windows) using push. UNIX and Linux systems are also supported via a third-party API that you can use to build your own applications. Installing Prowl is easy enough, and doing so in conjunction with Growl is ...
  2 days ago

• Microsoft changes its story: “We didn’t copy Apple”

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 772
  Yesterday we reported on a Microsoft employee who claimed in an interview that Windows 7 was designed to copy the “look and feel” of Apple’s OSX. Now the company has retracted that statement, saying OSX was no influence on Windows 7 at all. Writing on the official Windows Blog , Microsoft’s Brandon ...
  2 days ago

• Apple releases Safari 4.0.4

  
  Talk iPhone - iPhone News Blog and Forums — Authority: 472
  Apple released an update that addresses performance, stability, and security: Safari 4.0.4.  Additionally, the software update helps users by doing the following: Improving JavaScript performance Providing easier searching through large browser histories Enhances the stability of 3 rd party plug-ins Aids in the ...
  2 days ago

• TomTom to bring free lane guidance, text-to-speech, iPod control to iPhone GPS app

  
  Engadget Mobile — Authority: 746
  Filed under: Software , Apple , iPhone OS TomToms probably still dizzy from the hit that Google laid on it just a few days ago, but it has somehow managed to get its bearings long enough to announce that a slew of gratis updates are incoming for its highly-hyped iPhone navigation app . Following in ...
  2 days ago

• Editing recurring events in iCal that you’ve accepted from MS Exchange/other…

  
  In No Particular Order — Authority: 91
  Thought I’d share a mini-triumph to a niggling problem with iCal and recurring events I’d accepted into my calendar. I work with a number of clients, most of whom are on MS Exchange of one flavour or another. I get meeting invites from them and accept them joyously into iCal on my Mac. For the most part this ...
  2 days ago

• Facebook app developer rejects App Store, irony ensues

  
  Engadget Mobile — Authority: 746
  Filed under: Software , Apple , iPhone OS We always said that if Apples arbitrary , inconsistent , and quite frankly baffling approval process didnt get straightened out soon, the defections were going to pick up pace -- and what do we have here? Joe Hewitt, the developer of the well-loved and highly ...
  2 days ago

• Attention: We Are Ordering this Banhammer [Tools]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
      I can imagine myself simultaneously banhammering and punching badly behaved readers with the Fist Sledgehammer . Go on Read the original here: Attention: We Are Ordering this Banhammer [Tools]
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• Windows 7: Smells better than Mac no longer!

  
  TouchMyApps — Authority: 485
  Yup, Microsoft, embarrassed by the poor (and perhaps redundant) sod who made the mistake of mentioning that Windows 7 was designed to look and feel like the Mac , have done their darndest to retract the statement – even so far as to blog about it. If you feel embarrassed and don’t know what to do, it is best to ...
  2 days ago

• iPhone gets live Sky Mobile TV, O2 offering 3 months free access

  
  Gadget Ressitance — Authority: 161
  Filed under: Multimedia , Apple , iPhone OS British satellite TV purveyor Sky has been pushing hard lately to expand into new spheres, a desire marked most clearly by its Sky Player integration with the Xbox 360 Dashboard. Now the company is keeping momentum going with the Sky Mobile TV app for the iPhone. ...
  2 days ago

• Psystar Founders Claim They Cracked OS X, Hackintosh Scene is ‘All Wrong’

  
  Tech News Time — Authority: 145
  Okay, so we’re reading this puff piece in the Miami New Times about would-be Mac cloner Psystar, and while we’re somewhat willing to dismiss author Tim Elfrink’s various mischaracterizations of the law and what Psystar is actually doing as just laziness and / or ignorance, there’s a quote here from ...
  2 days ago

• Microsoft Disowns Manager For Suggesting That A Mac OS Inspired Windows 7 [Microsoft]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 893
  Poor Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous. His Microsoft bretheren is calling him uninformed and practically disowning him for the quotes he threw out earlier about Windows 7 basing its UI on...
  2 days ago

• Microsoft Disowns Manager For Suggesting That A Mac OS Inspired Windows 7 [Microsoft]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
    Poor Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous . His Microsoft bretheren is calling him uninformed and practically disowning him for the quotes he threw out earlier about Windows 7 basing its UI on the Mac OS . A post on the Windows Blog entitled ” How we really designed the look and feel of Windows 7 ” ...
  2 days ago

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