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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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• Energy Stocks Head Lower At Opening Bell

  
  FOXNews.com — Authority: 944
  Energy Stocks Head Lower At Opening Bell
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• The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox: No. 5 – Unison

  
  MacHacks.TV — Authority: 104
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• Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom support

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  No bonus points for calling this one, but it looks like Atom support has returned to Mac OS X 10.6.2 — less than two weeks after it was unceremoniously removed to the dismay of hackintoshers. Of course, this new “fix” doesn’t come courtesy of Apple, and it does take the art of hackintoshing to some risky new ...
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• Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom support

  
  Engadget — Authority: 874
  No bonus points for calling this one, but it looks like Atom support has returned to Mac OS X 10.6.2 -- less than two weeks after it was unceremoniously removed to the dismay of hackintoshers. Of course, this new "fix" doesnt come courtesy of Apple, and it does take the art of hackintoshing to some risky new ...
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• Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom support

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 464
  No bonus points for calling this one, but it looks like Atom support has returned to Mac OS X 10.6.2 — less than two weeks after it was unceremoniously removed to the dismay of hackintoshers. Of course, this new “fix” doesn’t come courtesy of Apple, and it does take the art of hackintoshing to some risky ...
  1 day ago

• Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom support

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 167
  No bonus points for calling this one, but it looks like Atom support has returned to Mac OS X 10.6.2 -- less than two weeks after it was unceremoniously removed to the dismay of hackintoshers. Of course, this new "fix" doesnt come courtesy of Apple, and it does take the art of hackintoshing to some risky new levels. ...
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• The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox: No. 4 – XLD

  
  MacHacks.TV — Authority: 104
  XLD is the best and most sophisticated CD ripping tool for OS X and should be used by any self-respecting pirate.
  1 day ago

• The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox: No. 3 – UnRarX

  
  MacHacks.TV — Authority: 104
  The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.A digital junkie or pirate will often stumble across rar archives. Files in rar archives end with a .rar file suffix. Rar is like zip, a form of file compression. Unlike zip however OS X supplies you with no apps to open these archives (CLI ...
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• Boot Camp Drivers update 2.2 for Windows available

  
  F-Default — Authority: 543
  -: OS , Software Earlier today, Apple released version 2.2 of Boot Camp drivers for Windows . Continued here: Boot Camp Drivers update 2.2 for Windows available
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• Mac OS X 10.6.2 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

  
  Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu — Authority: 148
  As we await the release of FreeBSD 8.0 to deliver a larger operating system comparison, we have carried out a fresh round of tests comparing Mac OS X 10.6.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 (both x86 and x86_64 editions) under a variety of tests. More here Ubuntu 9.10 (with the 32-bit and 64-bit wins being added together) had won ...
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• Formatting Differences in MS Word on Windows vs Mac

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  How consistent is MS Office between Windows and OSX? Will using MS Office on my Mac solve this formatting problem Im having? Im have a MacBook Pro running Leopard,and Ive been using Open Office to write my papers. Its great. I love Open Office (and love that its free). When I need to turn something in, I just ...
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• Feature #539: i cant update the msf3.3

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 461
  Im working on MAC OSX Snow, i downloaded the 3.3 version and i "sudo ./msfconsole" i did "svn update" the following error came back " Cant open file No such file or directory" please advise History #1 Updated by Maher Yamout about 2 hours ago Maher Yamout wrote: Im working on MAC OSX ...
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• Word Viewer Lets You Convert Word Documents At High Speed With Good Quality !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  Word Viewer is a new professional tool that comes with high speed and quality to view and convert your word documents. It has been especially designed at the view point of the user with the potential to view and convert word documents. Using this program, you can open and read Microsoft Word 2007 (.DOCX), Microsoft ...
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• O2 UK gradually rolls out iPhone unlock, forgot to give us the instructions

  
  Gadget Ressitance — Authority: 163
  Filed under: Handsets , O2 , HSDPA , Apple , iPhone OS Last week O2 UK announced that they will start unlocking iPhones while they lose the exclusivity deal with Apple . We signed up straight away (via the link below) and didn’t hear anything until today — just five days after O2 unlocked the first ...
  2 days ago

• How to reset your keyboard on OSX

  
  carlo.log — Authority: 104
  Somehow, after connecting my new Logitech G9 Laser mouse tonight, two keys on my MS Natural Ergo keyboard were swapped. Highly annoying. After some digging around the Googles, I learned that in order to “reset” your keyboard —i.e. making OSX forget your keyboard type— all you have to do is a rm ...
  2 days ago

• Help with a Mac whose apps all go non-responsive?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  Once a week or so, all the applications running on my Mac go into "not responding" mode, one after another. The only way I can recover is to turn off the Mac using the power button. Any ideas? It always happens the same way - a usually well-behaved app, say Mail, stops responding - just shows a spinning beach ball. I ...
  2 days ago

• Apple Has Been Working on OS X 10.7 for At Least a Month

  
  TheAppleBlog — Authority: 661
  Snow Leopard has barely gotten its paws wet, and now news comes that Apple is already working on its replacement. It’s not really surprising, since Apple is basically always either working on the next iteration of its products or releasing them, but still, it does whet the appetite for the next version of OS X. The ...
  2 days ago

• Energy Stocks Shrug Off Inventory Surprise

  
  FOXNews.com — Authority: 944
  Energy Stocks Shrug Off Inventory Surprise
  2 days ago

• Growl updated to 1.2, adds 64-bit support

  
  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Authority: 776
  Filed under: Software , Freeware , Open Source Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard , the one remaining 32-bit niggle I have has been with Growls preference pane. Today, however, Growl has announced and released v1.2 of its famous application notification system with, among other things, 64-bit support. While ...
  2 days ago

• Sumatra Portable PDF Reader – Latest Version Free Download !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  Sumatra is a lightweight and portable PDF Reader. The newer version of Sumatra Version 1.0 was released yesterday. The latest version comes out with PDF reading compatibilities, Bug fixes, compatibility fixes and additional features. As the Sumatra PDF Reader is an open source program you can contribute your best to ...
  2 days ago

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