Snow Leopard Ships tomorrow boasting serveral new features, but most importantly a much leaner core as Snow Leopard will only run on Intel processor based Macintoshes.
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Snow Leopard Tomorrow
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Apple Releases Safari 4
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Apple releases Safari 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3. Safari 4 makes browsing more intuitive and enjoyable with innovative features, such as Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow, and support for modern web standards like HTML 5 and advanced CSS Effects.
Apple Unveils Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Apple unveils Mac OS X Snow Leopard, a powerful new version of the world’s most advanced operating system that includes hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange and new accessibility features. Snow Leopard will ship as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users in September 2009. Apple also unveiled a Developer Preview of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, a full 64-bit UNIX server operating system based on open standards that is up to twice as fast as its predecessor
Apple release Mac OS 10.5.7 Update
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Apple have released the long awaited 10.5.7 update. This s more than likely going to be the last major update before the realease of Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) later this summer.
Highlights in this update are:
- Improves performance of video playback and cursor movements for recent Macs with NVIDIA graphics.
- Improves Finder search results for network volumes that may not support Spotlight searching
- Includes several improvements to Directory Service and Client Management.
for a full list of updates visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3397
Direct Downloads:
10.5.7 update ( Requires 10.5.6) here
10.5.7. combo update (updates any 10.5.x) here
Parallels Desktop 4.0 Build 3844 released
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Parallels annouced today an update to their excellent Parallels Desktop Software. This software enables you to run multiple virtual machines on your Intel powered Mac. This has been great for training or lab testing environments, previously we’d have several machines, such as a Mac OS X Server, a Windows 2003 Server Windows XP/ Vista client and Mac OS Client all setup. Now we just need to deploy a single machine with that can run all these Operating systems simultaneously. & using the Template deployment ro snapshotting feature its easy to reset for the next class, or revert back to a previous system state when somethings gone wrong.
Parallels also has a Server product meaning you can run multiple Server OS’s on a single Mac OS based computer, this is really useful when there is a windows server requirment within a Mac environment.
Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 Update brings Tiger compatibility
Monday, April 6th, 2009Popular font management app Suitcase Fusion 2 has just been updated. Previous versions were only compatible with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Fusion 2 13.1 is now compatible with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger
Click here for a direct download
Emailing Webpages from Safari
Friday, March 27th, 2009How often do you find yourself copying & pasting URLs from within Safari into Mail.app or other emailer such as Microsoft Entourage?
Wouldn’t it be nice to actually send them the webpage?
Well you can!
in Safari, simply type Command-I when in the desired page, and hey presto your now in your email client showing the page in the new mail window.
neat eh?
Nice Tidy Screenshots
Friday, March 27th, 2009We all know that Command-Shift-3 will screenshot your entire screen and that Command-Shift-4 will turn your pointer into cross hairs so you can draw a box around the desired area don’t we?
The problem is that often using the Command-Shift-4 method you end up with a few pixels on unwanted image & you then need to crop them down in either Preview, or other image editor such as Adobe Photoshop.
Most of the time I want to screenshot entire windows. If you type Command-Option-4 but the press the space bar your pointer should then turn into a camera, click on the desired window and you get a nice tidy image of the entire window.
NB this applies to Leopard users only