Tag Archive | "OS X"
Apple changes Finder sidebar behavior in OS X 10.6.7
Adman Engst of TidBITS reports on a subtle design change in OS X 10.6.7 that we hadn’t noticed before. In the latest OS X update from this past April, Apple changed the way users can drag items out of the Finder sidebar. Whereas users could previously just drag an item out, users now must “command-drag [...]
Continue reading...Apple releases OS X Lion Developer Preview 3
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Apple last Friday released a new developer beta of OS X Lion which includes a new boot up animation, new desktop backgrounds, slightly updated Finder toolbars, a Reading List enabled version of Safari, and the addition of a Mission Control app. Some other changes, courtesy of Itsalltech, include: - New options in System Preferences>Mission Control [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s iOS profits are 2.3 times higher than Microsoft’s Windows profits
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
By John Hiesler: In an era where PC growth is declining, Apple is the lone company actually seeing an uptick in PC sales. More than that, because Apple offers a unique and non-commoditized experience, the margins it enjoys for each Mac sold is the envy of the entire industry. In the most recent quarter, Apple [...]
Continue reading...Apple to distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
By Sarah Petit: Apple this Summer is expected to release Mac OS X Lion. As opposed to other OS X releases, however, Lion will also be available for purchase via the Mac App Store. AppleInsider reports: The Mac App Store, available to all users running the most recent version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, will [...]
Continue reading...Will “Find my Mac” be a new feature in OS X Lion?
Monday, May 2, 2011
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With WWDC just about a month away, the feature set of OS X Lion is starting to crystallize. One feature which has received scant attention, particularly because the evidence is so well hidden, is the possible inclusion of a “Find my Mac” feature – akin to the Find my iPhone feature that used to exclusively [...]
Continue reading...AppleSeed program puts pre-release copies of OS X Lion in hands of non-developers
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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With OS X Lion planned for a Summer release, Apple is increasing its efforts to garner user feedback on its next-gen OS. While Apple has long given pre-release copies of OS X to developers who subsequently inform Apple of any bugs or issues they come across, Apple is also seeking the input of non-developers as [...]
Continue reading...OS X turns 10 years old
Monday, March 28, 2011
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Last Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of OS X, Apple’s modern OS built on the technology of Steve Jobs’ NeXT OS. Looking back over the past 10 years, Macworld’s Dan Moren highlights the importance and integral role OS X had in helping Apple reemerge as an innovator and force on the technological landscape. Though nobody [...]
Continue reading...Departure of Bertrand Serlet is merely a “changing of the guard”
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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When ever a high profile executive plans to leave a company, it’s natural for some to look for underlying dissent and chaos lingering the surface. The recent announcement that Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s top man in charge of software engineering, would be leaving the company expectedly sparked similar fears. But Serlet’s departure is nothing more than [...]
Continue reading...Former Apple engineers speak on the departing Bertrand Serlet
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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Apple yesterday announced that its spirited senior vice president of Mac software engineering Bertrand Serlet, who some are calling the father of OS X, will be leaving the company to focus less on products and more on science. Below are some enlightening and, at times, opposing viewpoints on Bertrand Serlet from two former Apple engineers as [...]
Continue reading...As Apple attempts to reduce the learning curve…
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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With betas of OS X 10.7 Lion now in the hands of developers, we’ve seen a decent number of iOS style features migrate their way into OS X. Indeed, Apple isn’t shy about its strategy here and Steve Jobs himself said as much when Apple previewed OS X Lion for the first time a few [...]
Continue reading...By country, Switzerland has the highest Mac OS X market share in the world
Friday, March 18, 2011
As if we need more proof that the Swiss have an exquisite taste for good design, the Pingdom blog measured visitor data across a sample size of three million websites and found that Switzerland has the highest percentage of Mac users than any other with a 17.61% share. Luxembourg comes in second with a 15.79% [...]
Continue reading...Safari owned by French security experts within 5 seconds at Pwn2Own hacker challenge
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Well that sure didn’t take long. Apple’s Safari browser was hacked within just 5 seconds of visiting a specific website at this year’s Pwn2Own hacker challenge. The victorious researchers were French security experts from the security firm VUPEN. The company was awarded $15,000 cash and can now lay claim to a new 13-inch MacBook Air.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
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