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Apple

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review – Ars Technica

September 1, 2009

John Siracusa goes in-depth with Snow Leopard:

The overall message from Apple to developers was something like this: “We’re adding a ton of new things to Mac OS X that will help you write better applications and make your existing code run faster, and we’re going to make sure that all this new stuff is rock-solid [...]

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What’s working in Snow Leopard?

August 31, 2009

If you want to see what’s working and what’s not in Snow Leopard, then jump over to Wikidot’s Snow Leopard Compatibility List.

It’s the best list around for Snow Leopard compatibility.

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Looking at System Preferences in Snow Leopard

August 29, 2009

Dan Frakes gives Macworld readers a rundown of System Preferences in Snow Leopard:

As it does in every major upgrade to Mac OS X, Apple has renovated System Preferences in Snow Leopard, reorganizing individual panes and changing the layout of settings within panes. You’ll also find new settings and wonder where some old ones went.

Snow Leopard [...]

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Search what you want in Snow Leopard

August 29, 2009

TUAW points out a little-mentioned Spotlight fix in Snow Leopard:

One of the little frustrations in my everyday use of Leopard was the way it searched in folders. When in a Finder window, there was a handy-looking search box in the upper right-hand corner. I would place the cursor, type my query, and [...]

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My Snow Leopard experience

August 29, 2009

Updating a Mac OS has never been a challenge. Tiger took some time, but went flawlessly. Leopard was a breeze. And all of my reading on Snow Leopard had me ready for a 45 minute non-event.

Needless to say, my experience was not a smooth one. It took me two installs and hours of troubleshooting before [...]

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I love my AppleTV

August 5, 2009

You can find a lot of online hate for the Apple TV, like this recent confession from Aron Trimble at TUAW:

I imagine this will come as a surprise to many, but this TUAW blogger hates an Apple product. A product that could be great, could be so much better than what it is. For some [...]

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Gruber on Microsoft’s decline

July 31, 2009

A rather long read from John Gruber at Daring Fireball on Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline.

They’re a software company whose primary platform no longer appeals to people who like computers the most. Their executives are either in denial of, or do not perceive, that there has emerged a consensus — not just among nerds but among [...]

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Steven Frank leaves iPhone OS platform

July 31, 2009

Panic developer Steven Frank is mad as hell, and he ain’t taking it anymore:

There’s been no indication that Apple want to do anything to resolve the problems with app store policies that have been laid bare a hundred times over. There’s no indication of anything, as a matter of fact. Nothing. After a year. It’s [...]

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Would you leave MobileMe with Push for Gmail?

July 8, 2009

Darrell Etherington at The Apple Blog is ready to leave MobileMe if Gpush makes it to the iPhone. Gpush is an iPhone app that would essentially bring push Gmail to the iPhone.

The question surrounding GPush isn’t whether it can pull off what it claims to be able to. That it can do just fine, as [...]

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Justice Department to Investigate AT&T-iPhone Exclusivity?

July 7, 2009

Mashable has a piece on the Justice Department’s investigation into AT&T and other wireless carriers who have exclusive agreements with phone makers:

The U.S. Department of Justice may not be happy with this and other exclusivity arrangements, though, and has opened a review of AT&T, Verizon, and some of the other major telecoms. According to a [...]

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