Mac OS X Leopard: A Guided Tour
To further promote the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which Apple Incorporated has announced will be available on October 26, the company has
posted a guide tour to promote the release of the latest version of its operating system. The video goes through various features, old and new, of the
OS available only on the Macintosh. A single-user license costs $129.00 direct from Apple while a five-user license will set you back just
$199.00. Customers who pre-order OS X v10.5 from Apple are guaranteed to have their copy on their doorstep on the day of release, which is now
just a week away.
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20.10.2007Mac OS X Leopard coming October 26
Apple announced on Tuesday that its next generation operating system,
Mac OS X 10.5
Leopard, will be available on October 26. With over 300 new features Mac OS X Leopard updates almost every component of the operating system.
We think Leopard is the richest OS X release yet, Brian Croll, Apples senior director of Software Product Marketing, told
Macworld. There is one version of Leopard the ultimate version.
A few of the most talked about features in Leopard are the new
desktop that includes a Coverflow view of files; Stacks; Time Machine and Quick Look. A
complete list of the new features is available from Apples Web site.
winbeta.org -
16.10.2007Boot Camp 1.3 beta adds new drivers, Apple remote pairing
Ahead of its Worldwide
Developers Conference on
Monday, Apple has released an
update to its Boot Camp
dual-boot software that adds
new graphics drivers among
other improvements.
The
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bo
otcamp/>274MB release also
delivers support for keyboard
backlighting (MacBook Pro
only), Apple Remote pairing,
improved Boot Camp driver
installer, improved
international keyboard
support, and localization
fixes.
The beta
software, which will be
included in Apple's upcoming
Mac OS X Leopard operating
system release, allows users
of Intel-based Macs to install
and run versions of rival
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
operating system...
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08.06.2007ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X is dead
Apple's official project of porting ZFS to Mac OS X has been cancelled. In a simple message posted by MacOS Forge, Apple stated only "the ZFS
project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." ZFS is an advanced file system and logical volume
manager originally created by Sun Microsystems. The file system boasts features such as support for high capacity storage devices, continuous
integrity checking, automatic repair and integration of file system and volume management. Apple's interest in ZFS stemmed back to initial
discussions with Sun to use ZFS as a file system in Mac OS X.
Read full story.....
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24.10.2009Microsoft Windows 7 vs. Apple Snow Leopard in upgrade wars
Apple spent part of its WorldWide Developers Conference this morning detailing
Snow Leopard,
the upcoming version of its Mac OS X operating system -- including plans to
release it in September as a $29
upgrade for people running Mac OS X Leopard. That's about month before Microsoft plans to come out with its new Windows 7 operating system...
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09.06.2009Apple stops Boot Camp downloads
Apple Inc. has pulled the beta of Boot Camp, the application that lets Mac users run Windows XP or Vista on their Intel-powered machines, from its
servers in preparation for Friday's launch of Leopard.
Although a
Boot Camp 1.4 beta page remains live,
clicking on the download link brings up an error message that reads: "The page you tried was not found." A graphic of the Mac OS X 10.5 packaging
appears in the background.
Earlier this month, Apple reminded users that the license to Boot Camp would expire when Leopard
shipped. The application's beta has been available free of charge for Mac owners running Mac OS X 10.4, commonly known as Tiger.
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24.10.2007Apple to Showcase Snow Leopard at MacWorld 09
According to UK's
Guardian, Phil Schiller is to use a portion of his MacWorld presentation to show Snow Leopard, Apple's upcoming operating
system.
Snow Leopard is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2009, before Windows 7 (quarter 2/3). Snow Leopard will have had
a 14+ month development period, the third longest in OS X history.
Snow Leopard will offer many new features such as Microsoft Exchange
Support and OpenCL. Grand Central, another Snow Leopard feature, will make better use of the Intel processors currently in Macs.
While
showing at MacWorld, Snow Leopard is not expected to be publicly available until 2-3 months after.
jcxp.net -
19.12.2008Apple to release Vista soon
Robert Hensing: Looking through the
feature set . . . lets see: We've had tagging of applications
downloaded from the Internet since like XPSP2 (attachment manager api). We've had the ability to sign applications since like Windows 2000? XPSP2
/ Vista have application firewall capability, Vista supports volume encryption. They finally get ASLR - which has been available in Vista since it
shipped. SMB packet signing is somehow worth callling out as a security feature of the OS? Must have been running a little short of things to talk
about. One interesting thing is 'sandboxing' support . . . but of considerable note is the lack of 'Safari' as one of the applications that is
sandboxed?
All in all it looks like good incremental improvements to the competing consumer OS. I welcome the competition. :)
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16.10.2007New Snow Leopard Build Released
Very recently, Apple has seeded a new build of Snow Leopard to a limited number of developers, build 10A261. The last build of Snow Leopard, Apple's
future operating system, was released two months ago in December.
This build features very minor changes to the operating system.
Unfortunately, nothing in the current build suggests that the rumored Marble interface is in the works. However, a few minor interface changes were
made in system preferences. Additionally, this release has a few bugs cleared, particularly in Finder. In result, the build is much more stable and
reliable than previous releases.
In general, Snow Leopard is expected to be a minor release of OS X. Apple has stated that they are
putting a strong focus on quality and performance, meaning that most changes will be behind the scenes for most users.
Snow Leopard is
expected to be released sometime this quarter.
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05.02.2009Leopard's Boot Camp brings 'fast switching' between Mac OS X and Windows
Thanks to TUAW readers, tips
are rolling in on all the tiny
and not-so-tiny features that
Mac OS X Leopard will be
bringing in October. One
feature that is definitely
not-so-tiny is something I'll
dub 'fast switching' between
Mac OS X and your Boot Camp
Windows installation.
While this isn't quite
the built-in virtualization
that some users were hoping
for, it will minimize the
startup, shutdown and boot
times when switching between
the two OSes. Detailed on
http://www.apple.com/macosx/le
opard/features/bootcamp.html>B
oot Camp's new features page,
Apple has hooked their safe
sleep feature into Boot Camp
to allow Mac OS X to save all
your open applications and
windows, and then boot over
into Windows. Once you're
done in Windows, you can boot
back over to Mac OS X and pick
up where you left off - with
all your open applications and
documents put right back where
you left them.
This
is a great idea and an
interesting compromise between
making it a little too easy to
run Windows on your Mac, and
it also keeps Apple from
stepping on the toes of
virtualization products from
companies like Parallels and
VMware.
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12.06.2007Mac OS X 10.6 makes a video appearance
Last June at WWDC, Apple announced that Snow Leopard is to be released in Quarter 1, 2009. As of the announcement, anticipation for the operating
system's release is resulting in many leaked videos and images appearing all over the internet.
Very recently,
Sevenmac has received a new video of the beta operating system. While the beta is from a few months
ago, more information than ever is being leaked. As shown, there are no major interface changes, several new features were shown including an
Exchange-compatible address book, a developer preview of Safari 4, and a handful of 64-bit plug-ins running.
jcxp.net -
30.12.2008Apple previews Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
Apple surprised many today when it announced it would be previewing the next version of the operating system that runs on its Mac line of desktops and
notebooks, Mac OS X 10.6, aka "Snow Leopard". Despite questionable name choice, in its early stages it shows a lot of potential as an even more
stable operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, featuring better 64-bit computing (a theoretical 16 TB, yes terabyte, of RAM is to be supported), full
Microsoft Exchange support in its Address Book and Mail applications, improved multicore support through what Apple calls "Grand Central", and a
technology called OpenCL that puts more processing to the graphics processing unit. Apple also promises an improved media experience through QuickTime
X.
“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for
thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver
the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”
neowin.net -
10.06.2008Security hole plugged in Skype for Mac
Skype on Tuesday issued an
update that fixes a serious
security flaw in its Internet
telephony software for Apple
Computer's Mac OS X.
A vulnerability exists in
the way Skype for Mac handles
Web links, according to a
Skype advisory. An attacker
could construct a malformed
Skype link which, when clicked
on, can cause the application
to crash or allow a system to
be compromised.
"A
user of Skype for Mac who
follows a specially crafted
URL may experience a crash of
the Skype software and
possibly may execute arbitrary
code without consent," the
company said in its advisory.
The Net telephony provider,
part of online auction giant
eBay, deems the issue "high"
risk.
A miscreant
could publish a malformed
Skype link on a Web site, for
example, and try to trick
someone into following it, the
company said.
The
vulnerability exists in Skype
for Mac releases prior to and
including 1.5.*.79. It has
been fixed in release 1.5.*.80
or later, which was available
for download on the Skype Web
site on Tuesday.
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04.10.2006Twenty Snow Leopard Facts You May Not Know
Snow Leopard is nearing completion and is on schedule for release in late-September. Surprisingly however, a lot of people remain unaware of many
of the new features Snow Leopard will be offering. Take a look over the list below and feel free to post any others you may already know.
1.) Snow Leopard will only cost a majority of its users $29, which is priced $100 less than
normal.
2.) Snow Leopard will unlock additional multi-touch gestures on older MacBook Pros and Airs.
3.) Start up, shut
down (75% faster), and wake speeds are all notably faster compared to Leopard.
4.) Installation frees up 6GB of space for users
upgrading from previous versions of OS X.
5.) Snow Leopard offers Microsoft Exchange support right out of the box, which is something
that most Windows PC’s aren’t able to do.
6.) Snow Leopard allows for unibody users to draw Asian characters on the trackpad
instead of phonetically entering them on the keyboard.
7.) Time Capsule backups on Snow Leopard are up to 50% faster.
8.)
Installation is up to 45% faster compared to Leopard’s installation.
9.) Time zones are now automatically setup using Core Location
technology.
10.) Items can be put back directly to its previous location from the trash, which was never possible before in OS X.
11.) Ejecting disks is more reliable and dialogs are improved to clearly display what application is preventing the disk from being ejected.
12.) Exposé can now be activated from the dock by holding down a dock icon, which will display all the windows for that one
application.
13.) Snow Leopard is 55% faster at joining wireless networks compared to Leopard.
14.) Snow Leopard includes
a brand new thesaurus, the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus second edition.
15.) The date now shows up in the menu bar next to
the time.
16.) iCal can setup Gmail and Yahoo! calenders automatically.
17.) TextEdit offers automatic spelling
correction, similar to what is offered on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
18.) Screen savers can now be shuffled as desktops can.
19.) The International preference pane has been removed and replaced with a Language and Text preference pane.
20.) QuickTime X,
included in Snow Leopard, allows you to easily upload videos to YouTube or MobileMe.
Learn More: Snow Leopard Home Page
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