Microsoft has already experienced the power the netbook has to open up operating system options for PC consumers, since it saw Linux distributions being included as the default operating system on consumer-oriented machines for the first time with the advent of the small, affordable, feature-light m...

Good news, Mac users, as it looks like Apple is kicking 10.5.7 development into overdrive. Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.7 build 9J22 went out to testers about a week ago and called for attention to a variety of areas of the OS. Apparently testers did a hell of a job because an updated build, 9J27, wa...

Although I’m not privy to actual sales numbers, I find it hard to believe that there are many people out there buying QuickTime Pro. Yes, the extra features come in handy, but you can’t find anything there that isn’t available in other, more “free” programs like VLC. Ma...

after Mel, Jasmine, Jenny, Berry, and Namid all tagged me on facebook I figured OKAY FINE YOU ASKED FOR IT. Plus like 6 more of you have done it here! *jumps on bandwagon* 1. The problem with me doing things like this is that I can never manage to be succinct. Interesting, since when I was writing f...

This will be a big year for new operating systems. Apple (AAPL) plans a new version of its Macintosh operating system, to be called Snow Leopard. Palm (PALM) plans an all-new smart phone operating system called Palm WebOS. But the new release that will affect more users than any other will be Window...

Filed under: Software, Leopard, Snow Leopard We've all been there; we've all had that sickening feeling that comes from seeing "Macintosh HD" with less than 1 GB of available space. If you're staring at your Finder wondering where you can find some additional space without having to swap out the har...

Prince McLean, AppleInsider NVIDIA, Apple’s new MacBook chipset partner, is working hard to provide seamless support for OpenCL, the cross platform API Apple developed for Snow Leopard to create a vendor neutral, open specification for parallel programming across any compliant GPU. AppleInside...

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Freeware, Snow Leopard MacFUSE is awesome. It allows you to mount a remote server's filesystem, view your iTunes library in Finder, read from and write to NTFS hard drives, and much more! With all of this functionality crammed into a free product one would think it...

Microsoft is hard at work at Vista's successor, named as Windows 7. So is Apple, who are also working on their next OS - Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Here's a comparison of sorts from The Onion , who news are increasingly becoming real. http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/os_x_snow_leopard_vs_window...

[EDIT: All is well now... Carry on.] Just received an email from the Apple Developer Connection. The seed of Snow Leopard 10A190 is apparently posted to the Apple Developer Center. However, mere paid-an-in-good-standing devs like me are apparently not allowed access. You do not have access privilege...