In January 1998, several PC vendors at the Macworld Expo launched souped-up Windows systems aimed squarely at the Mac content creation market. The vendors expected to take advantage of slumping Mac sales and a worried community and spark a wave of Mac pro switchers.
SWsoft on Wed. introduced a beta version of Parallels Server that supports the running of multiple copies of Leopard Server on Mac Pros and Xserves as well as support for Intel's advance VT-d virtualization hooks.
The list of applications compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 keeps growing, but a good number of Leopard-savvy updates to printer drivers are still on hold. Before upgrading, Tiger users should make sure that their printers will be supported completely under Leopard.
Since the release of Mac OS X Leopard, a number of users have reported that a video codec can stop the Finder from fully loading. An Apple technical note suggests a fix via the Terminal; however, there are other more-GUI ways to apply the fix.
Bloggers recently cried foul, warning that Adobe's CS3 creative applications are "spying" on customers by sending information to Omniture, a major Web analytics company. Now an Adobe blogger counters with details on the tracking program.
For generations of Mac, Apple pushed its Sherlock application as the preferred interface for searching Web resources as well as local content. But with the release of Mac OS X Leopard, search is all about Spotlight, the integrated desktop search architecture, and Dashboard, the Mac's front end to Web services. No Sherlock allowed.
Not everyone moving to Apple's new Mac OS X Leopard will come by way of Tiger. A significant share will upgrade to Leopard from Panther (or even Jaguar) and these users may have some outdated notions of Mac-to-Mac migration.
There's a time and a place for transparency in the user interface and Mac OS X usually is right on the mark (unlike Windows Vista). However, Sheets, the animated window that holds buttons for some modal dialogs needs work.
Apple late Monday released its Mac OS X 10.5.2 update, which addresses many annoying bugs as well as tackling a number of interface issues that bugged longtime users.
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit on Tuesday unveiled Art of Office, a new user-generated community site. Who are they kidding?