Monday, June 30, 2008

Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Apple is billing Snow Leopard as an OS without any new features, but this couldn't be further from the truth. Under the hood improvements offer users much to look forward to, including the benefits of a new multi-touch framework, dramatic file size reductions, text-processing features, auto activation of fonts, and full read and write ZFS support.

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iPhone 2.0 Golden Master Could Hit this Friday

According to a sources inside the Cupertino's iPhone software development effort, it is "highly probable" that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will hit this Friday. The final version could arrive two weeks before the introduction of the new iPhone 3G and just in time for the promised June release. Current 345 build activates two code-signing features

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Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod

Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusi...

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MSI Wind Running Mac OS X Also Thinks It's a Mac Pro

It's not even out yet and people have already hacked Mac OS X to run on the MSI Wind. Like with other non-Apple Leopard boxes, the little computer believes it is a Mac Pro, so the hack is good for both your egos. The port is still lacking some fine tuning, but it runs quite well according to Insanely Mac forum member Jav:

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