Tag: MAC OS X

Today in Cupertino, Apple shifted its focus from mobile devices back to the desktop. Steve Jobs teased the newest version of 10.7, OS X Lion, for the first time at the 'Back to the Mac' event. Jobs presented several features that worked especially well with the iOS system -- including multi-touch gestures, an App Store and home screens -- which will be showing up in Lion. The new OS is on track ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Escape the giant snake monster in 'Chase Goose 2,' an 8-bit game combining the best of Canabalt with the button-tapping goodness of 'Track & Field.' [From: Kongregate] Urlesque looks at the history of Screamers, those awful Flash-based pranks that terrified children, office ...

If you're scratching your head over the new vertical orientation of iTunes 10's close/minimize/maximize 'traffic light' buttons -- which diverts from years of Apple design history -- there's a quick fix on the Mac (sorry, Windows users). Boot up the Terminal app (in your Applications folder), and paste in the following single line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1 and press Return. ...

If you're a Mac user, you have a little updating to do. To tide us over until Snow Leopard, the next major version of the Macintosh operating system, Apple earlier this week released an update with the exciting name "v10.5.8." Here's what it holds in store for you: A new version of Safari, version 4.0.2, fixes some security holes and also allows better searching of browser history. Bluetooth ...

Microsoft likes to make Windows users wait for releases. It's usually a good three to five year drought between one version of its operating system to the next, with a bunch of free updates released along the way. Apple, on the other hand, likes to drop nearly annual updates of its current operating system called OS X. Each new release brings some new suite of updates and features and sells for ...