With the Mac Leopard operating system getting released just a few weeks ago it is no surprise that there are some new Get A Mac ads available. They are titled Podium, PR Lady, and Boxer.
The developer of the famed Quicksilver application (Macs only) has decided to open up the source code for the program. Is it a big deal? A lot of people are excited about the news, but Quicksilver was already designed to be an extremely extensible system via plugins.
The other day security analysts deemed the new Mac Leopard's firewall insecure, especially since it is disabled out-of-the-box. Now things have gotten a bit worse for those Mac users who feel that their machine is not in need of any additional security software.
One of the things that Windows is always heavily criticized for is the lack of security features out-of-the-box. Windows XP and Vista do come with free firewalls, and Vista has the new User Account Control (UAC), but people still expect it to do more.
Mac OS X Leopard has been freed from captivity and is now in the hands of keyed-up Apple fans.
With today being the grand launch day of Mac OS X Leopard, I thought we'd continue the topic we started last week focusing on Mac computers. There's no better time to poke fun at Apple and Mac and in the process, laugh a little too. Below you'll find a collection of jokes and comics from around the web. I'm not promising gut-busting kind of laughter, but they're still funny. :)
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal released his review of Apple's Leopard operating system which is set to launch on Friday evening. His verdict? Leopard is both faster and easier to use than Vista. He was able to test it on two different computers - a MacBook Pro Laptop with Leopard pre-installed (provided by Apple), and then on his own iMac Desktop in which he made the upgrade to Leopard.
Apple has finally decided to inform the public about the official release date of the acclaimed Leopard operating system, and it's in just 10 days (on October 26th). Lines will surely form outside of the Apple stores, but I would imagine that there will be more than enough copies available.
Apple has begun to warn users of the imminent Boot Camp expiration that will be coming later this month. They started winding things down by setting Boot Camp 1.2 (released in March 2007) to expire a few days ago.
Late last night Microsoft announced that they had released Silverlight 1.0, and to mark the occasion they also said that Linux support would be coming soon.
For a little while yesterday, Apple had a section on Leopard’s Boot Camp page that discussed a pretty useful feature.
The Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 (WWDC) started today, but there weren’t many new things revealed as I had expected. A large majority of the time was spent going over features that users can expect to see in October when Mac OS X Leopard is released, but the coolest thing in my opinion is that Safari is coming to Windows. More on that below...
Apple just got done issuing an update for Mac OS X yesterday that fixed 25 security flaws in the operating system. Many of the bugs being fixed were all found during the “Month of Apple Bugs” from back in January. Luckily there is no record that any hackers attempted to exploit the bugs that were found.
The rumors were right, Leopard has been delayed again. This time, until at least October. Apple’s official announcement says:
