From the monthly archives:

August 2009

More Snow Leopard info to come

August 31, 2009

It’s been a busy few days for me, but I’ve been compiling tons of info re: Snow Leopard, changes, improvements, problems, solutions, etc. and will be posting them as I have time.
In the mean time:
MacFixIt.com has a lot of great information, including MacFixIt Readers Report: Early Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard issues.
One [...]

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More Snow Leopard Answers

August 26, 2009

What do you need to know… what do you need to do?
Some of us will have our hands on the new Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, within a couple of days. I am going to install it immediately, but don’t necessarily recommend that you do. It’s a .0 version. Even though it’s similar [...]

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Coming soon to a Mac near you: Snow Leopard!

August 25, 2009

Mac OS X 10.6 ships August 28
Warning – this is a long post
Friday is the day… Pre-orders are scheduled. Amazon tells me that I should see my copy on Sept. 1 or so, and I’ll be reporting my experiences here in the next couple of weeks.
Most of the changes are under the hood… speed improvements, [...]

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Snow Leopard to ship August 28!

August 24, 2009

It’s official. Snow Leopard will ship in 4 days.
Apple Computer, 8/24/09:
Apple Announces Release of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
Apple announced the release of Mac OS X v10.6, Snow Leopard. Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Leopard, with hundreds of refinements, out-of-the-box support [...]

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Antiglare dislpay available on MacBook Pro 15″

August 11, 2009

Apple is offering a $50 option to provide the matte display they dropped last year. New Mac portables have come with glossy screens only on the unibody models, much to the dismay of a very vocal minority.
Apple did retain the option for a matte screen on the 17″ MacBook Pro, and now it’s an optional [...]

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New Mac Trojan Warning – Use Caution Downloading QuickTime Plugin

August 11, 2009

From MacFixIt August 11, 2009
Mac Trojan appears as QuickTime update on malicious Web sites
Edited by Joe Aimonetti

TrendMicro is reporting that a Trojan targeting Mac users, known as OSX/Jahlav-D, is appearing as a QuickTime plug-in update called MacCinema Installer.
This Trojan is a DNS Changer Trojan, similar to the OSX/Jahlav-C Trojan that was linked to several [...]

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10.5.8 Update Issues and Answers

August 6, 2009

Problems after the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Update
There are always some problems reported after every software update. More often than not they are in a distinct minority of users, but I like to report the more common ones, with solutions if I can. I’ll update this as more problems come up in the next week [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.8 update released

August 5, 2009

Apple posted the new updated today, in a 10.5.8 Combo installer and a Server Combo installer, as well as incremental updates available through Software Update. As always, I recommend using the Combo updaters rather than Software Update for System updates, as it seems to provide less chance for instability.
You should back up your system before [...]

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