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Sifting Through The OS X Small Stuff; Apple’s Switch An Incentive?

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-06 macOS 55 Comments

Two interesting articles on OS X today. This one summarizes some of the less-obvious new features of Apple's Tiger. The other one theorizes that Apple's shift to Intel is an incentive for Windows developers to port their software due to the lack of the endian problem.

A Brief History Of NeXT

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-05 macOS 30 Comments

Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, founded NeXT, developed a powerful object oriented operating system, and saw it become Apple's modern OS. That's the short version. The long version can be found here.

Tiger Stalks The Pipelines

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-01 macOS 41 Comments

Can four Pipeline editors, including one Windows user, agree about the advantages and disadvantages of Apple's new OS?

Porting Multithreaded Apps from Win32 to Mac OS X

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-29 macOS 14 Comments

This article provides details on how OS X handles multithreading to help port your Win32 application.

Mac OS X Tiger’s Bluetooth: Better or Worse?

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-21 macOS 21 Comments

A few months ago I published a how-to article showing how to make a Linux machine a Bluetooth 'LAN Access Point' so Bluetooth clients can get internet access via it. This worked fine with Panther, but it seems that the new Bluetooth preference panels on Tiger are not only much better to a certain level, but buggy and puzzling at the very same time.

The need for GPL Free Apps on Mac OS X

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-16 macOS 76 Comments

The Mac platform was always considered a premium platform, hence much of its software is shareware or commercial. In the recent days more freeware applications have emerged, but the majority are small utilities and not full scale applications. Enter the world of GNU which can not only provide "free" applications as in beer, but most importantly, "Free", as in Freedom.

Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-09 macOS 45 Comments

User-interface experts at one of the world's top design houses say Mac OS X Tiger is the beginning of the end for the Macintosh Finder -- the era of organizing files in nested folders is over. Experts at Silicon Valley's frog design say new features like the systemwide Spotlight search are far more useful for locating information than the hierarchy of files and folders that underpins most computing interfaces, whether on Macs or Windows-based PCs.

Tiger OSX 10.4.x Freezes on all PowerMac G5 1.8Ghz models?

Guest post by Miikka Luotio 2005-06-09 macOS 31 Comments

According to reports, OSX 10.4 and 10.4.1 is freezing after ~2 hours of uptime when Watching QuickTime7 from Safari or Fullscreen / Using Slideshow / iPhoto slideshow "fullscreen" / ALL OpenGL games in Fullscreen, freezing in either entering or exiting the game.

The brains behind Apple’s Rosetta: Transitive

Submitted by ajam 2005-06-08 macOS 19 Comments

A Silicon Valley start-up called Transitive is supplying Apple Computer with a crucial bridge to enable the move to Intel-based computers, but skeptics worry about performance problems that have plagued similar products.

New Mac OS X 10.4.2 build, Intel Mac benchmarks

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-08 macOS 87 Comments

Apple seeded a new build of Mac OS X 10.4.2 to developers. Build 8C27 addresses a few bugs from build 8C26 and features an "improved widget download experience." Individuals have submitted Xbench benchmark results from Apple's Pentium 4-based Power Mac systems. The benchmarks do not reflect native performance of the 3.6GHz systems, however, but rather provide an indication of how PowerPC-compiled applications will run under Rosetta on Intel-based systems.

Life with Mac OS X Tiger

Submitted by MakoShark 2005-06-07 macOS 8 Comments

ExtremeTech's Jim Lynch reviews Mac OS X Tiger on his Powerbook. The Register's Tony Smith also reviews Tiger.

Intel Macs: No G4, G5, Velocity Engine Emulation; QT 7 Beta Posted

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-07 macOS 62 Comments

Rosetta — the software to be used to translate PowerPC instructions to x86 instructions — is no good if your application requires a G4 or G5, or AltiVec. FAT/Universal recompiled binaries will be the way to go for these apps. Also, XCode 2.1 was posted for download today along with QT 7-beta for Windows. Performance of HD h.264 on Windows XP on a 3 GHz P4 was hugely dissapointing compared to a dual 1.25 GHz PowerMac G4. Elecard's h.264 decoding solution is still better than QT's on the PC -- so far.

Mac OS X Tiger burns bright

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-04 macOS 26 Comments

Apple's Mac OS X 10.4 brings productivity to desktops, turnkey power to servers, says InfoWorld.

Mac OS X 10.4.2 update to patch dozens of Tiger glitches

Eugenia Loli 2005-06-01 macOS 43 Comments

The second update to Apple's Tiger operating system will continue to focus on stability and reliability, delivering dozens of bug fixes to the month-old operating system.

Using Tiger Technologies

Submitted by Hakime 2005-05-30 macOS 20 Comments

Artist Futurismo Zugakousaku has posted some creations on his web site that he made with Quartz Composer, a new great technology in Tiger. (the videos are apparently only visible using the latest version of Quicktime in Tiger) If it makes you feel inspired, here a small tutorial that will help you get started with Quartz Composer and to develop a customized RSS Screen Saver.

Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ in depth

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-27 macOS 17 Comments

"Review I've been running Mac OS X 'Tiger' since the day after its release, on 29 April. At the time, hundreds of reviews of the operating system were published, but I didn't want to be a part of the herd, since many of them were little more than lists of the new features. I wanted to spend some more time with Tiger before getting off the fence." Read the article at TheRegister.

Mac OS X 10.4 – more bling than bang?

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-27 macOS 96 Comments

While the third update to Mac OS X, Panther, was an essential upgrade for Mac users, the fourth has presented Apple's marketeers with something of a challenge. The ritual that we call the annual OS upgrade is Apple's best publicity showcase after January MacWorld - a chance to remind the world that it doesn't just make iPods. Read the review here.

OSS on OS X

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-26 macOS 42 Comments

Apple recently released Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the latest update to the flagship operating system. Featuring developer-oriented features such as Core Data under the hood, the Unix-based Tiger and the introduction of powerful yet increasingly cost-effective Mac hardware is enticing many a curious Linux enthusiast to prowl over to the nearest Apple Store and get their paws on a Mac. Read more at NewsForge.

Apple Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Review

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-19 macOS 70 Comments

TrustedReviews published a review of OSX 10.4 Tiger, with screenshots.

Music Video Clip from the ’90s Features NeXTSTEP

Eugenia Loli 2005-05-18 macOS 53 Comments

Long after no NeXT hardware will function anymore, future generations will be able to have a 'live' peek at the NeXTSTEP OS (as opposed to still screenshots) via Madonna's Rain video clip from 1993. I noticed it by watching the video on my Pocket PC and had to share it with you. Check in for screengrabs.