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The 10.4.1 Update delivers overall improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.4 and is highly recommended.

Over at Cocoa Dev Central, Scott Stevenson has written an easy to follow tutorial on building a Core Data application from scratch. Lots of good screenshots along the way and very easy to follow, even if you have minimal programming experience.

Once the problems that occur with any major OS update have been ironed out, Mac OS X 10.4 is going to be viewed as a pivotal release for Apple, and one that will go a long way to making it an even better player in the enterprise, says ITManagement. In the meantime, Apple released the first seed of Mac OS X 10.4.1 to developers this week. The update, specified as build 8B9, corrects nearly two dozen bugs that have cropped up since Tiger's release last weekend, sources said.

In a continuing look at the Mac mini as an embedded development platform, this article shows how to rapidly prototype a simple application, looking at the variety of tools and glue available natively in Mac OS X.

Tiger Server is loaded with technologies that provide great opportunities for developers, including Xgrid, 64-bit support, Access Control Lists, and more.

Continuing with its open-source theme, Apple on Friday released Mac OS X Tiger Server v10.4. The new server software relies on new open-source projects to implement many of its new features, including an iChat server and mail enhancements.

"Friday evening, 18:00 CET, Apple released Mac OS 10.4 'Tiger' to us Europeans. I attended a 'launch event' (which is a posh means of saying free drinks and snacks) at an Apple Center in Berlin to be among the first mortals to see and use it. They had set up various Macs with the much anticipated new version of Mac OS. After playing around for a while, making good use of the free drinks and snacks, I shelled out the €120,- (somehow they didn't charge €129,-) and walked out a happy, but poorer, man." eXpert Zone takes a quick look at Tiger.

Now that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger has been released into the wild, many users are looking for things to do with their new operating system. Apple has you covered.

Ars Technica has a review that not only looks "under the hood" at Tiger, but takes the engine apart and catalogs all the pieces for us to see. The article takes note particularly of the many improvements in Tiger that will benefit Mac developers, that end-users will only begin to benefit from when the next crop of new Mac apps starts to come onto the scene.

OSNews reviews Apple's latest OS upgrade. Is it an overpriced, glorified point release or a truly worthy upgrade with major new functionality? Is it a Longhorn killer or just more of the same? We'll take a look, and try to see what's on the surface as well as what's under the hood.

What makes Tiger innovative, rather than merely iterative, is that it breaks down the barriers between the self-contained computer and the Internet. It is the first operating system to incorporate and expand upon the intensive hard-drive search popularized by Google says MacNewsWorld.

This could be a decisive moment for the software market. Microsoft's big cash cow is the Windows/Office combo. If you look through the company's financial reports, you'll see that profits come mainly from Windows and Office. This means that Windows sales support the existence of other products and services. An unexpected drop in demand of Windows could cause a domino effect. At the moment this seems highly improbable because Windows desktop market share is over 90%, even though there is an increasing interest in MacOS X and Linux.

Bill Brown has uncovered some interesting Slashdot comments by an Apple employee about Spotlight and future Apple's future plans. (Ed note: it's unclear whether As Seen On TV (ASOT) is indeed an Apple employee, but even if he/she isn't, the thoughts are still interesting.)

According to Tim Deal, a senior analyst with Technology Business Research in Hampton, N.H., Apple makes efforts to minimize compatibility problems between operating system upgrades. "It provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools that enables them to better create applications for each specific release of its operating system," he said. Also, Apple goes 64-bit with Tiger release of OS X.