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Tag: Mac OS X

  1. Beleaguered BlackBerry to offer free BBM messaging for iPhone, announces ‘Q5′ phone for emerging markets

    Tuesday, May 14, 2013 · 2:01 pm · 6 Comments

    Beleaguered BlackBerry announced plans on Tuesday to offer its instant messaging system on iPhone…

  2. Five overlooked OS X system tweaks

    Monday, May 13, 2013 · 2:03 pm · 7 Comments

    If you like to find new ways to tweak OS X, you sometimes need to look…

  3. Apple in deadline crunch mode for WWDC as Jony Ive’s team works on ‘deForstallization’ of iOS 7

    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 · 2:31 pm · 29 Comments

    iOS 7 is so significant a re-imagining of Apple’s mobile operating system that…

  4. Apple Macintosh owns 45% of PC market profits

    Tuesday, April 16, 2013 · 2:32 pm · 12 Comments

    The Windows PC market is contracting. The market data has been showing unit shipment declining…

  5. Securing Macs in the enterprise

    Saturday, April 6, 2013 · 12:00 pm · 31 Comments

    If you’ve ever consulted with a computer security expert…

  6. Mac OS X Snow Leopard stubbornly rejects retirement

    Thursday, February 7, 2013 · 11:41 am · 92 Comments

    Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard, which shipped in August 2009…

  7. How to use Spotlight and Smart Folders in OS X (with video)

    Wednesday, January 30, 2013 · 4:33 pm · 13 Comments

    On your Mac, Spotlight is also used in an amazing and useful feature you may not be familiar with: Smart Folders…

  8. 15 tweaks to make when moving to OS X Lion or Mountain Lion

    Monday, January 28, 2013 · 12:02 pm · 51 Comments

    In the last two iterations of OS X, Lion and Mountain Lion, Apple…

  9. Switcher to Mac tells what’s wrong with Windows

    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 · 11:49 am · 28 Comments

    I expect that Mac sales will likely hit yet another new mark driven by switchers…

  10. 5 quick fixes to common Mac problems

    Tuesday, January 22, 2013 · 2:02 pm · 26 Comments

    As Mac users we’re used to not having to frequently troubleshoot our computers, but…

  11. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion takes OS X crown in half the time 10.7 Lion took to pass 10.6 Snow Leopard

    Monday, January 7, 2013 · 9:30 am · 6 Comments

    Mac OS X 10.8.x, known as Mountain Lion and the current release of the operating system…

  12. Ballmer: Gee, maybe should have moved quicker on tablets, but we’re innovating on a seam or something

    Wednesday, November 28, 2012 · 4:57 pm · 55 Comments

    Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer defended his company…

  13. 8 cranky complaints about the Mac from longtime Windows sufferer

    Monday, November 26, 2012 · 3:50 pm · 49 Comments

    Eight months ago, after 22 years of using a Windows PC as his primary work machine…

  14. Catastrophe Theory: Microsoft on the verge of a sudden collapse?

    Monday, November 26, 2012 · 9:08 am · 52 Comments

    Last week, usability expert Jakob Nielsen wrote a devastating critique of Windows 8…

  15. Apple’s next-gen OS X 10.9 will be named ‘Lynx’, source says

    Saturday, November 17, 2012 · 12:38 pm · 86 Comments

    The name for Apple’s next generation operating system…

  16. OS XI: Top 10 most-wanted features for the next generation of Apple’s OS X

    Saturday, November 10, 2012 · 12:12 pm · 73 Comments

    In this feature, we explore the ten things we think Apple could do to OS X…

  17. Macs running OS X 10.9 appear in analytics logs

    Tuesday, November 6, 2012 · 4:10 pm · 27 Comments

    Over the last month, we received page views from Mac OS 10.9 machines…

  18. Apple gearing up for major adjustments to Macintosh

    Tuesday, November 6, 2012 · 3:28 pm · 35 Comments

    Radical adjustments to the Mac OS are on their way…

  19. OS X Snow Leopard shows signs of becoming Apple’s XP

    Monday, November 5, 2012 · 11:27 am · 71 Comments

    One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple’s newest operating system…

  20. Free: bring back the one feature from old Macs you can’t find in today’s new Macs

    Thursday, November 1, 2012 · 2:32 pm · 65 Comments

    The free Mac app you probably don’t have, but…

  21. Apple’s important Mac flies in under the radar

    Thursday, October 25, 2012 · 8:31 am · 19 Comments

    Amid the fanfare accompanying the noisy launch of the iPad mini this week…

  22. Apple CEO Tim Cook expands executive team, Senior VP Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield will not retire

    Monday, August 27, 2012 · 6:02 pm · 40 Comments

    Apple today announced that Craig Federighi, Apple’s vice president of Mac Software Engineering…

  23. How Apple killed the Linux desktop and why that doesn’t matter

    Monday, August 27, 2012 · 5:44 pm · 51 Comments

    It’s hard to say exactly what percentage of desktop and laptop computer…

  24. Sony confirms ‘Sound Forge Pro’ coming to Mac

    Wednesday, August 22, 2012 · 3:08 pm · 17 Comments

    Sony’s Sound Forge Pro will be coming to OS X…

  25. How to get all the vintage Mac system sounds on OS X

    Wednesday, August 22, 2012 · 3:00 pm · 5 Comments

    The new system sounds for OS X just aren’t as cool and quirky as they once were…