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Tag: Mac OS X Lion

Apple makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion downloads free

Thursday, July 1, 2021 9:57 am1 Comment

Released in 2011 and 2012, Mac OS X Lion and its successor OS X Mountain Lion were the last two paid software updates for the Mac…

Tips for making Launchpad a useful app launcher for Mac

Friday, August 17, 2018 12:58 pmFriday, August 17, 20185 Comments

As part of Apple’s ‘Back to the Mac’ event in late 2010, Apple introduced OS X Lion…

Messages may become OS X Mountain Lion-only after beta

Friday, February 17, 2012 6:48 pmFriday, February 17, 201212 Comments

The Messages app introduced alongside OS X Mountain Lion…

Mac OS X 10.7.3 supports new crop of compact cameras

Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:01 pmThursday, February 2, 201226 Comments

If there’s any doubt about the accelerating shift from traditional SLRs to more compact cameras…

Apple releases AirPort Utility 6.0 for Mac OS X Lion

Monday, January 30, 2012 6:49 pm11 Comments

Apple today released AirPort Utility 6.0 for Mac OS X Lion…

The PC is dying. The iPad and Mac are not

Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:03 pmThursday, January 26, 201223 Comments

The PC is dying. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what’s coming…

Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.7.3 Build 11D46 to Developers

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:20 pmWednesday, January 18, 20127 Comments

Apple late yesterday pushed out Build 11D46 of Mac OS X 10.7.3 to registered developers…

Give iPad some credit for Apple’s brisk Macintosh sales

Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:00 pmThursday, January 12, 201212 Comments

Windows PC sales for the fourth quarter of 2011 proved disappointing…

Apple Mac, Windows PC killer

Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:57 pmThursday, January 12, 201232 Comments

If you want to make the PC market’s ugly number even uglier, back out Apple…

Microsoft exec hints at Windows 8 release in October 2012

Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:39 am33 Comments

Over in Vegas at CES, Pocket-lint has been given its strongest indication yet…

Four great Mac OS X services you don’t know about

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:50 pm12 Comments

You can add — and even create — your own Mac OS X services…

Analyst: Apple enterprise sales of Macs, iPads to surge 58% this year

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:31 pm3 Comments

Apple will sell an estimated $19 billion in Macs and iPads…

Surprise! AT&T’s network got very good in the last year

Monday, January 9, 2012 2:31 pmMonday, January 9, 201220 Comments

Widespread, under-the-radar network improvements have quietly helped AT&T move past its infamous struggles…

Look out, Microsoft, businesses are finally turning to Apple

Monday, January 9, 2012 2:18 pmMonday, January 9, 201212 Comments

For a company that doesn’t market its products to the business world, Apple…

Global PC notebook shipments sink 8.7% while Apple notebooks shipments grow

Monday, January 9, 2012 11:33 am8 Comments

Global notebook shipments showed an apparent setback of 8.7% sequentially…

Mac App Store celebrates first anniversary with over 8,900 apps

Friday, January 6, 2012 5:32 pmFriday, January 6, 201210 Comments

The Mac App Store is today celebrating its first anniversary…

Firefox 9 released: Adds back and forward swipe gestures for Mac OS X Lion

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:26 pm10 Comments

Firefox 9 has just been released for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux…

Workaround for lack of scrollbar arrows in Mac OS X Lion

Friday, December 9, 2011 4:01 pmFriday, December 9, 201120 Comments

Although you can set scrollbars to always display in windows, there is no option…

Thurrott reviews Apple iCloud: ‘Best consumer-oriented cloud computing service I’ve ever seen’

Monday, November 28, 2011 9:16 am22 Comments

As it has so often in the past, Apple is now showing the rest of the industry…

How OS X Lion helps keep your files safe: Why Lion’s Autosave and Versions features are a real boon

Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:55 pm45 Comments

Thanks to Lion, lost work could become a thing of the past…

Steve Jobs and NeXT: Genesis of the new Apple

Monday, November 7, 2011 4:17 pm30 Comments

I was formally introduced to NeXT when Steve Jobs visited the offices…

Apple’s unrelenting Mac attack on the PC market

Monday, October 31, 2011 11:33 pm24 Comments

In Apple’s (AAPL) most recent fiscal year ended in September…

Use ‘Phonetic Names’ to get iPhone 4S’s Siri to pronounce names correctly

Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:34 pmThursday, October 20, 201123 Comments

Want your iPhone 4S’s Siri to pronounce people’s names correctly?

Apple’s iCloud makes Safari web browser even better

Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:18 pm19 Comments

With the release of iOS 5 and Mac OS 10.7.2, Apple has added iCloud features…

Flaw allows any OS X Lion system to be compromised with easy-to-perform password hack

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:11 am18 Comments

A researcher at the Defense in Depth blog has discovered a flaw in Apple’s…

Did Apple release Mac OS X Lion too early?

Friday, September 2, 2011 11:44 amFriday, September 2, 2011136 Comments

It makes sense there will be problems because of all the serious changes…

Apple now shipping USB recovery sticks for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:32 amThursday, August 11, 201136 Comments

Readers have alerted us that their Lion Recovery Sticks have started arriving…

Apple opens iCloud to developers; what we know

Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:31 amTuesday, August 2, 201115 Comments

“Apple has commenced its first public developer beta test…

Some PayPal-using Mac owners mistakenly charged thousands for OS X Lion upgrade

Friday, July 29, 2011 11:01 amFriday, July 29, 201122 Comments

Paypal users were mistakenly charged as much as $4,000 for Mac OS X Lion…

Tips and shortcuts for Mac OS X Lion users

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:50 pm32 Comments

Apple’s Lion has roared onto Macs, with one million downloads in the first day…

Passware: Mac OS X Lion can reveal passwords while in sleep mode

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:10 am24 Comments

According to Passware, the latest version of Mac OS X has a ‘vulnerability’ that allows…

TIME Magazine reviews Mac OS X Lion: Like a new Mac for your Mac; a steal at $29.99

Monday, July 25, 2011 2:17 pm19 Comments

At $129, it would have been a meaty good value. At $29.99, it’s a steal…

The Register reviews Apple’s Mac OS X Lion: A great OS for Macs with trackpads

Monday, July 25, 2011 1:46 pmMonday, July 25, 201127 Comments

My iMac now runs very happily under OS X Lion…

Apple seeds Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 to developers; OS X Lion 10.7.1 likely imminent

Monday, July 25, 2011 10:44 amMonday, July 25, 201133 Comments

Following the successful public release of OS X 10.7 Lion…

Fixes, tips and tricks for Mac OS X Lion

Monday, July 25, 2011 10:30 amMonday, July 25, 201152 Comments

A few million Mac users devoted the weekend to installing and rummaging through OS X Lion…

Nine things you should do after installing Mac OS X Lion

Friday, July 22, 2011 10:30 amSaturday, July 23, 201193 Comments

Nine tips and tricks that you really ought to have ready on your first trip into Apple’s new OS X Lion…

Apple’s Mac App Store sells over one million copies of OS X Lion in first day

Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:58 pmThursday, July 21, 201144 Comments

Apple today announced that, in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS X Lion…

WSJ’s Mossberg reviews Mac OS X Lion: ‘The best computer operating system’

Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:13 pm34 Comments

Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion is a big leap, and gives the Mac a much more modern look and feel…

NY Times’ Pogue reviews Mac OS X Lion: Offers the promise of a fast, powerful, virus-free, thoroughly modern OS

Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:04 pmThursday, July 21, 20118 Comments

If the Lion upgrade is about any one thing, it’s about the iPad…

Researchers: Apple’s Mac OS X Lion is the king of security

Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:43 amThursday, July 21, 201138 Comments

With Wednesday’s release of Mac OS X Lion…

Gartenberg: Mac OS X Lion will only contribute to Apple’s expanding mind-share

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:44 pm19 Comments

Apple’s latest release of Mac OS, called OS X Lion…

MSNBC reviews Mac OS X Lion: ‘Worth the upgrade’

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:18 pm30 Comments

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion — the latest version of Apple’s popular operating system…

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