Surely Apple must be running out of big cat names soon. But in the meantime check out this latest hands-on video from CNET which demos the ninth major release of OS X, Mountain Lion. Though its just a developer preview, you can see that Mountain Lion will introduces great features inspired by iPad, re-imagined for the Mac.
Apple has just launched the first update for their new OS X Lion. The update is available for download via Apple or via software update, the files being only 17.4 MB in size. This update deals with problems related to the Wi-Fi and as Apple claims the ability to connect to Wi-fi networks is greatly improved with this update.
The much awaited OS from Apple is now available on the Mac App Store, so start downloading 4 GB of the brand new OS X Lion from the App Store.
Yesterday marked the tenth year of existence for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, billed by many as the world’s best operating system. The first release, billed as Cheetah, was given to the world on 24 March 2001. The new operating system got off to a somewhat rocky start with lack of hardware support and some severe bugs but since the developers have produced polished releases time and time again.
Apple has decided to release the newest version of their XCode Integrated Development Environment app for a price this time. While XCode has been free for owners of OS X machines and has been included on the install media for years they’ve decided to charge a nominal fee for the latest release: $4.99.
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Since the release of SSDs, techies, Windows users, and bloggers have been bashing Apple for not including support for the TRIM command in OS X. The TRIM command allows operating systems to mark sections of SSDs for deletion.
Last week Apple, for the first time in the history of OS X, has encouraged security analysts to have a go at their operating system before the new version is released.
