Apple reveals Mac OS X Lion, Server prices for business and education
Fri, Jun 17, 2011 - Apple has announced prices and deployment plans for its education and business customers installing Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, with licenses starting at $29.99 in volume. ( 48 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to support 450 Mbps WiFi on 2011 Thunderbolt MacBook Pro, iMacs
Fri, May 6, 2011 - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will unlock the latent capacity of recently released Thunderbolt MacBook Pro and iMac systems to use faster 450 Mbps 802.11n wireless networking, thanks to triple send and receive antennas capable of supporting three spacial streams of wireless traffic. ( 31 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Safari adds iPad-like Downloads menu
Mon, May 2, 2011 - Safari 5.1 in Mac OS X Lion adds a new window-integrated downloads popup menu with behavior that appears to be borrowed from iPad. ( 60 comments )
VMware vSphere 5 to add cloud virtualization support for Mac OS X Server
Sat, Apr 30, 2011 - The upcoming release of VMware's vSphere 5 virtualization platform is reported to include guest OS support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, indicating new options for enterprise use of Apple's server platform without the now discontinued Xserve. ( 34 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Developer Preview 3 dials down animated tabs
Fri, Apr 29, 2011 - The third developer preview release of Mac OS X Lion reverts an experimental change in how tabbed panes are drawn and animated, dropping a iOS-like slider animation to present the active tab as simply a depressed button. ( 113 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: iTunes Screen Saver controls music playback
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 - In Mac OS X Lion, Apple's iTunes Screen Saver shifts from a way to passively display album art into an interactive way to play music. ( 24 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to add Office file viewing, new text and signature annotation
Fri, Apr 22, 2011 - In Mac OS X Lion, Preview 5.5 gains the ability to view Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents and expands its PDF annotation features. ( 62 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: new multitouch gestures, Dock integration for Exposé, Launchpad, Mission Control
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 - Apple has already demonstrated a variety of changes on the way for Mac OS X Lion's Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces, but there are a variety of interesting details about how these components will work together, and how new multitouch gestures will make them effortlessly available. ( 53 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New dictionaries, multiple word views, multitouch lookups
Tue, Apr 12, 2011 - Mac OS X Lion adds polish to the bundled Dictionary app, with new dictionaries and an improved multi-pane interface. The system also improves overall dictionary functions with enhanced Spotlight integration and multitouch support for inline text lookups. ( 56 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7: Apple to strip most Aqua gloss
Mon, Apr 11, 2011 - Apple's next desktop operating system release will tone down much of the Aqua user interface and change how screen captures handle windows' drop down sheets. ( 178 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: TextEdit adds vertical layout, graphical toolbar
Fri, Apr 8, 2011 - Mac OS X's bare bones text editor gets some attention in the coming release of Lion, adding support for vertical layouts for East Asian languages, as well as a graphical menu bar with font selection and text highlighting. ( 34 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: iChat 6 adds Yahoo IM, account integration, web page sharing
Wed, Apr 6, 2011 - The next version of Mac OS X will deliver an updated version of iChat capable of logging into Yahoo IM accounts, providing an improved experience when using multiple accounts, and adding web page sharing in iChat Theater. ( 26 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: iCal 4.0 gets annual view, iPad appearance
Fri, Apr 1, 2011 - Apple's iCal 4.0 in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion's second Developer Preview adopts an iPad appearance and a new annual view. ( 78 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to introduce multi-user Screen Sharing
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 - In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Screen Sharing morphs from a simple VNC remote screen viewer into a multiuser, Fast User Switching Remote Desktop solution similar to Microsoft's Terminal Services. ( 71 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion sets, finds, corrects insecure folder permissions
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion makes system wide changes to standard folder ownership and permissions to enhance security, finding and recommending changes where necessary. ( 30 comments )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to deliver Scene Kit framework for 3D apps
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 - The release of Mac OS X Lion will debut a new development framework called Scene Kit, which developers say will support easy to implement 3D rendering within their apps. ( 30 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple drops FTP, adds WebDAV file sharing for iOS
Thu, Mar 24, 2011 - The upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion and Lion Server dramatically simplifies file sharing, removing official support for FTP and Sun's NFS file sharing protocols while adding a new WebDAV option making it easy to share files with iOS devices. ( 56 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server: Apple replaces Samba for Windows networking services
Wed, Mar 23, 2011 - The upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server will remove the formerly bundled open source Samba software and replace it with Apple's own tools for Windows file sharing and network directory services. ( 100 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool
Tue, Mar 15, 2011 - Apple has added a new Wi-Fi Diagnostics utility to monitor the performance of wireless networks, record events, capture raw network frames, and log diagnostic data that can be sent to Apple by users for troubleshooting. ( 34 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: AirDrop local file sharing
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduces a new feature in the Finder named AirDrop, designed for easy file sharing between nearby systems. ( 29 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Dozens of new high quality multilingual speech voices
Wed, Mar 2, 2011 - In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple added a very realistic new voice named Alex for text to speech features. In Lion, Apple provides dozens of even better quality voices in more than forty languages and dialects. ( 0 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Auto Save, File Versions and Time Machine
Tue, Mar 1, 2011 - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion makes a conceptual leap away from the Mac's original focus on opening apps to create files, launching a new task-centric interface borrowed from iOS. Lion apps can also auto save multiple Versions of the document for Time Machine-like recovery of previous iterations of a file. ( 73 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server: remote lock, disk wipe and administration
Mon, Feb 28, 2011 - In Mac OS X Lion Server, Apple brings iOS-like remote management features to the Mac, including "Find My Mac," remote wipe, and remote software and profile settings via push notifications. ( 37 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: File Vault full disk encryption and cloud key storage
Mon, Feb 28, 2011 - In Mac OS X Lion, Apple has completely revamped FileVault, removing it as a simple encryption of users' Home folders and reinstating it as full disk encryption solution, with an apparent option to save disk encryption keys with Apple, likely via MobileMe. ( 47 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Crash or continue, push notifications
Sun, Feb 27, 2011 - Developers have noted two interesting features in progress within the Mac OS X Lion release, one being the ability to continue an application poised to crash, and a second being the foundation of push notifications in Mac OS X. ( 34 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Font Book 3, Emoji support
Sun, Feb 27, 2011 - Apple has enhanced its Font Book app for managing installed font faces, and has added a new Emoji font commonly used in chat to express ideograms. ( 21 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Finder search, item arrangement views
Sun, Feb 27, 2011 - In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple has enhanced Spotlight search within Finder windows, while also adding new item arrangement view options to organize files within icon, list, column and Cover Flow views. ( 49 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Spotlight and Quick View features
Sun, Feb 27, 2011 - In Mac OS X Lion Apple has integrated Spotlight search features with Quick View for previewing results, allowing users to see documents and metadata inline while performing a search. ( 33 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Yahoo Messenger video and voice in iChat
Sat, Feb 26, 2011 - Apple has added support for Yahoo Messenger to Mac OS X Lion's iChat app, reportedly enabling text, voice and video chat over Yahoo's instant messenger protocol. ( 55 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Missing Front Row, Rosetta and Java runtime
Sat, Feb 26, 2011 - The latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion excludes support for Rosetta (used to run PowerPC code on Intel Macs), Front Row, and Oracle's Java runtime, although Apple includes a mechanism to automatically download an updated Java runtime for Lion. ( 269 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Migration Assistant helps Windows PC switchers
Sat, Feb 26, 2011 - Apple has added a new option in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to simplify the process of switching from a Windows PC to a Mac via network import of old files. ( 40 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: new iOS-like About this Mac app
Sat, Feb 26, 2011 - After converted Mac OS X's Apple Menu to link to the new Mac App Store market rather than just linking to its "Mac OS X Software" web page, Apple has now turned its attention to the pedestrian "About This Mac," providing easy access to system details. ( 39 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New window controls & gestures
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 - Apple is finally letting go of old windowing conventions that date back to the original Macintosh, allowing users in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to fluidly interact with windows any way they like. ( 128 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple exposing beta to security experts for review
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 - Apple is inviting security experts to examine its developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, apparently the first time it has expanded beyond its core developers to expose its new software to community scrutiny. ( 28 comments )
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple adds SSD TRIM support
Fri, Feb 25, 2011 - Apple has added limited TRIM support to the latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which should enhance the long term performance of Solid State Drives. ( 64 comments )
