Mac OS X (including iPhone and iPod touch versions) in May captured just over 10 and a half percent (10.53) of the OS market for the fifth straight month, with a significant gain of about half a point over its performance in April

Apple snuck one of its perplexing "stealth" hardware update out the door yesterday, bumping the entry-level white polycarbonate MacBook's Core 2 Duo clock speed from 2.0 GHz to 2.13 GHz, adding 40 GB of standard hard disk capacity, and also upgrading its RAM specification to 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM as opposed to 667MHz RAM in the preceding version (the standard RAM capacity remains at 2 GB)

The Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update is recommended for Mac OS X Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, 10.5.5, and 10.5.6 Leopard, and according to Apple includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac

Mac OS X (including iPhone version) managed to squeak in with just a hair over 10 percent (10.04) of the OS market for the fourth straight month, but suffered some slippage from a high of 10.26 percent in March. Firefox bounces back, Chrome gains ground, and Safari slips a bit

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Safari 4 Buddy is a simple little freeware utility that enables you to change several hidden preferences that enables you to change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta web browser

Mac OS X (including iPhone version) takes more than of 10 percent of the OS market for the third straight month, with desktop OS X slipping a bit in its own right

Mac OS X (including iPhone version) takes more than 10 percent of the OS market for the second straight month, with desktop OS X closing on 10 percent in its own right

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On October 17th, Applelinks' Charles Moore gave a great review of Bento 2. What I'd like to do here is provide a more detailed exploration of FileMaker and Bento, and explain why both are excellent database programs which serve two completely different customers. The fact is, Bento is an amazingly simple, easy to use database that requires no knowledge on how to create a database. FileMaker is an amazingly powerful database that is very simple (when compared to other databases), but requires creating every field, every relation, and every structure of a database. Admittedly, this is much more complicated and more work than many people need. Thus, there is Bento (and to borrow a phrase from the early days of Apple), a database "for the rest of us."

Today is the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and Columbus Day in (most of) the U.S