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Source: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Will Support PowerPC Chips
Anandtech Checks Out Intel's Next Genreration Nehalem CPU
5 Business Essentials for 'The Switch'
Apple Winning Corporate Hearts and Minds, Says Yankee Group
Bugs & Fixes: Troubleshooting advice and Mac OS X 10.5.3
Opera 9.5 To Include Anti-malware Protection
Macintosh Fans On The Prowl For Info On Next Operating System's Name
Finding And Setting Up A UPS for a Mac
Mozilla and 10.5.3, k.i.s.s.i - Wait, No They're Not
How To Spot an Edited Picture
Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo
Where Is the Best Place to Buy Software for My New Mac?
Power Off Or Sleep At Night?
Are Low-Cost Laptops for Real?
Mac Night Owl: Can Apple Update The OS Too Quickly?
Tech Night Owl: Blu-Ray's Real Competitor
Source: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Will Support PowerPC Chips
Gizmodo says:
Contrary to rumors that Apple would drop PowerPC architecture support with its newest OS, A tipster and possible Apple insider was able to get his hands on the most recent build of the yet to be released 10.6, and found some evidence that Cupertino might be keeping the chip alive.
The tipster, who asked to stay anonymous lest he incur the wrath of Jobs, found a WWDC seed release labeled 10.6. After poking around a bit, here's what he got....
You can check it out at:
http://gizmodo.com/5014251/source-os-x-106-snow-leopard-will-support-powerpc-chips
Anandtech Checks Out Intel's Next Genreration Nehalem CPU
AnandTech says:
Two years ago in Taiwan at Computex 2006 Gary Key and I stayed up all night benchmarking the Core 2 Extreme X6800, the first Core micro-architecture (Conroe core) CPU we had laid our hands on. While Intel retroactively applied its tick-tock model to previous CPU generations, it was the Core micro-architecture and the Core 2 Duo in particular that kicked it all off.
At the end of last year we saw the first update to Core, the first post-Conroe "tick" if you will: Penryn. Penryn proved to be a nice upgrade to Conroe, reducing power consumption even further and giving a slight boost to performance. What Penryn didn't do however was shake the world the way Conroe did upon its launch in 2006.
After every tick however, comes a tock. While Penryn was a die shrink of an existing architecture, Nehalem is a brand new architecture built on the same 45nm process as Penryn. It's sort of a big deal, being the first tock after the incredibly successful Core 2 launch....
Without Intel's approval, supervision, blessing or even desire - we went ahead and snagged us a Nehalem (actually, two) and spent some time with them.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326&p=1
5 Business Essentials for 'The Switch'
Low End Mac's Jason Packer says:
Many small businesses are interested in making "The Switch" - taking the plunge and investing in Apple hardware. If you find yourself in that situation, there are some simple tools that you can invest in (sometimes requiring nothing more than an investment of your time) that will help make that switch a successful one.
1. Microsoft Office 2008
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. A Generic PC Mouse
4. Parallels/Fusion/VirtualBox
5. The Apple Store
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/packer/08jp/5-step-mac-switch.html
Apple Winning Corporate Hearts and Minds, Says Yankee Group
Wired's Betsy Schiffman reports:
Apple has made significant inroads in the corporate market, says Yankee Group. Roughly 80 percent of the IT administrators and C-level executives who participated in a survey said there are Macintosh computers or machines running OS X on their networks.... 34 percent of those surveyed said they plan to increase the number of Macintoshes and OS X 10.x within 6 to 12 months....
For the full report visit here:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/research-firm-a.html
Bugs & Fixes: Troubleshooting advice and Mac OS X 10.5.3
Macworld's Ted Landau says:
Let's tackle two separate troubleshooting tips, both related in some way to the just-released Mac OS X 10.5.3 update.
When confronting any significant update, such as OS X 10.5.3, a common recommendation is to wait until at least a few days after the update's release before installing it yourself. Instead, let those who prefer to live on the bleeding edge be your guinea pigs. That way, should there be a serious bug in the update (presumably undetected during beta testing), you can find out about it before becoming a victim of it.
In the case of Mac OS X 10.5.3, whose almost entire raison d'ętre is to eradicate bugs in 10.5.2, the odds are low that it would also add significant new bugs. Low… but not zero.
Well, a week has now passed—and the verdict on Mac OS X 10.5.3 is positive. There are very few reports of new bugs......
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/133808/2008/06/0606bugsnfixes.html
Opera 9.5 To Include Anti-malware Protection
CNet's Robert Vamosi reports:
On Friday Opera announced that version 9.5 of the browser will include built-in anti-malware protection from Haute Secure (download for Windows 32-bit or Windows 64-bit). [Editor's note: I've been using Opera 9.5 beta on one of my machines for months]
This is, of course, to counter the anti-malware protection built into Firefox 3, currently available as a final release candidate (download for Windows or Mac). Firefox uses data from Google and StopBadware to block a site before it loads on your browser.
For the full report click here.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9961804-57.html
Macintosh Fans On The Prowl For Info On Next Operating System's Name
The Clarion-Ledger's Earnest Hart says:
I wonder what it is about Apple's fascination with names of wild animals for their operating systems. They have been named mainly after big cats.
You would think at some point they would run out of choices and have to move on to birds, such as the Hawk. Or how about Mac OS X Falcon....
We know Apple will be discussing the next version of OS X Leopard at the Worldwide Developers Conference next week in San Francisco.
But what we don't know is what will be the official code-name for Apple's next OS release, which will probably be some time in early 2009.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080606/BIZ/806060338
Finding And Setting Up A UPS for a Mac
David Alison says:
With summer weather fast approaching on the east coast I decided it was time to get a new Battery Backup device (aka UPS) for my Mac Pro. This decision was hastened by my experience a couple of days ago when the power dropped during a thunderstorm and my Mac Pro - unable to communicate with my Tripp Lite UPS - dropped from lack of power.
To my surprise I found through comments on my blog that OS X has built in UPS support, though just not with the older Tripp Lite I owned. I also got a few comments from folks on the blog and in e-mails recommending a couple of different Battery Backups and I did some more research on the topic. Though several vendors have products in this space APC seemed to consistently bubble to the top, both in end user ratings on sites like Newegg and with editorial reviews. I had owned APC units in the past and had very good luck with them.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.davidalison.com/2008/06/finding-and-setting-up-ups-for-mac.html
Mozilla and 10.5.3, k.i.s.s.i - Wait, No They're Not
Ars Technica's David Chartier says:
Mac OS X 10.5.3 may have fixed over 200 bugs in Leopard, but it appears to be causing some significant new ones for users of various Mozilla products. Mozilla's developers have traced the problem back to an Apple bundle called VerifiedDownloadPlugin that was initially introduced in Mac OS X 10.4.7 and is thought to be part of a Dashboard widget validation system of some kind. As a result of changes made by Apple in 10.5.3, dynamically loading this library can cause the system to hang or crash. Songbird product manager Daniel Raffel has already informed Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, who says that Apple is investigating the issue.
For the full report visit here:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/06/07/mozilla-and-10-5-3-k-i-s-s-i--wait-no-theyre-not
How To Spot an Edited Picture
LifeHacker says:
We've examined power photo retouching before, but how can you tell when a photo's been altered? Frequent photo editors often acquire a knack for spotting fake photographs, but what about the rest of us? Scientific American offers several tips on how to spot faked photographs. Among them: look at how the light hits the various people and objects in the photograph—everything in the photo should have matching highlights and shadows indicating they were all photographed at the same time under the same light source. More in-depth scrutiny can reveal other "tells"—eyes often being the giveaway.
For the full report visit here:
http://lifehacker.com/395140/how-to-spot-an-edited-picture
Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo
Scientific American's Hany Farid says:
This story is a supplement to the feature "Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images" which was printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American.
You can check it out at:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=5-ways-to-spot-a-fake&print=true
Where Is the Best Place to Buy Software for My New Mac?
MyFirstMac's Chris Kerins says:
It's pretty cool that your new Mac comes with so many great applications, but for many new Mac owners, more software will be necessary. We've covered shareware and freeware in David's Top Shareware and Freeware Picks, but where should you turn for commercial software like Adobe and Microsoft apps?
There are 3 criteria for choosing the best place to buy software that I'd like to cover here: price, speed to delivery and effort. These criteria often will adversely effect one another, so deciding where you value each will help you choose the best combination.
You can check it out at:
http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/where-is-the-best-place-to-buy-software-for-my-new-mac
Power Off Or Sleep At Night?
David Alison says:
I have always simply left my computers on at night, not bothering to power them down since the power management on my machines usually kicked in and turned off the displays. Having spent so many years on the Windows platform with machines that took a tremendously long time to boot up I was simply used to leaving machines on all of the time. As a software developer - and one that for the last 10 years has created web server applications - I have adopted an always on, server kind of mentality....
My switch to Mac changed that to a large degree. Macs go to sleep nearly instantly and wake up just as fast. Other than the network connection re-synching - which takes a few seconds - the machine is ready to go.
Energy costs and conservation are dominating the news lately so I also became curious about the impact of leaving my machine on all night long. Was it drawing that much energy? How much did that cost?
For the full commentary visit here:
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/portable-nav-da.html
Are Low-Cost Laptops for Real?
PCMag's Tim Bajarin says:
A recent column of mine focused on the "netbook," a new mobile computing category that was inspired by the ASUS Eee PC. In fact, ASUS blazed a new trail with its introduction of the cheap, super portable laptop last fall, and since then it has taken off in ways that the traditional PC companies could not have imagined (and it dominated the news coming out of Computex this week).
When the Eee PC first came out, most of the traditional PC companies wrote it off as a non-PC. Industry people told me at the time that they expected it to be a failure. But to the industry's surprise, the Eee PC struck a nerve in emerging markets, and has gotten serious attention in the US for education and for families who would like a second laptop for their kids.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2317291,00.asp
Mac Night Owl: Can Apple Update The OS Too Quickly?
When Apple acquired NeXT in the last century, the original release of the long-promised industri8l-strength operating system seemed to take forever. First, there was Rhapsody, and when developers balked at having to recode all or most of their products, Apple went back to the drawing boards and begat Carbon and Aqua. The former made it much easier to port applications, and the latter delivered an enhanced Mac interface.
Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://macnightowl.com/2008/06/newsletter-445-preview-can-apple-update-the-os-too-quickly/
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Tech Night Owl: Blu-Ray's Real Competitor
All right, so the high definition DVD battle ended early this year when HD-DVD left the stage. But it doesn’t seem as if Blu-Ray has taken off in any respectable amount since then, and you have to wonder whether maybe it was too little or too late.
Here's the link to the story:
http://macnightowl.com/newsletter/2008/06/newsletter-issue-445/#competitor
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