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What is the rate of Mac OS X Leopard adoption? Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on Mar 31, 2008 11:19 AM Subscribe Alerts19 comments: Back at the Macworld Expo in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that some 20 percent of the installed base was running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. But do we...[Read the rest]

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Alsoft releases DiskWarrior 4 v4.1 CD updater for Leopard: The maker of a popular Mac directory repair utility releases a free software updater that lets users create a Leopard-compatible startup CD. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Mar 18, 2008 10:17 AM; 1 Comment
Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons: Icons on the Mac keep changing. Here's a look at Apple's icon guidelines for Leopard as well as a fond look back at some early Mac and Windows icons. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Mar 16, 2008 8:43 PM; 6 Comments
Wintel Vista conspiracy screws customers: Another win for Apple: The latest PC market scandal - that Microsoft, Intel and some PC makers knew that the "Vista Capable" logo certification program was a lie and that some chipsets for popular... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Feb 29, 2008 2:34 PM; 120 Comments
Is Apple's Mighty Mouse too smart for its own good?: While most attention on Mac input is focused on multitouch gestures on new notebooks and iPhone screens, even longtime Mac users may not know exactly how many buttons are on... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Feb 26, 2008 7:33 PM; 44 Comments
Reminder: Backup before installing new Leopard 10.5.2 update: Apple late Monday released its Mac OS X 10.5.2 update, which addresses many annoying bugs as well as tackling a number of interface issues that bugged longtime users. According to... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Feb 11, 2008 3:49 PM; 7 Comments
Horrors! Linus Torvalds calls HFS+ 'utter crap': In an interview at Melbourne's linux.conf.au conference, Linus Torvalds called the standard file system of Mac OS X "complete and utter crap." Mac fans are only slightly outraged, pointing out... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Feb 5, 2008 7:19 PM; 19 Comments
Things that suck somewhat: Mac OS X Sheets: There's a time and a place for transparency in the user interface and Mac OS X usually is right on the mark (unlike Windows Vista). However, Sheets, the animated window... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Jan 25, 2008 3:50 PM; 38 Comments
Mac developers betting hard on Leopard: One of the nascent trends at the recent Macworld Expo was the arrival of Leopard-only applications. Despite the ballyhooed success of the Leopard rollout, selling your software to a subset... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Jan 21, 2008 11:18 PM
FileMaker fixes serious Leopard 'compatibility issues' for older versions: FileMaker on Tuesday released a compatibility update for flavors of the older (but still popular) FileMaker Pro 8.5. At the same time, the company strongly suggests that users move up... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Dec 18, 2007 6:07 PM
Are Mac users more honest than Windows users?: Details of new research on Mac OS X Leopard show that Mac users are buying family pack licenses, even though they aren't forced to. On the other hand, Microsoft goes... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Dec 17, 2007 6:25 PM
Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support: While waiting for Apple to fold iSCSI initiator and target support into Leopard's client and server versions, respectively, third-party developers offer a range of solutions. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Dec 10, 2007 5:52 PM
Believe it: Sherlock is really, really dead: For generations of Mac, Apple pushed its Sherlock application as the preferred interface for searching Web resources as well as local content. But with the release of Mac OS X... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Dec 7, 2007 5:57 PM
Do switchers now rule the Mac?: With Mac OS X Leopard's improved support for Boot Camp and other Windows-centric standards, Apple hopes to keep "switchers" happy. However, longtime Mac users point to some Windows-like features creeping... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Dec 6, 2007 12:11 PM
Leopard compatibility ups and downs: The list of applications compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 keeps growing, but a good number of Leopard-savvy updates to printer drivers are still on hold. Before upgrading, Tiger users... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Dec 3, 2007 2:23 PM
Developers come to the 'rescue' of Leopard's Stacks, Dock: One of the most heated complaints about Mac OS X Leopard concerns the new Stacks navigation feature and the new behavior of folders on the Dock. A number of small... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 29, 2007 10:10 AM
Macs that hate Adobe fonts, love Microsoft ones: First came Macs running Intel chips. Now, we find a Mac program that can't love a classic Postscript font. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 27, 2007 8:48 AM
Leopard: Trying to love Help Viewer's new fascist behavior: Unlike other less-helpful systems, the Mac's Help Viewer app has been seen as the model for answering questions from newbies and sophisticated users alike. But in Leopard, the program's new... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 13, 2007 8:36 AM
Quality time in Panther before Leopard: Not everyone moving to Apple's new Mac OS X Leopard will come by way of Tiger. A significant share will upgrade to Leopard from Panther (or even Jaguar) and these... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 12, 2007 11:03 PM
Apple prepping 10.5.1 update: There's no shortage of people that have had problems with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (including data loss, login jams, Time Machine errors, Finder weirdness and even the dreaded BSOD). Apple... [Read the rest]; Posted by Jason D. O'Grady in The Apple Core on: Nov 8, 2007 7:22 AM
Leopard file move bug zaps data: Online sources replicate a bug that destroys data when moving files around Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The problem can occur with local and remote storage, the sites say. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 7, 2007 12:59 PM
What Mac hardware do you need for Leopard's "good, better or best" iChat conferencing?: Leopard expands Mac OS X's A/V conferencing capabilities with expanded users, slideshows, movie projections, desktop sharing and video chat recording as well as fun real-time effects. But what Macs can... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 7, 2007 11:57 AM
Some new iMacs stuck at Leopard's login: There's a chance that some customers with a brand new aluminum iMac may experience a problem when upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Apple suggests a fix, however, gurus... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 6, 2007 4:28 PM
Reader Poll: Mac Mini for Leopard Server?: After years of installing and managing Unix, Windows and Mac servers, I'm happily settled on Mac OS X Server 10.4 running on an old G4 system, but recently I received... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe in Rational Rants on: Nov 5, 2007 3:03 PM; 6 Comments
Leopard Time Machine: Don't trust it yet: User complaints over failed backups and restores are now flooding Mac OS X Leopard discussion groups and vendor support lines. Time appears to have yet to come for Time Machine. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 5, 2007 12:06 PM
New Apple support docs target Leopard: Recent updates to Apple's support library include articles on disappearing volumes during Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installation, problems with Leopard-only packages and iChat echoes. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 5, 2007 10:02 AM
Leopard's Finder Cover Flow: Yuck!: Leopard brings iTune's Cover Flow file-picker interface over to the Mac OS X Finder. Some longtime Mac users really hate it. [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Nov 2, 2007 5:46 PM
Bad Leopard, bad!: I experienced a little bit of bad Leopard juju last night and I figured I'd bounce it off you. Please keep in mind that this is one blogger's experience and... [Read the rest]; Posted by Jason D. O'Grady in The Apple Core on: Nov 2, 2007 9:29 AM
Leopard suffers the post release blues: A few weeks ago I wondered (out loud) about how Leopard would be received by the masses. Like Vista is long awaited, like Vista the launch was delayed, and like... [Read the rest]; Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Hardware 2.0 on: Nov 1, 2007 5:52 AM
Transparency returns with a vengeance in Mac OS X Leopard: Longtimers with Mac OS X remember that transparency came early with the first version of the Aqua interface, but soon it went away, Now, transparency is all over the UI... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Oct 31, 2007 9:29 AM
Leopard's installer: The case of the disappearing volumes: Discussions boards are filling with reports of odd behavior with the Leopard Installer. I joined that experience yesterday with my first attempt at the upgrade. Since I have some important... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Morgenstern in The Apple Core on: Oct 30, 2007 10:31 AM