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For some time now, Iive been running OS X on my G4 Cube, as well as on my PowerBook G3 “Wall Street.” Iive been favorably impressed with the interface, especially the simplicity and elegance. I am not quite a Unix “Yoda” yet, but can appreciate the potential. But there has been one thing that has…

Plugging a camera into a USB port and having it appear on the desktop is one thing, but having it launch an application is another. When we examined the Image Capture window, we were pleased to see a few things. For one thing, you could adjust how a hot-plug action (such as our plugging in…

Casady & Greene, Inc. of Salinas, California announced today the release of Zone Warrior II, version 2.1, for Appleis new operating system, Mac OS X. C&G has plans to carbonize and update three more of their classic award-winning action-arcade games, Glider Pro(TM), Step On It!, and Crystal Crazy, for Mac OS X. Zone Warrior II…

We are going to help a bit. A kernel is what an operating system is built on top of. It handles all the ugly low level things like talking to the hardware. Mac OS X is built on top of a version of Unix called Free BSD and uses the Mach Kernel (check out this…

Whether Mac users want to admit it or not, OS X has ushered us into the wonderful world of UNIX. Many Mac users do not care about this at all, they simply want OS X to get them on the Web and to dutifully check their e-mail. Others, however, may be a little bit more…

"Gee, Brain, what do you want to do today?" "The same thing we do every day, Pinky: try to take over the world!" from "Pinky and the Brain"

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“Mac Observer!” I answered in my best newsroom voice. Had I smoked, I would have had a cigar gripped in my teeth while making huge red slashes through a bunch of proofs. “Bryan?” a vaguely mechanical voice inquired. “Yeah?” So what, this clown knew my name. He got right to the point. “This is Deep…

Speculation surrounding this weekendis OS X release is reaching a high point with the official roll out of the new OS being just three short days away. Wincent Colaiuta of wincent.org first speculated that OS X 10.0 is actually one of the developer builds from a few weeks ago, build 4K78. However, others are claiming…

This hurts me badly to say it, but everything we now know suggests that OS X Final is nothing more than Cheetah 4K78. These discs comes from a shrink-wrapped retail box, with a developer tools CD, and an OS 9.1 CD. We have the first two discs, but not the latter. We have two copies…

Black Diamond Products today announced the release of the first public beta of version 3 of its popular download manager Monica for Macintosh.Monica is a queue based file download program for the Mac for downloading files from the Internet using ftp, Hotline and http protocols.Monica allows you to easily set up a download queue by…

Indeed! Personally, I recall back when it was still Appleis internal code name, as was Rhapsody before it, someone made the suggestion that the perfect name would be Eden. Get it? Paradise? Apple? Can I get an Amen on that? Ah, itis too late. Although Mac OS X 1.0 may not roll musically off the…

These are almost random thoughts, sparked at least in part by a lack of sleep. That lack of sleep was caused, at least in part, by the excitement of Mac OS X… It is only X more days until Mac OS X is released! Man, am I excited! We have waited for the NeXT OS…

Black Diamond Products today announced the release of the first public beta of its new file manipulation tool Bopalong for Macintosh.Bopalong is a file manipulation and listing program. It allows you to rename batches of files, batch change various file properties, and generate file and folder listings. Bopalong:Allows previews of any file changes before making…

After much speculation on whether or not Apple would provide a discount on OS X for those that purchased the Public Beta, Apple provided an answer earlier this morning. Apple sent an e-mail to those Public Beta users that provided feedback to the Apple Web site offering a $30 discont on OS X if purchased…

Hamish Sanderson and Chris Komarnicki – Custom Icons and Unique CreatorCodes Hamish and Chris have conspired together to produce a missing portion of theHAS EditNotes. Chris tells me that if you wring Hamishes lungs he singslike a bluejay and sing he did, here is some great new material from 2talented geeks plus other new material…

Desktop Magician 2.0.1 offers a wide range of options for saving andrestoring your Macis running environment for whatever purpose you need. Nowyou can easily save and restore your complete desktop environment, includingcontent and placement of icons, open windows, running applications, opendocuments, mounted servers, mounted disk images, and monitor settings.Version 2.0.1 is a maintenance release and…

Version 1.1 makes the following changes:Improved AppleScript support, adding many user-requested commands.Improved the Slide Show setup process.Added the ability to scale by number of pixels, rather than just percentages.Made several general performance improvements.Made a wide variety of bug fixes, a full list of which is provided in the included documentation. ABOUT PIX LITEPix Lite is…

PUBLICSPACE.NET is pleased to announce version 3.4 of its “A Better Finder Rename” Macintosh Finder enhancement. The new version extends the existing features by allowing manual renames to be performed in a more effective manner. A Better Finder Rename is a contextual menu plugin for the Macintosh Finder, which allows users to quickly rename multiple…

The “OS X on Intel” movement is unquestionably an exercise in futility, to say nothing of a fine example of outright foolishness. Apple is no more likely to port OS X to Intel than Microsoft is to make Windows open source. There are many reasons for this. First, the publicity the movement has been given…