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Latest News

  • Apple patches 12 bugs in Flash, SSL

    No patches are available for Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, the 2005 operating system that Apple has retired from support. Adobe tagged six of the seven vulnerabilities as critical in its own security advisory last month.Because Apple bundles Flash…
  • Apple Safari gets security fix in update

    Apple has issued its second security update in three days, patching seven vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that the company fixed two months ago for most Mac users.But unlike the operating system security update…
  • Apple issues massive security update, patches 58 bugs

    Apple patched 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating systems today, the most since May 2009, including several in the QuickTime media player that it had fixed separately in early September.Apple apparently also retired Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger
  • Apple Tiger users can upgrade to Snow Leopard for £25

    While Apple's latest OS Snow Leopard costs a reasonable £25, those Mac users upgrading from the earlier Tiger OS need to invest in the Mac Box Set.The new Mac Box Set - featuring Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, iLife 09, featuring iPhoto 09, iMovie 09…
  • Apple updates QuickTime for Leopard and Tiger users

    Apple updates QuickTime for Leopard and Tiger users Philip Michaels New version offers incremental improvements news Apple credits Damian Put working with TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting the flaw.QuickTime 7.6.4 is aimed at…
  • Apple patches critical Java bugs

    Users still running Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, remain stuck on older versions of Java. Tiger's Java components were last updated by Apple on 15 June, when it bumped up Java 5 to 1.5.0_19 and Java 4 to 1.4.2_21.Although the June update - which also…

Latest Features

  • 11 top Snow Leopard features

    Tiger was a big leap forward, and Leopard added more improvements. Snow Leopard may be a "minor" update to Mac OS X, with a £25 upgrade price and a focus on improved speed and reliability, but it's still bursting at the seams with tweaks, changes…
  • All you wanted to know about the Leopard Server

    It also means that existing networks with more than 32 replicas will need to be redesigned.Another important point is that all Open Directory servers within a network will need to be upgraded at the same time because replication between Leopard…
  • The next best thing to OS X

    There is a dual-socket Quad-Core Opteron at my feet, literally at my feet, running SPECcpu 2006, and it would be a happy box indeed if OS X Tiger Server was making a scorching day for Barcelona. If you own a Mac, you understand.Even with the wild…
  • Why IT staffers, and users, will like Apple's plans

    PCI Express cards for Fibre Channel connection to Apple's Xserve RAID and SCSI devices and additional network ports are also available.Without a doubt, the new Xserve is a very high-performance server with an excellent price point.Mac OS X Server…
  • For Apple, '05 a landmark year

    From record-breaking quarterly financial reports and the release of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" to the announced transition of the Macintosh to Intel chips and new iPods, Apple fired on all cylinders throughout much of the year, creating unprecedented…
  • AMD and Apple are made for each other

    Apple began delivering OS X Tiger (10.4) on April 29, but I got my box on April 28, which means it shipped on April 27. Every Mac ships with an OS and a fat collection of standard apps that run identically on G3, G4, and G5 systems.
 

How-Tos

  • How to transform your operating system into a chameleon

    Besides the OS X Tiger theme, these are the only two obvious OS X-like features of FlyakiteOSX.Transform Linux into Mac OS X:Mac4Lin Skin themes, such as Look XP, and even whole user interfaces written from scratch that simulate another OS, such…
  • Mac OSX Snow Leopard Upgrade: The Facts

    With an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM, this iMac - still running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" - can take advantage of Snow Leopard's 64-bit processing. Any Mac users still running Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) can upgrade directly to Snow Leopard…
  • Five reasons not to make the jump to Leopard - yet

    If you're still using applications designed for Mac hardware before Apple made the leap to Mac OS X more than six years ago, you have a choice:You can keep using those apps with Tiger - and eschew Leopard until replacement software comes along.You…
  • Getting ready for the leap to Leopard

    SuperDuper, a free backup program, lets you clone the boot volume of your Mac so that if the Leopard upgrade craps out the Mac, you can boot Tiger from an external drive. You can't boot from the Previous System folder, nor can you re-bless that…

Reviews

  • Snow Leopard: The in-depth review

    Users of Tiger - essentially people who bought Intel Macs before Leopard was released and never upgraded - are supposed to purchase the Mac Box Set, which includes Snow Leopard, iLife '09, and iWork '09, for £129.
  • Apple MobileMe 1.1 review

    According to Apple, this unusual two-step process was required to add the MobileMe imagery to the preference pane; future updates will be available just via Software Update.Users running Tiger wont see a MobileMe update at all, even though the…
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0 review

    This worked perfectly on our test XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Linux systems running both KDE and GNOME. Firefox 3.0 also enables you to add keyword tags to your bookmarks and then sort your bookmarks by these tags.On a purely aesthetic basis…
  • Microsoft Entourage 2008 review

    Unfortunately, you cant yet run these workflows from the programs Script menu under Leopard; they work fine under Tiger. If youre short of backup disk space, you might consider excluding ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/ from…
  • Leopard Server

    Rather, stale stats persist on-screen until the admin tool is restarted, at which point a broken connection is reported.Leopard Server does all of the things that Tiger Server did, with modernisation that's particularly visible in its default…
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Finder and Dock

    The entries found at the bottom of Tiger's contextual menu - Automator, Enable Folder Actions, and so on - have been relegated to their own More sub-menu. When you think about it, the Finder is probably the single-most used program in Mac OS X.
 
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