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Mac Plus Emulator now Available for Jailbroken iPhones

NOSTALGIA ALERT! There is now an honest-to-goodness Retro MacOS emulator for jailbroken iPhones in the form of Mini vMac, which loads disk images and everything. It’s like getting your first Mac all over again. The OS, developed by Named Fork, is based around that found on the Mac Plus (v3.0, presumably). If you can stomach…

Apple Fires Back At Psystar: ‘We’re Sooo Not A Monopoly’

Remember when Psystar turned their little hardware dalliance with Mac OS X into an ideological crusade against monopolies? Apple isn’t having any of it. The company has just filed to dismiss Psystar’s antitrust lawsuit, and, as if channeling John McCain from the last debate, seems pretty angry that Psystar just doesn’t understand: “Ignoring fundamental principles…

Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops

Dell’s Studio Laptops will be getting a little touch of the Mac OS when they ship, thanks to the Dell Dock, a launcher that cleans up the Vista desktop in the most charming, albeit derivative, way. Below you can see “Before” and “After” images of the cleanup: https://gizmodo.com/dell-studio-notebooks-officially-bring-decent-design-to-5019703 Here’s the standard Vista desktop: And here…

Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Revealed: Multi-Core Optimized, GPU Lovin’ OS Upgrade Due In One Year

Yep, you heard right: Apple showed off the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due out in a year, to the attendees at WWDC, and let some details slip to the public, including: • Optimization for multi-core processors • GPU friendly (actually GPU utilization of highly parallel tasks generally done on a CPU) • Supports “breakthrough”…

Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Ships Today

Photoshop Elements’ return to the Mac is complete today. Adobe officially ships the $90 program—$70 if you’re upgrading from a previous Elements—running on Mac OS 10.4.8 and 10.5. [Adobe] https://gizmodo.com/adobe-brings-back-photoshop-elements-for-mac-344688

Time Capsule Review: Smooth Sailing, No Surprises

Click to viewWe’ve been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy. The star of the show is really the new AirPort Utility software, which now comes with some neat tricks for the network-phobic. Most of all, we’re learning the ins and outs of…

Desktop Evolution: Windows and Mac OS Visual Comparison Through the Years

Click to viewSince Windows 95 dropped more than a decade ago, our desktops have evolved to no end. Having recently had a fresh Leopard install on our Macs, we thought we would take a look back, with a side-by-side comparison of Windows and Mac operating systems by visual interface alone. All the major releases are…

Our Leopard Review Matrix

Click to viewDon’t have time to read over the full reviews from NYT’s David Pogue, USA Today’s Ed Baig and WSJ’s Walt Mossberg? Read our handy review matrix instead, where we break out everything that wasn’t merely feature description in an easy-to-compare chart. You can thank us later! • Pogue’s NYT review • Ed Baig’s…

When Will You Pounce on the Leopard?

I’m curious about when everyone is going to upgrade to Mac OS 10.5, better know throughout the galaxy as Leopard. I mean, I’m excited about all the new features but if I screw up my Mac, I’m totally SOL. Do I rush in where angels fear to tread and all that? What are you going…

Earlier today the online Apple store had listed a ship date for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger as October 26th, which coincidentally is the rumored release date for 10.5 Leopard. Could this be more evidence for Leopard’s release date or simply a mistake on Apple’s part…

Rumor: Apple To Add “Top Secret” Features To Leopard

According to the good folks at AppleInsider, Steve & Co. plan to throw a few “top secret” features into Leopard, which may be the real cause for the operating system’s four-month delay. In the report, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu is quoted as saying that Apple will be good enough to reveal those secrets…

Official: Apple Delays Leopard; iPhone Is Priority #1

Because its priority is squarely on iPhone, Apple has announced it will push back its Leopard launch date from June to October. Yes, a four-month delay! The reason? “Key software engineering and QA resources” have been reallocated from the OS team to the iPhone team. Full (brief) statement, after the jump… CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12…