In as much as it’s useful to keep operating systems on thumb drives and recovery partitions, there are times where you miss having an emergency DVD on hand. That being said, this should be useful. Discovered by French web site MacGeneration and the mighty Mac Observer, Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has returned […]
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You just can’t knock a decent Dropbox update. On Friday, Dropbox released a beta of version 1.5.1 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 22.4 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixed “lazy” install not working on 10.4. – Fixed rare bug where Dropbox will notify […]
You may not be in love with Windows, but it does become handy from time to time. Per the MSDN blog, Microsoft looks to be gearing up to release its next-generation Windows 8 operating system via digital release. In a post to the company’s official blog this week, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows Division, […]
As well-intentioned as Apple may be, a number of users are reporting that the company’s latest Security Update (2010-001) is causing extremely slow start-up times and poor performance or crashing for several programs, including Skype, Firefox, and Photoshop CS3. Per CNET, a used identified as “Forgiss” reported the following issue on the Apple Support Discussions […]
As nifty as Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) may be, according to MacFixIt, a number of users are reporting a problem where the installer will not recognize the current boot drive as a valid destination for Snow Leopard. Instead, it will display the drive with a yellow triangle on it, indicating something is wrong […]