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Mac OS X With 100 Bugs: Still Safer Than Windows?
News Apple has plugged around 100 vulnerabilities in OS X so far this year, but the malware threat to Mac customers is insignificant compared to users of Microsoft Windows. The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X...
[July 11, 2007, 16:30]
Apple And Microsoft Fall Out Of Sync
News Relations between the two companies had soured over slow sales of Office for the Mac, which Microsoft in part blamed on Apple's marketing of Mac OS X. Both products require Mac OS X 10.2.3. IDC estimates that the market share for Mac OS dropped to...
[January 2, 2003, 15:27]
Best And Worst Products, 1996-2006 review
Reviews As the huddled masses of Windows users endure the seemingly interminable wait for Vista, it's all too easy to forget that the Apple Mac faithful have had an OS with many of Vista's advantages for some time now.
[July 13, 2006, 16:15]
OSX 'at Risk From Attack'
News In its seventh bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec said over the past year, security researchers had discovered at least 37 serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X system. Out of the public eye for some time, it is now clear that...
[March 21, 2005, 7:55]
Windows Chief Fields Readers' Questions
News Steward Hardt, a software consultant from Rancho Cucamonga, California, asks how you respond to comments that many of the new features in Vista are already in other operating systems, like Mac OS X? With Mac OS X coming out more often, isn't...
[January 30, 2006, 9:35]
Ringtone Converter
Downloads This gadget allows you to add new ring tones to your mobile/cellular phone using your Mac OS X system. A Windows-compatible version is also available. The application supports many phone models, including Audiovox, Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola...
[July 16, 2003, 13:42]
Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Downloads Server support for Linux and Mac OS X platforms is also available. The application offers over-the-air sync to today's most essential mobile clients including Palm Treo 650, Treo 700 w/p, Nokia E-Series, and Motorola Q (all Windows Mobile 5 devices).
[March 7, 2007, 14:46]
Skype Releases Beta For Mac OS X
News Skype has released a beta version of its latest client for Mac OS X users. He claimed it would be "exactly the same" as Skype for Mac OS X 1.5 Beta, but would include the video capability. However, much of the functionality in the new Mac beta...
[July 26, 2006, 16:45]
Apple Holds Back Leopard's Release
News However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and [quality assurance] resources from our Mac OS X...
[April 13, 2007, 8:56]
Apple Updates Its IBook And Online Store
News The entry-level iBook comes with an 800MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 12.1-inch display, 128MB of SDRAM, a 30GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, 32MB ATI Radeon graphics, a 56Kbps modem, 10/100 networking and Mac OS X for $999 (£634).
[April 23, 2003, 10:08]
Photos: Steve Jobs At Apple WWDC
News Jobs also showed off Safari 3.0, which runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well as Mac OS X Tiger. It has the 64-bit underpinnings from the Unix base for Mac OS X, but it's also extended up into the Cocoa development tools.
[June 12, 2007, 12:43]
ZDNet Germany: What To See, And Not To See At CeBIT
News And Apple, which is planning a massive party on the 24th April, right in the middle of the show period, to celebrate the arrival of Mac-OS X, its latest operating system. Both Office XP and Mac-OS X will have to rely on trends, and so will most...
[March 22, 2001, 15:34]
Floola
Downloads Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.
[January 11, 2008, 21:46]
Floola For Windows
Downloads Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Floola can be run easily directly from your iPod and needs no installation.
[August 7, 2008, 17:07]
Skype Flaw Puts Users At Risk
News Skype clients are available for Windows; Mac OS X v10.3 (Panther) or later; Linux; and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC, Skype said. Skype on Tuesday released updated versions of its software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that do not contain the...
[October 26, 2005, 9:35]
OSX 'at Risk From Attack'
Talkback If you keep your system (OS X system) patched, and use sound passwords, and then implement the excellent FileVault technology on your home drive (especially for mobile users), and OpenFirmware password etc etc.then the likelihood of getting a...
[March 21, 2005, 8:39]
AOL Instant Messenger Beta 4.8 review
Reviews One bright spot: while AIM 4.7 works only in Windows, this IM client comes in versions for a range of other operating systems, including Mac OS (separate versions for 68K users, PowerPC people, and those using the new OS X), Linux, Palm OS and...
[February 17, 2002, 23:00]
What To Look For In A Notebook PC review
Reviews A general rule of thumb: you'll need at least 256MB for Windows XP or Mac OS X and 128MB for all other Windows and Mac operating systems. AMD's Mobile Duron and Mobile Athlon 4, and Intel's Mobile Celeron chips appear in budget notebooks; the...
[February 19, 2003, 9:11]
HP OfficeJet 9130 All-in-One review
Reviews Drivers for the OfficeJet 9100-series printers work with Windows versions 98 through XP and Mac 9.2 and OS X (10.1.x and 10.2.x). The OfficeJet 9100 series includes HP's Photo And Imaging software for Windows and HP ImageZone for Mac.
[May 24, 2004, 10:40]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News Forty-four percent said they are "considering" alternative operating systems — mostly Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu. And, in most of these places, Linux is more common on desktops than servers — apparently contradicting the...
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
