According to a source familiar with the latest Leopard build seeded to developers, in addition to all those meaningless “little” fixes, our source tells us that Apple has fixed Stacks by adding the missing “list view” option that should have been there all along.
The problem with dual-booting Windows is the inconvenience of having to restart your Mac entirely. The problem with virtualizing Windows is that it can be unreasonably slow for a prolonged session. Now that Boot Camp and Parallels work together, you can choose between virtualizing or booting into your Windows depending on what you have to do.
No restarting to use Bootcamp. Just select “Switch to Windows” from OS X, and your machine goes to sleep. Wake it up and your in Windows. You can do the same thing once in Windows to switch back to mac. VERY VERY NICE feature, no reason to use virtualization for me at least.
When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple’s programmers conference, he’s likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine’s interface in 30 years.
It’s a good thing hardware is becoming more powerful. The new Mac OS will feature apps such as Disco builtin to the operating system. Disco burns CDs and DVDs…and smokes while it does it.
FYI, Disco has been around for a while now, so if you don’t want to wait to have your Mac smoke you can get it here (http://www.discoapp.com/). Click here if you want to see what it looks like in this Google video.
| Another vulnerability has been found in OS X related to their disk image format. This is on an operating system that openly thumbs its nose at Windows for being insecure. There is even a commercial poking fun at the viruses that plague so many Windows users but seem to ignore the Mac.But the irony is that Windows is a victim of its success. Regardless of whether you like Windows or not, the fact of the matter is that it is the dominant operating system. According to the MarketShare service by Net Applications, the market share for Windows was 94% compared to 5% for the Mac for general usage. |
I’ve finally found a minute to finish my review of Apple’s Boot Camp. While I’ve read mixed reviews elsewhere, it worked beautifully…as long as I could live with certain limitations.
First, it assumes that you only have a single partition on your hard-drive with Mac OS X. When you first run Boot Camp, you must have a single HFS partition on your hard-drive that takes up all available space. When I first tried to install Boot Camp, I decided to pre-partition my hard-drive with an HFS partition, an NTFS partition and an ext3 partition along with a linux swap partition. Turns out, I wasted my time. Boot Camp simply didn’t want to operate in that environment.
Windows has a long history of “borrowing” features from the Mac. Not that this is a bad thing…almost all successful products are a new and improved version of something that came before it. It does seem like a large number of features that were introduced on the Mac have moved to Windows in a new improved form. The situation was so bad at one point that the two companies sued each other over the right to the trash can. Who won? Microsoft ended up using a recycle bin instead of a trash can. Regardless, today my primary development workstation runs Windows XP Pro so Microsoft must be doing something right.
Enter Windows Vista…the fact is, looks do matter and Windows Vista looks gorgeous! Vista seems to be all about eye-candy from its transparent windows and title bars to the new alternative Alt-Tab interface.