Leopard Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Easy visualization with Daisy Disk

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 14th, 2009)

Daisy Disk is the perfect example of one of those tools that should be built right into OS X. It's the latest in disk visualization utilities -- software that scans your hard drive and lets you know which files are being hard drive hogs (in my ...

Ask TUAW: Taming unruly windows, updating OS X, booting from an SD card, and more.

by Chris Ullrich (Jun 17th, 2009)

We're back with another edition of Ask TUAW. This time around we've answering questions about how to resize windows too big for the screen, "compulsive" updating, booting from an SD card, Open GL in Snow Leopard, and more. As always, your ...

Make your display's gamma in Leopard match Snow Leopard

by Jason Clarke (Jun 12th, 2009)

John Gruber mentioned in a recent post about Apple's Snow Leopard list of Enhancements and Refinements that one of the small adjustments to Snow Leopard will be that the default gamma on displays will switch from the typical 1.8 value to 2.2, which ...

Terminal Tips: Rebuild your Launch Services database to clean up the Open With menu

by Jason Clarke (Jun 11th, 2009)

Problem: Some piece (or pieces) of rogue software have cluttered up your Open With contextual menu, which you can see by right-clicking or control-clicking any document in the Finder. This problem seems to be most prevalent with virtual machines ...

Is the Mac OS X 10.5.7 update causing you grief?

by Steven Sande (Jun 11th, 2009)

Against my better judgment, I always download and install Mac OS X updates immediately. That has never caused an issue with any of my Macs until now. Since I installed 10.5.7 literally minutes after hearing about its release, I have been experiencing ...

Keep track of your dogcow with Clarus

by Steven Sande (Jun 5th, 2009)

We've talked about pet management software before on TUAW. It's software that allows you to keep track of important information about your companion animals, including when the next vet appointment is, what medications they're taking, names and ...

OS X 10.5.7: The hidden fixes

by Mel Martin (May 19th, 2009)

I really didn't have any complaints about the latest Mac OS update. It went smoothly on 3 Macs, and I didn't hear any complaints from friends or associates. While many people moan about things that didn't get fixed, I'm somewhat concerned about the ...

Mac 101: Supersize your icon views

by Michael Rose (May 19th, 2009)

Welcome back to Mac 101, our occasional series of tips for new and novice Mac users. Over the past 25 years, icons may have become ubiquitous almost to the point of fading into the visual background; still, the little pictures that began in 32x32 ...

New Safari beta update

by Mel Martin (May 12th, 2009)

Gee, quite a day for Apple software updates. Apple has put out an update to Safari beta 4, and the Leopard version requires OS X 10.5.7 which was just released today. There is also a version for Tiger that requires OS X 10.4.11 and security update ...

Ask TUAW: tracking your iTunes purchases, quitting processes, doing a clean OSX install and more

by Chris Ullrich (Apr 22nd, 2009)

Once again, it's time for another edition of Ask TUAW: the place where we try to answer all of your Mac and Apple-related questions. This week we're taking questions about tracking your total iTunes purchases, forcing processes to quit, doing a clean ...

Reports: Mac OS 10.5.7 release imminent

by Dave Caolo (Apr 15th, 2009)

Update: EA has noted that The Sims 3, due in June, will require Mac OS 10.5.7. At least we know it will be by then. Several outlets are reporting today that Mac OS 10.5.7 is due to drop any time now. Build 9J47 was released on Friday, less than a ...

Contactizer 3.7 adds Dayboard, other enhancements

by Steven Sande (Feb 18th, 2009)

Contactizer, the personal information management application from Objective Decision, LLC, has been updated to version 3.7. The update, which applies to both the Pro and Express versions of Contactizer, includes over 20 new features. One of the ...

Foxmarks brings free bookmarks syncing to Safari

by Mat Lu (Feb 8th, 2009)

Foxmarks, the popular bookmark syncing service for Firefox, has now come to Safari. The service is designed to make it easy to keep your browser bookmarks synced when using different computers, by linking each browser to your own online repository. ...