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Early 10.5.2 reports: some users having wireless issues

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2008)

As the wanton, reckless eager early adopters of Mac OS X 10.5.2 begin to explore the update's new features and fixes, a few folks are running into a WiFi buzzsaw. Some D-Link and Westell router users have noted on Apple's support boards that their ...

10.5.2 breaks Linotype FontExplorer X, or vice versa

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 12th, 2008)

Users of Linotype FontExplorer X may want to hold off on the 10.5.2 update ... if it's not already too late. It seems to start up fine, but once you do, clicking a stack will cause the Dock to hang; that's just one symptom, there are problems ...

10.5.2 makes your WoW go faster

by Mike Schramm (Feb 11th, 2008)

Our good friends over at WoW Insider (disclaimer: I'm a lead over there) have unlocked one of the first secrets about 10.5.2 (which dropped today in Software Update): it'll make World of Warcraft play faster. After hearing that the patch made reader ...

Apple posts Leopard Graphics Update

by Scott McNulty (Feb 11th, 2008)

OS X 10.5.2 hasn't been out for long, and there is already an update available for it. The Leopard Graphics Update 'improves the stability and compatibility of your Mac.' Oh, Apple, your release notes for 10.5.2 were so detailed, I was hoping you ...

Bezel HUD Quicksilver interface for Leopard

by Mat Lu (Feb 11th, 2008)

I've been looking for something like this since Leopard was released. As you can see from the video above, Juius Eckert (whose Showcase Quicksilver interface we covered previously) has now released a Bezel HUD interface for Quicksilver that ...

Tabulator: Alarm clock showdown

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2008)

Mac users must be extremely heavy sleepers, because there is no shortage of alarm clock software for your Mac. If you need to wake up, your Mac will get you up. But which one rules the rooster? Aurora, a popular choice, recently updated to version 4, ...

TUAW Tip: Use Help to select menu items in Leopard

by Mat Lu (Feb 8th, 2008)

Over at Mac OS X Hints I recently ran into this doozy of a hint that I somehow missed on its first go around. Basically the idea is to capitalize on a great new feature in Leopard's help. You can get to any menu item without your mouse by activating ...

FolderTeint: darkness for your desktop

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 7th, 2008)

When it comes to my desktop and the icons that sit upon it, I have a fondness for darkness. It's not because of a fatalistic world view or any gothic tendencies on my part, I simply like my work to pop out against a non-distracting background. The ...

Linux creator disses Leopard file system

by Cory Bohon (Feb 6th, 2008)

During the latest Linux conference in Melbourne, Australia, Linus Torvalds was quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald saying that the Leopard file system was "complete and utter crap." As you may know, Torvalds is the parent of the Linux kernel. He said ...

Apple updates Braille support in Leopard

by Cory Bohon (Feb 5th, 2008)

Today, Apple released the Braille Display Update 1.0 for VoiceOver in Leopard. VoiceOver, part of the Universal Access family of accessibility tech, allows blind or visually impaired users to hear what's on the screen. Via the new update, when you ...

At long last, a Leopard-compatible SuperDuper!

by Michael Rose (Feb 5th, 2008)

Pity the plight of Leopard users, who have wandered in the backup wilderness for so long, with only the ghost of H.G Wells to show them the path forward. Sure, Carbon Copy Cloner 3 has been a friend in time of need, but for those who crave a ...

TimeMachineEditor 1.2

by Cory Bohon (Feb 4th, 2008)

If you have been putting off using Time Machine to back up your Mac because of the lack of being able to time backups; you have no excuse now. As many of you already know, Time Machine does a complete system backup at first, then hourly backups of ...

Paperclip notes to documents

by Mat Lu (Feb 4th, 2008)

Paperclip is an interesting idea for an application. Basically, it looks like Stickies but the notes are actually "clipped" to specific documents in other applications. For example, you can create a Paperclip note and attach it to a Pages document, ...

Make your Time Machine drive more useful and more boot-iful

by Michael Rose (Jan 29th, 2008)

As we've mentioned recently, one of the conditions for a successful bare-metal restore of a Time Machine backup is a Leopard install DVD; you boot from the DVD, choose your backup as source material, wait some number of hours, and then you're back in ...

Restoring your Mac from a Time Machine backup

by Cory Bohon (Jan 27th, 2008)

Time Machine is probably the defining feature in Mac OS X Leopard. It provides a nice, clean interface for you to backup and restore your files; but did you know you can also restore your computer from the Time Machine backup? When you insert the ...

Cocktail Tiger edition goes to 4.0.1, Leopard edition 4.0.2

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2008)

Just in case you haven't yet upgraded to Leopard, but still love using Cocktail (that crazy mix of Unix functions for OS X), Maintain has released version 4.0.1 of their Tiger edition. They've fixed some compatibility problems with QuickTime, and ...