Phynchronicity: Fink GUI

by Mat Lu (Apr 14th 2007 11:00AM)

Everybody knows that at the heart of OS X lies a powerful UNIX/BSD installation, but actually installing UNIX software can be a bit of pain, requiring command line trickery at least, and sometimes even compiling from the source (and dealing with depe...

Add ModMyiFone as an Installer.app source

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th 2007 5:00PM)

A while ago, the nice people at ModMyiFone put together their own installer source. This source usually has up-to-date hacks in installable forms shortly after they become public. I've been besieged by kind commenters reminding me to put up a general...

Growl updated to 1.1.4, fixes "Install Failed" message in Leopard

by Cory Bohon (Jun 18th 2008 3:30PM)

It was only a couple weeks ago that Growl version 1.1.3 was released, but as some commenters noted on the 1.1.3 post, there was a bug that caused some the inability to install Growl under Leopard. Well, the Growl team has heard your cries and issued ...

Palm releases 4.2.1revD Installer

by Dave Caolo (Sep 22nd 2005 7:00PM)

Last month, we pointed out an article at Macintouch that accused the Palm 4.2.1c installer of altering permissions it had no business touching. Yesterday, Palm released 4.2.1revD of this installer, which, according to Palm, offers “a more elega...

Installer icon badges

by Scott McNulty (Aug 28th 2006 8:00PM)

If you're anything like me, I'm sorry for you. Ah, a little joke to open things up never fails, but you know what isn't a joking matter? That's right, OS X's Installer. That's the program that, well, enables things to be installed in OS X so it is k...

The confusing art of installing apps

by Josh Carr (Sep 21st 2009 2:00PM)

John Gruber of Daring Fireball recently wrote an essay about quirks and user confusion around the application install process on Mac OS X. He had read a post from Alexander Limi's blog about the Firefox install experience, and decided to address it ...

How to burn a Lion boot disc

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 7th 2011 1:00PM)

Mac OS X Lion will debut in July, and this handy set of instructions from Egg Freckles will let you create a boot disc for installation. OS X Lion will be distributed via the Mac App Store, and you can download the installer files to your hard dri...

Virgin to compete with iTunes in the US and Europe

by Alberto Escarlate (Mar 8th 2004 9:43AM)

Another player to join the music download competition. Virgin just announced the launch of Virgin Digital in August. Virgin Digital will be the front end for MusicNet — an online distribution company formed by Sony, BMG and Warner Music ...

LANrev releases free version of InstallEase

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th 2008 3:00PM)

Who can take some software, bundle it for you? Make a free installer and then seal it up with glue? InstallEase can (with apologies to Sammy Davis, Jr.). The packaging utility, long part of the LANrev crossplatform management & audit tool, is now...

Tiger Bits: Possible Spotlight Bug

by C.K. Sample, III (May 11th 2005 4:00PM)

This afternoon, I decided to plug an external Firewire drive into my Powerbook and do a clean install of Tiger onto that drive, just to test the differences between running Tiger off the clean install on my Powerbook (via the Firewire drive) versus o...

MacBook Air Leopard disk only works with MacBook Air

by Scott McNulty (Jan 30th 2008 7:00AM)

As we speak many, many people are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their MacBook Air. When you open up the MacBook Air you'll see that it includes a Leopard installation disk, as every other Mac does. This Apple KB article supplies us with an inter...

New Mac OS X malware - OSX_LAMZEV.A

by Steven Sande (Nov 21st 2008 2:30PM)

Computer security company Trend Micro is reporting that a new Mac OS X malware application is making the rounds. The application, called OSX_LAMZEV.A, gives hackers a way to take control of infected Macs. This is the second report of Mac OS X malware...

ScanSnap Manager updated for Snow Leopard

by TJ Luoma (Nov 16th 2009 12:00PM)

Fujitsu has finally updated the ScanSnap Manager app for Snow Leopard. "Version 2.2 L12" is available for download for the following models: ScanSnap S300M ScanSnap S510M ScanSnap S500M ScanSnap S1500M Unfortunately, for some bizarre reas...

Rudix, a lightweight way to add new Unix utilities

by TJ Luoma (May 4th 2010 2:00PM)

Rudix offers a collection of Unix utilities which do not come with OS X by default. When setting up a new Mac I always install these Unix utilities: wget, ncftp, lynx with SSL support, and the GNU Core Utilities. I compile them manually whenever p...

Upgrade, Clean install saga continues

by Scott McNulty (May 20th 2005 11:59AM)

A few weeks before Tiger was released I asked, 'Tiger: Upgrade, Archive and Install, or Clean Install?' which exposed a rift in the Mac community that rivals the virulent hatred that is associated with the two schools of thought on the number of butt...