10.4 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TenFourFox brings Firefox 4 to PPC Macs

by Samuel Gibbs (Apr 27th, 2011)

Firefox 4 received quite a bit of fanfare when it finally rolled out of beta. Unfortunately for some Mac users, Mozilla decided to drop support for PowerPC processors and therefore Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from FF4, meaning that G3, G4 and G5 users were left out in the cold. If you're one of these ...

Solved: The case of the missing .Mac widgets

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Back in April of 2005, Apple released the much-awaited Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" OS. One of the big new features of Tiger was Dashboard. The overlay feature supported Widgets, mini-apps that were the descendants of Mac OS 9 Desk Accessories, and that some might consider the precursors to modern iOS ...

Apple Security update 2008-005 released

by Cory Bohon (Jul 31st, 2008)

Apple has just released a new security update for client and server users of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard). This Security update 2008-005 is "recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X," and includes fixes for a dozen or so features in Mac OS X. This update fixes a ...

Adium X hits 1.0.5

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2007)

Adium X, my IM app of choice, has released version 1.0.5-- mostly bugfixes, and no major additions to the interface. A bug which deleted chat transcript indexes has been fixed, as well as a crash that was showing up during text-to-speech. And since libpurple was upgraded to 2.0.2, moving ICQ buddies ...

Is the firewall enabled in Mac OS X by default, or not?

by David Chartier (Sep 18th, 2006)

I just bought a new MacBook, as I'm stepping down from owning a Pro and moving to a MacBook/iMac setup (more on that later), and I noticed something a little disconcerting: after going through the generic setup out of the box, Mac OS X's firewall was not enabled by default. I didn't fiddle with any ...

Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.4.8 to developers

by David Chartier (Sep 1st, 2006)

Amidst all this Leopard broohaha, it's good to know Apple can still remember 'the rest of us' still using the now old 'n busted Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. MacRumors and AppleInsider are reporting that Apple has seeded a Mac OS X 10.4.8 update to developers for their ninja code skills to scrutinize. The ...

Tiger: have you upgraded?

by Jay Savage (Jul 14th, 2005)

As I was walking through the bookstore the other day (yes, I still use paper), I noticed that there were a lot of Tiger books on the shelves. This surprised me for two reasons: 1) The Mac shelves of this particular store are usually pretty poorly stocked, and 2) The public release really wasn't that ...