Leopard Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mozilla ponders ending Firefox support for Leopard

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 1st, 2011)

Leopard owners, it might be time for you to update your operating system. It's four years old, and companies, including Apple, are no longer supporting it. Earlier this year, 1Password dropped support for OS X 10.5 Leopard, and now Mozilla may do the same with Firefox. Mozilla engineering ...

Fusion 4.1 support for pre-Lion, non-server OS X is a mistake, says VMware

by Michael Rose (Nov 21st, 2011)

Late on Friday, Macworld's Jason Snell discovered that the new 4.1 version of virtualization tool VMware Fusion had a special talent. Up until 4.1, Fusion would refuse to install non-server versions of Snow Leopard and Leopard into a virtual machine, since Apple's licensing for those OS builds did ...

VMware Fusion now virtualizes standard builds of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard

by Michael Rose (Nov 18th, 2011)

VMware released the latest dot update to its flagship Mac virtualization product today. The free update, Fusion 4.1, improves Lion full-screen compatibility, graphics performance and startup options; it can be downloaded immediately for all Fusion customers. While those changes are certainly ...

Apple updates Migration Assistant for Leopard-to-Lion compatibility

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2011)

Apple previously updated its Migration Assistant app for compatibility between Lion and Snow Leopard, and now here's the original Leopard update. The Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Leopard smooths out the transfer from a Leopard Mac to one running with the newest Lion OS, making sure ...

QuickTime 7.7 released for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows

by Chris Rawson (Aug 3rd, 2011)

QuickTime 7.7 has been released for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows 7, Vista, and XP. The update addresses several security holes in this older version of QuickTime and is a recommended update for systems running QuickTime 7.6.9 or earlier. Mac users who are running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion ...

Software Update: Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5, Mac OS X 10.5 Update 10

by Steven Sande (Jun 28th, 2011)

Java for Mac OS X 10.6 has just been updated to Update 5, and a visit to Software Update will bring the latest and greatest version of Java to your Mac. If you're still using Leopard, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 is now at Update 10. According to the release notes, "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update ...

1Password 3.6 adds Lion support, drops Leopard/PowerPCs (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 21st, 2011)

1Password 3.6 is out now with a plethora of changes. Most notably, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is now supported while OS X 10.5 Leopard and PowerPC support has been dropped. David Chartier writes that the number of 1Password customers who are using Leopard or a PowerPC-based Mac has fallen into the ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Breeze

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 3rd, 2011)

There are plenty of window management apps on the Mac platform. Some allow you to snap windows to the edges of your screen like BetterSnapTool, but others, like Autumn Apps' Breeze (which we covered last year), allow you to record a desired window size and position. Breeze sits in your menu ...

iTunes, Tiger, and irrational ire: The difference between updates and upgrades

by Chris Rawson (May 21st, 2011)

Update: After we posted this story, reader Nate emailed us to suggest that if you find yourself in Rupert Jones' shoes (with a new iOS device that requires Leopard/iTunes 10 for sync support, but still running Tiger on your Intel Mac), call AppleCare. He says that Apple's support team will ask ...

Report: 68% of Mac users running Snow Leopard

by Michael Grothaus (May 2nd, 2011)

As GigaOm points out, a new report from Net Applications shows that 68% of Mac users are running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Mac OS X 10.5 is a distant second at 24%, while Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger holds just 6% of the Mac market. The remaining 2% is made up of Macs running Mac OS X 10.3 or below. For ...

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 ...

Mac OS X Leopard security update available

by Chris Rawson (Nov 12th, 2010)

On Wednesday, Apple released Security Update 2010-007, which patches a critical security flaw in Mac OS X Leopard. The update is approximately 241 MB and contains numerous security patches, including an updated version of Adobe's Flash Player plug-in. Note that this security update is for Mac OS X ...

Critical security warning issued for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

by Chris Rawson (Nov 9th, 2010)

Computerworld reports that security researchers from CoreLabs have publicly released details on a critical security flaw in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, an older version of the Mac's operating system. Curiously, the security flaw in Leopard is quite similar to a flaw we reported on back in August, which ...

Java for OS X updated

by Chris Rawson (May 18th, 2010)

Fire up your Software Update, because there's a Java update waiting for both Snow Leopard and Leopard users. For Snow Leopard (requires 10.6.3), there's Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2, which weighs in at around 80 MB. For Leopard users (requires 10.5.8), there's Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 7, ...

Hackintosh-friendly Dell Mini 10v discontinued

by TJ Luoma (Apr 14th, 2010)

The Dell Mini 10v, choice of netbook hackintosh owners everywhere, has apparently been discontinued as of a week ago. I discovered that today when I couldn't find any on Dell's site, and confirmed it with a live chat with a support representative who told me it was discontinued last week. A message ...