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Perian posts end of life notice. Mac video enthusiasts weep.

by Erica Sadun (May 14th, 2012)

Perian has been a steadfast friend on my computer for years. With Perian, nearly any video format I throw at QuickTime simply works. Perian has been a wonder. It supports AVI. It supports DivX. It supports MKV. It's been one of the best and most useful tools I have had access to and invariably ...

Apple seeds OS X Lion 10.7.4 Build 11E52 to developers

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 24th, 2012)

Apple has seeded the fourth build of OS X Lion 10.7.4 to developers. Build 11E52 lists no known issues and asks developers to focus on graphics, iCal, Mail, Printing, and Time Machine. The fourth build of 10.7.4 weighs in at 1.43 GB for the combo update and 716 MB for the delta update. OS X ...

Skype 5.6 available, full-screen support in Lion

by Steven Sande (Mar 7th, 2012)

Planning on making some Skype video calls today to talk with your buddies about the new Apple products? Before you hit the dial button, be sure to get the update to Skype 5.6. The update became available yesterday and adds some Lion-friendly features as well as fixes to a few issues. Beom Soo Park ...

The Omni Group releases Lion update stats

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2012)

While many Windows users are content to live with older versions of their software, Mac users have generally been quite responsive to version upgrades. Sure, you'll still find the occasional person running OS X 10.4 Tiger (like the client I upgraded last week), but a lot of Macs are now running ...

Intuit to deliver Quicken update for Lion compatibility

by Mel Martin (Dec 22nd, 2011)

Christmas from Quicken is coming pretty late, but it will be appreciated by many Mac users. The company has emailed users that it will finally offer a version of Quicken that runs under Lion and Snow Leopard. Intuit Personal Finance Group GM Aaron Forth wrote users today "I understand the ...

Growl developers describe the app's major changes

by Steven Sande (Nov 13th, 2011)

Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X, was recently updated to version 1.3. While "dot updates" to apps usually don't signal a major change, that's not the case with the latest version of Growl. In a post on the Growl blog, the team described the major changes that have taken ...

Daily Update for November 11, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 11th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple releases Java for OS X Lion Update 1, Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6

by Steven Sande (Nov 9th, 2011)

Lion and Snow Leopard users -- there's something waiting for you in Software Update this morning. Apple has released Update 1 for Java for OS X Lion, as well as Update 6 for Java for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Apple says in the notes for Java for OS X Lion Update 1 that it provides ...

Lion Designer customizes Lion's Dashboard, Mission Control and Launchpad backgrounds

by Steven Sande (Nov 3rd, 2011)

If there's anything bad about OS X Lion, it's that it provides many more opportunities for boring backdrops. By default, Mission Control uses the familiar grey linen background with a miniature of your desktop, and with the login screen, you just have the grey linen. Dashboard has that pebbled ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me find Spotlight items in the Finder

by Erica Sadun (Oct 30th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, There's plenty I like about Lion - but lots of pointless change for the worse. Top of my hate list is that Spotlight no longer gives me the location of the items I'm searching for. Sure, the preview on cursor hover is nifty, but why oh why can't Spotlight give me (for example) the ...

Chitika: Mac OS X market share jumps in September

by Steven Sande (Sep 27th, 2011)

Chitika Insights grabs online advertising data to monitor and report on Internet trends, one of which is the market share of various computer operating systems. There was a surprise reported for Mac OS X in the latest report -- the market share for Apple's desktop/laptop OS climbed 1.039 to ...

MacBook Air, Mac mini drive strong Q3 sales

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 13th, 2011)

The NPD group released its sales data for the current quarter and things are looking good for Apple. Mac sales are up 22% year-over-year due primarily to the release of OS X Lion and new MacBook Air and Mac Mini hardware in July. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster crunched ...

OS X Lion accepts any LDAP password, creates enterprise network nightmare

by Steven Sande (Aug 29th, 2011)

There's nothing more frightening to a network administrator than to have a potential security hole that can open a network to attacks from outside. Unfortunately, the latest incarnation of Mac OS X -- Lion -- reportedly has a major security issue related to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

Mac sales climb after launch of OS X Lion and new MacBook Airs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 23rd, 2011)

Apple's current quarterly earnings should receive a nice boost from brisk sales of Mac hardware says analysts. This summer increase can be attributed to the July introduction of OS X Lion and new MacBook Air and Mac mini models. The latest NPD report suggests Mac sales may climb 26% year over ...

OS X Lion 10.7.2 seed 2 now available for developers

by Steven Sande (Aug 23rd, 2011)

Numerous tipsters have advised us that OS X Lion 10.7.2 seed 2 has been made available to developers. Notification of the update was sent to developers yesterday afternoon. According to information sent to TUAW by developers, there are no known issues with the seed, which indicates that 10.7.2 ...