Compatibility Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

CrossOver Games 8.0 released

by Mike Schramm (Sep 3rd, 2009)

Codeweavers tells us that they've released version 8 of their Crossover Games software -- I tried it out a while ago, and found that while it was a pretty good way to play their recommended games, once you went off the reservation, things got a little hairy. Then again, that was a long time ago, ...

Apple lists Snow Leopard-compatible printers and scanners

by Dave Caolo (Sep 1st, 2009)

I'll come right out and say that I don't like scanners. Granted, I haven't used any high-end models, but in my experience, scanning a simple image to my Mac was akin to piloting a space module. As a chimp. While Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes a great number of scanner (and printer) drivers, some ...

My Snow Leopard casualties: what's not working in 10.6

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 31st, 2009)

Overall, I'm very happy with Snow Leopard, and loving all of the little refinements I keep stumbling upon. However, I want to mention a few pitfalls I ran into with my upgrade, on the off chance that anyone has a similar setup and might benefit from some advance warning, or any of the fixes I've ...

A roundup of Snow Leopard-related software announcements

by Steven Sande (Aug 28th, 2009)

As our readers and staff are out buying copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard today, we thought we'd also start rounding up news about software updates related to the OS update. We're getting a lot of emails today with news about Snow Leopard compatibility updates for applications, so we'll be listing the ...

Getting ready for Snow Leopard: Think about your applications

by Steven Sande (Aug 27th, 2009)

Ahhhh, there's nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that tomorrow I will be spending much of the day upgrading the Macs in my house to Snow Leopard. I received an email from Apple this morning telling me that Snow Leopard had shipped, so now I just need to be available to sign for the package ...

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, and went from donationware to a licensing setup ...

Usable Keychain Scripting updated for Leopard

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2008)

Daniel Jalkut put together a little app called "Usable Keychain Scripting" a little while ago that was designed (what else?) to make scripting the Keychain a little more usable -- the interface included in OS X is bad, to say the least. He was apparently hoping that it would be better in Leopard, ...

Remote Buddy releases version 1.7.1

by Mike Schramm (Oct 9th, 2007)

Remote Buddy, the do-it-all remote program for OS X, has reached version 1.7.1. I haven't taken a look at this app in a long time, but they've come a long way, baby-- a few months ago they added support (via AJAX) for the iPhone, and that has added a whole new universe of functionality to ...

Shiira 2.2 updated for Safari 3 beta's WebKit

by David Chartier (Jul 23rd, 2007)

When Apple makes changes to WebKit - the open source rendering engine that powers Safari - like they just did with the Safari 3 beta, many, many other Mac OS X apps that have anything to do with websites need to do a little catchup so things continue to run smoothly. Shiira, the feature-packed ...

On the Firefox 2.0 beta, extensions and compatibility

by David Chartier (Sep 1st, 2006)

If you want to play with the Firefox betas, but don't want to break your existing extensions, there is an add-on available that can bring your existing extensions along for the 2.0 beta ride. Nightly Tester Tools is an add-on (extensions are being rebranded as 'add-ons' in the new Firefox) that ...

Another Rosetta Compatibility List

by C.K. Sample, III (Feb 1st, 2006)

Following up on yesterday's post about a Macintouch Rosetta compatibility list, I found that MacFixIt has a much more comprehensive list. This hopefully will help assuage the lamentations of readers such as EatingPie, who found the Macintouch list much too tiny. Actually, let us know if you spot ...

Rosetta compatibility list

by C.K. Sample, III (Jan 31st, 2006)

To supplement creativebits' list of what you cannot run on a Mactel, the Mac Internets now has a Rosetta Compatibility list courtesy of Macintouch. Does anyone else find it completely laughable that the company with the most incompatible programs under its name is Apple? Of course, at this point, ...