Cocoa Finder And Image Boot In Snow Leopard

Radical changes are being made to Apple’s operating system that will bring it up to speed with current tech but also future proof the next generation OS for increasing Hardware improvements. Besides drifting rumors of Snow Leopard finally bringing the axe to PowerPC based Macs and migrating to an Intel only architecture, speculation has been nill. However, AppleInsider says that developers who have already seen the newest seed report a revamped Finder completely rewritten in Apple’s Objective-C’s coding language, Cocoa.

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Written by Tanner Godarzi on October 21st, 2008
Posted in: Mac OS X

iPhone Firmware 2.2 Packing Hidden Features

New firmware updates for the iPhone are inevitable but before they’re pushed out to the general public, they don Beta status allowing developers ample time to tweak and modify their Apps while providing bug fixes to Apple. Firmware 2.1 came out recently with Apple focusing more on stability and bug fixes, but this time around, a few extra goodies are being baked into Firmware 2.2; ‘Emojicons’ and Google Street View support for the bundled maps application.

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Written by Tanner Godarzi on October 6th, 2008
Posted in: Apple Store, Mac OS X, Mobile Me, Uncategorized, iPhone

Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update Kills Bugs Dead, Brings Stability

Apple took some time to delay the initial launch of Mac OS X Leopard to further refine the yet to be released OS and ensure all 300 of those fancy new features work without a hitch. When Leopard finally pounced (see what I did there?) on Mac fans in late October of last year, some hiccups and problems made it through the development process and through incremental updates, Apple has eliminated a few inconveniences at a time. Leopard’s fifth update released only days ago has put to rest most if not all of all the bugs plaguing it from the start and fixed a massively publicized DNS exploit. Although there are always some rocky bits to an OS Update, Mac OS X 10.5.5 brings a boat load of fixes and stability enhancements that will invigorate your Cat.

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Written by Tanner Godarzi on September 18th, 2008
Posted in: Mac OS X

Hack Your Way Into A Mac

I could start this post off with the usual warning of how you should only use this information for educational purposes and the only time this would be useful is when you forget your password that’s only 3 characters in length. Sure I could bore you with my half hearted attempt of justifying my actions, lying through my teeth, I only did this on a close friend’s Mac who really did forget his password fib. Screw it, once you have physical access to any Mac and eager ambitions whatever security barriers were set in place are instantly rendered null and void.

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Written by Tanner Godarzi on June 18th, 2008
Posted in: Mac OS X