OSX Lion is Apple’s newest glorious Operation System. However, several users are not happy with the way things work and fell inside of this new OS. There are many reasons to upgrade to Lion, but if you are already used to Snow Leopard and how things work, you will need to learn again. Lion Tweaks takes several of those annoying things and lets you turn them off.
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Access iCloud Email On iOS 4, OS X Snow Leopard Or Non iOS 5 Devices
Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 (beta developers preview) give you access to iCloud beta services which, along with content syncing, also includes setting up your personalized “@me.com” email ID for free, which previously used to be a commercial commodity in the era of MobileMe. However, once you do sign up for an account, you need to have access to either an iOS 5 beta build or iCloud beta for Mac OS X (Lion) in order to check you “@me.com” email.
Apple Releases Mac OS 10.6.8 v1.1
Apple released a “supplemental update” to Mac OS X 10.6.8 users on Tuesday.
The update is said to fix several bugs such as printers failing to work and HDMI issues. This is the changelog for this update:
Migration Assistant Updated Today Ahead of OSX Lion Release
Apple Releases Graphics Update for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.4)–Brings Stability and Performance Improvements
Apple has pushed a new Snow Leopard Graphics Update that aims to bring stability and performance improvements for games and graphic intensive applications. It mainly fixes issues with games from Steam including Portal and Team Fortress 2. Steam had said in the past in reply to slow gaming frame rates on Mac that they’re working with Apple, Nvidia and ATI to improve the gaming performance on Macs. This update seems to be a part of their work.
Apple Distributes first Mac OS X 10.6.5 build to Developers
Apple has started distributing the first developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 since Friday night. This is the fifth release of company’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system and is officially labeled as Build 10H525. This build follows Mac OS X 10.6.4 which was made public on June 15th just after WWDC.
Radium – a great but simple Internet Radio Player for Mac
Internet radio is a great medium of listening to good music and discovering some new songs as well. There are countless apps out there ( even iTunes has the functionality ), but none of them compare to the simplicity that Radium offers. It requires almost no setup, sits in the menu bar and just works.
Proof of concept code for security flaw in Leopard and Snow Leopard posted online
It isn’t daily that you get to hear of security vulnerabilities in Apple’s OS X. Even if security flaws are discovered in OS X, they are rarely exploited for malicious reasons unlike in Windows where viruses are widely available. Recently, a proof of concept code has been made available online that allows a vulnerability to be exploited in OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard). According to DailyTech, the vulnerability is a “buffer overflow error that arises from the strtod function in the underlying Unix code used for the Mac OS.” This security flaw can allow a remote attacker to take over the system.
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.2 update, fixes Guest account data deletion bug and much more
Apple has rolled out Mac OS X 10.6.2 update. Apple regards this update as a release, that focuses on security, compatibility and stability aspects. Mac OS X 10.6.2 is the second update to be rolled out since the launch of Snow Leopard, three months back. Mac OS X 10.6.2 fixes the Guest Account Bug, which deleted user’s data when the user logged in as a Guest. It also brings an end to Intel Atom support which is bad news for hackintosh netbooks who want to upgrade to 10.6.2. The second Mac OS X update is said to contain fixes for more than 30 bugs. Apple recommends all the Mac OS X users to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.2.
LimeWire version 5.4.0 released for Snow Leopard
LimeWire 5.4.0 Beta has been released for Snow Leopard. Regarded as the fastest P2P program on the planet earth, LimeWire brings with it new features along with a few bug fixes. One of the notable additions to LimeWire 5.4.0 is the ability to watch a video file within the application.