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It’s Windows 7 Day: Are We the Early Adopters?

Written on October 22, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 24 people have commented

Apple did pretty much everything they could to steal some of Windows 7’s thunder by announcing some pretty major hardware changes earlier in the week, but Thursday is here nonetheless, and that means Microsoft’s latest OS is on store shelves now, ripe for the picking. Question is, will Mac users be helping with the harvest?
I’m [...]

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Officially Available Today

Written on August 28, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 15 people have commented

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Today, Apple officially launches the latest milestone update to its Mac OS X operating system. “Snow Leopard” is the fifth major update to the operating system since it was launched in 2001. Apple has spent the last year tweaking and refining just about every line of code [...]

Apple Shipping Snow Leopard on Friday August 28

Written on August 24, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 25 people have commented

Looks like the rumor mill was spot on this time, as speculation that Mac OS X Snow Leopard would ship earlier than its anticipated September street date have proven true. Apple announced this morning via a press release that 10.6 will go on sale Friday, August 28th (yes, that’s the end of this week, you’re [...]

Firefox 3.5 Released

Written on June 30, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

You may already be running Firefox 3.5, if you grabbed it early from Mozilla’s FTP servers, where it’s been available for a little while now, but if not, head over to Mozilla.com to update. I’ve been using the Beta and the Release Candidate versions for some time, and aside from the usual incompatibility with a [...]

OpenOffice 3.0 Released

Written on October 13, 2008 by David Appleyard and 8 people have commented

The latest version of Open Office, released today, has been in development for the past three years. As one of the most popular open source competitors to Microsoft Office, the release has been anticipated for some time (the launch even warranted a party!).
Open Office comprises of several applications: a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentation [...]

Aperture 2 Released

Written on February 12, 2008 by Josh Pigford and No one has commented

Apple is on a software-release roll. Yesterday they released Leopard 10.5.2 and today they have released Aperture 2.
Aperture is Apple’s pro-level photograph editing and management software that has been picking up a lot of steam in the past couple of years.
There are over 100 new features in Aperture 2, some of which are:

Updated user interface
Quick [...]

Pixelmator Now Available

Written on September 25, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 5 people have commented

Pixelmator has been pretty tight-fisted about letting their image-editor-in-progress see the light of day. There have only been 1 or 2 screencasts released by the developers, and what few beta testers were out there weren’t too loud about it. But today you can go download Pixelmator 1.0 and test drive it for yourself. [...]