Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.3

Apple on Monday morning released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the latest update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The update is recommended for all users of Snow Leopard, and brings a number of fixes, improvements, and security patches. The update’s size may vary depending on the configuration of your Mac.

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Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.2 on Monday

On Monday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.2, the latest update to its Mac OS X operating system. As you might have guessed, it contains a number of fixes and feature enhancements for the newest cat. Apple recommends 10.6.2 for all users running Snow Leopard.

The 10.6.2 update is available via Software Update and Apple’s support downloads site. The size of the download in Software Update may vary depending on your computer.

Apple lists apps incompatible with Snow Leopard

Apple has published a series of official support documents for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which ships today. These cover Finder and the desktop, the printing process, and more crucially a number of incompatible applications. A specific set of programs may be automatically moved to an “Incompatible Software” folder on a Mac, and/or blocked from being opened.

Apps which are moved to the separate folder include:

• Parallels Desktop, ver. 2.5 and earlier
• McAfee VirusScan, ver. 8.6
• Norton AntiVirus ver. 11.0
• Internet Cleanup 5 ver. 5.0.4
• Application Enhancer ver. 2.0.1 and earlier
• Unsanity
• AT&T Laptop Connect Card ver. 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.10.0
• launch2net ver, 2.13.0
• iWOW plug-in for iTunes ver. 2.0
• Missing Sync for Palm Sony CLIE Driver ver. 6.0.4
• TonePort UX8 Driver ver. 4.1.0
• ioHD Driver ver. 6.0.3
• Silicon Image SiI3132 Drivers ver. 1.5.16.0

On top of this, the following software is being blocked from launching:

• Parallels Desktop ver. 3.0
• VirusBarrier X4 ver. 10.4.4 and earlier
• SPSS 17 ver. 17.1
• Director MX 2004 ver. 10.2
• EyeTV ver. 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
• Ratatouille ver. 1.1
• Aperture ver. 2.1.1 and earlier
• Keynote ver. 2.0.2 and earlier
• AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow ver. 4.2.5

It is official now. Apple releasing Snow Leopard on August 28, 2009

This time it’s only costing you $29 dollars for the upgrade, but if you are like me with the “old” chipset, you’re out of luck.  Only the Intel will be able to run OS X 10.6.

So upgrading to the new operating system will cost me a lot more than $29….

Apple's UK Online Store Lists August 28th Ship Date for Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program

If all the latest rumors are to be believed, Apple’s next operating system Snow Leopard would see an August 28th launch, ahead of Apple’s previously-announced September launch window.

Amazon Begins Accepting Mac OS X Snow Leopard Pre-Orders

Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard  is available for users currently running Mac OS X Leopard for just $29. Amazon doesn’t offer a firm shipping date but Apple has pinned September as the Snow Leopard release month.  You can click on image or link to pre-order now and support this site.

Video tour of Apple's Snow Leopard

Those of you eager to see Snow Leopard in action and don’t like searching YouTube, can now see it through an unofficial but detailed series of videos detailing the upcoming Mac OS X release.

Snow Leopard Screenshots Show New Features

A gallery on the popular photo sharing website Flickr shows several screenshots from the most recent build (10A354) of Mac OS Snow Leopard. Also a video has appeared on YouTube demonstrating the new Chinese handwriting recognition within Snow Leopard.

Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers

MacRumors has learned that Apple’s Boot Camp utility under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include Windows HFS+ drivers, which will allow Windows installations to read Mac OS X HFS+ formatted partitions.

The move should make it easier for customers to switch between Windows and Mac operating systems by allowing files to be more easily transfered back and forth. Up until now, customers would have to rely on third-party utilities such as Mediafour’s MacDrive to accomplish the same task.

source:macrumors

Update on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 1:26PM by Jon Arnason

Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software’s release.

More specifically, Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the application programming interfaces (APIs) for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores.

This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then routed — or dispatched — efficiently to a Mac’s available cores for faster processing. This allows third-party developers to leverage more of a Mac’s hardware resources without having to be well-versed in multithreaded programming.

Apple building YouTube support into Snow Leopard

Apple will further its endorsement of YouTube and open video standards by building support for the Google-owned video sharing service into one of its flagship applications due to ship later this summer as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

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