Neowin News Feed for: Mac os x

Apple's upcoming products will "change the narrative", says Barclays

Ben Buffone — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:21:58 +0100

Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes has suggested Apple's upcoming product roadmap will "change the narrative" of the company. The analyst has also recently upped his own performance targets for Apple. Read more...

Humble Bundle 5 includes Android games

Christopher White — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0000

The latest Humble Bundle includes games for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android. For whatever price you want to pay, you can get cross-platform support for a bunch of games. Read more...

Adobe cryptographic key recalled after compromise

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:29:51 +0100

A cryptographic key used to validate Adobe applications has been compromised, and was used to sign at least two malicious utilities. Adobe will recall the affected certificate and publish an update. Read more...

Mac (and Linux) hit by another dangerous trojan

Tyler Holman — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:53:41 +0100

A dangerous new trojan, discovered by the same people who brought the infamous Flashback malware to light, is out to steal passwords from Mac and Linux users by keylogging and exploiting their browser Read more...

Review: Matias Tactile Pro 3.0

Paul Ferson — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:20:11 +0100

Paul Ferson takes a look at the Matias Corporation's Tactile Pro keyboard; a mechanical keyboard aiming to improve on the formula Apple showed the world in 1987, as well as adding new touches. Read more...

OS X Mountain Lion to be released today - available now

Jake Durasamy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:43:17 +0100

Apple has revealed that its newest operating system for the Mac, 'Mountain Lion', will be released today for $20. The update focuses on implementing some iOS features into the desktop OS. Read more...

Mountain Lion to drop support for older Macs

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:06:00 +0100

Apple's upcoming Mountain Lion operating system update will drop support of some older Mac models, even though they have 64-bit processors. The reason is likely due to older 32-bit graphics drivers. Read more...

Apple Mac OS X Lion update fixes password flaw

John Callaham — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:37:41 +0100

A new update to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) has, among other things, fixed a flaw that previously allowed for people to see and access a Mac's user passwords in cleartext. Read more...

Report: Windows XP still most used PC OS in April 2012

John Callaham — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:07:15 +0100

Windows XP is still the number one most used PC operating system in the world with 46.08 percent of the market share worldwide, while Windows 7 continues to gain users. Read more...

Dr. Web: Flashback malware hasn't been cut down after all

John Callaham — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:43:28 +0100

Despite reports earlier in the week that Mac infections from the Flashback malware had been cut down, Dr. Web claims that Flashback has still infected 566,000 Mac PCs. Read more...

Study: Mac users more likely to preview next OS than Windows users

John Callaham — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:33:42 +0100

A new study claims that Mac users are almost three times more likely to try out an upcoming OS update such as Mountain Lion than Windows PC users are in trying out Windows 8. Read more...

Firefox 11 now officially available

Nathan Tsui — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:07:50 +0000

Mozilla Corporation has released Firefox 11, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, with new features that can migrate data from Google Chrome and sync add-ons across computers. Read more...

Apple's Mountain Lion: more control for you or over you?

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:54:08 +0000

Critics describe the new Apple OS “security” feature as the beginning of the end for the traditional OS experience for Mac users: soon Apple could start policing every application you try to install Read more...

Messages won't be available to OS X Lion users after beta

John Callaham — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:33:24 +0000

A new report claims that the just released beta of Apple's new Messages chat program won't be available anymore to OS X Lion users after the beta period is completed. Read more...

Mountain Lion incompatible with older Macs

John Callaham — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:38:25 +0000

Apple's newly revealed Mountain Lion update for OS X has some higher system requirements and as such a number of older Macs, including the first version of the Macbook Air, won't get upgraded. Read more...

Apple's Mac App Store hits 100 million download mark

John Callaham — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:49:48 +0000

Apple has announced that its Mac App Store, which first launched less than a year ago for its Mac PCs, has now reached and exceeded the 100 million app download mark. Read more...

Review: Scrivener for Windows

Paul Ferson — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:50:23 +0000

Neowin takes an in-depth look at the Scrivener writing application to bring you this complete review of the program and show off its potential. Read more...

Milestone for the Mac as it reaches 5% global share

Paul Ferson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:14:44 +0000

Apple can celebrate today, with the news that the Macintosh has reached a new milestone: it makes up over 5% of the global computing market, setting itself a new record. Read more...

Apple generates six million downloads of Mac OS X Lion

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:54:31 +0100

Apple has confirmed it has seen six million downloads of its major Lion update for the Mac OS X operating system since it launched earlier this summer. Read more...

Windows 7 begins to overtake Windows XP in usage

Byron Hinson — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:54:40 +0100

Online stats has shown that Windows 7 has overtaken Windows XP as the worlds most used operating system. The news comes a few weeks after Microsoft confirmed that XP will end-of life in 2014. Read more...