Neowin News Feed for: Leopard

Mac OS X Snow Leopard reaches Golden Master

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:44:09 +0000

According to several sources in contact with MacRumors.com, Mac OS X 10.6 Build 10A432 has been designated as the Golden Master. This build is the final release out of the development team and will likely... Read more...

Mac OS X 10.5.8 released

Sam Symons — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:40:54 +0000

Not too long ago, Apple released their update for Leopard, bringing it up to version 10.5.7. This update brought many bug fixes and optimizations, as there's no point adding new features with Snow Leopard on... Read more...

Amazon is now taking OS X Snow Leopard pre-orders

Kevin Weiner — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:44:46 +0000

According to MacRumors, Amazon is now taking pre-orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Amazon is offering Snow Leopard at $29 and is slated for a September release as announced by Apple earlier this year... Read more...

WebKit nightly builds enable 3D CSS transforms for OS X

Sam Symons — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:55:55 +0000

Recent builds of Apple's upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard, have enabled a rather nifty feature in the WebKit-based Safari 4 browser, dubbed 3D CSS transforms. During the weekend that has just passed, according to Ars... Read more...

Marshymellow: Apple's hypocrisy is blinding

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:41 +0000

It would seem hard for any logical person to see the statements Apple made about Windows Vista and Windows 7 today, and think they were not anything but hypocritical. In case you missed it during... Read more...

Snow Leopard nearing completion

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:01:52 +0000

A report from Apple Insider this morning announced that Apple's next version of the OS X operating system, named 'Snow Leopard' 10.6 is nearing completion. This news comes as Apple is said to have notified... Read more...

Will Apple keep their Snow Leopard promises?

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:27:14 +0000

Let me cast your minds back to the 9th June last year. Steve Jobs CEO of Apple was in better health back then and at the WWDC officially announced the development of Snow Leopard; the... Read more...

Fourth Leopard 10.5.7 test build given to developers

Sam Symons — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:58:02 +0000

Development seems to be coming to a close for Apple's upcoming OS X Leopard 10.5.7 build, folks. World of Apple is reporting a new test build has been released to the developers of OS X... Read more...

80+ bug fixes in store for Mac OS X 10.5.7

Sam Symons — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:13:23 +0000

Although Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system is in the pipeline, and coming up for a release sometime this year, work it still being continued on their current operating system, Leopard. As AppleInsider reports, on... Read more...

Report: Apple to launch Snow Leopard on June 8

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:47:32 +0000

The Baltimore Sun writer has come up with a report that Apple will roll out Snow Leopard, its next operating system on June 8, by noting down the similarities between the June opening of... Read more...

New Snow Leopard build (10A286) seeded to developers

Sam Symons — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:11:15 +0000

Apple has seeded a new build of its upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard, to developers of Apple software. The news is being reported by website World of Apple, and they have said that the new... Read more...

Customizable 4-finger gestures expected for Snow Leopard

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:16:39 +0000

MyAppleGuide reports that Apple might have customizable 4-finger gestures planned for the upcoming Snow Leopard release. The interface discovered by MyAppleGuide would allow users of multi-touch capable Macs to define their own gestures. The unibody... Read more...

Snow Leopard will know your location, via the Internet

Sam Symons — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:05:42 +0000

AppleInsider is reporting that the recent build of Snow Leopard, 10A261, commonly known as Beta 3, will use triangulation features via the Internet to pinpoint your location. Not only this, but Apple has helped developers... Read more...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard third beta released for testing

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:46:05 +0000

As Windows 7 RC gets ready for its release, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A261 is released officially to select beta developers and testers this week according to an Italian Website, Macity. Compared... Read more...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) due Q1 2009

Tom Warren — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:46:10 +0000

Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard, spoke at Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) '08 last week. LISA, co-sponsored by USENIX and Sage, generally runs six days: six days of full-day and... Read more...

Apple Releases 10.5.3 Update for Mac OS X

Thu, 29 May 2008 02:54:43 +0000

Apple has just released the 3rd major update to Mac OS X 10.5 today, which contains "general operating system fixes" detailed in a support document on Apple's site. Notable changes include additional RAW support for... Read more...

Apple releases 31 Security Updates for Tiger & Leopard

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:49:55 +0000

Apple Incorporated has released 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard; most of them were geared toward Mac OS X 10.4 as 10.5 was not always affected by the vulnerabilities. The flaws ranged... Read more...

NPD: Apple launch of Leopard system its best ever

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:14:27 +0000

The launch of Apple Inc's latest operating system, Leopard, was its best ever, a research group said on Monday. When comparing the first full month of sales of Apple Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard" (November 2007)... Read more...

Norton AntiVirus 11 for Leopard Announced

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:28:12 +0000

Symantec has introduced Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac, featuring support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software furnishes vulnerability protection technology, which watches the web application layer. Norton AntiVirus automatically detects and removes viruses,... Read more...

Intel upgrades tools for Apple Leopard developers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:39:42 +0000

Intel upgraded its software development tools for Apple's Mac OS X Leopard operating system, keeping a promise to Apple and pushing Mac applications to its brand new Penryn chips. Intel announced on Wednesday that the... Read more...

Laptops suffer battery, keyboard issues with Leopard

Denis Wong — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:58:19 +0000

Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard appears to have brought with it battery drain and intermittent keyboard freezing issues, which are plaguing some MacBook and MacBook Pro owners. Numerous posts in Apple's support... Read more...

Apple releases first Leopard update

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:48:42 +0000

Apple has released an update (10.5.1) for Leopard, which debuted just three weeks ago, that fixes, among other things, three issues with the Application Firewall that could lead network services to be exposed. The company... Read more...

Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown

Steven Parker — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:32:11 +0000

There's no doubt, Vista and Leopard are both extremely advanced, feature rich consumer operating systems. But way back in January when Vista launched knew we had little choice but pit the two in a head... Read more...

Did Leopard Rush to Make the Holiday Vista Missed?

Steven Parker — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:27:53 +0000

I've been testing Mac OS X 10.5 on three Macs, one a MacBook Pro, all with Intel processors. There's something about Leopard that feels unfinished, like it left the den before reaching full maturity. On... Read more...

Feature-rich Leopard will wow Mac users

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:53:25 +0000

People new to the Mac and existing users alike will be wowed by many of the reportedly 300 new features built into Apple's latest update to its OS X operating system, Leopard. These include a... Read more...

Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard

Steven Parker — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:24:02 +0000

Make OS X a little less smug It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system. Unfortunately, that also included an upgrade to its... Read more...

Apple sells 2M copies of Mac OS X Leopard in first weekend

Tom Warren — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:45:34 +0000

Apple said Tuesday that it sold over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most... Read more...

Why Leopard Isn't Better than Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:12:49 +0000

Apple's newest operating system is at best an evolution from predecessor Tiger. Some of the criticisms leveled at Windows Vista apply to Leopard. Seriously. I bought my copy of Leopard on Saturday from the... Read more...

Leopard Allegedly Facing Java Problems

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:39:37 +0000

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system may soon have a sour taste in their mouth as reports file in that users are unable to work with the latest version... Read more...

What's new in Leopard Server?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:11:00 +0000

Apple Inc.'s latest version of Mac OS X, known as Leopard, has been big technology news for the past few weeks as Mac users have eagerly awaited the next-generation operating system. Although not as flashy... Read more...

Apple Confirms Some Leopard 'Blue Screens,' Posts Fix

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:51:06 +0000

Apple is confirming that some installations of its Leopard operating system have left a "Blue Screen of Death," and recommends the OS be reinstalled or installers use "line commands" to get the systems booting properly.... Read more...

Finger-pointing over Leopard blue screens heats up

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:00:44 +0000

The creators of APE on Saturday denied that their application-enhancement framework is responsible for blue-screening Macs being upgraded to Leopard. Apple Inc., however, blamed the software in a support document advising users to delete APE... Read more...

Google Desktop Adds Leopard Support

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:37:05 +0000

Google Desktop for Mac has been updated adding support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, among many other changes. In addition to Leopard support, Google Desktop also now allows indexing of drives where Spotlight has... Read more...

OS X v10.5 Leopard Available October 26, Pre-order Today

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:50:07 +0000

Back in April, Apple announced a delay from June to October for the next version of its operating system due to needs of the iPhone program. Well, October has finally arrived. The company says that... Read more...

Apple's Leopard Launch: Halloween Trick Or Mac-toberfest?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:01:37 +0000

Apple is typically keeping the market guessing on the launch date for its next-generation Mac OS X, code-named "Leopard" -- software that is still being beta tested even though it has now reached the month,... Read more...

Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:28:55 +0000

Apple Inc. kicked off the month in which it plans to launch its new Mac OS X 10.5, "Leopard," OS by reminding users that the beta license for Boot Camp -- the utility that runs... Read more...

Leopard and Vista: Last Gasp of the Big OS?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:28:53 +0000

Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and... Read more...

Revised Desktop, Finder Highlight Leopard Additions

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:55:17 +0000

When OS X 10.5: Leopard debuts in October, it will feature a redesigned Desktop and new Finder. Those new features were among the changes Steve Jobs introduced during a preview of the forthcoming OS X... Read more...

Sun confirms OS X Leopard will use ZFS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:06:24 +0000

Sun Microsystems has confirmed that Apple will use Sun's Zettabyte File System (ZFS) for the forthcoming OS X 10.5 Leopard due in October. Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said at a company event in Washington... Read more...

Mac OS X Leopard vs. Windows Vista

Steven Parker — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:33:26 +0000

HardwareLogic has partnering up with Newegg to sponsor the User Guide Of The Month. Each month, the HL staff will choose the best guide/article/product review submitted by a user, and that person will receive a... Read more...