Snow Leopard Install Update ( Success and Failure )
Posted by Scott in Apple, Snow Leopard on August 30, 2009
A brief update on Snow Leopard installs here at UKMac.net so far. After complaining about not receiving my pre-ordered Family Pack on Friday the postman arrived Saturday morning with a rather squished jiffy bag all the way from Ireland !
Due to other commitments this weekend I only had time to upgrade my MacBook on Saturday. This went fine, taking less than an hour from start to finish, so this afternoon the first of the to iMacs ( 20″ ) was upgraded and again no issues.
Snow Leopard Pre-Order Delivery Failure
Posted by Scott in Apple, Snow Leopard on August 29, 2009
Here in the UK the pre-order of Snow Leopard appears to have been a major FAIL. Many Mac users like myself pre-ordered Snow Leopard through the Apple Store with the expectation of the new Leopard landing on our door mats first thing on Friday morning, but the majority like myself waited in all day for nothing !
According to other @MyAppleStuff it appears that Spanish Mac users were similarly disappointed. Many countries on the other hand seemed to have more luck, Twitter was alive yesterday with reports of early deliveries from Hong Kong, Australia, Europe and US.
Two New Get A Mac Ads from Apple
Apple has recently added a further two Get A Mac ads that poke fun at Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter campaign ads. The first “Top of the Line” introduces a female character looking for a new laptop who is introduced by PC to “Top Of The Line PC” ( played by Seinfeld actor Patrick Warburton ).
Order Your Copy Of Snow Leopard Now
Posted by Scott in Apple, Snow Leopard on August 24, 2009
Snow Leopard is now available to pre-order on Apples web site. UK Price is £25 for single licence or £39 for Family Pack ( up to 5 computers ). The site states that copies will ship before 28th August so with any luck if you order now you will receive your copy this weekend.
I suspect there are going to be a lot of Mac Users spending this weekend upgrading ! I know I will.
Snow Leopard System Disc Shipped In Error
Posted by Scott in Apple, Headline, Rumours, Snow Leopard on August 23, 2009
According to a number of reports including this one at Macrumors.com a customer in Japan received an unexpected surprise when he opened his newly purchased Mac Mini as the enclosed OS X Install DVD apparently was for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Whether this is a hoax or true is unclear but from the number of rumours spreading over the last week or so it is fairly clear that the launch date for Apples latest big cat is very close now.
The Vista Myth – UKMac Thoughts On The Subject
Daniel Dilger of RoughlyDrafted posts another cracking article, this time on The Vista Myth. As usual it is hard to fault Daniel’s logic and I agree with a lot of what he has to say, however I do believe that despite the disaster that was Vista it will take many years for Microsoft’s stranglehold on the corporate market place to be significantly eroded.
Sure the home market is changing rapidly and it is certainly true that the portable and mobile market is a big part of this. How many people now sit down to do their ‘home computing’ at a desk in front of a traditional PC compared to those surfing from their netbooks on the sofa in the living room, or posting to their twitter account or blog from their iPhone ? However many sectors of industry ( mine being health ) are implicitly linked to Microsoft technologies and here change is MUCH slower, typically refresh cycles for major systems are in the region of 5-10 years.
Apple Patches Java Vulnerability – At Last
After what seems to be the longest Time, Apple have finally released an update for Java that addresses the long standing vulnerability that if exploited could result in malicious code being executed on your Mac.
For many the only safe solution until this release was to disable Java in the browser preferences rendering sites that depend on Java ( not Javascript ) unusable.
10 Free Mac Inspired Wordpress Themes
The chances are that if you are setting up a Wordpress blog about Apple, OS X, Macs or anything else that originates in Cupertino that you will have at some stage Googled “free mac wordpress themes” or something similar.
There are many Mac and Apple themed themes although many sites seem to use the same one or two themes.
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-14
- Upgrading one of my Wordpress blogs to 2.8 #
- Being reading up on Acer Revo Nettop. Was interested before started reading reviews, seems performance not adequate despite ION graphics #
- Took kids for bike ride, Sitting on decking with MacBook in sun, just had barbeque, Last.fm on the iPod stereo… Life pretty good today… #
- Nice web design resource (http://bit.ly/pINDA
from @gopalraju # - Nice collection of slick Wordpress themes http://bit.ly/IGj06 #
- Reports that new MacBooks lasting for 8 hours on single charge ! #
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-13
- I should think 90% of email I get at home is ads of one sort or another… Must unsubscribe from some of them… #
- Links to lecture notes and exercises for the Standford Uni course on iPhone programming http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p #
- Excellent bus powered firewire and usb hub from Belkin for £8 http://bit.ly/wSTSZ #
- 60 Most Beautiful Apple ( OS X Leopard ) Wallpapers http://bit.ly/GIbH8 #