Posts Tagged osx
OS X 10.5.7 Update Just Landed
The latest update to OS X Leopard ( 10.5.7 ) has just launched through Software Update. Full details of the fixes and improvments can be found here
RoughlyDrafted.com Views on Windows 7
Daniel Dilger has posted a thoughtful and well reasoned summary of why he thinks Microsoft have got it all wrong with Windows 7 ( Why Windows 7 is The Next Zune ). Whether you are pro or anti-Microsoft I think you will find his argument pretty compelling. With the rise of OS X and Linux ( netbooks ) Microsoft are really beginning to see some solid competition and it is fairly clear that Windows 7 is not a get out of jail free card for Redmond.
Personally when I read about Windows 7’s new “XP mode” I thought maybe Microsoft had grasped the problem and were putting a sensible solution in place to enable them to free themselves from the shackles of backward compatibility without losing too many customers along the way ( clearly nothing innovative here as this is what Apple did by rolling OS 9 into OS X when it was released in 2000 ), however when I read the full gen on this and realised that this “slick” integration actually requires you to install Virtual PC and then XP and then Antivirus and firewall software for XP etc I was forced to concede that yet again Microsoft have completely missed the point !
Do You Use An Anti-Virus Product On Your Mac ?
Its been a little while since I last saw a scare story about the “first REAL” virus for Mac OS X being in the wild, and this led me to wonder what anti-virus product UKMac.net readers typically used on their Macs ?
Personally I have free access to Sophos Anti-virus through licence at work, though I have to admit that currently I don’t have Sophos or any other product installed.
Spore on the Mac – Installation issues
This weekend saw the release of the long awaited game Spore. Seven years in the making and long hyped this weekend has seen ( at least in the UK ) a number of TV ad placements for the new game, several of which were spotted by my youngest son Ben who immediately decided his life wasn’t worth living without it.
A trip to Argos later and we were back at the house installing on the kitchen iMac. After 10 minutes or so the install was complete and we were ready to fire it up for the first time. Unfortunately when the game tried to contact EA’s licence servers it failed for some reason and just displayed an error message asking us to try again in a short while ! Ben was gutted as you would expect…