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All Of Snow Leopard’s Hidden, Secret Settings Laid Bare
4:25AM John Herrman | Screencap formats, secret dock animations, previously unseen menu shortcuts, login screen backgrounds: These are the hidden settings that Apple doesn’t want you to see (or just forgot about) and that Secrets — a free, super-simple app — helpfully wrangles into one place. More »
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1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
Reality Check
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
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Orb Media Streaming Finally Available For Macs
1:33AM Rosa Golijan | Orb’s been out for quite a while, but now there’s OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility. You can finally use the app to stream all sorts of media from iTunes to nearly any internet-connected device. Oh and it’s completely free. More »
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OS X 10.6.2 Does Not Ditch Atom Support, Hackintosh Safe
8:30AM Sean Fallon | It appears that Atom support has resurfaced in the latest developer build (10C535), so users running OS X on Atom netbooks are safe for now. Although, anything can happen between now and the final build. [Stell via 9to5Mac via Crunchgear]
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Parallels 5 Runs Win7 Next To Snow Leopard With Multitouchiness
7:01PM Matt Buchanan | It’s a virtual war: VMWare Fusion 3 for Snow Kitty and Win7 popped out last week, and now here’s Parallels 5. It’s also fully 64-bit, with Windows apps that behave like native ones, including full multitouch gestures, and more zoomzoom. More »
Computers
Is Apple Trying To Kill The Hackintosh Netbook?
11:37PM Danny Allen | Coders have confirmed that the developer build of OS X 10.6.2 kills support for netbook Atom processors. Nothing’s final yet, of course, but given Apple’s lame fight with Palm over iTunes compatibility, are hackintosh netbooks next in the firing line? More »
QOTD
Do You Use A Mac Or A PC As Your Personal Home Computer?
8:00AM Sean Fallon | Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out in the wild, it is time, once again, to take stock of the state of home computing. That is to say, are you using a Mac or a PC? More »
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VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard And Win7 With 64-Bit Power
12:40AM Matt Buchanan | VMWare’s Fusion 3—with full support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7—is out today. Besides being natively 64-bit in Snow Leopard, it lets you migrate a PC to your virtual machine, launches Windows apps like native apps and more. More »
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Apple Kills ZFS Plans For Snow Leopard
3:00AM Chris Jacob | Don’t hold your breath for the ZFS filesystem to appear in any future Snow Leopard updates. A message yesterday on the project’s homepage very clearly acknowledges that development has stopped completely. More »
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