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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 »
Software
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]
Gadgets
5:30PM Nick Broughall | This weekend, I’ve got a hot date with HP’s new EX490 MediaSmart Home Server. I’m hoping she outputs. More »
Weekend Gadgets: HP Mediasmart Server
5:30PM Nick Broughall | This weekend, I’ve got a hot date with HP’s new EX490 MediaSmart Home Server. I’m hoping she outputs. More »
Software
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
More Giz Readers Own Macs Than PCs
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Surprisingly, our poll yesterday revealed that Mac owners were running neck and neck with PC owners, each commanding 41 per cent of the vote. Although Mac owners have maintained an extremely slight edge over the last few hours in actual numbers. 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 »
Software
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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