Mac OS X beta was released ten years ago yesterday
Happy (belated) birthday today to Mac OS X. Yes, the OS itself actually released to the public on March 24, 2001 (which means its actual "birthday," in my mind, isn't until next March), but Macworld points out that, on September 13, 2000, Steve gave us...
Former VP of Software Engineering Says OS X Has Another Ten to Twenty Years Ahead Of It
Somehow, Cult of Mac managed to completely miss OS X’s ten year birthday yesterday… an embarrassing lapse to be sure. Luckily, MacWorld was not going to let the anniversary pass without baking a cake, and so we’d take the time at this point, if you...MenuEverywhere Really Puts Your Menu Everywhere [Review]
If you work with multiple monitors, the following scenario might strike a chord: you’re busy working on a document in a secondary monitor, and you need to apply some software widget to the stuff you’ve just selected. You struggle to remembe...
Classic Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Coming To Mac Later This Year
The classic Grand Theft Auto 3 trilogy — including Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — is finally coming to OS X later this year, according to Rockstar Games. Look for the long-awaited release of th...
Parallels Desktop 6 coming September 13, with better 3D support and Windows/Mac integration
Parallels, Inc. has taken the wrappings off of its new desktop virtualization software (yes, the same app which was already spotted on some store shelves -- looks like a few retailers jumped the gun), and provided TUAW with a look. The update adds ove...
Quo’s Unveils Liquid and Copper Plate Cooled System That Simply Begs To Be Hackintoshed
Those unconventional iconoclasts at Psystar might have been ground down to a gelatin paste by Apple’s legal team, but that’s not to say you can’t have a business selling Mac clones… as long as you don’t sell them with OS X...
iOS Is Now The Third Biggest Web Browsing Platform In The World
Linux fiends have a new operating system to hate in the OS wars, according to web traffic firm Net Application: iOS overtook Linux as the third biggest browsing browsing platform in uly of this year. According to Net Applications’ data, iOS repre...
Cyberduck 3.6 Released with Google Storage Support
Cyberduck is a great FTP client I use every day to upload files to Rackspace Cloud Files (actually, it’s one of the few OS X apps that support Cloud Files) and access my iPhone and iPad file system (jailbreak is required). It’s a full-featured application to upload files to the internet, which just got a...
Want iTunes 9 Look Back? There’s A Mod For That.
I haven’t covered OS X graphical mods here on MacStories for a long time, but this one’s good. It didn’t take long: if you hate iTunes 10′s new UI or you simply want the old colorful iTunes back, give a try to Damien Erambert’s iTunes 109. The download comes with an easy to setup installer...
Spotlight on Spotlight
Released as part of OS X 10.4, Spotlight might be one of the most useful tools on your Mac! Most people think of it only as a way to search for files. In fact, though, it can do that and so much more. If you don’t use Spotlight much on your Mac, ...
OS X Turns 10 Today: Last Birthday for the Aging Cat?