Tag: os x

  • OpenOffice 3.0 Beta launched

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    OpenOffice, the free opensource office suite, released OpenOffice 3.0 Beta yesterday. This latest release now runs on Mac OS X without requiring X11 to be running as well. And there are versions for Windows and Linux obviously. There are a host of new features like ODF Support, Office 2007/8 import/export and support for up to…

  • Firefox 3.0b4 review

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    Firefox 3.0b4 was released overnight and it is a significant improvement over the already superb 3.0b3! The browser space is really improving of late, what with the release of the surprisingly good Internet Explorer 8 beta, the nightly Webkit releases, and now Firefox 3.0b4. I ran Firefox 3.0b4 through the Sunspider browser speed test and…

  • Screaming fast browser II

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    I wrote a post the other day giving speeds of various browsers running the SunSpider JavaScript Benchnark tests. Since writing the post Firefox has released Firefox 3.0b3 and Robert made me aware in the comments of the previous browser speed post that Opera 9.5 beta was released so I decided to check those two browsers…

  • Screaming fast browser?

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    After reading Seth Weintraub’s post on how the upcoming versions of Safari are blisteringly fast I decided to download the latest nightly (WebKit r30123) and check it out for myself. To check the different browser versions I used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The results were pretty amazing – on Vista the performance times came in…

  • Apple releases 10.5.1 update to Leopard

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    Apple released an update to OS X 10.5 (Leopard) today. The standalone update is 110mb but when I downloaded it this morning through Software Update it was a 38mb download for my machine. According to the Apple info page on the update, it: includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security…

  • First OS X trojan spotted – no need to panic just yet!

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    There is a great deal of chatter on TechMeme this morning because a trojan has emerged which infects Apple’s OS X! The trojan is found in pornographic sites masquerading as a video codec. It isn’t a huge threat because to become infected you need to go through several steps: When the users arrive on one…

  • OS X Leopard hacked to run on PCs

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    With Apple’s move to Intel chips for its Macs, the last significant difference in the hardware architecture between Macs and PCs disappeared. This meant that Apple’s much vaunted OS X operating system is designed to work on PC hardware. Leopard, Apple’s latest version of OS X was released on Friday 26th last and in just…