Tag: OS-X

Remember Amiga? Back in the day, the computer/software maker was a serious contender. But the company hasn't released a new product in years, and apparently Amiga OS4 has been tied up in legal disputes. Well, a new day is dawning, and Amiga CEO Bill McEwen says the company will be announcing details on Amiga OS5 later this year. He also says it will be "better than OS X," although he politely ...

You've got friends using AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, and Google's instant messenger clients. You could install four different applications, or you could use a multi-protocol chat client like Pidgin, Miranda, or Trillian. For mac users, the undisputed champion of multi-chat clients is Adium. Like all things Mac, the program has a cult-following and probably for good reason. It's a robust chat application ...

Been booting Windows XP or Vista on your Macbook for the last few months? Well, you'd better get ready to upgrade to OS X 10.5, because as soon as Apple releases Leopard, your Boot Camp Beta is set to expire. Apple hasn't announced when Leopard will launch, but it's expected out sometime this month. But the company has posted a message on its website saying that Boot Camp Beta versions 1.3 and 1.4 ...

OpenOffice.org is finally getting native Mac OS X support. The open source office suit has been available for Windows and Linux for years. And since 2005, you've been able to run OpenOffice.org on OS X, but you needed to install the resource-intensive X11 environment to get it working. This summer, the development team offered the first alpha of a native version of OpenOffice.org for OS X. In ...