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Despite the company’s insistence the software update promises no more than an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, Roughly Drafted has uncovered at least ten improvements it deems worthy of a pat on the back for …

Roughly Drafted claims to have knowledge of some of the possible new features coming in Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, the article appears to include some degree of speculation making it difficult to tease out what might be actual features.
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Proving themselves every bit as susceptible to consumer hype as their American counterparts, thousands of Apple fans attended the grand opening of Apple’s first retail store in Sydney last week, with several hundred having queued up as …

Apple is billing Snow Leopard as an OS without any new features, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Under the hood improvements offer users much to look forward to, including the benefits of a new multi-touch framework, …

My first thought was: ‘Now what the heck would anyone willingly admit that?’ My second thought was: ‘Why isn’t Apple just OWNING this space?’ Click through, and we’ll chat about this after the jump. sync-by-microsoft.png. (more…)

Confident now that it’s got a winning product, Apple is set to release the iPhone 3G simultaneously in 22 countries on July 11. And unlike the limited distribution model in the US, where consumers may only purchase phones from the …

Last week’s news of Apple’s adoption of the SproutCore Javascript framework was met with a shrug of the shoulders by some web developers. Indeed, SproutCore itself is just the packaging together of existing web technologies into a developer-friendly…

A rare Mac OS X Trojan has been spotted on the internet. The AppleScript-THT Trojan horse exploits a vulnerability within the Apple Remote Desktop Agent to load itself with root privileges onto compromised Mac machines. …

To run the Spore Creature Creator Demoo in Tiger, just edit the Info.plist file you’ll find inside the demo application. Control-click on Spore Creature Creator.app, choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu, and open the Contents folder.

With Info.plist open in your favorite text editor, locate these strings:

<key>MinimumSystemVersion</key><string>10.5.3</string>

Edit the strings as follows:

<key>MinimumSystemVersion</key><string>10.4.11</string>

Save the changes and quit the editor. The demo works great on a first generation 3GHz Mac Pro with an ATI X1900XT video card.

[robg adds: System requirements are typically based on features in a given level of the OS, so there may be unknown issues if you use this hint to run the demo on an earlier version of the OS.]May be this will work for the full version too…

Here’s how to make your trash can as accessible and manageable as every other folder in the Sidebar. Show invisible files in the Finder by your preferred method — I use MainMenu — and then just drag the invisible “.Trash” folder in your User directory to the Sidebar.

Now turn off the show invisibles feature, and the trash will remain visible, and forever after make life on a Mac so much easier.

[robg adds: An easy way to show/hide hidden files is via this simple Terminal command. (Change YES to NO to hide the hidden files again, and use your favorite method of restarting the Finder to make the changes take effect.). Note that this Sidebar trash will only display those items in the trash from your boot drive; if you have more than one hard drive or partition, those volumes will have their own trashes.]