OS X

Review: Seamless for iPhone

April 21, 2011 iPhone

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Imagine this scenario, you’re listening to your favorite music track on your Mac and had to leave the house, don’t you wish your iPhone or iPod touch can seamlessly carry on playing the track from where you were at in iTunes on your Mac? Or if you were deeply engaged in a podcast just before [...]

Mac OS 10.6.7 is Now Available

March 22, 2011 Apple Inc.

Apple made available the maintenance release of Mac OS X version 10.6.7 via their web site and Software Updates. You can either use the Software Updates menu item (under the Apple menu) to upgrade your Mac or you can download the Combo Updater from Apple’s Support area.

Latest Mac OS X Brings Bug Fixes Plus Mac App Store

January 6, 2011 Apple Inc.

Aside from the list of fixes the latest version of the Mac OS X (v 10.6.6) finally enables the highly anticipated Mac App Store. You can either get the update from Apple Software Update or you can download the Combo Updater from Apple’s Support site. You can read Apple’s Knowledge Base article on the list [...]

How to Ensure You Have a Clean iOS 4.2.x Upgrade?

November 23, 2010 iPad

This morning (Nov. 22 PDT US time) Apple made the latest version (v4.2.1) of iOS available through iTunes. It is one of the highly anticipated upgrade for the iPad and other iOS devices. Not only because this version brings features to the iPad that had been enjoyed by other iOS devices, it is also the [...]

Live Coverage of Apple’s “Back to the Mac” Event

October 19, 2010 Apple Inc.

Please bookmark and come back to this place on Since Apple is Live streaming their “Back to the Mac” event on Wednesday, Oct. 20th, 10:00 (US PDT) for my live coverage of Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event I will add my opinion in a separate post afterwards.

Mac OS 10.6.4 Now Available

June 16, 2010 Apple Inc.

As promised Apple just made available Mac OS 10.6.4 for download. There are two Knowledge Base articles to describe what have changed in this latest OS X release. The first is “About the Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update” and the other is an “About the security content of Security Update 2010-004 / Mac OS X [...]

Apple Assures Users with Certified Installers

April 15, 2010 Apple Inc.

Check out the little icon at the top right of the window title. I just noticed Apple added a certificate to their software installers/updates, to assure users they are installing a package directly from Apple Inc. Clicking on the icon brings up the standard Certificate Viewer dialog to show details of the attached certificate.

Mac OS 10.6.3 Available NOW

March 30, 2010 Apple Inc.

Amidst the news of Apple delaying deliveries of subsequent pre-orders for the iPad to April 12th, this evening (HK time, GMT+0800) Apple released the latest update to the Mac OS X operating system. Version 10.6.3 of OS X has the following enhancements as outlined by Apple.

How I Became a SSD User

January 16, 2010 Apple Inc.

I like to share with my readers the process in which I became a SSD (“Sold State Drive”) user. The price of SSD drive is still way more expensive than a regular HDD, especially when you compared the cost per GB (Gigabyte). In Hong Kong on average one can find a reasonably fast 7200rpm 1TB [...]

Snow Leopard After a Week

September 5, 2009 Apple Inc.

Now that I have been running OS 10.6 (aka. Snow Leopard) on my 2006 MacBook Pro for a week. I can offer my opinions of the latest OS X. Twitter followers had heard me complain that my MacBook Pro was very slow with certain apps, including those that others had raved about for being improved [...]

Snow Leopard Now Installed

August 30, 2009 Advice

As many of you know Apple released the latest version of OS X, 10.6 (aka. Snow Leopard) on Friday, August 28, 2009. I had pre-ordered this version on Tuesday, when Apple began accepting orders on their online store for HKD238.00. Apple had originally told me that my order was going to ship on August 28 [...]

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