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Apple Seeds First Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build to Developers

A recently released build of Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.6.2 operating system reveals a slew of changes, fixes and tweaks according to AppleInsider. A pre-release build of the next update to Mac OS X 10.6 was seeded to developers Monday, bringing a long list of changes, fixes and tweaks. People familiar with the latest […]

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Software

Carbon Copy Cloner Updated to 3.3

Late Monday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, has released version 3.3 of the program. The new version, a 3.2 megabyte download, adds the following changes: – Added support for HFS+ filesystem compression that was introduced in Snow Leopard. – To correspond with how the Finder and Disk […]

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How-To Mac Software

How-To: Work Around Snow Leopard Installation Issues

As nifty as Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) may be, according to MacFixIt, a number of users are reporting a problem where the installer will not recognize the current boot drive as a valid destination for Snow Leopard. Instead, it will display the drive with a yellow triangle on it, indicating something is wrong […]

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Time Capsule

Apple Releases 2TB Time Capsule Router

Apple released an anticipated Time Capsule router router with an integrated two terabyte hard drive on Thursday, the new unit selling for US$499 while the previous generation one terabyte model is now available for US$299, per AppleInsider. Earlier this year, Apple introduced new AirPort Extremes and Time Capsules with dual-band support. The new models allow […]

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Mac

Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition) Released

On Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 4.3.4 of Cocktail (Tiger Edition), Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 1.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Added ability to reset home directory permissions and ACLs. (Disks – Permissions) Added “Enable unsupported […]