With the Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” major update looming, it pays to be ready in both software and hardware. Lion will no longer support PowerPC-based hardware, as Apple has stripped off the Rosetta compatibility layer, now still present in 10.6.x. This means no more legacy apps. Roaringapps, a collaborative wiki community which tracks, discusses [...]
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Vernonchan.com is now on Alltop!
Bring out the champagne glasses, do cart wheels, plank. Whatever. We’re ecstatic and honoured to be informed by gargantuan “online magazine rack” content aggregator Alltop, co-founded by none other than master marketer and author Guy Kawasaki that vernonchan.com is joining the likes of TUAW, MacWorld, MacNN, Macrumors and Appleinsider in the Apple category. Being a huge [...]
Apple Seeds OS X 10.7 Lion GM Build to Developers, Public Release Coming Soon
Hold on to your tents and sleeping bags, you Apple fans. No need to go line up at your nearest Apple reseller to grab the latest iteration of the OS X operating system, codenamed 10.7 Lion. Lion marks the first time that Apple will be releasing an operating system as a digital download via the [...]
Apple Previews 64-bit Final Cut Pro X
Apple Previews 64-bit Final Cut Pro X Apple’s world isn’t just about consumer-driven iPhones and iPads. While we know Apple for their super sexy hardware, Apple makes incredible software. A rich part of Apple history and expertise lies in the professional, creative market. One such marvel is Apple’s video editing suite – Final Cut Pro. [...]
Apple to Preview iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion at WWDC2011
Apple to Preview iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion at WWDC2011 Come June 6-10 in San Francisco, the most-anticipated Apple event of the year – the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is expected to reveal the latest iOS and Mac OS X releases. Over 1,000 engineers will be giving attendees in-depth technical sessions and hands-on [...]
Happy 10th Birthday Mac OS X!
Happy 10th Birthday Mac OS X! Today is the tenth anniversary of Mac OS X, which first debuted on March 24, 2001. Mac OS X 10.0 with the internal codename “Cheetah”, was Apple’s revolutionary next generation modern OS, replacing the venerable but dated OS 9. With Mac OS X 10.0, Apple introduced the lickable Aqua [...]
Apple Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update
Apple released a Mac OS X v10.6.5 update recently for all Snow Leopard users. Contains mostly bug fixes, including performance, reliability and stability issues, as well as patching of security flaws. As usual, I prefer to install the Combo update as opposed to just patch over an existing running version via Software Update. Having run [...]
Apple ‘Back to the Mac’ Special Event
We’re about 6 hours from the Apple ‘Back to the Mac’ event (02:00AM – Tokyo (October 21st)). For the past 12-18 months, Apple has put much emphasis on iOS and the iPhone – even WWDC was a mostly iPhone affair. So here we are. Apple’s reminding us that the Mac as we know it is [...]
Snow Leopard Kext Error
Since upgrading to Snow Leopard (subsequently version 10.6.1), I’ve been getting error messages such as above. Obviously some residual, old code. Did some checking and found some other users with the same issues. Apparently caused by a Canon scanner driver.
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