Today Apple released Snow Leopard developer seed 10A394 through the Software Update system. This is the first Snow Leopard seed to be released in an “update” form through Software Update rather than as a complete separate build from the Apple Developer Connection website.
The download weighs in at 655MB, and requires that build 10A380 already [...]

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Although the upcoming 10.5.8 Update will address at least some of these issues, many readers have been reporting a wide range of problems and crashes with Safari 4.0 and 4.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5. Interestingly, despite being incomplete and in need of further debugging itself, OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” has proven considerably better [...]

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Click through to the full article using the “More” link below for streaming updates from the WWDC 2009 Keynote address; coverage officially begins just before 10:00 AM PDT/1:00 PM EDT!

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With the WWDC 2009 Keynote event nearly upon us, let’s taking a quick look at what we can expect from Apple’s next-generation operating systems: iPhone OS 3.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”. Although we’ve known for some time now that we’ll only see a ‘Final Beta’ of Snow Leopard this week, expectations for [...]

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There has been some debate in recent days as to whether all four (or more!) 2009 iDevices which have been hinted at with multiple references in the code of iPhone OS 3.0 as well as countless published rumor-mongering reports and our own conversations with sources, will actually be announced — no less ship — at [...]

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Although predictions of timing (such as whether any new hardware at all will be announced, no less released, at WWDC next month — or perhaps only the new iPhones and/or all-new iDevices such as the “iTablet” will ship then, leaving an updated iPod Touch release to wait until later in the summer) and features have [...]

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One of the hottest topics on the grapevine this weekend has been an emerging rumor based on multiple leaks (including more than one of our own sources) regarding the ability of 3rd-party apps being able to run in the background — rather than just displaying “background notifications” as announced for iPhone OS 3.0 this summer [...]

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Apple has posted the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update package to its Software Update servers, weighing in at a hefty 449MB just for the incremental update from 10.5.6. Combo packages are also available both for the standard (729MB) and server (951MB) variants from Apple’s Downloads Page.
Readers are encouraged to report on any problems or changes.

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Despite several signs that development of Mac OS X 10.5.7, code-named Juno, is winding down….there has been no new developer seed this week so far, nor has a final release of the update as yet been posted to Software Update. When can we expect such a release? Read on for our take.

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Recently, Apple has made some particularly outrageous missteps with regards to its App Store approval process — approving obscenely offensive apps like “Shake the Baby” (only taken down after days of widespread condemnation), while denying apps & updates which are not themselves in violation of Apple’s (perhaps questionable) policies, but rather merely allow access to [...]

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