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Stop freaking out about Cocoa Finder and apps in Snow Leopard

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Oct 31, 2008 at 08:55 PM

Attention everyone who is excited about the new Finder in Snow Leopard; it isn’t new, it will look pretty much the same, and you really won’t notice a difference. John Gruber put it best on Daring Fireball: Cocoa is just an API. It is not some sort of magic technology… Continue Reading »

Hot Cocoa for the Snow Leopard (new rumors!)

by Jake Gaecke on Oct 17, 2008 at 05:48 PM

It’s just a few days after the end of the our last batch of Apple rumors, but we wouldn’t be Apple fans if we let the silence continue much longer. AppleInsider has brought some new rumors about Snow Leopard and a possible code rewrite for the Finder. People familiar with… Continue Reading »

Adobe porting Java SWT to Cocoa Touch

by Mark Rowland on Jun 12, 2008 at 05:00 PM

Former Apple Senior Software Engineer Scott Kovatch, now Adobe’s Senior Computer Scientist, announced Tuesday at WWDC that he will be heading up a project within Adobe to help port Java SWT from Carbon to a Cocoa interface. Although work on the project has already started, Kovatch sated he will not… Continue Reading »

Mac OS X v10.6 is Intel-only, and that makes sense

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Jun 11, 2008 at 04:45 PM

Despite the screenshots we saw yesterday showing Universal applications running under the purported Mac OS X 10.6, LogicielMac today surfaced a screenshot of the 10.6 developer build’s accompanying PDF, which shows support for Intel only. Keeping in mind that this is just a developer build and it is still far… Continue Reading »

First 10.6 screenshots appear; looks just Like 10.5

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Jun 10, 2008 at 04:00 PM

Orchard Spy has released a few screenshots of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and while they look the same as Leopard, (Leopard looked like Tiger once, too) they do tell us some preliminary things about the new OS, and we’ll tell you after the break. Continue Reading »

Mac OS X 10.6 confirmed: Snow Leopard

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Jun 9, 2008 at 02:23 PM

Mac OS X 10.6 is Snow Leopard. While only mentioned once at the WWDC keynote, it was enough to let us make some very safe assumptions. Snow Leopard, as evidenced by its name, is a bigger than usual incremental update. Here’s what I’m expecting. Snow Leopard will have some visual… Continue Reading »

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