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Leopard One Year Later: 5 OS Lessons Learned

When Apple released Mac OS X 10.5, frequently referred to by its code name "Leopard," the company immediately had to deal with scattered technical problems. Now, one year later, Apple has weathered the problems, morphed both its iMac and MacBook systems to aluminum cases with clean lines, and plans to release the sixth revision, code named "Snow Leopard," to its flagship operating system.

| Feature | Operating systems | 11/10/08 at 9:08 pm |


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How to set up a cross-platform network

Linux, Mac OS, and Windows can communicate and coexist on a single network. By using suitable off-the-shelf networking equipment and the various operating systems' built-in tools, you can connect your heterogeneous hardware to the universe in short order.

| How-to | Mobile & wireless | Networking | Operating systems | Windows | 10/30/08 at 1:54 pm |


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A keyboard shortcut for parent window navigation

While I generally prefer to work with only one or two Finder windows, this new shortcut is very useful for those times when I need to see both the parent and child folders at the same time.

| Tip | Operating systems | 10/27/08 at 1:48 pm |


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Kaspersky: Mac, Linux, BSD open for attack

Looming attacks will soon pop the security bubble enjoyed by Linux and Macintosh users, according to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky.

| News | Operating systems | Security | 10/20/08 at 12:59 pm |


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