Tag archive: X Leopard

T-Mobile and Canada's Research in Motion have announced the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, the latest salvo in the company's addicting portable communications offerings. Like previous entries in the Curve line, the 8520 will sport consumer-oriented features like Facebook and MySpace integration, email, and mobile multimedia and entertainment. And unlike any previous BlackBerry, the Curve 8520 will ship with the long-delayed… Read More

Storage vendor Verbatim is continuing to show it's serious about the hard drive business, today announcing its new SureFire line of external hard disk drives in 250, 320, and 500 GB capacities. The drives pack not only a USB 2.0 port but also a high-performance FireWire 800 port for transfer rates of up to 800 MB/s…something sure to appeal to MacBook Pro owners tired of poking along at USB 2.0 or FireWire 400 bandwidths. The… Read More

Apple has long been shipping its own Web browser Safari with its Mac OS X operating system—and later for Windows PCs as well—as part of an effort started when Microsoft lost interest in developing Internet Explorer for the Mac several year ago. Earlier this week Apple formally rolled out Safari 4 for Mac and Windows at the top of its World Wide Developers Conference…and now the company is trumpeting that the browser has… Read More

Storage vendor Seagate has taken the wraps off a simple plug-and-play backup system for Windows PCs, dubbed Replica. The idea behind Replica is to keep the backup process simple and straightforward: they back up an entire Windows PC—operating system, applications, documents, and everything else— so that a users can restore their system in its entirety to a new drive in the event of a hard drive failure. Replica's first… Read More

So far upstart Florida computer maker Psystar has had a corner on the Macintosh clone market, continuing to gamely sell Macintosh clones despite a daunting legal onslaught from Apple itself alleging violation of the DMCA, breaking licensing agreements, among other charges. Now Germany's PearC is trying to get in on the act, offering three models of severely generic-looking desktop systems running a version of Apple's Mac OS X… Read More

Taking the stage at Apple's final Macworld Expo, Apple's senior VP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller stepped into Steve Jobs's shoes and got set to deliver "three new things" to the Macintosh faithful: iLife '09, iWork '09, and a new 17-inch MacBook Pro. Acknowledging the controversy surrounding Apple's decision to abandon Macworld Expo, Schiller showed images of Apple's successful… Read More

EMC's Retrospect backup software has long been a major player for all levels of users, from everyday folks just looking to safeguard their personal data to small businesses and enterprises looking to back up small (and large!) herds of machines. The application backs up intelligently—only one copy of a file gets stored, no matter how many copies of it might live on a network—, supports incremental backups (so you can… Read More

Hewlett-Packard hasn't been pushing its home servers lately, but the company is looking to get back on the radar with its new HP MediaSmart Server ex485/ex487, which can act as a central repository for a household's worth of photos, music, and movies and serve as a centralized backup store. And, what's more, the new versions can be used to back up Macs running Mac OS X Leopard's integrated Time Machine backup… Read More

Storage vendor Seagate has announced a new lineup of FreeAgent external hard drives for Macs and Windows PCs, including the new FreeAgent Go, which the company claims is the slimmest external hard drive on the market today at just 12.5mm thick. The FreeAgent Go also offers capacities up to 500 GB and a docking option so users don't have to deal with cables. “The first FreeAgent storage solution offering introduced in 2007… Read More

When Psystar offered a Mac clone, it found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from Apple. Now another company is planning to offer machines that emulate Macs, but with a difference – if you wants to fun OS X you have to buy and install the software yourself, ZDNet reports. However, as that involves hardware running specialized firmware called the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), it’s not easy. In a statement… Read More

LaCie has announced a new 500 GB version of its Rugged Hard Disk, available with either a USB 2.0 interface or with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0 interfaces. And even better for storage fiends on the go, the drives are bus-powered, so there's no need to carry around a separate external AC adapter…although folks with low-power USB ports will need to use the included power-sharing USB 2.0 cable that can draw more juice… Read More

Other World Computing has introduced a new 500 GB model in its Mercury On-The-Go line of portable hard drives. The 500 GB edition features three interfaces—USB 2.0 FireWire 400, and FireWire 800—and a 5,400 rpm drive. But, perhaps best of all for a portable drive, the 500 GB drive can be powered off a host computer's FireWire or USB bus…although USB 2.0 operation still needs an AC adapter. The 500 GB On-The-Go… Read More

Florida company Psystar claims to be selling OpenMac, a Macintosh clone built using off-the-shelf PC parts and shipping with Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” operating system. Prices start at just $399 for a PC with a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 250 GB hard drive, 2 GB of RAM, a DVD±R optical drive, and 4 USB ports. For additional money, Psystar says users can get FireWire connectivity and an Nvidia GeFore… Read More

Although Apple’s new Mac OS X Leopard has been lauded by fans for features like Time Machine, Stacks and the flashy Cover Flow system when it was released in late October, critics found it hard to overlook the handful of bugs that plagued the system. Apple attempted to remedy the situation on Thursday with its first update to the three-week-old operating system, now version 10.5.1. Although the full list of updates is quite lengthy,… Read More

If you’re one of the two million Mac users who’s now running Leopard as your OS, you might want to take a look at your firewall.   According to an investigation by Heise Security, “a quick look at the firewall configuration in the Mac OS X Leopard shows that it is unable to do this. By default it is set to "Allow all incoming connections," i.e. it is deactivated. Worse still, a user who, for security purposes,… Read More