I had been suffering for a while with an iCal crash immediately after launch for several months. I had tried many different fixes including deleting all iCal preferences under the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder and nothing ever seemed to work in Tiger. I was able to open iCal as another user so the problem was obviously related […]

Apple says no OS X Leopard until October because of the iPhone. A spring release was always in doubt but the Apple faithful were always hanging on even though the seeds of OS X keep coming and as we noted earlier, Vista compatibility remains a serious issue for OS X.
An OS X delay until October […]

Digitimes is citing those mysterious "industry sources" as indicating OS X won’t be out until October because of integration issues with Vista and Boot Camp.
Not too unreasonable a thought when you consider Apple had trouble getting existing Apple software, strike that, getting ALL existing Apple software working on Vista when Vista was originally released.
Isn’t this […]

We are running an OS X Leopard Release Date Prediction Tracker where we are tracking OS X Leopard release date predictions of many major blogs.
The stats from the visitors to that page prove that Windows users are much more interested in the release of Apple’s new operating system than are Mac users.
In the last 72 […]

If our Leopard Release Date Prediction Tracker isn’t proof enough that hopes for a spring release date of OS X Leopard are fading, the new seed of Leopard recently released to developers should be enough to convince you that the actual release date for Leopard is as uncertain as a 20 minute Vista upgrade and […]

Apple breeds superior quality, crafstmanship, performance and some pretty cute commercials every once in a while. But Apple also fuels one hell of a rumor mill for product release dates.
Buzzdroid.com has decided to track the predictions of many of the MacLusters out there who have the balls enough to make and publish a prediction about […]

I recently had to install x11 and did not have my Tiger install disk handy. I searched the Apple site for 10 minutes and couldn’t come up with a link. I am not alone.
Chris James Martin struggled with the issue and decided to host a link to download X11 packages for Apple.
You would think a […]

There are a few things you will have to get used to when you switch from Windows to Mac. Once you master these differences, you won’t really miss the old way of doing things in Windows at all.
There Is No ‘Backspace’ Key On A Macbook
Windows users are used to using ‘Backspace’ and ‘Delete’ to […]

OpenMacGrid is a new project developed to utilize the spare cycles of your Mac using a pre-installed app already on your Mac (10.4 +) called Xgrid.
Computer users have been devoting spare cycles to complex scientific and mathematical problems for quite some time. Windows users may be most familiar with donating spare cycles because they have […]

Syncing folders from your Mac to another source is extremely easy with RsyncX. RsyncX can even create entire bootable backups of your hard drive.
That’s right, “bootable”. Plug a removable USB hard drive in and sync your entire hard drive to the USB hard drive, choose the RsyncX options to make the drive bootable and you […]