According to MacRumors, this is an actual email exchange with Steve Jobs forwarded to them by a reader:
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Apple on Thursday seeded the latest beta of Mac OS X 10.6.5, its forthcoming security and maintenance update for the Snow Leopard operating system
, with no known issues.
A report by iphoneincanada.ca said, just six days after Apple seeded the first build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to developers, it has followed up with a second one termed Build 10H529.
People familiar with the latest beta 10H529 said, Apple has asked developers to focus on 3D graphics, Mail, printing, QuickTime, and the X Windows X11 subsystems.
Mac OS X 10.6.5 will mark the fifth maintenance revision to the latest Apple operating system Snow Leopard.
The Delta Update is reportedly a 558MB download. Apple began the seeding OS X 10.6.5 project in July 2010. As usual Apple’s development schedule is so unpredictable and new, that nobody knows what’s next.
Via: macrumors.com
With the latest Mac OSX update for Snow Leopard, v10.6.2, Intel Atom processors were no longer supported. This has consequences for a lot of Hackintoshers who installed Mac OSX on their netbooks using the hackintosh kernel-mod. But it took no longer than 2 weeks before the restrictive work of Apple was undone by a new hack of Mac OSX’s Darwin kernel.
The Mac OSX 10.6.2 Atom restriction came in the knowledge that Mac OSX shouldn’t normally run on Atom processors. So with the update Apple shut down netbook users from the latest Mac OSX update. Who updated his hackintosh installation to v10.6.2 was no longer able to boot.
But a russian hacker known as “tea” has released another upgrade of the 32-bits mach_kernel for Mac OSX 10.6.2 among the OSx86. This means that all owners of netbooks and nettops with an atom processor will once again enjoy their favorite hacked OS.
Hackintoshers can now download the new hacked kernel and get it up and running with some terminal work. Nothing for the normal home-user, but hackintosh users should manage to update without many problems.
According to many sources, Apple is busy building the next major version of Mac OSX, namely mac OSX 10.7. Or according to a bug report analyzed by MacRumors, Mac OSX “11A47″.
MacRumors discovered that a new build reference was found in the buglist for the opensource OSX component “launchd”, this build reference “11A47″ should point to Mac OSX 10.7. Since Mac OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is referenced to as “10A432″ where the first number is the most important. This number points to the major version.
So you can already be sure of one update, “launchd” which manages the processes on OSX, will get a bugfix. Other updates in version 10.7 are up to this date unknown. But as Snow Leopard was only a small under-the-hood update, we have reason to believe that Mac OSX 10.7 will bring major changes. One of them could be dramatic performance increases which benefit from the new technologies build into Snow Leopard such as e.g. Grand Central Dispatch and 64-bits. This also lightens the way for remarkable changes to the user interface of Mac OSX, such as more advanced desktop effects, faster reactions, …
But as Mac OSX uses more advanced hardware technologies older Macs will no longer be supported. At this point this may as well be the older white polycarbonate macbooks (prior to 2009) which are quite short on the graphical power. But of course these are assumptions. If we want to know what the next OSX will truly bring, we’ll have to wait for the release presentation. Since Apple can keep things in doors for quite a long time, all we can do is speculate.
So a few questions still remain and many of the above statements are still very uncertain. The biggest but probably most useless question is : What will be the codename for the new OSX?
Well according to us this can be none other than Mac OSX “Lion” as all other big cats which Apple uses for their OS codenames are already used.
Mac OSX 10.0 : Cheetah
Mac OSX 10.1 : Puma
Mac OSX 10.2 : Jaguar
Mac OSX 10.3 : Panther
Mac OSX 10.4 : Tiger
Mac OSX 10.5 : Leopard
Mac OSX 10.6 : Snow Leopard
Mac OSX 10.7 : Lion?
But for confirmation of all our suspicions we’ll have to wait until Apple presents Mac OSX 10.7 to the public.
If you previously have used Windows, you might have noticed that there are no “Print Screen” button on your MacBook or MacBook Pro, and then wondering how to take a screenshot. Here is an easy-to-follow guide that can help you.
There are different methods to take a screenshot in Mac OS X. Let’s start with the easiest.
| Command + Shift + 3 | Takes a screenshot of the entire screen and saves it on the desktop |
| Command + Shift + 4 | Select an area and it will be saved as a picture file on your desktop |
| Command + Shift + 4 + Space + Click a window | The clicked window will be saved as a picture file on the desktop |
| Command + Control + Shift + 3 | Takes a screenshot of the entire screen, and saves it to clipboard* |
| Command + Control + Shift + 4 | Select an area and it will be saved to clipboard* |
| Command + Control + Shift + 4 + Space + Click a window | The clicked window will be saved as a picture file on your clipboard* |
* When you have a screenshot saved to your clipboard, you can open Preview and pressCommand + N and the screenshot will be inserted. You can also in an opened conversation in iChat or Adium, press Command + V to insert the screenshot in a conversation.
If you have trouble with the keyboard combinations, you can use the built-in application in every Mac OS X called “Grab.” You can find Grab in /Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities. After you have opened the application, click “Capture” and then select if you would like to take a screenshot of a selection, a window, a screen or a timed screen, which will take a screenshot of the entire screen 10 seconds after affirmation.
The screenshot will be saved to Preview, where you can choose to make annotations to it, and save it as the file format you like.
Yesterday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.2 software update, which is the second software update for Snow Leopard. Most significant is the fix to the guest account bug that caused loss of data on some user’s primary account.
It is recommended to update as soon as possible, and besides the guest account bug fix, Mac OS X 10.6.2 improves the security, stability and compatibility of your Mac. Mac OS X 10.6.2 includes fixes for:
You can download and install Mac OS X 10.6.2 by the “Software Update” feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, or you can head to Apple’s software downloads page.
