Leopard Cache Cleaner - system-maintenance utility
Hmmmm. Which part of Snow Leopard is not Leopard do people not understand?
Leopard cache cleaner, cleans the cache on Leopard based machines. Change the OS and it needs to be updated.
A grassroots effort is assiduously testing a broad range of Mac applications to discover which work with Snow Leopard and which don't. And overall, the news is good. Unfortunately, you may or may not be able to access their complete list, which is on a WikiDot called Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List. The website …
At least, unlike certain other O/Ses will not be forced to maintain backward compatability to a load of old rubbish software! Alright, so there is some quite up to date stuff in there and upgrading can cost money, but just like any upgrade, you are not forced to upgrade your O/S immediately.
Apple have dumped older systems, like PPC and older Intels with SL, so it's fairly obvious that some stuff will not work with it. You don't find it lumbered with useless compatability libraries that will cause a load more problems!
When M$ releases a new OS and a bunch of things don't work, then Windows is crap, billg/monkeyboy are the root of all evil etc etc etc
When Apple releases something new which is stupidly and confusingly named just like a previous incarnation, and a bunch of stuff doesn't work, the fanbois go on about how great it is that things do work.
I guess Jobs is better at expectation management, no?
Adobe have gone seriously downhill in recent years, the devs/mangers are a bunch of useless numpties. I still can't use photoshop on my mac, as it is formated with a case sensitive file-system. Adobe couldn't be bothered to support it in cs4, even though the feature had been around for a year. Hopefully cyberduck will come out with a patch soon.
All very interesting. Only a couple of apps on there that I have. Can't remember the last time I used them though.
On the other hand, the developers will probably have plenty of time to get the updates out before I receive my copy in the post. Thanks to the work-shy layabout feckers at the Post Office.
"Given that the list is geared toward people using Leopard, most of whom use Safari.."
Umm, point of order, yer honour.. since when? My workplace has an unusually high proportion of mac users (the mix is linux, then windows, mac and then solaris, I suppose)- I haven't seen a single person using Safari for more than:
a) downloading firefox
b) compatibliltiy testing
Admittedly, we're an unholy fusion of hardcore broadcast engineering and luvviedom, so maybe unusual. However, I have to say (in anecdotal evidence corner) that I can't remember ever seeing anyone voluntarily using it- either on Windows or Mac. It tends to be IE among the non.techie, if anything, and then mostly firefox and a smattering of Opera elsewhere.
I don't think you can even assume that mac users will be using Safari, really.
Photoshop Elements 6 is universal. I don't know how they do it, but every bloody upgrade seems to break PSE.
Cack as it is, I haven't found anything better for my photo-editing needs (which to be fair don't extend much past photoshopping a goat into a "nice" picture of the wife for a valentines message...)
Why am I not the least bit impressed to see Photoshop Elements on that list? AGAIN?
It is completely beyond me why a friggin simple image manipulation app has to mess around deeply in the OS, rape the Mac UI, and stumble around in undocumented, deprecated and much-warned-against lowlevel OS functions like a fool. Any don't get me started on the requirement of an admin account to use (not install, but USE) their apps.
And I guess we'll soon hear the usual "sorry, we don't SUPPORT Snow Leopard..." bullshit. Listen, guys, I don't weant you to "support" my operating system - just don't MESS AROUND WITH IT! Ten-year-olds can write applications that don't break with every minor OS upgrade.
And, BTW, can anybody tell me why the software industry is the ONLY exception from product liability? Even if I'm selling a single banana, I can be held responsible if I mess up. But If I sell software instead, I can break multi-mullion dollar contracts, damage equipment for millions of customers, and finally set up an answering machine saying "Sorry, we don't SUPPORT the actual USE of our software. Thank you for calling."
...that software doesn't work on a new version of an operating system when the developers of the OS announce with less than a month's notice that they are releasing the new OS a month ahead of their previously-announced schedule?
The behaviour of Apple is increasingly a disgrace. Welcome back, Steve!
And yes, I am a Mac user.
As expressed in this forum, when M$ does not retain backwards compatibility they are a bunch of money hungry bastards (which may be true), when Mac does it, it is great. Hard to understand. By the time the snow leopard upgraders have paid for the update itself, and then upgrade all the apps that don't work any more, they will have parted with more cash than the Window 7 upgraders.
just reading here....
http://www.overclock.net/mac/564147-how-enable-64-bit-default-os.html
That it doesn't actually boot into 64 bit mode, and one of my colleagues (thanks for the heads-up Matt) has just installed on his Macbook and confirmed this. There is a hack to make it work, but all you people assuming you've got the 64 bit kernel running might be in for a bit of a surprise (not that you'll probably notice).
does this constitute a story, dear Reg?
Steve
I downloaded all from torrent, and now I without games, movies, and porn! Whatever will I do with all this free time in hand?
Seriously though. No serious Gamers in his right mind would buy a mac. True addicts stick with PC, thanks to our beloved modern pirates, and games consoles. OSX is for Jobs' cult, people who want to show off, or guys like me who buy it for their parents, or sick of virus industry -- aka - anti virus software "maker".
PS: When will we ever see OS XI?
So let me get this right, nobody uses Safari where you work whether they use Windows or OS X, so therefore we can't assume Mac users use it either. Right....
Last month, Safari had a little under 5% of the browser market. Apple has quite a bit less than 5% of the worldwide computer market, so who is using Safari?
Given that I've received about 30 app update notifications proclaiming compatibility for SL from MacUpdate today could it be that, you know, developers were just waiting for the fricking OS to be actually released first? Good grief.
Fwiw, Wiretap (at the least) is now compatible with SL.
I'm hoping that the system hacks listed remain forever incompatible, however.
Here in Canada I used to work in an awful convenience store, they had a tablet -- PC based. This was used for ordering, checking stocks, and other business related applications. Virtually, all convenience store in Canada and America have similar tablet.
Apple will have hard time popularizing "iTablet".
Here are two simple reasons:
#1 Business community prefers tablets with "changeable battery". Apple hates giving such option to their customers. Steve Jobs would gladly throw his grandmother to the wolves than give loons option of changing gadgets’ batteries.
#2 Business community desire matte screen tablet -- all apple products including iPhone are "glossy". With iPhone it’s hard to see during bright sun light. This is why Blackberry can not be replaced by iPhone. MacBook, iPhone, iPod Touch are so reflective that you can use them as shaving mirror! Until, last years they didn’t believe in “anti-reflective” LCD. Sadly, problem still persists, and Apple in their usual “democratic” way is “reasoning” with unhappy customers.
As you can see, this device is already in use in business community. In today's economy with Apple's pricing is not going to be easy -- save for few Mac worshipers.
What the hell are you smoking? Kippers?
*Every* major Windows release was followed by a flurry of updates and whining developers. I've been using computers since the days of CP/M and I've yet to see a single major upgrade like this NOT break *some* apps! Windows 3.11 - Windows 95, anyone? Windows XP to Windows Vista? (Oh, how I *loved* answering "Why doesn't my Nvidia-and-Audigy-stuffed PC no longer run your game without crashing?" queries from early Vista users.)
(Oh yes: and a beta of ClamXAV 2.0 has been released in time for SL. It's a complete, ground-up rewrite of the 1.x app, so I shan't hold the beta status against this Open Source coder.)
I note, however, that Adobe's main CS4 apps *and* Microsoft's Mac Office suite are conspicuous by their absence from the list. Most of the apps which appear to have broken tended to do hacky things. Cyberduck is no great loss: Transmit pisseth all over it from a great height. And Coda runs just dandy.
Hell, I upgraded to Snow Leopard today and only Photoshite Elements 6 gave me any grief. No great loss. Pixelmator is a better app anyway. (Oh, and Pixen. Which seriously rocks. Especially if you're an ageing 8-bit era pixel-pusher like me who misses "Art Studio" on the Atari ST.)
All in all: a good effort. Not scintillating, though the tweaks to the stacks and dock are much appreciated.
Quicktime X, however, is a big disappointment. That Apple decided to leave the previous version in the "Utilities" folder speaks volumes. It's "iMovie 08" all over again.