Mac OS X 10.6.1 update now live

Well, that was fast, and totally expected and predicted I might add!! Just over week after Snow Leopard officially shipped, the first update’s on the books. Nothing major in the changelog here, but we’re told Flash has been updated to a newer, more secure version.

Alleged first Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.1 details revealed

Told you so!!! Less than a week after Snow Leopard saw its official release, Apple has already supplied some developers with a beta of its first update, and supposed details are now beginning to come to light.

Snow Leopard ships with old version of Flash

As we’ve seen, most people’s migration to Snow Leopard has been eventful — to say the least.

Installing Snow Leopard: What you need to know

With Snow Leopard, Apple has streamlined and simplified the process of installing Mac OS X. While older versions of OS X made you decide what kind of installation you wanted to perform before you even specified what to install, Snow Leopard’s installer gives you a single installation path. It’s considerably easier.

Blighty angry at Snow Leopard exchange rate

Apple’s exchange-rate math has ruffled the feathers of some British Mac fans who are taking umbrage at the cost of Snow Leopard in the UK.

Apple to launch Snow Leopard ‘next week’

A listing that briefly appeared on Apple’s UK website suggests that Snow Leopard could go on sale next week.

Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update

Apple released the next — and potentially last — upgrade to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system Wednesday afternoon, bringing minor tweaks before the debut of Snow Leopard in September.

Apple posts new Snow Leopard, 10.5.8 seeds

Apple has reportedly issued new seeds of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and of Leopard 10.5.8 to developers that, at least in the former case, add functionality that was previously only shown at WWDC.

Securely wipe your hard drive

Some time back there was an ad for software that would erase hard disks with the method approved by the U.S. government by writing 0s and 1s on the drive in several manners. Does such a software still exist, what is the name of the vendor, and is it for the Macintosh (PowerPC and Intel)?

Apple broadens focus of Mac OS X 10.5.8 in new beta

While the first two beta releases of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard update signaled a focus on underlying service technologies, a third pre-release made available to developers overnight expands upon those areas to include several forward-facing apps and additional frameworks.

Apple Starts Seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L14)

It seems there will be at least one more Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) update before we see Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) arrive this fall. Apple has begun seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L14) to Mac developers.

Apple near ready with release of Mac OS X 10.5.7

Apple as early as this week could announce the release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, a seventh maintenance and security update to its Leopard operating system scheduled to deliver over a 100 minor tweaks and bug fixes.

According to AppleInsider after providing developers with weekly betas of the software for nearly two months, the Mac maker in recent days cranked up the frequency of the pre-release distributions, which is more often than not a telltale sign of an imminent release.