Posts about 'Mac OS'

One Snow Leopard Casualty – AppleTalk, And My Old LaserWriter Printer

One Snow Leopard Casualty – AppleTalk, And My Old LaserWriter Printer

This weekend, I needed to print out a document at home, and my Epson Inkjet printer had just run out of ink AGAIN. No problem, I’ll just switch over to my old laser printer and print it out from there. I needed to rebuild all my printer queues when I upgraded to Snow Leopard, but ... read more

September 14, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Apple Releases Snow Leopard Update 10.6.1

Apple Releases Snow Leopard Update 10.6.1

It has been only 2 weeks since Apple released Snow Leopard, but today they released an update to address a number of issues most notably installing the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.This update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, ... read more

September 10, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Live From The Bleeding Edge – Snow Leopard One Week Later…

Live From The Bleeding Edge – Snow Leopard One Week Later…

So it has been just about a week since I converted all four systems over to Snow Leopard, and I’m happy to report that for the most part, the transition has been surprisingly smooth. Other than the strange crop of “Rosetta Mushrooms” that I mentioned in my first look piece, I encountered no problems with the ... read more

September 3, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

John Nack Posts 3 Compatibility Issues With Photoshop CS3/CS4 And Snow Leopard

John Nack Posts 3 Compatibility Issues With Photoshop CS3/CS4 And Snow Leopard

Adobe and Apple have identified 3 compatibility issues so far between Photoshop CS3/CS4 and Snow Leopard, and John Nack posted the information below on his blog today. He goes on to say that Adobe and Apple are working together to diagnose and troubleshoot the issues.Switching to the Menlo font (new in Snow Leopard) in Photoshop ... read more

September 2, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Nikon Warns About Snow Leopard Compatibilty Issues With Nikon Software

Nikon Warns About Snow Leopard Compatibilty Issues With Nikon Software

Nikon has issued a Snow Leopard compatibility warning to all users of their Capture NX 2, View NX and Nikon Scan software. Their initial testing has shown some unspecified problems with these applications, and the company recommends that users relying on Nikon Software not update their systems to Snow Leopard. Nikon claims that they generally ... read more

August 31, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

David Pogue Explains “The Building Blocks” Of Snow Leopard

David Pogue Explains “The Building Blocks” Of Snow Leopard

Doing it in a way, only David can….David Pogue covers technology news for the New York Times. This week he produced a great video segment explaining the benefits of Snow Leopard. Always amusing and educational, it is well worth watching Pogue on Snow Leopard read more

August 30, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Spoiler Alert – Snow Leopard Install Report

Spoiler Alert – Snow Leopard Install Report

So I’ve just updated 4 Macs to Snow Leopard and am ready to report back on first impressions. So SPOILER ALERT if you are interested in experiencing everything yourself for the first time stop reading now….Okay if you are still reading, consider yourself forewarned… So far, it has actually gone pretty well just a couple ... read more

August 29, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Exchange Users Wanted!

Exchange Users Wanted!

One of the biggest perks of being my own boss, is that I am also my own IT Manager with full purchasing and policy making authority. That is why my business and household has always run Macintosh since I purchased our first Mac Clasic in 1986. In the past I’ve worked for fairly open minded small ... read more

August 29, 2009 in News by John Omvik 1 comment

Saying Farewell To An Old Friend

Saying Farewell To An Old Friend

Recently I had to say “good bye” to an old friend. It was time for him to retire and he had served me well for more than 6 years, an eternity in technology time. My old friend was my 2 GHz dual core G5 PowerPC Macintosh. He was replaced with a 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Intel ... read more

August 24, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Apple Announces Snow Leopard Availability Date – August 28

Apple Announces Snow Leopard Availability Date – August 28

Apple has updated their home page with the official delivery date of August 28 2009 for the next Mac OS X version 10.6 a.k.a “Snow Leopard”. Apple has described this release as more of an evolution than revolution of the previous version 10.5 (thus staying with the same cat family “Leopard” -> “Snow Leopard”) preferring ... read more

August 24, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments