The author of MailPlane has patched Google Gears, to bypass the OS check… Â While this may not work for everything… Â It may allow your Google Gears based software to work under Snow Leopard… Download Google Gears for Snow Leopard .
I just finished dealing with a thread somewhere else, where the dialog went something like this: Q> Why isn’t this driver for this device working on Snow Leopard? A> It’s working for us, what type of Macintosh is it? Q> It’s not a Macintosh, it’s a PC A> A PC? Â You mean it’s not an […]
Folks, I ran into a odd issue on Friday, which I was finally able to resolve today…. Â With Safari v4.03 and Snow Leopard v10.6.1, I was having Safari lockups with any Flash content…. I ran the 10.6.1 updater, rebooted, and then discovered the issue. Â Here’s the steps I took to try to resolve this issue… […]
With every release, John Siracusa dives in and gives us an in-depth technical review of Mac OS X…. And this time, with Snow Leopard, Ars Technica & John show us again, why they are a well respected site on the internet… Dive in to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review. Mac […]
Typically with Mac OS X you have the volume control slider in the menu bar, and then if you want to make any other changes you would have to open System Preferences -> Sound and then make your changes…. I presume this is new in Snow Leopard, since I have not seen this documented previously, and […]
Another piece of the puzzle is almost done… Raging Menance Software has released a Snow Leopard ready beta of MenuMeters. I have missed having my network throughput & process status in the menu bar. Activity monitor is a good temporary replacement, but it’s no MenuMeter replacement…. Plus did I mention, MenuMeters is free? http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
I have scientifically studied this yet… Â After all, I haven’t even installed Bootcamp v3 drivers yet… Â But it appears that VMWare boots my bootcamp partition significantly faster under Snow Leopard, then under Leopard… Â We’re talking a 2-4 times speed up… It would normally take 3-7 minutes for VMWare to boot my bootcamp partition and return […]
Folks, It appears that Google Gears v5.4.2 will install under Snow Leopard (Gold Master) [In 32bit mode], but I can’t seem to get Gears to do anything. Â So, I suspect we have a small wait for the Google team to actually confirm that Gears works under Snow Leopard…