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…
Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)’s system requirements are: Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory 5GB of available disk space DVD drive for installation So do not consider running Snow Leopard on any PPC machines… It simply will not work… But PowerPC (PPC) applications will work with the Rosetta translation layer, as […]
Folks, Engadget has mentioned that it appears that Snow Leopard’s version of iSync is missing the profiles for several older Palm PDA’s… While that maybe annoying, I would point out that iSync has been slowly losing ground over the last couple of years…. As single device PDA’s have been replaced with SmartPhones… It’s not really […]
A rumor is spreading quite rapidly that Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, will have a built-in level of antivirus protection…. As shown here: But will it? I think at this point, I can safely say that I have not yet seen any sign of this protection in the Beta’s that I have used…. But […]
Once again, we have some folks discussing how complex and difficult it is to install software on the Macintosh…. Namely: How the concept of a disk image is difficult for new users…. (Quite true) A Little bit more on how the Disk Image concept should be updated for the next decade. But more importantly, it […]
XP and Vista have the ‘feature’ of automated background defragmenting enabled by default, you might wish to disable this. How do I disable the Windows built-in defragger? Download the free * Tweak UI utility from Micorosft. Click on ‘General’ and untick the ‘Optimise hard disk when idle’ box. Windows Vista: Start -> All Programs -> Accessories […]