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How to Make Your OS X Lion Purr Like a Snow Leopard

I know, you generally love Lion, but you also sometimes hate Lion and wish it would just settle down and respect your commands, several of which probably involve getting it to behave like its predecessor. We can help, or at least point out some of your options, say you’re partial to Apple’s prior cat.

The following tip sheet isn’t an …

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With OS X Lion, Apple’s Macs Enter the iPad Era

Apple may be the most consistently inventive company in tech, but in its own way, it’s a remarkably single-minded outfit. For all of their profound differences, a Macintosh computer from 1984 and a new iPad 2 are soul mates. Each is the coolest, most elegant expression of Steve Jobs’ vision of the ideal computing device that Apple could …

No Apple Mac OS X Lion Today After All?

Alas, it’s looking like Thursday as D-Day for Mac OS X Lion’s official digital-only rollout was a bad call by the Apple news gossip club. As of today, July 14th, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Apple’s homepage is still pimping the company’s iCloud service, announced last month but not publicly available until sometime this fall. OS X Lion is, …

New Mac Pros to Debut with New MacBook Airs at Lion Launch?

Everyone’s expecting Apple’s digitally downloadable OS X Lion to magically appear on Thursday this week, and we’ve heard plenty about new MacBook Airs to coincide with Lion’s launch, but what’s this about new Mac Pros?

No, not MacBook Pros—those were just refreshed in February 2011—but yes, Mac Pros, Apple’s monster metal …

How to Burn an OS X Lion Boot Disc

When Apple’s OS X Lion debuts in July, it’ll only be available through Apple’s Mac App Store. No retail copies, no white-edged Apple-gray install DVDs—just an install file you’ll purchase and pull down by conjuring the App Store from your Mac’s dock and perusing “New and Noteworthy” for a picture of Apple’s new tawny-maned kitty. Oh, …

How to Avoid or Remove ‘Mac Defender’ Malware

Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your Mac.

First of all, let’s clear up some definitions. “Malware” means “stuff that’s bad for your computer”, and this most certainly …

Is This the Start of an All-Mobile Apple?

Bertrand Serlet, the Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering — colloquially known as one of the fathers of Mac OS X — is leaving Apple, the company announced.

The move has sparked speculation that Apple’s future is much more about mobile devices than the desktop computers with which it built its reputation.

Serlet has …

Apple Intros Mac App Store, New MacBook Airs, iLife 11, OS X Lion

Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage today to announce the new iLife ’11 software suite, FaceTime availability for Mac users, Apple’s upcoming operating system “OS X Lion,” and new 13.3- and 11.6-inch models of Apple’s ultraportable MacBook Air notebooks. Here’s a look at what’s new.

iLife ’11

Apple has updated its iLife …

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