Category: 677: Snow Leopard Coming Friday!, School Year Software, Reburn a Disc, OS X Server 10.5.8

Apple recently released version 10.5.8 of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. As part of troubleshooting an email issue for one our server customers, I decided to run all the software updates and install the new 10.5.8. After installing and rebooting, and then running “mailbfr”:http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/41/41/ to rebuild the email databases, I checked the…

Did you know that it’s possible to burn to one CD or DVD multiple times? The trick is to use the “Leave Disk Appendable” option in Disk Utility, located in the Utilities folder on every Mac. First step is to create a folder and fill it with the stuff you want to burn. From there,…

Somehow the summer has flown by and the back-to-school season is well under way. While I’m personally enjoying the fact that I am __not__ in the position of getting ready for a school season, I did think it was a good time to plug two of my favorite school-related applications. While there are many standard…

Surprise! OS 10.6 Snow Leopard will be released early, on Friday, August 28! Here at Small Dog Electronics we are very excited about Snow Leopard, even though Apple is not heavily promoting its launch with pre-press, etc. Snow Leopard is designed to make day-to-day tasks on your Mac easier, faster and more accessible. It delivers…

Happy Tuesday, In an unexpected move yesterday, Apple announced that Snow Leopard will be available on Friday. Most of us were expecting a late September release, so this is welcome news. A new operating system from Apple is always exciting for me, and I’ll be installing Snow Leopard during my lunch break on Friday. Ed…