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Photos: Inside Mac OS X Leopard

Crave Leopard, which came out on Friday, has a slicker, more reflective look than previous versions of OS X. Web Clips lets you take a chunk out of any Web site and turn it into a widget to use in OS X's Dashboard.

30 October 2007, 16:08

Mac vs PC: A fight to the death!

Crave In the orange corner we have Baron Vista, representing Windows' finest, and in the black corner is Count OS X, representing Apple. Gasp in fear as Vista approaches OS X, questions his parentage and slaps a heavy gauntlet across the Count's supple...

Tags: os, count, style, vista

27 April 2007, 17:22

3.6GHz Pentium 4 Apple Mac: unholy alliance?

Crave Apple's latest OS release, Mac OSX Tiger, has been getting a lot of press recently for trouncing Microsoft's as-yet-unreleased operating system, Longhorn. This G5-look-alike is the first publicly available Intel-based Mac, but you'll need to be a...

Tags: apple uk, apple, operating system, intel

8 June 2005, 11:19

Emtrace WidgetStation: Bedside streamer

Crave Mac OS X fans will be familiar with widgets -- mini applications which display information like weather reports, sporting news or webcams. The WidgetStation wirelessly streams data from the Internet, letting you view widgets similar to those seen...

Tags: stream, widgets, table, mac os

8 January 2007, 22:51

Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac

Crave Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X are different ways of moving data round on a computer, so it's natural that they inspire the sort of ideological conflict not seen since Lenin chucked a stool at Adam Smith down at the Pedagogue's Arms.

26 November 2007, 8:52

Crave Talk: Is Nintendo the apple of Apple's eye?

Crave The Mac was notorious for its lack of mainstream gaming titles, so basing a games console on OS 7 was a staggeringly perverse decision -- some might say suicidal. It was based on a 66MHz PowerPC processor and ran a stripped-down version of Mac OS 7.

Tags: nintendo, mini, console, gaming

9 June 2006, 10:51

Windows Media Player 11: iTunes killer at last?

Crave As the demonstrator eagerly showed off Vista's new tabbed browsing and the Information toolbar, it was painful to hear other journalists, clearly fans of the Apple Mac OS, sarcastically shouting, 'Revolutionary!

Tags: microsoft, windows vista, albums, vista

7 January 2006, 15:16

BlackBerry and Apple: When fruits communicate

Crave We've got our hands on Pocket Mac's latest Mac OS X software -- which installed without a hitch on Tiger -- and had a snoop around the features available to Mac users. Previously the BlackBerry only officially played patty-cake with Windows PCs...

Tags: apple uk, os, hands, mac os

30 June 2005, 11:51

Boot Camp: Frankenstein Macs endorsed by Apple

Crave Once it's all installed, you can decide whether to run either Mac OS X or Windows when you restart your computer. Boot Camp will be a full feature in the next major revision of OS X, Leopard, which is scheduled for release in August.

Tags: apple, xp, windows xp, switch

5 April 2006, 14:56

The zero-button Apple mouse

Crave Although multi-button functionality was a part of the Mac OS even before the launch of OS X -- you just plugged in a PC mouse -- Apple has never sold its own multi-button design. The Mighty Mouse is perhaps one of the company's concessions to the...

Tags: apple uk, buttons, multi, ball

3 August 2005, 11:46

Macworld San Francisco: What to expect from Lord Jobs

Crave Finally, the Mac faithful hope that Jobs will launch the new version of Mac OS X (Leopard) early, delivering a definitive cuss to Microsoft's beleaguered Vista. Many critics have pointed out some rather suspicious similarities between Microsoft's...

Tags: apple, mac os, jobs, steve jobs

5 January 2007, 9:59

What are the 10 best desktop wallpapers ever?

Crave Behold the wallpaper that introduced Mac OS X -- eat your heart out, Windows teal! The Amiga Workbench 1.0 OS featured a striking blue background. The irix 5.0 OS featured a pleasing pebble-blue wallpaper -- less harsh than Windows 95's teal...

2 May 2007, 15:53

Firefox 3: Reviewed

Crave Firefox 3 will no longer support Windows 95, 98 or Me; the same with Mac OS X versions 10.2 and earlier. For developers there are new Web-based content handlers, greater search engine keyword support, a new password manager, something called...

Tags: add ons, star, ons, places

18 June 2008, 15:39

Top ten Apple rumours of all time

Crave Running Mac OS exclusively on Apple hardware also means the company has the advantage of knowing, for the most part, what hardware its users are running. BeOS was a fledgeling OS with limited support that nonetheless was designed from the ground up...

Tags: return, microsoft windows, surface, processors

27 December 2006, 15:32

Seven days of Vista -- day 5: DirectX 10 pimps your gaming

Crave Taking this 'no fun' diss to heart, we thought we'd spend the fifth day of our Vista foray looking at how the new OS could change the face of gaming. The new OS launches on 30 January -- so check back tomorrow, when we'll bring you more reasons why...

Tags: microsoft, xbox, flight, simulator

29 January 2007, 12:04