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Mac OS X Lion passes 1 million downloads in a day

Vovman — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:54:04 +0000

In its first day of release, Mac OS X Lion has been downloaded more than one million times. This OS update is the first to be available through the Mac App Store, and it shows extreme success for Apple, as Lion is the fastest selling operating system in Apple’s history.

These are good times for Apple, as they have reported record breaking Q3 earnings and released updated versions of Mac Mini, MacBook Air and Apple Cinema Display.

Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion launched

config — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:43:24 +0000

Apple’s long awaited update for its operating system is finally out, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is on sale at Apple App store. The update will cost you $30 and you can download this update for Apple previous Mac OS X 10.6 Snow leopard from the Apple app store.
Mac OS X 10.7 shows significant improvements under the hood along with some visual enhancements.

Rosetta is not included with this update and ppc application won’t work any more. If you rely in you daily work on any ppc applications do not upgrade your Mac.

You can upgrade to Apple Mac OS X Lion only from the previous Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow leopard. Direct upgrade from 10.5 is not supported.

New Features Include:

Multi-Touch Gestures
Full-Screen Apps
Mission Control
Mac App Store
Launchpad
Resume
Autosave
Versions
AirDrop
Lion Server

Full features list here:

Lion feature list

iStat Menus 2.0 beta for Snow Leopard

config — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:04:29 +0000

Great news for all iStat Menus fans, someone posted their 2.0 beta release for Snow Leopard Online.
Here is the link, enjoy:
http://drop.io/ps2akxf9155/asset/istat-menus-installer-zip
Program seems to be stable and working great on Snow Leopard Retail with 32 bit Kernel

update:
Here is direct link to developers site:
http://islayer.com/files/istatmenus2/istatmenus_build111.zip

this one works too but its the same build 111 despite 112 in the given file name:
http://islayer.com/files/istatmenus2/istatmenus_build112.zip

enjoy and try to change the build number in the url in the next couple of days

update 2
Another link in case you cannot download it from the links above ( someone took his time and uploaded this to rapidshare ):
http://rapidshare.com/files/273844550/iStat_Menus_Installer.zip

update 3 ( hope its final )
This is another link from islayer / bjango for the latest build of istat menus 2.0 beta for Snow Leopard 10.6:
http://islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/getupdate/

Right now it redirects to build 114 of iStat Menus 2.0, hopefully after the beta – same link will redirect to final.

Final update
iSlayer / Bjango finally release iStat Menus 2.0, here is the link to download:
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/download/

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 10A432 Gold Master RTM

config — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:42:43 +0000

Seems like build 10A432 is the Gold Master of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard from Apple. This build will be soon released to manufacturers and probably will leak on the torrent trackers and sites. Several sources confirmed this rumor to popular mac rumor websites such as macrumors.com.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be released on September and will be cost 29$ to upgrade for all Mac OS X 10. Leopard users.
This will be the first Apple operating system running 64 bit kernel.

How to find biggest files in directory.

config — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:46:27 +0000

Something you probably have to do now and then is to find the biggest files in directory to delete / destroy / eliminate or explode the damn space wasters. Here is one of the ways to find it:

ls -lSrh

The “r” switch will cause all the large files to be listed at the end and the “h”switch will make your life easier and will show you human readable data (MB etc..). You could also search for the biggest AVIs for example:

ls -lSrh *.avi

You can also check what are the largest directories with this one:

du -kx | egrep -v "\./.+/" | sort -n