Apple Offers New Goodies in Leopard System
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Appleâs new version of Leopard lists 300 new features, including a Braille font and a Danish spelling checker.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc.'s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X "Leopard," will be available Oct. 26 for $129, and Apple's online store is taking pre-orders, the company said Tuesday.
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The groundbreaking new features of Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard announced at WWDC 2007 make it even easier for customers to set up and manage. Offering the most significant improvement to the server operating system since Mac OS X Server was launched, it introduces such new features as a wiki server, making it easy to connect groups over a shared intranet; Podcast Producer, the ideal way to automatically produce and publish podcasts to iTunes or a blog; and Spotlight Server to quickly find content stored on other servers. Leopard Server also includes the new iCal Server, based on the CalDAV open standard that works with Leopardâs new iCal application. Mac OS X Leopard Server is scheduled to ship in October.
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The near-final version of Mac OS X Leopard, unveiled today at the World Wide Developers Conference, introduces over 300 new features. They include a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow and a new way to easily browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to rapidly preview most files without opening an application; Time Machine, a new way to easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac; Spaces, a powerful new feature to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and enhanced iChat and Mail applications, which easily allow users to communicate even more creatively. Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of the worldâs most advanced operating system, is scheduled to ship in October.
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Apple releases an audio update for Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.10.
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Attempting to capitalize on iPod mania, Apple Computer Tuesday unveiled a fast new version of the iMac that it all but touted as a smart accessory for the sexy music players.
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Here's what's new with the Apple TV device that makes it much more useful.
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New version has improve file sharing, FireWire compatibility, built-in Safari, updated graphics drivers.
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Review of Mac OS X version 10.5 beta: Apple upgrades its operating system significantly, making it glitzier and easier to use.
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Don Reisinger tackles Mac OS X Leopard and helps you decide if an upgrade is in order.  And while he can't stand "early and often" OS upgrades, his final recommendation may surprise you.
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Apple has unveiled a new addition to the hugely successful iPod range, giving users more hard disc space and a colour screen for picture viewing.
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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The security features introduced in Apple&#39;s Leopard operating system need work. That&#39;s according to security experts who have been putting the new version of Mac OS X through its paces since&#160;the upgrade was introduced&#160;last Friday.Leopard introduces a number of important security features to the Mac, but they are often implemented incompletely, leaving users vulnerable to attack, said Thomas Ptacek, a researcher at Matasano Security, who Monday wrote a detailed assessment of Leopard&#39;s security.&quot;They&#39;ve done a really good job of robbing Microsoft advocates of their talking points,&quot; he said. But, &quot;I don&#39;t see anything that they&#39;ve done out of the box, where it&#39;s really any more resistant to attack than Tiger was,&quot; he added, referring to the previous update to Apple&#39;s operating system.According to Ptacek, two of Apple&#39;s key security enhancements -- Sandboxing and Library Randomization -- are great ideas that are imperfectly applied within Leopard.Take Library Randomization. It&#39;s a new feature that&#39;s supposed to make it hard for some of the most commonly used computer attacks like buffer overflows, where the attacker takes advantage of a software bug to place code somewhere in the computer&#39;s memory where he knows it will be run. Microsoft developed a similar technology for Vista, called Address Space Load Randomization. Library Randomization makes it much harder, if not impossible, for the attacker to know where to place this code, reducing the risk of attack.The problem is that Apple did not randomize all of the parts of the operating system that it should have, according to Ptacek. In particular, Apple&#39;s Dynamic Link Library has not been randomized.Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi said he&#39;s used this library in several of the Mac exploits he&#39;s written over the past few years. He has taken advantage of the fact that this library is not randomized, he agreed with Ptacek&#39;s assessment that this feature, as it&#39;s implemented in Leopard, would simply make things a little more difficult for attackers.Sandboxing is another feature that could ultimately make Mac OS X more secure. Sandboxing restricts software running on Mac OS so that even if it&#39;s hacked, it can&#39;t do things that it shouldn&#39;t, such as add new software to the computer. The problem is that Apple hasn&#39;t sandboxed many of the most commonly attacked applications such as the browser, mail client, or instant messaging software, Ptacek said.And the programs that have been sandboxed have not been walled off as thoroughly as they should be, he added.For example, the Quick Look file viewer has been sandboxed, but only to restrict network access. The software can still be misused to write malicious files where they will be automatically launched, Dai Zovi said. &quot;Most of the things that were sandboxed were network services,&quot; he said. &quot;Increasingly these days IM, e-mail and Web surfing are where most of the attacks are coming from, not directly on your network.&quot;Independent consultant Rich Mogull said that his biggest problem was with the Leopard firewall, which he said suffered from a confusing interface that made it very difficult to control access to individual services on the Mac. &quot;It was very complicated and very hard to get the right settings,&quot; he said.Worse, when he installed Leopard, he found himself suddenly without a firewall. &quot;It turned off my firewall when I upgraded, despite that being a default setting.&quot; he said.Like Ptacek and Dai Zovi, Mogull said he had been expecting more from Apple with the Leopard release, but he agreed that the new security features were a step in the right direction. &quot;I think that Apple has started down the right path but they are not as far as they communicated that they would be,&quot; he said. &quot;The firewall is the big negative; they really messed that up.&quot;Apple declined to comment in detail on its new security features. Company spokesman Anuj Nayar said via e-mail that &quot;Apple takes security very seriously and has a great track record of addressing potential vulnerabilities before they can affect users.&quot;Ptacek said that it is great that Apple has begun adding these security features even when the Mac has not been the target of a widespread worm or virus outbreak. &quot;I&#39;m impressed that when they didn&#39;t have to do it, they went after low-level features that no one will understand,&quot; he said. &quot;I like the direction they&#39;re headed. I&#39;m just saying that they&#39;ve got a long way to go to catch up with Microsoft.&quot;&#160;
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By Paul Jackson, senior analyst. With its new iMac G5, Apple Computer has once again come up with a unique package of design, power and ease of use.
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With Leopard's arrival later today, Apple's delivered five major upgrades to Mac OS X in six years, showing that small morsels can be more satisfying than biting off more than you can chew.
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After announcing a deal with Lexar last week to distribute its technology, Eye-Fi moved onto Macworld Monday, announcing support for Leopard and Safari.
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âIâve been testing Leopard,â reports Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and, âI believe it builds on Appleâs quality advantage over Windows. In my view, Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that make Macs even easier to use.â Among the more than 300 new features available in Leopard, Mossberg singles out as âmarquee featuresâ Time Machine, Cover Flow, and Quick Look.â And he was impressed that âevery piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped Macsâa loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMacâworked fine, exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista.â