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Oxford Hotels checks in revenue management system

News The application, provided by Rate Tiger, manages online bookings made through third-party intermediaries, such as Expedia.com, which charge a commission.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Oxford Hotels is to switch on a revenue management system for...

Tags: hotel, expedia, ecommerce, retail

[19 Mar 2008]

Mac sales set Apple 'on fire'

News Apple estimates 19 per cent of the Macs installed are running Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, and Leopard generated $170m in revenue for Apple during the first quarter it went on sale, compared with the $100m that Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, generated for Apple...

Tags: apple, steve jobs, ipod, mac

[23 Jan 2008]

Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up

News It's download time again for Mac OS X users, as 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard have been made available by Apple. The security patches are mostly geared for users of Mac OS X 10.4, known as Tiger, but some are available...

Tags: apple, mac, tiger, leopard

[18 Dec 2007]

Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel

Photo The Macs currently run Apple's Tiger OS but are due to be upgraded to the new Leopard OS before Christmas. The recently opened City Inn hotel in Manchester must rank as one of the more high-tech places to stay in town - with an Apple iMac desktop...

Tags: manchester, hotels, hotel, itunes

[20 Nov 2007]

Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger: Taking Unix Online

whitepaper A network lets computers communicate with each other, share files, send email, and much more. Unix systems have been networked for more than 25 years, and the Mac OS has had networking as an integral part of the system design from day one.

Tags: mac os, computers, unix, connect

[24 Oct 2007]

Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks: Searching and Metadata

whitepaper If a Unix Geek needs to find something, she'll probably use locate or find, depending on what she's looking for. Because locate is based on a static database that's only regenerated periodically, it would be the choice for things that don't change...

Tags: search strategies, locate, search, files

[24 Oct 2007]

Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell: Using the Terminal

whitepaper The Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities) is the gateway between the candy-coated Aqua graphical interface and the no-nonsense command-line interface that Darwin uses. This paper (as well as a lot of Apple documentation) tends to use the...

Tags: mac os, command, interface, mac os

[24 Oct 2007]

Mac OS X Tiger: What's New in Tiger?

whitepaper Long before releasing Mac OS X Tiger, Apple offered a preview to developers and also posted some information about Tiger's top features on the OS X web site. But just in case one missed the big list of features, here's another rundown of what's in...

Tags: mac os, os, tiger, developers

[24 Oct 2007]

Mac OS X: Spotlight

whitepaper But Spotlight, the star feature of Tiger, combines these two functions in a way that's so fast, so efficient, so spectacular, it reduces much of what one has read in the previous papers to irrelevance.

Tags: mac os, functions, files, papers

[24 Oct 2007]

Switching to the Mac Tiger Edition: Five Ways to Transfer Your Files

whitepaper This paper describes the process of building a bridge from the PC to the Mac, so that one can bring all the files and settings into their new home. It also tells where to put all of them. As it turns out, files can take one of several roads from...

Tags: mac os, mac, files, pc

[17 Oct 2007]

Running Mac OS X Tiger: The Terminal and Shell

whitepaper The Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities) is the portal to the internals of Mac OS X. The user can use - and become proficient with - the operating system without ever touching the Terminal. But if one truly wants to dig deep and learn how...

Tags: mac os, terminal, mac os, os

[17 Oct 2007]

Java 1.5 Tiger: Enumerated Types

whitepaper This sort of construct is possible prior to Tiger, but it takes a lot of work, and there are still some significant problems. In Java 1.4 and below, there were two basic ways to define new types: through classes and interfaces.

Tags: java, type, values, oriented

[10 Oct 2007]

Google Maps Hacks: Add a Google Map to Your Web Site

whitepaper This paper shows a pretty Google Map replacing the TIGER map. Once the user got a Google Map on his or her page, adding points to it is easy. The user can first create a new GPoint object, then create a marker icon at that point, and finally add...

Tags: web content management, google, map, maps

[10 Oct 2007]

Tiger Presents New Opportunities for Developers

whitepaper The author asked the senior product line manager for the Tiger project at Apple Computer to highlight the new technologies he thought would be of particular interest to the O'Reilly audience. Panther has provided users with a modern, stable...

Tags: apple computer, reilly, operating system, apple

[13 Sep 2007]

Tiger Presents New Opportunities for Developers

whitepaper The author asked the senior product line manager for the Tiger project at Apple Computer to highlight the new technologies he thought would be of particular interest to the O'Reilly audience. Panther has provided users with a modern, stable...

Tags: apple computer, energy, manager, interest

[13 Sep 2007]

Which Is the Best Desktop Search Tool?

whitepaper Spotlight in OS X Tiger comes close to this vision but is still lacking in some areas. Desktop search is the holy grail of personal computing. The user needs to be able to find the exact file he wants, when he wants it, without waiting all day for...

Tags: file, search, vision, component

[13 Sep 2007]

Which Is the Best Desktop Search Tool?

whitepaper Spotlight in OS X Tiger comes close to this vision but is still lacking in some areas. Desktop search is the holy grail of personal computing. The user needs to be able to find the exact file he wants, when he wants it, without waiting all day for...

Tags: file, search, vision, component

[13 Sep 2007]

iPhone gets first update

News Dozens of vulnerabilities and bugs were covered by a total of six downloads for Mac OS 10.3.9 (Panther), Mac OS 10.4.10 (Tiger) on PowerPC, and the Universal version of Mac OS 10.4.10, as well as the server versions of each of those operating...

Tags: mac os, security, update, iphone

[01 Aug 2007]

Minority Report: Steve Jobs fails to wow

Comment Leopard does seem to have a more rounded feel to it than its predecessor, Tiger, but it's questionable whether the upgrade can justify the $129 price tag. Despite the hoopla over the iPhone and iPod, Apple struggles to drum up excitement over its...

Tags: iphone, mac os x, leopard, steve jobs

[15 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: Shanghai no surprise

Comment The boom at the end of the 1980s was abruptly halted in Japan - while still an economic giant, its stock market has never really recovered and the economy has been sluggish ever since - and the end of this year will see a decade since high-growth...

Tags: china

[09 May 2007]

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