Today is Friday, October 26th, THE day of Leopard! 130 weeks have passed since the day that Tiger hit the streets, and at 6:00 PM tonight, the middle digit of the current stable version of the Mac operating system will officially increase by one for the first time in two and a half years.

Some people have asked me about my Tiger-to-Leopard series this week, asking me why on earth I would take so much time collecting a bunch of facts from the last two and a half years. Do I have too much free time? (Believe me, the answer to that is a solid NO.) Am I just interested in bashing Apple because they delayed their Leopard release to October? Not really. What I really wanted to do was to capture the essence of just how fast our world changes today, and to highlight just how much things have changed in the last two and a half years to put the distance between Tiger and Leopard into perspective. When Tiger was released, not only did it contain the most updates of any OS X release to that date, it had been the first release to take a full year and a half to go public. Leopard has now trumped Tiger with over 300 new features and two and a half years until release, and so I think that it’s interesting to look at that. The reason that I’ve split it up into a five-day series this week is because I ended up having too many ideas to fill just one post.

Anyway, today, I want to culminate this series by looking back on my personal life. This may be the part of this blog series that you are either the least or the most interested in, but not only has a lot happened in the world (see the earlier four posts), but a lot has happened in my life as well, and here are some of the highlights from the last two and a half years.
Continue reading »

Tags: article, life, Mac OS X Leopard, Personal, School, Tiger-to-Leopard

Now reporting live from Long Beach, California, where it’s smokey (due to the fires), and I’m up on the 6th floor of a particular hotel with my $10 internet charge paid for, I continue my Tiger-to-Leopard blog series. Yesterday, I started out covering some of the Web 2.0 news, in particular focusing on the various Web 2.0 sites that have emerged on the internet. But what about some of the other phenomena that have emerged since Tiger’s release? The series continues…
Continue reading »

Tags: article, browsers, Firefox, Google, Mac OS X Leopard, podcasting, PodPress, TalkShoe, Tiger-to-Leopard, Web 2.0

It’s Wednesday, which means that the release of Mac OS X Leopard is now less than 60 hours away! Today, I continue with part 3 of my award-winning Tiger-to-Leopard series (well, okay, it hasn’t really won anything, yet), where I take a look at everything that has happened during the 130-week interim between the releases of Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard. Today, I begin my focus on the Web 2.0, which has grown and matured exponentially since early 2005. Now, don’t get confused with the whole “part within a part thing,” but since I have quite a bit of Web 2.0 coverage to, well, cover, I’ll be stretching my Web 2.0 TTL coverage over today and tomorrow. Shall we take a look? (And yes, I promise that this post won’t be the laundry list you saw yesterday.)
Continue reading »

Tags: Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Mac OS X Leopard, MySpace, phpBB, Tiger-to-Leopard, Twitter, Web 2.0, WordPress, YouTube

In my continuing coverage of the week of the much-awaited-for Mac OS X Leopard release, which is probably a big joke considering that I’m spending half of this week completely out of town, possibly without internet access of any sort, I move on to Part 2 of my Tiger-to-Leopard series, which as far as I know is the only series on the entire Internet dedicated exclusively to looking at just how damn long it’s taken for Apple to get this latest cat out of its gigantic, iPhone-shaped bag. Today, I look at World News! In our rapidly changing, fairly turbulent world, what of national importance (and some things of unimportance) has happened in the last 2 and a half years?

I should mention, by the way, that this particular portion of my Tiger-to-Leopard series is brought to you almost in full by Wikipedia. Who would have thought that it could be such a useful resource for all kinds of wonderful information?

Shall we begin?
Continue reading »

Tags: history, Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger-to-Leopard, Wikipedia, world news

Us Mac users may have teased Windows lovers because it took Microsoft 5 years in between the releases of Windows XP and Windows Vista, but now we’re a little guilty of lengthy releases too. Mac OS X Tiger was released on April 28, 2005, and now Mac OS X Leopard will be released on October 26, 2007. Exactly 2 and a half years, which is half of the length of the interim between XP and Vista.

In preparation for the upcoming release of Leopard, I will be doing a 5-part series on my blog this week taking a look back at everything that has happened over the last 130 weeks. I was originally going to make this a single article, but after getting so many ideas, I have decided to split it into five posts covering five different categories of events. If you have any additional ideas of significant things that have happened during the last 910 days, leave them in the comments. (Although note that I will be out of town for a portion of this week; I have this full series pre-scheduled.)

In this first part of the Tiger-to-Leopard series, I cover the significant events affecting Apple themselves since Tiger came out. Be sure to check out the other articles in the series.
Continue reading »

Tags: announcements, Apple, article, history, iLife, iPhone, iPod, iWork, Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger-to-Leopard