http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/19/tech.migrates.to.first.non.apple.os/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/grandcentral.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Grand Central Dispatch, originally introduced with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, has been ported to its first third-party operating system, says the team behind FreeBSD. When it is released, FreeBSD 8.1 is expected to support Grand Central by default. The technology is said to have been harder to adapt than some other Unix-compatible frameworks, due to the need to make kernel modifications. Mac OS X b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/19/tech.migrates.to.first.non.apple.os/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/30/ms.execs.work.in.mac.os.x/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0810/rashid.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The work of a current Microsoft executive is behind the existence of Mac OS X and the iPhone firmware, a report suggests. The head of Microsoft's Research division, Rick Rashid, claims that code of his remains within the Mac OS, and by extension the iPhone OS, even after decades of design and evolution. "If you use a Macintosh or an iPhone, which honestly I would not recommend," says Rashid, "yo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/30/ms.execs.work.in.mac.os.x/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:50:00 GMT