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/09/09/11/tech.may.encourage.support/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/grandcentral.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has taken the decision to make Grand Central Dispatch, a key feature of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, available as an open-source project. Developers can now find the component's services API on the web. Grand Central is intended to simplify multi-core support in Mac OS X, which without an intermediate layer can be difficult to program for.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/11/tech.may.encourage.support/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/09/grand.central.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/snowleopard.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Working through the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has filed for a trademark on Grand Central, a technology expected to be used in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, due sometime next year. Not to be confused with Google's phone management system, the Apple technology is intended to aid developers in supporting multi-core processors, which can often be underexploited even in high-end software such as ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/09/grand.central.trademark/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/26/new.snow.leopard.build/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/snowleopard.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's second build of Snow Leopard, which was released to developers earlier this weekend, brings a number of changes to the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, including a new "simplified" installation experience, preliminary support for HFS+ file system compression and 64-bit kernel, a rewritten Cocoa-based Finder for performance improvements, a new default gamma setting for viewing... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/26/new.snow.leopard.build/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:05:00 GMT