X-Nico

11 unusual facts about OS X


AquaConnect

It allows multiple users to log into a single computer running Mac OS X using the RDP, VNC or X11 protocols.

ChessBase

Some of these are sold (apart from ChessBase) in versions designed for Mac OS X.

Cody Brocious

Falling Leaf Systems sold access to a membership site dubbed the Sapling Program, whereby users could access a build of Alky allowing them to demo the game Prey on either Linux or Mac OS X.

Digital ICE

LaserSoft Imaging released an infrared dust and scratch removal tool (iSRD - infrared Smart Removal of Defects) in 2008, that allows Nikon's film scanners for Mac OS X, as well as many scanners from other manufacturers to make high quality scans of Kodachrome slides.

High-speed multimedia radio

This method is supported by all modern operating systems including but not limited to Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux.

Iji

It is possible to play Iji on Linux and OS X through the use of the software emulation layer Wine, though the game has been known to have graphical bugs in this environment.

Jean-Marie Hullot

Jean-Marie Hullot (born February 16, 1954) is a French computer scientist and programmer who authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms.

Michael Larabel

Larabel is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite - an open-source benchmarking software package for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD, and Windows operating systems - and related software such as Phoromatic and PTS Desktop Live.

Mike Lazazzera

In October 2006 he started appearing on-air in various segments (including four on learning about Mac OS X).

Netatalk

In October 2004 Netatalk 2.0 was released, which brought major improvements, including: support for Apple Filing Protocol version 3.1 (providing long UTF-8 filenames, file sizes > 2 gigabytes, full Mac OS X compatibility), CUPS integration, Kerberos V support allowing true "single sign-on", reliable and persistent storage of file and directory IDs and countless bug fixes compared to previous versions.

VenueGen

The software application runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X operating systems and is compatible with browsers Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or above and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above.


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CopperCube

The editor runs on Windows and OS X and creates games and interactive 3D simulations as applications for Windows, Mac, Android and as website embedded programs using either WebGL or Adobe Flash.

Dropchord

Dropchord is a motion controlled music-based puzzle video game for Windows and OS X using the Leap Motion controller.

Java security

An OS X trojan referred to as Flashback exploited a vulnerability in Java, which had not been patched by Apple, although Oracle had already released a patch.

Mp3TrueEdit

mp3TrueEdit is a software application for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to edit 'lossy' compressed MP3 and AAC audio files without decompressing and re-compressing the audio information and hence maintains the original sound quality.

Scripting Bridge

The Scripting Bridge is a framework in OS X allowing Mac applications to communicate with each other without the use of an intermediary scripting language such as AppleScript.