Your Mac Modding HQ. TLA Systems has announced PCalc 4.0, an update to their scientific calculator for Mac OS X. The company took the latest code from the iOS version and ported it back to the Mac. It has every feature from the iOS version, and new ones, including: ° The ability to show multiple lines on the display, including the RPN stack; ° An optional "Ticker Tape" that shows a history of recent calculations underneath the main display; ° Editable user functions and conversions, which sync via iCloud with all your other Macs and iOS devices; ° Redesigned tape and register windows that can be torn off from the main calculator and resized; ° Smart searching for conversions, constants, and functions; ° Enhanced AppleScript support to call any command, perform conversions, run functions, and apply constants; ° All the keyboard layouts from the iPhone and iPad versions; ° All the themes too, including the iOS 7 style Samurai and Samurai Night...
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components. OS X Daily » What happens in the Mac OS X boot process? - Mac OS X Apps, Tips, Tricks, News, Updates, Everything Mac OS Xma. Long gone are the days of OS 9, watching our Macs boot up with a series of extensions and control panels that we could always identify. Today with the Unix underpinnings of OS X, many users are entirely unaware of what is going on behind the scenes. So what exactly happens during the Mac OS X boot process? A segment at KernelThread carefully lists the sequence of events, from start to finish.
It is fairly thorough and worth a read. It is repeated below for the inquisitive Mac OS X users out there. Note: As a reader pointed out, PPC uses OF, i386 uses EFI You turn on your Mac, and this is what happens: Power is turned on.OF or EFI code is executed.Hardware information is collected and hardware is initialized.Something (usually the OS, but also things like the Apple Hardware Test, etc.) is selected to boot. From here on, the startup becomes user-level: rc.boot figures out the type of boot (Multi-User, Safe, CD-ROM, Network etc.).
/etc/rc.netboot handles various aspects of network booting. Untitled. Media Center - Software For Macintosh.