Hi, all. No hints today since it's the Independence Day holiday in the U.S.

I'm going to start accepting hints for Lion now, although they won't be published until the actual release. It appears it won't be a long wait. My one request is that hints be tested against the GM or the release version of 10.7.

Thanks!

Craig A.

As promised, there is a new poll out, asking about your plans for upgrading to Lion. There are two questions, so please answer both. Here's the direct link to the poll.

Put any special considerations you have in the comments.

Thanks!

Just a quick reminder; the focus area for this month's Hints contest is 'Working with Windows,' which can involve all sorts of tips for working between a Mac and Windows PC's.

In July, when Mac OS X Lion is released, we will of course start publishing hints of all sorts about it. My one request is to make sure that hints are tested with the release version of 10.7, in case something has changed from the beta.

I'm going to try to set up a 10.6/10.7 dual boot system upon release for compatibility testing, but the presumed lack of Rosetta support in Lion may delay my full adoption, and I may just wind up getting a new Mac to run it on full time. I think I'll be putting together a poll to find out what people are planning to do for upgrade strategies.

-- Craig A.

MacOSXHints Contest June Featured Hint Category The featured category for June is 'Working with Windows,' including (but not limited to) Bootcamp, VM's like Parallels and VMWare, and other cross-platform and interoperability hints. It's a pretty open category, and I'll look at a variety of submissions for it.

Please refer to the original post about the MacOSXHints Monthly Hint contest for further details.

Following are the winners from the March contest. I only had responses from two qualifying submitters (out of the six I attempted to contact) and here they are:

Nathan Greenstein: Safari: Hide images in RSS feeds

Frank Markus: Enable Pinch/Zoom on Firefox 4

I'll try to catch up on the April winners this week and we'll vote on the May hints after the Developer's Conference next week. Again, my apology for the delay, but it will all be caught up soon.

Craig A.

It is the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. today. Publication will resume tomorrow as usual.

Thanks, everyone!

Craig A.

Hi, all. I'm on travel the next few days so things might be a bit light as I hunt for connections. It should be back to normal early next week. OK, it's actually an early birthday present. :)

Please go ahead and submit hints related to Adobe applications (preferably for the Mac) for the May contest, and if there are any cool discoveries related to the new iMacs, those would be great to share.

Thanks to all of you for your ideas, and continued support. I've been at this for a year now; it sure did fly by fast.

Craig A.

The featured category for May are Adobe applications, including the Acrobat family, Photoshop (and the rest of the Creative Suite). Even Flash might be considered.

Please refer to the original post about the MacOSXHints Monthly Hint contest for further details.

I'm a little behind, so we will be getting both the March and April winners picked and announced shortly. My apologies for the delay, it's entirely my fault.

I'm still looking for hints about iTunes for this month's contest.

Also, I've received a few submissions of hints for the 10.7 Lion Developer Previews. The policy here has always been not to publish hints on pre-release Apple software, and I think that is still a wise policy.

I'll hold them in the queue and revisit them when Lion is released this summer, and see if they still work or are needed with the final version.

Thanks, all!

Craig A.

OK, I'll admit it: I don't have Rob's talent and passion for producing great April Fool's Day prank hints, so I won't make a fool out of myself by trying to match him at it. I apologize for breaking tradition; maybe if I start now I'll have some for next year.

In the meantime, here is a list of some of the past prank hints, including this gem from last year.

I'll instead exercise a bit of historical geekery by point to this collection of speculations on the origins of this most special of celebrations, which appears to have been mentioned by Chaucer in 1392.

The featured category for April is iTunes. Included can be hints for iTunes the software, the iTunes Store, and also things like Home Sharing and streaming for iOS devices. I'll certainly consider hints for iTunes for Windows as well, if people have them.

Please refer to the original post about the MacOSXHints Monthly Hint contest for further details.

We'll be judging the March submissions during the coming week and will notify the winning hint authors as soon as we vote.