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Apple delays enforcing OS X Lion sandbox until March

by Kenny Hemphill on 3 November 2011 in News

Ae enforced implementation of one of OS X Lion’s flagship features, sandboxing has been delayed until March next year.

Apple had originally told developers that they must support sandboxing in their applications by this month if they wanted to continue to sell them on the Mac App Store.

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Apple: Here’s how to make a Lion Recovery external disk

by Kenny Hemphill on 9 August 2011 in News

Apple has posted details explaining how to use Lion Recovery to create an external recovery disk. The disk, according to Apple ‘has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari.’

The disk used for external Lion Recovery can be either a USB thumb drive or USB hard drive. FireWire drives aren’t supported.

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