Record profits, iPhone unit sales, and Mac unit sales this quarter show Apple continuing to defy the reality of consumer and business spending in uncertain times.

You may think you don't care about Apple events, but they're everywhere, and on Snow Leopard they're ever so slightly broken, in a way that causes intermittent random-looking scripting failures. Here's how the bug was discovered, proved, and reported to Apple.

With user complaints piling up since September, Apple has now publicly acknowledged a nasty data-destroying bug related to using the guest account in Snow Leopard.

Interface options lurk deep within the bowels of Mac OS X, but Lewis Butler shows you how to summon one and put it to work helping you focus on just a few applications at a time.

Jeff sat down with Chuck Joiner on MacVoices to discuss his latest book, "The Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Pocket Guide." In addition to looking at what's new in Snow Leopard, he and Chuck also touched on why 10.6 is as much a release for Apple's benefit as for users', as well as the considerations that go into writing a focused book about such a general topic.

In celebration of the Mac Portable's 20th anniversary this week, Ars Technica has compiled a list of the finest - and foulest - Apple notebooks to have graced our cubicles, coffee shops, and couches. Enjoy the trip down memory lane!

We keep finding the equivalent of chocolate-filled Easter eggs in Snow Leopard: tiny, undocumented improvements that make Mac OS X even better.

Apple's release of Snow Leopard is for many people the first time they've heard of the big cat, and many more don't know that the actual snow leopard is an extremely endangered species. Here's a look at current efforts to protect the animal, and how you can get involved.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard offers automatic spelling correction, but all too often, it recognizes your typos as words other than what you meant, causing even more work. To ensure accurate replacements, try using the TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary of over 2,700 corrections. TidBITS contributor Lewis Butler explains how to do it.

You've just upgraded to Snow Leopard for all the goodness it includes. Your computer goes missing. What could be worse? The tracking software you installed under Snow Leopard isn't running.

Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch is a new technology aimed at helping developers to create applications that take full advantage of multi-core Macs. Apple has now made Grand Central Dispatch available under an Apache open source license, encouraging Linux and Unix developers to adopt it. MacResearch suggests that we might see scientists using Grand Central Dispatch to parallelize code for use on clusters and supercomputers.

Even Snow Leopard's updates are faster and sleeker. Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out with minor fixes for Apple Mail, Flash security, and printer drivers. A few unacknowledged errors seem to have disappeared, too, although other problems remain. We wax poetic. Or at least prosaic.

The screen sharing feature in Snow Leopard has a significant bug: the remote screen is blacked out or frozen when you connect. Fortunately, there's a simple, though repetitive, fix.

In an undocumented and unannounced change, Snow Leopard has stifled an application's ability to mark a document as its own, thus hampering users and developers alike.

In this edition of the MacNotables podcast, Adam joins Ted Landau, Andy Ihnatko, and host Chuck Joiner to talk about why Snow Leopard was released early, what's cool about it, and when normal people should think about upgrading.