Despite begin a unique, key marketing feature of Snow Leopard, Apple has decided to open the code behind Grand Central Dispatch under the liberal Apache 2.0 license. Snow Leopard's new Grand Central Dispatch feature, which serves as a system-wide mechanism for managing parallel task execution across multiple processor cores for developers, involves multiple components in the operating system.
• AppleScript Services Automator • Mac OS X Automation POWER TO COMMAND Sooner or later every individual, business, or organization is challenged to perform repetitive or complex procedures on their computers. Whether the task is renaming numerous files, batch processing images, or building documents using data from multiple sources, the need for powerful automation tools is shared by all computer users. Mac OS X is designed, from the ground up, for automation and offers a variety of integrated tools and technologies to solve your automation challenges.
rsync hfsmode is a patch for rsync to enable recognition of Mac OS X HFS resource forks and Finder metadata, and to copy them to a remote filesystem. The destination system can be any OS and filesystem that supports rsync, so you can use rsync to archive Mac OS X files to servers running Linux, Solaris, et cetera.
Aqua Connect, the leader for the Mac terminal server, offers two versions of their Terminal Server Software. ACTS 2.0 and 3.0 delivers the Macintosh OS X experience to diverse hardware, software platforms and mobile devices. Users can simply log into the OS X server as if connected directly to the server’s console, work with a full-featured OS X desktop and run OS X based applications. All user sessions are fully isolated from one another