Kaspersky, one of the global leaders in antivirus and internet security products announced Kaspersky antivirus final for Apple Mac OS. The well renounced Kaspersky technology is now available for iMac and Macbook users with Intel processor and using latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard. So far, we have Norton, PC Tools and few others with commercial antivirus software for Mac. With stepped up popularity, Mac OS is now a destination of cyber invaders. Kaspersky antivirus final for Mac provides complete protection against viruses, trojans, spywares and other threats targeting Mac, Linux, Windows and other operating systems. The special function to detect multi-OS malware helps users to prevent the transfer of malware to friends and colleagues on non Mac platform. The product undergone a beta stage and now tested to meet the requirements of every Mac user. The final version of Kaspersky antivirus for Mac is available for a 30-day trial download.

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In Windows, you will get a lot of applications that can be used to scan and remove unwanted junk files and folders that get deposited in the system due to software installation and removal. These files consume system storage and memory resources and ultimately slow down its performance. Since I am Mac OS user I was looking for a similar solution in this scope. Thankfully I come across MacCleaner-a free junk file cleaner for Mac OS X.

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We have already shared steps for installing Widows XP and  Windows Vista on Mac OS X leopard using Boot camp . Now here we will deal with Windows 7 installation on  Mac OS X  . Windows 7 is a very promising OS from Microsoft with lot of features and applications .As Apple hardware now uses Intel processors ,  we can run Windows 7 on Apple systems and can make use of those wide variety  applications .Check out how you can install Windows 7 with  Mac OS X using Boot camp .

Requirements for  Windows 7 installation on MAC OS X Leopard .

Mac OS X Leopard DVD
Windows 7 DVD ( Use Windows 7 RC )
Mac with enough space ( at least 15GB)  for Windows 7 installation.

Windows 7 installation on Mac OS X .

1. On your Mac OS X leopard , navigate to applications  utilities and the Boot camp manger .

2. Click on continue.

3. Now we will partition hard disk space for Windows 7 .  In Boot camp manger interface , you will see a slider as shown below .

Maintain enough space for Mac OS X by setting Windows 7 partition in the range of 10-15-25 GB  . Windows OS installation will take 4.5 GB and rest of space can be used for 3rd party software installation .

4 .Click on to partition .
5.  Boot camp icon will appear on your OS X desktop , if partition was successful .
6. Insert your Windows 7 DVD and click on start installation.

The latest version of Boot camp was introduced for installing Windows Vista on Mac OS X Leopard . So you won’t be able to see Windows 7 in the list .

7. Now your Mac will reboot with Windows 7 and will display those available partitions .

8. Select Boot camp partition and click on format .

9 . Now Windows 7 starts installation .

10 .After installation it will reboot . Remove Windows 7 DVD exactly at this point .

11. Now you will be booted into Windows 7 installation and here you can select language ,time zone , display and many other properties .

12. Insert Mac OS X  DVD for installation of device drivers . Boot camp installer will launch and here select to install Apple software update for Windows .

13. Connect to internet ,download video card or other missing drivers and Windows 7 updates .

14.Finally restart after complete installation .

15. Press options key while on restart .You will see these multiple boot choices for OS X and Windows 7 .

Download latest version of Boot camp to Install Windows 7 with  Mac OS X leopard .

After a long lasting developer level beta testing and upgrades, Mac OS X 10.5.7 is all set to be released on tomorrow. Mac OS X 10.5.7 was first entered into the testing phase on February of this year and since then it had different bug fixes and improvements. This would be the final update to Mac OS X Leopard 10.5, before the launch of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which is expected to be introduced at WWDC on June.

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