Thunderbird 2.0 was just released. Thunderbird is the email client I’ve been using since my problems with Apple Mail so I was eager to get the upgrade. While I like Thunderbird I haven’t been completly comfortable with it and I’m hoping the upgrade helps Thunderbird grow on me.
Download and Install
Thunderbird 2.0 is available here. It [...]
Apple release a OS X security update today, 2007-004. Apple doesn’t have a fixed schedule but they’ve released one security update a month so far this year. The patch contains 25 updates for 19 categories, see the screenshot for the list.
I installed it on my 24″ iMac without incident. The shutdown and reboot took longer [...]
Apple released Aperture 1.5.3. It’s available through Software Update or from the Apple website here. You’ll need a Apple ID and your Aperture serial number to download from the Aperture site. The Aperture “update” download is actually a download of the full program (the same for the push through software update).
The software update screen pretty [...]
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I’ve noticed that people are complaining that Avast announcing “Virus database has been updated” is an annoying feature. A compaint I whole heartily agree with. Here’s how to turn that off:
Start Avast AntiVirus
Select Settings from the menu
Select “Sounds” from the settings dialog
Click the “Settings” button (or just check “disable all sounds” and be done with [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is due for release on Thursday. Ubunto tops the Distrowatch popularity chart with almost 800 more hits per day than the number two openSuse. Maybe this will be the trigger that gets me to install Linux under Parallels. It’s been awhile since I’ve run any flavor of Linux. I used Mandrake [...]
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My .Mac subscription will be up in May and I won’t be renewing it. When it expires the Backup software will revert to it’s trial version and only back up 100MB. So I decided to give Backup a final spin before that happens. I’m dropping .Mac because Backup is all I really use these days [...]
