By ray | October 25, 2007
Apple released updates for iLife, iDVD and some 24″ iMacs. The only update I received through Software Update was the iLife Support update.
iLife Support 8.1.1 is a 10.3MB download through Software Update in Intel Macs and a 6MB standalone download. According to Apple this address general compatibility issues and contains minor specifics. Nothing specific.
iDVD 6.0.4 [...]
By ray | October 25, 2007
Leopard’s 36 hours away and I have my upgrade plan. The smart thing to do would be upgrade a spare Mac first rather than my primary machine. So I was going to upgrade my MacBook first and then test out my software on that.
But I shifted gears. I’m going to upgrade my primary Mac (iMac) [...]
By ray | October 25, 2007
Here’s the story of a couple device driver updates causing Windows Vista to deactivate. The key line is:
So pirates haven’t been slowed down at all, and the rest of us — the legitimate purchasers — are left to live with Windows Activation.
Makes me glad the upcoming Leopard has no such activation scheme and leaves users [...]
By ray | October 24, 2007
The text is in Spanish but the pictures say it all. Opens Oct. 26th. via RoughlyDrafted.
By ray | October 24, 2007
Google’s rolling out IMAP support to GMail. I’ve always been a fan of IMAP which allows accessing and managing email from multiple clients while keeping all the mail on the server until it’s actually deleted. Move it to a folder on once client and it moves on all. IMAP also supports an offline mode.
So it’s [...]
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By ray | October 24, 2007
Now’s a good time to review the new security features Apple is adding to Leopard. Besides, between the site upgrade and Leopard prep I didn’t have time to put together another security topic.
Apple has 11 new security features listed on their “300+ New Features” page. Some of the non-security features seem to be padding for [...]
