Apple recently released security updates for their OS products and among those were updates for Leopard all centered around the firewall. The three firewall updates were included in the OS X 10.5.1 update.
One of the fixes took a page from Microsoft by changing some words to help call the problem solved. This “re-wording” was for [...]
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Fedora 8 was released recently and I wanted to download a copy. With a DVD size of over 3GB bittorrent was the way to go. I’d used Azureus in the past, but hadn’t re-installed it after upgrading to Leopard. I decided to change up and go with something new. Azureus was moving heavily toward video [...]
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Amazon announced their e-Book reader, called Kindle, today to much fanfare. I just don’t get it. To me, it seems like a solution in search of a problem.
I like gadgets as much as the next person, but if someone was to give me one of these I’m not sure I’d use it once the novelty [...]
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When I upgraded to Leopard I kept Safari as my default browser so it would open whenever I clicked a link. But I kept using Firefox for almost everything. I liked how fast Safari was when I did fire it up. So this morning I decided to switch over and start using Safari as my [...]
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Apple has released iPhoto 7.1.1. It was a 10.8 MB download for me through software update and it’s a 9.3MB standalone download. Apple’s back to its terse release notes and just says “This update supports compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”
I installed the update [...]
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It’s been less than a month and Apple has released OS X 10.5.1, it’s first update to Leopard. There’s over two dozen fixes listed in the release notes. Most fixes include either security, stability or reliability in the description. It’s available through Apple Software Update or as a 110MB standalone download. It was a 39.8MB [...]
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