Monthly Archives: January 2008

Security Update: Apple Quicktime 7.4 Released

Apple sent out a bunch of updates today, not all of them related to their product announcements at Macworld. They released a security update for Quicktime. Quicktime 7.4 patches 4 security vulnerabilities.
Quicktime required a reboot on my Macs, as do all Quicktime updates. On Windows I have the iTunes+Quicktime combo installed and that also [...]

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iTunes 7.6 Released - Movie Rentals

Apple released iTunes 7.6 which updates iTunes to support movie rentals. Both the Mac and Windows versions get the same update description.
Rent and download your favorite movies with iTunes on your computer or directly to your living room on Apple TV. Enjoy rented movies in sizes up to 720p HD with surround sound on your [...]

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Ubuntu Server Project #2: Updating the Install and the Basics

This is the second installment in my Ubuntu Server Project series which documents my efforts to get a working copy of WordPress running on Ubuntu Server 7.10. It’s summarized, with links to past articles, on my Linux page or go to the previous article about installing Ubuntu Server 7.10.
Most of my experience with the *nix [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #20

CES is over and MacWorld is about to begin. Can’t say anything at CES caught my attention. Stuff was just bigger, thinner and less expensive. The big news last week seemed to be Warner’s move to Blue-Ray and that was before CES.
I can’t say I’m all that excited about MacWorld either. Curious? Yes. Excited? [...]

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Transmit 3.6.4 Released

Panic software release a minor update to my favorite FTP client, Transmit. The Transmit 3.6.4 change log contains just under two dozen items listed as fixes and changes. For me, it’s the changes to S3 that are most welcome. While the last update made it usable with Amazon S3 for me, it would still [...]

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Google Reader to NewsGator/NetNewsWire/FeedDemon

As you may know NewsGator Technologies made their RSS readers free. While these RSS clients are desktop clients they have the ability to synch between multiple computers and there’s also a web based reader. I took the opportunity to move my feeds from Google Reader to give it a spin. Moving the feeds over [...]

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